Television inventions 01/07

20070019066 - Normalized images for cameras: A method and system for producing normalized images of conference participants so that the participants appear to be approximately the same size when the images are displayed is provided. The normalizing system normalizes the size of images based on constraints relating to the distance of participants from the location of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070019067 - 3d model display apparatus: A 3D image display apparatus is disclosed which includes a ray modulator which emits a directive ray in a time series manner based on parallax image information, a scanner which deflects the ray from the ray modulator and scans a predetermined plane two-dimensionally with the deflected ray a light emitting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070019069 - System and methods for enhancing the experience of spectators attending a live sporting event, with bookmark setting capability: A handheld electronic device for use at a venue hosting a live sporting event, having a receiver for receiving a wireless RF transmission conveying a plurality of video streams derived from video cameras filming the live sporting event, a display and a user interface for selecting a video stream among... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070019068 - System and methods for enhancing the experience of spectators attending a live sporting event, with user authentication capability: A handheld electronic device for use at a venue hosting a live sporting event, having a receiver for receiving a wireless RF transmission conveying a plurality of video streams derived from video cameras filming the live sporting event, a display and a user interface for selecting a video stream among... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070019070 - Method of forming optical images, an array of converging elements and an array of light valves for use in this method, apparatus for carrying out this method and a process for manufacturing a device using this method: A maskless lithography method and apparatus, whereby corresponding sets of light valves (7) and radiation-converging elements (17) are provided between a radiation source and a radiation-sensitive layer (3). Each converging element corresponds to a different one of the light valves (7) and serves to converge radiation from the corresponding light... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070019071 - Smoke detection: A smoke detection method for identifying, in a current input image, an area indicative of the presence of smoke, there being a sequence of two or more input images, the method comprising the steps of: storing a background estimation for a current input image; and comparing the current input image... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070019072 - Apparatus for processing digital images: A vehicle seat for supporting a passenger of a vehicle. The seat includes a seat frame having a mount for mounting the frame to the vehicle, a support extending from the mount, a seat bottom mounted on the support for supporting the passenger when occupying the seat, and a seat... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070019073 - Statistical modeling and performance characterization of a real-time dual camera surveillance system: The present invention relates to a method for visually detecting and tracking an object through a space. The method chooses modules for a restricting a search function within the space to regions with a high probability of significant change, the search function operating on images supplied by a camera. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070019074 - Display unit: An object of the invention is to provide a display unit capable of rendering an uneven luminance undistinguished by processing a display area alone where a burning phenomenon occurred without processing an entire screen. A main unit CPU of an image display unit is provided with an image signal control... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070019075 - Method and apparatus for testing image sensors: Methods and apparatuses for testing image sensors are disclosed. Desirable apparatuses of the present invention include image sensor testing devices comprising a digital light projection system capable of projecting static or dynamic images onto an image sensing device under test and an image sensor signal detection means for analyzing the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070019076 - Printed board, image pickup apparatus and camera: The present invention relates to a bendable printed board, an image pickup apparatus, and a camera. The bendable printed board is provided with: a first end connected to a moving body movable in an arbitral direction within a predefined plane; a second end connected to fixed body with slack providing... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070019077 - Portable surveillance camera and personal surveillance system using the same: A portable surveillance camera and a personal surveillance system are disclosed. More specifically, provided are a portable surveillance camera comprising a mini-camera such as a CMOS camera or a CCD camera, and a system for surveilling a predetermined place using the portable surveillance camera. The personal surveillance system receives multimedia... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070019079 - Digital camera and control method thereof: A control method of a digital camera includes: displaying a moving image on a screen based on charges stored in an image sensor by an electronic shutter with a shutter curtain opened; detecting illuminance of the shutter curtain with the shutter curtain closed; setting a still image exposure period based... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070019078 - Digital camera loyalty system and method: A digital loyalty camera is provided which includes internal memory or storing digital image files. Additionally, the digital loyalty camera includes a standard interface for transferring the stored image files. In one particular embodiment of the present invention, a standard memory storage card slot is provides as the standard interface... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070019080 - Digital camera with priority information: Even if the digital camera is inexpensive without the function of reproducing images, it can effectively use a memory capacity and has the function of responding to quick image-capturing, and important images can be recorded with higher priority. The digital camera comprises a priority selection switch for selecting priority of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019081 - Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method and image pickup program: According to the present invention, image data temporarily stored in the storage section is determined as to whether it meets set photographing conditions, and the image data is recorded when found to meet the photographing conditions, while the image data is not recorded and is deleted when found not to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070019083 - Image capturing apparatus, photograph quantity management method, and photograph quantity management program: An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing element which receives subject light incident via a photographing lens, converts the subject light into a captured image signal, and outputs the signal; an A/D conversion section which converts the captured image signal outputted by the image capturing element into image data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070019082 - Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and imaging device: Disclosed is a video signal processing apparatus applicable to various LCD panels. This video signal processing apparatus includes a format converting unit which converts first-format image data into second-format image data, a point sequential converting unit which converts the second-format image data into point sequenced data, a resizing unit which... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070019084 - Flexible printed wiring board arrangement of an imaging device: A flexible printed wiring board arrangement of an imaging device, includes an image pickup device fixing member to which an image pickup device is fixed; a holding member which holds the image pickup device fixing member; an inclination angle adjusting mechanism for changing an inclination angle of the image pickup... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070019085 - Method and apparatus providing imager noise reduction using parallel input arithmetic mean modules: Noise correction values are generated through the calculation of pixel offset values and average pixel output values during a calibration procedure. For each read calibration row, an average pixel output value is determined for a plurality of pixel output values. An offset value for each of the plurality of pixel... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070019086 - Color imaging pickup device and color image pickup apparatus: A color image pickup device including: a pixel group placed in an array of a plurality of pixels of photoelectric conversion elements; and a color coding array corresponding to the pixel group, the color coding array arranged in a randomized array, or arranged in a randomized array satisfying predetermined array... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070019087 - Pixel signal processor and pixel signal processing method: A pixel signal having a k-th spectral characteristic at a pixel interpolation position occupied by a pixel signal having an h-th spectral characteristic is generated from a set of pixel signals arrayed in a two-dimensional plane, each having one of a plurality of spectral characteristics, by calculating a difference between... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070019088 - Camera module and mobile phone: A mobile phone includes a camera module including an imaging element in which light-receiving pixel groups for photoelectrically converting incident light are formed on a substrate, and an input/output unit that processes signals from the imaging element, and a control unit that identifies the imaging element on the basis of... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070019090 - Digital watermarking cmos sensor: A complementary metal oxide substrate (CMOS) active pixel sensor (APS) imaging chip includes a combination circuit, an active pixel sensor array and a watermark generating circuit. Also disclosed are methods of using the CMOS APS imager for watermarking images.... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones

20070019089 - Image sensor device and methods thereof: An image sensor device and methods thereof. In an example method, a protective layer may be formed over at least one microlens. An adhesive layer may be formed over the protective layer. The adhesive layer may be removed so as to expose the protective layer. The protective layer may be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070019091 - Method and apparatus for ad conversion, semiconductor device for detecting distribution of physical quantity, and electronic apparatus: A column analog-to-digital converter having a voltage comparator and a counter is arranged for each a vertical signal line. The voltage comparator compares a pixel signal inputted via the vertical signal line at each row control signal line with a reference voltage, thereby generating a pulse signal having a length... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070019092 - Driving method for ccd image sensor, and imaging method: A CCD image sensor is driven in an interlace scan method, in which readout of signal charge is performed in two divided fields. In the first field, signal charge Qs accumulated in photodiodes of the first horizontal line and noise charge Qn generated in VCCDs on the second horizontal line... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070019093 - High-speed image pickup method and controller for image pickup device: A high-speed image pickup method and controller of an image pickup device are provided. The method includes applying a vertical transmission signal to a vertical transmission register in the form of a field transmission signal, thereby simultaneously transmitting charges accumulated at a plurality of pixels to the vertical transmission register;... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070019095 - File accessing method, specific image file playback method, and camera apparatus capable of playing back the image file: One embodiment of an invention provides a method of creating a database of positions of file management information, or start positions of file data of each file, in a file system, and an apparatus configured to realize the method. According to an embodiment of the invention, the existence of an... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070019097 - Image-pickup apparatus: An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which ensures a wide range of photometric measurement in an electronic observation state and allows a reduced release time lag in image-pickup operation with flashing. The image-pickup apparatus includes an optical-path switching member, a shutter which controls the amount of exposure light to an image-pickup... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070019096 - Photographing system providing image data to an external display apparatus: A photographing system includes an image acquisition device for acquiring an image data, an image data provision device for providing the image data, an interface connectable to an external display apparatus, and a controller for controlling the external display apparatus. When the interface is connected to the external display apparatus,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070019094 - Photography-specific digital camera apparatus and methods useful in conjunction therewith: A multi-mode digital photography method including generating an output image of a location L at a specific time t which is identified as a function of a user-selected photography task. the method including generating an output image of a particular scene which is built up from a plurality of images... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070019098 - Camer system: It is an object of the invention to provide a camera system which also includes a conventional single-lens reflex function. A camera head 10 includes a finder support section 10B which detachably supports an optical finder unit. If the optical finder unit 12 is attached to the finder support section... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070019100 - Lens barrel unit and imaging apparatus: There are provided a lens barrel unit and an imaging apparatus in which a plurality of constituent elements can be driven using a linear driving mechanism. The lens barrel unit 6 comprises: an actuator 31 for positioning a driving member 40 that is linearly movable along a driving shaft 39;... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070019099 - Optical apparatus for virtual interface projection and sensing: Optical and mechanical apparatus and methods for improved virtual interface projection and detection, by combining this function with still or video imaging functions. The apparatus comprises optics for imaging multiple imaged fields onto a single electronic imaging sensor. One of these imaged fields can be an infra red data entry... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070019101 - Optical device, optical device apparatus, camera module, and optical device manufacturing method: An optical device includes an optical element, a transparent member arranged on the optical element, and a transparent resin adhesive for causing the transparent member to adhere and be fixed onto a circuit formation face of the optical element. The optical device includes a light detecting region having a plurality... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070019102 - Micro camera module and method of manufacturing the same: A semiconductor chip constituting an image pickup device is provided on a substrate and includes a connection terminal and an image pickup portion. A lens sheet having a lens portion is provided on the semiconductor chip. A groove is formed in at least the substrate to expose the connection terminal.... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070019103 - Optical apparatus for virtual interface projection and sensing: Optical and mechanical apparatus and methods for improved virtual interface projection and detection, by combining this function with still or video imaging functions. The apparatus comprises optics for imaging multiple imaged fields onto a single electronic imaging sensor. One of these imaged fields can be an infra red data entry... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070019104 - Image pick-up apparatus, image pick-up program, and image processing program: An image pick-up apparatus is disclosed which allows a reduction in degradation of images associated with a changed image magnification due to movements in a focus direction during image pick-up operation. The image pick-up apparatus has an image pick-up controller which performs a plurality of image pick-up operations for producing... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070019105 - Imaging apparatus for performing optimum exposure and color balance control: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device outputting original image data; an electronic zoom device for subjecting data of a predetermined first image area among the original image data to electronic zooming; a parameter operation circuit for respectively multiplying evaluation coefficients by image data belonging to the first image area... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070019106 - Panhead: A panhead which is capable of appropriately operating an image pickup device by a simple mechanism thereof. A fixed unit is set on a base of a camera-attached panhead. A pan rotation unit is supported on the pan fixed unit, for rotation within a plane parallel with the upper surface... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070019107 - Robust de-interlacing of video signals: The invention relates to an interpolating filter with coefficients that depend on the motion vector value, which uses samples that exist in the current field and additional samples from a neighboring field shifted over a part of a motion vector. Using samples from the current field and the motion compensated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070019108 - Broadcast receiving device for displaying closed caption data and method thereof: A broadcast receiving device and method are provided with a function for displaying closed caption data. The broadcast receiving device according to embodiments of the present invention includes a signal receiving part for receiving a composite video signal, a signal processing part for signal-processing the composite video signal and converting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070019109 - Method and apparatus for frequency synthesis in direct-conversion transmitters: A method and apparatus for direct-conversion transmission generates a first frequency signal that is non-harmonically related to a transmit frequency signal, divides the first frequency signal to obtain a mixing frequency signal, divides the first frequency signal to obtain an intermediate frequency reference signal, generates the transmit frequency signal by... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070019110 - Method and apparatus for outputting video signal in format suitable for tv: A method and apparatus output a video signal in a format suitable for a TV. The method of outputting a video signal in a format suitable for a TV includes reading information from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag attached to a TV receiver, extracting information regarding a TV output... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070019111 - Display apparatus and method for controlling the same: A display apparatus comprises a display unit; a first processor for outputting a first signal including an on-screen-display (OSD) menu signal and a first image signal. A second processor has a picture-in-picture (PIP) function, the second processor processes one of a second image signal and the first signal and outputs... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070019112 - Digital video processing apparatus and control method thereof: A digital video processing apparatus and a control method thereof are provided, and include a signal receiving part for receiving a digital video signal, a decoder for separating a luminance signal from the digital video signal, and a filtering part for filtering the luminance signal separated in the decoder to... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070019113 - Mixer system with amplitude-, common mode- and phase corrections: Mixer-systems (1) comprising mixer-circuits (2) with mixers (3) for frequency translating signals comprising audio/video information and for use in mobile phones or television receivers are provided with amplitude detectors (6) for making amplitude corrections during said frequency translating of said signals comprising audio/video information (basic idea), to correct amplitude errors... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070019114 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for noise reduction: Systems, methods, and apparatus for noise reduction include noise estimation from blanking interval information. Such systems, methods, and apparatus may also include temporal filtering, scene change detection, inverse telecine, and/or DC preservation.... Agent: Hartman Patents PLLC

