Photography inventions 09/07

20070223897 - Method for avoiding generating shadow when taking a picture of an object: Before taking a picture for identification, set up a camera, set up a light box in front of the camera, and turn on the light box so as to project light towards the camera. When a person is positioned between the camera and the light box, turn on a flash... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070223900 - Digital camera, composition correction device, and composition correction method: When composition of a first captured image having a tilted subject image is corrected, the first image is rotated such that the subject image stands in an erect position, according to the attitude of the camera achieved during capture of the first image. Images corresponding to missing portions, which arise... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Eastman Kodak Company

20070223901 - Photographic system, photographic device and photographic method: A photographic system of plural photographic devices includes a master device, which is a device that is instructed to prepare for the photographing, is provided. The master device includes a request section that requests photographic condition information from another device; a receiving section that receives the photographic condition information; a... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20070223902 - Image formation optical unit: An image formation optical unit is provided. In the image formation optical unit, a first shaft formed with a guide shaft and a drive shaft and a second shaft formed with a guide shaft and a drive shaft are disposed side by side so as to extend in parallel with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223903 - Two-stage lens driving device: The present invention is related to a two-stage lens driving device comprising a lens holder, a guiding machine, an electromagnetic actuating mechanism, and a casing. The guiding mechanism is joined together with the lens holder, and the lens holder is guided by the guiding mechanism for moving linearly along an... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070223898 - Endoscopic apparatus: An endoscopic apparatus comprises an endoscope including an objective optical system comprising a power-changing movable lens and a focusing movable lens so as to form a subject image and an imager that photoelectrically converts the subject image, to have an optical variable-power function that optically changes a magnification of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223899 - Passive wiper assembly: The passive lens wiper is an apparatus for assuring that accumulated moisture is removed from a surface through directing a flow of air across a surface, such as a camera housing lens, installed on the exterior of an emergency response or mass transit vehicle. The apparatus concentrates and directs airflow... Agent: John L. Sotomayor Suite 300

20070223904 - Method and apparatus for interleaved image captures: A digital camera takes interleaved photographs of two different kinds. In one example embodiment, the first kind of photograph is taken using a first set of pixels of the camera's electronic array light sensor and has a short exposure time. The second kind of photograph is taken using a second... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070223905 - Auto-focus performance: A device, method and a computer program product are shown for correcting the focus error in an optical device, wherein in a first position of the optical device at least one focus detector is focused onto a given image plane of the target subject and the distance (d1) between the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070223906 - Pdt magnifier camera illumination: A device that enlarges text and images to enable a low vision person to see the text and images includes a hollow structure including a top housing and a bottom housing that are connected to one another. A camera aperture is formed in the bottom housing and a transparent light... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070223907 - Photo-flash driving circuit: A driving circuit includes an input node, a power storage unit, a transformer, a charger IC, a rectifier diode and a high-voltage capacitor. The input node receives an DC input voltage. The transformer has a primary coil, whose first end connected to the input node, and a secondary coil. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070223908 - Image pickup method and apparatus with iso sensitivity setting variable: An image pickup apparatus includes an automatic exposure controller automatically controls ISO sensitivity in response to the output signal of an exposure metering circuit, and controls the exposure so that exposure setting is determined based on the brightness values of both the central photometry area and the remaining photometry area... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223909 - Camera phone, method of controlling the camera phone, and photography support method used for the camera phone: A camera phone according to an embodiment of the invention assists a user in photography upon generating a composite image based on captured images through mosaicing processing or super-resolution processing with the optimum amount of photography images. To that end, a photographing condition analyzing unit analyzing a current photographing condition... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070223910 - Object detecting system: An object detecting system includes a plurality of photographing mechanisms that are used to detect information about objects inside and outside a vehicle. An object detecting system is installed in a vehicle and comprises a first camera and a second camera to obtain information about objects inside and outside the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070223911 - Omni-directional stereo camera and method of controlling thereof: An omni-directional stereo camera and a control method thereof. The omni-directional stereo camera includes two or more omni-directional cameras, and a supporting member installed within a shooting range between the omni-directional cameras to interconnect the omni-directional cameras and including compensation patterns formed at the surfaces.