Television inventions 06/06

20060139443 - Camera with waterproof function: A camera according to the present invention has a housing that has a first hole and a second hole, a microphone, a loudspeaker, and a waterproof sheet that covers the microphone and the loudspeaker, and allows air-vibration to be transmitted. The microphone is arranged in the housing, in accordance with...

20060139444 - System of using digital frames in an idle web video conferencing device: A system switches the display screen of an idle web video conferencing device to a digital frame. If there is no video conferencing signal coming into a VoIP phone, its display interface is used as a digital frame. The system includes a display to display the video conferencing image sent...

20060139445 - Multiple-picture out method and system: The present invention provides a multiple-picture output method and system. In n-point communication environment, a multiple-picture supporting module is configured to extract image data of n points from MCU and transmit them to multiple-picture server. The multiple-picture server converts the received image data into analog video signals and outputs the...

20060139446 - Apparatus and method for processing and displaying pictures: The invention is directed to a technique for realtime processing of photographed pictures with less memory requirements. An image compressor compresses unit images, and so on of a given source picture individually. By converting reference data of compressed unit images and so on, the image compressor creates compressed data of...

20060139448 - 3d displays with flexible switching capability of 2d/3d viewing modes: A display system that displays a mixture of 2D and 3D video content is provided. A switching mechanism in the display system turns the 2D/3D mode of different portions of the screen on and off independently and automatically. Any type (2D, 3D, mixed) of video content can be displayed on...

20060139447 - Eye detection system and method for control of a three-dimensional display: An autostereoscopic display system includes an autostereoscopic display subsystem operable to display stereoscopic images and to adjust characteristics of the displayed images responsive to detected viewer eye position parameters. An eye detection subsystem detects through differential-angle illumination the eye position of a viewer positioned in front of the display subsystem...

20060139449 - Wireless audio-video doorbell monitoring system: The present invention pertains to a wireless audio-video doorbell monitoring system, wherein a portable monitoring device administrates a doorbell device and detective devices. After initiation, the monitoring device calls other nearby devices to form a wireless network via a wireless broadcasting way, and then the monitoring device administrates each device...

20060139450 - System, method and apparatus for in-situ substrate inspection: A system for inspecting a substrate includes a camera and a light source. The camera is oriented toward a field of view. The field of view encompasses at least a first portion of a first surface of the substrate. The light source is oriented toward the field of view at...

20060139451 - Control system and controlled apparatus and control apparatus adapted to the system: A control system includes a controlled apparatus adjusting its operation based on a control signal from an independently cased control apparatus. The controlled apparatus includes an indicator light projector projecting indicator light in an invisible wavelength region so that an exiting direction thereof has a known regularity and change over...

20060139453 - Automatic door assembly with video imaging device: An automatic door assembly is provided for determining whether an individual in a door approach area....

20060139452 - System for processing visual information and method of visual surveillance: The invention relates to a system for processing visual information, comprising: a number of cameras for recording visual information, a control room in communication with the cameras and having means for displaying recorded visual information, and control means for influencing the information displayed in the control room. The invention also...

20060139454 - Method and system for vehicle-mounted recording systems: Vehicle-mounted recorded systems capture and record surveillance data as well as location and time data. Methods for obtaining recorded data corresponding to a region of interest from vehicle-mounted recorded systems use wireless communications to request and transmit data. Methods for using time-synchronized recorded surveillance data from multiple recording sources generate...

20060139455 - Digital printer and digital camera: A system controller 115 has a function of changing the position and the orientation of character data to be superimposed on the image data, in accordance with the operation of one of orientation keys. Specifically, when a downward key has been pushed, the character data is superimposed on a lower...

20060139456 - Device for and a method measuring sizes on photomasks: A device for measuring sizes on photomasks has a television optical microscope, a system of periodical changing a resolution of the microscope, a regulated source of a base voltage, a comparator of a base signal and a television signal, and a former of short pulses, and a display unit....

20060139457 - Digital camera equipped with burglarproof and surveillance functions: A digital camera equipped with burglarproof and surveillance functions contains a burglarproof surveillance element. When the burglarproof surveillance element detects an object, the digital camera is activated to take pictures and store the pictures in a memory storage unit. A picture taking device is provided to take the pictures in...

20060139458 - Method and apparatus for detecting image movement: A method of detecting image movement is provided. A reference frame is accessed, and a reference window is captured from the reference frame. A sampling frame is then accessed. When the reference window has not reached the margin of the reference frame, a new window is captured from the reference...

20060139459 - Digital camera with a detachable display usable as remote control: The present invention provides an improved digital camera that enables a user to conveniently and accurately record video or pictures of the user himself. In one embodiment of the invention, a digital camera comprises a camera body and a display panel detachably connected to the camera body. The display panel...

20060139460 - Camera system: A camera system apparatus includes: an image sensor unit; an AFE unit for digitizing an analog output signal output from the image sensor unit into an digital video signal; a font end camera DSP unit, including a camera signal data path for accepting the digital video signal, measure unit operably...

20060139461 - Apparatus and method for setting degrees of importance, apparatus and method for representative image selection, apparatus and method for printing-recommended image selection, and programs therefor: A plurality of images are classified into hierarchical categories. A degree of importance for each of the categories is set according to at least one of: the number of images therein, the number of images in an upper-level category, the number of categories related to the category, the number of...

20060139462 - Image processing device: An object of the present invention is to reflect the photographer's intention on image processing. A computer PC as image processing device acquires metadata along with image data to be processed. The metadata includes comment data added later by the photographer of the image, which represents the content of the...

20060139464 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processor which forms a composite image of at least two images includes a storage unit which stores first and second image data, and a display unit which reads and displays the stored first and second image data in modes adapted to display forms of the first and second...

20060139463 - Multi-camera solution for electronic devices: There is disclosed a method, electronic device and computer program product for handling video streams of two or more cameras in an electronic device, wherein at least first and second video streams (1, 1′, 1″; 2, 2′, 2″) are captured (202, 204) by first and second cameras and integrating (206)...

20060139466 - Method and apparatus for coding a sectional video image: The present invention utilizes video compression techniques in providing multi display and user control of picture layout with a single non-mechanical camera. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a subsection of interest within a general view captured by the camera is coded based on the prediction of...

20060139465 - System and method for automatic zoom: A system and method for automatically zooming “in” and “out” a video content stream to adjust for Ratio Mismatches is disclosed. The present invention is particularly applicable to 4:3 video content delivered in a 16:9 video content stream. The present invention scans for the presence of Pillar Bars. When Pillar...

20060139467 - Digital image processing method and device for cmos camera images: The invention relates to a method and to a device used for the digital image processing of CMOS camera images. CMOS cameras suffer from a so-called afterglow effect when moving objects with high contrasts are recorded. This afterglow effect leads to erroneous values in image evaluation. The inventive method and...

20060139468 - Digital camera: A solid-state image pickup element is mounted on a digital camera. The solid-state image pickup element has: first color pixels which detect an amount of incident light of a first color of the three primary colors; second color pixels which detect an amount of incident light of a second color;...

20060139469 - Drive method for solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus: A drive method for a solid-state imaging device having an oblique pixel pattern includes the steps of: adding, separately for an odd-numbered row and an even-numbered row, x pixels in the horizontal direction and y pixels in the vertical direction, the x pixels and the y pixels having the same...

20060139470 - Technique for increased exposure range in image sensors: An apparatus comprising an image sensor and a control logic circuit. The image sensor includes at least a first pixel array and a second pixel array, wherein at least some of the pixels of the first pixel array are interspersed over an image sensing area with pixels of the second...

20060139471 - Cmos active pixel and a operating method there of: Provided is a CMOS active pixel and a driving method thereof. The timing of the transmission control signal and the reset control signal generated in the read-out section is performed in advance in the reset section. Thus, the potential wall between the photodiode area and the transmission transistor having a...

20060139472 - Ccd camera forming a still image by adding offset values to the odd and even fields and method for controlling the same: A Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera and a method for controlling the same. When a photographing command is input from the input unit by operation of user, the controller controls the iris drive unit so as to open and close the iris periodically for a preset time. Also, the control...

20060139473 - Method of providing osd in mobile communication terminal using q-camera: Disclosed is a method of providing an on screen display (OSD) in a mobile communication terminal using a Q-camera. The method comprises: entering into a viewfinder mode, and receiving image data inputted from a camera sensor as image data of the viewfinder mode when an operation mode of the mobile...

20060139474 - System and camera for transferring digital images to a service provider: A method and digital camera for capturing images to be provided to a service provider. The camera includes a capture device for capturing digital images; a memory for storing the captured digital images; an interface to a communications device for transmitting the stored images to a service provider; wherein the...

20060139475 - Multiple field of view camera arrays: Systems and apparatuses are provided that include a number of cameras. One embodiment includes a surveillance camera. The embodiment includes a camera having a lens with a first field of view. The camera can be mounted to an imaging circuit board having an imaging circuit provided thereon for converting image...

20060139476 - Optical low pass filter and image pickup apparatus having the same: An optical low pass filter includes one portion that splits an incident light beam into plural light beams having a predetermined split width in a predetermined direction, and emits the light beams, and another portion that splits the incident light beam into plural light beams having a split width different...

20060139478 - Camera: A camera for recording an image captured using image-capturing element in a recording medium is provided with a focal point detection device for detecting a focal point adjustment state of a photographic lens in each focal point detection region of a plurality of focal point detection regions set inside an...

20060139477 - Image pickup apparatus and method of controlling same: In a period of time during which an image effect is being selected, a synthesized image in which the selected image effect is synthesized to an input image is generated and the operation of the image effect of the synthesized image is automatically and repeatedly displayed, thereby allowing the user...

20060139479 - Image processing methods and systems for fine art reproduction: A method and system for processing images to, for example, capture artwork includes capturing a target image and an image of a reference. The reflectance functions of the target image are then measured. The target image is processed, using the measured reflectance functions and the captured image of the reference,...

20060139480 - System and method for flash control: The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for flash control. The method can include the steps of—in a portable electronic device (122)—detecting (212) a request to operate a flash component (132), determining (214) whether to delay a timing of the operation of the flash component and if the...

20060139481 - Illumination apparatus and image-taking apparatus: An illumination apparatus having a structure which can make the inside of the apparatus hard to be seen from the outside without deterioration of light distribution, and is applicable to illumination apparatuses having an optical member utilizing total reflection. The illumination apparatus comprises a light-emitting tube extending in a first...

20060139482 - Image acqusition module for monitoring applications of the external surroundings of a vehicle: An image acquisition module for monitoring the external surroundings of a vehicle is provided. The image acquisition module comprising a housing with a protected interior against at least moisture and a window hermetically closed by a transparent element; an electronic circuit accommodated in said housing and associated with connection means...

20060139484 - Method for controlling privacy mask display: A method for controlling a privacy mask display. If a monitoring camera performs a panning operation such that a privacy mask overlapped with a monitored image frame should be shifted, a current tilt angle is recognized. The privacy mask can be differently shifted for the same panning operation according to...

20060139483 - Scanning video camera: A chassis pivotally engages a scanning assembly. The scanning assembly provides a video camera, a circuit board assembly, a frame and a positioning gear, with the positioning gear able to rotate over an arcuate field of view for the camera. The chassis fixedly mounts a drive motor including a drive...

20060139485 - Judder detection apparatus, de-interlacing apparatus using the same, and de-interlacing method: A judder detection apparatus, a de-interlacing apparatus using the judder detection apparatus, and a de-interlacing method. The judder detection apparatus includes a judder detector to detect whether a detected pattern that is similar to a judder pattern occurs using predetermined pixel values of even and odd fields sequentially input, a...

20060139486 - Spatio-temporal adaptive video de-interlacing: A method includes storing a current field of a digital video signal. The method further includes storing a preceding field that immediately precedes the current field in the digital video signal, and storing a succeeding field that immediately succeeds the current field in the digital video signal. The method also...

20060139487 - Method and apparatus for reducing delay in retrieval of a teletext page: Teletext engines configured for specific tasks. One such Teletext engine indexes the page numbers of incoming Teletext pages, along with the addresses at which they are stored in the TV's memory. This index essentially provides a list of stored Teletext pages and their corresponding locations in memory, sorted by page...

20060139488 - Video signal processing device, method of the same and vehicle-mounted camera system: A video signal processing device, which includes: a plurality of imaging devices outputting mutually asynchronous interlace video signals; input buffers temporarily storing field by field the video signals outputted from the respective imaging devices; and an output image generating device generating field by field video signals of output target images...

20060139489 - Audio/video signal distrubution system: The invention concerns an audio/video signal distribution system, comprising audio/video signal sources (MGT, DVD, C, HIFI) and audio/video signal receivers (TV1, TV2, TV3, TV4), and a central processing and multiplexing unit (MDS, MDS′). The invention is characterized in that it comprises a twisted pair service network (PS) for routing said...

20060139490 - Synchronizing audio with delayed video: Video processing delays are compensated for to maintain synchronism of audio with the video. The delay is determined by correlating a signal derived from a displayed light image with a pre-processed video test signal from which the image was produced....

20060139492 - Display apparatus to detect letter-box boundary and method of displaying image using the same: A display apparatus and a method of displaying an image using the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a classifier to detect whether a pixel of each line of sequentially input frames of an input image is a black pixel of a letter-box area, a counter to count a number...

20060139491 - Method for detecting interlaced material and field order: A (50) method and apparatus (110) for determining a scanning format of a frame of a video signal determines (52) if any interfield motion exists within the frame; and indicates (53) that the frame is interlaced scanned if interfield motion is detected and indicates (54) that the frame is progressive...

20060139493 - Displaying apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention relates to a displaying apparatus having a display unit for displaying thereon an active image according to an image signal supplied from a predetermined signal source, comprising a capture setting unit for setting a predetermined capture area to be captured in the active image displayed on the...

20060139494 - Method of temporal noise reduction in video sequences: A motion-adaptive temporal noise reducing method and system for reducing noise in a sequence of video frames is provided. Temporal noise reduction is applied to two video frames, wherein one video frame is the current input noisy frame, and the other video frame is a previous filtered frame stored in...

