Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method and a program, and a reproduction apparatus according to which an image sensor is divided into a plurality of areas and exposure control may be performed for each area according to the amount of camera shake. An imaging apparatus which is an aspect of the present disclosure includes an image sensor unit for generating pixel data of a pixel constituting a frame by photoelectric conversion, a calculation unit for calculating an amount of camera shake in each of areas obtained by dividing the frame, and a control unit for controlling exposure time of the image sensor for each of the areas according to the amount of camera shake calculated for each of the areas. The present disclosure is applicable to an electronic device such as a camera including an area ADC type image sensor, for example.
Abstract:
This camera driving apparatus includes: a camera section with an imaging plane; a movable unit which houses the camera section inside and includes an attracting magnet and a convex partial sphere on its outer surface; a fixed unit which has a depressed portion in which a magnetic body and the movable unit are loosely fit, which brings the convex partial sphere of the movable unit into a point or line contact with the depressed portion under magnetic attractive force of the attracting magnet to the magnetic body, and which allows the movable unit to rotate freely on the spherical centroid of the first convex partial sphere; a panning driving section; a tilting driving section; a rolling driving section; a camera driving section which shifts either the entire camera section or just its lens or image sensor in an optical axis direction with respect to the movable unit; a first detector which detects the tilt angles of the camera section in the panning and tilting directions with respect to the fixed unit; a second detector which detects the angle of rotation of the camera section that is rotating in the rolling direction; and a third detector which detects the magnitude of shift of either the camera section or its lens or image sensor in the optical axis direction.
Abstract:
Collision of communication data on a network line is prevented. A plurality of CPU boards which are independent of one another and have respective ones of CPUs mounted thereon are connected by a network line. Since data collision will occur when multiple streams of control data are transmitted on the network line, the order of priority of camera control is decided. If a zoom lens is shifted toward telephoto and, moreover, the aperture of an iris is shifted toward the open side, the order of priority of focusing lens control is raised. If a zoom lens is shifted toward wide angle and, moreover, the aperture of the iris is shifted toward the closed side, the order of priority of focusing lens control is lowered. Since camera control is carried out in accordance with the order of priority, collision of data on the network line is avoided.
Abstract:
A multiple anti-shake system and a method thereof applied to a camera device. The system comprises a sensing module, a first anti-shake module and a second anti-shake module. The sensing module detects the vibration signal of the camera device and the first anti-shake module is actuated to perform a first vibration compensation according to the vibration signal, therefrom calculates a residual vibration amount according to said first vibration compensation. The second anti-shake module thereby further performs a second vibration compensation to determine the set parameter of multi-frame blending. Thereby, the user can obtain a clear image by immediately processing a blurred image through a compensation process.
Abstract:
A hand-shake quantity detector of an image blur correcting device comprises a rolling gyro sensor and a rolling gyro sensor base circuit board. The rolling gyro sensor detects an angular velocity regarding a rolling motion. The rolling gyro sensor base circuit board attaches the rolling gyro sensor. The rolling gyro sensor has a vibrator whose angular velocity detection axis is perpendicular to the rolling gyro sensor base circuit.
Abstract:
An optical device includes a lens holding member that holds a lens and that is movable in a direction along a plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens, and an actuator that moves the lens holding member in the direction along the plane. In the optical device, the actuator includes an actuator element, formed of electroactive polymer, and a connecting member that connects the lens holding member to the actuator element.
Abstract:
A camera is provided with a photographing device for setting various photographing conditions which determine a state of a subject image to be obtained as a picture, the photography device including an exposure device having a plurality of selectively settable exposure modes for automatically setting at least one exposure value based on brightness of a subject, a mode selector for selecting one of the plurality of exposure modes, a calculation unit for calculating an amount indicative of the state of the subject image in accordance with the photographing conditions set by the photography device, an estimation unit for estimating visual effects which the subject image provides based on the calculated state amount, and a display device for displaying the visual effect corresponding to the exposure mode selected by the mode selection means in accordance with the estimated visual effects. Accordingly, an operator of the camera is allowed to conceive before an exposing operation what the final picture will look like in accordance with the photographing conditions set in a variety of exposure modes.
Abstract:
An exposure control device for a camera comprises a correction unit for correcting image vibration, a discrimination unit for discriminating whether the correction by the correction unit is possible, a determination unit for determining an exposure condition, a generation unit for generating a signal for effecting a photographing operation by a predetermined photographing method, and a selection unit for causing the generation unit to generate the signal for effecting the photographing operation with the predetermined photographing method, in case the discrimination unit identifies that the correction by the correction unit is impossible and the exposure condition determined by the determination unit satisfies a first discriminating condition, and in case the discrimination unit identifies that the correction by the correction unit is possible and the exposure condition determined by the discrimination unit satisfies a second discriminating condition.
Abstract:
A shake preventing apparatus in a camera, comprises a shake detecting device for detecting an amount of shake upon small motion of the camera, a shake correcting device for correction-driving a photo taking optical system in a direction to keep an image on a plane of a film unshaken, based on the amount of shake detected by the shake detecting device, a shake correction limit determining device for determining a shake correction limit amount which is a limit for the shake correcting device to correct the shake, and a shutter controlling device for controlling a shutter to close when the amount of shake detected by the shake detecting device exceeds the shake correction limit amount determined.
Abstract:
An image-shake correcting camera comprises an image shake correcting device for correcting image shakes caused by camera shakes and a photographic mode setting device for setting an operation condition of camera in photography, in which the image shake correcting device changes a correction property, based on the operation condition set by the photographic mode setting device.