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223912 - Photographing method and photographing apparatus: Frequency of unnecessary face detection operations performed in a photographing apparatus is reduced, thereby reducing the power consumption by the face detection operations. A determining unit determines whether or not a photographing condition of the photographing apparatus satisfis a precondition for efficiently using a result of detection by a detecting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223913 - Camera module, method of manufacturing the same, and printed circuit board for the camera module: A camera module, including a printed circuit board, an image sensor chip, and a housing, is provided. A plating line can be formed in an inner layer of the printed circuit board. A method of manufacturing the camera module can include connecting the plating line of the inner layer of... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070223914 - Camera system: A camera system comprises: an imaging unit incorporating therein an imaging device, the imaging unit forming an image of a subject on the imaging device to generate image data; and a camera main frame on which the imaging unit is detachably mounted, the camera main frame receiving an image signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223915 - External camera and image photographing apparatus: An image photographing apparatus includes a main body and an external camera connected to the main body via a cable. The external camera includes a case having a receiving space, a cover rotatably connected to the case, and a camera module disposed in the receiving space. The camera module rotates... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070223916 - Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method: In a substrate processing apparatus of the present invention, a buffer bath is provided at any point in a supplying passage of a processing solution supplying part, and a micro bubble generator is provided in the buffer bath. When a substrate is processed, large quantities of micro bubbles can be... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070217772 - Integrated light head apparatus and methods of use thereof: The present invention relates to a light head having a parabolic head and at least one connector for attaching a photographic accessory such as a softbox. The light head further includes a power source. The present invention includes light heads with a plurality of connectors (e.g., between about 1 and... Agent: Antoinette G. Giugliano, P.C.

20070217774 - Shot image display system, image receiving device, control method for image receiving device, and server: A shot image display system includes a shooting device for transferring a shot image and blur produced at the time of shooting, and an image receiving device for receiving the shot image and blur transmitted from the shooting device. The image receiving device includes a blur correcting unit for executing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070217776 - Depth of field controlling by focus point: A camera having a depth of field which can be modified to produce desired photographic effects. The camera determines the depth of field for a subject when the subject is focused upon. A modification to the depth of field is determined based upon the distance to the subject, and the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070217773 - Camera apparatuses, systems and methods for use with marine propulsion mechanisms: Camera apparatuses, systems and methods are provided having particular application with marine propulsion mechanisms. In one aspect, a camera apparatus can include a housing that can have an external airfoil configuration. The camera apparatus can be mounted on a marine propulsion mechanism, such as a marine outboard engine, and can... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070217775 - Camera module and portable terminal using the same: A camera module in which a lens holder that holds one or more lenses is made movable in an optical axis direction and in which an auto-focus function and a zoom function are assembled is reduced in size and weight. To achieve this, the lens holder is provided with a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070217777 - Autofocus system: The present invention provides an autofocus system comprising: a lens device interchangeably attached to a camera and provided with an autofocus device which controls focus so that a subject within a predetermined AF area range within the image-taking range of the camera is focused; a controller which is connected to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070217778 - Image capturing apparatus with color compensation: An image capturing apparatus (10) for providing an adjusted image (214) of a scene (12) includes an apparatus frame (222), a flash system (230), a capturing system (226), and a control system (232). The flash system (230) generates a flash of light (248) to illuminate the scene (12). The capturing... Agent: The Law Office Of Steven G Roeder

