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A video surveillance system includes multiple video cameras. The surveillance system is configured with an arrangement to separate the surveillance functions and assign different surveillance functions to different cameras. A master camera is assigned the surveillance of large area surveillance and tracking of object movement while one or more slave cameras are provided to dynamically rotate and adjust focus to obtain clear image of the moving objects as detected by the master camera. Algorithms to adjust the focus-of-attention are disclosed to effectively carry out the tasks by a slave camera under the command of a master camera to obtain images of a moving object with clear feature detections.

An audit system creates, deploys, and analyzes surveys to perform risk assessment. Surveys can be associated with one or more contexts, which include an enterprise, an organization, a business process, a risk, a control, or any combination thereof. The audit system generates survey questionnaires for a context automatically using a question library that associates questions with one or more contexts. Using the process library and the associated sets of process risks and process controls, the audit system can automatically determine the set of individuals that should participate in the survey. The audit system can then distribute survey questionnaires to the set of individuals and collect the survey results. Survey results can be aggregated to create risk assessments detailing the perceived risks to the survey context. Additionally, survey results and risk assessments can be saved for future reference or to document an enterprise's good-faith efforts to comply with its legal obligations.

A movement area detecting unit detects, in an image frame divided into a plurality of blocks, a block having a movement as a movement area, based on simple image data. A face detecting unit detects a human face based on the simple image data. When a human face is detected by the face detecting unit in the movement area detected by the movement area detecting unit and the movement in the movement area including the human face stops, an image pick-up operation is performed. Therefore, when an image is to be picked up in a self-timer image pick-up mode for automatically picking-up an image of an operator himself/herself as an object, the image pick-up operation takes place at the optimal timing when the operator as the object reaches and stands still at the desired position for the photograph.

An improved focusing coupler device for coupling the image capturing portion of an endoscope to a video camera is disclosed. The coupler device includes a housing having an elongate internal chamber defining an optical pathway for connecting the optical image paths of the endoscope and the camera, first and second windows closing off the opposite ends of the chamber, a lens transport assembly disposed in the chamber for relative movement between the ends of the chamber, the lens transport assembly comprising a lens carrier that defines a longitudinal series of rack gear teeth and is movable between the opposite ends of the chamber, and at least one focusing lens mounted to the lens carrier in coaxial alignment with the longitudinal axis of the chamber. The housing also includes a cavity containing a drive device and a passageway communicating with the midsection of the chamber and the distal end of the cavity chamber, and gear means for connecting the rack gear teeth to the drive device so as to translate rotational movement of the drive shaft in the cavity through the passageway to the rack gear teeth and thereby to selectively longitudinally move the lens transport assembly in the chamber.

The present invention relates to a camera system.

The system includes a selector configured to select one of a still image shooting mode and a movie shooting mode, and

• • a communication unit employing a plurality of communication methods by which communication between an interchangeable lens and a camera body is performed. If the still image shooting mode is selected by the selector and a lens information request command is sent from the camera body to the interchangeable lens, the communication unit operates such that information on the interchangeable lens is sent from the interchangeable lens to the camera body. If the movie shooting mode is selected by the selector, the communication unit operates such that the information on the interchangeable lens is sent from the interchangeable lens to the camera body even without the lens information request command being sent from the camera body to the interchangeable lens.

A method for processing an image in a camera device according to the present disclosure includes autofocus photographing to continuously obtain an image by moving a focusing lens at a predetermined focusing interval, extracting a focus value for a focus area of the obtained image, and storing the focus value with the image. The method also includes focus resetting by displaying a representative image of the stored images, and storing an image having the maximum focus value for a focus area of a selected location if the location is selected from the representative image.

The invention relates to a device (10) for the additive manufacture of a component (12), comprising at least one coating device (14) for producing a powder layer (16) on a construction platform (18); at least one radiation source (20), in particular a laser, for producing a high-energy beam (24), by means of which the powder layer (16) in a construction surface area (22) can be melted and/or sintered locally to form a component layer (30); at least one deflection device (26), by means of which the high-energy beam (24) can be deflected onto different regions of the powder layer (16) and can be focused on the construction surface area (22); at least one measurement system (28), by means of which a cross-sectional geometry of the high-energy beam (24) on the powder layer (16) and/or the component layer (30) can be determined; and at least one equilibration device (32).

An image pickup apparatus using a solid image pickup device includes a manual focus adjusting unit configured to control the position of a focus lens in response to a user's input operation; an edge detecting unit configured to detect edge components of each pixel from an image signal obtained by image pickup and to output detection levels of the detected edge components; a color signal replacement unit configured to replace a signal of a pixel corresponding to the detection level or signals of pixels in a predetermined range containing the corresponding pixel on the image signal with a predetermined color signal when the detection level is equal to or higher than a predetermined value; and a display unit configured to display an image based on an output image signal from the color signal replacement unit.

An apparatus for airborne particle sorting is provided comprising a charging system adapted for applying an electrostatic charge to the particles, such that particles of at least a first group are deflected to a greater extent than particles of a second group are deflected. A focusing system is adapted for electrostatically focusing substantially at least the particles of the first group into a focused stream that is narrower than the input air stream. A deposition system is adapted for substantially depositing the particles of the first group from the focused stream upon a target surface, where the target surface may be transported to an analysis system capable of analyzing the particles deposited thereon.

An exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system for projecting a pattern on a reticle mounted on a first stage onto an object mounted on a second stage, a first reference plate provided on the reticle or a surface equivalent to the reticle, the first reference plate having three or more first reference marks each of which serves as a reference for an alignment between the reticle and the object, a measuring unit for measuring focus position at imaging positions of the first reference marks and for measuring an image surface of the projection optical system, and a correcting unit for correcting a relationship between the image surface and a reference surface as a reference of a measurement by the measuring unit.

A multiple wavelength X-ray source includes an electron-generating cathode and an anode with multiple target regions, each of which emits X-rays at a different characteristic wavelength in response to the electrons. The different X-ray radiation outputs are focused by different focusing sections of a focusing optic. The multiple focusing sections are in different respective locations, and each focuses its respective X-ray radiation onto a sample. The focusing sections may be side-by-side mirrors in a Kirkpatrick-Baez configuration, or in a single-bounce, doubly curved elliptical configuration.