Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahiro Matsumoto

Toshiyuki Akiyama

Naoki Ozawa

Itaru Mimura

Kenji Takahashi

Yoshizumi Eto

Takashi Nakamura

Shigeo Mikoshiba

Shinichi Shinada

An image pickup apparatus for a television and a depth-of-field control apparatus used in the same. Image signals corresponding to a plurality of picture images different in focal point or length position are obtained by a mechanism for changing a focal point or length position to produce a new image signal by composing these image signals through a composition circuit, and motion information of an object is obtained by a circuit for detecting a moving portion in the object to control the image composition by the motion information. The focal point or length position is moved in synchronism with an integer multiple of a vertical scanning period of the television. The image signals corresponding to the plurality of picture images different in focal point or length position are obtained within one vertical scanning period determined by the system of the television. The amount of movement of the focal point or length position is controlled in conjunction with a value of a lens aperture of the camera lens. The image composition is controlled by a composition control circuit made up of a circuit for detecting individual powers of image signals corresponding to a plurality of different picture images, a circuit for comparing the detected powers with each other, and a circuit for detecting the position of an edge included in one of the image signals, wherein a control signal for the image composition produced by the power comparison circuit is compensated by the edge position information obtained by the edge detection circuit.

Depth-of-field control apparatus and image pickup apparatus having the

A signal for a first scanning line including a picture element whose signal does not exist and a signal for a second scanning line adjacent to the first scanning line in the same field are obtained in the same period. Then, a coefficient representing the ratio of the level of the signal for the first scanning line to the level of the signal for the second scanning line is calculated. Multiplying by the coefficient the level of the signal for the second scanning line to thereby provide an interpolation signal. The interpolation signal is added to the signal for the first canning line.

Method and apparatus for interpolating a video signal of a picture

An image pickup apparatus comprising: a two-dimensional filter for interpolating the registration discrepancy due to the chromatic aberrations of the lens used; and a two-dimensional filter for correcting the fixing discrepancy of an image pickup element. The registration discrepancy may be corrected by guiding video signals from the image pickup element through the two-dimensional filters.

Solid state image pickup apparatus for correcting discrepancy of

In an image pickup apparatus, an interpolation signal for interpolating a discrepancy of registration is calculated from signals of (M.times.N) pieces of arranged elements (M, N being an integer, respectively) the positions of which on a light receiving plane are mutually adjoined with each other among arranged elements corresponding to signals in 2 fields which are continuously output from the respective image pickup elements, whereby the registration error can be corrected. An image pickup element has such a structure that signals having the same element number as an arranged element number corresponding to mutually continuous 2 field signals among the signals read during the normal interlace operation are entirely independently read every 1 field. By utilizing such an image pickup element having the element numbers two times higher than that of the conventional element, the registration error is interpolated from the signals of (M.times.N) pieces of the mutually adjoining arranged elements corresponding to the 1 field signal.

Opto-electric converting image pickup element and image pickup apparatus

A method of driving a gas-discharge display panel in which a plurality of discharge cells constructed of display anodes and cathodes are arrayed in the form of a matrix, comprising affording a predetermined phase difference between a display pulse which is impressed on the discharge cell and a display pulse which is impressed on the discharge cell adjoining the former cell.

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Hachioji, Japan

Takahiro Matsumoto