Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

Xacti Corporation

Mitsuaki Kurokawa

Shimpei Fukumoto

Yoshimasa Kinoshita

Kohei Terada

Hirofumi Amma

Akio Kobayashi

Hideshi Oeda

Yoshinori Senoh

Seiji Okada

Akihiro Maenaka

Kazuhiro Tsujino

Hidefumi Okada

Mitsuyoshi Nakamura

Yukitaka Okamoto

Kazuto Yoshii

Hiroshi Tsunoda

Toru Asaeda

Kiyoshi Hibino

Satoru Takeuchi

Toru Nose

Hideharu Baba

Michiaki Satoh

Youichirou Gotoh

A boat control system includes an imager to image a user towed by a hull, an image processor to determine a predetermined state of the user from an image captured by the imager, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to adjust a thruster operable to change a propulsion state of the hull based on the predetermined state of the user determined by the image processor to change the propulsion state of the hull.

Boat control system and marine vessel

A marine vessel includes a vessel body including a navigation light, an imager provided in a vicinity of or adjacent to the navigation light, and a light shield provided between the navigation light and the imager so as to block light from the navigation light to the imager.

Marine vessel and marine vessel imaging device

A marine vessel display device includes an imager that images surroundings of a vessel body, an image processor that generates a bird's-eye view image based on images captured by the imager, a display provided in the vessel body and that displays the bird's-eye view image, and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to perform a control to switch an image displayed on the display from the bird's-eye view image to an object image obtained by imaging in a direction toward an object from the vessel body based on object information.

Marine vessel display device, marine vessel, and image display method for marine vessel

An imaging device that reduces differences between a bird's eye image and an actually measured distance includes imaging cameras mounted on a ship to capture peripheral images of the ship and combines the peripheral images captured by the imaging cameras to create the bird's eye image as a composite image. The imaging device includes an auxiliary camera adjacent to at least one of the imaging cameras, and a distance calculator that calculates a distance in a lateral direction using the auxiliary camera and the at least one of the imaging cameras adjacent to the auxiliary camera.

Imaging device including distance calculator for ship and ship including the imaging device

An imaging system for a ship includes cameras mounted on the ship and spaced apart at a predetermined interval, and a controller that combines peripheral images of the ship captured by the respective cameras to create a simulated bird's eye image. Adjacent ones of the cameras are located at positions and angles so that the peripheral images include a common portion of the ship. The controller performs a calibration process to adjust areas of the peripheral images to be used for the bird's eye image based on a calibration index located at a portion of the ship and included in the common peripheral images.

Imaging system for ship, ship including the system, and calibrating method for imaging system for ship

A marine vessel includes a hull including a cabin, an imager that images a field-of-view shielded region, which is a region in which a marine vessel operator's field of view is obstructed when the marine vessel operator located on an operation seat provided inside the cabin looks around an outside of the marine vessel in a horizontal direction, and a display provided at a position visible from the operation seat and that displays a field-of-view complement image, which is an image of the field-of-view shielded region captured by the imager.

Marine vessel and marine vessel operation support device

An electronic camera includes an image sensor. The image sensor has an imaging surface capturing an object scene through a zoom lens, and outputs an image representing the object scene. The image outputted from the image sensor is reduced in size by a zoom circuit arranged in a pre-processing circuit. A post-processing circuit extracts a reduced image belonging to an extraction area of a predetermined size, out of the reduced image created by the pre-processing circuit. Depending on a change of a magnification of the zoom lens, a CPU changes a size of the reduced image created by the pre-processing circuit in the same direction as a change direction of the magnification of the zoom lens. An angle of view of the reduced image extracted by the post-processing circuit decreases by a rate exceeding a decrease rate resulting from an increase in optical zoom magnification.

Electronic camera

An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a first feature point between the object scene image and the object scene images immediately before, and a clipper performs clipping processing on each of the plurality of object scene images on the basis of the detection result. When a still image recording operation is performed, a CPU changes an exposure time of the imager in such a direction as to shorten the time, and a second movement detector detects a movement of a second feature point between the object scene image immediately after the recording operation (reference object scene image) and the three object scene images being successive thereto out of a plurality of object scene images, and an adder adds the respective three object scene images to the reference object scene image while displacing the same on the basis of the detection result.

