摘要:
The focus detecting apparatus of the present invention is adapted to detect focusing state of a taking lens by detecting relative positional relation between first and second images formed by luminous bundles from an object which passed through first and second image re-forming lenses, including first series of photosensitive elements receiving the first image, second series of photosensitive elements receiving the second image, first calculating device related to a plurality of portions of the series of elements each having a prescribed number of elements on the first series of photosensitive elements, for calculating a representative value for each portion, a second calculating device related to a plurality of portions of the series of elements each having a prescribed number of elements on the second series of photosensitive elements, for calculating a representative value for each portion correlation calculating device for calculating correlation between representative values of the portions of the series of elements on the first series of photosensitive elements and the representative values of each of the plurality of groups provided by dividing the portions of the series of elements on the second series of photosensitive elements, specifying device for specifying a group having highest correlation out of the correlation; and detecting device for detecting relative positional relation between the portions of the series of elements on the first series of photosensitive elements and the specified groups.
摘要:
An auto-focus camera includes focus detection means for detecting the focussing state of a photographic lens, reliability discriminating means for discriminating whether the result of the focus detection means is reliable, first drive control means for driving the photographic lens to a position determined from the result of the focus detection means when the reliability discriminating means discriminates that the result is reliable, second drive control means for driving the photographic lens in a predetermined direction when the reliability discriminating means discriminates that the result is unreliable, and means for executing operations necessary for focussing during the predetermined direction driving, such as judgement as to whether a reverse driving is necessary, calculation of the driving amount of the photographic lens to an in-focus position.
摘要:
A focus detecting device for a camera utilizing auxiliary illumination, comprises a sensor for detecting the image of a photographic object, a first light emitter for projecting a first auxiliary light toward the object, a second light emitter for projecting a second auxiliary light toward the object. The second auxiliary light illuminates a smaller area than the first auxiliary light. The first and second light emitters are selectively driven in response to brightness of the object, thereby to produce a contrasty light image onto the object.
摘要:
An image processing apparatus permits easy changing of the file name of an image file created by an image taking apparatus. A personal computer serving as the image processing apparatus is fed with an image file created by a digital camera, and replaces a first character string included in the file name of the image file with a second character string. The first character string consists only of characters usable in a file name on the digital camera, and the second character string consists of characters selected among all the characters usable on the personal computer. The first and second character strings are entered via a keyboard, and are stored, in the form of a look-up table that lists their correspondence, in a hard disk.
摘要:
An image capturing apparatus capable of performing a suitable illuminance nonuniformity correction by setting a suitable γ-characteristic every block even in the case that the size of a character image projected on a sensing surface changes according to an image capturing magnification, and capable of extracting a boundary area between a white board portion and a background portion and applying a suitable image processing to this boundary area during the illuminance nonuniformity correction for a picked image, and capable of image capturing a representation such as characters drawn on a white board in such a manner that an obtained image is clear and easy to see by suitably performing an illuminance nonuniformity correction even in the case of color image capturing, and capable of detecting a regularly reflected light with high accuracy and can thereby securely prevent an error of obtaining an image of low quality by image capturing, and capable of preventing an error in flash-image capturing a representation such as characters drawn on a white board under insufficient illumination light and effectively perform an illuminance nonuniformity correction.
摘要:
An electronic camera adopts an image pickup and optical system of a mirror scan type in which a mirror for scanning is disposed at a forward side of a taking lens. A line image sensor relatively scans an object while rotating the mirror to perform photographing. When controlling the exposure, the taking lens is moved synchronously along with rotation of the mirror to adjust the focal position thereof each time a slender sub-image of the object is picked up by the CCD. Driving the taking lens to focus the sub-image each time of scanning the sub-image enables picking up an entirety of the object image perfectly in a focused state.
摘要:
A document reading apparatus which can determine an effective image pickup area containing no object such as operator's hands or fingers pressing a document and rectify image data prior to imaging operation, making use of a difference of the object from the document in chromaticity, luminous density, and the like.
摘要:
A document reading apparatus comprising a document table, a reading section disposed above the document table for reading a document placed on the document table. The reading section includes a sensor for detecting variations of brightness within a selected reading area of the document which is designated by light beams prior to a reading operation. This apparatus further comprises a display device for displaying the image of the selected reading area.
摘要:
An image taking apparatus includes an image sensor which picks up an image of a photographic object and a selector which selects a first photographing mode or a second photographing mode and a controller. The second photographing mode is a mode for composing a plurality of picked-up images to create a composite image. The controller makes the image sensor pickup a photographic object image on the first photographing condition when the first photographing mode is selected by the selector, and makes the image sensor pick up a plurality of images of photographic objects on the second photographing condition different from said first photographing condition when the second photographing mode is selected by the selector.
摘要:
An image taking apparatus includes an image sensor which takes a plurality of images different in focal distance, a processor which creates a pan-focus image focused on each of different photographic objects from the plurality of images taken by the image sensor, a discriminator which discriminates whether or not it is appropriate to create the pan-focus image, and a controller which forbids the processor to create the pan-focus image when the discriminator discriminates that it is not appropriate to create the pan-focus image.