Photography inventions 02/08

20080050107 - Information processing apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a display unit configured to display a plurality of informations having a plurality of hierarchies; a focus control unit configured to focus at least one of the plurality of informations to be displayed by the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080050106 - Camera with film chamber for selective loading of film roll or cartridge and method of selective loading: A camera assembly includes an endcap assembly for closing off the bottom end of a second film chamber, which is sized to selectively receive a roll of film or a secondary film cartridge housing a roll of film. The endcap assembly can include a movable shutter blade enclosed between two... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080050108 - Imaging apparatus: The accuracy of focus adjustment operation is enhanced further. When focus adjustment operation is performed, a first measured distance acquired by utilization of TTL-AF and a second measured value acquired by utilization of a distance between the eyes have been computed in advance. The degree of reliability of the first... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080050109 - Dynamic automatic exposure compensation for image capture devices: Techniques are described for dynamic automatic exposure compensation within image capture devices. The techniques include dynamically adjusting a default target brightness for a scene to compensate an exposure value (EV) selected by an automatic exposure process. A sensor array obtains light information from the scene at a default target brightness... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080050110 - Method for adjusting a mechanical shutter: A method for adjusting a mechanical shutter when an exposure time of the mechanical shutter is less than a control time of the mechanical shutter, including: (a) measuring a raw image of an initial photo to obtain a standard brightness value, after the initial photo with a predetermined correct luminance... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080050111 - Apparatus and method for setting camera values in mobile terminal: Provided is an apparatus and a method for setting a camera in a mobile terminal with camera-setting values of photographing parameters. The method includes identifying a current time and a location of the mobile terminal; transmitting location information of the mobile terminal to a weather information providing server and receiving... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080050112 - Camera shutter: A camera may comprise a lens assembly to receive optical information from a subject and a shutter assembly comprising a blade, a base plate to pivotally support the blade, and a wire to move the blade in response to a current. The camera may include an image sensor to selectively... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080044169 - Angle correction for camera: A device may include a camera to capture an image; a sensor to measure, when the camera captures the image, information indicative of an angular displacement, about a line of sight of the camera, of an orientation of the device away from a reference orientation of the device; storage to... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080044170 - Image capturing system and method of operating the same: An image capturing system capable of providing an optimal exposure setting and method of operating the same are disclosed. The image capturing system includes a CMOS image sensor having photosensitive cells; a lens module having a mechanical shutter; a memory having a program for exposure analysis and a program for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080044171 - Electronic device with auxiliary camera function: An electronic device includes circuitry for carrying out an operation unrelated to camera operation, and camera circuitry for carrying out a camera related operation, the camera circuitry including circuitry for providing autofocus control. The electronic device further includes a camera lens operatively coupled to the camera circuitry, a focus state... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080044172 - Lens barrel assembly: A lens barren assembly for a camera is disclosed. The lens barrel assembly comprises a lens barrel, at least one optical element disposed within the lens barrel, and an actuator configured to move the optical element. The actuator can be disposed entirely or partially within the lens barrel. The actuator... Agent: Macpherson, Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080044173 - Lens cover assembly and electronic device using the same: A lens cover assembly (200) mounted in an electronic device (300) includes a lens cover (30), and a frame (20). The lens cover includes a base (32), and a column (34) extending from a central area of the base. The base has at least one notch (36) defined therein. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080044174 - Shock damping of optical lens components: A shock and/or vibration damped optical lens assembly for an electronic equipment. The optical lens assembly of the present invention is particularly useful for electronic equipment such as mobile phones, PDA's, etc. incorporating cameras. By providing a shock and/or vibration damped optical lens assembly allows such devices to more reliably... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080044175 - Lens barrel including a flexible printed wiring board: A lens barrel includes an electronic component provided in the lens barrel so that a position of the electronic component in the lens barrel is adjustable; a flexible printed wiring board connected to the electronic component and installed to extend along a surface of an internal component of the lens... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080037970 - Camera body and camera system including the same: A camera body including image-blur correcting units capable of effectively correcting blur in captured images and a camera system including the camera body are provided. The camera body includes a vibration detecting unit configured to detect vibration of the camera body; a first image-blur correcting unit configured to correct blur... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080037971 - Remote-control device for camera: A remote-control device, according to the present invention, is for a camera having a light signal receiver that receives a light signal. The remote-control device includes a light signal transmitter, a position adjuster, and a switch member. The light signal transmitter transmits the light signal. The position adjuster adjusts the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080037972 - Photographing lens position control device: A photographing lens position control device comprises an image signal capturing unit for capturing an image signal, a focus lens moving unit for moving a focus lens while the image signal capturing unit is capturing an image signal, a retaining unit for retaining a position-dependent image signal, and a photographing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037973 - Liquid-lens assembly: Disclosed herein is a liquid-lens assembly using an electrowetting method. The liquid-lens assembly includes a liquid-lens module, a barrel supporting the liquid-lens module, and a housing coupled to the barrel and having an image sensor. Electrodes are provided on the barrel and the housing, so that current is applied to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080037974 - Discrete automatic focusing and error correcting method: Provided are a discrete AF control method and an error correcting method of a camera module using a diffraction device. In the method, a focus is moved to a (the number of all positions/m)-th position, and a focusing value at a start position is compared with that at the (the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037975 - Imaging device: In an imaging device, a photographic scene is automatically determined with high accuracy. Distance information is acquired, through a TTL-AF, from an image signal produced by a CCD. Further, a face recognition circuit detects the face of a person in a subject. An AE-AF-AWB value computing section evaluates the reliability... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080037976 - Camera with af auxiliary illumination: The present invention provides a camera with AF auxiliary illumination in which the focus position of an image taking lens is AF controlled to bring an object into focus, based on contrast information of an image acquired from an image pickup device, and if the photometric value of the object... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037977 - Focusing method of image capturing device: A focusing method for an image capturing device is disclosed. In the focusing method, a focus lens shifts step by step from the current position toward a selected direction, and generates a corresponding contrast value for each position. If the generated contrast values show an increasing trend, the focus lens... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080037978 - Single-lens reflex camera: The present invention discloses a single-lens reflex camera configured such that, upon viewing a subject image through a finder optical system, a movable reflecting mirror reflects the optical axis of a light beam from a shooting optical system at an obtuse angle to guide the light beam to an optical... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080037979 - Method and apparatus for power management in an electronic device: An electronic device and method for power management in an electronic device is provided. In an embodiment, the electronic device includes the functionality of a personal digita assistant, wireless email paging and a camera with a flash that is operated via self-contained power supply in the form of a battery.... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20080037980 - Image pickup apparatus: In order to efficiently remove dust, an image pick up apparatus is provided with an image sensor for acquiring subject images via a photographing lens, a shift mechanism, holding the image sensor, capable of moving the image sensor in a first direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the photographing... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080031605 - Optical device and camera system: An optical device includes a base member, an image-stabilizing lens, a lens holding member mounted to the base member and configured to hold the image-stabilizing lens, a driving unit configured to drive the lens holding member in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, a plurality of elastic members fixed... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080031606 - Flip grip hinge arrangement for electronic devices: An electronic device (100 or 200) can include a grip handle member (204) having at least one electronic function, and a core device (202) pivotably coupled to the grip handle member. The grip handle member can include among a microphone (210) and a speaker (208) on opposing ends of the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080031607 - Burglar alarm monitoring apparatus: A burglar alarm monitoring apparatus to activate a digital camera to take pictures includes a body, a receiver, an actuation means and a monitor device. The body has a housing chamber to hold the digital camera. The monitor device can detect intrusion of burglars and generate a detection signal which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080031608 - Camera adjustment: Cameras are adjusted by setting magnifications of two or more cameras to be substantially equal, focusing the two or more cameras, and setting the two or more cameras so that portions of an object captured thereby when displayed are aligned.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080031610 - Automatic focus system calibration for image capture systems: Imaging systems and methods for calibrating imaging systems are provided. The imaging system has a body, a scene image capture system that captures images using a taking lens system that can be set to a plurality of different focus distances, and a rangefinder that is capable of determining a distance... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20080031609 - Devices and methods for determining orientation of a camera: Described are an electronic device, a camera, and a method for determining an orientation of a camera in an electronic device. The method includes measuring a position of the lens at rest within the lens cavity (680), determining a pointing direction of the camera based on the position of the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080031611 - Focus control apparatus, image sensing apparatus and focus control method: A range in which a focus lens is to be moved is set; the focus lens is moved within the set range; an in-focus state is determined based on output signals from an image sensing unit which are obtained in association with the movement of the focus lens within the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080031612 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device includes a first part and a second part. The first part has a camera module mounted therein, which includes a lens-barrel and a focusing mechanism engaged with the lens barrel. Wherein the focusing mechanism has a focusing lever. The second part is movably attached to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080031613 - Wide-angle slip-on viewfinder on rangefinder cameras for photographic recordings with different focal lengths: Described is a wide-angle slip-on viewfinder (1) on rangefinder cameras for analog and digital wide-angle recordings of different image recording formats with lenses of different focal lengths, comprising three lens groups (LG1, LG2, LG3), a frame/mask unit (10) and a partially transmissive prism cube (8) which is designed as a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080031614 - Device with a lens-rotation mechanism: The present invention discloses a device with a lens-rotation mechanism, which comprises: a casing having a driving device, such as the casing of a camera, a mobile phone or a video camera; and a lens-rotation system installed to the casing and having at least two transmission elements. Those two transmission... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080031615 - Shutter device and image-capturing device: A shutter device includes: a base plate having a photographic aperture and a front surface and a rear surface; a shutter blade group that closes and opens the photographic aperture to light; a rear cover having an opening portion that corresponds to the photographic aperture, provided to the rear surface... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080031616 - Shutter actuator drive circuit and shutter actuator device: A shutter actuator drive circuit capable of operating an actuator with precision is provided. A shutter actuator drive circuit (1) includes a counter (12) starting counting of a frequency-divided clock prepared by dividing a frequency of a reference clock in response to an activation signal, a D/A converter (13) providing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080031617 - Shutter unit, shutter unit with built-in lens, and imaging apparatus: A shutter unit is equipped with a base plate, a yoke, a coil that is attached in the middle of the yoke to excite the yoke, and a rotor that rotates in a predetermined direction by excitation of the yoke. A lens frame is formed on the base plate. The... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080031618 - Co2 reaction reduction at developer surface: In a system and process for developing an imaged plate by contacting the plate with an alkaline developer, contained in a developer tank having a cover spaced over the developer level, the space between the developer level and cover is maintained at a concentration of carbon dioxide below ambient for... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP