Photography inventions 03/09

20090080874 - Photographic apparatus, method of controlling the same, program for controlling the same, and recording medium storing the program: According to one embodiment, there is provided photographic apparatus which has image acquisition unit, image processing unit configured to process the image data acquired by image acquisition unit, display unit configured to display the image represented by the imaged data processed by image processing unit, attitude detection unit configured to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090080875 - Lens apparatus and camera: An optical apparatus includes a photographic optical system including an image stabilizing unit supported by a support member via a plurality of elastic members, an actuator configured to drive the image stabilizing unit in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis thereof, a position detection unit configured to detect a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090080876 - Method for distance estimation using autofocus image sensors and an image capture device employing the same: A method of estimating the distance to a subject using image signals generated by autofocus image sensors of an image capture device comprises processing image data of each image sensor to detect edges therein and for each image sensor generating a corresponding edge image, correlating the edge images to determine... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090080877 - Auto-focusing camera: An auto-focusing camera includes a stator (20), a rotor (30) rotatably disposed in the stator, and a lens unit (40) received in the rotor. The stator includes a stator core (23) and coils (25) winding on the stator core. The rotor is a permanent magnet (32) securely mounted around the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090080878 - Privacy ensuring camera enclosure: A privacy ensuring camera enclosure with a camera enclosing configuration and a surveillance configuration wherein the camera enclosing configuration entirely surrounds a surveillance camera such that it is visibly removed from a privacy sensitive area, thereby preserving the expected level of privacy in the privacy sensitive area; the enclosure is... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090080879 - Apparatus for and method of processing substrate: A substrate processing apparatus discharges a hydrofluoric acid solution from discharge nozzles toward grooves formed in side walls of an inner bath. The hydrofluoric acid solution discharged from the discharge nozzles impinges upon the grooves to diffuse, thereby moving toward a top portion of the inner bath in the form... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090074392 - Imaging apparatus and focusing control method: An imaging apparatus sets a main area and a plurality of subareas around the main area in an image obtained from an image sensor, and acquires each focusing state and each in-focus point based on the each focusing state of the main area and the plurality of subareas in an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090074393 - Method and apparatus for auto focusing: A method and apparatus to auto focus are provided. A distance classifier to auto focus includes a distance-calculating module calculating a focal distance on the basis of blur levels of at least two images; a precise distance-calculating module calculating the exact distance to a subject when an image that is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090074394 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus which achieves fast focusing operation and allows accurate focusing is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes a first focus detector which detects a focus state on a subject, a second focus detector which detects a focus state on the subject in a detection method different from a detection... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090074395 - Image-taking apparatus and focusing method: An image-taking apparatus is disclosed, which is capable of reducing the influence of the one-side blur by the automatic focusing function. The image-taking apparatus comprises a focus detector, which detects the focus state of the plurality of focus detection areas, and a selector, which selects a focus target area from... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090074396 - Auto-focus method, medium, and apparatus for image-capturing: An auto-focus method, medium, and apparatus for image-capturing. The auto-focus method includes obtaining a first image by placing a focus lens of a corresponding image-capturing apparatus at a first fixed position, obtaining a second image by placing the focus lens at a second fixed position; calculating blur levels of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090074397 - Electronic apparatus, lighting apparatus and method of calculating electric quantity thereof: A fully charged battery or an unused battery is set in a battery box of a lighting apparatus. A user turns on an illumination electric source of the apparatus and selects the battery. A maximum number of lighting times Smax when the lighting apparatus causes manual full lighting M1/1 by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090074398 - Optical element parallax scanning device: An optical element scanning device (10) includes a base plate (200) and one or more linear actuators (210, 220) operably connected to the base plate. An armature (110) may be pivotably connected to the one or more linear actuators, and an optical element (100) may be operably connected to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090074399 - Case for accommodating a camera: A case for accommodating a camera includes a wrist cuff, a connector secured to the wrist cuff, and a strap having opposite ends coupled to the connector. The wrist cuff includes two elastic members, and a through hole with two openings at opposite ends of the through hole. The elastic... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090074400 - Barrier device: A barrier device of the present invention includes a cover defining a front aperture, a base defining a rear aperture, an annular gap formed between a rear end face of the front aperture and a front end face of the rear aperture, a barrier member movably provided through the gap... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090074401 - Image recording processing circuit, image recording apparatus and image recording method using image recording processing circuit: Mirror sequential data supplied from an RIP are temporarily stored as divided data in memory banks of an intermediate memory. Thereafter, the stored mirror sequential data are read in blocks. Then, a transposition processor transposes a matrix of the mirror sequential data into frame sequential data, and supplies the frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090074402 - Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method: After a substrate is cleaned, a liquid layer of a rinse liquid is formed so as to cover one surface of the substrate. Then, a liquid supply nozzle moves outward from above the center of the substrate. The liquid supply nozzle is stopped once at the time point where it... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090067825 - Portable photo booth: A more fully-portable photo booth that is fully-collapsible into a relatively small, portable package that can be repeatedly moved, set up and taken down by a single person.... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20090067826 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus whose posture is easily adjustable is provided. The imaging apparatus is configured to include an inclination detector detecting a degree of inclination of one of the imaging apparatus and an image captured by the imaging apparatus relative to a horizontal direction orthogonal to a direction of gravity;... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090067827 - Mobile device:

