Photography inventions 06/07

20070147810 - Electronic endoscope with brightness adjustment function: An electronic endoscope has a video-scope with an image sensor, a light source that emits illuminating-light to illuminate an object, an image sensor driver, a luminance detector, one rotary shutter, and a brightness adjuster. The luminance detector detects a luminance of an object image on the basis of image-pixel signals... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070147811 - Compound-eye imaging device: A compound-eye imaging device comprises a flash control means for controlling a flash unit to alternatively emit two kinds of near-infrared lights having different wavelengths while multiple single-eye images are read using a rolling shutter; a single-eye image reading means for reading, from the single-eye images, a single-eye image (hereafter... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070147812 - Digital panoramic camera: The invention relates to the field of image processing and more specifically to image processing in a digital camera for taking panoramic pictures. The digital camera according the invention is adapted to produce an image of a target area when the area is swept by the camera. The camera comprises... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070147813 - Image stabilizing apparatus and image pickup apparatus: What is disclosed is an image stabilizing apparatus and an image pickup apparatus that can detect shift shake reliably with a simple configuration and make highly accurate image blur correction possible even at very short subject distances. The apparatus has angular velocity detection means for detecting angular velocity generated by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147814 - Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium: An image capturing apparatus includes: a shake amount detecting unit that detects a shake amount; a composition determining unit that determines whether the composition of a picture is determined during image capturing on the basis of the correlation among a plurality of frames; a shake correcting unit that performs a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070147815 - Camera system, lens unit, camera body, and wireless communication adapter: A camera system includes a camera body and a lens unit attached detachably to the camera body. The camera body transmits authentication information through a communication terminal to the lens unit that is attached to the camera body. The lens unit stores the authentication information in an authentication memory. When... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070147816 - Camera modules with liquid optical elements: An electronic camera module includes a lens or refractive element formed by a pair of immiscible liquids and having optical properties which can be varied by applying a voltage so as to deform the meniscus. One of the two liquids extends from the meniscus all the way to the front... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20070147817 - Camera feature with divided autofocus search range: Apparatus are provided, including an autofocus mechanism. The autofocus mechanism includes an autofocus preliminary operation mechanism and an autofocus continuation mechanism. The autofocus preliminary operation mechanism starts an autofocus of a lens assembly on a given target by causing a focus quality determiner to determine the quality of focus of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070147818 - Lens barrel: The present invention provides a lens barrel comprising: a first focus ring which is used for either one of instruction types of focus operation of a relative position instruction type focus operation for moving a position of the focus lens for focus control with respect to an optical axis direction... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070147819 - System and method for indicating sharpness of images: A system for indicating sharpness of images is provided. The system includes a computer, which is connected to a measuring machine for an object to be laid thereon for measurement. The measuring machine has a Z axis, on which a charged coupled device (CCD), an optical lens and a lever... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070147821 - Device and method for optically inspecting a surface: The invention generally relates to a compact, inexpensive-to-manufacture, device of few components for optically inspecting a surface and a method for same employing the device. The section of the surface to be investigated is illuminated by a semitransparent mirror and a field lens, employing a telecentric beam path, and at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070147820 - Digital image acquisition system with portrait mode: A digital image acquisition system having no photographic film comprises an apparatus for capturing digital images and a flash unit for providing illumination during image capture. The system has a portrait mode for generating an image of a foreground object against a blurred background, the portrait mode being operable to... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070147822 - Digital camera with face detection function for red eye reduction: A digital camera that compensates a red eye phenomenon during photography is provided. The digital camera includes a charge coupled device (CCD), a face detection circuit, a flash mode controller, and a flash. When the flash preliminarily emits light, the face detection circuit detects an eye color of a person... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070147823 - Method for controlling the picture capturing process of a digital camera: The present invention provides a method for controlling the picture capturing process of a digital camera, which includes the steps of: determining whether the digital camera is operating in an auto flash mode; when the digital camera is operating in the auto flash mode, then further determining whether a flash... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070147824 - Photographing apparatus and method: Provided are a photographing apparatus and method which can obtain the same effect as in a weighted summation method by capturing a plurality of images of a subject while appropriately controlling exposure time for each of the images and adding up the images and can correct distortions in the images... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070147825 - Optical lens system of mobile camera: An optical lens system of a mobile camera is provided. The lens optical system includes: an optical lens in which bilaterally symmetrical off-axis lens systems corresponding to the divided view angles are integrally formed and arranged in parallel on the same plane, the optical beams incident at the divided view... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070147826 - Photographing system and photographing method: In a scene recognition photographing device of the present invention, a feature quantity of an acquired image acquired from an image pickup element is calculated from the acquired image. Plural types of reference feature information having a feature quantity serving as a reference at the time of determining a composition... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070147827 - Methods and apparatus for wireless stereo video streaming: A wireless camera (102) is configured to removeably connect to a complementary camera (101) and includes machine-readable software instructions configured to communicate with the complementary camera to determine a designated role (e.g., “master” or “slave”). The software instructions are capable of performing, when the designated role is “master,” the steps... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070147828 - Image element identifier: A method for providing positioning information related to image information presentation for a portable communication device, includes providing first image information to be presented (202), obtaining the first image information by the portable communication device under control of the user of the portable communication device, registering second image information by... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070147829 - Camera mounting device: A camera-mounting device is provided that is inexpensive and resistive to vibration, and can generate a large coupling force with a small operation force. The camera-mounting device includes a ball shaft, a case main body provided with a ball-shaft receiver, a press plate that allows the ball shaft to be... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070147830 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a camera housing; an imaging block having predetermined lenses and an imaging device arranged in the camera housing; a housing cover slidably supported on an outer surface of the camera housing; and a media housing section formed on an outer surface side of the camera housing.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070147832 - Method of processing substrate, substrate processing system and substrate processing apparatus: Immediately before or immediately after an alignment process for adjusting an exposure position of a pattern image in an exposure unit compatible with immersion exposure, a dummy substrate for use in the alignment process is transported from the exposure unit to a substrate processing apparatus. In the substrate processing apparatus,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070147831 - Substrate processing apparatus for performing exposure process: A substrate processing apparatus for performing an exposure process by printing a pattern on a substrate coated with a photosensitive material includes an exposure part for performing an immersion exposure process, a cleaning part and a transport mechanism which are provided within an exposure chamber. After the exposure part performs... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070140673 - Multifunction dual lens matching device for stereoscopic 3d camera system: This invention is for target remapping, telecentricity compensation, and a new PID motion control algorithm to align and control to a very high tolerance multiple functions to two lenses simultaneously in a stereoscopic 3D camera system. To control two lenses in a 3D camera rig such that they match as... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070140674 - Shake correction device, filming device, moving image display device, shake correction method and recording medium: A filming device according to the invention includes a filming unit which imports a plurality of frames configuring a moving image at a prescribed sampling rate, a shake amount detection unit which detects a shake amount of each of the frames, a frame position calculation unit which calculates a frame... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070140675 - Image capturing apparatus with zoom function: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which captures image data of an object, a zoom image data generating unit which generates items of zoom image data having different zoom magnifications, a display control unit which displays through images on a display unit based on the items of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070140676 - Camera having an autofocus system: An AF camera includes a focusing lens group; an autofocus system which performs a searching process for detecting an in-focus position by moving the focusing lens group within a predetermined searching range to move the focusing lens group to the in-focus position; and a first switch and a second switch.