Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Minaltacco., Ltd.

Tsutomu Honda

Hideki Nagata

Manabu Inoue

Hiroaki Kubo

Gen Sasaki

Katsuyuki Nanba

Toru Ishii

Hiroyuki Matsumoto

Hirokazu Yagura

Masataka Hamada

Hiromu Mukai

Toshihiro Hamamura

Tougo Teramoto

Yasuhiro Morimoto

Kiyoshi Seigenji

Toshihito Kido

Hirokazu Naruto

Hiroshi Ootsuka

Dai Shintani

Kazuhiko Ishimaru

Tetsuya Uno

Kohtaro Hayashi

Takashi Okada

Tetsuo Kohno

Shigeto Ohmori

Nobuharu Murashima

Jun Minakuti

Shinji Yamaguchi

Hitoshi Hagimori

Yoshihito Souma

Minoru Kuwana

Hideo Kajita

Genta Yagyu

Hiroshi Mashima

Kenji Nakamura

Hisanori Itoh

Yoshiharu Tanaka

Hiroshi Ishibe

Tatsuya Suzuki

Takashi Kato

Takuya Ueno

Yasushi Hasegawa

Junji Mori

Kuniteru Sakakibara

Haruki Nakayama

Kiyoyuki Tomita

Toshiyuki Murai

Yumi Hasegawa

Yoshiharau Tanaka

In an imaging apparatus with a shake correction function, the influence of front curtain shock is prevented from being exerted on a shake correction function section (shake correction drive). The imaging apparatus includes a shake detection sensorthat detects an amount of shake applied to a digital camera, a shake correction unitthat performs a shake correction drive of an imaging deviceon the basis of a shake amount detection signal, a shutter unitthat is arranged immediately in front of the imaging deviceand performs an optical-path opening operation and an optical-path blocking operation for opening and blocking an optical path of light guided to the imaging device, a timing control circuitthat supplies a predetermined reset signal to each pixel for each predetermined pixel line so as to start exposure on the imaging device, and a shutter control sectionthat controls exposure of the imaging device. At the time of shooting, the shutter control sectionexecutes an electronic shutter control (electronic focal plane shutter) for starting exposure on the imaging deviceby means of the reset signal supplied to each pixel from the timing control circuit

Imaging apparatus with shake correction

There is provided an image stabilizing unitsmall in size in one direction perpendicular to an optical axis, including, on a base member, a movable compensation memberwhich can displace an image forming position by moving in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis Z, and two drive unitsfor displacing the movable compensation memberin the directions of R and S which are different from each other for 90 degrees, wherein the directions in which the drive unitsrespectively move the movable compensation memberare inclined 45 degrees to a direction X which connects the drive unitsand the optical axis center Z of the movable compensation member

Image stabilizing unit, lens unit, and imaging apparatus, having two drive units at an inclined angle to one another for driving an imaging device a direction perpendicular to the optical axis

There is provided an imaging unit: including an image sensor with a number of pixels arranged in a matrix, the pixels having color pixels where color filters are disposed, and white pixels where the color filters are not disposed; a sampling circuit section for sampling pixel signals generated in the image sensor; and a main controller for controlling the image sensor and/or the sampling circuit section to sample the pixel signals generated in the white pixels or the pixel signals generated in the color pixels sequentially in a time-series manner.

Enhancing image quality imaging unit and image sensor

An image-taking lens unit has an image-taking lens system that forms an optical image of an object and an image sensor that receives the optical image in a rectangular image-sensing region and converts the optical image into an electrical signal. The image-taking lens system includes a reflective optical element that bends the optical path. Of the lens elements constituting the image-taking lens system, the most image-side lens element called the last lens element is molded of resin, and is given a non-circular outer shape fulfilling a prescribed condition.

Image-taking lens unit

An imaging optical unit including a simple and small retracting mechanism and optical members having a small eccentric error and an image pickup apparatus will be provided. The imaging optical unit for guiding light to an image pickup device is structured so that a first holding member, for holding a reflection member for turning a light flux entering from the side of a subject along a first optical axis to a second optical axial direction almost at right angle, rotates freely about a rotating shaft between the retracting position where the first holding member is housed in a lens frame of the imaging optical unit and the using position where it is projected.

