Abstract: An IP camera is provided. The IP camera includes a camera lens, an imaging unit, an IR cut filter, a motor, and a control circuit. The motor controls the position of the IR cut filter. The control circuit outputs a first pulse signal to drive the motor to move the IR cut filter such that light that passes through the camera lens reaches the imaging unit without passing through the IR cut filter. The control circuit controls the motor and prevents the motor from heat-related damage.

Abstract: There is provided a server including a reception section which receives, from a client terminal, present position information showing a position of the client terminal, and direction information showing an orientation of the client terminal, a retrieval section which retrieves sensory data to which detection position information is added corresponding to a position in a vicinity of an axial line extending in a direction shown by the direction information from the position of the client terminal, and a transmission section which transmits the sensory data retrieved by the retrieval section to the client terminal.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which can precisely adjust the inclination of CCD sensor relative to an optical axis in a easy and simple manner is disclosed. A mount adjustment mechanism 200 includes a mount 202 for supporting a CCD sensor 130, a steel ball 218 secured relative to a rearward barrel 206 and threaded adjuster members 220, 222 disposed between the mount 202 and the rearward barrel 206. The steel ball 218 defines a mount reference for positioning the mount 204. By changing the depth to which the threaded adjuster members 220, 222 are threaded, an angular orientation of the mount 202 with respect to the rearward barrel 206 is changed to correct the inclination in the CCD sensor.

Abstract: There is provided an output device for outputting an image using image data generated by an image generating device, and image generation record information that is associated with the image data and that includes at least information relating to shooting conditions at the time of generation of the image data, comprising an image quality adjuster that, in the event that the image generation record information contains light source information relating to color shift of a light source at the time of generation of the image data, is able to execute the white balance adjustment process of the image data on the basis of the color of the light source obtained using the light source information; and an image output unit for outputting an image according to the image quality-adjusted image data.

Abstract: An edge directed demosaicing algorithm for determining an edge direction from an input color filter array (CFA) sampled image is disclosed. Aspects of the present invention include calculating for a current missing green pixel, interpolation errors in an East-West (EW) direction at known neighboring green pixels, and averaging the EW interpolation errors to obtain an EW error. Interpolation errors are also calculated for the current missing green pixel in a North-South (NS) direction at known neighboring green pixels, and the NS interpolation errors are averaged to obtain a NS error. An EW or NS direction indicated by a minimum of the EW error and the NS error is then selected as the edge direction.

Abstract: An apparatus captures a digital image from a film-based camera having a chamber to receive a film cartridge and a take-up spool to advance the film after each shot. The apparatus includes a cartridge shaped to fit in the camera film chamber, the cartridge including a processor, a storage unit coupled to the processor, and an input output unit coupled to the processor. The cartridge houses a flexible strip having one end coupled to the cartridge and the other end adapted to be wound on the camera take-up spool, the flexible strip containing one or more imaging arrays deposited thereon to capture the digital image, each of the imaging arrays communicating with the processor.

Abstract: An optical image capturing device which is configured to carry out underwater photographing, and comprises a selecting section configured to select a plurality of photographing modes including an underwater photographing mode, an imaging member to obtain an object image, and an adjusting section to adjust white balance of an image obtained by the imaging member, is disclosed. The adjusting section adjusts the white balance to enhance a blue component when the underwater photographing mode is selected. Thus, as the white balance is adjusted by the adjusting section to enhance a blue component when the underwater photographing mode is selected, a bluish image apparently photographed in water can be obtained.

Abstract: Pixel rows of an image sensor are respectively provided with a vertical transfer path. A charge detecting amplifier is disposed at one end of each of the vertical transfer paths. When a through image is outputted and when a moving-image mode is executed, a horizontal scanning circuit sequentially selects the charge detecting amplifiers on the basis of a thinning pattern, which is determined every imaging sensitivity, to output an image signal in which the pixel rows are thinned. As the thinning pattern, there are an odd-row pattern for selecting only the odd pixel rows from among the whole pixel rows, and an even-row pattern for selecting only the even pixel rows therefrom. The thinning pattern is selected in accordance with the imaging sensitivity so as to minimize line-shaped defects caused by the vertical transfer paths.

Abstract: An image pickup optical system includes, in order from the object side, a front unit having at least one reflecting surface with power that is rotationally asymmetrical, an aperture stop, and a rear unit having at least one reflecting surface with power that is rotationally asymmetrical. In this case, F-numbers in two directions perpendicular to each other on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis are different. Decentration takes place in one of the two directions and the F-number in a direction perpendicular to a decentering direction is smaller than that in the decentering direction. When the F-number in the decentering direction is represented by FNY and the F-number in the direction perpendicular to the decentering direction is represented by FNX, the optical system satisfies the following condition: 1.1<FNY/FNX<2.0.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device for enlarging an operating margin of a pixel portion and achieving complete transfer of a signal charge by using a plurality of power supply voltages, wherein a plurality of power supplies having different power supply voltage values are supplied to portions of a semiconductor chip 1.

