Television inventions 02/07

20070040889 - At-home medical examination system and at-home medical examination method: An at-home medical consultation system includes a reception server, a communication server, a mail server, an administration server, doctor terminals, a nurse terminal, a waiting room terminal, a reception terminal and a pharmacy terminal, and is connected to patient terminals via a communication line to provide an at-home medical consultation... Agent: Okada C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070040890 - Av stream reproducing apparatus, decoder switching method, method program, program storage medium, and integrated circuit: A user selects and sets a desired decoder switching condition from display attribute information and decoder selecting criterion information that are stored by a mode setting portion (101). A decoder performance management portion (104) manages performance of a plurality of decoders provided in an AV stream reproducing apparatus (100). A... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070040894 - Camera cradle apparatus and system therefor: A camera cradle apparatus includes an extension connector which connects a camera including a power supply button, a connector which connects an external terminal through a network so as to allow communication, and a control unit which controls a connection state of the connector. At least one of the external... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070040891 - Community message board: The present invention provides a community message board for a plurality of users at a single location such as a home or office, the community message board comprising a monitor for broadcasting audio and video messages, a video camera for capturing video inputs, a microphone for recording audio inputs and... Agent: Peter K Hahn Luce, Forward, Hamilton, Scripps, LLP.

20070040892 - Method and apparatus for controlling data delivery with user-maintained modes: Communication is carried out using devices with user-maintained modes that enable synchronous content sharing and communication. Each user-maintained mode enables a lightweight interface for positioning content in a conversation by initiating and terminating data transmission through user produced feedback to create a shared conversational experience.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070040893 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication setting method, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication setting program, and wireless communication setting program storage medium: The present invention provides a wireless communication system having a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses and a proximity wireless communication apparatus. The plurality of wireless communication apparatuses each has a setting block to which a wireless data communication destination is set and a wireless data communication block for executing wireless... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070040895 - Wireless emergency-reporting system: A method of providing emergency related information to and from a centralized location over a wireless network. The method utilizes cellular phones in emergency communications and entails two embodiments that employ location-aware technologies, in portable form, in security applications. One embodiment serves as a modern high-tech “neighborhood watch,” enabling law... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070040896 - Videophone and videophone system: A videophone includes a videophone unit, a movement determining section, and a notifying section. By notifying, with the notifying section, a different videophone associated with a communicating party that the videophone unit is moving, the videophone unit receives, from the different videophone at the communicating party, data having an image... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070040897 - Video communication apparatus and video communication method: According to one embodiment, a video communication apparatus comprising communication unit which performs communication with an external device, tuner unit which receives broadcasting signals, first codec and second codec which receive and decode video/audio signals and output the decoded signals, display unit which receives the decoded signals, and control unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070040903 - Camera controller and teleconferencing system: A teleconferencing system includes: a camera system for imaging a plurality of persons; a voice collector for capturing voices generated by a plurality of persons; and a transmitter for multiplexing an image signal acquired from the camera system and a voice signal acquired from the voice collector and transmitting a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070040898 - Picture-in-picture processing for video telephony: The disclosure is directed to techniques for picture-in-picture (PIP) processing for video telephony (VT). According to the disclosed techniques, a local video communication device transmits PIP information to a remote video communication device. Using the PIP information, the remote video communication device applies preferential encoding to non-PIP regions of video... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070040900 - System and method for configuring routing of video from multiple sources to multiple destinations of videoconference using software video switch: A videoconferencing unit allows a user to customize the routing and display of video and content from a plurality of sources to a plurality of destinations or display devices. Although described in terms of videoconferencing and related applications, the techniques described herein are equally applicable to any system in which... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070040902 - Video processing apparatus and object identifying method: Photographs an action performed to an object with an appliance by a photographing device, and records it as video data. When a desired object is specified while the video data is being played back, the object is identified based on information on a position of the object in the appliance... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070040901 - Video processing apparatus and object processing method: Photographs a predetermined action performed to an object with an appliance by a photographing device, and records it as video data. When a desired object is specified while the video data is being played back, the object is identified based on information on a position of the object in the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070040899 - Videophone apparatus and videophone: In a videophone apparatus or system, capability information acquired by capability information exchange is stored. Upon issuance or reception of a call request to or from a videophone apparatus having a predetermined phone number to thereby make a subsequent phone call to a remote videophone, an interconnection with the remote... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070040904 - Method of displaying pictures, program for displaying pictures, recording medium holding the program, and display unit: At least one picture is shown on a plurality of displays according to the distance from a user to an object. Picture signals are classified based on depth values of pictures, a plurality of displays are chosen based on the classification, and the pictures are shown on the chosen displays... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070040905 - Stereoscopic display using polarized eyewear: The present invention discloses a stereoscopic display employing polarized eyewear. The basic component of the present invention stereoscopic display is a stereopolarizer, which is a polarized screen comprising microscopic sections of mutually extinguishing polarizing filters dispersed throughout the screen. To achieve the proper resolution, the size of the microscopic polarizing... Agent: Tue Nguyen

20070040906 - Electronic endoscope, endoscope light unit, endoscope processor, and electronic endoscope system: An endoscope system comprising an imaging device, an input block, and a signal processing block, is provided. The imaging device has first, second, third, and fourth pixels. The first, second, third, and fourth pixels are covered with first, second, third, and fourth color filters, respectively. The first, second, third, and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070040907 - Imaging system and method for physical feature analysis: A system for capturing and analyzing images of body features to identify treatments has a base unit with a processor and a display and an image management software component for presenting on the display a user interface to prompt a user to capture images in preselected locations on a body... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070040908 - System and method for perceived image processing in a gaze tracking system: An embodiment of the present invention provide a system for measuring and modifying at least one model parameter of an object of an image in order to distinguish the object from noise in the image includes a perceived image generator, an image-match function, and a parameter adjustment function. The perceived... Agent: Dixon Cleveland

20070040909 - Security surveillance system capable of outputting still images together with moving images: The present invention relates to a security surveillance system. The security surveillance system includes an image acquisition unit, a surveillance image transmission unit, and a surveillance image reception unit. The image acquisition unit acquires captured image signals from a plurality of cameras and outputs them. The surveillance image transmission unit... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20070040910 - In-vehicle mount display controller, in-vehicle mount display device, display control method, control program and recording medium: An in-vehicle display device 10 is equipped with a camera 13, plural monitors 12, 21, an image pickup direction detector 24 for detecting the image pickup direction of the camera 13 and outputting an image pickup direction signal, and a controller 22 for selecting any one of plural monitors 12,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070040911 - Under vehicle inspection system: An under vehicle inspection system comprises a single camera adapted to capture a full width image of a vehicle undercarriage in a single scan. The camera has a viewing distance from the vehicle undercarriage, as measured along the optical axis of the camera, that is greater than a Euclidean distance... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070040912 - Portable prompter for video cameras: A rotatable cylindrical drum on a bracket attaches to a video camera. The drum has a script sheet attached around the face and is rotatable by a knob or a motor with a remote control. Bent top and bottom edges of the script sheet fold into spaced slots running lengthwise... Agent: Donald W. Meeker

20070040913 - System and method for creating composite images by utilizing an imaging device: A system and method for creating composite images by utilizing a camera comprises a cradle device that transports the camera across a target area during a scanning procedure that captures and stores image data. During the scanning procedure, a motion detector captures and provides scan motion data to a scanning... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20070040914 - Image sensing apparatus and image processing method: An image sensing apparatus includes: an image sensing device for sensing light representing a subject image; a first component extractor for extracting a first component having a predetermined frequency out of a photographic image obtained by the image sensing device; a second component extractor for extracting a second component having... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070040915 - Extended digital data-path structure using sub lsbs: An imager device having a varied bus bit width in the image processing data-path. The imager device has a high accuracy output irrespective of digital gain value. The imager device can be adopted for all sensors that have column fixed pattern noise correction and digital gain in their data-path block.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070040917 - Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium: This invention makes it possible to reduce power consumption of an encoding device while more appropriately encoding a video image in the first frame. An image capturing apparatus includes a camera unit which photo-electrically converts object light and outputs a video signal, an encoding unit which encodes the video signal,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070040916 - Signal processing method for image capturing apparatus, and image capturing apparatus: The present invention provides an image capturing apparatus which enables a desired image quality to be maintained regardless of transfer efficiency of a CCD image capturing element. R, G and B signals (CCD-RAW data) are acquired from the CCD image capturing element. In addition, various information, namely transfer efficiency of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070040918 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program: A motion vector detection section 30a detects a motion vector by using an image that is made up of multiple pixels and acquired by an image sensor having time integration effects. A time resolution creation section 90 generates an image that has a higher time resolution by using the detected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070040919 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus that obtains a high-quality image signal by determining an amount of noise in an optimum fashion and reducing the amount of noise. The image processing apparatus reduces a noise component contained in the image signal picked up... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070040920 - Image-pickup device, and device and method for correcting defective pixel: An image-pickup device includes a solid-image-pickup element which can select between an ordinary mode wherein all of a plurality of pixel signals are sequentially read and at least one pixel-addition mode wherein the pixel signals corresponding to same-color filters are added and output; a defective-information-storage unit which stores position information... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070040921 - Methods for combining camera and projector functions in a single device: Described are handheld devices with combined image capture and image projection functions. One embodiment includes modulating and capturing a light beam along the same optic path. In another embodiment, the optical components are operable to switch between projection and capture modes. In yet another embodiment, the optical components may be... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070040922 - Hdr/ab on multi-way shared pixels: The present invention, in the various exemplary embodiments, provides a pixel array architecture having multiple pixel cells with shared pixel cell components. The pixel architecture increases the potential fill factor, and in turn, the quantum efficiency of the pixel array. The common pixel components may be shared by a number... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070040923 - Methods for improving the performance of a detector: A system and method for allowing adjustments of various parameters associated with the operation of charge-coupled devices adapted for use in biological analysis devices. Gate voltage signal applied to the CCDs can be adjusted to advantageously affect the manner in which charge is transferred from pixels. The manner in which... Agent: Mila Kasan, Patent Dept. Applied Biosystems