20060139495 - Ghost cancellation system using wavelet processed ghost cancellation reference signal: Disclosed is a ghost cancellation system based on an enhanced ghost cancellation reference signal for noisy environments. The received analog television signal is first subjected to a digitization step for processing in the digital domain. A wavelet de-noising operation is applied on the reference signal to remove undesired noises before...

20060139496 - Video signal processing apparatus: A video signal processing apparatus receives a video signal containing at least a luminance signal and a color difference signal. A trap filter attenuates a frequency band of the color difference signal to separate the luminance signal from the video signal. A bandpass filter attenuates a frequency band of the...

20060139497 - Method and algorithm for detection of scene cuts or similar images in video images: A method for detecting scene cuts and similar pictures in a video sequence, including receiving pictures in a video sequence, extracting a set of features from two temporally consecutive pictures, computing a sum of square errors for the set of features with respect to the features of the previous picture,...

20060139498 - Digital tv and control method thereof: A digital TV providing a plurality of contents includes a user input unit; a displaying unit which displays an image thereon; and a controller, which controls the displaying unit to display a contents execution menu corresponding to one of the contents being executed, and including selection items to execute corresponding...

20060139499 - Analog television broadcast signal receiver: An analog TV broadcast receiver connected to a multi-directional antenna has a receiving direction counter for a channel which is set at an initial receiving direction to measure intensity of a TV broadcast signal in the initial receiving direction, when a channel registration in the TV broadcast receiver starts. The...

20060139500 - Television control system and method: A television control system and method is proposed. First of all, a first time recording module serves to record time once a television is switched on. Then, a first comparing module serves to compare a result of time recorded by the first time recording module to a first preset time,...

20060132594 - Audio communication system for patient and healthcare provider: An audio communication system for use between a patient receiving a healthcare service and a healthcare provider, includes: a speaker component for providing auditory content to the patient while receiving the healthcare service; an audio component in communication with the speaker component for providing the auditory content to the speaker...

20060132595 - Speakerphone supporting video and audio features: In various embodiments, a speakerphone and/or remote control may be used to control a video conferencing system through a system codec. In some embodiments, video conferencing features may be provided through the speakerphone and/or remote control. For example, features to manage video calls, audio calls, and bridging multiple video and/or...

20060132596 - Method, hub system and terminal equipment for videoconferencing: The invention relates to method for videoconferencing, where videoconferencing signals are received as inputs of each including video- and audio streams in a plurality of downlink ports presenting participants' images and their speaking, where one participant is a speaker in turn; videoconferencing signal as an output is transmitted in an...

20060132597 - Stereoscopic video providing method and stereoscopic video display: A transmitting-side performs an image analysis on a photographed two-dimensional image (100) and extracts a background image (101), an image (102) of a building, and an image (103) of an automobile. These extracted images are handled as objects. Moreover, a depth map is generated by applying a depth value to...

20060132599 - Device and system for in vivo imaging: The present invention provides a system and method for obtaining in vivo images. The system contains an imaging system and a transmitter for transmitting signals from a camera to a receiving system located outside a patient....

20060132598 - Imaging apparatus for electronic endoscope and electronic endoscope: An imaging apparatus for an electronic endoscope includes a bear chip of CCD, a circuit board with approximately the same thickness as the bear chip, and a conducting plate with no less than ¼width of the bear chip. The bear chip has terminals on the surface with an imaging surface....

20060132600 - Driving aid device: A driving aid device for a vehicle comprises a means for imaging and a means for projecting a virtual image in a field of vision of a driver, an opaque screen, arranged in the field of view of the driver, for the formation of a virtual image focused at infinity...

20060132602 - Image server, image acquisition device, and image display terminal: Images are efficiently collected or delivered so that uncomfortable feeling given to users who view picked images picked up at vehicles and delivered by an image server is lessened. An image server is so constructed that the following operation is performed: the picked image of the surroundings of a vehicle,...

20060132603 - Vehicular image pickup device: A position adjustment of the camera body 2 to a reference position can be performed by the position adjustment mechanism 4 with reference to a position relation between the mark 5 provided in the bottom portion 2a of the camera body 2 and the slit 6 formed in the bottom...

20060132601 - Vehicular visual assistance system: In a vehicular visual assistance system, an image picked up by an image pickup device capable of picking up an image of a fore-and-aft region sideward of a vehicle is processed by an image processing device, and displayed on a display monitor. The image pickup device is mounted on a...

20060132604 - Video quick zoom and autofocus for officer safety: This invention automatically captures an image of an object, such as a vehicle or license plate, in the view of a camera mounted in a vehicle, such as a police car, without requiring any action upon the part of the driver of the vehicle containing the camera. The camera also...

20060132605 - Image providing service system: To take a ceremonial photograph including a user himself/herself in a theme park or the like, the user must hand to a third person a camera to ask the photographing. There is a system which can take a picture of a user when the user is in a predetermined position,...

20060132606 - Image capture apparatus and calibrator: A calibration method and an image capture apparatus including a calibrator are provided. The image capture apparatus includes a window glass, an image sensor under the window glass, and a calibrator. The calibrator is disposed above the image sensor and includes a first portion and a second portion. During the...

20060132608 - Automated system and method for processing of astronomical images: This invention encompasses near-real-time processing of astronomical images for viewing on a computer. This image processing method is preferably integrated with the control of an astronomical observatory. The subject invention thus includes an Internet-based system that provides a virtual experience of an astronomical observatory. The subject invention preferably uses an...

20060132607 - Systems and methods for mediating teleconferences: Systems and methods for providing a status of a teleconference by determining an approximate delay time and providing a status signal in view of the determined approximate delay time are provided. An approximate delay time is approximately the amount of time that will elapse before an occurrence occurring at a...

20060132609 - Printing system: A cradle device on which a camera device is mounted can be mounted on a printer device. There is provided a printing system that includes a camera device having an imaging unit and a memory for storing image data photographed by the imaging unit, a cradle device having a camera...

20060132611 - Autonomous traveling unit system: An autonomous traveling unit is advanced toward a wall such that a charging unit is located on the right side. When a distance to the wall reaches a predetermined value not smaller than a thickness of a first member of the charging unit, the autonomous traveling unit is stopped. In...

20060132610 - Multiview video decomposition and encoding: A method decomposes multiview video acquired of a scene by multiple cameras. Each multiview video includes a sequence of frames, and each camera provides a different view of the scene. A prediction mode is selected from a temporal prediction mode, a spatial prediction mode, and a view interpolation prediction mode....

20060132612 - Motion picture taking apparatus and method: A motion picture taking apparatus includes an image pickup device for taking plural images at a predetermined period, a memory for storing the plural images, a shake compensation amount detector for detecting a shake compensation amount for each of the plural images, an image synthesizer for compensating shakes among the...

20060132614 - Image stabilizer of camera: An image stabilizer of a camera is provided that can compensate for the effects of the shaking of a main body that includes a lens, in real-time, by using an optical element. The image stabilizer includes: an optical element that can be tilted, which is installed on an optical path,...

20060132613 - Optical image stabilizer for camera lens assembly: Disclosed is an optical image stabilizer for use with a camera lens assembly. The optical image stabilizer contributes to miniaturization of a camera lens assembly and improves solidity and reliability of a product with the camera lens assembly. The optical image stabilizer includes a base frame, a first frame on...

20060132615 - Image pickup device and cellular phone using the same: An image pickup device includes an electronic image pickup portion for picking up an image of a subject and generating image data, an angular velocity detecting portion for detecting an angular velocity of the electronic image pickup portion, an rotational angle detecting portion for detecting a rotational angle of the...

20060132616 - Browsing system: In operation of a server such as a printer with use of a client such as a digital camera, the client can operate the server without having a complex configuration therefor. The printer is connected to the digital camera for direct printing of image data obtained by the digital camera....

20060132617 - Image pickup apparatus: In the case of a camera system capable of exchanging lenses, a camera can realize a preferable automatic focus adjustment performance even if an exchangeable lens, its lens state, different combination between lens and camera or image pickup state is changed by changing a frequency to be extracted by focus...

20060132618 - Image pickup device and image pickup method: An image pickup apparatus includes a characteristic value calculation circuit 16 for extracting a characteristic value used for predicting an amount of codes to be generated at a time of compressing a video signal acquired by a solid state image pickup device from the video signal, and a compression coefficient...

20060132619 - Image-capturing apparatus and method for correcting nonlinear images: An image-capturing apparatus correcting nonlinear images includes an optical device for converting an input image to have nonlinear characteristics over light intensity; an image sensor for converting the input image having the nonlinear characteristics into an electric signal; a correction unit for correcting the electric signal to obtain a signal...

20060132620 - Data recording apparatus and method thereof: An image file recording apparatus of the present invention records, into a recording medium, an image file that includes image data and header information which has variable-length information, and includes: a JPEG compression unit which generates image data; a microcomputer which determines a first address indicating the head of the...

20060132621 - Information input apparatus and method: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation...

20060132623 - Electronic camera: The present invention relates to an electronic camera which images an object image and records image data. Particularly, the present invention relates to technology to record image data in a good shooting state, such as with little blurring due to hand shaking. The invention has an image pick-up means 1...

20060132622 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device generating image signals of picked up images; a converting unit converting the image signals generated by the image pickup device to digital image signals; a memory storing the image signals obtained by the converting unit; and a memory control unit controlling...

20060132625 - Electronic camera video signal correcting device: A device stores in ROM white spot addresses, white spot levels, an OB level median, sensitivity, and time-in-second under dark shooting, a temperature coefficient correcting the white spot level according to the temperature under normal shooting, a sensitivity coefficient for the sensitivity-based correction, and a time-in-second coefficient for the exposure...

20060132624 - Electronic camera with noise reduction unit: An image and sound recording operation is performed, and image data is successively recorded on a memory (S201). It is judged whether or not a current waveform has reached a threshold value to determine if the current waveform becomes ON (S202). When the current waveform is not ON, sound data...

20060132626 - Pixel defect correction device: A point defect and a line defect in a captured image resulting due to an imaging element defect in a digital camera are interpolated. A defect correction circuit of a digital camera simultaneously corrects a point flaw, a vertical line flaw, and a horizontal line flaw in a captured image....

20060132627 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method and imaging processing program: The imaging apparatus includes a shading correction center-position correction-function unit 11 which changes the center position of the shading correction by a shading correction unit 6 in accordance with the shutter speed of a mechanical shutter 2′ that switches the exposure timing of the imaging by a CCD 3 or...

20060132628 - Image data processing apparatus and electronic camera: An image data processing apparatus includes a data size conversion device that changes a data size of an image data at an optional ratio, the image data has a plurality of pixels each of which includes any one of a plurality of color components, and the plurality of color components...

20060132629 - Imaging system and image processing program: The image pickup system of the present invention is an image pickup system for processing an image signal at each pixel which is composed of more than one color signals and one or more of the color signals are dropped out according to the location of the pixel, comprising a...

20060132631 - Hand shake compensation unit and image capturing apparatus: A hand shake compensation unit having a first substrate on which an image sensor is provided, a second substrate on which a processing circuit for processing an output signal from the image sensor is provided, a driving mechanism that drives the first substrate with respect to the second substrate, and...

20060132630 - Image sensing device with wide dynamic range and image pickup apparatus using the same: An image sensing device with a wide dynamic range by using an optical limiter, and an image pickup apparatus using the same. The image sensing device includes an optical limiter for converting an input image into a non-linear image at an intensity greater than a threshold intensity, and an image...

20060132632 - Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof: A solid-state imaging device achieving a global shutter of images and its manufacturing method are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, it is provided a solid-state imaging device comprising an optical signal storage region provided in a semiconductor substrate, a signal detecting region provided in the semiconductor...

20060132633 - Cmos image sensors having pixel arrays with uniform light sensitivity: Solid state CMOS active pixel sensor devices having unit pixels that are structured to provide improved uniformity of pixel-to-pixel sensitivity across a pixel array without the need for an additional light shielding layer. For example, unit pixels with symmetrical layout patterns are formed whereby one or more lower-level BEOL metallization...

20060132634 - Solid-state imaging device and method for driving the same: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixel cells, each of which includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, is arranged, and an adder for performing an addition operation on a plurality of signals output from the photoelectric conversion elements of the pixel array...

20060132635 - Single axis ccd time gated ladar sensor: A CCD sensor device has columns and rows of masked pixels that form a charge storage matrix. A singular column of photosensitive pixels form a photosensitive region and are directly connected to the first column of the charge storage matrix. Photons received in the pixels of the photosensitive region are...

20060132638 - Image pickup apparatus, guide frame displaying controlling method and computer program: An apparatus and method is disclosed which allows a user to grasp recording image regions for a moving image and a still image to be recorded actually to perform accurate image recording. An image pickup apparatus which can record moving images and still images determines forms of guide frames for...

20060132637 - Image processor: From a moving image selected by a user, moving image information including a time length of the moving image and the number of change points of clips in the moving image is acquired. Layout data showing a design (the number, size, layout and the like of plural frame images configuring...

20060132636 - Moving-image recording device for recording moving image: Object images taken for a predetermined period before a shutter key is pressed are stored in a buffer. During the period, past object images taken at every one second are read from the buffer, the read images are displayed in predetermined areas in a through image, and the images in...

20060132639 - Dual mode image engine: An image reader capable of operating in two modes for imaging a target is described. It includes an image sensor, a free-space objective lens system and an optically encoded lens system each adapted to direct light reflected from the target onto the image sensor, and a processor for processing signals...

20060132640 - Optical lens assembly for a handheld electronic device: An optical lens assembly is disclosed as including a light-sensitive member; first and second lenses/lens groups with their respective optical axis aligned with each other along a common optical axis; and first and second piezo electric ultrasonic linear motors; in which the first motor is operable to move the first...

20060132641 - Optical filter and image pickup apparatus having the same: A wavelength selective member for intercepting the passage of a beam of a predetermined wavelength range is disposed on a light incidence side of an optical member formed of an organic material having optical anisotropy, to thereby provide an optical filter which suffers little from the deterioration of performance with...

20060132642 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image pickup apparatus, computer program and recording medium: Noises are reduced in an image picked up in natural light without using lighting equipment that affect the picked up image. The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a visible light image and an invisible light image corresponding to the visible...

