Sony Corporation

Toru Shiono

Tokuya Fukuda

Toshitaka Senuma

Shinichi Fujii

Katsumi Matsuno

Masatoshi Sugiyama

Yuichiro Ikenaga

Tetsuro Hoshino

Akira Fukuda

Shinji Takada

Akihiro Hara

Takeshi Harano

Toshiki Fujisawa

Shinichi Maehama

Hitoshi Yano

Koji Okumoto

Takahiro Tojo

Keiko Ishihama

Shinya Nara

An image processing apparatus includes: an interface unit configured to input an image signal from an imaging apparatus that exposes a specimen dyed with a fluorescent dye to excitation light and images fluorescence by a color imaging element; and a color correction circuit configured to retain information on a percentage of each of a component of a second color and a component of a third color with respect to a component of a first color corresponding to the excitation light in the image signal, which is determined in advance based on color filter spectral characteristics of the color imaging element, and reduce each of an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the second color and an amount corresponding to the percentage of the component of the third color from the input image signal.

Image processing apparatus and method for correcting color components

An image synthesizing apparatus includes a subject region determination unit that determines a region of a nearby subject for each of taken images based on subject distance information of a plurality of points generated by distance measurement made during imaging and an image synthesizing unit that creates a synthetic image by cutting out an image from each of the taken images based on a position of the region of the nearby subject and combining the cut images of the taken images.

Image synthesizing apparatus, image synthesizing method, and image synthesizing program

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system having an aperture; an imaging device that outputs an image signal; an electronic shading processing portion that adds an electronic shading to a photographic image corresponding to the image signal; and a control portion which determines whether or not an optical shading can be added to the photographic image based on the imaging condition, the control portion controlling the aperture and adding the optical shading when the optical shading can be added, and the control portion controlling the electronic shading processing portion and adding the electronic shading when it is difficult to add the optical shading.

Imaging apparatus and method of controlling imaging apparatus for adding a shading to an image

An image-capturing apparatus includes an image-capturing unit configured to sequentially output image data in a RAW format related to each of captured images as a result of a continuous series of image capturing operations; a signal processor configured to perform a predetermined process on the image data in a RAW format and output processed image data; image processing circuits configured to perform a luminance/color-difference conversion process and a data compression process on the processed image data and output compressed image data; and a recording controller configured to cause compressed image data output from the image processing circuits to be recorded in a predetermined recorder. The signal processor includes a selection output unit configured to selectively output the processed image data related to each of the captured images to the image processing circuits and cause the image processing related to each captured image to be shared by the image processing circuits.

Image-capturing apparatus and image processing method

A light-emission control apparatus comprising a light-receiving element an A/D converting section an integrating section a comparing section and a control section The light-receiving element outputs a light-reception signal corresponding to an amount of light it has received. The A/D converting section 6 converts the light-reception signal to digital data. The integrating section integrates the digital data, generating an integrated value. The comparing section compares the integrated value with a predetermined threshold value. The control means outputs a light-emission stop request to a light-emitting device thereby causing the device to stop emitting light, when the integrated value reaches the predetermined threshold value.

Light-emission control apparatus camera apparatus and light-emission control method

A video camera including a zoom-up lens assembly magnifying an image, a charge coupled device picking up the magnified image, a recording medium for storage of the magnified image and a viewfinder having a display panel and a liquid crystal device for determining a partial area of the display panel on which the magnified image to be recorded is displayed. The liquid crystal device is controlled by a microcomputer so as to form an opaque frame-like line surrounding the partial area of the display panel.

Video camera having an improved zoom system

A method of testing an electronic apparatus which eliminates a control signal line for setting an integrated circuit to a test mode and a test mode select terminal of an external terminal section and wherein fetching of test data and transfer of the thus fetched test data are performed in an integrated operation. In each of the integrated circuits, a boundary scan control circuit discriminates a category code at the top of data inputted from a serial input terminal to control a pair of switching circuits. When the category code represents a test mode, predetermined terminals of the switching circuits are selected so that input data are sent out to boundary scan cells. Fetching of parallel data from parallel input terminals and transfer to the boundary scan cells are performed at a time.

Testing method for electronic apparatus

An integrated circuit for boundary scan is achieved to be simple structure. A testing apparatus 6 provides a testing data to a serial input port SI of a integrated circuit IC1 via a external terminal unit 2. The testing data is output to a parallel input port PI of the integrated circuit IC2 from a parallel output port SO of the integrated circuit IC1, then the testing data is output from the serial output port SO. The testing apparatus 6 compares with the testing data outputted to the integrated circuit IC1 and the testing data outputted from the integrated circuit IC2 so that a state of connection is detected between the parallel output port PO of the integrated circuit IC1 and the parallel input port PI of the integrated circuit IC2. The construction of the integrated circuits can be simplified by using both of inputting and outputting of the serial interface SIF.

Apparatus and method for testing the interconnection between integrated

A digital image signal processing circuit for use in a VTR with camera has a signal input terminal to which an image pickup output signal or a video signal is supplied, an analog to digital converter for producing a digital image pickup output signal based on the image pickup output signal or a digital video signal based on the video signal, a digital signal processing portion including first, second and third digital signal processing circuit blocks, a system controller for conducting the change of operation, the change of circuit configuration or the change of circuit coefficient in each of the first, second and third digital signal processing circuit blocks, and signal output terminals from which recording luminance and carrier chrominance signals produced by the digital signal processing portion are derived. Each of the first, second and third digital signal processing circuit blocks performs efficiently various kinds of digital processing to the digital image pickup output signal or the digital video signal.

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