Nikon Corporation

Tomoaki Kawamura

Satoshi Ejima

Daiki Tsukahara

Hirotake Nozaki

Akihiko Hamamura

Nobuya Kawahata

Kazuyuki Kazami

Norikazu Yokonuma

Akira Ezawa

Yoshio Imura

Kazuya Umeyama

Toshihisa Kuroiwa

Hidefumi Ota

Toshiaki Kobayashi

Isao Takahashi

Takumi Kawahara

Yoji Uchiyama

Koji Imaizumi

A communication terminal may include a processing unit that includes information identifying another communication terminal as path information in data when the data is directly transmitted from its own communication terminal to the other communication terminal, and a transmitting unit that directly transmits the data in which the path information is included by the processing unit to the other communication terminal.

Communication terminal and communication system

An electronic camera of the present invention includes: an imaging unit capturing a subject to generate an original image; a derivative image generating unit reducing resolution or color of the original image to generate a derivative image for transfer; a recording unit recording the original image and the derivative image thereon such that the original image and the derivative image get associated with each other; and a transfer unit transferring the derivative image recorded on the recording unit to an external transfer destination. In this configuration, the recording unit finds the derivative image (original image) by referring to the association with the original image (or derivative image), thereby collectively managing the original image and the derivative image. This makes it possible to prevent a user from being confused at image management due to the original image and the derivative image being the same image.

Electronic camera

An electronic camera includes a zoom changing unit that changes a focal length of a zoom lens, an image-capturing unit that executes photoelectric conversion for a subject image projected by the zoom lens onto an image-capturing area, a range finding unit that detects a distance to a subject, a photographic range setting unit that sets a size of a photographic range at a subject position, and a zoom control unit that controls the zoom changing unit based upon the photographic range that has been set and the subject distance so that the subject within the photographic range is projected almost over the entirety of the image-capturing area.

Method for image data print control, electronic camera and camera system

An electronic camera displays recorded information, such as image frames, to permit the selection of items of information to be transferred to external equipment. Each time an item of information is transferred, an informative indication (e.g., an icon) is displayed in association with the transferred item to confirm the transfer and to permit an operator to select items of recorded information that may be erased. If an error occurs during transfer of a series of items, the operator can determine from the display the point at which the error occurred, avoiding the need for transferring items that have already been transferred.

Electronic camera apparatus and method in which data are recorded, transferred, and erased

An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing unit including an image-capturing device and an image-capturing optical system; a blur detecting unit; a moving unit moving part or all of the image-capturing unit to eliminate the blur according to the detection result; a reading unit reading the image from the image-capturing device; a viewfinder displaying unit continuously displaying the image read; an operating unit accepting a user instruction; and a controlling unit performing, when the start of photographing is not instructed, electronic blur correction by controlling the reading unit to continuously change an image-capturing range of the image-capturing device or continuously changing a range of the image read to be displayed on the viewfinder displaying unit, and ends, when it is instructed, the electronic blur correction and performs optical blur correction by controlling the moving unit. Accordingly, appropriate blur correction is feasible with an increase in power consumption suppressed.

A portable electronic device includes a display component and a device aperture component which are mounted on separate segments of the electronic device. Each segment can be rotated with respect to the other, thus permitting a user to photograph an object while adjusting the display to a desired viewing condition.

Portable device

A method for image data print control includes: obtaining subject image data which is obtained by capturing an image of a subject formed through a photographic optical system and output by an image-capturing element having a plurality of pixels; obtaining a distance to the subject; obtaining a number of pixels provided at the image-capturing element; obtaining a pixel pitch at the image-capturing element; obtaining a focal length of the photographic optical system; and calculating a printing resolution so as to print the image of the subject in a size equal to a size of the subject by using the subject image data, based upon the distance to the subject, the number of pixels at the image-capturing element, the pixel pitch at the image-capturing element and the focal length of the photographic optical system.

The invention provides improved operability for portable electronic devices. A portable electronic device includes a display component and a device aperture component which are mounted on separate segments of the electronic device. Each segment can be rotated with respect to the other, thus permitting a user to photograph an object while adjusting the display to a desired viewing condition.

Electronic camera having rotatably coupled first and second body sections

An electronic camera of the present invention includes an imaging element that forms an image of an object, a display device that displays the formed image; a memory that stores the image formed by the imaging element; and a designating device that designates arbitrary positions on a display screen of the display device.

Electronic camera having pen input function

When initializing a recording medium, an ordinary folder and a lock folder are created. Photographic information files of photographed images are stored into the ordinary folder. Files the erasure of which is disabled among the photographic information files are stored into the lock folder. After a photographing operation, any image file set for a lock is erased from the ordinary folder and stored into the lock folder.

Electronic camera and photographic information data file management method

An information processing apparatus provides simplified operation relating to switching of information input modes in an electronic camera. After photographing a picture image, memo information is input and superimposed onto a previous photographic picture image if input within a prescribed time period, for example, the time period necessary for a compression process of the photographic picture image. The previous photographic picture image is photographed immediately prior and is displayed on the screen. A touch tablet is operated by a pen and functions as an input device. A memo input in this manner is stored to memory as information of the same recording unit as the photographic picture image. After the prescribed time period has elapsed and photography has been performed, if the touch tablet is operated the photographic picture image is erased from the screen and only the memo is input. Also, the input memo is stored independently to memory.

Information processing apparatus having a photographic mode and a memo input mode

Electronic camera and method of operating an electronic camera

An electronic camera includes: a substantially rectangular parallelepiped image-capturing unit main body provided with an image-capturing device for generating an image signal by capturing an optical image formed by a photographic lens unit; a substantially rectangular parallelepiped display unit main body provided with an external display device for displaying an image based upon the image signal generated by the image-capturing device; and a linking portion that links the image-capturing unit main body and the display unit main body in a manner that the image-capturing unit main body and the display unit main body can rotate relative to each other. And, at the display unit main body, a shutter release button is provided and a grip portion is provided near an end surface furthest away from the image-capturing unit main body; and at the image-capturing unit main body, an optical viewfinder unit is provided beside the photographic lens unit.

Portable display device

An electronic camera that includes a camera body incorporating a photographing function, and a card type recording unit loading unit connected to the camera body by an electrical mechanical connecting unit, and loadable into a card type recording medium slot of an external device. The card type recording medium loading unit is provided with a card type recording medium connector for a connection to a connector of the card type recording medium slot when inserting the card type recording medium loading unit into the card type recording medium slot of the external device. The card type recording medium loading unit is provided so that the loading unit changes its position to a housing position of being housed into the camera body, and to an eject position of being ejected sideways of the camera body.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tomoaki Kawamura