20060132643 - Deployable monitoring device having self-righting housing and associated method: A deployable monitoring device is provided comprising a self-righting housing and a video capturing device. The housing has a base and an opposed end disposed along an axis, with a center of gravity disposed about the base, and is self-righting along the axis. The housing, when righted, is supported by...

20060132644 - Wafer based camera module and method of manufacture: An integrated camera module (10, 10a) for capturing video images in very small digital cameras, cell phones, personal digital assistants, and the like. A lens assembly (24, 24a) is rigidly affixed in relation to a sensor array area (14) of a camera chip (12) by a molding (26). The molding...

20060132645 - Electronic communication device: An electronic communication device is provided, which includes a scene shooting portion, a communication portion and a hinge portion. The scene shooting portion includes a lens. The communication portion includes a display unit. The hinge portion is for connecting the scene shooting portion and the communication portion, so that the...

20060132646 - Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method: To provide a video signal processing apparatus capable of generating video signals that enable displaying and recording of a high-quality picture. A video signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a decoder decoding an input TS to generate a video signal having a field frequency...

20060132647 - Method and apparatus for simultaneous display in progressive and interlaced scanning modes: A video data processing device for displaying an interlaced field in a displaying device according to a progressive frame, the video data processing device includes a video input/output interface for receiving the progressive frame; a buffer device coupled to the video input/output interface for storing a plurality of pixel data...

20060132648 - Apparatus to enhance image signal distinction and method thereof: An apparatus to enhance a distinction of image signals and a method thereof. The apparatus includes a de-interlacing unit to de-interlace input image signals using an interlaced scanning method and to output a de-interlaced image signal using a progressive scanning method, and a saw-tooth artifact processor to remove saw-tooth artifacts...

20060132649 - Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and tv broadcast reception apparatus: According to this invention, a video signal processing apparatus inputs an HD video signal or SD up-conversion video signal in an HD format, and includes the first and second second-derivative calculation circuits which respectively calculate the first and second second-derivative signals each of which has a pixel frequency suitable for...

20060132650 - Method and apparatus for generating a reference television signal: CW lock is conducted with less manual operation. A first input 22 receives a black burst (BB) signal from a key TV station. A second input 30 receives a continuous wave (CW) signal having an accurate, known frequency. A phase adjust signal generator 24 generates a reset signal having a...

20060132651 - Frame synchronizer, optical disk device, information recording/reproducing apparatus, and signal synchronizing method: To provide a frame synchronizer free of any loss of additional information added to frame data of an input video signal. An embodiment of the invention relates to a frame synchronizer for receiving a video signal having a first synchronization signal and frame data on a frame basis, writing the...

20060132652 - Display apparatus, control method thereof and device for processing signal: The present invention relates to a display apparatus including a display part displaying a digital signal that includes a pixel clock, a frequency adjusting part adjusting a frequency of the pixel clock, and a controller controlling the frequency adjusting part to adjust the frequency of the pixel clock of the...

20060132653 - Video display device and video display method: When showing a picture without trimming it while a video signal stored in a frame memory 26 has an aspect ratio different from that of a screen of a plasma display panel 29, with respect to video signals E2a and E2b in areas bordering on blank zones E1 and E3...

20060132654 - Computer system storing display environment: Disclosed is a computer system having a computer and a monitor connected to the computer for displaying an image from the computer thereon. The monitor has an input unit for each user to set and select the display environment, a profile storing unit for storing therein the display environment information...

20060132655 - Image viewing system and method for generating filters for filtering image features according to their type: Image processing system for generating a multidimensional adaptive oriented filter to be applied to the point intensities of a d-dimensional image, comprising analyzing means with means (5, fi) to estimate at each image point a probability measure (Fi) of the presence of a type of feature of interest and a...

20060132656 - Picture quality adjusting device and a television set having a picture quality adjusting device: A television set carries out communications with a remote control. When the television set displays a picture based on a picture signal subjected to quality adjustment, a signal level of a quality adjustment parameter is obtained, and the data indicating the obtained signal level is transmitted to the remote control....

20060132657 - Video signal processing circuit and display apparatus comprising the same: A display apparatus having a display. The display apparatus includes a video signal processor having a processor to process an input video signal and a picture quality improving part to improve picture quality of the processed video signal. The video signal processor processes the video signal through a path that...

20060132658 - Compensation method of digital image data: The present invention relates to a compensation method for compensating digital image data generated from a scanning module of a scanner when the luminance of a lamp tube is unstable. Several compensating gains are computed according to the luminance values of a reference white plate so as to compensate the...

20060132659 - Image display apparatus and driving method thereof: In a conventional image display apparatus, since display load ratios for respective lines are different, voltage drop amounts are also different and a difference in brightness occurs in spite of giving the same inputted luminance signal, so that image quality of display image is degraded. In the case where signals...

20060132660 - Image processing unit, image processing method, image display device using such image processing unit, and electronic apparatus using such image display device: An image processing unit includes a discriminating unit for discriminating, for every data unit of an input image signal, whether the data unit is black-and-white image data or color image data; a black-and-white image processing unit for detecting at least one of pre-stored line segment patterns from the data unit,...

20060132661 - Liquid crystal television apparatus: A liquid crystal television apparatus includes a tuner, a signal processor, a liquid crystal cell, a light source for backlight, an inverter, and a power supply, includes a first circuit board including a single-sided board, a second circuit board including a multilayered board, and a connector that electrically connects the...

20060132662 - Apparatus for synchronization acquisition in digital receiver and method thereof: An apparatus for system synchronization acquisition in a digital receiver and method thereof are disclosed, by which a synchronization unit is precisely locked and by which fast tracking performance is provided. The present invention includes a pre-processing unit digitally converting a reception signal by processing the reception signal in an...

20060132663 - Image display device and channel setting method: Provided is a channel setting device in accordance with the present invention comprises: a signal processing unit including a tuner to perform a channel search; a key input unit to which a command of a user is input; a memory storing a channel information; and a controller controlling a channel...

20060132664 - Projection television: A projection television includes a video processor to process input video signals, a single CRT to project light according to the processed video signals, a color wheel located in a front of the CRT to filter the light projected from the CRT into predetermined colored light, and a controller to...

20060125915 - Video camera in mobile phone: A portable communication apparatus (1) comprises a first housing portion (2) and a second housing portion (3), a rotary support member (6) rotatably connecting the first housing portion and the second housing portion, an image producing apparatus (7), and an optical input (8) for the image producing apparatus located in...

20060125914 - Video input for conversation with sing language, video i/o device for conversation with sign language, and sign language interpretation system: A videophone sign language conversation assistance device includes a target imaging camera for imaging a target other than a sign language, a sign language imaging camera for imaging the sign language of a deaf-mute person, a waist fixing device for fixing the sign language imaging camera at the waist of...

20060125917 - Three dimensional image display apparatus: Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus, which can sense a displacement of a display using a gyroscopic sensor and control a 3D image displayed on the display using the sensed result. The 3D image display apparatus includes a body, a display displaying a 3D image, a gyroscopic sensor...

20060125916 - Three-dimensional video processing method and three-dimensional video display: A stereoscopic image processing method for extracting a plurality of dots, i.e., a pixel unit, from a plurality of viewpoint images by each viewpoint image. Data of the plurality of dots serving as a pixel unit is extracted from each viewpoint image, and an aggregate of such the data is...

