Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Michihiro Aso

Hiroyuki Miyahara

Hidehiro Katoh

Kenji Taguchi

Nobuyuki Matsukawa

Taro Watanabe

Kenji Matsuoka

Takayuki Ohtsuka

Kazuhiko Ueda

Yoshiaki Hanashiro

A pixel signal outputted from an image pickup device in a standard image pickup region of a solid-state image device and a pixel signal outputted from an image pickup device in a camera shake correction region are written into a first memory and a second memory alternately for each screen. By adjusting the number of lines of a video signal upon reading out a signal from the memory, a moving image is outputted as a wide angle image. Further, by outputting all line signals in the memory, a wider angle still image is obtained.

Wide angle image pickup apparatus

When a still picture information is recorded on the recording mediumwhile a moving picture information is recorded by the VTR, a still picture information to be recorded can be confirmed and recorded by displaying the still picture information to be recorded in a sub picture frame on the screen of the viewfinder, which displays the moving picture information currently recorded.

Video recorder for recording moving and still picture information

Charges are read out from a CCD n (where n is an integer or greater) times within 1 field period, under the control of a controller. Under the control of a memory controller, a VTR records the n images as a video signal for 1 field, based on the readout charges. When playing back, under control of the memory controller, the video signal for 1 field, which is read out from the VTR and which includes n images, is temporarily stored in a memory. The memory controller reads out the n images from the memory in time sequence, and displays each image on a display m (where m is an integer 1 or greater) times during period of m fields, thereby performing slow playback at a playback speed of 1/(n&times;m). Along with a video signal for each field, the VTR records information with regard to the number n of the images and the display positions thereof.

Apparatus and method that provide smooth images in slow playback mode

In an apparatus for detecting amounts of relative motion of a picture expressed by a digital video signal, between successive fields of the signal, a fixed set of picture element positions are designated as respective representative points in each field of the video signal. For each representative point, the signal level value for that point during a preceding field is compared with each of a successive of picture element values in the current field, within a corresponding comparison interval which extends prior to and subsequent to the position of that representative point in the field. In addition, a corresponding value of relative distance between each picture element for which a result is obtained and that representative point is derived as a binary value, and the result is cumulatively stored with corresponding results for other representative points in an address of one of a plurality of memory sections, with the particular memory section being assigned in accordance with the state(s) of one or more high-order bits of the corresponding relative distance value and the address being assigned in accordance with the remaining low-order bits of that distance value.

Apparatus for detecting relative motion between contents of successive

A video signal processing circuit of a single chip color camera including a color separation filter for performing a color separation on incident light passing therethrough so as to output color separated light, a solid state pickup device for picking up the color separated light passed through the color separation filter and outputting a video signal, main circuit means for generating a first luminance signal, a second luminance signal, a first color difference signal, and a second color difference signal from the video signal, compensating signal generating means for obtaining a compensation signal from the first and second color difference signals, operational means for applying the compensation signal to the first luminance signal to produce as output luminance signal, and color temperature detection means for detecting a color temperature of the incident light and outputting a DC control voltage so as to determine the compensation signal.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Michihiro Aso