Photography inventions 06/08

20080152332 - Hand-shake correction method and apparatus of camera module for use in mobile device: A hand-shake correction apparatus and method for a camera module for typical use in a mobile device. A camera unit includes an angular velocity sensor for sensing an angular velocity of a hand-shake motion of a camera, a position detection sensor for detecting a current position of an image sensor,... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080152333 - Shake compensating device for optical devices: A shake compensating device for optical devices includes an optical system for forming an image of an object; a reflecting surface placed in the optical path of the optical system, a first substrate having a first electrode, placed adjacent to the reflecting surface; a second substrate fixed to an optical... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080152334 - Apparatus and method for controlling camera according to temperature: This document relates to an apparatus and method for controlling a camera according to temperature. The apparatus according to an embodiment of this document may comprise a camera comprising lenses comprising a focus lens, an iris, a lens barrel, a motor drive for controlling positions of the lenses and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080152335 - Mechanical shutter control method and image sensing apparatus: A control method for a mechanical shutter in an image sensing apparatus that has the mechanical shutter which includes and a second curtain held in a pre-travel initial position using electric power, that performs image sensing using an image sensor, and that has an electronic viewfinder function. The voltage of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080152336 - Imaging apparatus and method of controlling imaging: An imaging apparatus comprises: a shooting requesting unit which receives an input indicating that shooting request to a person is made; and a shooting request mode setting unit which sets an angle of view of the image data displayed by the display unit to a predetermined range smaller than an... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080152337 - Camera adapter having a camera holder and an optical adapter: A camera holder (3) is provided for fixing a camera (11) or a camcorder to an optical observation device. The holder (3) has a variable-length sleeve (13) with a first end configured to receive the camera objective and a second end configured to secure the sleeve (13) relative to the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080152338 - Light amount adjusting apparatus and image pickup apparatus: Disclosed is a light amount adjusting apparatus for an image pickup apparatus which is capable of reducing the force with which a plate member and a blade member are held in close contact with each other and driving the blade member smoothly even in a high-humidity condition. The light amount... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080152339 - Camera module with contamination reduction feature: A novel digital camera module includes an image capture device, a lens unit including a body, a housing including an opening for receiving the lens unit and positioning the lens unit with respect to the image capture device, and a contaminant trap formed by an isolated annular space between the... Agent: Henneman & Associates, Plc

20080145040 - Simultaneous imaging of multiple specimen slides on a single slide stage: System for simultaneously imaging multiple biological specimens on a single, translatable stage of an imaging system. The stage supports multiple specimen carriers, such as slides, which carry biological specimens. When the stage is at a first location, a first image acquisition component takes an image of a first portion of... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20080145041 - Anti-shake apparatus: An anti-shake apparatus for image stabilization of a photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an inclination degree output unit. The imaging sensor has an imaging surface on which an optical image through a photographing optical system of the photographing apparatus is captured. The acceleration sensor detects... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080145042 - Driving apparatus and image pickup apparatus: A driving apparatus including a transducer, a fixing member, and a mobile body is provided. The transducer generates elliptical vibration in a driving part when voltage of a predetermined frequency is applied. The fixing member includes a retaining part which retains the transducer. The mobile body, which is driven by... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080145043 - Image-taking apparatus: Disclosed herein is an image-taking apparatus including, a image pickup device, an optical viewfinder, focusing controlling means, display controlling means, setting means, and alarming means.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080145044 - Motion detector camera: A motion detector camera includes a camera mechanism mounted inside a housing, a motion detector exposed on a surface of the housing, and a controller for controlling the camera mechanism in response to signals received from the motion detector. The camera can include an activity counter mounted to the housing.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080145045 - Method of group guiding service in sensor networks and system using the same: A method of group guiding service in wireless sensor networks and a system using the same are disclosed in this invention. According to this invention, wireless sensor networks may be utilized to track the position of the group leader and provide leader information and guiding services to the group members.... Agent: Bucknam And Archer

