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Cabletron Systems, Inc.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Kurita Water Industries Ltd.

Koichi Tanaka

Kenkichi Hayashi

Yuya Nishio

Tomoyuki Kawai

Tetsu Wada

Masaru Yoshida

Yukinori Nishiyama

Junya Kitagawa

Akiyoshi Mikami

Akihiro Uchida

Seiichi Izawa

Kousuke Terada

Kouji Taniguchi

Hideo Kobayashi

Shigeo Nakajima

Takashi Ogura

Tetsuya Fujikawa

Peter J Roman

Makoto Kobayashi

Seiji Tanaka

Fuminori Irie

Hiroaki Nakaya

Takuo Yamashita

Katsushi Okibayashi

Robert E Thomas

Shinichiro Fujiki

Akira Kanuma

Wing Cheung

Kouhei Awazu

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Katsuya Shirai

Kazuhiro Noda

Kenichi Takahashi

Yasuo Yamada

Takayoshi Aoki

Kenji Katori

Kiyoshi Yamaura

Koji Taniguchi

Shigeru Sadamatsu

Kazuhiro Saito

Ryuji Ishiguro

Haruo Watanabe

Masaya Tamaru

Itaru Kawakami

Hiroshi Takayama

Koichi Yahagi

Takashi Hino

Terunari Saiki

Hisashi Endo

Satoshi Yamaue

Atsushi Misawa

Tatsuya Igarashi

Mikio Watanabe

Masahiko Sugimoto

Tomonori Masuda

Junji Hayashi

Eiichi Akutsu

Hideki Sato

Hiroshi Nishimura

Taro Asami

Yasushige Nakamura

Norifumi Kikkawa

Masakatsu Suda

Nobuyuki Nagai

Satoshi Shigezaki

Toshitada Saito

Tadashi Oshima

Yutaka Nio

Seiichi Takagi

Shinichi Shimotsu

Hiroyuki Akashi

Shinya Fujiwara

Kazuaki Iikura

Kazuki Ishida

Kazuhiro Yasuda

Noriaki Kojima

Robert J Simcoe

Toshihiro Aoi

Kaoru Watanabe

Asao Watanabe

Yuichi Takai

Kazunori Koshimori

Motoharu Nishio

Nobuyuki Torigoe

Kenji Ogi

Makoto Oishi

Takafumi Wakai

Eiji Ishiyama

Hirokazu Murase

Hiroyuki Nakanishi

Go Sudo

Yasuaki Honda

Kosuke Irie

Toshihiko Kawai

Tsuyoshi Hagiwara

Yoichi Kobori

Hiroe Okuyama

Takeya Abe

Masanori Murase

Kazutoshi Nomoto

A video creation method includes a first recording step of reading out the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels, creating a video of a first angle of view at a first thinning-out rate, and recording first video data, and a second recording step of, in a case where a target subject exists in the first angle of view, creating a video of a second angle of view including the target subject and having a second angle of view smaller than the first angle of view at a second thinning-out rate lower than the first thinning-out rate, and recording second video data.

Video creation method

A processor of a detection device is configured to, in physical pixel disposition before and after movement of an image sensor having a plurality of physical pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, move the image sensor to a location at which a first physical pixel after movement to a location adjacent to a second physical pixel different from the first physical pixel before movement is positioned, cause the image sensor to perform imaging before and after movement, and detect a defective physical pixel from the plurality of physical pixels based on a degree of difference in pixel values between image pixels corresponding to the second physical pixel before movement and the first physical pixel after movement, respectively, among a plurality of image pixels included in each of a plurality of images obtained by being captured by the image sensor.

Detection device, imaging apparatus, detection method, and program

A lens interchangeable digital camera includes an image sensor in which a subject image is formed on an imaging surface through an imaging optical system including a zoom lens and a sensor movement type shake correction mechanism that performs a sensor movement operation of moving the image sensor in a direction to cancel a shake. A zoom operation determination unit determines whether or not a zoom operation in which the zoom lens moves is being performed. In a case where the zoom operation determination unit determines that the zoom operation is being performed, an operation deciding unit prohibits a shift operation which is at least a part of a sensor movement operation which is allowed while the zoom operation is stopped.

Imaging device including shake correction mechanism, and operation method and operation program thereof

Provided are an image processing device capable of performing compression processing on a video captured in each video capturing mode according to a first video capturing mode and a second video capturing mode with different capturing conditions. A possible range of a quantization parameter applied in a case where the video is compressed is made different in the first video capturing mode and the second video capturing mode with different capturing conditions. The quantization parameter is determined within a first range in a case of the first video capturing mode, and the quantization parameter is determined within a second range narrower than the first range in a case of the second video capturing mode. In particular, a second upper limit value of the second range is smaller than a first upper limit value of the first range, and a second lower limit value of the second range is larger than a first lower limit value of the first range.

Device and method for adaptive quantization based on video capturing mode

Provided are a display method and a video recording method for a user to perceive a position of an extraction range moving within an angle of view, wherein the display method includes an acquisition step of acquiring a reference video that is a motion picture, an extraction step of extracting an extraction video set to be smaller than an angle of view of the reference video within the angle of view from the reference video, a movement step of moving an extraction range of the extraction video over time, a first display step of displaying the extraction video on a display device, and a second display step of displaying a support video based on a positional relationship between the angle of view and the extraction range on the display device, in which the second display step is executed during execution of the first display step.