Abstract: A system and method for three-axis stabilization of focal plane data. The system and method include performing a two-dimensional vertical shear transformation and a two-dimensional horizontal shear transformation. The system and method further incorporate a SIMD computer architecture and an array of addressable processing elements that process the field-of-view for a target image received by a focal plane array of detector elements. Each processing element includes a calculation device that calculates the row and column address of virtual pixels for a virtual field-of-view. The system and method further include a plurality of memory modules configured to store data in a plurality of addressable storage locations by column and row, and each memory module is identified with a different processing element. A dedicated memory routing network for the processing elements and memory modules permits the exchange of information between processing elements and memory modules associated with each processing element.

Abstract: In an image generation apparatus capable of generating an image of an arbitrary view point, to enable a user to easily set a view point position of a reconstructed image in an actual space, there are provided an image photographing means for photographing an image; a position/orientation measurement means for measuring position and orientation when photographing the image; a reconstruction view point position setting means for setting a view point position of a reconstruction image; and a reconstruction means for reconstructing an image according to the view point position set by the reconstruction view point position setting means, by using beam information included in the image photographed by the image photographing means.

Abstract: An image pickup system including a digital camera and a personal computer (PC) connected to each other. The camera includes a camera control unit for controlling picture-taking based on photographing conditions set either by the camera or the PC, and a communication unit for communicating with the PC.

Abstract: A camera system includes a stroboscopic device (1) and camera (2). The camera (2) includes an information output unit which outputs, to the stroboscopic device (1), focal length information of a photographing lens, and size information indicating a magnification with respect to a reference size of an exposure surface of an image sensing element. The stroboscopic device (1) includes an irradiation angle changing unit (8) which changes the irradiation angle of strobe light, an information input unit (9) which receives the focal length information and size information from the camera (2), and a control unit (9) which sets the irradiation angle at a wide angle, if the product of the focal length and magnification is in the middle of a reference focal length range.

Abstract: In order to eliminate impairment due to a disconnection and to make driving at high speed possible, a semiconductor device is provided which includes a plurality of pixels, each having a switching element, arrayed two-dimensionally, which includes a plurality of common lines connected to the switching elements arrayed in a direction, and which drives the switching elements. A plurality of driving devices for applying a control signal are connected to the common lines.

Abstract: A lighting control apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a lighting device, a continuous imaging control processor, and a pulse-signal generating processor. The lighting device illuminates a photographic subject by receiving a pulse signal which has a certain cycle. The continuous imaging control processor performs a continuous imaging operation where a plurality of images of the photographic subject are continuously imaged. The pulse-signal generating processor supplies the pulse signal to the lighting device with a first duty ratio in the exposure time, and with a second duty ratio which is smaller than the first duty ratio in a post-exposure time which is the time between the exposure time termination and the next exposure time start.

Abstract: A digital camera having a camera-shake compensation mechanism and a luminance compensation processor is provided. The camera-shake compensation mechanism compensates for a camera-shake by adjusting a relative relation between positions of an optical axis of a photographing optical system and a center of an image of an imaging device. The luminance compensation processor compensates for luminance information of pixels of the imaging device, which are outside an image circle of the photographing optical system during a camera-shake compensation operation performed by the camera-shake compensation mechanism.

Abstract: For an information terminal to be operated by users for collecting predetermined pieces of information from remote information devices by free-space optical communication, the present invention provides a technique for suppressing the power consumption of the information terminal by minimizing the amount of calculation performed to collect the aforementioned information. According to the present invention, each information device emits ID light on which a low-frequency pilot signal is superimposed. The information terminal captures a series of frames of images including the ID light and locates the ID light within the images by the following steps: (1) creating multiple levels of binned images having different resolutions for each frame of the image; (2) calculating an evaluation index for each pixel within a target range of the binned images at each level, from the lowest to the highest resolution, where the target range is narrowed every time the process switches over to a lower level.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprising an image pickup device, a recording device, a display device, a communication device connectable to a plurality of image pickup apparatuses, an allotting device for allotting unique apparatus information to image data and a control device for controlling the display device to display image data received by the communication device and image data recorded by the recording device in different display configuration, with the unique apparatus information and specific information specifying the image data so that the image data received by the communication device and image data recorded by the recording device can be distinguished from one another.

Abstract: A surveillance camera comprising a camera mounted in a housing, a trim ring and dome assembly, a flexible member and a clamping member. The housing and the trim ring and dome assembly have first and second surfaces. One of the first surface of the housing and the first surface of the trim ring and dome assembly has an indentation, and the flexible member is positioned in the indentation. The clamping member can be tightened and is shaped to contact the second surface of the housing and the second surface of the assembly such that when the clamping member is tightened the clamping member causes the housing and the assembly to compress the flexible member so that the flexible member provides a seal between the housing and the assembly.