| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D524836 |
Digital camera |
July 11, 2006 |
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| D521541 |
Digital camera |
May 23, 2006 |
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| 7474845 |
Lens barrel with a releasable engagement |
January 6, 2009 |
| The lens barrel of the present invention, in order to provide a lens barrel capable of reliably and easily preventing the breakage of the tooth of the revolving shaft of the driving motor and the tooth of the rack which teeth are engaged with each other, the lens barrel is provided w |
| 7471886 |
Camera with shake correction mechanism |
December 30, 2008 |
| A camera casing 100 accommodates therein a shake correction unit 2 for oscillatingly supporting an image sensor 20, a control circuit board 6 loaded with electronic components such as ASIC 61 and a driving control circuit 62, and a viewfinder section 7 for allowing a user to confirm a |
| 7470649 |
Thermal transfer image receiving sheet |
December 30, 2008 |
| A thermal transfer image receiving sheet containing a substrate having thereon a porous intermediate layer and an image receiving layer in that order, wherein the porous intermediate layer has a void ratio of not less than 30%; the porous intermediate layer contains inorganic micropa |
| 7460286 |
Method for producing an optical device, optical device, image display apparatus, and head-mounte |
December 2, 2008 |
| The exposure amounts of R, G, and B laser light emitted from a fabrication light source are so adjusted that the diffraction efficiency at R, G, and B wavelengths in an optical element is commensurate with the light intensity at the R, G, and B wavelengths in the light emitted from a |
| 7458735 |
Image-taking lens unit |
December 2, 2008 |
| An image-taking lens unit has an image-taking lens system that forms an optical image of an object and an image sensor that receives the optical image in a rectangular image-sensing region and converts the optical image into an electrical signal. The image-taking lens system includes a |
| 7450155 |
Image capturing apparatus |
November 11, 2008 |
| The image capturing apparatus extracts and records an effective image Ap from a captured image Ao obtained by imaging of incident light from a subject on an image capturing element by an optical system composed of optical members. When an angle of view of an image that is to be recorded |
| 7450154 |
Digital camera performing pixel shift based on electronic zoom |
November 11, 2008 |
| In an electronically zoomable digital camera having a hand shake correction mechanism, when electronic zoom operates, pixel shift is carried out in such manner of capturing a reference image and then capturing a shifted image after moving an image capturing element from the reference |
| 7446947 |
Variable magnification optical system and image taking apparatus provided therewith |
November 4, 2008 |
| A variable magnification optical system includes lens units that focus a ray of light from an object side on an image sensor, in which the lens unit located at a first position from the object side toward the image side includes an optical path changing element for changing an optical |
| 7443620 |
Lens barrel unit and imaging apparatus |
October 28, 2008 |
| There are provided a lens barrel unit and an imaging apparatus in which a plurality of constituent elements can be driven using a linear driving mechanism. The lens barrel unit 6 comprises: an actuator 31 for positioning a driving member 40 that is linearly movable along a driving sh |
| 7436995 |
Image-processing apparatus, image-capturing apparatus, image-processing method and image-process |
October 14, 2008 |
| An image processing apparatus for converting photographed image data representing a scene luminance into visual image data representing a visual image, comprises a data analyzing section to obtain a viewing condition to view a visual image, to analyze the photographed image data, and |
| 7382548 |
Variable magnification optical system |
June 3, 2008 |
| A variable magnification optical system of the present invention for forming an optical image of an object on a light-receiving surface of an image sensor with variable magnification includes: from the object side, at least a first lens unit having a positive optical power, a second lens |
| 7379115 |
Image capturing apparatus and image capturing system |
May 27, 2008 |
| A photocurrent corresponding to the intensity of the light from the subject which photocurrent is successively generated at predetermined intervals is converted into a voltage by being logarithmically compressed by a logarithmic compression circuit in a divisional cell of a metering |
| 7375905 |
Optical unit and image pickup apparatus having the same |
May 20, 2008 |
| An optical unit for forming an object image according to the present invention includes: a reflection member for bending an optical axis of the optical unit; a front lens group arranged closer to an object side of the optical unit than the reflection member; a rear lens group arranged |
| 7375900 |
Variable power optical system and image pickup apparatus |
May 20, 2008 |
| An object of the present invention is to provide a compact size variable power optical system capable of producing a high quality image. The variable power optical system comprises a plurality of lens groups for forming an optical image on an image surface of an image pickup device. |
| 7339748 |
Variable magnification optical system |
March 4, 2008 |
| A variable magnification optical system for forming an optical image of an object on a light-receiving surface of an image sensor with variable magnification includes: from the object side, at least a first lens unit having a positive optical power, a second lens unit having a negative |
| 7339747 |
Variable magnification optical system |
March 4, 2008 |
| A variable magnification optical system for forming an optical image of an object on the light receiving surface of the image sensor so that the magnification is variable includes from the object side: a first lens unit GR1 having negative optical power; a second lens unit GR2 having |
| 7330317 |
Lens system and image capturing apparatus |
February 12, 2008 |
| A lens system 3 is provided with a plurality of lens units including a first lens unit 9, and has a condition changing structure 6 that is capable of changing the condition of the first lens unit 9 without changing the position of the first lens unit 9 in the direction of the optical |
| 7324748 |
Focal plane shutter and image sensing apparatus |
January 29, 2008 |
| The size of the opening 1094a of the shutter base plate 1094 is set, considering driving amounts of the image sensor 101 and the low pass filter 108 during shake correction, so that the size of the opening 1094a in X-axis direction (Y-axis direction) is set equal to or larger than the |
| 7315422 |
Image forming device |
January 1, 2008 |
| An image forming device is provided with: a zoom lens system TL that performs magnification varying by changing the distance between the lens units; and an image sensor SR that converts an optical image formed by the zoom lens system TL into an electric signal. The zoom lens system TL |
| 7312824 |
Image-capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus and image recording apparatus |
December 25, 2007 |
| There is described an image-capturing apparatus, which has plural kinds of image sensors, sensitivities of which are different relative to each other, for recording wide dynamic range image data, and an image processing apparatus for applying optimization processing to the wide dynam |
| 7298269 |
Image taking apparatus having selectively enabled IC tags |
November 20, 2007 |
| A metallic sliding cover that covers an image taking lens system when an image taking apparatus is not in use is attached at the front side of the image taking apparatus, and an IC tag of a type that has an internal power supply and an IC tag of a type that has not an internal power |
| 7279271 |
Color material and silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material |
October 9, 2007 |
| The present invention provides a color material and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, particularly, a color material and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which are excellent in a coloring capability, processing stability, dye image |
| 7248037 |
Position sensing device for determining a relative position of a magnet with respect to a magnet |
July 24, 2007 |
| A position detector includes a pair of magnetic sensors spaced from each other and a magnetic force generator movable relative to the pair of magnetic sensors. The length of the magnetic force generator along the space between the magnetic sensors is equal to or larger than a length of |
| 7242534 |
Lens unit and a camera incorporating the same lens unit |
July 10, 2007 |
| A lens unit in which at least one of a subject side lens group and an image side lens group is moved toward an image side to be retracted along an optical axial direction, including a subject side lens group supporting frame to support the subject side lens group, an image side lens |
| 7239460 |
Imaging optical unit and image pickup apparatus |
July 3, 2007 |
| An imaging optical unit including a simple and small retracting mechanism and optical members having a small eccentric error and an image pickup apparatus will be provided. The imaging optical unit for guiding light to an image pickup device is structured so that a first holding member, |
| 7232200 |
Image forming apparatus and method for forming image |
June 19, 2007 |
| An image forming apparatus comprises a recording head having a plurality of recording elements arranged in array, the recording head being utilized for recording a corrective image onto a recording material, an image reading device to acquire readout information by reading the correc |
| 7227706 |
Image-taking lens apparatus |
June 5, 2007 |
| An image-taking lens apparatus has an image sensor for converting an optical image of a subject into an electrical signal and an image-taking lens system for forming the optical image on the image sensor. The image-taking lens system includes a prism for bending the optical path, and |
| 7227698 |
Optical unit, and image taking apparatus provided therewith |
June 5, 2007 |
| A plurality of lens units in an optical unit has at least: from the object side toward the image side, a first lens unit having a positive optical power, a second lens unit having a negative optical power, a third lens unit having a positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having a |
| 7226891 |
Image forming method using thermal transfer recording material |
June 5, 2007 |
| An image forming method containing the steps of (a) forming an image on a thermal transfer sheet of a thermal transfer recording material, and (b) transferring the image onto an image receiving sheet of the thermal transfer recording material, wherein the thermal transfer sheet including |
| 7221517 |
Image forming device |
May 22, 2007 |
| An image forming device is provided with: a zoom lens system TL that performs magnification varying by changing the distance between the lens units; and an image sensor SR that converts an optical image formed by the zoom lens system TL into an electric signal. The zoom lens system TL |
| 7220537 |
Silver halide emulsion silver halide photographic sensitive material and method of image formati |
May 22, 2007 |
| This invention provides a silver halide emulsion, a silver halide photographic material and an image forming method, which is excellent in high sensitivity, good gradation, coating composition store stability and latent image store stability regardless exposing method, particularly e |
| 7208905 |
Driving method, driving mechanism, and image capturing apparatus |
April 24, 2007 |