20070019115 - Television broadcasting receiver: The invention provides a television broadcasting receiver provided with a plurality of tuners which allows a user to set whether or not power is supplied to the respective tuners. A setting screen for setting whether or not power is supplied to the respective tuners is displayed on a display section... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070019116 - Telelvision receiver and channel presetting method for television receiver: A broadcasting timetable is newly created at one step. If a broadcasting state of a channel is changed at certain times' intervals in this broadcasting timetable, a processing goes to a next step. At the next step, the broadcasting state of each channel is judged at a time at which... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20070019117 - Low noise block converter: A mixer generates intermediate frequency signals (lower intermediate frequency signals and higher intermediate frequency signals) from polarized wave signals received from satellites. The intermediate frequency signals are passed through path selecting switches which set up paths inside thereof so that the intermediate frequency signals selectively appear at selected output terminals.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070013769 - Method for providing phone book using business card recognition in mobile communication terminal and mobile communication terminal using the method: Provided is a method for providing a phone book using business card recognition in a mobile communication terminal. An image of a business card is captured and recognized character fields from the captured image are searched. Any one of the searched character fields to be set as a name is... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070013768 - Mobile communication terminal and method of video communications thereof: A mobile communication terminal and method of video communications thereof are disclosed, by which a broadcast program currently received by the mobile communication terminal can be transmitted to a correspondent terminal by real time using the video communications. The present invention includes a transceiver unit connecting a video call, a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070013767 - Two dimensional (2d) code and code size indication method: Mobile communication or computing devices, and methods and systems for the operation of mobile communication devices; each involving a binary code in square form which has been encoded with binary data arrayed within the square form, whereby the code in square form includes at least one border not including binary... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070013770 - Image display device and method: The present invention relates to a device and a method for displaying images. To combat the copying of images by a camcorder in a cinema auditorium, modulating the luminance of the pixels of a pattern around the value to be displayed to a high frequency which makes the pattern invisible... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070013771 - Image processing device: A video processor includes an ordinary image/narrowband image video circuit for generating an ordinary observation light image or narrowband light observation image, a fluorescent image video circuit for generating a fluorescent image, an image synthetic circuit for synthesizing the images generated by the ordinary image/narrowband image video circuit and the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070013774 - Display apparatus and information processing system: A display apparatus is implemented using an SOG or SOP technology that can integrate a plurality of circuit elements on a single substrate. The display apparatus does not include a separate frame memory. Instead of the separate frame memory, the display apparatus uses a predetermined region of a memory provided... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070013772 - In-circuit test fixture with integral vision inspection system: An in-circuit test fixture performs both electrical tests on a Printed Circuit Assembly (“PCA”) and reads distinguishing features of a feature of interest of the PCA. The in-circuit test fixture physically supports an image sensor array. A light focusing means has a position relative to the distinguishing features and the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070013773 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, in which a first electrode and a second electrode are provided on a side of the first substrate opposed to the liquid crystal layer and the liquid... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070013775 - Integrated remote controller and method of selecting device controlled thereby: An integrated remote controller and a method of selecting a device controlled thereby are disclosed. The present invention is implemented such that it can store position data of devices to be controlled by the integrated remote controller; recognize devices around the integrated remote controller and displaying the devices; determine as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070013777 - Imaging device and imaging method: A imaging device includes an imaging element; a memory unit configured to temporarily store pieces of image data captured individually at predetermined timings via the imaging element; a comparator configured to compare the image data recorded in the memory unit to detect whether an image change greater than or equal... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070013776 - Video surveillance system employing video primitives: A video surveillance system extracts video primitives and extracts event occurrences from the video primitives using event discriminators. The system can undertake a response, such as an alarm, based on extracted event occurrences.... Agent: Venable LLP

20070013778 - Movie antipirating: A movie antipirating scheme associates a detector with a screen and takes video and/or pictures of the audience. The detector can either detect something emitted by the camera or can find an image of a camera in the audience. An output indicative of the location of the probable camera can... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070013779 - Dual surveillance camera system: A surveillance system having two specialized surveillance cameras with corresponding specialized illuminators is provided in a dual compartment container that eliminates internal light reflection problems by separating each camera and corresponding illuminator while combining each camera with an alternate illuminator, rendering the system more accurate, yet more compact and suited... Agent: Paul D. Gornall Barrister & Solicitor

