Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Komine

Masanori Sakai

Toshio Honma

Toshihiro Kadowaki

Yoshinori Ikeda

Tetsuya Ohnishi

Yasumichi Suzuki

Hiroyuki Horii

Tsuguhide Sakata

Naoki Umemura

Hajime Sato

Katsuyuki Kobayashi

Yuichiro Yoshimura

Akihiro Matsushita

Hisashi Kawai

Takayuki Hashimoto

Naoto Arakawa

Ritsuo Machii

Takuto Kawahara

Hirokuni Takano

Hitoshi Yasuda

Yasuo Suzuki

Yasutomo Suzuki

Tomishige Taguchi

Tetsuya Onishi

Shigeki Sakurai

Saburo Nakazato

Norio Nakajima

Kunihiko Tabei

A coordinate input apparatus includes a light projecting unit configured to project light parallelly to an effective coordinate input region, a reflection unit configured to retroreflect the light projected by the light projecting unit, and a light receiving unit configured to receive light from the light projecting unit or the reflection unit. The coordinate input apparatus includes a moving unit configured to move a set of the light projecting unit, light receiving unit, and reflection unit in a direction perpendicular to the effective coordinate input region in order to ensure a light amount with which a pointed position in the effective coordinate input region can be calculated based on variations of a light amount distribution obtained from the light receiving unit.

Coordinate input apparatus

A coordinate input apparatus includes a first housing and a second housing each of which incorporate at least two sensor units each including one of the light projecting unit and one of the light receiving unit. A pointed position to an effective coordinate input region is calculated based on variations of a light amount distribution obtained from the light receiving units of each of the first and second housings. In each of the first and second housings, the field range of a light receiving unit is almost parallel to the effective coordinate input region, the optical axis direction of the light receiving unit is a direction perpendicular to a line segment connecting the barycenters of at least two sensor units in a single housing, and the field range is set to be asymmetric to the optical axis direction.

A communication system has a communication controller for multiplexing and transmitting a power supply voltage and an audio signal to be played back by a plurality of channels, and a plurality of communication adapters which start in response to reception of the multiplexed/transmitted power supply voltage, and play back the audio signal using a playback device. The communication controller includes an audio data modulation circuit configured to modulate audio data by shifting, based on a first modulation ratio, a modulation carrier clock for modulating the audio data and a data transmission rate for transmitting the audio data in order to set a command transmission frequency bandwidth, and a command data modulation circuit configured to modulate command data by shifting, based on a second modulation ratio, a modulation carrier clock for modulating the command data and a data transmission rate for transmitting the command data in the command transmission frequency bandwidth.

Communication system and control method therefor, program, and storage medium

A camera section for photographing an object to generate a video signal is connected via a cable to a video signal processing section that receives and processes the video signal. When the camera section is replaced with a different one, signals corresponding to the new camera section are automatically provided. A video signal, a synchronizing signal therefor, a clock signal, and control data are multiplexed on a signal line in the cable and the signal obtained is transmitted from the camera section to the video signal processing section, and control data is sent from the video signal processing section to the camera section. These control data are transmitted during a vertical interval of the video signal, and a DC voltage is supplied to the camera section from the video signal processing section via a shield line that is paired with the signal line in the cable.

Image pickup apparatus and system

An image forming apparatus arranged to receive image information from a memory device for storing color image information and then to form an image on an image-forming medium. This apparatus allows an operator to specify the size and the layout of a color image to be formed on the image-forming medium while viewing a display provided on a monitor device. The apparatus can change the size of the color image information read from the memory device to the required magnification in accordance with a command given by the specifying element, thereby producing a printout. In this case, the operator can adjust the image quality of image information to be printed out while visually confirming the quality of the image displayed on the monitor device, whereby no proof printout is needed.

Image forming apparatus containing a display showing an adjustable image

An image processing apparatus reads an image and synthesizes it with another, broadcast-standardized image signal supplied from outside the apparatus and stored in a memory provided in the apparatus.

Image processing apparatus

A teleconference system by which a reservation for use can be readily and certainly established. The teleconference system includes an input unit for inputting image data and audio data; an output unit for outputting image data and audio data; a communication unit for multiplexing the image data and the audio data; a reservation management unit for controlling a reservation time at which the teleconference system is used and for allowing a reservation partner to use the teleconference system when the reservation time has come; and an interface unit for connecting with an external device. The reservation management unit performs a reservation control of a teleconference system based on reservation information sent from the external device via the interface unit.

Teleconference system

An image forming system for receiving image data from a memory and for forming images onto an image forming medium includes a reducing circuit for reducing stored image data in the memory, and an operation unit for displaying a plurality of images onto a display screen by the reducing circuit and for selecting a plurality of arbitrary images from the plurality of images displayed. A printer forms images of the image data selected by the operation unit and designates in the memory desired positions of the image forming medium.

An image processing apparatus reads an image and synthesizes it with another, broadcast standardized image signal supplied from outside the apparatus and stored in a memory provided in the apparatus.

Color image reproduction apparatus for reproducing retained stored

An image processing system includes an image reader, a first image storing memory, a second image storing memory arranged in an external device, and a unit for synthesizing an image read by the image reader with the image stored in the first image storing memory on the basis of data read out from the second image storing memory.

Image forming system for synthesizing color image data with binary image

An image processing system capable of processing different types of information includes a reproducing device for reproducing information stored in a medium. Discrimination apparatus discriminates whether the information reproduced by the reproducing device is image information or another type of information which is different from image information. Then, a conversion device converts data which indicates an attribution of the another type of information into image information when the discrimination apparatus determines that the information is the another type of information. Preferably, the discrimination apparatus can discriminate between image information, voice information, and digital information.

Image processing system capable of processing different types of

An image processing system includes a unit for supplying image information and attribute information of the image information which has a plurality of states, a memory unit for storing image information at least read out from a reader, and a unit for converting the image information so that an attribute of the image information is set in a predetermined state when the image information is stored in the memory unit.

Color image processing system having multi-image processing capabilities

An image processing system including: a reproducing apparatus to reproduce a plurality of image signals recorded on a recording medium; and an image forming apparatus to form the image signals of a plurality of picture planes which were read out of the reproducing apparatus as a plurality of visible images. The reproducing apparatus and the image forming apparatus process the plurality of image signals, while communicating with each other via a wire. With this system, since the image recording and reproducing apparatus can be preferably controlled on the image forming apparatus side, the image forming apparatus can be provided in a portable small image recording and reproducing apparatus such as an electronic still camera which executes an electrophotographic image process.

Image processing system

This invention provides an image storing apparatus which can store input image information while preserving the aspect ratio thereof. The image storing apparatus compares the memory capacity of a memory device with the size of the input image information to change the size of the input image to the required magnification, thereby preventing the image to be stored from being partially cut away. Moreover, if another image information is allowed to be stored in the memory device, this image information can be stored in the same, whereby image information can be efficiently stored.

Image storing with data compression to accommodate memory capacity

An image processing apparatus is provided for reading color separations, each separation corresponding to each of plural color components. A memory stores each of the signals attained by reading the color separations. The signals stored in the memory are read and are reproduced by combining the color separations as visible images.

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Takayuki Komine