IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, DISPLAY-AND-IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP PROCESSING APPARATUS
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus capable of easily improving the detection accuracy of a touching or proximity object is provided. An offset noise (a reset image R) is obtained by an image pickup process in a state (a reset state) in which an image pickup device is initialized. Moreover, a fingertip extraction process is performed in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image (a shadow image A or a display light-using image B) which is obtained by picking up an image of a proximity object to obtain object information about the proximity object. While an offset noise in the apparatus is easily reduced, object information about the proximity object can be obtained.
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36 Claims
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19. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
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an image pickup panel including a plurality of image pickup devices; an image pickup control means for controlling the image pickup devices so as to obtain an offset noise by an image pickup process in a state in which the image pickup devices are initialized; and an image processing means for obtaining object information as information about at least one of the position, the shape and the size of a proximity object in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image which is obtained by picking up an image of the proximity object. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A display-and-image-pickup apparatus comprising:
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a display image pickup panel including a plurality of display devices and a plurality of image pickup devices; an image pickup control means for controlling the image pickup devices so as to obtain an offset noise by an image pickup process in a state in which the image pickup devices are initialized; an image processing means for obtaining object information as information about at least one of the position, the shape and the size of a proximity object in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image which is obtained by picking up an image of the proximity object; and a display control means for controlling the display devices so that the obtained object information is displayed on the display image pickup panel. - View Dependent Claims (34)
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35. An image pickup processing apparatus being a processing apparatus applied to an image pickup panel including a plurality of image pickup devices, the image pickup processing apparatus comprising:
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an image pickup control means for controlling the image pickup devices so as to obtain an offset noise by an image pickup process in a state in which the image pickup devices are initialized; and an image processing means for obtaining object information as information about at least one of the position, the shape and the size of a proximity object in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image which is obtained by picking up an image of the proximity object. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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