Imaging device and image processing apparatus

A super-resolution processing portion has a high-resolution image generation portion that fuses a plurality of first input images together to generate a high-resolution image. The first input images are shot at a shutter speed equal to or faster than the super-resolution limit shutter speed, which is the lower-limit shutter speed that enables super-resolution processing to make the resolution of the output image equal to or higher than that of the input images. According to the amount of exposure, one of the following different methods for super-resolution processing is selected: a first method that yields as the output image the high-resolution image; a second method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on an averaged image; and a third method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on a second input image.

Image-shooting apparatus capable of performing super-resolution processing

A video camera includes an image sensor which repeatedly outputs an object scene image produced on an imaging surface by an exposure operation of a focal-plane electronic shutter system in a raster scanning manner. A post-processing circuit extracts a partial object scene image belonging to an extraction area, out of the object scene image outputted from the image sensor. A moving image based on the extracted partial object scene image is displayed on an LCD monitor by an LCD driver. A motion detecting circuit detects motion of the imaging surface in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis. A position of the extraction area is changed by a CPU so that the motion detected by the motion detecting circuit is compensated. The CPU also changes a shape of the extraction area so that a focal plane distortion is restrained, based on the motion detected by the motion detecting circuit.

Video camera which adopts a focal-plane electronic shutter system

A data-processing circuit includes a distributor. Raw image data of horizontal 3840 pixels&#xd7;vertical 2160 pixels that is periodically outputted from a CMOS-type imaging device is divided by the distributor into four blocks of partial image data. The divided four blocks of partial image data are subjected to a pre-process in parallel by first to fourth pre-processing blocks. On the other hand, raw image data of horizontal 1280 pixels&#xd7;vertical 960 pixels that is periodically outputted from a CCD-type imaging device is serially subjected to a pre-process by a fifth pre-processing block. The number of pixels of the raw image data outputted from the CCD-type imaging device is equal to or less than &#xbc; the number of pixels of the raw image data outputted from the CMOS-type imaging device. A numerical value '4' is equivalent to the number of parallel pre-processes on the raw image data outputted from the CMOS imaging device.

Video camera which executes a first process and a second process on image data

An electronic camera includes a pre-processing block. The pre-processing block fetches four partial images outputted in a parallel manner from an image sensor in response to a clock CLKhaving a frequency equal to or less than 432 MHz, and performs four pre-processes that have responded to a clock CLKhaving a frequency &#xbc; the frequency of the clock CLK, on each of the fetched four partial images. An image based on the processed four partial images is outputted from an LCD monitor. An evaluation-image producing circuit responds to a clock CLKso as to create an evaluation image based on the processed four partial images. A frequency of the clock CLKis adjusted in a range in which &#xbc; of 432 MHz is the upper limit. A parameter for regulating a quality of an output image is adjusted based on the evaluation image thus created.

Electronic camera for adjusting a parameter for regulating an image quality based on the image data outputted from an image sensor

An image processing apparatus () includes a bus (B) and a bus (B). A series of processes for creating YUV image data for HDTV is executed by means of a bus (B) and an SDRAM (). Furthermore, a series of processes for creating YUV image data for LCD monitor () is executed by means of a bus (B) and an SDRAM (). Here, the resolution of the YUV image data for HDTV is higher than that of the YUV image data for LCD monitor. That is, the bus (B) and the SDRAM () are utilized for high-resolution moving image data processing, and the bus (B) and the SDRAMare utilized for low-resolution moving image data processing.

Image processing apparatus

An electronic camera includes a CCD imager. The CCD imager has an imaging surface in which two sensor areas are formed. A raw image produced in one sensor area is output from a channel CH, and a raw image produced in the other sensor area is output from a channel CH. The raw image from the channel CHis clamped by a clamp circuit at a clamp level LV, and the raw image from the channel CHis clamped by another clamp circuit at a clamp level LV. The clamp level LVmatches an optical black level VCL of the raw image from the channel CH. The clamp level LVmatches a subtraction level 'VCL&#x2212;(VAL&#x2212;VAR)' determined by subtracting a difference between a preliminary feeding level VAL of the raw image from the channel CHand a preliminary level VAR of the raw image from the channel CH, from the black level VCL of the raw image from the channel CH

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Mitsuaki Kurokawa