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070140677 - Automatic focusing methods and image capture devices utilizing the same: An autofocusing method is implemented in an image capture device comprising a lens and a sensor module. The relative positions of lens and the sensor module are adjusted for autofocusing based on a factor. First, the relative positions of the lens and the sensor module are adjusted based on a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070140678 - Method and apparatus for coping with condition in which subject is too close to digital imaging device for acceptable focus: A digital imaging device automatically detects that a subject is too close to the device for acceptable focus to be achieved and informs the user, takes automatic corrective action, or both.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070140679 - Imaging device: An imaging device, such as a digital camera, has a mechanism for compensating an image blur caused by hand jiggling and is capable of consecutively shooting, through one operation of a shutter operation section (36), frames of an image in a state where the mechanism (20) is operational and in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070140680 - Shutter control apparatus and the method thereof: A shutter control apparatus and the method thereof are provided. The shutter control apparatus is suitable for controlling a shutter of a camera apparatus. The shutter control apparatus includes a resistor and a switch. The resistor is coupled between an output terminal and a ground voltage source. The switch is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070140681 - Camera system of detachable lens unit: When an UNREG voltage is equal to or less than a PREEND voltage, a notification for informing this state is sent from a lens-side CPU of a lens unit to a body-side CPU of a camera body by UART communication. At this time, the body-side CPU displays a warning, which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140682 - Two camera stereoscopic 3d rig improvements: Ongoing research and development on Stereoscopic 3D Camera rigs has led to certain new and unique improvements, including a trapezoidal beam-splitter mirror, a beam-splitter mirror that is facing downwards, a stereoscopic platform that can be inverted 180°, an optical wedge for vertical field-of-view refraction compensation, a single inter-ocular motor with... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070140683 - Image capture apparatus: An image capture apparatus has an electronic view finder assembly. The assembly has a casing including inner and outer casings; an accommodation spacing, an opening, a cover, an eye cup portion, a stopper, and a dust prevention cushion. The accommodation spacing accommodates the inner casing held in the same extension... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070140684 - Case for digital camera: A protective case for a digital camera. The case has a retainer for holding the camera and a protective sleeve that slips over the retainer and camera, thereby forming a complete enclosure for the camera. The sleeve is pivotably attached to the retainer and, due to an extendable hinge means,... Agent: Bohan, Mathers & Associates, LLC

20070140685 - Camera module of an electronic device: A camera module with a hinge mechanism is installed on an electronic device. The camera module housing has two hollow cylinder-shaped shafts at two opposite ends. Two hollow cylinder-shaped shafts are pivotally connected with the electronic device. A camera is disposed in the housing. A hinge portion is configured inside... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070140686 - Camera: A camera comprising: a camera body on which an image taking lens and an image display portion are provided, and a grip portion connected to the camera body so as to be foldable and extendable, wherein the grip portion can be moved to a first position at which it is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140687 - Photosensitive material treating apparatus: A photosensitive material treating apparatus comprises a bulkhead provided between a plurality of treating tanks in which treating liquid is stored, and having an opening through which a photosensitive material is passed, an elastic blade which abuts against an opening wall of the opening to close the opening, arresting leakage... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20070133967 - Image stabilizer, lens device and imager apparatus: An image stabilizer includes a driver having a coil and magnet, where a correcting lens on a moving frame is moved by the driver in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis of a lens system and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and optical axis,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133968 - Ultrasonic actuator, driving method of the ultrasonic actuator, lens driver, and portable device: An ultrasonic actuator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a stator generating a rotational driving force in accordance with a driving signal having a train pulse, which is used, for example, an AF mechanism; and a rotor converting the rotational driving force into actual movement. In the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070133969 - System and method for measuring and setting the focus of a camera assembly: A system and method are provided for automatically setting the focus of a camera assembly; providing a camera assembly having a sensor die having indicia points located on a surface, a lens assembly having at least one optical lens; a lens assembly holder configured to adjustably hold the lens assembly... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070133970 - Lens driving apparatus, imaging apparatus, and lens barrel and camera main body used for this: A lens position calculator is provided that determines a phase of a driving signal as a reference position of an imaging lens when an output value of a position detection sensor reaches a threshold value. The lens position calculator determines a position obtained by performing addition or subtraction on the... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070133971 - Digital camera and method of controlling the same: In order to carry out relatively accurate AF control while eliminating the adverse effect on a reproduced moving picture, a subject is imaged every 1/30 seconds, so that subject images are obtained. Image data representing the subject images respectively corresponding to odd-numbered frames are recorded on a memory card as... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070133972 - Lens driving device: The present invention relates to a lens driving device includes a lens receiving part with a lens disposed therein, having first and second extension parts formed at opposed sides in a predetermined interval from each other. The lens driving device also includes an actuator having a body between the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133973 - Lens driving device and image pickup device using the same: A lens driving device has first and second driving units for moving first and second lens holders supporting first and second sets of lens elements in an optical axis direction, respectively. The first and second driving units each have a motor, a gear fitted around an output shaft of the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070133974 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: When the mode is set to a strobe consecutive shooting mode, an imaging apparatus sets the mode to a pixel addition drive mode for reading out image data using pixel addition drive (S7), performs metering operation using preliminary flashing (S8) and calculates an appropriate amount of flashing on the basis... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070133975 - Surveillence camera assembly with external adjusting rings: A surveillence camera assembly with external adjusting ring has a camera and a cover. The camera comprises a lens assembly, two adjusting rings, a mounting ring. The lens assembly has a lens and two adjusting rod extending out of the lens and being capable of rotating around to adjust the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070133976 - Shutter for miniature camera: Systems and techniques for using one or more virtual pivots in a shutter system for a miniature camera. A virtual pivot system may comprise one or more flexures, so that a shutter apparatus may be rotated about a center of rotation without a physical rotation element at the center of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070133977 - Digital camera having camera body: A digital still camera includes a lens mount mechanism, positioned on a front face of a camera body, for securing a lens assembly to the camera body removably. A door shaped cover is secured to the camera body, and shiftable between first and second positions while the lens assembly is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133978 - Operator's crane: An operator's crane has a boom formed as a parallelogram mechanism which is located in a vertical plane and has longitudinal and transverse links, a support which supports a central part of the boom and placed on a base with a possibility of turning of the boom in vertical and... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070133979 - Tripod device for mounting a camera and tracking movable objects: A tripod device and system for mounting a camera and tracking movable objects includes a base with a camera mount, a processor, a user interface, actuators for rotating and tilting the camera mount, and a plurality of pendants. Each pendant includes a transmitter for transmitting a unique signal for receipt... Agent: Harshaw Research Incorporated

20070133980 - System and method for an imaging system for a container security system: A system for visually capturing and monitoring the contents and events surrounding a cargo container is provided. The system includes an image capture device, a control device, and an image processing device. This system may be used for both visible and infrared images. The image capture device may be situated... Agent: Baker & Daniels

20070133981 - Lens barrel and image-pickup apparatus: A lens barrel capable of being reduced in length in a collapsed position. Barrier members have an opening/closing operation plane that openably/closably covers the front face of an image-taking lens. A barrier drive mechanism causes the barrier members to perform opening/closing operation. A lens holding member has a holding portion... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070133982 - Shutter device: A shutter device includes a stationary plate having a plurality of driving electrodes movable element opposes the stationary plate and including a sheet subjected to an electret-forming process. A drive control unit for moving the movable element using variation in electrostatic force, thereby shielding light. The electrostatic force is generated... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070133983 - Light-controlling element for a camera: A light-controlling element for a camera, and a method and computer program product for admitting light to pass through such light-controlling element. The light-controlling element comprises a first zone and a second zone. The first zone is configured to admit light to pass through the light-controlling element. Furthermore, the second... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P. Suite 600

20070127902 - Avoiding image artifacts caused by camera vibration: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for avoiding image artifacts caused by camera vibration. The taking of one or more photographic exposures is timed in relation to the vibration, so as to avoid motion blur, video jitter, or both. The vibration may be characterized by motion sensors, or by analysis of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070127903 - Photographic apparatus, method of controlling photographic apparatus, and recording medium: A photographic apparatus includes a shooting section for performing shooting based on an operation of an operation part for instructing shooting, a tremor detection section for detecting a tremor amount of the shooting section, and a shooting control section for causing detection by the tremor detection section the tremor amount... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070127904 - Parallel moving device, actuator, lens unit, and camera: A parallel moving device includes a fixed plate provided on an enclosure side, a moving frame provided on an optical system side, and three columnar members that are provided between the fixed plate and the moving frame and that support the fixed plate and the moving frame so as to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070127905 - Optical adaptor system and method: System and method for modifying an optical assembly with another image modifying device by using an adapter assembly to connect or couple three image modifying devices together. The adapter assembly includes two adapters that have collars to hold a night vision monocular between them, and to each connect with a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070127906 - Lens barrel suitable to be housed: A retractable lens barrel achieving thinning thereof in both directions parallel and perpendicular to a photographic optical axis, comprising a first lens and a second lens disposed in an inside thereof, and having a structure in which an optical axis of the second lens is aligned with an optical axis... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070127907 - Parallel moving device, actuator, lens unit, and camera: A parallel moving device includes a fixed plate provided on a housing side, a moving frame provided on an optical system side, and three pin-shaped members each of which is provided between the fixed plate and the moving frame and has one end coming into contact the fixed plate and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070127908 - Device and method for producing an enhanced color image using a flash of infrared light: A device and method for producing an enhanced color image of a scene of interest captures a grayscale image of the scene of interest using a flash of infrared light and a color image of the scene of interest without using any flash of infrared light. The grayscale information from... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070127909 - System and apparatus for increasing quality and efficiency of film capture and methods of use thereof: A system, apparatus, or method is provided for imaging and for capturing visuals to provide image manipulation options for increasing resolution of subject images. A system, apparatus or method for increasing resolution of subject images is provided using a camera to deliver unexposed photographic emulsion and to expose a variable... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070127910 - Light shielding device of a lens: A light shielding device of a lens includes a movable barrel; an outer member positioned around the movable barrel; and a light shield ring for preventing ambient light entering the lens through a clearance between the movable barrel and the outer member, the light shield ring having a center opening... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070127911 - In-ceiling surveillance housing: A clamp mechanism for securing an in-ceiling surveillance camera housing assembly to a ceiling. The clamping mechanism advantageously allows easy installation of the camera housing in the ceiling via a camera housing aperture without requiring a large access aperture adjacent the camera housing aperture. The clamping mechanism also allows easy... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070127912 - Surveillance camera gimbal mechanism: A surveillance camera gimbal mechanism. The mechanism utilizes a rotationally adjustable disk and support arrangement to afford smoothly adjustable, fastener-free, and stable diagonal adjustment that also provides axial compliance. The diagonal adjustment mechanism is integrated with a pan and tilt gimbal mechanism to allow smooth and stable single-point manual fixation... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070127913 - Photographing operation control device for electronic still camera: A photographing operation control device comprises a buffer memory in which image data is temporarily stored. In a blank photographing mode, when a release switch is turned ON, image data obtained through a photographing optical system is stored in the buffer memory. In the blank photographing mode, the image data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070127914 - Aperture and method for making the same: An aperture (10) includes a base (12), at least one film (14) and an opaque layer (16). The at least one film is formed on the base for filtering out predetermined wavelengths of light from incoming light. The opaque layer covers the base, and has a light-permeable area (162). The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070127915 - Digital camera: A digital camera has a printed circuit board which comprises a main area and a flexible area. An optical sensor chip (e.g. a CCD) is fixed onto the flexible area. The flexible area has flexible character relative to the main area. Therefore, even if the printed circuit board is stressed,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070127916 - Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method: On top of respective areas divided by partition plates, that is, a cassette station, a processing station, and an interface section in a coating and developing processing system, gas supply sections for supplying an inert gas into the respective areas are provided. Exhaust pipes for exhausting atmospheres in the respective... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.