20060125918 - Video and flashlight camera: An improved security system incorporating a video flashlight for data acquisition (image data and audio data) by a security officer. The video flashlight includes a video camera, a transmitter and a power supply, in addition to the ordinary flashlight features. The camera converts an image or a series of real-time...

20060125919 - Vision system for vehicle: A vision system for a vehicle includes an imaging device having an imaging sensor, a camera microcontroller, a display device having a display element, a display microcontroller, and at least one user input selectively actuatable by a user. The imaging device communicates an image signal to the display device via...

20060125920 - Matching un-synchronized image portions: A matching system may be used to match unsynchronized camera signals. In one example, the images from each camera may be matched by synchronizing images from each camera such that the scene of each image is determined to be static. Alternatively or additionally, the images from one camera may be...

20060125921 - Method and system for compensating for parallax in multiple camera systems: A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped to a common coordinate system and the disparity between overlapping images is reduced using disparity estimation...

20060125922 - System and method for processing raw image files: A system and related techniques provide a uniform abstraction layer for accessing and manipulating Raw image files, with the necessity for proprietary application tools. According to embodiments in one regard, an operating system or other platform may expose a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to general purpose image processing,...

20060125923 - Lcd photographic printer: A high-speed photographic printer having an imaging active matrix liquid crystal display with a corrective lens arrangement confronting the imaging active matrix liquid crystal display. The high-speed photographic printer includes a light sealable housing, a lens drawer located between the imaging active matrix liquid crystal display, an operating system that...

20060125924 - Range finding digital camera: A range finding digital camera (100) includes a main digital camera and a laser range finder (18) assembled to the main digital camera via a serial or a parallel connection interface. The main digital camera includes an image display (13) and a controller (15) for inputting commands to the laser...

20060125925 - Digital camera module with auto-focusing function: A digital camera module (100) with an auto-focusing function is adapted for use in a foldable electronic device. The digital camera module includes a lens mount (10), a lens barrel (20), a voice coil actuator (40), and an image pick-up module (50). The lens barrel receives at least one lens...

20060125926 - Image-taking apparatus: Provided is an image-taking apparatus having an easier human machine interface than before. Instead of operating an operator, a mode for a flash condition among multiple shooting conditions displayed on a display panel of a liquid crystal display device is switched from an automatic mode to a forced on mode...

20060125927 - Image communication system and an apparatus for and a method of processing an image: A communication system includes a portable phone and a digital still camera. The user selects an image for transmission, and data indicating a frame number of the selected image is sent from the portable phone to the digital still camera. The portable phone sends a re-size instruction to the digital...

20060125928 - Scene and user image capture device and method: An image capture device and methods are provided. The image capture device has a scene image capture system adapted to capture an image of a scene and a user image capture system adapted to capture an image of a user of the image capture device. A trigger system adapted to...

20060125929 - Wireless communication terminal having function for automatically controlling flash and method thereof: A wireless communication terminal having a function for automatically controlling a flash and a method thereof are disclosed. The wireless communication terminal includes: an image capturing unit for obtaining an image of an object in real-time, converting the obtained image to an electric image signal, and automatically controlling a gain...

20060125930 - Image capture and distribution system and method: Images captured at a venue and relating to one or more patrons of the venue are incorporated into one or more products in accordance with image selections and/or product selections made by the patron(s). The images may be captured at venues with a variety of image capture devices such as...

20060125932 - Integrated circuit chip with an image sensor and a backend processing module built therein: An integrated circuit chip includes an image sensor and a backend processing module. The image sensor is adapted for generating an image output corresponding to a captured image. The backend processing module is coupled to the image sensor, and includes an image processing unit for digital processing of the image...

20060125931 - Method for processing film images which are deviated from the film recording optical path of a moving picture camera: The invention relates to a method for processing film images which are deviated from the film-recording optical path of a moving picture camera and which are converted into digital assist signals (AS) with the aid of an image sensor which is arranged in the assist optical path (S4) of the...

20060125933 - Compact holder for memory storage device and digital image processing apparatus having the same: Provided is a memory card holder in which different types of memory cards are compatible, and a digital image processing apparatus using the memory card slot. The memory card holder includes: a plurality of memory card accommodating units that are formed at a predetermined angle from each other and share...

20060125934 - Image pickup apparatus adapted to carry out parallel operations and control method: For achieving high-speed continuous shooting and increasing the number of shots that can be picked-up continuously, within a limited buffer memory size, an image pickup apparatus is provided with a function of carrying out a first process of storing output data from an image pickup element on a first memory...

20060125935 - System and method for automatic format selection for digital photographs: A system and method for automatically determine whether an image captured by a digital camera should be stored in a raw format or a compressed format. After an image is captured by the digital camera, the digital camera checks certain sets of characteristics of the captured image to check the...

20060125936 - Multi-lens imaging systems and methods: Imaging systems and methods are provided. One exemplary system incorporates multiple lenses that are individually configured to receive visible light from an object to be imaged, and to direct this light upon a corresponding sensor array. Luminance information is then derived from signals generated in one or more of the...

20060125937 - High resolution zoom: a novel digital zoom for digital video camera: A camera system and a method for zooming the camera system is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating an electronic image by sensing an optical image received by the camera, the sensing including electronic cropping to a window size to establish an initial resolution for the...

20060125938 - Systems and methods for de-blurring motion blurred images: Systems and methods for providing a substantially de-blurred image of a scene from a motion blurred image of the scene are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a primary detector for sensing the motion blurred image and generating primary image information representing the blurred image, a secondary detector for sensing two...

20060125939 - Circuit and method for detecting pixel defect: A circuit for detecting a pixel defect includes the following elements. A first defect detector compares a level of a target pixel signal on one horizontal pixel signal line of pixel signals input from an imaging device with levels of a plurality of surrounding pixel signals of the target pixel...

20060125940 - Substitution of defective readout circuits in imagers: An imaging system configured with readout circuit redundancy is disclosed. Pixel data from a particular column can be steered around a defective readout circuit to an operational readout circuit. Thus, larger imaging arrays which are generally more prone to common column circuitry defects are enabled. In addition, imaging systems configured...

20060125941 - Image sensor: The image sensor includes an array of pixels, each pixel having a photo-diode, for providing a pixel voltage, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to convert the pixel voltage to a digital value and a memory for storing the digital value. Read circuitry is included for reading out the digital values...

20060125942 - Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A method of driving an electro-optical device includes dividing a vertical scanning period into first and second sub-fields of individual colors; stopping irradiation of light in the first sub-field; almost simultaneously selecting one scanning line and one or more adjacent scanning lines in a predetermined order; supplying to pixels data...

20060125943 - Image sensor for still or video photography: A method for reading out charge from an interlined CCD having a plurality of photo-sensing regions and a plurality of vertical shift registers, and each photosensitive region is mated respectively to a CCD of a vertical shift register and a color filter having a repeating pattern of two rows in...