20070040924 - Cellular phone camera with three-dimensional imaging function: This real-time three-dimensional imaging system for a cellular phone camera generates an all-in-focus image with depth information. The system comprises a micromirror array lens, an imaging unit for capturing images with different focal planes, which are changed by the micromirror array lens, an image processing unit for processing the images... Agent: Stereo Display Inc.

20070040925 - Devices and method for imaging continuous tilt micromirror arrays: Devices for producing high resolution photographic images of a scene from assembled or mosaiced color values extracted from pixels of the scene reflected by a micromirror array to a photographic imaging system are provided.... Agent: Licata & Tyrrell P.C.

20070040926 - Replaceable imaging device unit, camera body and camera system: An imaging device unit to be removably attached to a camera body having an objective lens, the imaging device unit comprising: a board; a solid-state imaging device fixed on the board; and an abutment region formed on the board, and to abut against a reference plate provided on the camera... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070040927 - Image process apparatus and image pickup apparatus: Provided is an image process apparatus for processing a color image signal, including: an integration unit integrating at least one of each of color signals of the color image signal or a brightness signal obtained from the color image signal over at least one horizontal period; a normalization unit normalizing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070040928 - Capturing selected image objects: Exemplary embodiments provide a technique that processes captured images derived from selected targeted objects in a field of view. The captured images may be transferred via a communication link to a storage location for future availability. A possible aspect may provide a cross-reference association between saved multiple exposures having different... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070040929 - Image combination device: An image combination device which obtains a wide dynamic range image through combination of at least two images with different light exposure, including a photographing means for photographing an appropriate light exposure image and a different light exposure light image from the appropriate light exposure image, a dividing means for... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070040931 - Camera housing: Providing a camera housing which is suitably used to house a camera with a liquid crystal monitor having a touch panel and is capable of preventing the touch panel from being broken. The camera housing includes, an external operation unit provided outside the camera housing, a contact member provided inside... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070040930 - Security camera: The security camera includes a case body, and a fixed circuit board disposed in the case body. A middle plate is disposed above the fixed circuit board at a prescribed interval. A camera unit is horizontally and vertically rotatably disposed above the middle plate. A coupling unit enables the fixed... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070040932 - Image sensor module: An image pickup module with an image sensor packaged by way of flip chip, including: a base seat formed with a cavity and having a lead frame embedded in the base seat, the lead frame having multiple outer leads for connecting with a circuit board and multiple inner leads extending... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070040934 - Data insertion apparatus and methods for use with compressed audio/video data: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for performing data insertion in compressed audio/video data streams are disclosed. A disclosed method receives a digital data stream containing a plurality of compressed media streams associated with a plurality of different media programs and generates information to be inserted in at least one... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070040933 - Transport stream reprocessing device and data broadcasting system using the device: A program input stream reprocessing device and a data broadcasting system using the device. The program input stream reprocessing device receives and reprocesses program input streams provided by a program service provider and transmits results to the data broadcasting system. That is, additional data of a program included in the... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070040935 - Apparatus for converting image signal and a method thereof: An apparatus for converting an image signal includes a motion estimation unit which estimates a motion vector using current and reference fields; a ticker region detection unit which detects a ticker region of an image using the estimated motion vector where an image moving with a constant speed and direction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070040936 - Method of searching scenes recorded in pvr and television receiver using the same: A method of searching scenes recorded in a personal video recorder (PVR) and a television receiver using the same enable a specific scene of a stored video program to be searched quickly and accurately. A video program is stored in a storage medium of a PVR together with caption information... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070040937 - Digital multimedia broadcasting system and method for managing multimedia broadcast channels: A method for managing a digital multimedia broadcasting channel includes receiving a broadcast data frame that includes an occurrence change field, and performing a service update responsive to reconfiguration version data defined within the occurrence change field. Alternatively, the method includes transmitting a broadcast data frame that includes an occurrence... Agent: Jonathan Y. Kang, Esq. Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070040938 - Communication system in digital television: Disclosed is a digital communication system. A transmission system includes an error correction encoder part carrying out an error correction encoding for additional data inputted through a first path, a multiplexer (MUX) part, a control part, a channel coding part carrying out an RS encoding and a TCM encoding, and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070040939 - Encapsulating frame of graphics data for reply: An application renders a visual simulation to a display as a series of visual frames according to a plurality of calls. Each frame contains objects. A particular frame n of the simulation is captured for re-rendering. An identification of the frame n to be captured is received, a run file... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070040940 - Fractional frequency synthesizer and phase locked loop utilizing fractional frequency synthesizer and method thereof: A fractional frequency synthesizer, applied to a phase-locked loop, includes a phase detector, a loop filter, a controllable oscillator, a first frequency divider, and a sigma-delta modulator (SDM). The phase detector generates a phase difference signal according to a reference signal and a feedback signal. The loop filter filters the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070040941 - Display system adaptable to changes in video signals and method thereof: A display system adaptable to changes in video signals and a method thereof display a video signal, which has a first display aspect ratio, in a display system, which has a second display aspect ratio. The display system includes a receiving unit for receiving the video signal, a detecting unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070040942 - 2-2 pulldown signal detection device and a 2-2 pulldown signal detection method: According to one embodiment, when portions that should be “strong” are decided not to be “weak” on the 2-2 pulldown pattern of an inter-field correlation, if conditions are not established in which the correlation between the current field and the field before its one field is “strong”, the correlation between... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070040943 - Digital noise reduction apparatus and method and video signal processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a horizontal noise reduction circuit is supplied with an input video signal and the filter characteristic thereof is controlled by a noise reduction level setting value. A frame delay circuit delays the input video signal by a period of one frame. An inter-frame difference amount information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070040944 - Apparatus and method for correcting color error by adaptively filtering chrominance signals: An apparatus for correcting a color error, including: a color error detection unit for detecting the presence or absence of a color error in an edge region of an input video, based on a relation between difference values between interlaced horizontal lines and difference values between non-interlaced horizontal lines of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070040945 - Automatic color-sync polarity control: A system and method for automatically controlling color synchronization polarity during video decoding. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise at least one module that is adapted to monitor color synchronization polarity at a plurality of instances over a period of time. The at least one module may also,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070040946 - Segment buffer loading in a deinterlacer: A display processor integrated circuit includes a display processor portion and an on-chip programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion can be configured to implement custom video and/or image enhancement functions. The display processor portion performs block-based motion detection. If no motion is detected for a given block of pixels,... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20070040947 - Receiving apparatus, and display apparatus and television broadcasting system therewith: At the time of a sleep mode, a power-source control section stops the power supply to a tuner, a demodulation section, an AV-data processing section and a microcomputer, and executes a power supply only to a standby tuner. The standby tuner receives a start signal which is transmitted from a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070040948 - Power inserter module: A power inserter module includes an FIC male first port for a direct connection without use of cable to a female F-type output port of a DC source of power, an F-type female second port for connection to an RF amplifier to provide DC power thereto and receive RF signals... Agent: Kenneth Watov Watov & Kipnes, P.C.

20070040949 - Rotating device for display panel: A rotating device for display panel comprises a base, a display panel set, a first driver set, and a second driver set. The first and the second driver sets installed on the base can be moved to and fro along a fixed direction. A first and a second guide portions... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070035612 - Method and apparatus to capture and compile information perceivable by multiple handsets regarding a single event: A method and system (100) for capturing event information relating to an event (114) perceivable by a remote input device (102, 104, 106, and 108) capturing event information, including audio and video information, by the remote input device (102, 104, 106, and 108); synchronizes the captured information to a time... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070035611 - Mobile audio/video data transmission system and method for the same: A mobile audio/video data transmission system and method for the same, and more particularly to a voice over IP (VoIP) device and its method for transmitting digital signals structured in IP packets is are described. The system uses a plurality of computers and telephone devices at receiving and transmitting terminals.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070035613 - Videophone system for scrutiny monitoring with computer control: In conjunction with the dial-up public telephone system, voice quality lines carry videophone signals for monitoring a multitude of locations from at least one central station for use in a variety of applications, such as for security, surveillance, quality control and inspection, regulation of food and/or other standards in food-related... Agent: Reena Kuyper, Esq. Byard Nilsson, Esq.

20070035614 - Conference terminal apparatus in electronic conference system, electronic conference system, and display image control method: A conference terminal apparatus is used by a speaker of an electronic conference for transmitting image information displayed on a screen and causing a remote conference terminal apparatus used by an audience to display the image information on a remote screen. In the conference terminal apparatus, a screen control part... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070035615 - Method and apparatus for adjusting output images: A method and an apparatus for adjusting output images are provided. In the method, a target area is selected from the original frame received by an image receiving device and an image capturing device is controlled to capture the image within the target area. Hence, users can change angles to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070035616 - Mobile communication terminal with dual-display unit having function of editing captured image and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal with a camera and a dual-display unit, whereby, in an image capturing mode, a first display unit displays an image of a subject received through a camera in real time and a second display unit displays a still image of the subject captured according to an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070035617 - Unmanned monitoring system and monitoring method using omni-directional camera: Disclosed are an unmanned monitoring system and a monitoring method for performing 360° unmanned monitoring work in equipment having a low storage capacity, such as a robot, by using one omni-directional camera. When an image is input through the omni-directional camera, a movement of an object is detected from the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070035618 - Image processing apparatus: An integrated image and monovision images are easily discriminated from each other and fusion is effectively supported. An image processing apparatus includes collateral image setting section for setting collateral images on a plurality of monocular images on the same subject obtained with a given parallax at partial or overall edge... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070035619 - Method and system for controlling space magnification for stereoscopic images: The invention relates to a method and system of displaying stereoscopic images. The method comprises displaying at least one stereoscopic image on a set of display device, the stereoscopic image comprising a pair of two-dimensional plane images, and providing adjustment data for spatial magnification, the spatial magnification relating to a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070035620 - Printing system for endoscope: An image printing system for an endoscope includes a printer, a print commander, a printer-information memory, a timer, and an alarm. The printer prints an image, and the print commander commands the printer to print the image. The printer-information memory stores printer-information, including time-information that represents a required-time-period for the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070035621 - Movement decision method for acquiring sub-pixel motion image appropriate for super resolution processing and imaging device using the same: The present invention provides a movement decision method for determining direction and distance of one-dimensional movement of image capturing object or image capturing element for capturing two-dimensional sub-pixel motion image suitable for super-resolution processing, and an image capturing device using this movement decision method. while image capturing object is moved... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070035623 - Directed attention digital video recordation: The present invention describes systems and methods of incorporating detailed snapshots of targeted areas of interest into a video or digitized recording of the overall scene including metadata to link the snapshots to the time and location in the overall scene from which the snapshot was acquired. A single fixed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070035622 - Method and apparatus for video surveillance: A method and apparatus for performing video surveillance of a field of view is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for performing surveillance of the field of view includes monitoring the field of view and detecting a moving object in the field of view, where the motion is detected based... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070035624 - Lidar with streak-tube imaging, including hazard detection in marine applications; related optics: The system and method relate to detection of objects that are submerged, or partially submerged (e. g. floating), relative to a water surface. One aspect of the invention emits LIDAR fan-beam pulses and analyzes return-pulse portions to determine water-surface orientations and derive submerged-object images corrected for refractive distortion. Another defines... Agent: Peter I. Lippman

20070035625 - Vehicle video processing system: Disclosed are various systems and methods for processing and displaying video in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a vehicle video system is provided that comprises a plurality of cameras mounted in a vehicle, each of the cameras generating a video image, and the cameras including a plurality of visible light... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070035626 - Interchangeable donut helmet apparatus: For a helmet-mounted imaging system to be multi-purpose, effective, lightweight, and easy to use, it must be designed with the most advanced technologies, interchangeable and expandable for future upgrades. The Interchangeable Donut Helmet concept achieves this ability through the use illustrated in FIG. 1 of Section 5. These connected modules... Agent: Department Of The Army Cecom Legal Office, Fort Belvoir

20070035628 - Image-capturing device having multiple optical systems: An appropriate angle of view for image capturing of an object is set and an image is captured. A digital camera comprises a first image-capturing optical system having a lens and a first image sensor, and a second image-capturing optical system having a lens and a second image sensor. A... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070035627 - Methods and apparatus for providing fault tolerance in a surveillance system: A coordinated surveillance system uses a larger number of fixed low resolution detection smart camera devices and a smaller number of pan/tilt/zoom controllable high resolution tracking smart camera devices. The set of detection cameras provide overall continuous coverage of the surveillance region, while the tracking cameras provide localized high resolution... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070035629 - Recyclable, digital one time use camera: A digital camera having a limiting-use component to limit use of the digital camera to a single use-cycle.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070035631 - Electronic image pickup device with hand-shake compensation function and camera-equipped portable electronic device: There is provided an electronic image pickup device with a hand-shake compensation function capable of reducing drive amount necessary for shake compensation and achieving downsizing without increasing a size of a piezoelectric element or voltage to be applied. A lens L2 is attached to an output-side surface of a prism... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070035630 - Method and apparatus for electronically stabilizing digital images: An electronic image stabilizer in a digital camera compensates for camera motion-induced blurriness by segmenting exposure times into multiple shorter exposure times and summing the individual pixels from successive frames after applying an appropriate motion correction. Motion is detected by computing the correlation function between successive images, and compensation is... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20070035632 - Mobile digital video recording system: The Improved Mobile Digital Video Recorder (IMDVR) system is a ruggedized, multiple camera video and audio recording system that is installed within a public transit vehicle to record, store, and manage an integrated data stream of data captured within and exterior to the transit vehicle. The system is focused on... Agent: John L. Sotomayor

20070035633 - Method and apparatus for simulating the scenes of image signals: The present invention relates to a method for simulating the scenes of image signals, which comparing different image signals in alternation time to decide the emitting type and the emitting conversion of a light-emitting device so as to accomplish simulating the scenes of the image signals. The method comprises the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070035635 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method and program for the image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus being capable of generating a frame for a moving image at a desired timing using a still image captured during capturing a moving image is provided. The image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a still image capturing instruction reception section for receiving an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070035634 - System and method for reduction of chroma aliasing and noise in a color-matrixed sensor: Provided is a system and method for processing images. A method is provided for reducing noise and/or aliasing from an image sampled in a plurality of spatial phases, including, but not limited to selecting at least two of the plurality of spatial phases; and performing a difference calculation of the... Agent: Anderson & Jansson, L.L.P.