20070013780 - Absolute intensity determination for a light source in low level light imaging systems: The invention describes systems and methods to obtain and present imaging data in absolute units. The systems and methods convert relative image data produced by a camera to absolute light intensity data using a compensation factor. The compensation factor accommodates for hardware and specific imaging conditions in the imaging system... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070013781 - Digital camera with automatic operating mode selection: An electronic still camera which transmits taken images to a printer connected to the camera to print the images is provided with a microcomputer for generating image data for printing and communicating with the printer. When start of printing is directed, the microcomputer obtains information on characteristics of the printer... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070013782 - Image pickup equipment and method: A digital still camera records image data by picking up an image of an object. One mode is set among plural photographing modes including a standard photographing mode and a portrait mode adapted to an image containing an abrupt change in gradation. An optimized exposure amount is acquired according to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070013783 - Medical tracking system with infrared data transfer: A medical tracking and appliance control system includes a medical tracking system having a camera array and an infrared light source, and at least one medical appliance controllable via infrared signals or operative to exchange data via infrared signals. The infrared light source of the medical tracking system is operable... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070013784 - Method of comparing motion and wireless terminal implementing the same: Disclosed is a wireless terminal and method for comparing the motions of a video with the motions of a moving picture being displayed as a model. The method comprises the steps of switching to motion compare mode by selection during displaying the moving picture, extracting at least two image frames... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070013786 - Image processing device, image processing method, and imaging apparatus: An image processing device includes a correlation value calculating unit calculating plural correlation values indicating degrees of correlation of an image for a pixel of attention to be interpolated on a solid-state imaging device having filters of predetermined color coding; a judging unit judging a direction in which interpolation should... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070013785 - Image-processing apparatus and image-pickup apparatus: An image-processing apparatus includes an integration section to integrate an image signal in more than one unit of horizontal synchronization period; an interpolation section to carry out an interpolation on the basis of integration values output by the integration section in order to generate integration values corresponding to a predetermined... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070013787 - Control panel assembly: An illuminated control button with an eccentric switch and a button spring configured to substantially balance the mechanical resistance of the switch when the button is depressed. The switch may be a conventional push-button switch having a stem directly contacting a portion of the control button. The button spring may... Agent: Warner, Norcross & Judd In Re: Alticor Inc.

20070013788 - Image storage apparatus, image storage method, and control program executed in image storage apparatus: An image storage apparatus which is capable of finding a desired image among a large number of images easily. Image quality of an image to be recorded on a storage medium 200 or 210 is determined by an operation unit 70. A system control circuit 50 stores a first image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070013790 - Image processing apparatus and related control method: An image processing apparatus captures an image in a shooting operation and records an image file in a folder of a recording medium. A user interface enables a user to set the units of date/time for automatically creating a new folder that can store image files. A first storage unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070013789 - Image taking system: An image taking system of the invention has a transmitter and an image taking apparatus. The transmitter is disposed near a subject and transmits subject information of the subject. The image taking apparatus has a receiver capable of receiving the subject information transmitted from the transmitter and stores in memory... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070013791 - Tracking apparatus: A tracking apparatus and method in which the possible position of a current face is estimated based on the face positions previously determined as well as plural pieces of ambient information corresponding to the possible positions obtained. The current face position is estimated based on the position of the ambient... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070013792 - Digital zooming apparatus and method: This invention discloses a digital zooming apparatus for adjusting the size of a sensed image sensed by a sensor. The digital zooming apparatus includes an adjusting module, a first image-processing module, a storage module and a second image-processing module. The adjusting module connected to the sensor receives the sensed image... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070013794 - Image pickup system and image processing program: An image pickup system for processing an image signal where each pixel is composed of more than one color signals and at least one of the color signals are dropped out according to the location of the pixel, having an extraction section for extracting a plurality of local regions including... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070013793 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a QV converter that converts an electric charge accumulated in an effective pixel portion into an analog video signal and also converts an electric charge of a shaded pixel portion into an analog shaded signal, a signal processing section that processes output signals of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070013795 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup element having a plurality of pixels; a drive unit moving the image pickup element; a defective position storage unit storing position data on the image pickup element about a defective pixel contained in the plurality of pixels; an image extraction unit extracting... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070013796 - Color filter array and image pickup apparatus having a color filter array: An image pickup apparatus having a plurality of pixels; and a color filter array of four colors disposed on the plurality of pixels, wherein the color filter array has a periodicity of two rows×two columns, and colors of four color filters in a periodical unit of two rows×two columns are... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070013797 - Dual conversion gain gate and capacitor and hdr combination: A pixel circuit having a shared control line for providing two control signals to the pixel array. One control line is used to provide a control signal to both a high dynamic range circuit and a dual conversion gain circuit to two pixel circuits. The pixel circuits each contain two... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070013798 - Image sensor with shared voltage converter for global shutter operation: Each of a plurality of pixels includes a respective photo-converting unit and a respective charge storing unit. The respective photo-converting unit generates respective charge from an image, and the respective charge storing unit stores the respective charge. The respective charges are generated and stored simultaneously, and converted into respective voltages... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070013799 - Method for driving semiconductor device having capacitive load, method and apparatus for driving load, and electronic apparatus: When a signal is read from a CCD solid-state image pickup element, the CCD solid-state image pickup element is driven with at least two driving voltages so that high-speed reading is performed with generation of noise due to interference between the driving voltages reduced. The CCD solid-state image includes a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070013802 - Display panel structure with camera function: A display panel structure with camera function is to install a video recording module at an extension section of an outer board of a panel module. A circuit board combining the circuit of the video recording module and the circuit of the panel module comprises a signal transmission member to... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20070013801 - Methods and systems for a/v input device to display networking: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for input device to television networking.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070013800 - Viewfinder eyepiece assembly: The present invention relates generally to a viewfinder eyepiece assembly for improving the optical accuracy and safety of an electronic news gathering video camera. The viewfinder eyepiece replaces the camera's dust cover plate assembly in the eye side opening of the viewfinder body. The viewfinder eyepiece assembly is comprised of... Agent: George R. Reardon

20070013804 - Optical device: In an optical device including an optical system to form an optical image of an object to be photographed, an image capture unit to convert the optical image of the object to be photographed into an electrical signal, and an optical device arranged on the front surface of the image... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070013803 - Pickup image processing device of electronic part mounting device and pickup image processing method: An existing electronic part mounting device can have the function of correcting the parallax of a camera pickup image only by addition or modification of software without using a telecentric lens. For this, storage means stores in advance parallax data representing the relationship between the height of an electronic part... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070013805 - Method and apparatus for protecting mechanical lens of cameras using miniature hard drive as gyro sensor: A digital camera is presented having protection from impact by falling, including a miniature hard drive having an actuator assembly, and a zoom lens and a zoom lens retractor mechanism. The miniature hard drive includes a detector that senses when the digital camera is falling by either reading a motor... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070013806 - Anti-shading method and apparatus for image sensor: This invention discloses an adjusting apparatus for adjusting the brightness of an image including a plurality of pixels having a center pixel and an initial pixel. The adjusting apparatus includes a detecting module, a calculating module and a gain module. The detecting module receives the image and detects the brightness... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070013807 - Digital camera: To provide a camera which enables photographing while intentionally, subtly shifting operation timing from that of another camera. A digital camera has a timing computing circuit. The timing computing circuit receives a reset request from another digital camera by way of a communications interface. The timing computing circuit awaits a... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070013808 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus has: a stream generating unit for generating a first stream constituted of a first moving image signal at a first frame rate and an input audio signal and a second stream constituted of a second moving image signal at a second frame rate faster than the first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070013809 - Method for assisting video compression in a computer system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method that facilitates compression of video data in a computer system by performing the time-consuming task of computing the difference between successive frames of video data independently from the central processing unit. This frees the often-overburdened central processing unit from performing this... Agent: Trask Britt

20070013810 - Control of a system for access to teletext information: A method of controlling a system for providing access to teletext information, comprising, an input for receiving a source signal, a channel selection system for selecting a program channel signal carried by the source signal and including embedded teletext data belonging to a teletext service, a teletext decoder for decoding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070013811 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing multimedia data stream: A method and an apparatus for synchronizing a data stream are disclosed. The method includes: decoding the data stream to generate a decoded data stream and program clock references; generating a local clock reference; generating a simulated clock reference according to the program clock references and the local clock reference;... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070013812 - Color reproduction system and color reproduction method: A color reproduction system includes an image input apparatus configured to capture an image, a color correcting section configured to transform the colors of the image captured by the image input apparatus, and an image output apparatus configured to output by one of displaying and printing the image which is... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070013813 - Poisson matting for images: An exemplary method includes receiving a trimap for an image that specifies a background region, a foreground region and an unknown region for the image wherein a boundary exists between the foreground region and the unknown region and wherein another boundary exists between the unknown region and the background region,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070013814 - Method and apparatus for isolating iic bus noise from a tuner in a television receiver: A method and apparatus for isolating a noise intolerant device, e.g., a phase-lock loop of a tuner within a television receiver, from source of noise. In one embodiment, the apparatus isolates a phase-lock loop integrated circuit (IC) from the bus, by providing an isolation buffer that allows the receiver to... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070013815 - Method and system for video evaluation in the presence of cross-chroma interference: Described herein is a method and system for video sequence evaluation in the presence of cross-chroma interference. When the luma and chroma components in an analog video sequence are separated, the luma component may add interference to the chroma component. This is called cross-chroma interference. In the evaluation of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070013816 - Receiver and method for reducing power comsumption in low-power mode: A receiver apparatus for receiving broadcast video programs comprises a power-on operating mode wherein which a number of components of said receiver are in power-on states and a low-power operating mode for saving power when the receiver is not used wherein which at least part of said components are in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070013817 - Display device and rear projection display device: A display device including a housing, a screen, a main board module, and a heat dissipation module is provided. The housing includes an inlet and an outlet. The screen is fixed on the housing. The main board module and the heat dissipation module are disposed inside the housing. The heat... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070008402 - Apparatus and method for backing up broadcast files: An apparatus and method for backing up broadcast files are provided. The apparatus includes a received file information analysis unit which analyzes package information included in a metadata file received from the digital broadcast apparatus and extracts storage location information and/or file name information regarding a broadcast file corresponding to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008403 - Storage apparatus for digital/analog tv video/audio media: A storage apparatus for DTV/ATV/DAB/ANALOG AUDIO BROADCASTING media is provided, including a USB hub, at least a DTV/ATV/DAB/ANALOG AUDIO BROADCASTING interface converter, and a plurality of storage media interfaces. The upstream port of the USB hub is connected to a USB interface of an electronic device. The DTV/ATV/DAB/ANALOG AUDIO BROADCASTING... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070008404 - Method and system for displaying stereoscopic image: When displaying a stereoscopic image, in order to display a natural stereoscopic image such that an area other than an area of attention is not displayed ahead of the focused area, an area of attention to be clearly displayed where an object to be focused exists is specified at a... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070008405 - Method for calibrating at least two video cameras relatively to each other for stereoscopic filming and device therefor: Methods for calibrating at least two video cameras for a stereoscopic device includes: providing, on the lane portion, nine marks of hue other than that of the lane, sequenced on a first set of three concurrent virtual straight lines in a first point and distributed in specific manner on a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070008406 - High resolution 2d-3d switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus: A high resolution 2D-3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus includes: a backlight unit emitting light; a polarizer sheet changing the light emitted from the backlight unit so that the light has only a specific polarization direction; a polarization switch converting the direction of the polarization of incident light; a birefringent element... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008407 - Image capturing device for electronic endoscope: An image capturing device for an electronic endoscope is provided with a solid-state image capturing element, an image capturing element holding frame, an objective lens barrel containing an objective optical system, an air-tight connection tube, a front end portion of the connection tube being air-tightly connected to the objective lens... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070008409 - Closed circuit television: Disclosed herein is a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV). The CCTV includes a monitoring camera unit, two infrared projector units, and a direction adjustment means. The monitoring camera unit has a camera for imaging subjects and a plurality of infrared projection modules arranged around the camera. The two infrared projector units... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070008410 - Trusted monitoring system and method: Methods and apparatus for monitoring remotely located objects with a system comprised of at least one master data collection unit, any number of remote sensor units, and a central data collection server are described. The master unit is configured to monitor any object, mobile or stationary, including monitoring multiple remote... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070008408 - Wide area security system and method: A method and system for providing security to large scale sites with large number of people comprising plurality of surveillance sensors, geographical database for the secured site, experts know-how database with plurality of potential scenarios. The system and method according to the invention can handle a large number of inputs,... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070008411 - Sensor-camera-ganged intrusion detecting apparatus: A sensor-camera ganged intrusion detecting apparatus according to the present invention includes a sensor unit 1 for detecting an object Q in terms of a change in amount of reception of detection rays from a detection area A0 to An, an image processing unit 4 for detecting the object Q... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008412 - Method of distributing sports entertainment: A method for distributing sports entertainment includes the step of providing a plurality of video cameras positioned on vehicles or athletes that are participating in sporting events, transmitters for transmitting information from the plurality of cameras to a processing station, retransmission equipment for directing the camera feed from each of... Agent: Venable LLP

20070008413 - On-chip block balancing structure and method for multiple output image sensors: A method for calibrating an image sensor having multiple outputs, the method includes the steps of capturing an image on the image sensor, injecting one or more substantially identical pairs of signals into corresponding portions of the captured image, reading out the captured image with the injected signals into two... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legel Staff

