Hirotake Nozaki - Port Washington NY, US Akira Ohmura - Tokyo, JP
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation - Tokyo
International Classification:
G03B 3/10 G03B 41/00 G03B 13/00
US Classification:
396123, 396 14, 348345
Abstract:
A camera is provided with a face detecting section, a focusing section, an area specifying section, and a controlling section. The face detecting section detects a face area within a shooting image plane. The focusing section has plural optional areas within the shooting image plane. Further, the focusing section obtains an image phase difference amount of a pair of images based on luminous flux having passed through a shooting lens in each of the optional areas. The area specifying section specifies a focusing area from among the optional areas corresponding to the face area. Further, the area specifying section changes a method of specifying the focusing area in accordance with the size of the face area. The controlling section performs a focusing operation of the shooting lens on the basis of the image phase difference amount in the focusing area.
Nobuhiro Fujinawa - Yokohama, JP Hirotake Nozaki - Port Washington NY, US Setsu Mitsuhashi - Tokyo, JP
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation - Tokyo
International Classification:
H04N 5/915 B62D 41/00 B60R 21/00 H04N 5/225
US Classification:
701 35, 701348, 369 21
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle and imaging a vicinity of the vehicle, includes a photographic lens, an image pickup device, an accident detection sensor, an image processing section, and a recording section. The image pickup device generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion of an object image based on a light flux from the photographic lens. The accident detection sensor detects an accident occurrence based on a shock to the vehicle. The image processing section generates first accident image data and second accident image data which photograph the same accident situation at an accident occurrence, based on the image signal. The recording section records the first accident image data and the second accident image data in different states of security levels regarding data credibility, respectively.
A portable telephone device with incorporated projector displays the contents of a received email upon a main liquid crystal display device This portable telephone device with incorporated projector projects the contents of the received email after having changed its vertical-horizontal ratio (its row-column ratio) so that the number of characters in the horizontal direction becomes greater, as compared to the display screen of the main liquid crystal display device , upon which the numbers of characters being displayed vertically and horizontally are equal.
Nobuhiro Fujinawa - Yokohama, JP Hirotake Nozaki - Port Washington NY, US Tetsuya Yamamoto - Hasuda, JP Tadashi Ohta - Yokohama, JP
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation - Tokyo
International Classification:
G03B 21/14
US Classification:
353119, 353 94
Abstract:
A projector includes: an image creation unit that projects image information upon a screen, comprising a plurality of picture elements that create an image pattern corresponding to the image information; and an illumination unit in which light emitting members are disposed upon a vertical plane with respect to an optical axis which passes through a center of the image creation unit, at equal distances from the optical axis and moreover in different locations.
Hirotake Nozaki - Port Washington NY, US Nobuhiro Fujinawa - Yokohama, JP
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation - Tokyo
International Classification:
H04N 5/76
US Classification:
3482318, 34821113, 3482312, 3482317
Abstract:
An image reproduction device has a display interface, a data reading unit, an image processing section, a recording unit, and a control section. The display interface outputs to a monitor device including a display screen. The data reading unit reads data from an external recording device as well as including a connection section capable of electrically connecting the external recording device recording photographic image data. The image processing section generates monitor image data based on the photographic image data. The image size of the monitor image data corresponds to the image resolution of the monitor device. The recording unit records the monitor image data in a memory. The control section performs the reproduction mode in which a reproduction image based on the monitor image data is displayed on the monitor device. Besides, the control section is configured to produce a reproduction image when not connected with the external recording device.
A projection device includes: a projector unit that has at least a light source and a projection optical system housed in a chassis; a control unit that is assembled with a chassis separate from the chassis of the projector unit; and a rotation support member that rotatably supports the projector unit and the control unit around a rotation axis that extends perpendicular to a surface of the chassis of the projector unit and a surface of the chassis of the control unit, with these surfaces facing to one another.
Camera Having Face Detection And With Automatic Focus Control Using A Defocus Amount
Hirotake Nozaki - Port Washington NY, US Akira Ohmura - Tokyo, JP
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation - Tokyo
International Classification:
G03B 3/00 G03B 13/00
US Classification:
396123, 396128, 348362
Abstract:
A camera has a face detecting section, a focusing section, and a controlling section. The face detecting section detects a face area in a shooting image plane. The focusing section calculates a defocus amount based on a relative distance of a pair of images of a light beam that has passed through a shooting lens in each of a plurality of optional areas in the shooting image plane. The controlling section designates a focusing area among the optional areas based on an output of the face detecting section and performs a focusing operation of the shooting lens based on the defocus amount in the focusing area.
Hirotake Nozaki - Port Washington NY, US Nobuhiro Fujinawa - Yokohama, JP Akira Ohmura - Tokyo, JP
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation - Tokyo
International Classification:
G03B 21/14 G03B 21/22 H04M 1/00
US Classification:
353 79, 353122, 353119, 353 70, 4555751
Abstract:
An electronic device includes: a moving part; a projector device provided to the moving part; and a projection control unit that starts projection of an image by the projector device according to the state of the moving part, and the projection control unit starts projection of an image when a first time period has elapsed with the moving part in a predetermined state.