| The driving method of the present invention is a driving method to drive a stepping motor driven by a predetermined driving pulse, by the servo driving method, and is characterized in that a predetermined sampling period is set, and the generation condition of the driving pulse to drive |
| 7206137 |
Taking optical system and image sensing apparatus |
April 17, 2007 |
| The present invention provides a compact, high-performance, and easy-to-manufacture taking optical system that offers an extremely high zoom ratio. The taking optical system includes, from the subject side, a first lens group having a positive optical power, a second lens group havin |
| 7202461 |
Image-reading apparatus |
April 10, 2007 |
| There is described an image-reading apparatus to acquire image data by reading a scanned image comprising an image sensor having a light emitting means and a photo receiving means for receiving a light emitted from the light emitting means, and a reading control means for controlling |
| 7193786 |
Zoom optical system and image pickup apparatus |
March 20, 2007 |
| A zoom optical system according to the present invention is provided with, in order from an object side thereof: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; a third lens group having a negative refractive power; and a |
| 7180682 |
Variable-magnification optical system and image taking apparatus |
February 20, 2007 |
| A variable-magnification optical system has a plurality of lens groups that image a light beam from the object side on an image sensor, an optical aperture stop that intercepts part of the light beam heading for the image sensor, and a reflective mirror that changes the optical axis |
| 7180679 |
Image-taking apparatus |
February 20, 2007 |
| A zoom lens system for forming an optical image of a subject on the image-sensing surface of an image sensor has three lens units, namely, from the object side thereof, a first lens unit having a negative optical power, a second lens unit having a positive optical power, and a third |
| 7163785 |
Silver halide photosensitive material and image forming method therefor |
January 16, 2007 |
| A silver halide photographic material, including a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide particles having a silver chloride content of more than or equal to 90 mol %, wherein a compound represented by Formula |
| 7163784 |
Silver halide emulsion, and silver halide color photographic material using the same |
January 16, 2007 |
| A silver halide emulsion including silver halide grains and a binder and satisfying Requirement (1) of 0<B/A<0.2, wherein A (mol %) is an iridium content at a surface of the silver halide grains, and B (mol %) is an average iridium content at a subsurface of the silver halide g |
| 7157216 |
Silver halide emulsion and silver halide photographic material |
January 2, 2007 |
| A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains, wherein at least 50% by number of the silver halide grains is accounted for by cubic grains having a chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, an iodide content of from 0 to 2 mol % and a bromide content of from 0. |
| 7139129 |
Image-taking apparatus |
November 21, 2006 |
| A zoom lens system for forming an optical image of a subject on the image-sensing surface of an image sensor includes at least, from the object side thereof, a first lens unit having a negative optical power and a second lens unit having a positive optical power, and achieves zooming |
| 7136581 |
Image taking apparatus and program product |
November 14, 2006 |
| AF is started in response to the depression of a shutter button 61 by the user, and a plurality of images are obtained in succession with a time interval while a first image and a second image are obtained in this order with a time interval by a CCD 11. With respect to the AF area, of |
| 7132824 |
Position detector, camera-shake compensation mechanism, and image capture apparatus |
November 7, 2006 |
| A position detector includes a magnet, a pair of Hall effect devices, and a processing circuit for detecting relative positions of the magnet and the pair of Hall effect devices. The processing circuit detects a difference in magnitude between output values of the Hall effect devices, |
| 7123280 |
Thermal transfer image receiving sheet and image forming method using the same |
October 17, 2006 |
| A thermal transfer image receiving sheet comprising a support having an image receiving layer on one surface of the support and a backing layer on the other surface of the support, wherein, (a) a first electrical resistance of the thermal transfer image receiving sheet is in a range of |
| 7122504 |
Protective layer transfer sheet and an image forming method employing it |
October 17, 2006 |
| Disclosed is a protective layer transfer sheet for forming an image by the method which comprising the steps of overlaying a thermal transfer image receiving sheet and a thermal transfer recording ink sheet, forming an image on the thermal diffusible dye receiving layer by heating, and |
| 7113346 |
Variable magnification optical system |
September 26, 2006 |
| A variable magnification optical system for forming an optical image of an object on the light-receiving surface of an image sensor with variable magnification includes: from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive optical power, a second lens unit having a negative optical |
| 7105287 |
Silver halide emulsion and silver halide photographic material |
September 12, 2006 |
| A silver halide emulsion is disclose, containing silver halide grains, in which at least 50% by number of the silver halide grains is accounted for by (1) cubic grains (2) having a chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, (3) an iodide content of from 0 to 2 mol % and (4) a bromide co |
| 7105286 |
Silver halide photographic material |
September 12, 2006 |
| The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a paper support having resin layers coated on both sides of a base paper, and in particular, to a silver halide photographic material exhibiting superior glossiness and improved sharpness, long-term sta |
