Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Makoto Takakuwa

Haruo Kogane

Yasuji Nakamura

Michinori Kishimoto

Kazushige Tamura

Ken Ikoma

Manabu Nakamura

Ryuji Yamazaki

Akihiro Akiyama

Kenji Tamura

Hideki Shuto

Norio Saitou

Yoshiyuki Watanabe

A sound processing apparatus includes a processor to obtain sound data and image data, wherein the sound data is collected from a sound source in a given area by a sound collection unit including a plurality of microphones and the image data is captured by an imaging unit which captures an image at least partially in the given area, to designate a direction defined relative to the sound collection unit, wherein the designated direction corresponds to a designation part on an image displayed based on the image data, to designate an arbitrary range in the given area, wherein the designated arbitrary range corresponds to a designation part on the image displayed based on the image data, and to emphasize a sound component in the sound data in the direction designated by the first designation unit within the arbitrary range designated by the second designation unit.

Sound processing apparatus, sound processing system and sound processing method

A surveillance video camera to be operative in combination with a surveillance system for watching an object, includes: an optical section having passed therethrough light to be provided as an image indicative of the object; a converting section constituted by a plurality of pixel units to be exposed to the light provided through the optical section; a plurality of sensitivity enhancing units; a surveillance mode selecting section for selectively setting at least two surveillance modes; and an executing section for allowing the sensitivity enhancing units to start, in sequence corresponding to the selected surveillance mode, to enhance the sensitivity of the converting section, and to stop enhancing the sensitivity of the converting section, the sequences corresponding to the respective surveillance modes being different from each other.

Surveillance video camera with a plurality of sensitivity enhancing units

To provide an optical filter switching device for a camera in which a clear image can always be obtained during the day and at night. In a cameral in which an image is formed on an image pick-up element () through a lens () provided on a camera body () and is converted into an electric signal through the image pick-up element (), thereby obtaining an image signal, optical filter switching means () for switching optical filters () and () depending on a level of the image signal is provided on a front surface of the image pick-up element () and a clear image can always be obtained during the day and at night. Therefore, in the case in which such a camera is used for a surveillance camera, the reliability of a monitoring system can be enhanced.

Camera and device for switching optical filters

To provide a camera with an image switching function capable of assuredly recording mode preventing the generation of a hunting upon switching the image recording mode, an image pick-up signal obtained by a CCD image pick-up element% is outputted as a color video signal or a black-and-white video signal in accordance with an image recording mode through processes by an analog signal processing part, an A/D converting part, a digital signal processing partand a video output part. A control partcontrols all the operations of a camera including process determining the image record mode. The image record mode basically determined in accordance a luminance signal. The image record mode is set to a color image record mode under a high luminance and set to a black-and-white image record mode under a low luminance. However, when the image pick-up signal is formed under near infrared radiation even high luminance, the image record mode is set to the black-and-white image record mode. Whether or not the image pick-up signal is formed by the near infrared radiation is decided by analyzing color signals of image pick-up signal.

Camera with image recording mode switching function

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Yokohama, Japan

Makoto Takakuwa