Minolta Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Mutsuhiro Yamanaka

Kazuchika Sato

Noriyuki Okisu

Shinichi Fujii

Hironori Sumitomo

Keiji Tamai

Hiroaki Kubo

Yasuhiro Mori

Yasuhiro Morimoto

Masahiro Kitamura

Eiichi Ide

Tetsuyuki Tanimoto

Yuusuke Nakano

Ryosuke Sasaki

Hideki Kawahara

Toshiharu Takenouchi

Kazuki Akaho

Atsuhiro Noda

Shigeru Nagata

Osamu Uesugi

Eiji Nakamoto

Yuji Adachi

Masahiro Nishio

Koji Uekusa

A tool system is used for a plurality of tools. Each of the plurality of tools is a portable tool and includes: a driving unit to be activated with power supplied from a power source; and an image capturing unit. The tool system includes a reference image generating unit and an output unit. The reference image generating unit generates, based on a second captured image, a reference image to be compared with a first captured image. The first captured image is shot, while a current work target is being identified, by the image capturing unit. The second captured image is also shot by the image capturing unit. The output unit makes a display unit display the second captured image while the reference image generating unit is generating the reference image.

Tool system, tool, method for generating reference image, and program

Disclosed is an imaging apparatus provided with: a light irradiation unit which irradiates a target area with light; a differential image generation unit which generates a differential image between a first image which was taken in synchronization with the irradiation period during which the light irradiation unit irradiates the light and a second image which was taken outside the irradiation period; a transmittance estimation unit which estimates the light transmittance of an object in the target area; and a light exposure adjustment unit which adjusts the exposure based on the estimation result from the transmittance estimation unit. The transmittance estimation unit estimates the transmittance of the object from at least one of the first image, the second image, and the differential image.

Imaging apparatus for taking a picture of a driver of a motor vehicle through a front glass of the motor vehicle

An object of the present invention is to realize an image processing technique of making chromatic aberration correction excellently function and capable of efficiently correcting a chromatic aberration and to reduce storage capacity of parameters used for the chromatic aberration correction. It is constructed so that an image processing unit concurrently performs a chromatic aberration correcting process of correcting a chromatic aberration by an image capturing optical system and a color interpolating process of interpolating a dropout color component pixel by pixel on an image signal obtained from an image capturing device. On the basis of position information of a pixel to be processed obtained from the image processing unit, a control unit determines an image filter to be applied to the pixel. For example, an image filter is generated by combining a filter for chromatic aberration correction and a filter for color interpolating process. The image filter is applied, filter computation is performed on the image signal, and the chromatic aberration correcting process and the color interpolating process are concurrently performed.

Image capturing apparatus

An image of which restoration degree is determined based on the difference between each pixel and a neighboring pixel of the pixel in a light receiving element arrayis divided into a plurality of areas based on the determined restoration degree, and the areas of the image are each restored in accordance with the determined restoration degree. By doing this, not only ringing and noise enhancement can effectively be suppressed but also the border between the areas which is conspicuous when the image is divided into two kinds of areas becomes less conspicuous, so that a natural restored image can be obtained.

Apparatus, method, program and recording medium for image restoration

An image acquired by an image sensor is recorded, and the blur amount of the recorded image is changed in accordance with a blur amount determined beforehand.

Image capture device and method of controlling blur in captured images

In an image processing apparatus for performing image restoration by utilizing iterative calculations based on a captured degraded image and a degradation function obtained in or before photographing, a residual is calculated in each time of iteration in the iterative calculations and the rate of variation from the previous residual to the newly obtained residual is calculated. When the rate of variation of the residual becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold value, it is judged that the iterative calculations are converged.

Image processing apparatus for performing image restoration

An image taking apparatus includes an image sensor which picks up an image of a photographic object and a selector which selects a first photographing mode or a second photographing mode and a controller. The second photographing mode is a mode for composing a plurality of picked-up images to create a composite image. The controller makes the image sensor pickup a photographic object image on the first photographing condition when the first photographing mode is selected by the selector, and makes the image sensor pick up a plurality of images of photographic objects on the second photographing condition different from said first photographing condition when the second photographing mode is selected by the selector.

