Nikon Corporation

Toru Ochiai

Eisaku Maeda

Toshiya Aikawa

Hidehisa Tsuchihashi

Maki Suzuki

Masashi Tazawa

Seiichi Morimatsu

Nobuhiro Fujinawa

Yoshitaka Araki

Takahiro Ikeda

Shoei Nakamura

Kumiko Matsui

Masahiro Mochizuki

Souichi Ueta

Nobukazu Ito

Katsuhiro Sato

Soichi Ikeda

Soichi Ueta

Hideya Nagata

A camera with which a moving picture can be taken by panning the camera, includes: a detection unit that detects actual camera panning speed characteristics; a calculation unit that calculates a speed characteristics difference between the actual panning speed characteristics and reference panning speed characteristics set in advance; and a correction unit that executes correction so as to adjust panning speed characteristics of a moving picture to be obtained closer to the reference panning speed characteristics based upon the speed characteristics difference having been calculated.

Camera enabling panning and moving picture editing program product

An image can be read during main scanning under an optimized image reading condition even if dust is attached to a document such as a photographic film or the like, or if there are scratches. A scanner irradiates visible light and infrared light from a light source, and an image of the document is separated into infrared and visible components. These components are detected for pixels of the image by an image sensor. A controller, e.g., of the scanner recognizes defective pixels based on the infrared component. Furthermore, the controller corrects a visible component level in the defective pixel based on the infrared component level of the defective pixel and a reference level obtained where there is no defect, in order to create a histogram. The controller determines image reading conditions such as, for example, an exposure amount (exposure time) for use during main scanning and an LUT gradation conversion characteristic based on this histogram.

Image reading device, method and program using infrared light detection to correct for defective pixels

An image reading system prescans and/or scans a film with magnetic recording and image data to be stored in a film cartridge after the film is developed. The image reading system employs a one-dimensional CCD and is capable of recording/reading retrievable ID numbers on a magnetic recording part. A thumbnail display simultaneously displays all image and magnetic information of all frames of a film, and selected frames to be scanned can be easily identified and compared after obtaining the image data of such film through prescanning. Magnetic recording information and image information are rapidly read during prescanning and selected frames are then scanned with more refinement as compared to the coarse scanning of the film during prescanning.

Image reading device and method

An image reading system prescans and/or scans a film with magnetic recording and image data to be stored in a film cartridge after the film is developed. The image reading system employs a one-dimensional CCD and is capable of recording/reading retrievable ID numbers on a magnetic recording part. A thumbnail display simultaneously displays all image and magnetic information of all frames of a film, and selected frames to be scanned can be easily identified and compared after obtaining the image data of such film through prescanning. Magnetic recording-information and image information are rapidly read during prescanning and selected frames are then scanned with more refinement as compared to the coarse scanning of the film during prescanning.

An image reading device and method for producing a uniformly focused light image on a source document includes a document mount, an imaging device, and a drive assembly for moving at least one of the mounting device and the imaging device in a secondary scanning direction. The image reading device includes a control circuit for establishing multiple designated positions on the source document in the primary scanning direction and in the secondary scanning direction and for calculating the focus position from a signal output from the imaging device for the multiple designated positions. A cam member can be provided to adjust the position of the document mount along the optical axis of the light striking the document, a cam surface of the cam member contacting the document mount.

Focus adjustable image reading device for calculating a focus position

An image input device having a movable carriage is provided with an origin detection element that moves out of the path of the document when the document is inserted into the carriage. Because the origin detection element moves out of the path of the document, even long documents, such as, for example, long strips of film containing multiple frames, can be read by the image input device without increasing the size of the carriage or of the image input device. The origin detection element includes a tapered edge that functions as a contrast marker. When the edge is located in the path of the light between the illumination source and the image reading device, the edge can be used to cause the generation of a signal by the image reading device to enable the detection of the point of origin of the carriage in the secondary scanning direction and/or in the focusing direction.

Image input device having carriage that includes a movable origin

A color image scanner and color image scanning method that generates three different colors independently using multiple LEDs and controls the exposure time of a charge coupled device (CCD) and the light emitting time of the LEDs in order to maintain suitable balance and levels for the colors which are generated. A primary timer sets the operation time of the CCD and a secondary timer sets the ON time for each LED. In addition, an LED drive circuit driving the LEDs has two constant current circuits to more evenly read the images of the document to be scanned.

Color image scanner having multiple LEDS and color image scanning method

An image reading apparatus for reading an image on film which uses a shading correction coefficient computation unit for obtaining a shading correction coefficient in order to correct irregularities in image signals of a photoelectric conversion unit, and a quantity of light ratio measurement unit for obtaining the ratio of the quantity of light of each emission color in order to equalize the quantity of light emitted by a light emission unit. The shading correction coefficient and the quantity of light ratio are obtained immediately before reading of a first original medium, and additional original mediums can then be read using the correction coefficients obtained for the first original. Alternately, the shading correction coefficient and the quantity of light ratio can be obtained immediately before reading each original medium.

Image reading apparatus having improved shading correction and quantity

An apparatus comprises an image sensing optical system including an image pickup element for converting an image to an electrical signal and a projection lens for projecting an image onto a photo-sensing plane of the image pickup element. The image sensing optical system is driven along an optical axis thereof while maintaining a relative positional relationship between the projection lens and the image pickup element to adjust the focal position. An apparatus may also comprise an image sensing optical system including an image pickup element for scanning an image to convert it to an electrical signal and a projection lens for projecting an image onto a photo-sensing plane of the image pickup element, a focus adjusting device for adjusting a focal position of the image sensing optical system and a detector for detecting an in-focus position of the image sensing optical system to the object. The focus adjusting device is controlled in accordance with the output of the detector so that the object is always within a depth of focus of the image sensing optical system.

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