Minolta Company, Ltd.

Kentaro Iida

Kazuhiro Shibatani

Shinya Matsuda

Masayuki Ueyama

Takashi Matsuo

Daisaku Horie

Manji Takano

Satoshi Himeda

Kimiharu Akahoshi

Tomoyuki Terada

When an image capturing apparatus and an operation apparatus become connected to each other, function information is transmitted from the image capturing apparatus to the operation apparatus. The operation apparatus can recognize the functions effective in the image capturing apparatus by receiving the function information from the image capturing apparatus. The operation apparatus compares the received function information with the functions that can be processed by the operation apparatus, and sets the protocol. The protocol includes ones that is associated with a moving image attribute associated with moving image data and that is associated with the shooting function of the image capturing apparatus. Then, the operation apparatus transmits protocol information to the image capturing apparatus. Thereafter, the image capturing apparatus and the operation apparatus perform data communication based on the protocol.

Image capturing system

An image shooting apparatus capable of accurately connecting split images while avoiding increase in the size of the apparatus is described. The stop positions of an image forming portionis detected on the order equal to the pixel pitch, the shift amounts of the shot split images are obtained from the shift amounts of the stop positions of the image forming portionand for each split image, the address is converted to a normal address based on the shift amount.

Method for connecting split images and image shooting apparatus

A portable phone which is a manual operating apparatus of an image capturing system has an image processing sectionan operation control sectionand a communication sectionThe image processing sectionacquires information regarding view position of a camera from image datareceived by the communication sectionand generates view position dataAlso, it receives from the operation control sectioninformation regarding an inputted optical operation command and generates garget position dataFurthermore, it performs a necessary process on the image datato display the same on an image display sectionas well as displays a view position of the camera and a target position of visual field after driving of the camera based on the view position dataand the target position data

Image capturing system, image capturing apparatus, and manual operating apparatus

A pixel value is adjusted to satisfy an exposure condition using a ratio (EV ratio) of exposure amounts of images taken without illumination light and with illumination light. When the pixel value of one of two images is modified, a subtraction process is performed on the pixel values of these two images. By finding a difference between two images that satisfy the exposure condition for pickup, the effect of a shadow or the like due to an interior lamp can be eliminated. Finally, the subtraction result is adjusted. As a result, an image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method can be provided capable of eliminating the effect of a shadow or the like due to an outside light caused to the taken image.

Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method capable of eliminating effect of outside light

An image processing device includes a first discriminator for discriminating halftone regions of an input image; and a device for smoothing only the discriminated halftone regions. An image processing device also includes a discriminator for discriminating the characteristics of a region for image compression of an image included in a corrected image; and a first device for modifying a degree of discrimination of a local area included in the region for image compression in accordance with the discriminated characteristics; and a second device for modifying a method of compression of the region for image compression in accordance with the discriminated characteristics. An image processing device includes a device for discriminating the characteristics of a region for image compression of an image included in a corrected image; and a first device for modifying a degree of correction of a local area included in the region for image compression in accordance with the discriminated characteristics; and a second device for modifying a method of compression of the region for image compression in accordance with the discriminated characteristics.

Image processing device and method and recording medium for recording image processing program for same

An image synthesis apparatus for use in, e.g., a digital camera or other image processing device which includes a control system. The control system includes image memory for storing said converted image data; and a CPU performing an image synthesize process by using the data of the images stored in the image memory, producing a blurred image from the original image, and performing an iterative search for the coincidence position by using the blurred image to detect the amount of deviation.

Image synthesizing apparatus, image synthesizing method, and computer-readable recording medium in which an image synthesize processing program is recorded

In order to correct a thin line to be thin and dense and to prevent the thin line from becoming patchy after binarization of image data without specifying the thin line from image data, an image processing apparatus has the following features. Density peak degrees in four directions are detected by density peak detection filters for four directions, on each pixel. Among the detected density peak degrees of four directions, the maximum density peak degree is used as a degree of thinness of the pixel. For each pixel, the degree of thinness is multiplied by a weight coefficient, and a value obtained by adding the resulting value to the pixel density is used as the new pixel density.

Image processing apparatus interpolating thin line included in input image data

An image processing device and method recognizing and deleting extraneous objects in image for data based on analysis of the image data. An object detection means detects an object region such as a finger or the like in a document image, and an image processing means erases part of an image corresponding to the object region of a finger or the like in the image data. The object detection means detects the object region by a dynamic contouring method in which a specific initial contour is set relative to the image data, and the initial contour is adjusted along a border of variable density in the image data so as to accurately erase an object image of a finger of a user holding a document.

Image processing device and method for detecting objects in image data

An image reading apparatus reads out images from above a document table on which a document is placed face up, wherein the apparatus detects pixels which compose a letter lying into a shadow of a finger in a finger area from a finger boundary, by starting at letter-brightness pixels on the finger boundary, and repeatedly linking the letter-brightness pixels with letter-brightness pixels in close to the above-detected letter-brightness pixels, thereby the apparatus erases an area other than the pixels composing the letter out of the finger area. This construction makes it possible to precisely erase an image of the finger area in the image erasure operation for the finger area, and besides prevent the letter image lying into the shadow of the finger in the finger area from being erased.

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Kentaro Iida