Photography inventions 07/07

20070172217 - Imaging device and imaging method: A face detector detects a person's face from a through image. When the face is not found, and a shutter button is pressed fully, a correction lens is moved in the direction and at the speed to offset a camera shake detected by an angular velocity sensor and a still... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070172220 - Image stabilization apparatus and optical apparatus: An image stabilization apparatus is disclosed which can provide enhanced accuracy of image stabilization. The apparatus includes a movable member movable relative to a fixed member of the apparatus, plural flexible members which movably support the movable member at least in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis, a portion... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070172219 - Photographic device with anti-shake function: A photographic device includes a shake detector, a shake mitigator, a shake controller, and a shutter speed setter. The shake detector detects a shake of the photographic device. The shake mitigator mitigates the shake to reduce the effect of the shake on a photographed subject image. The shake controller controls... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070172221 - Lens controller: The present invention provides a lens controller which electrically controls a focus and a zoom of a taking lens, the lens controller comprising: an AF control device which automatically controls the focus of the taking lens so that a given subject imaged by the taking lens is in focus; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070172216 - Computer controlled system for synchronizing photography implementation between a 3-d turntable and an image capture device with automatic image format conversion: A computer controlled system for synchronizing photography implementation between a 3-D turntable and an image capture device with automatic image format conversion includes a 3-D turntable, a 3-D turntable control module, an image capture device, an image capture control module and an automatic image format conversion module. A physical object... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070172218 - Information providing apparatus: An information providing apparatus allowing appropriate confirmation of contents of information which assists travel of a mobile object, presented by an image display section, even when the image display section providing information which assists travel of the mobile object as an image display is placed under a condition producing vibration... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070172222 - Image reading apparatus, authentication method, evaluation system, evaluation method, and computer program product: A TPM chip installed in an image reading apparatus records an operation log, and encrypts recorded operation log with a secret key. The image reading apparatus transmits encrypted operation log to an evaluation apparatus. The evaluation apparatus receives the encrypted operation log, decrypted received operation log, and evaluates an operation... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070172223 - Attention-getting camera attachment: An attention-getting camera attachment connects to a standardized connector of a camera or tripod, such as to a tripod screw receptacle of a camera, a tripod screw of a tripod for a camera, or a universal serial bus (USB) or other connector of the camera for example. The attachment includes... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070172224 - Camera and control method thereof: A camera can display, record and play image data after converting a captured image into the digital data. The camera comprises a guidance display setting means for causing a hierarchical guidance display to be made in order to set at least a control of a shooting operation, an item selection... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070172225 - System for coding a recorded image, and method therefor: The present invention provides a method for making, viewing and/or ordering a photographic image, comprising the following steps of:—making a recorded image with a digital camera;—wirelessly sending the image, immediately after it has been made, to a processing unit for processing of the digital data from the digital camera; and—wirelessly... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20070172226 - Digital single-lens reflex camera: A digital single-lens reflex camera with preview functionality is provided that includes an imaging device, a monitor, and a preview image display processor. The imaging device captures an image through a photographing lens. The monitor displays the image captured by the imaging device. The preview image display processor displays the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070172227 - Modular installation concept for a camera: A modular installation system for the installation of camera provides an installation kit capable of being used either flush mounted or protruding on the wall of an aircraft cabin. An external mounting housing or a mounting frame may be used. A camera module includes a camera and mounting hardware including... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20070172228 - Camera tripod head with weight compensation: A camera-support head includes a stator and a rotor that is mounted so that it can be rotated about an inclined axis in relation to the stator. The head also includes a compensation device for compensating a load torque that occurs during the inclination, the device having an energy accumulator... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070172229 - Camera for electronic device: An electronic device includes a support structure and a camera carried by the support structure and including a detector surface and a lens having an optical axis, and having a field of view. A display is carried by the support structure in a fixed relation to the camera. The display... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070172230 - Camera for electronic device: A digital camera includes a support structure, a lens carried by the support structure and having an optical axis, a detector, carried by the support structure under the lens and including a number of adjacent pixel rows. Each pixel row includes a number of pixels, and each pixel includes an... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070172231 - Rotor magnet driven optical shutter assembly: A rotor magnet driven optical shutter assembly with a permanent magnet rotor directly connected to and driving the rotation of an optical shutter blade, to alternately block or allow transmission of light through the shutter aperture. The rotor is cylindrical with optional center hole, is magnetized across its diameter, and... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20070172232 - Film canister device for use in a film package assembly and a method for loading a camera therewith and a camera loadable thereby: Provided is a film package assembly to be used within a camera such that conventional winding and rewinding components are eliminated. Provided is a film package assembly which includes a new light-tight film canister device, a roll of film and a film take-up cartridge. The film package assembly being designed... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070172234 - Apparatus for and method of processing substrate: A stage cleaning substrate for use in the operation of cleaning a substrate stage within an exposure unit compatible with immersion exposure and a dummy substrate for use during the adjustment of an exposure position of a pattern image are held in a cleaning substrate housing part and a dummy... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070172233 - Substrate processing apparatus: A substrate processing apparatus comprises an indexer block, an anti-reflection film processing block, a resist film processing block, a development processing block, a resist cover film processing block, a resist cover film removal block, and an interface block. An exposure device is arranged adjacent to the interface block. The interface... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070166019 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main unit having a palm rest portion, a display unit, and an illumination device. The display unit is rotatable between a first state in which the display unit is closed with respect to the main unit, and a second state... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070166020 - Hand jitter reduction system for cameras: A camera system in normal mode and hand jitter reduction (hjr) mode may comprise generating a first exposure time-gain product by multiplying the normal mode exposure time with the normal mode gain. It may further comprise modifying the normal mode exposure time and gain and multiplying these modified parameters to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070166021 - Image stabilization apparatus and optical apparatus: An image stabilization apparatus is disclosed which maintains image stabilization performance in ordinary use, enables improvement in the behavior of the image in panning, and allow image shake correction operation to be started immediately after the completion of the panning. The apparatus includes a shake sensor, a shake correcting part,... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070166022 - Camera module and electric device using the same: A camera module and an electric device using the same are provided. The camera module includes a lens, a voice coil motor and a magnetic element. The voice coil motor includes a movable wire-ring part and a magnetic fixed part. The movable wire-ring part clamps the lens and has an... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070166023 - Camera with light emitting function: For flash photography, a rise of a flash emission control pulse precedes emission timing by a predetermined period. A start of flash emission of a flash lamp precedes a start of exposure of an image sensor. Since the start of the emission is earlier than the start of the exposure,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070166024 - Camera and footwear: Footwear includes an outer sole and an upper and a body between the upper and the sole. Within that body there is a camera unit and part of the camera is mounted on the outer sole. The sole can have different portions, namely, one or more sole portions. In the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20070166027 - Camera: An aspect of the present invention provides a lens-interchangeable camera which has operability equal to a right-handed user and a left-handed user without necessity of any addition of extra members and without sacrificing a design for a smaller size. Since a camera according to the present invention does not need... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070166025 - Image pick-up apparatus and method using the same: An exemplary image pick-up apparatus and method, facilitating the provision of excellent images, are provided. The apparatus includes: a lens assembly, an image sensor, a detection unit, a data memory unit, a control unit, and a processor unit. The lens assembly is configured for picking up optical information representative of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070166029 - Image sensor module having precise image-projection control: An image sensor module comprises an image sensor chip, at least one lens layer, and at least one bonding layer. The image sensor chip has an image capturing zone manufactured with an image capturing element, and a partition zone surrounding the image capturing zone. The at least one lens layer... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070166028 - Interchangeable lens with optically readable marking: An interchangeable lens (1) with a locking device (2, 2′) for system cameras is described, wherein an orientation marking (4) for mounting the locking device (2, 2′) on the camera is provided at the end of the lens housing (3) facing the camera, and the contact surface (6) of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070166026 - Lens changeable digital camera: A lens changeable digital camera has an imaging section, including an image sensor for capturing a subject image via the photographing lens, a display section capable of displaying image information and/or character information, a shielding section capable of being moved into and out of an imaging light path of the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070166030 - Semiconductor device fabrication equipment and method of using the same: Semiconductor device fabrication equipment and a method of using the same minimize the total time that a wafer spends being transferred through the equipment and the number of times the wafer is transferred between respective parts of the equipment. The semiconductor fabrication equipment includes a first apparatus used for performing... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070166031 - Substrate processing apparatus: A substrate processing apparatus comprises an interface block. An exposure device is arranged adjacent to the interface block. The interface block comprises first and second cleaning/drying processing units. A substrate W is subjected to cleaning and drying processing before exposure processing in the first cleaning/drying processing unit, while being subjected... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070160356 - Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method: An apparatus that includes an exposure system for exposing a substrate to an energy pattern, a vacuum chamber having an outside wall including first and second units which can be separated from each other, and a first anti-vibration mount being supported by the first unit, and for supporting a first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070160355 - Image pick up device and image pick up method: An imaging device of the present invention includes a MOS image acceptance sensor (12) including a light receiving surface made up of a plurality of pixel portions arrayed in a plurality of lines, a calculation unit (17) of detecting a horizontal shift amount and a vertical shift amount of an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070160357 - Metering method of automatic exposure: This invention provides a metering method of automatic exposure for determining an exposure value of a picture having a subject, comprising a subject detecting step comprising using focus values of the picture to detect the subject, and an exposure value calculating step comprising using an auto exposure metering function to... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070160358 - Camera: The invention includes an image sensor, a shutter which opens/closes by making a front curtain and a rear curtain travel, a light source which illuminates the image sensor, a control unit which performs control to make the front and rear curtains travel with a predetermined time shift to form a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070160359 - Image pick-up apparatus with a multi-area af function: In an image forming apparatus, the auto-focusing process and the photometry system may be coupled such that when a multi-area AF system is set, the setting of the auto-focusing areas of the multi-area AF system is performed in accordance with a selected photometry system. More specifically, when an average metering... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070160360 - 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 using a camera to deliver unexposed photographic emulsion or a digital image and to generate... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070160361 - Photography system: A photography system includes: camera modules, which output, for individual pixels, picture data in synchronization with pixel clocks and which are arranged so that the light receiving directions of light receiving devices match; a camera control apparatus, which supplies an operating clock to the camera modules with a phase difference... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070160362 - Camera: There is disclosed a camera having a first imaging medium which acquires subject image data from a subject light flux transmitted through a photographing lens; an optical path branching member which is disposed in an image pickup optical path of the first imaging medium to branch an optical path of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070160363 - Framing feature for imaging mechanisms and systems: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a framing feature for cropping photographs. According to one embodiment, the framing feature is associated with a camera. The camera has a body including a lens, a viewfinder positioned within the body, and a framing structure. The framing structure includes a transparent member having... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, LLP

20070160364 - Vehicle mounted articulating arm: An articulating arm for retaining a camera to a two wheeled vehicle such as a bicycle includes first and second arm members with the first end of the first arm removably attachable to the seat post of a bicycle and the second end of the first arm adjustably connected to... Agent: Robert L. Marsh

20070160366 - Information recording apparatus having plurality of start modes: Provided is an information recording apparatus having a mode SW for selecting a first mode of starting photographing after operations of a unit for detecting whether or not there is a disk and a unit for detecting remaining recording capacity of the disk when an instruction is given to start... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070160365 - Image capture system, handheld terminal device, and image server: An image capture system includes a mobile camera phone and an image server connected to this mobile phone through a communication network. The mobile phone transmits subject type information of a next image capture session to the image server. The image server searches an image database for the images classified... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070160367 - Optical system: The invention relates to an optical system adapted to take or project high-definition images with well corrected aberrations for the purpose of taking images from a 360° panoramic scene on a cylindrical, conical or other three-dimensional surface or project such a three-dimensional display surface onto a 360° field of view.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070160368 - Lens barrier module and image pickup apparatus having the same: A lens barrier module including a substrate in which an opening is defined, sectors opening the opening when picking up an image and closing the opening when not picking up the image, and a motor provided at the substrate and driving the sectors.... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070160369 - Camera module and method for forming the camera module: A camera module having an inner wall installed and a method for forming the camera module are disclosed. The camera module includes a lens; a sensor component for sensing light gathered by the lens; and a fixing module, for fixing the lens. The fixing module includes an inner wall that... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070160370 - Camera module whose lens and image sensor can be easily positioned relative to each other: A camera module includes a lens held in a cylindrical holder and an image sensor disposed at a predetermined distance from the lens. The image sensor is disposed on a substrate. The holder integrally has a protrusion that protrudes toward the image sensor and an outer peripheral portion provided outside... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070154194 - Camera position sensing device and mobile phone having the same: A camera position sensing device comprises a magnet installed in a first member which has a camera module mounted therein, and a hall element installed in a second member which is relatively rotatably coupled to the first member, to sense a position of the camera module depending upon a position... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070154195 - Photographing apparatus with image-blur suppression mechanism: A photographing apparatus which performs an image-blur suppression properly even through a computation device disposed in a main body of the photographing apparatus and a photographing element movable along an XY plane are electrically connected is provided according to the present invention. The image-blur suppression mechanism comprises a flexible base... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070154196 - Changer of spherical field: at least three optical channels (A, B, C) provided in said magazine (5) and having concurrent respective optical axes (XA, XB, XC) inclined at the same angle (α) to the rotation axis (R), it being possible for said magazine (5) to rotate about its rotation axis (R) through predetermined rotation... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070154197 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program are provided. The processing apparatus, method, and program relate to image processing executed in an AF camera, etc., and make clear a variation in an image displayed during focusing operation. The image processing apparatus includes an image-capturing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070154198 - Image photographing apparatus: An image photographing apparatus for automatically focusing a photographed image to improve the image quality. The image photographing apparatus automatically focuses the image through a zoom actuator for changing a zoom ratio and a focus actuator for controlling the focus to thereby enhance the image quality. Also, the image photographing... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070154199 - Light-emitting module, method of manufacturing the same and display device having the same: A light-emitting module includes a light guiding body, a light-emitting unit and a fluorescent unit. The light-guiding unit has a groove. The light-emitting unit is disposed in a portion of the groove and emits a first light. The fluorescent unit is disposed in a remaining portion of the groove, receives... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070154200 - Image sensor and image capturing device: An image sensor includes: image capturing pixels and focus detection pixels disposed together on a single substrate; and adjacent pixels that are not equipped with a photoelectric conversion unit and are disposed adjacent to the focus detection pixels.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070154201 - Apparatus of driving lens for focusing: An apparatus of auto-focusing is provided, including an outer holder, a wire set, a magnet set and an inner-holder. The magnet set is fixed at the corners inside the outer-holder. The inner-holder is a hollow cylinder surrounded by a coil. The wire set is connected to the top and the... Agent: Jason Z. Lin Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070154202 - Method and apparatus to facilitate correcting rolling shutter images: A first and a second image (401 and 501) containing a shared region of interest (400) are captured (201 and 202) using a rolling shutter mode of image capture. These two images are captured at different times, such that the second image follows the first image by a given amount... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070154203 - Gain calculating device: A more preferable WB gain is calculated during strobe illuminated photography. When a WB gain for an image captured through strobe illuminated photography is calculated, the degree of contribution of strobe light is first estimated. When the degree of contribution is estimated, the image is first divided into a plurality... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070154204 - Lens module with grating: A lens module (100) includes a barrel (10), a lens (20), an image sensor module (30) and a grating (22). The lens is received in the barrel for focusing optical signals. The image sensor module is installed on an end of the barrel for receiving and transforming the optical signals.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070154205 - Transport system for monitoring industrial process: A system transports a device into a piece of industrial equipment for the purpose of collecting data inside of the industrial equipment. In an embodiment, the industrial equipment is a furnace and the device is an IR camera. The system opens a door covering an opening on the furnace, moves... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070154206 - Lens barrier apparatus and image pickup apparatus having the same: A lens barrier apparatus includes: swingable sectors opening and closing an opening, a swinging member swinging the sectors; and a drive portion driving the swinging member, and one ends of bias members biasing the sectors in a closing direction are provided at the sectors, the other ends of the bias... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070154207 - Optical device: This invention prevents a degradation in image quality resulting from undesirable reflected light and undesirable transmitted light generated near the ridgeline of the edge portion of an optical element including an aperture blade or an ND filter. The aperture edge of the aperture blade cooperates with the aperture edge of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070154208 - Light-filtering module for an image-capturing device: A light-filtering module for an image-capturing device includes a casing, a sliding filter unit, and an actuator unit. The casing is formed with an aperture in spatial communication with a slide groove. The sliding filter unit includes a lens set slidable in the slide groove between a first position, where... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070154209 - Lens filter selection device: A selective device (100) for lens filters comprises a body (10), a rotatable component (30) and a plurality of lens filters (50). The body (10) includes a through hole (15). The rotatable component (30) is rotatably installed on the body (10). The rotatable component (30) includes a plurality of filter... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070154210 - Method and apparatus for dispense pump calibration in a track lithography system: A method of dispensing a photolithography chemical onto a substrate positioned in a track lithography tool. The method includes determining a target volume of the photolithography chemical for a photolithography process and calculating a pump offset. The pump offset is a second order polynomial function of the target volume. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP