Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

I-pro Co., Ltd.

Yohei Aoki

Jun Ikeda

Yasuji Nakamura

Daisuke Hara

Ryoko Kato

Hirotaka Nozaki

A monitoring camera includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an imaging area, and a processor configured to determine a first intensity and a second intensity to be different from each other. The first intensity indicates an intensity of a noise reduction processing executed on an attention portion in the captured image of the imaging area, and the second intensity indicates an intensity of a noise reduction processing executed on a non-attention portion in the captured image. The first intensity is lower than the second intensity. The processor is configured to execute the noise reduction processing on the attention portion based on the determined first intensity, to execute the noise reduction processing on the non-attention portion based on the determined second intensity, and to output an image after the noise reduction processing.

Monitoring camera and image quality improving method

A dome-type camera includes a camera lens capable of rotating in a tilt direction, a dome cover for covering the camera lens, and an aperture control unit for controlling the amount of aperture of the camera lens. The amount of aperture is set to become smaller from an open value toward a closed value in accordance with the tilt angle of the camera lens becoming smaller from a zenith direction of the dome cover toward a horizontal direction. According to this dome-type camera, a desirable low tilt angle image with a reduced blur may be obtained even with a megapixel dome camera.

Dome-type camera and aperture control method

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Fukuoka, Japan

Yohei Aoki