Image taking apparatus

A shot image degraded by an asymmetric degrading filter is corrected, the corrected shot image is modified into an updated image, the updated image is degraded by use of the degradation function obtained at the time of shooting, and the residual between the degraded modified image and the shot image is calculated. Then, with the modified image as a new image to be processed, the image modification and update, the image degradation and the residual calculation are iterated until the calculated residual is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. When the residual is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, the corresponding updated image is used as the restored image.

Image restoration apparatus

Provided is a digital camera in which the user can easily recognize that an image is out of focus by viewing a display image. At the time of live view display, image capturing is performed every predetermined time in an image capturing unit and images for live view display are successively recorded on an image memory An evaluation value computing unit in an overall control unit obtains an image stored in the image memory and calculates an evaluation value indicative of the focus state of the image. A display image control unit obtains the evaluation value, determines a focus state of the image, and controls a process to be performed by a display image processing unit in accordance with the result of determination. When the image is out of focus, an image quality degrading process is performed in the display image processing unit and an image of low image quality is displayed on a display

Digital camera

An image processing apparatus is provided with: a partial image data generator for generating a plurality of partial image data pertaining to a plurality of partial images of an object respectively, one partial image being partially overlapped another partial image in a boundary portion; a boundary image data generator for generating boundary image data pertaining to the boundary portion based on image data pertaining to the respective overlapped portions; and an image synthesizer for synthesizing the plurality of partial image data by way of the generated boundary image data to generate image data pertaining to a single image of the object.

Image processing apparatus for generating a single image of an object using overlapping partial images

An assembly method of an air gap prism which has an air gap between a first glass member and a second glass member, the assembly method having steps of setting a first glass member on a positioning member, setting a sheet member on the positioning member so as to cover the first glass member, setting a second glass member on the first glass member covered with the sheet member so as to sandwich the sheet member between the first glass member and the second glass member, and cutting a portion of the sheet member protruding from the first glass member and the second glass member.

Air gap prism and method for producing same

An optical prism having a first glass member which has a first surface on which an specific light is irradiated, a second surface which reflects a part of the specific light and passes through the rest of the specific light, and a third surface on which the part of the specific light reflected by the second surface is irradiated in a substantially vertical direction; and a second glass member which has a fourth surface which passes through the rest of the specific light passing through the second surface, and a fifth surface on which the rest of the specific light passing through the forth surface is irradiated in a substantially vertical direction; wherein the third surface and the fifth surface have a resin which hardens by being irradiated the specific light.

Optical prism

An image forming optical system comprises interchangeable lens 14 of a single lens reflex camera and reduction relay optical system 15. A three-color separating prism 16 that separates the photo image into two green photo images (G1 and G2) and a red/blue photo image (R/B) is located behind the image forming optical system, and CCDs 19 through 17 that perform image sensing as to RB, G2 and G1 photo images are located behind the transparent surfaces of prisms 16a through 16c, respectively. G1 CCD 17 and RB CCD 19 perform image sensing for the same photo image area while G2 CCD 18 performs image sensing for a photo image area which is offset by distance .sqroot. {(PH/2).sup.2 +(PV/2).sup.2 } (PH: lateral pixel pitch, PV: vertical pixel pitch) in the lower right direction relative to G1 CCD 17.

Multiple imager with shutter control

The present invention is a film housing device comprising a film housing member that houses developed film; a driving mechanism that feeds the film housed in said housing member to a position outside the housing member where the film may be visually observed by the naked eye; and an operating member to operate said drive mechanism. Using said construction, when the operating member of the film housing device is operated, the drive mechanism operates and the developed film is fed to a position outside the housing member where the film may be visually observed by the naked eye. Therefore, the photographic content of the film may be confirmed with the naked eye using only the film housing device where it is not necessary to connect the device to a film reading device such as film scanner.

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Suita, Japan

Mutsuhiro Yamanaka