Display method and video recording method

The imaging apparatus includes an imaging sensor, a detection sensor that detects rotational shake in the roll direction, a mechanical vibration-proof mechanism that corrects rotational shake, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine, based on a frame rate of motion picture imaging, a correction distribution ratio between mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism and electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake. The processor is then configured to execute the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing.

Imaging apparatus and operation method thereof

Provided is a lens device provided in an imaging apparatus body including an image sensor, the lens device including a processor, a a memory coupled to or integrated with the processor, a lens that includes a movement lens and that images incident light on the image sensor, and a drive mechanism that moves the movement lens by applying power to the movement lens along a coordinate plane intersecting an optical axis of the lens. The processor is configured to perform, with respect to the drive mechanism, control of changing a movement amount of the movement lens based on a wavelength range of the light transmitted through the movement lens.

Lens device, imaging apparatus, operation method of lens device, operation method of imaging apparatus, and program

An imaging apparatus has an imaging element that captures an optical image with a first angle of view, and a control unit that has a first mode and a second mode as a video imaging mode and records video data of a video based on the optical image. The control unit executes thinning-out drive to thin out a part of readout of the plurality of pixels in the first mode and the second mode, sets a second thinning-out rate in the thinning-out drive of the second mode to be lower than a first thinning-out rate of the thinning-out drive of the first mode, and changes the second angle of view of the recording region following movement of a subject in the recording region in the second mode, and changes the second thinning-out rate of the recording region with change in the second angle of view in the second mode.

Imaging apparatus capable of changing thinning-out rates for different angles of view

In a display method of a video in which a part of a captured video is cut out and the cut-out video is switched, the convenience for a user is improved. A display method of displaying a video captured by an imaging apparatus includes a setting step of setting a plurality of set regions in a reference region which is an imaging region of a reference video, a selection step of selecting a recording region, which is a region of a record video to be recorded, from among the plurality of set regions, a switching step of reselecting the recording region from among the plurality of set regions to switch the recording region after the selection step is performed, and a display step of displaying the record video, the reference video, and a flag indicating a position of each of the plurality of set regions in the reference video.

Display method

A control method used in a system including a moving body and an imaging apparatus includes an acquisition step of acquiring factor information, including movement information related to the moving body, via the imaging apparatus, an adjustment step of adjusting a position of a moving mechanism that moves an image sensor or an imaging lens provided in the imaging apparatus, based on the factor information, an imaging step of imaging a subject by using the image sensor after the adjustment step is executed, and a correction step of correcting a shake applied to the image sensor or the imaging lens by using the moving mechanism in a case in which the imaging step is executed.

Control method and imaging apparatus

A focusing control device includes: a sensor that has a plurality of pairs of signal detection units each including a first signal detection unit that receives one of a pair of beams passed through different parts of an imaging optical system including a focus lens and detects a signal depending on an intensity of received light and a second signal detection unit that receives other one of the pair of beams and detects a signal depending on an intensity of received light, in which a plurality of lines each including a portion of the plurality of pairs that are arranged in one direction are arranged in a direction orthogonal to the one direction; a first correlation operation unit as defined herein; a second correlation operation unit as defined herein; a selection unit as defined herein; and a lens driving section as defined herein.

Focusing control device, lens device, imaging device, focusing control method, focusing control program

The pixel region includes a first phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of which the first side of the photoelectric conversion element is blocked by the light blocking layer in a first side region of the first side, and a second phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of which the second side of the photoelectric conversion element is blocked by the light blocking layer. The first phase difference pixel group includes a first A pixel and a first B pixel in which a light blocking area of the photoelectric conversion element using the light blocking layer is smaller than that of the first A pixel. The controller performs addition readout processing in which at least one of a pixel signal of the first A pixel or a pixel signal of the first B pixel is weighted in accordance with optical characteristics of the imaging lens.

Imaging apparatus and imaging sensor

A video creation method of creating a video is provided. The method includes setting, in an imaging region of a reference video having a first angle of view, one or more regions having a second angle of view different from the first angle of view, determining a selection region that is the region in which a subject of a recording target is included, switching the selection region, displaying an insertion video in a period between a display period of a pre-switching video which is a video of the selection region before the switching and a display period of a post-switching video which is a video of the selection region after the switching, and executing, during a display period of the insertion video, a process to change a displayed video from one of the pre-switching video or the post-switching video to the other of the pre-switching video or the post-switching video.

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, a moving mechanism that corrects a shake, a curtain that blocks an incidence ray on the imaging element by traveling in a column direction, and a processor configured to, in a state where the moving mechanism moves the imaging element, in a case where an instruction to start imaging with an exposure time period less than or equal to a predetermined time period is received, perform a moving amount reduction control for reducing a moving amount for moving the imaging element from an elapse of a timing of reception of the instruction until a start of exposure of the imaging element, compared to a moving amount of the imaging element at the timing of reception of the instruction, in a state where the moving amount reduction control is performed, start a reset control for sequentially resetting a plurality of pixels included in the imaging element along the column direction for each line in a row direction, and after an elapse of a time period corresponding to the exposure time period from the start of the reset control, cause the curtain to travel in the column direction.

Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and imaging program

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