Nikon Corporation

Yuko Hattori

Hideo Hoshuyama

Kenji Suzuki

Hiroyuki Tomita

Masaru Muramatsu

Setsu Mitsuhashi

Keiichi Nitta

Takeshi Nishi

Mikiya Tanaka

Yukako Matsumoto

Tsutomu Nishizawa

Hidehiko Aoyagi

Go Watanabe

Junko Hasegawa

Saeko Samejima

An imaging device includes a main photography means for photographing a photographic subject and acquires a photographic image, a preparatory image acquisition means for performing preparatory photography before or after the main photography means acquires the photographic image and acquiring preparatory images, a photographic information acquisition means for acquiring photographic information related to a circumstance of photography when the preparatory images are acquired by the preparatory image acquisition means, and a recording means for recording the photographic information and the photographic image upon a recording medium in mutual correlation.

Imaging device, image display device, and program with intruding object detection

A moving image processing device includes a recognition unit, a parameter control unit, and an image processing unit. The recognition unit recognizes a moving object region or a still object region from a captured image. The parameter control unit determines a parameter for image processing of any of a color, a tone, an edge, and a noise. The image processing unit performs image processing to the captured image according to the parameter for the image processing. In this case, the image processing unit performs the image processing to all or a part of the moving object region and all or a part of the still object region, using different parameters.

Moving image processing device and method for performing different image processings to moving object region and still object region

A video sharing system, accumulating various videos and enabling a plurality of users to utilize these accumulated videos, includes a plurality of cameras that photograph any one of a plurality of photographic subjects present within a facility, a video collection unit that collects photographed videos photographed by the plurality of cameras, a photographic subject identification unit that identifies the photographic subjects in the photographed videos, for each photographed video; and an accumulation unit that accumulates the photographed videos collected by the video collection unit, and photographic subject information specifying the photographic subjects identified by the photographic subject identification unit.

Video sharing system, photography support system, and camera

An image processing apparatus, a computer readable medium and the like in which a dither effect in a neighborhood of a highlight area can be obtained easily and certainly. For this purpose, an image processing apparatus includes an inputting unit which inputs a pixel signal group representing a field image, an averaging unit (-and-) which performs a processing having an averaging effect among the pixel signal group input by the inputting unit, and an irregularizing unit (-) which irregularizes mutually continuous signal-values at least near a saturated level among the pixel signal group after having been processed by the averaging unit, into discontinuous signal-values.

Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and computer readable medium irregularizing pixel signals continuous in level near a saturation level

A digital still camera according to the present invention can obtain an image with appropriate brightness easily without an increase in memory capacity. The digital still camera of the present invention includes: an image-capturing unit which captures a field of object to generate an image; a photometry unit which measures a luminance of a predetermined area of the field of object; a calculating unit which calculates a ratio between a luminance value of a portion of the image captured according to the luminance measured by the photometry unit, and a target luminance value of the predetermined area, the portion corresponding to the predetermined area; and a correcting unit which corrects the image generated by the image-capturing unit according to the ratio.

Camera, method, and program which captures a field of an object to generate an image, and image processing program and imaging device for applying image processing to an image

An imaging apparatus can provide final image data with a good quality irrespective of overexposure or underexposure. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit capturing a subject image to produce image data, a conversion unit performing a gradation conversion on the image data, a modification unit determining the level of brightness of the image data before the gradation conversion, and modifying input/output characteristics for the gradation conversion on the image data when a brightness level of the image data is lower than a reference level of brightness. The input/output characteristics include a gamma characteristic portion and a knee characteristic portion. The modification unit modifies the input/output characteristics such that output level is increased within a range of part of input level corresponding at least to the gamma characteristic portion, in comparison with the input/output characteristics of the image data with the reference level of brightness.

Imaging apparatus

The objects of the present invention are to provide an electronic camera which is able to precisely evaluate the type of a subject and perform an optimal gray-scale transformation on the image of the subject. The electronic camera comprises: an histogram creation unit for creating an intensity histogram of an image obtained with an image sensor; and a setting unit for setting a gray-scale transformation characteristic to be applied to the image according to the created intensity histogram. Using the created histogram makes it possible to precisely evaluate the type of the subject and set an optimal gray-scale transformation characteristic.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Hattori