20070035636 - Method and system of eliminating color noises caused by an interpolation: A method and system of eliminating color noises caused by an interpolation, which performs an interpolation on a Bayer image obtained by an image sensor to restore red, green and blue colors of each pixel. Interpolated image is converted into a chromatic domain in order to rapidly use chroma pixel... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070035637 - Method for color filter array demosaicking: This invention provides a method of interpolating a color filter array (CFA), which combines the advantages of the interpolation method based on edge detection and the interpolation method which utilizes the original color of each CFA pixel as reference, in order to ensure that the edges of the output image... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070035638 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Print log information representing an output sheet count in each of a plurality of image forming devices is acquired. Next, print log information of output products is acquired for each department or user capable of using the image forming device. Then, total print log information representing the output sheet count... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035639 - Recording/reproducing system: Time varying images 712 before coded are rearranged in a coding stage into unitary images 722 having the sequence of time stamps DTS 725. A GPS or the like provides position information indicative of the position whereat the respective unitary image of a motion image has been captured. The unitary... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070035640 - Digital still camera and method of controlling operation of same: If a telop-character recording mode is selected, then, in response to depression of a shutter-release button, the image of a subject is sensed and voice enters from a microphone for a fixed period of time so that data representing voice is obtained. Character data for indicating the content of voice... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070035641 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An apparatus and a method for efficiently executing correction of false color, such as purple fringe, caused by chromatic aberration and for generating and outputting high-quality image data are provided. A white-saturated pixel is detected from image data, a false-color-pixel detection area is set around the detected white-saturated pixel, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070035642 - Noise reducing device, electronic camera, and image processing program for reducing image noise by using blackout image: A noise reducing device captures image data obtained by capturing a field with an image capturing part and a plurality of blackout image data obtained by capturing the field with the image capturing part under a light shielded state. This device reduces non-correlative random noise in the plural blackout image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070035643 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging element, an imaging optical system configured to input an image of an object to the imaging element, a non-volatile memory part for storing defect data concerning the imaging element, and includes a first memory area storing initial defect data concerning the imaging element, and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070035644 - Method of video sync protection and video sync protector thereof: A method of protecting a video encoder while encoding video data corresponding to a first video signal includes receiving the first video signal; detecting a start of a first field in the first video signal; outputting information corresponding to the first field in the first video signal as a first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070035646 - Image pickup device and image pickup optical system: An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070035645 - Solid-state image pickup device having primary color and ray color filters and processing means therefor: In a single plate type solid-state image pickup device having a color filter with primary color filters, gray filters are disposed at specific pixels of the arrangement of the primary color filters, whereby variation of the sense of resolution with respect to color can be prevented, and outline emphasis is... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070035647 - Imaging device unit and camera system: An imaging device unit to be removably attached to a camera body having an objective lens, the imaging device unit comprises: a board; a solid-state imaging device fixed on the board; a drive circuit that drives the solid-state imaging device; an identification-information generating circuit that generates identification information to specify... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035648 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices, a charge transfer device for transferring a signal charge converted by the photoelectric conversion devices, a signal charge detection portion for converting a signal charge transferred by the charge transfer device into a signal voltage, a reset circuit for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070035649 - Image pixel reset through dual conversion gain gate: An imager with pixels having dual conversion gain. Each pixel has a dual conversion gain element coupled between two floating diffusion regions. When activated, the dual conversion gain element switches in a storage element to increase the charge storage capacity of the pixel. Pixel reset circuitry is coupled to the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070035650 - Timing signal processing apparatus for controlling driving of image-capturing element, and camera: A timing generator sets a 1-frame period, in which a pixel signal is read from a CCD, at a first period or a second period that is longer than the first period. The timing generator outputs specific timing signals (with optimal driving frequencies) to a vertical driver and a horizontal... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070035651 - Recording device and method, and image capture device: A recording device that includes: a main image data acquisition section acquiring main image data in real time; a sub image data generation section generating sub image data, which can be recorded on a recording medium together with the main image data based on a predetermined rule using a predetermined... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070035652 - Input apparatus, input method, input program, display apparatus, display method, reproduction apparatus, and reproduction method: An input apparatus that has a position detection section, a thumbnail picture generation section, a process section, and a selection section is disclosed. The position detection section linearly detects a position that a user's finger has touched. The thumbnail picture generation section generates a thumbnail picture corresponding to a video... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070035653 - High dynamic range imaging device using multiple pixel cells: A method and apparatus for achieving high-dynamic range operation with a set of spatially distributed pixel cells is provided. A pixel array with a row of pixels having apertures of varying sizes in a metal mask formed thereon controls the sensitivity of each pixel cell to light. A neutral density... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070035654 - Video camera apparatus: The video camera apparatus and image sensing method are capable of obtaining a still image without blurring even when a moving object is picked up with use of a solid image sensor capable of progressive scanning. An electronic shutter of a CCD image sensor 23 capable of outputting an image... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070035656 - Digital camera: An image pickup substrate mounted with an image pickup element is pressed against the surface of a camera body frame by a plate spring, and exclusive position adjusting mechanisms that independently move the image pickup substrate to a vertical direction and a lateral direction are provided. The image pickup substrate... Agent: Paul A. Fattibene Fattibene & Fattibene

20070035657 - Imaging system: Disclosed herein is an imaging system including a stationary base, an imaging device that is rotatably attached to the stationary base, and a rotary coupling unit that electrically couples the stationary base and the imaging device, wherein an analog luminance signal and an analog color signal are used for transmission... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070035655 - Multi-functional scanning camera: A multi-functional scanning camera comprises a rear cover; a front cover combined to the rear cover; a main back casing; a left telescopic rod; a right telescopic rod; a left fixing unit and a right fixing unit locked to two sides of the back casing; a main front casing assembled... Agent: Chang-fu Chen

20070035658 - Simple integrated control for zoom/pan functions: A simple, integrated control for pan and zoom of a display of data represented by a very long data record is in the form of a control knob having an outer ring for controlling pan and an inner knob for controlling a zoom factor. A zoom function is turned ON... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070035659 - Method and apparatus for processing video signal: Methods and apparatuses for processing a video signal are provided, in which a video signal for an interlaced scanning mode is received that has a first field and a second field. Further, a determination is performed as to whether the first field and the second field are inverted with respect... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035660 - Video processing method capable of preventing rough movement of video object, and related device: A video processing method includes: reading a video signal including a plurality of first fields and a plurality of second fields, where the number of the first fields is different from the number of the second fields; and processing the plurality of first fields of the video signal and/or the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070035661 - Methods and apparatus for displaying transmitted data: A reflective LCD, electronic ink or electrophoretic display panel presents a five day weather forecast representative of weather forecast data transmitted to the display location via a commercial paging service from a remote server. The server obtains forecast data from a commercial weather service, reformats selected data into compressed encoded... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070035662 - Method, system, and apparatus for communication by means of transmitted signals over visual media: A communication method, system, and apparatus are provided that transmits supplementary communications combined with standard television or other visual media (e.g., cable, satellite, video, pre-recorded video, IPTV, Internet, print media) to a viewer/reader. The invention permits a standard television system or other visual media system to transmit supplementary digital data... Agent: Christine Q. Mcleod Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070035663 - Display apparatus to output an audio signal and method thereof: A display apparatus includes a display unit to display an image, a sound output part to output a sound, a computer signal processing module to process a video signal and an audio signal input from a computer, a network signal processing module in communication with a network to process a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070035664 - Broadcast program scene notification system: A registration server (40) is connected to a mobile terminal (20) via a communication network (10) and registers desired scene information specifying a desired scene of a user in a broadcast program together with the communication address information (telephone number or mail address or the like) of the mobile terminal... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070035665 - Method and system for communicating lighting effects with additional layering in a video stream: A video streaming system that supports an additional layer for lighting effects in video streams transmitted from a broadcast studio such that a video layer with special effects is transmitted separately from the video stream by a transmitter makes it possible to provide for user selectable video lighting effects. A... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070035666 - Method and apparatus for providing a video signal: The invention relates to a method of providing a video signal for display of a stream of video data (200) at a rate other than real-time, the video data being built up from frames, the method comprising the step of real-time rendering of non-contiguous segments of the stream of video... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070035667 - Method and apparatus for digital mts receiver: System and method for an all-digital audio receiver for a BTSC MTS audio signal or other composite signal that is FM modulated. A preferred embodiment comprises a digital FM demodulator for receiving an analog to digital quantized SIF signal and performing demodulation and outputting a composite audio signal, and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070035668 - Method of routing an audio/video signal from a television's internal tuner to a remote device: A method of and apparatus for directly routing the output an internal television tuner allowing for the use of a decoded audio-video data signal by a remote device. The method of and apparatus for routing the output signal of a television's internal tuner allowing for direct use of a decoded... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070035669 - Projection television apparatus: A projection television apparatus includes: a frame; a screen; and a projector unit, for emitting an image projection light beam onto the screen; wherein said projector unit includes; illuminating means, image forming means for modulating light beams by image information, and a projection lens; an optical axis of the image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070035670 - Ultra-thin image projection system: An ultra-thin rear projection display system (RPDS) is disclosed. The system uses a small flat mirror, a small non-rotationally symmetric mirror and a larger non-rotationally symmetric mirror to achieve a D-to-d ratio of around 11:1 while rendering a significantly distortion free image on the screen. The first two mirrors are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035671 - Liquid crystal television container: Disclosed is a liquid crystal television container. The user automatically adjusts the height of a liquid crystal television using a lifting device when the user wants to watch the liquid crystal television. The liquid crystal television is accommodated in the liquid crystal television container such that the liquid crystal television... Agent: Ditthavong & Mori, P.C.

20070030336 - Communication system: In a communication system for communicating a plurality of frequency signals between a first apparatus 1 and a second apparatus 2 via a common cable 3, a level loss component of each of the frequency signals in the cable is effectively corrected. Both transmission-sided reference frequency signal level detecting means... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070030339 - Method, system and software for monitoring compliance: A method, system, and software of providing dietary compliance includes receiving a message from a mobile device of a user, the message containing dietary data of the user. Indexing information and the dietary data is automatically extracted from the message and the dietary data is stored in a data store... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070030340 - Mobile telephone with built in camera and flash: A mobile telephone comprising a camera, and a light emitting diode, wherein the light emitting diode operates both as an incoming call indicator lamp and as a camera flash, and both the light emitting diode and the camera are arranged on one face of the mobile telephone, and the one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030338 - Video ringback tone: The present invention relates to methods and systems for offering calling parties a video indicia or segment while awaiting connection to a called party in a telecommunications network. CAMEL-based and switch based embodiments are described in detail, along with various cases for early and late call forwarding, completed calls and... Agent: Roamware, Inc. Attn: Legal Department

20070030337 - Wireless audio system with remote control: A wireless portable audio/video system for delivering audio to the individual without the use of wires is used in conjunction with both portable and non-portable audio and/or video systems and devices includes a pair of ear buds or earplugs having speaker portions insertable into the ear holes for the delivery... Agent: The Inventors Network, Inc.

20070030341 - Imaging system, camera control apparatus, panorama image generation method and program therefor: Disclosed is an imaging system including a camera terminal apparatus capable of performing pan operation and/or tilt operation and a camera control apparatus for controlling the camera terminal apparatus. In the imaging system, the camera terminal apparatus includes a signal processor configured to generate a panorama image, a panorama image... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030342 - Apparatus and method for capturing a scene using staggered triggering of dense camera arrays: This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for video capture of a three-dimensional region of interest in a scene using an array of video cameras. The video cameras of the array are positioned for viewing the three-dimensional region of interest in the scene from their respective viewpoints. A... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070030343 - Interactive, video-based content for theaters: An interactive advertisement and entertainment system for public or private movie theaters (cinemas) or venues with large screens and an audience directly in front of, and viewing, the screens.... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070030344 - Endoscope device: An endoscope device having an imaging element for imaging an observation image of a subject, an endoscope having a grippable operation section, a video image displaying device for converting an image signal from imaging means into a video image and displaying it, a first supporting section for supporting the video... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070030345 - Universal scope reader: A system for automatically setting video signal processing parameters for an endoscopic video camera system based upon characteristics of an attached endoscope, with reduced EMI and improved inventory tracking, maintenance and quality assurance, and reducing the necessity for adjustment and alignment of the endoscope and camera to achieve the data... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070030346 - Method for an imaging device for anatomically assigning an image generated by the imaging device, and a computer program product that is set up for carrying out such a method: A method is disclosed for an imaging device, for anatomically assigning an image generated by the imaging device to object components of an object. Further, a computer program product and computer readable medium are disclosed, which are set up to carry out such a method. In the method, the object... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070030347 - Method and computer program for the detection of the contour of an obstacle in the surroundings of a vehicle: The invention relates to a method for detecting the contour of an obstacle in the surroundings of a moving vehicle by means of a sensor device that is preferably integrated in the lateral area of the vehicle. In previously known methods of this type, the sensor device usually emits a... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20070030348 - Wireless communication device with range finding functions: A wireless communication device includes a range finder, and is configured to obtain distance measurements via the range finder for processing by the device. Such processing may comprise, by way of example, storing distance measurement information, outputting distance measurement information on a display screen of the wireless communication device, transmitting... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070030349 - Under vehicle inspection system: An under vehicle inspection system is disclosed. The under vehicle inspection system comprises a vehicle undercarriage inspection platform, a sensor mounted on sensor carriage, and a data analysis element receiving and evaluating data obtained by the sensor.... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070030350 - Remote inspection apparatus for vehicles: A remote inspection apparatus for inspecting a stopped vehicle from a second vehicle including a boom extendable in a generally horizontal direction mounted to the second vehicle having an articulated distal surveillance end. The surveillance end can include a plurality of surveillance devices selected from a group including an imaging... Agent: Taglia, Fette, Dumke & White, P.C.

20070030351 - Wireless microphone for use with an in-car video system: An in-car video system and method is provided where a wireless microphone is configured with bi-directional communications capability. In response to a received RF activation signal, the wireless microphone is automatically switched on to capture (and transmit back to the in-car video system) an audio soundtrack that accompanies the images... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20070030352 - System and method for determining video subcarrier phase: A system and method for determining phase of a subcarrier (e.g., a jittering video subcarrier). Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining at least one weighting factor based, at least in part, on a subcarrier synchronization signal (e.g., a video synchronization signal). A first subcarrier phase sample and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070030353 - System and method for a software steerable web camera with multiple image subset capture: A method of capturing a scene within a field of view of a wide-angle lens coupled to a camera comprising storing image data of the scene in an image collection array, digitizing the scene image data into digitized scene image data for storage in a memory, receiving selections of a... Agent: Digeo, Inc C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20070030354 - Modular camera assembly with a compact printer: A modular camera assembly includes a camera module. The camera module includes a camera, and a first body which supports the camera and terminates in a first connector opposite the camera. The camera includes a view finder, a lens, and a movable protective cover which can be moved to cover... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070030355 - Image pickup device and control method therefor: A monitoring camera which can realize a tracing function that allows simple tracing of an object. An image shooting unit repeatedly executes a cycle of processing including a shooting processing, an image analyzing processing and a motor driving processing. An image analyzing unit analyzes an image. A motor control unit... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070030356 - Method and system for processing multiview videos for view synthesis using side information: A method processes a multiview videos of a scene, in which each video is acquired by a corresponding camera arranged at a particular pose, and in which a view of each camera overlaps with the view of at least one other camera. Side information for synthesizing a particular view of... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070030357 - Techniques for processing images: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that determine a processing to be performed on an image at a remote processing resource, capture an image, and transmit to the remote processing resource, in response to a triggering event, the image to be processed and associated information.... Agent: Searete LLC

20070030359 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus includes an image input section configured to input still image data; a number-of-pixel converter configured to perform number-of-pixel conversion on the still image data; a display image generator configured to generate a scroll display image as output image data to be output to an image display... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070030358 - Image-processing device, method for controlling same, computer program, and storage medium: An image-processing device generates image data in consecutive-photographing mode and stores the image data and file-management information in a removable recording medium. Data on images photographed consecutively is stored in an internal memory of a device in sequence and written into the removable recording medium in sequence. To reduce the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070030360 - Digital camera and image recording method: In case there is no image file with an event name in a memory card when a digital camera is turned on the first time on the day, an asking sentence asks whether to create a new event name or not. When “Yes” is selected, event tag data showing “Event... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030361 - Digital camera that stores the location of an object: An image processing device including an optical system, a storage device, a position detecting device, and a direction detecting device. An optical system obtains an image of an object, and a storage device stores a predetermined position of an object to be shot. The position detecting device detects a current... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030362 - Display apparatus, display method, program and storage medium: For two screen configurations with different icons are arranged in the same region, when screens are immediately switched from one to the other, the switching is not easy to be recognized, being mistaken that both icons have strong relationship with each other. After deleting a group of icons, the other... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030363 - Image capture method and apparatus: A method for generating an image sequence using an image capture device, the method comprising using image data generated using the device and representative of an existing image of a sequence to assist a user of the device to capture one or more subsequent images for the sequence in order... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070030365 - Correction of cluster defects in imagers: A method and apparatus that allows for the correction of multiple defective pixels in an imager device. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes the steps of selecting a correction kernel for a defective pixel, determining average and difference values for pixel pairs in the correction kernel, and substituting an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030364 - Image management: There is disclosed a method of processing a digital image, which includes assigning an image quality classification to the image on the basis of an analysis of at least a portion of the image to detect whether one or more defects exist in the image.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070030367 - Image pickup device and image pickup optical system: An optical system enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain a color image,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070030368 - Image pickup device and image pickup optical system: An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070030366 - Selective pixel binning and averaging based on scene illuminant: A method for reading out pixel values for a two dimensional array, the method includes the steps of periodically combining at least two pixel values of a same first color in a first dimension of the two dimensional array; reading out the combined pixel values of the first color; and... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070030369 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method and recording medium for minimizing release time lag: An imaging apparatus comprises a device for discharging charge or F/E-IC (102) for discharging charge accumulated in an imaging device or CCD (101) and for canceling exposure in a discharging term of the charge, a light shielding device or mechanical shutter unit (7-4) for a mechanical shutter (7-4a), which shields... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030370 - Active pixel array of cmos image sensor: The present invention relates to an active pixel array of a CMOS image sensor. The active pixel array includes a pixel sensor array in which a pixel sensor which detects first and second light signals, of which the wavelengths are different from each other, among all wavelengths of light signals... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070030371 - Frame shuttering scheme for increased frame rate: Charge is integrated in N>=2 different groups within a frame buffer to form multiple image fields.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030372 - Solid-state imaging device: In each photosensitive cell, a photodiode 101, a transfer gate 102, a floating diffusion layer section 103, an amplifier transistor 104, and a reset transistor 105 are formed in one active region surrounded by a device isolation region. The floating diffusion layer section 103 included in one photosensitive cell is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070030373 - Electronic camera having pixel-row thinning mode: Pixel rows of an image sensor are respectively provided with a vertical transfer path. A charge detecting amplifier is disposed at one end of each of the vertical transfer paths. When a through image is outputted and when a moving-image mode is executed, a horizontal scanning circuit sequentially selects the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030374 - Electronic image capturing apparatus, control method of electronic image capturing apparatus, and image processing apparatus: An electronic image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor, a record section, a signal processing section and an electronic viewfinder. The image sensor is configured to capture a subject image. The record section is configured to record the image center area of the entire image area of an image signal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070030375 - Image processing method, imaging apparatus, and storage medium storing control program of image processing method executable by computer: An image processing method is provided for detecting the position of a specific subject from a moving image and combining a display of detection result indicating the detected position with the moving image. The image processing method includes a step of determining, depending on a display time of the detection... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070030376 - Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof: In a case where a request for an operation related to photographic operation is input during an alien substance removing operation of removing an alien substance sticking to an optical element arranged in front of an image sensing element, the alien substance removing operation is interrupted, and then the processing... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070030377 - Imaging device: The invention relates to an imaging device. An imaging device includes an image sensor for producing an image data related an object image; an optical system for forming on the image sensor the object image in which a predetermined region having as center a position that is different from a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070030379 - Circular symmetrical microlens/color filter array shift and digital lens shading correction: An image sensor formed with shifts among the optical parts of the sensor and the photosensitive parts of the sensor. Exemplary methods of calculating the desired shift are described and include a circular, symmetric design for the shift. The exemplary methods can also be used to calculate a correction coefficient... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070030378 - Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor: A pixel position corresponding to dust present on an image sensor and its optical system is detected from a dust detection sensed image. It is checked for a normally sensed image obtained by normal image sensing whether each pixel data is data at the pixel position corresponding to dust. Data... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070030380 - Solid-state image sensing device and method for fabricating the same: A solid-state image sensing device comprises: a light receiving unit for receiving light; a microlens formed above the light receiving unit; a fluorine-containing resin material layer formed on the microlens; and a transparent substrate provided over the fluorine-containing resin material layer. A resin layer adheres the fluorine-containing resin material layer... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070030381 - Digital camera: A digital camera includes: an image-capturing unit that receives light transmitted through a photographic optical system and outputs image signals; a lens drive unit that moves a focus lens constituting the photographic optical system along an optical axis; an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates a focal point evaluation value... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070030382 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An apparatus suitably detects a recording trigger even in a low-brightness or low-light-intensity environment, and acquires, from a recorded image, a high-quality image from which a person or the like can be easily recongized. When a recording trigger is to be detected, this apparatus disables an infrared reduction filter, so... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070030383 - Method and system for converting interlaced formatted video to progressive scan video: Processing video signals may comprise converting interlaced formatted video to progressive scan video by simultaneously performing: color edge detection on a first and second field; temporal filtering on the second field and third field; and 3:2 pull down detecting on the second field and the third field. A bound output... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070030384 - A system and method for detecting a non-video source in video signals: A video sequence may include a modality corresponding with an embedded pattern. At least one state machine detects the modality in accordance with difference signals. A signal generator generates the difference signals responsive to decision windows that define regions of interest in the video sequence. The modality may correspond with... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070030385 - Advertising panel enclosure for video monitors: A static and electronic video display enclosure system, mountable on existing video monitors, or on newly designed monitors, including televisions, high definition plasma and liquid crystal displays (LCD), light emitting diode (LED), organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, and other similar technologies for video broadcast and electronic graphics display, the... Agent: Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, LLC

20070030386 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided for enhancing the picture quality of images by extracting additional information from non-standard signals without an error. A signal determination unit receives an image signal including an image interval containing an image and an additional information interval containing additional... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070030387 - Audio/video device which controls synchronization of analog video and audio signal using time information: An audio/video device, which controls the synchronization of analog video and audio signals using time information, and a method of controlling the synchronization are provided. The audio/video device comprises a reference clock generation unit that generates and outputs a reference clock having a predetermined period of time. A signal processing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070030388 - Method for reducing analog pll jitter in video application: The present invention provides a method for reducing analog PLL (Phase-lock loop) jitter in video ADC application. The HSync/CSync is replaced with a faked HSync signal to be inputted to PLL during vertical blank period. Therefore the analog PLL will only see the faked HSync signal of fixed period as... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070030389 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring the multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens uses flags included transferred packets in order to dynamically configure multiple screens that provide a plurality of contents on a physical display device and a method of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030390 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens is capable of providing a plurality of contents on a single physical display device and reconstructing a form or connection relationship among screens existing on a system. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030391 - Apparatus, medium, and method segmenting video sequences based on topic: Provided are an apparatus, medium, and method segmenting video sequences based on a topic. The apparatus may include a start-shot determination unit detecting a plurality of key-frames by using character information from video sequences including a plurality of frames to determine the detected key-frames as start-shots for each topic, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070030393 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus and method for providing multiple screens is disclosed. The apparatus includes a user/application interface module receiving a PiP service providing mode, and an output module displaying a video component of a service on a main screen if the PiP service providing mode is a first mode and displaying... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030394 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens. The apparatus for providing multiple screens is capable of connecting a plurality of screens to a plurality of output ports so as to dynamically configure the plurality of screens which provide multiple contents on a single... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030395 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a digital signal processing module which receives predetermined information and restores a service based on the predetermined information, a service processing module which displays one or more... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030392 - Decoding apparatus for encoded video signals: The present invention is a decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video signal capable of displaying a secondary video synchronously with a primary video. The decoding apparatus includes: an auxiliary information analyzing part that analyzes auxiliary information including display auxiliary information about a display position and/or a display size of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070030396 - Method and apparatus for generating a panorama from a sequence of video frames: A method of generating a panorama from a sequence of video frames, comprises determining keyframes in the video sequence at least partially based on changes in color and feature levels between video frames of the sequence and stitching the determined keyframes together to form a panorama. An apparatus for generating... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070030397 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus comprises a user input unit; an image processor operating in one of a first image processing mode performing a first image processing operation and at least one second image processing operation on an input image signal, and a second image processing mode not performing at least one... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070030398 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing a multi-level modulation signal: A satellite communications system comprises a transmitter, a satellite transponder and a receiver. The transmitter transmits an uplink multi-level modulated signal (hierarchical modulation, layered modulation, etc.) to the satellite transponder, which broadcasts the multi-level modulated signal downlink to one, or more, receivers. The multi-level modulated signal comprises an upper layer... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070030399 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: A video processing method and apparatus are provided. Video signals including channel information relating to one of a plurality of channels, and video identification information relating to an identity of a picture between signals are received. A receiving quality of each video signal in accordance with the video signals having... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070030400 - Audio processing system and method: In an audio processing system and method, pull-up circuits and a capacitor circuit are used to cause gradual change in voltage levels of audio signals which would otherwise change abruptly due to high-speed switching when switching from a first audio signal to a second audio signal at a user's command.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070030401 - Projection apparatus, illumination module and color-level correcting method therefor: A projection apparatus, an illumination module and a color-level correcting method therefor are provided. The projection apparatus comprises a projection lens, an imaging unit and an illumination module. The illumination module comprises a light source, a color wheel and a controlling unit. The light source provides a light beam. The... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070030402 - Method and apparatus for image correction: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for correcting a video image. In an exemplary embodiment, an image processing unit (21) comprises an image offset generator (56) configured to calculate a baseline measurement for a first display location of a plurality of display locations, a stretch coefficient generator... Agent: Barry D. Blount Fletcher Yoder

20070030403 - Reduced \"chin\" height projection tv: Described are projection televisions with substantially reduced chin height. In one embodiment, an optical projection engine may be mounted to one side of a TV screen, thereby facilitating a projection television with reduced chin height. In other embodiments, two or more optical projection engines may be mounted in a cabinet... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070030404 - Transformer, multi-output switching power supply, liquid crystal television: The present invention aims to obtain a stable output voltage without requiring an extra circuit by suppressing influence of noise of the primary winding and voltage induction by leakage inductance. In a transformer 3 used in a multi-output switching power supply, a secondary winding S1 for outputting a voltage to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070030405 - Remotely controlled wall-mounted television bracket: A flat panel television mounting system is disclosed. The system includes an arm connected to a wall structure at a first end and to a flat panel television bracket at a second end. In one version, the arm may include two independent sections. One or more motors control the movements... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20070030406 - Cathode ray tube of the index type: The invention is related to a cathode ray tube of the index type wherein the tracking structure allows the type to be used in progressive scan mode. The tracking structure comprises tracking elements (16,18) of a first kind and a second kind for generating a first response signal (S1) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070024699 - Integrated digital media server and a/v telecommunication device: An integrated digital picture server and A/V telecommunication device includes a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection and a video processor connected to the network connection. A memory is connected to the video processor and a picture file input connection is connected to the memory. The... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20070024700 - Method and device for setting output volume of audio signal to prevent acoustic shock in mobile terminal: A mobile terminal with a function for setting an output volume of an audio signal to prevent acoustic shock is disclosed. In the mobile terminal, a receiver is integrated into a speaker. The speaker limits the initial output volume of an audio signal to a predetermined level. The mobile terminal... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070024698 - Wireless mobile phone with authenticated mode of operation including photo based authentication: A wireless mobile phone is equipped to operate in an unauthenticated and an authenticated mode of operation, depending on whether a user has been authenticated against an authentication reference. In one embodiment, the authentication is performed against an authentication reference retrieved from an identity card, and the wireless mobile phone... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070024701 - Stereoscopic wide field of view imaging system: A stereoscopic imaging system incorporates a plurality of imaging devices or cameras to generate a high resolution, wide field of view image database from which images can be combined in real time to provide wide field of view or panoramic or omni-directional still or video images.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070024702 - Storage apparatus for digial/analog tv video/audio media: A storage apparatus for DTV/ATV/DAB/ANALOG AUDIO BROADCASTING media is provided, including a USB hub or USB serial interface engine (SIE), at least a DTV/ATV/DAB/ANALOG AUDIO BROADCASTING interface converter, a video/audio decoding interface and a plurality of storage media interfaces. The upstream port of the USB hub or the USB serial... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070024703 - Automatic deinterlacing and inverse telecine: A video apparatus is provided with automatic deinterlacing and inverse telecine pre-filtering capability to automatically analyze the frames of the video to determine at least whether the video is one of telecine, non-telecine progressive and non-telecine interlaced formatted, and to automatically reformat the video into a non-telecine progressive format if... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070024704 - Size calibration and mapping in overhead camera view: To calibrate images from an overhead camera, two equal-length reference lines at different heights relative to the floor plane are imaged. By comparing the resultant image-width of each of these lines in the view provided by the camera, the effective focal point of the camera is determined. In a preferred... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070024706 - Systems and methods for providing high-resolution regions-of-interest: Systems and methods for providing high-quality region of interest (HQ-ROI) viewing within an overall scene by enabling one or more HQ-ROIs to be viewed in a controllable fashion, as higher quality ‘windows-within-a-window’ of regions (spatial subsets) of a scene.... Agent: O'keefe, Egan & Peterman, L.lp.

20070024705 - Systems and methods for video stream selection: Systems and methods for selecting reception of video streams in an adaptive fashion, for example, from a multi-stream video source. In one implementation, reception of the video streams may be dynamically switched such that optimal bandwidth is selected in adaptive fashion using a set of video parameters, such as the... Agent: O'keefe, Egan & Peterman, L.L.P.

20070024709 - Control apparatus and method for recording number of person in moving image, and still-image playback apparatus and method: The number of persons that appear in an image constituting a moving image is recorded on a recording medium together with data representing the moving image. Moving-image data is read from the recording medium. Images of persons contained in every third frame of an image among the images constituting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024708 - Intelligent video for building management and automation: A video processing and analysis system is coupled to a building management and control system. The video processing system provides traffic, occupancy, and other information derived from video images of sections of the building and its environs to the building management and control systems. The building systems use this information... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070024710 - Monitoring system, monitoring apparatus, monitoring method and program therefor: A monitoring system being capable of monitoring an important monitoring region at low cost is provided. The monitoring system according to the present invention includes: a first image capturing section for capturing a moving image in a first monitoring region; a second image capturing section for capturing a moving image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024707 - Relevant image detection in a camera, recorder, or video streaming device: The filtering tasks that are conventionally applied in a video monitoring application, to distinguish images that may be relevant to the application, are distributed to the image source, or near-source devices. Source devices, such as cameras and playback devices, and near-source devices, such as video concentrators and streaming devices, are... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070024711 - External environment-monitoring camera system which is suitable for a a vehicle rear-view mirror: A camera system for the supervision of at least one dead angle, including an electro-optical detector device, suitable to acquire images picked up from the exterior and at least one system for processing and analyzing the signals obtained by the camera and comprising two electrically interconnected and communicated modules comprising... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070024712 - Information processing method and apparatus: Indices are detected from a pattern image including a plurality of indices, and first positions of the detected indices on the captured image are calculated. Using parameters associated with an image capturing apparatus, second positions indicating the positions of the indices on the captured image are calculated. While a parameter... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070024713 - Imaging parallel interface ram: Imaging Parallel Interface Random Access Memory (IPIRAM). An integrated circuit imaging device presents to external circuitry as a static, parallel-interface RAM. Internally, a two-port RAM has access resolved by contention logic to permit access by external circuitry or internal imaging. The RAM is organized as one or more image buffers... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070024714 - Whiteboard camera apparatus and methods: Disclosed are digital cameras adapted to capturing whiteboard images, and methods. Embodiments of the cameras incorporate processing firmware to create clear whiteboard images from digital images. Embodiments may also include a specialized lens for correcting for perspective effects, an interface for connection to a computer network, and provisions to facilitate... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024715 - Actuator and micromotion mechanism having such actuator and camera module having such micromotion mechanism: In an actuator 11, which includes a driver 10 including: a substrate 1 having a predetermined width and a predetermined length when viewed from the direction of thickness of the substrate; a reinforcing member 2 provided on one of the thickness-wise faces of the substrate 1; and displacement means (a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070024716 - Electronic blurring correction apparatus: An electronic blurring correction apparatus in the present invention includes a solid-state image-capturing device, which has an image-capturing section with photodiodes and vertical transfer CCD and an accumulation section with a vertical transfer CCD and a horizontal transfer CCD, wherein a first image transferred from the image-capturing section is accumulated... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070024717 - Programmable camera control unit with updatable program: A video imaging system with a camera coupled to a camera control unit, the camera having a program stored thereon and the camera control unit comparing the program version stored on the camera with another version of the program such that the newer version of the program is loaded onto... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070024718 - Image capturing device and image adjusting method thereof: An image capturing device includes an image sensor and an image processor is provided. The image sensor is used for sensing and converting a light source into an image. The image is composed of a number of pixels. Each pixel corresponds to a color data, respectively. The image processor adjusts... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070024719 - Digital camera and gain computation method: For computing a plurality of white balance gains with regard to a single image data item, a target image is first divided into a plurality of blocks. Then, a representative value of each block is computed, and a value representing the relative contribution of each light source type to a... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070024720 - Image taking apparatus: An image taking apparatus has a light emitting section, a color temperature circuit and a system control circuit. The light emitting section includes LEDs respectively emitting each color of red, green and blue. In response to the result of color temperature measurement in the color temperature circuit, the system control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070024721 - Compensating for improperly exposed areas in digital images: A method and apparatus compensates for improperly exposed areas in a first digital image taken with a first aperture setting by rapidly and automatically capturing a second digital image of the same scene using a second aperture setting. If a portion of the first image is properly exposed, then image... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070024722 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: an allocation device configured to allocate each of a plurality of picture display areas to each of a plurality of picture groups each made up of a plurality of pictures, the picture display areas being arrayed in a first direction on a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070024723 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and computer program for causing computer to execute control method of image processing apparatus: Object recognition is executed by using, of feature data classified into a plurality of groups, only feature data belonging to a selected group. Hence, it is unnecessary to compare and refer to all feature data so that object recognition processing can be speeded up.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070024724 - Gain control method for a camera to support multiple conflicting applications concurrently: A gain control method for setting the gain control channels of a camera such that it enables the support of multiple conflicting applications which camera is performing concurrently, including using one channel, for example the Green channel, for B&W image applications, and the other two channels for color image applications... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070024725 - Image pickup device and image pickup optical system: An optical system enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain a color image,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070024727 - Active pixel sensor with mixed analog and digital signal integration: An active pixel sensor includes mixed analog and digital signal integration on the same substrate. The analog part of the array forms the active pixel sensor, and the digital part of the array does digital integration of the signal.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070024728 - 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