20070217779 - Recapture of electrical charge from a capacitor to a battery: An apparatus for recapturing electrical charge from a capacitor is provided. The apparatus includes a charge recovery controller configured to generate a signal indicating when the electrical charge from the capacitor is to be recovered. The apparatus also contains a charge recovery circuit configured to transfer the electrical charge from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070217780 - Object detection apparatus: An improved object detection apparatus using an interface with which user can set an object detection area intuitively with simple operation. Apparatus includes imaging module imaging and outputting an imaged picture, three-dimensional position detection module detecting a three-dimensional position and outputting detected position information, input module allowing user to input... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070217781 - Power-off switch structure: A power-off switch structure is proposed, in which a fastening component is disposed between conducting strips and electrode ends of a battery or a conducting strip is disposed on a slidable component. When the electricity is to be totally cut off, the fastening component can move in between the conducting... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070217782 - Spinning camera enclosure for environmental protection: An environmental protection system features a clear spinning curved volumetric enclosure to shed and throw off environmental contaminants such as rain, fog and dust that would affect a sensor image. The described design is especially suitable for cameras with extremely wide fields of view, such as panoramic or immersive cameras.... Agent: Ipsolon LLP

20070217783 - Lens assembly and camera: A lens assembly includes a lens barrel. A photographing lens system is contained in the lens barrel, and has a first lens on an objective side. A lens opening is formed in the lens barrel, for passing object light toward the first lens. A lens cover blade closes the lens... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070217784 - Picture-taking unit: There is provided a picture-taking unit using an automatic transmitted-light control system which is wide in range of controllable light quantity, reduced in loss of transmitted light by the system itself and fast in response speed. The picture-taking unit is configured so as to have a light control device using... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070217785 - Lens barrel, photographic device, and production method of same: A lens barrel comprising bayonet type mount projections to detachably attach to a lens-fitting unit of a camera body having a photographic region, wherein mount projections are formed to avoid cross-section of light path area where object light is introduced in the camera body.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070217786 - Camera module package: A camera module package comprises a housing having a lens section mounted therein; a circuit board having a window through which light transmitted through the lens section of the housing passes; an image sensor that is flip-chip bonded to a lower surface of the circuit board; and an impact absorbing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070217787 - Photosensitive material processing apparatus: A photosensitive material processing apparatus including: plural processing chambers sectioned by partition wall(s); a housing provided in the partition wall(s); a processing space that is communicated with the processing chambers and that stores a processing liquid; a flow-in side processing liquid exchange unit that is provided at the housing, and... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20070212043 - Digital imaging apparatus with camera shake compensation and adaptive sensitivity switching function: A digital imaging apparatus is provided which is capable of producing a desired still image with an overly specification-bound state avoided during image shooting. In case the lightness of a subject view is within a predetermined medium range, a controller determines whether or not the camera shake compensation is to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070212044 - Electronic blur correction device and electronic blur correction method: In an electronic blur correction device, imaging for a time-division exposure time is repeated m times (m is an integer of 2 or more), captured images are amplified by a factor of m to obtain a plurality of time-divided images, and an image for which blur is corrected is generated... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070212045 - Electronic blur correction device and electronic blur correction method: A blur correction device is disclosed, which acquires a plurality of time-division images, each captured for a time-division exposure time having a period that is an integral multiple of an image reading cycle of an image pickup device, to generate a blur-corrected image from the plurality of time-division images. According... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070212040 - Photographic device with anti-shake function: A photographic device, according to the present invention, includes a shake detector, a shake mitigator, a shake controller, and a battery charge detector. The shake detector detects a device shake that is a shake of the photographic device. The shake mitigator mitigates an effect of the device shake to reduce... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070212041 - Photographic device with anti-shake function: A photographic device, includes a shake detector, a shake mitigator, a first commander, and a shake controller. The shake detector detects a device shake, that is, a shaking of the photographic device. The shake mitigator mitigates the effects of the device shake to reduce an image shake that is a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070212042 - Photographic device with image generation function: A photographic device, according to the present invention, includes a shake detector, a shake mitigator, a shake mitigation commander, an operation member, and a controller. The shake detector detects a device shake that is a shake of the photographic device. The shake mitigator mitigates the effects of the device shake... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070212046 - Vibration reduction device and camera: A vibration reduction device includes: an optical system that comprises a vibration reduction optical system; a first driving unit that moves the vibration reduction optical system in a first direction; a second driving unit that moves the vibration reduction optical system in a second direction that differs from the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070212047 - Imaging lens with a lens position adjusting mechanism: An imaging lens 100 comprises a lens frame 121 for supporting a lens 111 serving as an adjusting lens and a support frame 131 for supporting the lens frame 121. A contact section for support frame adjustment 134 operable to come into contact with the lens frame 121 is arranged... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070212048 - Optical apparatus and image pickup apparatus: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an optical apparatus which includes an acquisition unit adapted to acquire position information of a lens, and a control unit adapted to control a position of the lens by an amount of rotation of an operating member and the position of the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070212038 - Face imaging device: A face imaging device having an illumination light source for illuminating a visible light to a face is disposed in a casing having an opening formed at the front thereof for inserting the face as an object to be imaged. A light diffusion plate is disposed between the opening and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070212039 - 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

20070212049 - Auto-focusing method and auto-focusing apparatus using the same: A auto-focusing method comprises setting a plurality of active windows composed of a central window and a plurality of peripheral windows surrounding the central window and allocating weights to the plurality of active windows so as to calculate an auto-focus value for each step; calculating a rate of change in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070212050 - Lens module with focusing mechanism: An exemplary lens module (20) includes a lens barrel (5), a focusing mechanism (7), a resilient member (9), and a bottom seat (6). The lens barrel is mounted with a lens (517) therein. The lens barrel is axially movable relative to the bottom seat due to a rotation of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070212051 - Focus information display system: A focus information display system is provided in which focus state detection that is performed during automatic focusing (AF) and the like is also performed during manual focusing (MF) and the like to display focus information indicating a focus state. By arranging a focus position range at which a correct... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070212052 - Image capturing apparatus with an adjustable illumination system: An image capturing apparatus (10) for capturing an image (214) of a scene (12) includes an apparatus frame (222), a capturing system (226), and an illumination system (230). The capturing system (226) captures the image (214). The illumination system (230) can alternatively generate a first generated light beam (348A) having... Agent: The Law Office Of Steven G Roeder

20070212053 - Image recording apparatus, image recording method, and computer-readable recording medium: An image recording apparatus includes an image sensing part for converting an optical image imaged by a photograph lens to an electric signal, a distance measuring part for measuring a distance between a target object and the image recording apparatus, an illumination part for generating an illumination light and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212054 - Exposure control method and imaging apparatus: A digital camera automatically changes its imaging sensitivity based on a proper exposure value that is calculated at a predetermined standard imaging sensitivity based on subject brightness measured from a photometry area of a scene to shoot. When the decided imaging sensitivity is higher than a predetermined sensitivity threshold value,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070212055 - Image capture apparatus: An image capture apparatus is disclosed that includes an aperture having an adjustable aperture value, an image capturing element, and a drive unit that drives the image capturing element to operate in video image capturing mode and still image capturing mode. The aperture has at least a dedicated aperture value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212056 - Single-lens reflex camera: A single-lens reflex camera has a first image pickup device as a main image pickup device, a second image pickup device for live-view observation, a reflection mirror which switches an optical path between an optical path directed toward the first image pickup device and an optical path directed toward the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070212057 - Holder structure of network camera: One type of network camera holder, wherein universal coupling is fixed at holder and one set of network camera is assembled on it, one piece of fixture is set at one side of this holder, pull rod is vertical to this fixture and embed into holder, then, compression spring controls... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070212058 - Device for reducing dust-effects on an image: An image apparatus is disclosed, in which ions generated by an ion generator are forcibly moved along a dust-proof member for protecting an image surface from dust to remove dust adhering to the surface of the dust-proof member. An exemplary structure of the image apparatus of the present invention is... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070212059 - Lens protecting apparatus for cellular phone camera: Disclosed herein is a lens protecting apparatus for a cellular phone camera. The lens protecting apparatus of the present invention includes a base, which has an opening, through which a lens of the camera is exposed, a coil, which is mounted to the base and is supplied with current, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070212060 - Compact camera module: A compact camera module includes multiple hollow cylinders, a voice coil motor and a torsion spring. An intervening cylinder is mounted on a base. An upright rail is disposed on the intervening cylinder and perpendicular to a support plane of the base. An inner cylinder has a zoom lens inside... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070212061 - Camera module and method of manufacturing the same: Camera module embodiments and methods of manufacturing camera modules are provided. A camera module can include a housing and a printed circuit board having an image sensor. The housing can be mounted to the printed circuit board using a surface mount technology. In a method of manufacturing the camera module,... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070212062 - Electronic equipment: Electronic equipment according to the present invention includes a cursor key 8 disposed to be exposed partially from a casing, wherein the cursor key 8 includes: an operating portion 8a including a plurality of pressing portions that are disposed to be exposed on the surface of the casing and that... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070206937 - Focus adjustment device, imaging device and focus adjustment method: A focus adjustment device includes an image sensor that includes imaging pixels for capturing an image formed via an imaging optical system and focus detection pixels for detecting a focus adjustment state at the imaging optical system, a focus detector that detects a focus adjustment state at the imaging optical... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070206934 - Image blur correction apparatus, lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus: Disclosed herein is an image blur correction apparatus, which may include a correction lens, a first guide section, a second guide section, a first driving section, a second driving section, and a position detection section. In the image blur correction apparatus, the first and second driving section may be composed... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070206935 - Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method and program: An image pickup apparatus which includes a camera shake correction mechanism and determines exposure conditions including at least a shutter speed in response to brightness of an image pickup object, including acquisition means, decision means, and setting means. The acquisition means is configured to acquire a focal distance of a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070206936 - Zoom tracking method for digital camera: A zoom tracking method for digital camera is disclosed. The method comprises storing a position table comprising data of several zoom position curves respect to positions of a focus lens and move the focus lens position by looking up said position table while moving a zoom lens position. The curves... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070206938 - Distance measuring apparatus and method: In an imaging device that performs pre-emission of strobe light prior to imaging, image data of a subject is obtained while the pre-emission is performed, and a target object is detected from the obtained image data. Then, a determination is made whether the luminance and/or gradation of the detected target... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070206939 - Focus control amount determination apparatus, method, and imaging apparatus: In the AF processing section, the parameter obtaining section obtains a weighting parameter value for a principal component that represents a sharpness level of a face portion of an image, an example of a predetermined structure in an image, detected by the face detection section by applying the detected face... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070206940 - Focus adjustment device, imaging device and focus adjustment method: A focus adjustment device includes an image sensor that includes imaging pixels for capturing an image formed via an imaging optical system and focus detection pixels for detecting a focus adjustment state at the imaging optical system through a first pupil division-type image shift detection method, a focus detector that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070206941 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus is disclosed which analyzes image data of a subject acquired by an image pickup device to select an appropriate combination of exposure time, aperture, and exposure sensitivity upon shooting in order to perform exposure control. As an example of image data analysis methods, there is shown a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070206943 - Digital device: A digital device which can accommodate a large display yet still have a small overall size is provided. The digital device includes a first body with a lens and a display, and a second body with at least one operation button. The first and second body slide with respect to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070206944 - Apparatus and method for image capturing, apparatus and method for playback, and program: An image capturing apparatus for capturing a first image of a subject may include a detecting unit, a determining unit, and a display control unit. The detecting unit detects a user's operation for instructing activation of a function. The determining unit determines whether or not an instruction of capturing the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070206942 - Camera housing with self-cleaning view port: Apparatus for maintaining an unobstructed view for visual monitoring equipment comprises a housing to isolate the visual monitoring equipment from an external environment. An inlet to the housing is connectable to a source of gas under pressure for cooling and cleaning purposes. At least one outlet to the housing defines... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070206945 - Method and apparatus for panoramic imaging: Camera system and methods to capture panoramic imagery from a camera mounted on a moving platform, using low-cost digital image sensors. The panoramic imagery appears seamless and natural to the eye. The panoramic imaging system and methods are specifically designed to accommodate the long acquisition times of low-cost digital image... Agent: Bohan, Mathers & Associates, LLC