20070008414 - Serial camera interface: An interface for a graphics controller enabling communication with a camera module is provided. The interface includes a first port configured to receive serial image data from a camera module and a second port configured to receive a clock signal, wherein the clock signal is utilized to indicate both a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070008415 - Image-shake correction apparatus: The present invention provides an image-shake correction apparatus comprising: an image displacement device that displaces on an image forming plane an image formed by an image-capturing optical system; an image-shake correction device that displaces an image by use of the image displacement device in such a way as to cancel... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070008416 - Method and system for capture of the multi-channel image signal which can enhance the capture efficiency by deciding the unstable period of the system: The present invention relates to a system and method for capturing of the multi-channel image signal which can enhance capturing rate of image signals by exactly deciding the unstable period of an image capturing module capturing video data included in an image signal, wherein the system for capturing of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070008417 - Method for statistical analysis of images for automatic white balance of color channel gains for image sensors: A process for performing white balancing of an image is performed by subdividing an image into a plurality of subframes, and then analyzing each subframe to determine if that subframe is predominantly monochromatic other than gray. If so, that subframe is excluded from the computation of the gain adjustments in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070008418 - Zoom lens and imaging device: A zoom lens has good optical performance, is compact, and has a high magnifying power, and is suitable for use in a video camera, a digital still camera, a cellular phone, or the like, and a image pickup apparatus employs the zoom lens. The zoom lens (1) includes a first... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070008419 - Camera apparatus: A camera apparatus includes an imaging device which includes a plurality of color filters with respective wavelength characteristics; a processing unit for carrying out an operation for separating luminance data per each label fluorochrome from the luminance data of each of the color filters by using the luminance data of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070008420 - Image sensor and method thereof: An image sensor and method thereof. In an example, the image sensor, may include a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels, each of the plurality of unit pixels having a charge transfer unit for transferring charges accumulated in an optoelectronic converter to a charge detector via a charge... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070008421 - Method for forming microlenses of different curvatures and fabricating process of solid-state image sensor: A method for forming microlenses of different curvatures is described, wherein a substrate having at least a first and a second areas different in height is provided. A transparent photosensitive layer having a planar surface is formed on the substrate and then patterned into at least two islands of different... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070008423 - Coefficient seed data or coefficient data production device used in image display apparatus, method for producing coefficient seed data or coefficient data used in image display apparatus, program therefor, and computer-readable medium for storing the sam: The invention relates to a data processing apparatus and the like that are available for various processing according to a preference of user. Controller 101 collects parameters, s, z, for adjusting a picture quality inputted by user's operation and stores history information on them in the history information storage section... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070008424 - Coefficient seed data or coefficient data production device used in image display apparatus, method for producing coefficient seed data or coefficient data used in image display apparatus, program therefor, and computer-readable medium for storing the sam: The invention relates to a data processing apparatus and the like that are available for various processing according to a preference of user. Controller 101 collects parameters, s, z, for adjusting a picture quality inputted by user's operation and stores history information on them in the history information storage section... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070008422 - Method and system for direct recording of video information onto a disk medium: A method for converting video information from an incoming format to an outgoing format using a process free from one or more intermediary files. The method includes receiving video information in a first format and receiving a desired output media format based upon a first input and a desired TV... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070008425 - Apparatus and method for detecting vertical blanking interval: An apparatus and method for detecting vertical blanking interval (VBI) is disclosed. The apparatus can automatically detect the presence and type of a VBI signal, so as to perform corresponding VBI decoding subsequently. The apparatus includes a digitizing module and a detecting module. The digitizing module converts a television signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070008426 - Apparatus and method for detecting vertical blanking interval: An apparatus and method for detecting vertical blanking intervals (VBI) is disclosed. The apparatus can identify and filter non-VBI signals, and calculate a level value for digitization corresponding to the type of television signals. The apparatus includes a detecting unit and a coupled computing unit. The detecting unit is for... Agent: Troxell Law Ooffice PLLC Suite 1404

20070008427 - Display apparatus and signal processing method thereof: A display apparatus is provided that comprises an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter for converting an analog image signal containing additional information into digital data in accordance with a digital format, a vertical blanking interval (VBI) data processor for extracting VBI data corresponding to the additional information from the digital data input... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070008428 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: Provided is a display apparatus including a display for displaying video thereon, further comprising a video processor for outputting to the display a digital video signal comprising digital video data (DATA), a sync signal and a clock signal (CLOCK); and a controller for controlling the video processor to insert predetermined... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070008429 - Frequency synthesizer: A frequency synthesizer in an ultra wide band (UWB) wireless communication system which transmits and receives data through multiband includes a frequency generation means which generates a plurality of frequency signals; and a frequency adjustment means which receives the plurality of frequency signals from the frequency generation means and generates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008430 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention relates to a display apparatus comprising a display part which displays a main image and a sub image thereon, further comprising a user selection part having a menu adjusting button, such as a button; and a processor to adjust a display state of the sub image by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070008431 - Method and circuit for displaying graphics in a digital television receiver: A circuit for displaying graphics in a digital television receiver includes an MPEG decoder which has as input a video data stream in digital format, a central memory for storing decoded video data and graphics data, a video output unit and a graphics output unit to which video data and... Agent: Patrick J. O'shea O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070008432 - Motion detection method utilizing 3d y/c separation: A motion detection method for detecting the difference in colors and an object position between a current frame and a previous frame through processing a composite video signal corresponding to both frames. The method includes: calculating a plurality of composite signal values included in the composite video signal to generate... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070008433 - Dual-mode acoustic tuning system and method: Automatic ringing/howling sound suppression from feedback or over amplifications in live performances is described An off-line approach to determine the major ring modes in the “room” is used, wherein narrow-band digital filters are used to attenuate the offending signals. Using high Q, highly stable digital filters, continuous control over these... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070008434 - Digital implementation of analog tv receiver: An analog TV receiver implementation on DSP allows mobile platforms to view analog TV broadcasting on LCD displays. The analog television receiver includes a demodulator for demodulating a received analog television signal, an analog to digital converter for digitizing the demodulated television signal and a digital signal processor for producing... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg Ste. 900

20070008435 - Broadcast receiving apparatus offering a multi-stream and method of offering a multi-stream: A broadcast receiving apparatus for offering a multi-stream and method for offering the multi-stream are provided for a variety of services through multi-stream without adding tuners. The broadcast receiving apparatus may include a plurality of tuners for receiving a plurality of AV streams via in-band channels of a certain network.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070008436 - Apparatus and method for receiving digital broadcasting: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for receiving digital broadcasting. The method includes receiving and outputting digital broadcasting data through a selected channel based on a user request, storing channel information about the selected channel, re-selecting a channel using the stored channel information if synchronization of the received digital... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070008437 - Television tuner having an improved frequency characteristic of a receiver signal: There is provided a television tuner comprising a detour unit 15 that allows a receiver signal directly to pass; a first trap unit 14 that attenuates a predetermined signal band included in the receiver signal; a first switch unit 13 that switches a signal pathway in which the receiver signal... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070008438 - Tuner, broadcast signal processing apparatus comprising the same, and broadcast signal processing method: A tuner, a broadcast signal processing apparatus and method, which satisfy reception sensitivity of both terrestrial and cable televisions, when selecting a broadcast signal through a single conversion tuner, are provided. A tuner selects a broadcast signal of a selected channel. The tuner includes an input filter that filters a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070002127 - Mobile phone having an image capture device: A mobile phone includes an image capture device; a communication module for connecting to a distal sever via a base station system, the server transmitting a specific piece of the geographic information to the mobile phone via the base station system after identifying a location of the communication module; and... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070002128 - Video-phone terminal apparatus, image-shooting method, and computer product: A remote-operation authenticating unit determines whether to permit a remote operation of the video-phone terminal apparatus by other video-phone terminal apparatus via a video phone communication. A remote operation unit receives, from the other video-phone terminal apparatus, a request for a control including at least a shutter control of the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070002129 - Network support for remote mobile phone camera operation: An apparatus in one example has: a mobile terminal having a camera; a further terminal; a communication network operative coupled to the mobile terminal and to the further terminal; the communication network having remote mobile phone camera operation functionality such that the further terminal in the communications network remotely controls... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070002130 - Method and apparatus for maintaining eye contact during person-to-person video telecommunication: The apparatus and method for maintaining eye contact during person to person video telecommunication includes disposing a video camera directly behind an OLED video display screen and synchronizing the video camera with the illumination levels of the display screen. This configuration allows the camera to observe the user from a... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070002131 - Dynamic interactive region-of-interest panoramic/three-dimensional immersive communication system and method: A method of dynamic interactive region-of-interest panoramic immersive communication involves a capturing a panoramic image and a specification of a size and a location of a region-of-interest in the panoramic image.... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070002132 - Polarized stereoscopic display device and method: The present invention relates to a polarized stereoscopic display method and a device thereof. In one embodiment, the device comprises a first signal processing part for signal processing the first image and producing a first input image that is input to a first projector so that a first output beam... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070002133 - Illuminated inspection apparatus and method of employing the same: An inspection system (200) is for inspecting power generation equipment (202) and includes a remote receiving device (134) which receives images captured and transmitted by an inspection apparatus (100). A recording device (142) records the images thereby providing a permanent record of the inspection. The inspection apparatus (100) comprises: a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070002134 - Signal processing device for endoscope: An endoscope includes a solid image-pickup device having an image area and an optical black area for performing photoelectric conversion and including a function of varying an amplification ratio, and a first signal clamp circuit clamps the analog output signal that is outputted from the solid image-pickup device to adjust... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070002135 - In-vivo imaging device, optical system and method: An in-vivo device may include an optical system, and a method for viewing in-vivo sites. A dome or cover may cover an end of the device, protecting optical elements such as illumination devices or imagers, which may be behind the dome. The dome may be forward projecting and may have... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070002136 - Method and apparatus for controlling color registration sensors: A method and apparatus for controlling registration sensors are provided, in which a transfer unit transfers an electrostatic latent image onto a printing medium, at least one registration sensor senses image alignment errors by irradiating light to the transfer unit to sense reflected light, a sensor data storage unit stores... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070002137 - Aegis safetynet guardian system: A portable wireless tracking device that uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to monitor the location and physical condition of emergency personnel at the scene of an emergency incident. RFID technology uses radio-transmitting interrogators to send out radio waves to preprogrammed receiver computer chips which respond to the radio query with... Agent: Aegis Assessments, Inc.

20070002138 - Method for generating a synthetic perspective image: A method of generating a synthetic perspective image that matches the viewing perspective and internal geometry of a known image sensor, for example, a forward-looking infrared sensor or a synthetic aperture radar sensor, without using specialized hardware and without the computational difficulty inherent in standard image generating means is provided.... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070002139 - Trusted monitoring system and method: Methods and apparatus for monitoring remotely located objects with a system comprised of at least one master data collection unit, any number of remote sensor units, and a central data collection server are described. The master unit is configured to monitor any object, mobile or stationary, including monitoring multiple remote... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070002140 - Trusted monitoring system and method: Methods and apparatus for monitoring remotely located objects with a system comprised of at least one master data collection unit, any number of remote sensor units, and a central data collection server are described. The master unit is configured to monitor any object, mobile or stationary, including monitoring multiple remote... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070002141 - Video-based human, non-human, and/or motion verification system and method: A video-based human, non-human, and/or motion verification system and method may include a video sensor adapted to obtain video and produce video output. The video sensor may include a video camera. The video-based human verification system may further include a processor adapted to process video to verify a human presence,... Agent: Venable LLP

20070002142 - Methods and apparatus for detecting and adjusting over-scanned images: A method for adjusting images displayed on a television set, the television set being coupled to receive image information from an image-generating electronic device. The method includes displaying on the television set, using test image information from the image-generating electronic device, a test image. The method also includes receiving, from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070002143 - Method and apparatus for measuring illumination and camera performances: A method and apparatus for measuring the performances of a camera including illumination, signal levels, signal to noise ratio, resolution, spectrum, color vectors and displaying the measured values in alphanumeric, waveforms, graphs and vectors onto a displayed scene generated by a camera under test, thereby enabling the user to better... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070002144 - Image capturing system and method of recording progress information of program: An image capturing system comprises an image capturing terminal and a host computer. The image capturing terminal includes an image capturing section configured to capture images, an image data processor configured to generate image data according to the data obtained from the image capturing section, a receiver configured to receive... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070002145 - Motion vector detecting apparatus and motion vector detecting method: A motion vector detecting apparatus includes a block setting unit, and a correlation operation unit. The block setting unit may be adapted to set a block on a first image. The first image has a distortion caused by an optical system. The block has a size that depends on the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070002146 - Motion filtering for video stabilization: For applying a motion filter of a video stabilization system to a sequence of video frames, an estimate of a motion in the current video frame compared to a first video frame of the sequence of video frames is received. Based on the received motion estimate and on at least... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070002147 - Optical image stabilizer: An image stabilizer includes a pair of first parallel guide rods mounted to a stationary member extending in a first direction; a first moving stage supported by the first parallel guide rods to be movable in the first direction; a pair of second parallel guide rods mounted to the first... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070002148 - Pickup device driving apparatus and photographing device using the same: A pickup device driving apparatus includes: a movable part which moves a pickup device in a first direction while a direction of a pickup surface is held; a linear actuator which moves an axis in a second direction different from the first direction; a direction changing part which has a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070002149 - Solid-state image sensor having control cells for developing signals for image-shooting control under poor illumination: A solid-state image sensor and a digital cameral capable of executing accurate image-shooting adjustment even in a low illumination environment. A charge coupled device type of image sensor includes red, green and blue pixel cells provided with color filter segments and control cells not provided with color filter segments. When... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070002150 - Image signal processor: An image signal processor comprising an image signal receiver and a white balance processing block is provided. The image signal receiver receives an image signal. The image signal is generated by an imaging device when the imaging device captures an optical image of an object. The imaging device captures the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070002151 - Image processing device and method, and video camera: An image processing device utilizes a morphological filter such as an opening type morphological filter and a closing type morphological filter to remove a hole or a chunk in an over-luminance area of an image, thereby to display a zebra pattern masked on the over-luminance area more clearly, and accordingly... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070002152 - Digital photographic instrument, method for adjusting focus of digital photographic instrument, and program for digital photographic instrument: There is provided a digital photographic instrument comprising an edge enhancing section which enhances the edge of image data. The instrument determines whether a focus is good or bad and adjusts the degree of edge enhancement in the edge enhancing section according to the result of the determination, thereby giving... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070002153 - Hue preservation: A method and apparatus for hue preservation under digital exposure control by preserving color component ratios on a pixel by pixel basis.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070002154 - Method and apparatus for edge adaptive color interpolation: A color interpolation method and apparatus for interpolating missing color signals for each pixel of an image sensor. The color interpolation method includes forming a difference image channel by subtracting an R or B color value from a G color value in pixels adjacent to a pixel to be interpolated,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070002155 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: A video signal processing apparatus and video processing method are provided, which can reduce an influence of noise and enhance fineness of the image. A signal division unit divides a video signal into a low frequency component and a high frequency component of the video signal. A signal eliminating unit... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070002156 - Display apparatus and methods for manufacture thereof: Display devices incorporating shutter-based light modulators are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such devices. The methods are compatible with thin-film manufacturing processes known in the art and result in displays having lower power-consumption.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070002157 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus comprises: a body; a display part movable relative to the body, the display part having a display screen capable of being changed in orientation according to a movement relative to the body; a detector for detecting an orientation of the display screen; and a display controller... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070002158 - End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems with constrained digital filters: A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging performance using a spatial model for the source and models for the optical subsystem, the detector subsystem and the digital image processing subsystem. The optical subsystem... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070002159 - Method and apparatus for use in camera and systems employing same: There are many inventions described herein. Some aspects are directed to methods and/or apparatus to provide relative movement between optics, or portion(s) thereof, and sensors, or portion(s) thereof, in a digital camera. The relative movement may be in any of various directions. In some aspects, relative movement between an optics... Agent: Neil A. Steinberg

20070002160 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes a sensor substrate at which an imaging element is mounted; a main substrate on which an electrical component other than the imaging element is mounted, comprising an opening at which the sensor substrate is disposed; and a reception unit into which an electronic unit is detachably... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070002161 - Focus detecting apparatus and image pickup apparatus: A focus detecting apparatus includes a splitter for splitting a light from an image pickup lens to form at least a pair of images, a photoelectric conversion element for photoelectrically converting at least the pair of images, the focus detecting apparatus detecting a focusing status of the image pickup lens... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070002162 - Manual focusing method and system in photographing device: Disclosed are a manual focusing method and system in a photographing device, wherein the manual focusing method includes checking whether manual focusing mode for manually focusing is selected. If the manual focusing mode is selected, a window is captured which is a predetermined sized partial image taken from a photographed... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070002163 - Imager settings: Methods and apparatus for adjusting image capture settings, such as, for example, exposure time and external illumination through determining ambient luminance conditions prior to a request to analyze a captured image. Since image capture settings are determined before an analyze request, a device can use images captured before or very... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070002164 - Multiple exposure methods and apparatus for electronic cameras: A method for capturing multiple sets of image data with an electronic camera having a shutter and an electronic shutter for selectively allowing light to reach an image sensor comprises opening the shutter and the electronic shutter, allowing light to reach the image sensor for a first exposure time, closing... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20070002165 - Method for capturing a sequence of images in close succession: A method for capturing a sequence of images, the method includes the steps of capturing a first image on an image sensor having a plurality of photosensitive areas having a first portion of photosensitive areas and a second portion of photosensitive areas; transferring the first portion of the first captured... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Pamela R. Crocker

20070002166 - File format translation: Providing data for a stream multiplexer without generating any additional elementary stream file, including: receiving elementary stream data; generating pointer information for the elementary stream data; and generating a modification script using the pointer information, wherein the modification script specifies a process for modifying the elementary stream data for the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070002167 - Frame rate adjusting method and apparatus for displaying video on interlace display devices: An apparatus for displaying a video image on a display system comprises a decoder for converting the video image into continuous fields arranged in a first sequence, the continuous fields having a first scan rate different from a second scan rate of the display system, and sending a first signal... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070002169 - Detecting progressive video: Whether interlaced video fields form a progressive video frame can be automatically determined. The presence or absence of a first characteristic of one or more video fields can be determined by analysis of the fields and/or related information such as flags, cadence, previous determinations, and others. Similarly, the presence or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070002168 - Techniques to switch between video display modes: A system, apparatus, method and article to switch between video display modes are described. The apparatus may include a graphics device to switch between a progressive mode and an interlaced mode to display media information using a single pixel clock frequency for both modes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070002170 - Video image conversion method for interlaced image to progressive image and system thereof: A video image conversion method is for converting interlaced image into progressive image. The deinterlacing method for the video system is for converting the interlaced image into the progressive image. The method performs an interpolation algorithm based on the pixel value of a reference field. An inter-field estimation on the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070002171 - Motion detection circuit and method: Successive video signals of a first frame and a second frame are received. A signal difference between the video signals is determined and filtered to obtain a luminance difference. A signal sum of the video signals is d