20080145046 - Camera with orienting function: A camera with orienting function comprising a main part and an orienting part is disclosed. The orienting part is connected with the main part, and the orienting part is operated under an open state or a close state. When the orienting part is under the open state, at least a... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080138055 - Method and apparatus for capturing multiple images at different image foci: A camera described herein captures a plurality of images at different focus settings to improve the probability that the camera captures a clear representation of a desired object in a potentially ambiguous scene. According to one exemplary embodiment, the camera selects a plurality of focus settings corresponding to different focal... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080138056 - Camera, computer program product, and amount of light to be emitted calculation method: A camera includes: a photometric unit that acquires two dimensional photometric information of an image of a photographic subject; a separation unit that separates the image of the photographic subject into two groups, based upon photometric information acquired by the photometric unit during non-emission of light by a flash light... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080138057 - Masking and unmasking method for a digital still camera: A masking and unmasking method for a digital still camera directly defines at least one masking area on the image data that is executed with a masking process in a digital still camera. The image data that has been masked can be recovered. Thereby, the inconvenience caused by the need... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080138058 - Image sensing apparatus cleaning operation and control method of said cleaning operation: Image sensing apparatus having an image sensing element for sensing an object of shooting is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, when a cleaning mode is designated and executed to remove a foreign substance in the neighborhood of and on the image sensing element, the remaining amount of... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080138059 - Large-aperture focal plane shutter: Described is a compact focal plane shutter system adapted for large-format exposure shutters. The focal plane shutter includes at least one multi-segmented screen having multiple rigid blades. Each blade can be moved at a different velocity. By using multiple blades, the rotational inertia about a drive axis can be reduced... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080138060 - Lens module and camera module having same: A lens module includes a lens barrel, a first lens, a second lens, a plurality of electrostrictive members and a controlling unit. The first lens has a first optical axis thereof, the second lens has a second optical axis thereof, the first and second lenses being received in the lens... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080138061 - Camera device: In a camera device 1a with a shutter button 2 for transmitting an externally-applied pressing force to a switch 7, a boss 24 has a first end attached to the shutter button 2, and a second end opposed to the switch 7, a coil spring 6a has a first winding... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080131105 - Illuminating device for photographing: An illuminating device is used for oral photography and is connectable to a lens barrel provided on a camera. The illuminating device includes a light-emitting surface that has an arc shape, so that a periphery of a mouth being under a nose of a person being photographed can be exclusively... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080131106 - Head-mounted mouth-actuated camera system: A camera mounting system for enabling a person to take pictures or videos hands-free in a wet environment with a water-proof camera is disclosed. The camera is of the type having preferably an electric one or two-position switch actuator. A water-proof actuation cable is connected at one end to a... Agent: Quickpatents, Inc.

20080131107 - Photographing apparatus: Photographing apparatus having a plurality of photographic optical systems, comprises: an attitude detecting device which detects an attitude of the apparatus body; a physical relationship information obtaining device which obtains information on physical relationship among the photographic optical systems setting; and a shooting direction information obtaining device which obtains information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080131108 - Apparatus and method for estimating focal length of camera: Provided is a camera self-calibration method that calculates a focal length of a fixed zoom lens camera from a correspondence point position between images. In the method, a cost function, which is a function of a focal length, is defined, and a focal length that minimizes the defined cost function... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080131109 - Imaging device: A focus area contains one or more areas, into which an image signal captured by an image sensor (14) is segmented by an image segmentation section (15). The focus area follows movement of an object in accordance with feature point positional information of an image extracted by a feature point... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080131110 - Digital lens assembly: A digital lens assembly is provided, comprising a camera lens seat having an inner thread fragment formed on an inner wall thereof and a protruding contact portion, and a cone having an outer thread fragment and an outer ring portion formed on an outer wall thereof and a torsion adjustment... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080131111 - Devices and/or systems for illuminating a component: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system, which can comprise a beamsplitter. The beamsplitter can comprise at least three distinct light reflection zones. Each zone of the three distinct light reflection zones can be adapted to cause light from one or more light sources to be reflected at a different... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080131112 - Camera module and imaging apparatus: A camera module includes a sensor for converting incident light incident thereto into an electric signal and outputting the electric signal therefrom, a glass cover for transmitting therethrough light to the sensor, the light being the incident light; a flexible printed circuit for receiving as an input thereto the electric... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080131113 - Camera housing with a view lens, method for making the camera housing, and camera using the housing: A housing (100), used, e.g., in an electronic device, receives an optical system (30) therein. The housing includes a housing body (10) and a view lens (20). The housing body defines a view opening (112) corresponding to the optical system. The view lens is received in the view opening and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang