There is provided a camera with an automatic focusing device having hybrid AF unit capable of always performing a reliable automatic focusing operation on a moving object to provide a more preferable photographic result. The camera includes first distance measuring unit 4 having at least a pair of light receiving sensors, for measuring the distance of an object by receiving a beam of light from the object, second distance measuring unit 3 having light projecting unit for projecting a beam of lig...

An automatic focus adjusting apparatus includes an image move-amount detecting section, an image position predicting section and a control section. The image move-amount detecting section detects, for each of a pair of images of a subject divided in a predetermined direction, image positions of the subject in an image-divided direction and in a direction approximately orthogonal with this image-divided direction respectively on photoelectric conversion elements at mutually different first and se...

A three-dimensional video signal is generated by an objective lens, a stereo lens optical system, such as a stereo doublet lens for example, one or more image-to-signal converters, and a multiplexer. A three-dimensional monitor or two head mounted monitors may be used to render (e.g., display) the three dimensional video signal.

A remote visual inspection system having a video endoscope, a mounting post and a mount. The mount, to which a video monitor is attached, can also accommodate, at any one time, either the video endoscope or the mounting post. The video endoscope has an insertion tube and a scope body. The mount includes a sleeve which defines a central opening into which the scope body and mounting post may extend and has a slot, extending from a first end of the sleeve to a second end of the sleeve, through whi...

A graphical user interface in which object thumbnails, as scaled images, are rendered on a two-dimensional wall or screen, and which exploits spatial memory. The objects may be moved, continuously, on the surface with a two-dimensional input device. Pop-up title bars may be rendered over active objects. Intelligent help may be provided to the user, as visual indicators, based on proximity clustering or based on matching algorithms.

A CPU mounted on a printer according to the present invention decides whether at least one sheet can be printed based on a battery capacity detected from a battery controller through a battery check section before a printing operation in a DPOF mode is started, for example, stores, in print history information memory, print history information indicative of a printed frame number and the number of prints in a print scheduling frame number and the number of prints which are set to print control i...

The electronic camera comprises a photographing unit including a lens tube which holds a lens for forming an image of object light on a photographing element, and a photographing board disposed on a proximal end side of the lens tube, on which a photographing unit for outputting a signal photoelectric-converted by the photographing element, as an image signal, and a frame which holds each of a finder unit and an electric board, and has an opening section formed therein, which allows the photogra...

A hierarchical arbitration method in which requests are grouped, using a logical OR operation for example, and provided to higher levels of the hierarchy. Then, grant signals from higher levels of the hierarchy are either propagated down through each level of the hierarchy where they are used to modify, using a logical AND operation for example, grant signals. Alternatively, grant signals from all higher levels of the hierarchy may be provided to a leaf layer of the hierarchy where they are all ...

An imaging apparatus with electrical exposure time control function capable of high accuracy control of the electronic shutter and ensuring high exposure accuracy is disclosed. An imaging element accumulates signal charge corresponding to an incident scene light flux in a photo-electric converting element section. The accumulated signal charge is read out as a pixel signal. Charge accumulation control means controls the instant of ending of charge accumulation in the imaging element to an instan...

When sending photographic image data obtained in an electronic camera 1 via a communication interface 42 to a radio telephone line of a PDC 3, a PHS 4, etc., an RISC-CPU 11 converts the image data to data having a configuration allowing communication and further converts by software processing the communication-allowing configuration data to data corresponding to the type of the radio telephone line.