20060125944 - Solid-state image pickup element and image pickup apparatus using the same: A solid-state image pickup element has: a photoelectric converting film which is stacked above a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric converting elements which are arranged in the row direction and the column direction on the semiconductor substrate, and signal charge accumulating portions in which signal charges generated in the photoelectric converting...

20060125945 - Solid-state imaging device and electronic camera and shading compensaton method: A solid-state imaging device provides an in situ shading correction value regardless of electronic camera performance variation or type of replacement lens installed, etc. In one implementation, light-receiving region 110 of a solid-state imaging device 100 is divided into an effective pixel part 110A and an available pixel part 110B....

20060125946 - Portable information terminal equipped with camera: The information terminal body may be designed to foldably pivot a pair of flat cases each having a display unit through a hinge which is equipped with a photographing optical system for the camera function unit of which optical axis of lens is perpendicular to an axial center of the...

20060125947 - Imaging with clustered photosite arrays: Systems and methods of imaging with clustered photosite arrays are described. In one aspect, an image sensor includes an array of clusters of photosites and an array of optical elements. The photosites are arranged in respective groups of multiple ones of the photosites sharing at least one readout circuit component....

20060125948 - Solid-state imaging element, solid-state imaging device, and method for fabricating the same: Each of solid-state imaging elements 11a, 11b and 11c includes a photoelectric conversion element and a photonic crystal which is formed on the photoelectric conversion element. The photonic crystal has a refractive index periodic structure including: a periodic structure in the stacking direction which is created by stacking low refractive...

20060125949 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup system: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image pickup apparatus configured to switch between a color and a black & white photographing modes, which includes an image pickup optical system, an image pickup element that receives a light through the image pickup optical system and opto-electronically converts the...

20060125950 - Digital camera module with a focusing assembly: A focusing assembly (10) includes a holder (11), a voice coil actuator (20), a rotating tube (23), and an inner tube (31). The holder is covered by a cover (12) and has a guiding slot (112) defined therein. The rotating tube is received in the holder and includes a magnet...

20060125951 - Lens-barrel and image pick-up device: At the time of crimping and fixing a plastic lens on a lens barrel, productivity is improved by achieving an accurate alignment and a reliable crimping. Fixed protrusions are arranged on an outer peripheral portion of the lens at intervals capable of providing three-point support, and a fixed protrusion is...

20060125952 - Image-capturing device and method for controlling same: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image-capturing device which can include an imaging unit that performs photoelectric conversion on incident light that is formed on an imaging screen, a luminance-data extracting unit that extracts luminance data from data read from the imaging unit, and an exposure-adjusting unit...

20060125953 - Remotely delivered, self-deployed multi-function sensor: The present invention is an encapsulated sensor suite that deploys remotely. After deployment, an imager in the sensor suite is raised by a variety of means and is capable of being turned by a motor that locks on to sounds coming from a potential target. The motor is actuated by...

20060125954 - Docking station assembly for transmitting digital files: A docking station assembly for transmitting digital images, the docking station assembly comprises a housing for forming an enclosure for the docking station assembly and the housing includes an insert-receiving portion for receiving any of a plurality of removable and replaceable inserts; and a removable and replaceable insert having a...

20060125955 - Format conversion: A method and computer program product for reformatting at least a portion of a digital source image. The digital source image has a number of pixels defining an original format which is to be converted to a destination image in a new format having a number of pixels. The number...

20060125956 - Deinterlacing method and device in use of field variable partition type: Disclosed is a deinterlacing method and device in use of a field variable partition type. The deinterlacing method includes partitioning one of a plurality of macro blocks composing a current field according to a first and a second main partition type, respectively. A first and a second main motion vector...

20060125957 - Method of caching teletext page data, teletext receiver system and television set: A method of caching teletext page data in a memory unit (21) of a teletext receiver system, comprises receiving and storing in the memory unit (21) data representing a sequence of teletext pages embedded in a signal belonging to a first one of a plurality of channels; and subsequently receiving...

20060125958 - Automatic display video positioning and scaling system: An apparatus and method of automatically digitizing analog video and stroke and with size and positioning information. This is accomplished using signal characteristics of the deflection waveforms and video signals together with the video synchronization and blanking timing. This allows analog real time positioning and scaling by synchronizing the video...

20060125959 - Video processing device: A video processing device includes a control circuit for detecting a physical quantity related to a size of noise contained in the input video signal, and an OSD (On Screen Display) circuit for providing a user with a warning screen when the physical quantity detected by the control circuit is...

20060125960 - Image data decoding method of image vertical blanking interval and a device thereof: An image data decoding method of an image vertical blanking interval (VBI) and device thereof in accordance with the present invention can adjust a run-in clock signal of data lines of teletext to be corresponding to a data phase of teletext data lines. The present invention can accurately decode data...

20060125961 - Selectively overlaying a user interface atop a video signal: Overlaying visual interface information atop a video signal without obscuring desired features of the video signal. The video signal may contain one or more pre-selected features, such as text. Two or more display sections equally divide the video signal, and any pre-selected features in the video signal are identified as...

20060125962 - Apparatus and methods for handling interactive applications in broadcast networks: An interactive method includes receiving, at a display device, background video including a multiplicity of video frames, at least one of the multiplicity of video frames including a plurality of sub-pictures, each of the plurality of sub-pictures representing an alternative background, and switching, at the display device, between a first...

20060125963 - Personal video recorder system and method for reproducing a broadcasting signal in the system: The present invention relates to a PVR (personal video recorder) system, which includes: a fist tuner and a second tuner for extracting an audio/video signal; a first signal processing unit for image-processing the video signal outputted from the A/V switch to reproduce a broadcasting channel tuned by the first tuner...

20060125964 - Post-processor design supporting non-flickering interlaced display: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for preventing and eliminating undesirable effects in displayed video. The method may include receiving video information and decoding the video information. The method may also include processing the number of illuminable lines associated with a video frame and blanking a remainder of the...

20060125966 - Luminance and color separation: A luminance and color separation filter unit (300, 400, 500, 600, 700) for extracting a luminance signal (Y) and two color signals (U, V) from a composite color television signal (CVBS), comprising a chrominance (C) signal being modulated on a subcarrier which is located in the high-frequency part of the...

20060125965 - Method and device for separating a chrominance signal from a composite video baseband signal: The invention relates to a method for separating a chrominance signal from a composite video baseband signal. In order to improve the separation, it is proposed that the composite video baseband signal is filtered sequentially in any order by means of spatial comb filter means in horizontal and vertical direction...

20060125967 - Y/c separation with 3d comb filter: The present invention uses a 2D comb filter 20 to output a 2D chrominance signal C2d by comparing the current scan-line signals with the signals before and after the current scan-line signals. A 3D chrominance signal C3d is then acquired by directly subtracting two adjacent 2D image signals and then...

20060125968 - Control system, apparatus compatible with the system, and remote controller: A control system includes a remote controller and an apparatus capable of being controlled by the remote controller, wherein the remote controller comprises: a housing formed separately from the apparatus; an image pickup section provided in the housing and adapted to be capable of generating image information including information contributing...

20060125969 - Laser illuminated projection displays: A projection video display includes a light source including an OPS-laser delivering laser radiation in multiple transverse modes (a multiple-transverse-mode OPS-laser). The display includes a spatial light modulator for spatially modulating the radiation from the multiple-transverse-mode OPS-laser in accordance with a portion of an image to be displayed. Projection optics...

20060114315 - Mixed media telecommunication call manager: A method of transferring communication between communication channels of differing bandwidth comprises establishing data communications on a first channel having a first bandwidth, establishing data communications on a second channel in response to a trigger indicating changes in the data to be communicated, wherein the second channel has a bandwidth...

20060114314 - Picture/video telephony for a push-to-talk wireless communications device: A hand-held wireless communications device, for example, a cellular telephone, comprises a housing, a microphone to capture a user's voice, a camera to capture images and/or video, a transceiver to communicate with a remote party in a half-duplex mode, and a push-to-talk actuator. A controller detects an operational state of...

20060114316 - Video system and method supporting display of different size pictures: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for dynamic blanking. In one embodiment, there is presented a method. The method comprises generating blank lines forming a portion of a larger picture if a picture is not available, until the picture is available; and including the picture in the larger picture...

20060114317 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus: A stereoscopic image display apparatus having a low image data input rate, in which the required capacity of a memory is reduced without causing flicker and ghosts. In the invention, right and left parallax image data is compressed, the compressed image data is stored in a frame memory, each of...

20060114318 - Abnormality detecting apparatus for imaging apparatus: An abnormality detecting apparatus for an imaging apparatus that detects a presence of abnormalities in imaging apparatuses mounted on a vehicle to capture vehicle surroundings, which includes: a luminance variance value calculating device that calculates a luminance variance value of each image from the imaging apparatuses using the luminance value...

20060114319 - Film autoloader and image reading apparatus: A head of a spliced film is transported to downstream side along a path by feed roller pairs, nip roller pairs and transport roller pairs; while the head of the spliced film is detected by a sensor located before a transport merging portion, the nip roller pairs are stop to...

20060114320 - Position detecting apparatus and method of correcting data therein: Two aiming targets are arranged at positions that are away from two infrared cameras by a predetermined distance. One of the infrared cameras images one of the aiming targets, and the other of the infrared cameras images the other of the aiming targets. Assuming that the obtained images relate to...

20060114323 - Method for state-dependent safeguarding of machines and apparatus for implementing the method: A method and an apparatus safeguard hazardous areas in machines in the printing industry. Such a hazardous area is monitored by at least one sensor that is suitable for identifying objects penetrating into the hazardous area and is connected to a machine control system. When an object penetrates into the...

20060114321 - Roofing site monitoring system: The present invention discloses a monitoring system for use at roofing project sites and, in particular, roof installation, repair and replacement sites. The monitoring systems include image-capturing devices, such as cameras that are positioned at a roofing project site and associated transmitters and a transmission system to send the project...

20060114322 - Wide area surveillance system: A vision system includes an image capturing arrangement for producing a plurality of first image signals of a scene based on electromagnetic energy received from the scene. A platform supports at least the image capturing arrangement for selectively positioning and repositioning the image capturing arrangement so that it images a...

20060114324 - Method and apparatus for collaborative aggregate situation awareness: A surveillance method comprises the steps of: sending information requests to one or more of a plurality of unmanned airborne platforms, each carrying one or more sensors for gathering information; coordinating processing of the requests among the plurality of airborne platforms; and transmitting responses to the requests to one or...

20060114325 - System and method to locate terrorists and criminals: A system and methods to determine the point of origin of a moveable unit of interest, such as a car bomb in a large geographic area such as Bagdad. The system comprises of a high-flying platform such as an aircraft or satellite with the capability to obtain imagery of vehicles...

20060114326 - Image display apparatus, image display system, and image display method: In an image display system which has a management station for saving, in a server, management data that contains at least names, identification numbers, and connection numbers of image sensing devices, and is described in the data description language, and the display style of the management data, and a display...

20060114328 - Apparatus and method for processing images taking into consideration light reflection, and a computer readable medium storing computer program therefor: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus taking into consideration of light reflection, and a computer readable recording medium storing a program executing the same are provided. The image processing apparatus for irradiating light beams onto a light-transmitting object and a subject located behind the light-transmitting object and...

20060114329 - Electronic camera and recording and regenerating method therein: Audio regeneration data indicating where sound during audio regeneration is stored is recorded in a recording medium together with captured image data when image-capturing. The image data recorded in the recording medium and the audio regeneration data is read during image regeneration process. The image is displayed in accordance with...

20060114330 - Electronic camera that reduces processing time by performing different processes in parallel: An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject and generates image data; a first bus to which the image data generated by the image capturing device are output; an image memory that is connected to the first bus and temporarily stores the image data...

20060114327 - Photo movie creating apparatus and program: A photo movie is created based on scene configuration information, which includes scene definition information to determine a type of special effects, the number of still images, and playback time for each scene. The playback time is summed up to figure total playback time of the photo movie. If an...

20060114331 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus comprises a detection unit adapted to detect a positional shift of a main object in each of the images, a coordinate converting unit adapted to convert coordinates of each of the images using a detection result of the detection unit, and a correcting unit adapted to...

20060114332 - Imaging device: An image pickup apparatus 20 comprises a plurality of image pickup units 1 including an image pickup device 3 and a front lens 2, the adjacent image pickup units 1 being located in such a manner that image pickup areas overlap each other and the image pickup units being located...

20060114334 - Image pickup apparatus with function of rate conversion processing and control method therefor: A rate conversion unit determines a frame thinning-out rate to thin out frames on the basis of a recording rate at the time of photographing and a display rate for display on a display apparatus so that a temporal updating interval of a video image between continuous fields becomes constant....

20060114333 - Method and system to increase dynamic range of time-of-flight (tof) and/or imaging sensors: Dynamic range of photodetector sensors useable in a TOF system is enhanced by capturing images of an object using multiple exposure time settings. Longer exposure settings more appropriately capture non-reflective and/or distant objects, while shorter exposure settings more appropriately capture reflective and/or closer objects. During parallel mode operation, detection signal...

20060114335 - Optical image capturing device: An optical image capturing device which is configured to carry out underwater photographing, and comprises a selecting section configured to select a plurality of photographing modes including an underwater photographing mode, an imaging member to obtain an object image, and an adjusting section to adjust white balance of an image...

20060114337 - Device and method for embedding and retrieving information in digital images: A digital imaging device and methods thereof that will enable the embedding and retrieving of information in digital images are provided. The digital imaging device includes a capture module for capturing an image and creating a digital image file; an input module for inputting information regarding the captured image; and...

20060114336 - Method and apparatus for automatically attaching a location indicator to produced, recorded and reproduced images: An apparatus that produces or records images, such as a camera, a video camera, a motion picture camera, a video recorder (also known as a camcorder), a digital camera, or a multifunctional cellular phone having still picture or video image capabilities, automatically attaches a location indicator to the produced or...

20060114338 - Device and method for embedding and retrieving information in digital images: A digital imaging device and method for embedding and retrieving of information in digital images are provided. The digital imaging device includes a capture module for capturing an image and creating a digital image file; a locational information module for determining a location of the device when capturing the image;...

20060114339 - Image storage: An image storage includes a built-in memory having large capacity for storing plural image data taken by a digital camera. A digital circuit retrieves desired one of the ima