Sony Corporation

Tsuneo Sekiya

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Toshimichi Hamada

Koji Iijima

Kyoko Fukuda

Masashi Ohta

Tadafusa Tomitaka

Yuko Kanda

Masashi Ohia

Hitoshi Nakada

An imaging signal obtained from CCD is supplied to the pre-processing circuit to form the pre-processing signal consisting of a luminance signal and a color signal and the pre-processing signal is supplied in turn to the post-processing circuit to form the post-processing signal to be outputted to the external circuit or to be recorded. The circuits from CCD to pre-processing circuit are driven by the first clock CKH or the second clock which is slower than the first clock, while the post-processing circuit is driven by the first clock. A clock exchange circuit is provided between the pre-processing circuit and the post-processing circuit, and when the circuits up to the pre-processing circuit are driven by the second clock, the clock exchange circuit is operated to supply the pre-processing signal exchanged to the first clock from the second clock is supplied to the post-processing circuit. Thereby, the post-processing circuit can used in common.

Imaging apparatus

A method and an apparatus by which a panorama image is produced with a high degree of accuracy from an image signal are disclosed. An image signal produced by a CCD imaging element is recorded onto a video tape by way of a camera signal processing circuit, a recording signal processing circuit, a recording/reproduction amplifier and so forth. Meanwhile, a microcomputer calculates of a motion vector of an image from the output of a motion vector detector to which the image signal from the CCD imaging element is inputted, and controls a video subcode processor so that motion vector information may be recorded onto the video tape. The motion vector information is reproduced from the video tape together with the image signal, and a plurality of images are formed from the thus reproduced image signal and joined together in accordance with the motion vector information to produce a panorama image.

Panorama image producing method and apparatus

Panorama image producing method and apparatus using at least portions of

A method and an apparatus by which a panorama image is produced with a high degree of accuracy from an image signal wherein an image signal produced by a CCD imaging element is recorded onto a video tape by way of a camera signal processing circuit, a recording signal processing circuit, a recording/reproduction amplifier and so forth. Meanwhile, a microcomputer calculates of a motion vector of an image from the output of a motion vector detector to which the image signal from the CCD imaging element is inputted, and controls a video subcode processor so that motion vector information may be recorded onto the video tape. The motion vector information is reproduced from the video tape together with the image signal, and a plurality of images are formed from the thus reproduced image signal and joined together in accordance with the motion vector information to produce a panorama image.

Panorama image producing method and apparatus which calculates a

A method and an apparatus by which a panorama image is produced with a high degree of accuracy from an image signal, wherein the image signal produced by a CCD imaging element is recorded onto a video tape by way of a camera signal processing circuit, a recording signal processing circuit, a recording/reproduction amplifier and so forth. Meanwhile, a microcomputer calculates of a motion vector of an image from the output of a motion vector detector to which the image signal from the CCD imaging element is inputted, and controls a video subcode processor so that motion vector information may be recorded onto the video tape. The motion vector information is reproduced from the video tape together with the image signal, and a plurality of images are formed from the thus reproduced image signal and joined together in accordance with the motion vector information to produce a panorama image.

Panorama image producing method and appartus

A video signal follow-up processing system for adaptively tracking to the moving of a subject. A detection feature pattern is formed through acquisition of brightness and hue frequency characteristic data based on pixel information in a detection measurement frame, a similarity calculation method, which can distinguish a reference measurement frame from other areas, is selected on the screen, and the position of a detection measurement frame with a feature pattern having the highest similarity with the standard feature pattern obtained from the reference measurement frame is determined, in order to change and control an image to be projected on the display screen based on the positional information of the detection measurement frame, so that the video signal follow-up processing system can adaptively track to the moving of the subject.

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Tsuneo Sekiya