Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital camera having a display menu used to select either color photographing operation or a black/white photographing operation
- Patent Title (中): 具有用于选择彩色拍摄操作或黑/白拍摄操作的显示菜单的数码相机
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Application No.: US11076026Application Date: 2005-03-10
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Publication No.: US07864234B2Publication Date: 2011-01-04
- Inventor: Ryuichi Shiohara
- Applicant: Ryuichi Shiohara
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JPP.2004-067916 20040310
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/222

Abstract:
A digital camera includes: an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts light to output a color image; a selecting unit that selects any one identifier from identifiers which are colored in different colors from each other; and a black/white image producing unit that produces a black/white image by weighting gradation values of respective colors for each of pixels of the output color image and adding the weighted gradation values to each other. When the light entered to the imaging unit is entered to a color filter having a color equal to a color of the selected identifier, a correlation between a light amount of light having a wavelength which penetrates the color filer and a light amount of the entered light becomes stronger than a correlation between a light amount of light having a wavelength which is absorbed by the color filter and the light amount of the entered light.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050206775A1 Digital camera Public/Granted day:2005-09-22
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