Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Amato Pharmaceutical Products, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Nec Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Metecs Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Pet Cage Co., Ltd.

Fujijilm Corporation

Kid Co., Ltd.

Mikio Watanabe

Hiroshi Tanaka

Masaya Tamaru

Fuminori Irie

Takeshi Misawa

Daisuke Hayashi

Hiroyuki Oshima

Satoshi Nakamura

Hisayoshi Tsubaki

Kenji Moronaga

Kenji Ito

Eiji Ishiyama

Seiki Nishi

Sugio Makishima

Tomonori Masuda

Norihisa Haneda

Osamu Saito

Satoru Okamoto

Koichi Sakamoto

Koichi Yahagi

Toshiharu Ueno

Tomomitsu Muta

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Keisuke Tanaka

Takehiko Senba

Yoshiki Kawaoka

Masahiro Murakami

Yoshiko Shiimori

Arito Asai

Hisashi Endo

Yukihiro Kawada

Hiroyuki Kurase

Hiroshi Suganuma

Jiro Takano

Yoshimi Ishihara

Atsushi Misawa

Koichi Tanaka

Hiroshi Fukuda

Kentaro Tokiwa

Izumi Miyake

Kiyotaka Kaneko

Tomoki Inoue

Masafumi Inuiya

Akira Maeda

Takao Miyazaki

Hirofumi Horii

Yasuhiro Shinkai

Manabu Hyodo

Toshihiko Kaku

Naoki Kubo

Atsuhiko Ishihara

Tatsuji Numata

Tatsuya Fujinami

Minoru Arai

Kazukiyo Tamada

Akira Aoki

Koji Shimanuki

Atsushi Teshima

Kazuhiro Tokuda

Yitong Zhang

Takeshi Okubo

Mika Sugimoto

Hitoshi Ueno

Kenji Kubozono

Fumio Nakamaru

Fumihiro Funazaki

Toshihiro Kurita

Norihisa Sutoh

Kikuo Otsuka

Yoichi Sawachi

Katsuya Makioka

Toshikazu Kawahata

Asa Namiki

Yoshiki Takeoka

Chika Kambe

Takeshi Oota

Kazu Mishiba

Teruo Nakanishi

Kouichi Yahagi

Nihei Kaname

Takeshi Ota

Yoshiyuki Ishige

Hideki Kashima

In one aspect of the present invention, when reset of a camera is received, a pan motor and a tilt motor of a pan and tilt mechanism are rotated in a first preset rotation direction, and the pan and tilt mechanism is first moved to a pan reference position and a tilt reference position. Thereafter, the pan motor and the tilt motor are rotated in a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, and the pan and tilt mechanism is moved to an initial pan position and an initial tilt position. Using a movement of the pan and tilt mechanism to initial pan and tilt positions, detection of a subject for automatic tracking is performed, and if the subject is detected, then transition to an automatic tracking state is caused to occur.

Method of setting initial position of camera, camera, and camera system

An imaging control device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a rotation instruction input unit that receives an input of an instruction of rotation of a pan and tilt mechanism of a camera, a rotation instruction output unit that outputs the rotation instruction to the camera, an image input unit that receives a live view image according to the rotation instruction from the camera, and a display control unit that causes the display unit to perform a display for superimposing the live view image input from the camera on a limit display image of a two-dimensionally displayed spherical surface indicating an imagable region and a non-imagable region respectively corresponding to within a rotation limit and out of the rotation limit of the imaging unit of the camera, and rotating the limit display image along the two-dimensionally displayed spherical surface according to the input of the rotation instruction.

Imaging control apparatus, imaging control method, camera system, and program

An imaging apparatus includes: a distance measurement unit that measures distance values of a plurality of points in a first area which has a focus point as a reference point; a statistical unit that calculates statistics indicating a variation in the measured distance values of the plurality of points in the first area; a size determination unit that determines the size of a second area which has the focus point as a reference point, on the basis of the calculated statistics; a contrast evaluation value calculation unit that calculates a contrast evaluation value on the basis of an image of the second area; and a focusing unit that moves a focus lens to a lens position determined on the basis of the calculated contrast evaluation value.

Imaging apparatus and focus control method

An imaging control device according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a motion vector calculation unit that calculates a motion vector of a tracking target on the basis of a moving image obtained by an imaging unit, a tracking direction instruction input unit that receives an input of a tracking direction instruction indicating a specific tracking direction for tracking the tracking target, a tracking direction motion component extraction unit that extracts a motion component in the specific tracking direction from the motion vector of the tracking target on the basis of the tracking direction instruction; and a drive information generation unit that generates drive information of only the specific tracking direction of a pan and tilt mechanism on the basis of the extracted motion component in the specific tracking direction.

Imaging control device, imaging control method, camera, camera system, and program

In an aspect of the invention, first and second images having parallax are acquired by an imaging unit () including a first imaging part (A) and a second imaging part (B), and an angle between an imaging direction of the imaging unit () and a normal direction of a flat surface of an object to be inspected having the flat surface is calculated on the basis of the acquired first and second images. The pan/tilt of the imaging unit () are controlled by a pan/tilt control unit (), but images for inspection showing the object to be inspected are taken and acquired by the imaging unit in a case in which the calculated angle is controlled to an angle within an allowable angle range.

Imaging device and imaging method

The present invention provides an imaging device and a time-lapse imaging method capable of simply realizing time-lapse imaging using a pan and tilt mechanism. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, an imaging device includes a pan and tilt mechanism that rotates an imaging unit in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction relative to a device body, transmits a live view image to a smartphone, displays the live view image on a display and input unit, and receives an instruction input for specifying camerawork in time-lapse imaging using the display and input unit. Accordingly, the instruction input for specifying camerawork for performing time-lapse imaging using the pan and tilt mechanism can be simply input. The imaging device controls at least the pan and tilt mechanism based on the instruction input for specifying camerawork and controls the imaging unit to perform time-lapse imaging.

Imaging device and time-lapse imaging method

An imaging device (pan/tilt camera) includes an imaging unit including an imaging lens and an imaging element, a pan/tilt mechanism that rotates the imaging unit in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction with respect to a camera body, an object detection unit that detects an object, which is a tracking target, from a moving image captured by the imaging unit, a pan/tilt control unit that controls the pan/tilt mechanism such that the object detected by the object detection unit is tracked, a motion sensor that detects a physical amount related to the movement of the camera body, and an operation control unit that stops the pan/tilt mechanism in a case in which the physical amount detected by the motion sensor is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.

Imaging device having pan/tilt control for object tracking, imaging method, and computer-readable medium

A multi-imaging apparatus includes: a display unit; an internal imaging device that acquires a first live view image or a first image captured by a main imaging operation thereof; a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with an external imaging device that acquires a second live view image or a second image captured by a main imaging operation thereof; and a controller. Here, the controller receives an input of the first live view image from the internal imaging device, receives the second live view image from the external imaging device through the wireless communication unit, and causes the display unit to display the input first live view image and the received second live view image as a multi-live view.

Multi-imaging apparatus including internal imaging device and external imaging device, multi-imaging method, program, and recording medium

A movable imaging device includes a camera, a moving body, a definition calculation unit that calculates definition of an image for inspection, a determination unit that determines whether the definition is equal to or higher than required definition required for inspection accuracy of an object to be inspected, a pan/tilt control unit that operates a pan/tilt mechanism in a case in which the determination unit determines that the calculated definition is equal to or higher than the required definition, a moving body control unit that moves a moving body in a case in which the pan/tilt mechanism is operated and it is determined that the definition is lower than the required definition, and an imaging control unit that images the object to be inspected by the camera in a case in which it is determined that the definition is equal to or higher than the required definition.

Movable imaging device and movable imaging method

A live view control device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a display control unit that displays each of a plurality of live view images received from a plurality of imaging devices in each of a plurality of areas of a display screen, a priority setting unit that sets a priority of the plurality of live view images, a transfer condition setting unit that sets transfer conditions including at least one of a frame rate of transfer and an image size of the transfer of the plurality of live view images on the basis of the priority of the plurality of live view images, and a communication control unit that transmits a transfer instruction for a live view image according to the set transfer conditions to the plurality of imaging devices via the wireless communication unit.

Live view control device, live view control method, live view system, and program

A smartphone which functions as a moving editing device includes: a wireless communication unit that is connected to plural cameras capable of performing moving image capturing in a wireless manner and acquires one or plural live view images from the plural cameras; a display panel that displays the acquired one or plural live view images; an operation panel that performs switching between live view images displayed on the display panel by a manual operation; a storage unit that stores operation history information indicating an operation history in the operation panel; and a main controller which functions as a moving image editing unit that performs moving image editing for automatically creating, after the moving image capturing in the plural cameras is terminated, one moving image based on plural moving images respectively captured by the plural cameras and the operation history information stored in the storage unit.

Moving image editing device, moving image editing method, moving image editing program

In an aspect of the present invention, assignment and a rotation direction of a pan motor and a tilt motor of each key of a cross key are set on the basis of the installation posture of the camera. Accordingly, it is possible to operate the cross key without discomfort when the camera is caused to perform a pan operation or a tilt operation using the cross key. Further, if the camera is caused to perform the pan operation using the cross key and a specific condition under which a video rotates is discriminated from a tilt angle, a display of a corresponding icon of the cross key is switched from a first icon indicating an up and down direction or a left and right direction to a second icon indicating a rotation direction. Accordingly, it is possible not to cause discomfort even when a video rotates.

Pan and tilt operation device, camera system with posture sensor, pan and tilt operation program, and pan and tilt operation method

Provided are an imaging device operation device, an operation method, and a program that can simply and rapidly operate a pan/tilt mechanism such that an imaging unit is located at a desired position. A pan/tilt operation device includes a touch panel in which a touch centering detection region is set, predetermined pan angle rotation instruction regions are set on the left and right sides of the touch centering detection region, and predetermined tilt angle rotation instruction regions are set on the upper and lower sides of the touch centering detection region, a touch centering instruction unit, a predetermined pan angle rotation instruction unit that outputs an instruction to pan a pan/tilt mechanism at a predetermined pan angle, and a predetermined tilt angle rotation instruction unit that outputs an instruction to tilt the pan/tilt mechanism at a predetermined tilt angle.

Imaging device operation device, operation method, and program

A live view control device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a radio wave intensity detection unit that detects radio wave intensity with respect to each of a plurality of imaging devices, a priority setting unit that sets a priority of a plurality of live view images on the basis of the detected radio wave intensity, a transfer condition setting unit that sets transfer conditions including at least one of a frame rate of transfer and an image size of the transfer of each of the plurality of live view images on the basis of the priorities of the plurality of live view images, and a communication control unit that transmits the set transfer conditions to the plurality of imaging devices via a wireless communication unit.

Imaging control device, imaging control method, imaging system, and program

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Mikio Watanabe