Imaging optical unit and image pickup apparatus

A camera divides a light beam having passed through a taking lens unit into two light beams. One light beam forms an image on a silver salt film. Another light beam forms an image on a CCD. A light path for said another light beam is provided with an aperture diaphragm. The taking lens unit has an aperture diaphragm. Said two aperture diaphragms are correlatively controlled by a controller incorporated in the camera.

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Image sensing apparatus which intentionally retains longitudinal chromatic aberration

A communication device having an image transmission function such as a video phone or a camera-equipped cellular phone. The image transmission function is capable of capturing an object image using an optimal size.

Communication device having an image transmission function

An image reproducing apparatus reproduces a still picture recorded on a silver-halide film and a moving picture recorded on a video tape. The image reproducing apparatus also reproduces simultaneous shooting information recorded on both the film and the video tape. The image reproducing apparatus has a controller which controls reproduction of the pictures recorded on the film and the video tape in accordance with the simultaneous shooting information.

Image reproducing apparatus and image control method

A camera is provided with a radio receiver for receiving electromagnetic waves transmitted from a given radio base station, a GPS receiver for receiving electromagnetic waves transmitted from each of a plurality of artificial satellites, a place information generator for generating place information based on one of electromagnetic waves received by the radio receiver and electromagnetic waves received by the GPS receiver, and a selector for selecting activation of one of the radio receiver and the GPS receiver, the selector judging whether the receptive state of the radio receiver is satisfactory, and selecting activation of the GPS receiver if the receptive state of the radio receiver is judged to be unsatisfactory.

Apparatus capable of generating place information

A camera includes a place information generator which receives identification information concerning an identification of a radio base station having a predetermined radio transmission zone, and generates place information concerning a place of picking up an image of an object based on received identification information. Generated place information is recorded on a record medium, or is displayed on a display unit. The camera has smaller size and power consumption and excellent portability in addition to recording of photographing place information.

Image capturing apparatus capable of receiving identification from base stations

A surface illuminating device is provided with a light source, a light introducing plate lying in a plane passing the light source, a first light diffusing plate arranged on a top surface of the light introducing plate, and a second light diffusing plate arranged on a bottom surface of the light introducing plate. The light introducing plate includes a first section arranged with the first light diffusing plate, and a second section arranged with the second light diffusing plate. The first and second sections each are formed with serrations in a surface opposite to a surface arranged with their respective light diffusing plate.

Surface illuminating device and an image display apparatus provided with

A film image reproducing apparatus for reproducing images recorded on successive frames of a film includes: an illuminator which illuminates the film; a detector which detects an illuminating characteristic of the illuminator; a recorder which records the illuminating characteristic detected by the detector on the film; a reader which reads the recorded illuminating characteristic; a setter which sets based on the characteristic recorded on the film a condition for picking up a film image; and a picking-up device which picks up the film image at the set picking-up condition.

Film image reproduction apparatus utilizing apparatus illumination

A camera is capable of both silver-halide shooting, through which object images are recorded on silver-halide film, and video shooting, although its distance measurement device is placed substantially in the same way and its mirror box has substantially the same size as in ordinary single-lens reflex cameras. In this camera, a pellicle mirror splits the light flux having passed through a taking lens into a first light flux and a second light flux, and a rotatable mirror switches the subsequent path of the second light flux between the optical path for a third light flux and the optical path for a fourth light flux. The pellicle mirror, through its light flux splitting function, directs the first light flux to a silver-halide shooting system, and directs the second light flux to the rotatable mirror. The rotatable mirror, through its optical path switching function, either directs the third light flux to an optical viewfinder system, or directs the fourth light flux to a video shooting system.

Camera capable of video and film shooting having optical viewfinder

An apparatus for reproducing images recorded on successive frames of a film recorded with information, the apparatus includes a film feeder which feeds the film in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction; an information reader which reads the recorded information; a density detector which detects a density of each image; and a controller which controls the film feeder, information reader, and density detector. The information reader is worked when the film is fed in the first direction, the density detector is worked when the film is fed in the second direction. A detected image density is adapted for determining an exposure value at which each image is picked up to reproduce the image.

Apparatus for reproducing photographed images

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Sakai, Japan

Tsutomu Honda