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Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2000
Applicant:

Yuki Matsushima, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Yuki Matsushima, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/202 (2006.01); H04N 5/217 (2006.01); H04N 5/208 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A camera apparatus including a camera unit which acquires an image, a line-of-sight detection unit which detects a point of eye fixation of a user within a camera screen, and an importance computation unit which determines levels of importance for respective areas of the image acquired by the camera unit in accordance with the detection by the line-of-sight detection unit. Also included is a number-of-gray-scale-level determining unit which changes a number of gray scale levels for the respective areas of the image in response to the determination by the importance computation unit.


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Matsushima, Yuki. (2006). Camera apparatus and method of taking pictures including simplified processing (U.S. Patent No. 7034878). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7034878

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