20070024729 - 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

20070024730 - 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: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070024731 - 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: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070024726 - Solid-state imaging device and camera system: An MOS type solid state imaging device in which unit pixels 10 each having a photodiode 11, a transfer transistor 12 for transferring the signal of the photodiode 11 to a floating node N11, an amplifier transistor 13 for outputting the signal of the floating node N11 to a vertical... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070024732 - Driving device and driving method for solid state imaging element: In a solid state imaging element in which a plurality of bits are provided for storing information charges, during transfer of an information charge, a transfer electrode corresponding to a bit storing the information charge to be transferred is set to an OFF state and at least one transfer electrode... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070024734 - Two-part camera system: A camera system is provided to record experiences, as moving or still images, directly into devices that may have various and sundry other functions. The camera system is intended to allow users to instantly view and share recorded images with others without any processing requirements. Users may view and share... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070024733 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus having a screen on which a plurality of images are one by one displayed and sequentially switched to another at a time interval. The apparatus includes an image storing portion and a display control portion. The image storing portion stores data of an actual image and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070024736 - Electronic camera for capturing image as digital data: A rear side of an electronic camera is provided with an LCD to display a taken image. When a user does not touch the LCD, the taken image is displayed on an entire screen of the LCD. When the user touches the LCD, a contact position is detected by a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024735 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit adapted to pickup a moving image, a shooting condition storage unit adapted to store shooting conditions to be used in the image pickup unit, an instruction unit adapted to issue a shooting condition read instruction during moving image shooting by the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070024738 - Image capturing apparatus: The present invention provides a digital camera which has a plurality of image capturing optical systems and quickly performs automatic focusing. A digital camera includes a first image capturing optical system formed from a lens 2 and a first image sensor, and a second image capturing optical system formed from... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070024737 - Image capturing device having multiple optical systems: In a digital camera having multiple optical systems, multiple image capturing elements are effectively driven to reduce power consumption. A digital camera has a first image capturing optical system having a lens and a first image sensor and a second image capturing optical system having a lens and a second... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070024739 - Image pickup optical systems, image pickup apparatuses and digital apparatuses: The present invention provides image pickup optical systems capable of suppressing the degradation of the image quality due to unnecessary light beams while attaining compaction by optimizing the shapes of the emission surfaces of reflection prisms. The image pickup optical system includes an incidence-side prism for reflecting incident light while... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070024740 - Flexible lens mount system for rapid tilt photography: The present invention generally relates to photography, including both still photography and video photography. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a lens system that includes a lens, a fitting mountable to a camera, and a flexible body extending between the lens and the fitting. The fitting can be... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070024741 - Image processing device: An image processing device for automatically setting the accumulation time (exposure time) in accordance with the illuminance even in a dark environment and smoothly following the motion of an object. The image processing device includes: gain control means (7) for performing gain control of a video signal from an imaging... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070024742 - Method and apparatus for enhancing flash and ambient images: A method and system generate an enhanced output image. A first image is acquired of a scene illuminated by a first illumination condition. A second image is acquired of the scene illuminated by a second illumination condition. First and second gradient images are determined from the first and second images.... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070024743 - Camera apparatus: A camera apparatus includes a base; an outer case assembled on the base; an inner case assembled in the outer case; a supporting member assembled in the inner case; a camera and a board assembled in the supporting member; a cooling fan for cooling the board, and so forth. The... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070024744 - System and method for periodic reset of a display: An electronic device having a video circuit for driving a display (100), the video circuit comprising one or more working registers (240) and a reset circuit (220, 230). The working register or registers (240) store video parameters of the display (100) and, optionally, the video circuit may be associated with... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070024745 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: A video processing apparatus and method are provided where deinterlacing units perform a deinterlacing process for an interlaced video signal, the deinterlacing process corresponding to a video changing rate for time lapse. Downsampling unit performs a downsampling process for the video signal. Video evaluation unit evaluates the video changing rate... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070024746 - Video delay stabilization system and method: A video delay stabilization system configured for multiple types of video input signals, includes a plurality of video processing modules, and a variable delay module. The plurality of video processing modules include at least one module that is selectively actuable depending upon the type of input signal, each module adding... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070024747 - Video processing apparatus and method: A video processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The video processing apparatus includes a first de-interlacer to de-interlace standard definition (SD)-level interlaced video signal into an SD-level progressive video signal by using spatial-temporal interpolation and output the SD-level progressive video signal, a scaler to convert the SD-level progressive video signal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070024748 - Noise detection apparatus and method, and noise reduction apparatus and method: Noise components involved in a video signal are detected as follows: Extracted from the video signal are a first high-frequency component involved during each blanking interval, a second high-frequency component involved in a horizontal direction for each of pixels constituting each image carried by the video signal during each image-carrying... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070024749 - Video processing apparatus and method: The present invention relates to a video processing method and apparatus capable of performing a proper video process corresponding to various color systems. A decoder extracts color information from a received video signal including vertical synchronous information for a vertical scanning frequency of a picture, color information of the picture,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070024750 - Methods and systems for displaying video in multiple aspect ratios: Systems and methods which can shift video to the edge of the display screen. The user can electrically and mechanically roll up or down the projection screen to fit the opposite edge. Further, the electrically shifted position can be memorized in memory, which will be easily recalled during future use.... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack, LLP

20070024751 - Digital broadcasting-receiving apparatus: The invention aims at providing a digital broadcasting-receiving apparatus which is not connected to a network, especially, a method of transmitting a program easy to receive, and a digital broadcasting-receiving apparatus which readily makes program update. A receiving apparatus (1) of the invention down loads an update program common to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070024753 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing apparatus that can display a predetermined content as a predetermined main screen or predetermined sub-screens includes a displaying unit operable to display a main-content on the main screen and sub-contents on the sub-screens; a detecting unit operable to detect characteristic amounts of the sub-contents displayed on the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070024752 - System for adaptive display of video image segments: A system determines available system resources along with the complexity of video clips in order to initiate and adapt automatic video clip playback. A method automatically concurrently plays multiple video clips in at least one composite video image by automatically determining available processing resources based on a number of available... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070024754 - Control system for synchronously controlling display device and play device: A control system for controlling video and audio parameters of a display device and a play device is provided. An OSD system of the play device and an OSD system of the display device receive OSD signals respectively. The OSD signals are transmitted between the play device and the display... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070024755 - Broadcasting receiver: A broadcasting receiver of the present invention includes a tuning section and a control section. The tuning section receives a broadcasting signal corresponding to a selected channel. The control section selects a channel selected when the power was turned off most recently when the power is turned on, and displays... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070024756 - System and method for defocus difference matting: b

20070024757 - Method and apparatus for processing information, storage medium, and program: In a television set, image quality is adjusted in accordance with parameters calculated on the basis of adjustment values used in the past, depending on a feature of an image and an environmental status. A weight calculator determines a weight depending on the manner in which a user performs a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070024758 - Independent chrominance control method and system for images: A method and system for adjusting selected colors of an image is presented. A chrominance adjustment system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, determines whether the color of the current pixel is near a selected color. When the color of the current pixel is near the selected... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20070024759 - Picture signal processor and picture signal processing method: According to one embodiment, in the case where a non-linear correction processing is performed in a direction in which an amplitude level of a luminance signal is heightened, an amplitude level correction processing is performed to a color signal on the basis of a first coefficient read from a first... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070024761 - Television system with replaceable display panel: A television system comprises a display panel holder for detachably holding a display panel for displaying images, and a signal processing module for receiving and processing signals containing displayable information from various external sources and supplying the signals to the display panel. The system enables the size of the display... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070024760 - Video processing apparatus: A video processing apparatus with a display unit, includes a switching unit to receive a first video signal, a second video signal, and a control signal for the second video signal, and selectively output the first or second video signal and the control signal; a video signal processor to process... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070024762 - Television broadcasting receiver: The invention provides a television broadcasting receiver provided with a digital tuner designed to achieve cost reduction by reducing the size of a digital signal processing substrate and reduction of influences of noise generated in a digital signal system on an analog signal system. A digital/analog shared tuner 323 provided... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070024763 - Methods and systems for displaying video on an adjustable screen: The dimensions of a viewing screen are altered to fit the aspect ratio of video being displayed on the viewing screen. A viewing screen includes screen covers which may be displaced horizontally along the viewing screen. If a different aspect ratio video is being displayed, the screen covers are moved... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack, LLP

20070024764 - Methods and systems that compensate for distortion introduced by anamorphic lenses in a video projector: Anamorphic lenses within a video projector introduce distortion to the projected image due to the material makeup of the anamorphic lenses. The distortions can be identified and compensations can be determined. The compensations can be digitally applied to input video signals to reduce the distortion in the projected image.... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack LLP