Photography inventions 01/08

20080025710 - Image taking system: In an image taking system, when a running image is to be taken by the use of a self-timer or an automatic image taking system, exposure conditions and a focusing position are determined according to result of detection of the predetermined objective body at least once between the time when... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080025712 - Imaging apparatus having multiple optical systems: To enable easy ascertainment of operating status of an imaging device having multiple optical systems. The imaging apparatus has a first imaging optical system and a second imaging optical system. When the two optical systems are actuated simultaneously, an image captured through the first imaging optical system and an image... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080025711 - Optical zoom tracking apparatus and method, and computer-readable recording medium for performing the optical zoom tracking method: An optical zoom tracking apparatus and method, and a computer-readable recording medium for performing the optical zoom tracking are disclosed. If an optical zoom function of a digital camera or mobile phone is executed, the optical zoom tracking apparatus commands a focus lens to move according to a continuous zooming... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080025713 - Image-pickup apparatus and focus control method: An image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector generating first information corresponding to a contrast state, a focus lens controller, a second detector outputting second information used for calculating an in-focus position, and a focus lens position detector. If the difference between the detected focus lens position and the calculated in-focus... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080025714 - Image-pickup apparatus and focus control method: An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which is capable of restricting unnecessary focus control by an AF method other than the TV-AF method in the hybrid AF. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which generates first information corresponding to a contrast state of a picked-up image, a second detector which... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080025715 - Optical apparatus, imaging apparatus, and control method: An optical apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform an operation for moving a focusing lens at a first speed to detect a first position corresponding to an in-focus state and then moving the focusing lens at a second speed lower than the first speed in forward and backward... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080025716 - Dynamic focus zones for cameras: Systems and methods of implementing dynamic focus zones for cameras are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method may include selecting a reference image from a scene being photographed. The method may also include selecting a plurality of difference images from regions adjacent the reference image. The method may also... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080025717 - Focusing device, image pick-up apparatus, and control method: A focusing device includes a first focus-position determining unit configured to determine a focus position based on a change in a radio-frequency component in an image signal obtained with movement of a focusing lens, a second focus-position determining unit configured to determine a focus position by using a different process... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080025718 - Shutter device: There is provided a shutter device which is used in a camera having two image-capturing optical systems and enables a significant reduction in the number of components. Two shutter openings are formed in a shutter base. Shutter blades and a diaphragm plate are provided forward of the shutter base. When... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080025719 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel which enables cost reduction and size reduction by reduction of the number of component parts, and is capable of positively fully opening barrier blades to thereby open a photographic aperture. In the lens barrel, as the barrier drive member moves from a closing position to an opening... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080025720 - Driving assembly of camera shutter and diaphragm: A driving assembly of camera shutter and diaphragm comprises a first stator, a second stator, a coil set and a rotor. The coil set is installed between the first stator and second stator. A first wing is axially extended from a round periphery of the first stator and a second... Agent: Shih-hsien Huang

20080019682 - Built-in multidriver device for a camera zoom lens: The built-in multidriver device for a camera zoom lens has an independent driver for each lens of a zoom lens kit, and each driver is integrated into the lens mount. A housing positions each independent driver accordingly. The driver devices each include coil stators, magnetic rotors, fixed solenoids, inner solenoid... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080019680 - Imaging device and image acquiring method: Provided is an imaging device including a photographing instruction input unit which inputs a photographing instruction, a mode setting unit which sets a plurality of photographing modes including substantially the same amount of exposure and different aperture and a photographing unit which performs continuously a photographing process using the plurality... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080019681 - Lens barrel, camera and portable information terminal apparatus: A lens barrel includes a telescopic cylinder that has at least first and second movable cylinders, the telescopic cylinder being accommodated in a fixed cylinder. First and second lenses are formed in the telescopic cylinder and determine an optical axis of the lens barrel. A retractable third lens is retracted... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080019683 - Multi-region autofocus tool and mode: A system and method are provided for a “multi-region” autofocus video tool-type or mode within a machine vision inspection system. The user may efficiently define multiple regions of interest that are grouped as a “multi-region” set. The autofocus operations for the multi-region set are defined with a shared set of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080019684 - Camera module: A camera module includes an image sensor, a first lens, a second lens and a beam splitting and combining component. The beam splitting and combining component is disposed between the first lens, the second lens and the image sensor. The first lens is suitable for imaging a first light beam... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080019685 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel movable between a first state, in which optical elements of a photographing optical system are all aligned on an optical axis, and a second state in which at least one of the optical elements is retracted to a radially-retracted position and moved rearward, the lens barrel includes... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080019686 - Image pickup apparatus having device for removing foreign substance deposited on surface of optical member: An image pickup apparatus includes an eyepiece unit configured to facilitate viewing an optical image of an object, an image pickup element configured to convert the optical image of an object into an electrical signal, an optical member disposed in front of the image pickup element and in an imaging... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080019687 - Camera with tripod mounting mechanism: A slim camera which can be stably mounted on a tripod. The slim camera comprises a camera housing having a cavity in its bottom surface, and a tripod connecting element having a tripod connecting hole, the tripod connecting element being disposed in the cavity of the camera housing, which is... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080013933 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit is movable for an anti-shake operation. The controller moves the movable unit to a predetermined position over the course of a predetermined time length before the anti-shake operation commences. The controller moves the movable... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013934 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a controller. The controller performs movement control of the movable unit for anti-shake operation. The movement control is set to the OFF state when the movable unit comes into contact with an end of its range of movement... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013935 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation on the basis of an output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The controller performs a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013936 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation on the basis of an output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The controller performs a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013937 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus for photographing apparatus comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation on the basis of an output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The sensitivity in the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013938 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilizing of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit is movable for an anti-shake operation. The controller controls the movable unit for the anti-shake operation, stops the anti-shake operation after an exposure time, moves the movable unit to a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013939 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus is provided for correcting an image blur of an object image which is formed on an imaging sensor by an optical system. The apparatus has a fixed unit that is fixed to a body of a photographing apparatus and a movable unit that is movably held by... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013940 - Method, system, and medium for classifying category of photo: A photo category classification method including dividing a region of a photo based on content of the photo and extracting a visual feature from the segmented region of the photo, modeling at least one local semantic concept included in the photo according to the extracted visual feature, acquiring a posterior... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080013941 - Method and apparatus for increasing depth of field for an imager: An imaging method and apparatus is disclosed which improves the depth of field of an image by, in one exemplary embodiment, capturing a plurality of images at respective different focus positions, and combines the images into one image and sharpens the one image. In an alternative exemplary embodiment, a single... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080013942 - Photographic information logging device and method: The present invention relates to a photographic information logging device for recording photographic information. The photographic information logging device includes a logging sheet that is removably attachable to a camera and further includes a transparent cover to protect information recorded on the logging sheet. The logging sheet includes pre-printed lines... Agent: William H. Hollimon

20080013943 - Monocular three-dimensional imaging: A three-dimensional imaging system uses a single primary optical lens along with various configurations of apertures, refocusing facilities, and the like to obtain three offset optical channels each of which can be separately captured with an optical sensor.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080013944 - Imaging apparatus: In the imaging apparatus of the invention, a camera assembly 200 including a camera 202 is mounted on and supported by a base 110 in a pivotally rotatable manner both in a vertical direction and in a horizontal direction to allow tilting motions and panning motions of the camera 202.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080013945 - Camera and image pick-up device unit having an optical member that is vibrated to remove dust: A camera is provided that includes a dust-proofing member which has a transparent portion through which a visible light component is transmitted among beams incident from a photographing lens and which absorbs an infrared component, opposed to the front of an image pick-up device at a predetermined interval. A member... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080013946 - Developing method and developing unit: In a developing method for performing developing treatment of a substrate by supplying a developing solution onto a resist film formed on a surface of the substrate, the present invention controls a zeta potential of the surface of the substrate at a predetermined potential in the same polarity as that... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080008462 - Motion detection device: A lens adjusting device includes a moveable portion connected to an arrangement for moving the movable portion. The arrangement for moving the moveable portion may generate a signal corresponding to movement of the movable portion.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080008463 - Actuator, and lens unit camera with the same: The actuator (10) of the present invention is used to translate a photographing lens and prevent an image from shaking, and the actuator comprises a fixed member (12), a movable member (14) holding the photographing lens, a supporting means (18) movably supporting the movable member, a driving means (20, 22)... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080008464 - Compressible zoom camera: A device includes a housing capable of forming an internal space during operation of the device. The device also includes a camera having an optical zoom portion provided within the housing. The optical zoom portion is capable of expanding into the internal space when the camera is in use.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080008465 - Photographing apparatus and method: A photographing apparatus includes a drive portion driving a focus lens included in a photographing optical system in a focus adjustment direction when a shutter button is pressed, a photographing portion continuously and sequentially outputting images of an object formed on an image forming surface through the photographing optical system... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080008466 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an emission device for illuminating a subject, a preliminary emission control device for controlling preliminary emission before photographing, a photometry device for measuring a reflected light volume from the subject in the preliminary emission so as to obtain a photometric result, and a main emission control... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080008467 - Omni-directional surveillance network video camera: An omni-directional surveillance network video camera has a block base, a revolving base and a lens base. The revolving base is pivoted on a top of the block base. A revolving controller is mounted inside the block base and controls the revolving base to revolve relative to the block base.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080008468 - Camera module: A camera module (100) includes a camera unit (3) and a shielding housing for wrapping a main body (30) of the camera unit. The camera unit further includes the main body and a front end section (31), the front end section adapted for electrically connecting with a flexible substrate (5).... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.