| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7889985 |
Imaging apparatus |
February 15, 2011 |
| An imaging apparatus for forming an optical image of a subject on a light-receiving surface of an imaging element via a photographing lens; the imaging apparatus comprising: a first focusing position detection device which extracts a particular portion of the subject based on image |
| 7801436 |
Photography apparatus, photography method, and photography program |
September 21, 2010 |
| In order to prevent white compression from occurring in an image obtained by photography with a photography apparatus such as a digital camera, preliminary photography is carried out and actual photography is carried out while a flash control unit reduces an amount of light from a flash |
| 7738029 |
Image-taking apparatus that shoots a still image when a release button is pressed |
June 15, 2010 |
| The present invention relates to an image-taking apparatus such as a digital camera which is equipped with a release button and shoots a still image when the release button is pressed. It can perform proper metering for still images and reduce a time lag between a half press and the time |
| 7609319 |
Method and apparatus for determining focusing position |
October 27, 2009 |
| A photography device has an AF mechanism including: a CCD; an analog signal processing section; an image input controller; an AF processing section; a CPU; and a focusing lens driving section. The AF mechanism operates to focus an imaging lens on a subject. If an image represented by |
| 7379620 |
Image taking apparatus |
May 27, 2008 |
| An image taking apparatus according to the present invention has: a primary CCD section that receives a predetermined first part of object light focused by an image-taking optical system to produce a primary image signal; a secondary CCD section that has a dynamic range wider than th |
| 7265779 |
Electronic camera, information obtaining system and print order system |
September 4, 2007 |
| The camera comprises: an imaging device; a communicating device for transmitting and receiving information to and from a portable telephone capable of determining the communication area, and obtaining the images and maps of the imaging place and the information on the printing shops |