20090067828 - Imaging device and in-focus control method: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that obtains an image signal relating to a subject, a driving unit that drives a focus lens, a first detecting unit that performs focus detection based on a contrast detection method to detect an in-focus position of the focus lens, a second detecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067829 - Method and device for damping lens vibration: In a method for reducing lens vibration in an image capture device, a lens movement requirement is broken up into N smaller lens move steps, and the lens is moved a first of the N smaller steps. A wait time is inserted after completing the first of the N smaller... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067830 - Compound eye-camera module: A lens module (7) that includes a plurality of lenses (1a, 1b), a plurality of optical filters (2a, 2b) corresponding to the individual lenses (1a, 1b), an imaging device (4) that includes a plurality of imaging regions (4a, 4b) corresponding to the individual optical filters (2a, 2b), and a light-shielding... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090067831 - Camera system and method for controlling the same: An automatic-lens-connection-type camera system, which detects insertion of a lens unit into a mount part and automatically screws a mount connector to connect the lens unit with the mount part, and a method for controlling the camera system. The camera system includes a body, a lens module mounted to be... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090060483 - Underwater monitoring system with automatic cleaning capability: An underwater monitoring system with an automatic cleaning capability includes abase, a monitoring device mounted on the base, and a water-flow forming device mounted on the base and operable to form and direct a water flow toward the monitoring device for cleaning the monitoring device. The water-flow forming device includes... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20090060484 - Portable apparatus: A portable apparatus, comprising a first detector, a second detector, and a controller, is provided. The portable apparatus has a photographing function. The first detector detects a movement in a first direction. The second detector detects a second direction. The second direction is different from the first direction. The controller... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090060485 - Image blur correction device, lens barrel and imaging apparatus: An image blur correction device is provided. The device includes a correction lens, a first movable frame, a second movable frame, a fixed base, a driving part and a guide mechanism. The correction lens is configured to correct an image blur in a lens system. The first movable frame holds... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090060486 - Camera body, interchangeable lens, and camera system including camera body and interchangeable lens: An interchangeable lens system includes an interchangeable lens capable of communication between the interchangeable lens and a camera body. The interchangeable lens includes a camera identifying unit that identifies a camera body from information obtained by the communication between the interchangeable lens and the camera body. In response to a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090060487 - Auto-focusing apparatus and method for camera: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for auto-focusing a camera, which includes the steps of detecting an initial value of an encoder by measuring an initial position of a lens system, matching the measured initial value of the encoder with the initial position value of the lens system to be... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090060488 - Commander flash apparatus and slave flash apparatus: A commander flash apparatus for use in a wireless flash system which continuously emits light from the commander flash apparatus, transmits from the commander flash apparatus to a slave flash apparatus the data corresponding to the emission time interval of the commander flash apparatus, and controls the flash emission of... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090060489 - Device for connecting a camera to a supporting device: A device for connecting a camera to a supporting device as provided. The device has a locking plate which includes a wedge-shaped recess with a dovetail guide which is insertable into a wedge-shaped plate with another dovetail guide. The wedge-shaped plate is connectible to the camera. The device also has... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090060490 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus 10 comprises a lower housing 11, an upper housing 21, an outer camera 25, and at least one photographing button (buttons 14H and 14G). The upper housing 21 is connected to an upper surface of the lower housing 11 such that the upper housing 21 and the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090060491 - Diaphragm-shutter mechanism, controlling method thereof, and camera using the same: A photosensitive electronic diaphragm-shutter mechanism includes a diaphragm-shutter unit and a control unit. The diaphragm-shutter unit includes a first photosensitive electronic member and a second photosensitive electronic member, which are overlapped to be positioned. The control unit outputs signals to the first photosensitive electronic member and the second photosensitive electronic... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090060492 - Portable device with heat radiating structure: In a digital camera implementing the present invention, a metal tripod seat is arranged on a cabinet, a circuit part that generates heat is accommodated in the cabinet, the circuit part is connected with the tripod seat in a heat conducting manner, and a cover strip made of resin extending... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090060493 - Method of developing a substrate and apparatus for performing the same: In an apparatus for performing a substrate developing process, a first washing tank and a second washing tank are disposed on both sides of a substrate support section for supporting the substrate opposite to each other to wash a developing nozzle. The developing nozzle moves in a horizontal direction from... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP