Panasonic Corporation

Yusuke Mizuno

Satoshi Abe

Takaaki Namba

Takefumi Oota

Kenichi Tsuchiya

Masayoshi Matsuoka

Camera device includes an imaging unit, a communications unit, an identified area detection unit, and an image data processing unit. The imaging unit images an area in a shooting field to obtain image data. The communications unit communicates with a memory device that stores subject information, and obtains the subject information. The identified area detection unit dynamically detects an identified area corresponding to the subject. The image data processing unit specifies a protected area in the identified area based on the subject information, and applies protection only to the protected area when the subject is a protection target. This structure provides the camera device that generates image data in which a subject to be protected is obscured in an imaged subject.

Camera device including privacy protection method

A portable television-broadcast reception unit is provided which is capable of changing the direction of a directional antenna easily to a direction where an enough quality to watch television can be obtained. In this unit: a television-broadcast reception sectionreceives a broadcast wave using a directional antenna; a direction measurement sectionmeasures the direction of the directional antenna; an electric-field strength measurement sectionmeasures the electric-field strength value of the received broadcast wave; a storage sectionstores an electric-field strength management table which includes the direction measured by the direction measurement sectionand the electric-field strength value measured by the electric-field strength measurement section; a control sectioncontrols the measurement of the direction and the measurement of the electric-field strength, updates the electric-field strength management table and selects the direction where the maximum electric-field strength value can be obtained; an image-turn processing sectionturns the received image so that the upper part of the image is oriented to the direction where the maximum electric-field strength value can be obtained; and a display sectiondisplays the turned image.

Portable television-broadcast reception unit, television-broadcast reception method, television-broadcast reception program, and computer-readable record medium with television-broadcast reception program

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Aichi, Japan

Yusuke Mizuno