Photography inventions 10/09

20090257741 - Stabilizer device for optical equipment: A stabilizer for a hand-held optical device includes a gyroscope assembly suspended below a base assembly, and a handle pivotably attached to the base assembly. The optical device, which may be a video camera, mounts to the base assembly. The gyroscope assembly has two or more rotatable members that pivot... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090252484 - Image blur correction device and camera: An image blur correction device includes: a blur correction optical system that corrects for image blur by moving in first and second directions on a plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis; a first actuator that drives the blur correction optical system in the first direction; a second actuator... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090252485 - Optical device, illumination apparatus, and camera: An optical device includes a housing having first to fourth sidewalls and top and bottom plates; and (M−1) partitions between the first and second sidewalls, and has M lens chambers, each filled with first and second liquids forming a liquid lens. A first lens chamber is defined by the first,... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090252486 - Vibration resistant camera for mounting to object: A digital camera is adapted for being mounted to a bow for archery. The camera comprises a self-contained digital unit within a housing and is protected from vibrational disturbances caused by the release of the bowstring. A viscoelastic material is used to reduce vibrations. The housing is water resistant to... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090252487 - Lock mechanism, slide apparatus, and mobile handset apparatus: A lock mechanism for a sliding object includes a slide arm, a rotating lever, and urging means. When an external pressing force presses the slide arm member in opposition to an urging force imparted by the urging means, the slide arm member is moved along a slide path, thereby causing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090252489 - Camera module: A camera module includes a lens unit (30) and a stator (20). The lens unit includes a lens barrel (310), a lens (312) received in the lens barrel and a permanent magnet (32) fixedly mounted around the lens barrel. The stator is for receiving the lens unit therein. The stator... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090252488 - Camera module having movable lens: Disclosed herein is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a housing, a first magnet member, a lens holder, and a second magnet member. The first magnet member is connected to the housing. The first magnet member includes a first surface. The lens holder is in the housing. The lens holder includes... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090252490 - Digital camera with left- or right-handed operation: A digital camera has a housing and an exposure circuit in the housing. The digital camera further includes a locating post fixed on the housing, a rotatable assembly, and a shutter button electronically connected to the exposure circuit. The rotatable assembly has a hole for passage of the locating post... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090245766 - Lens assembly and imaging apparatus: Taking lenses 11—4, 11—3, and 11—2 are housed in a lens frame 12. Then, the O-ring 13 is fitted into a groove 11—1a provided on the periphery of the taking lens 11—1, and the taking lens 11—1 is housed in the lens frame 12. Subsequently, an anterior surface 14b of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245767 - Lens assembly and imaging device: A lens assembly is provided and includes: a plurality of lenses including a first lens located nearest to an object side of the lens assembly and a second lens located adjacent to the first lens; and a lens frame having a hollow part which includes an opening on each of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245769 - Photgraphic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller. The movable platform has an imager and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The controller performs a movement control of the movable platform for one of a translational movement and a rotational movement. The translational movement includes at... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090245768 - Photographic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller. The movable platform has an imager and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The controller performs a movement control of the movable platform for a translational movement and an inclination correction during an imaging operation by the imager... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090245770 - Photographic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller. The movable platform has an imager, and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The controller performs a movement control of the movable platform for an inclination correction based on an inclination angle of the photographic apparatus formed by... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090245771 - Photographic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform, an acceleration sensor, and a controller. The movable platform has an imager, and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The acceleration sensor detects a first gravitational component and a second gravitational component. The first gravitational component is the component of gravitational... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090245773 - Photographic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform, a translational movement switch, a rotational movement switch, and a controller. The movable platform has an imager, and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The translational movement switch is for selecting ON/OFF states of a translational movement including a first stabilization... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090245774 - Photographic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller. The movable platform has an imager, and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The controller performs a movement control of the movable platform for an inclination correction based on an inclination angle of the photographic apparatus formed by... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090245772 - Shaking sensing and correction apparatus and method: A shaking sensing unit includes a sensor sensing a rotation about at least one axis, a high pass filter passing only a signal having a frequency not less than a cutoff frequency of the high pass filter, among electrical signals output from the sensor, and a low pass filter passing... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090245775 - Image pickup apparatus, camera system, and control method for image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus capable of executing photographing using an emission unit that emits light to a subject includes an acquisition unit for obtaining distance-to-subject information based on lens driving information on a taking lens obtained upon focus adjustment, a detection unit for detecting a face of the subject based... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090245776 - Image capturing device and auto-focus method thereof: An image capturing device includes a lens unit, an image sensor, a face recognition unit, a selecting unit, an auto-focusing (AF) unit and a driving unit. The lens unit focuses images onto the image sensor. The image sensor converts the images into electronic signals. The face recognition unit locates any... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090245777 - Camera system: In a camera system including an interchangeable lens and a camera body, a body controller performs control a drive signal transmission unit to drive a focus lens in a predetermined direction, and transmit a timing signal to the interchangeable lens. The lens controller performs control to detect a position of... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090245778 - Camera system, camera body, and interchangeable lens: A camera system includes an interchangeable lens and a camera body. A body controller in the camera body performs control to transmit a timing signal and a drive information signal to the interchangeable lens. A lens controller in the interchangeable lens controls drive of a focus lens based on the... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090245779 - Mirror moving device and imaging apparatus: A mirror moving device has a mirror configured to change an optical path of an imaging apparatus. The device includes a movable unit having the mirror, a moving mechanism capable of changing an orientation of the mirror between a first position and a second position, and a positioning member configured... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090245780 - Shutter device: A shutter device comprises a base, two electromagnetic valves, two blades, and a cover plate. A first light hole is formed in the center of base. The electromagnetic valve comprises a magnetic core, a coil unit, and a magnetic part. The magnetic cores and coil units are on the base,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee