Television inventions 05/07

20070120957 - Access method for conditional access audio/video content: A method that allows the optimization of the consumption of conditional access content in order to guarantee less vulnerable right messages involves three steps: the selection by the user of a content and the indication of this interest to said management center; the sending of a notification message containing or... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070120955 - Communication apparatus and communication method capable of wired and wireless communication: In a parameter setting method, when a wireless communication device has wired connection to a different device, the wired connection is used to acquire wireless setting values. If the wireless communication device has no wired connection to the different device, short distance wireless communication is used to acquire the wireless... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070120953 - Communication apparatus, communication system, image capture apparatus, video capture apparatus, and setting method thereof: A communication apparatus has a electrical outlet that is electrically connected to a power connector so as to supply power externally; a connection detector that detects connection of an external plug to the electrical outlet; and a controller that uses a receiver and a transmitter so as to perform setting... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070120956 - Communication path setting method and communication apparatus: A communication path setting method of a communication system including a communication apparatus and a plurality of wireless terminals accommodated in the communication apparatus records the statuses of the plurality of accommodated wireless terminals. When transferring data between wireless terminals, the method selects a first communication path which connects the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070120958 - Communication system, terminal apparatus and computer program: In a communication system in which moving image data is transmitted/received between two terminal apparatuses connected to a best-effort network and bi-directional communication is realized in real time, each of the terminal apparatuses includes a reproduced picture quality judgment section that judges reproduced picture quality relating to the moving image... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070120948 - Device and method for telephone countermeasure in using telephone during driving: [Means For Solving Problems] The device for telephone countermeasure includes a database (3), a driver judgment unit, and a mode switching unit. The database (3) contains driver face data (3-1) and a telephone number (3-2) of a mobile telephone (7) used by the driver for each of the drivers. The... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070120950 - Method and apparatus for controlling encoding of a digital video signal according to monitored parameters of a radio frequency communication signal: A mobile terminal includes means for controlling the encoding of a digital video signal that further includes means for monitoring at least one parameter of a radio frequency communication signal received at the mobile terminal. The control means also includes a means for forming a signal to the monitored parameter... Agent: Perman & Green

20070120952 - Method for image communication in mobile equipment: Disclosed is a method for image communication. The method including when an image communication call is received in a mobile equipment from an originator (i.e., a calling party), a control unit detects the phone number of the originator, if the phone number of the originator corresponds with a phone number... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070120954 - Teleconferencing method and system: A method and system provides a face-to-face video conference. The method and apparatus comprise a conferencing system consisting of a conferencing station defining a predetermined motif, an image system for generating a substantially full scale image of a person at the conferencing station so that participants at the conferencing station... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070120949 - Video, sound, and voice over ip integration system: An Integration system for video, sound, and Voice over IP is provided. The video, sound, and Voice over IP integration system comprises a display, a phone handset, a keypad, a camera, VGA input/output ports, and a sound input/output ports. The VGA input port and sound input port of the video,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120951 - Videophone system and method: System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display device, telephone keypad, speaker and microphone all of which are operatively connected. The... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070120962 - Cordless ip video phone system: An embodiment of the present invention includes a cordless Internet Protocol (“IP”) phone system. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a cordless video phone system including a base station that may be coupled for communication of audio and video information through a network, such as an IP communication network,... Agent: Y. P. Cheng Peninsula Centre

20070120964 - Method for performing recording operation in video communication mode of wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same: A method for performing a recording operation in a video communication mode of a wireless terminal are provided, where the video communication mode of the wireless terminal is switched to a recording mode for performing the recording operation, and video data are evaluated to determine if received in the recording... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070120963 - Mobile communication terminal having function of photographing moving picture, and method for operating same: Provided are a mobile communication terminal having a function of photographing a moving picture, and a method for operating the same. The terminal includes a camera, an input unit, a video processor, and a controller. The input unit inputs a section setting command while photographing the moving picture. The video... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070120960 - Portable electronic device with a rotatable camera module: An exemplary portable electronic device comprises a body (50), a camera module (90) and a rotatable component (70). The camera module is rotatably installed on the body. The rotatable component is rotatably mounted to the body. The camera module is installed in the rotatable component. Orientation of the camera module... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070120959 - Smart power-saving conversation mode switching system and method therefor: A smart power-saving conversation mode switching system and method therefor are applied to a mobile communication device with a single-mode communication system or a multiple-mode communication system. If there is a low-battery warning during a conversation, software may determine to automatically switch the current conversation mode to a power-saving mode... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070120961 - Voice and motion activated telephone: A method and system for communicating without use of manual contact with a communications unit. The user approaches a communications system and can activate a communications unit by a proximity/motion detector and/or a voice activation device. The person can generate audio signals, such as by voice command, to activate the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070120967 - Method and apparatus for mixing compressed video: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for mixing compressed video useable in a videoconferencing environment having a plurality of endpoint users. Through the use of the method and apparatus, each endpoint can receive a unique layout displaying some subset of the users at the endpoints. Input streams from each... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070120965 - Mobile video teleconferencing authentication and management system and method: A mobile video teleconferencing system providing a means for customizing the access and control granted to each remote user of the system via a configurable database of access and control settings.... Agent: Roy Sandberg Apt. #b

20070120966 - Speaker predicting apparatus, speaker predicting method, and program product for predicting speaker: A speaker predicting apparatus includes a speech detector that detects a person who is delivering a speech out of a plurality of persons, a feature extracting portion that extracts a feature in an image from the image in which the person is captured, a learning portion that learns the feature... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070120968 - Videophone system and method: System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display device, telephone keypad, speaker and microphone all of which are operatively connected. The... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070120969 - Audio visual communication system and method: An audio visual communication system and method that has a first user and at least one additional user. A computerized network, a first computerized device for the first user and a second computerized device for the second user. The computerized devices have a display, an input control, access to the... Agent: Brad Close Tighe Patton, PLLC

20070120971 - System and methods for video conferencing: A system for generating video images and corresponding audio of multiple parties engaged in a video conference is provided. The system includes multiple voice transducers for receiving voice signals from the multiple parties and a video camera for capturing moving images of one of the multiple parties who is speaking.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070120970 - Video telephony device having automatic user detection and recognition capabilities to provide user-specific information: A method and apparatus is provided for presenting a user with customized access to a video telephony device. The method begins by acquiring a first representation of the face of an individual who comes within view of a camera associated with the video telephony device. The first acquired representation is... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070120972 - Apparatus and method for processing 3d video signal: Provided are an apparatus and method for processing a three-dimensional (3D) video signal which corrects first and second video signals to prevent a reduction in a 3D effect and a disparity estimation error due to a difference between the first and second video signals. The method includes: a video signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120973 - Three-dimensional display device: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display portion displaying a left eye image and a right eye image; and a parallax barrier facing the image display portion and directing the left eye image and the right eye image displayed by the image display portion towards a left eye and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070120974 - Ear-hook display and its electrical display apparatus: An ear-hook display is disclosed. It includes a first housing and a second housing connected to the first housing, wherein a first ear-hook apparatus and a second ear-hook apparatus are mounted in the first housing and the second housing respectively. Additionally, a first electrical display apparatus and a second electrical... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120975 - Karaoke television device, karaoke television and a method for mixing voices: A karaoke TV device is disclosed, which includes: an audio/video generating circuit which generates and outputs a TV video signal and a TV audio signal; a voice receiving circuit which receives an external voice signal; and a voice processing circuit which is electrically coupled to the audio/video generating circuit and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120976 - Method and device for compressing image signal and endoscope system using such device: There is provided a method of compressing an image signal including a plurality of pixel signals outputted from a pixel array in which color pixels are arranged in a predetermined array. The method includes calculating a difference between pixel signals of neighboring same color pixels in the pixel array in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070120977 - Pick and place machine with component placement inspection: Improved component placement inspection and verification is performed by a pick and place machine. Improvements include stereovision imaging of the intended placement location; enhanced illumination to facilitate the provision of relatively high-power illumination in the restricted space near the placement nozzle(s); optics to allow image acquisition device to view the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070120978 - Intelligent sensory platform for wireless two-way sensory surveillance: A intelligent surveillance platform is provided with wireless two-way sensory surveillance in environments wherein the entire surveillance unit and its supporting structure fit within a standard light switch junction box and otherwise also functions as a light switch. The platform serves as a sensory ‘edge-of-network’ subsystem for use with a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070120979 - Combined digital and mechanical tracking of a person or object using a single video camera: A combined digital and mechanical tracking system and process for generating a video using a single digital video camera that tracks a person or object of interest moving in a scene is presented. This generally involves operating the camera at a higher resolution than is needed for the application, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070120980 - Preservation/degradation of video/audio aspects of a data stream: In one aspect, a method related to data management. In addition, other method, system, and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and/or text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070120981 - Storage access technique for captured data: A technique processes captured data on a device, wherein selected captured data of a given quality resolution is transferred via a communication link to a separate storage location for future availability. A storage protocol may include different storage organization categories. A possible aspect includes an identifier record to enable future... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070120982 - Imaging device: In an imaging device having an all-pixel read mode for reading signals from all pixels and a pixel downsampling read mode for reading signals by appropriately discarding pixels, adjacent ones of pixels use a floating diffusion capacitance, an amplifying transistor, a reset switch and a selection switch in common. In... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070120983 - Video projector: A video projector of the present invention includes a laser projection unit (50) that has linear polarization short wavelength laser light sources (1)˜(3) and emits laser lights from the laser light sources, a lens system (6a) that collects the laser lights from the laser projection unit (50), a liquid crystal... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070120985 - Imaging apparatus and imaging system: An imaging apparatus comprising a pixel unit having a plurality of components, each having a plurality of pixels arranged in row and column directions, the plurality of pixels in each component outputting color signals having a plurality of colors and an adding unit configured to perform an addition of color... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120984 - Imaging device: To change the amounts of correction used to correct a specific color in video signals depending on a shooting situation or an image to be captured, an imaging apparatus includes: selection means for selecting desired shooting mode information from pieces of set shooting mode information, each of the pieces of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120986 - Imaging device, information processing method, and computer program: An imaging device includes a data processor configured to execute processing for selecting picture portions corresponding to important scenes from captured picture data, on the basis of input information that is input during a period of taking a picture. The data processor generates highlight point information that allows identification of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070120987 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image pickup apparatus: An image processing method controls white balance of image data obtained by an image pickup apparatus according to image data of the image shot by the image pickup apparatus having pixels of a plurality of colors that includes shooting an image as a first exposure value by the image pickup... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070120988 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus suppresses deterioration in an image quality caused by an electronic zoom. A digital camera equipped with a plurality of optical systems includes a fixed focal distance lens and a zoom lens. When a user sets a zoom position between discrete optical zoom positions within an overlapping range... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070120989 - Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An apparatus includes a CCD that reads a script image, an analog front end unit (AFE) that adjusts the offset and the gain of an image signal and A/D-converts the image signal, an image processing IC that applies image processing such as shading correction, input gamma correction, color correction, MTF... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070120990 - Solid-state image pickup device and signal processing method therefor: The invention makes it possible to perform effective A/D conversion on pixel signals read from a pixel array part, to achieve a reduction in power consumption and reductions in the size and the price of an image pickup device as well as simplification of the construction of the device, and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070120991 - Photoelectric conversion device and gate voltage control method: In a photoelectric conversion device having a plurality of pixel circuits, a read transistor, a main electrode of which is connected to a charge accumulation node of a photoelectric conversion unit in each pixel circuit is operated in a pentode region, so as to read out a photoelectric conversion signal... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070120992 - Driving method for solid-state image pickup device and image pickup apparatus: Screen noise caused by variations of dark current between light sensitive pixels of a solid-state imaging device are suppressed. In an exposure period E after an electronic shutter operation completion time t2, information charges are accumulated while shifting a potential well. With a frame-transfer CCD image sensor in which transfer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070120993 - Solid-state imaging device and control method for same: In realizing an entire-screen simultaneous shutter function using a solid-state imaging device having a device structure as a CMOS solid-state imaging device, the restriction undergone by exposure time is relieved to secure a sufficient exposure time with swift operation. Separately from a transfer Tr for transferring a signal charge of... Agent: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070120994 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device is provided. A horizontal transfer section in the solid-image device is divided into at least three blocks each including a horizontal transfer path transferring electric charge, which is transferred through vertical transfer paths, in a row direction perpendicular to the column direction. The at least three... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120995 - Electronic camera, information device and portable information apparatus: An electronic camera comprising an LCD panel for image reproduction and an imaging device is disclosed, in which private information attaching a predetermined attribute to a designated photographed image can be input, and in accordance with the private information, the image reproduction on the LCD panel is prohibited by a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070120996 - Method and device for touchless control of a camera: A device (100) and a method (200) for operating a camera (130) based on touchless movements is provided. The device (100) includes a sensing unit (110) for detecting a touchless movement, and a controller (130) for handling one or more controls of the camera in accordance with the touchless movement.... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070120998 - Image pickup apparatus having iris member and filter units: An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing a decline of resolution of a still image while keeping a dynamic range of exposure control. The image pickup apparatus capable of photographing with changing over a moving image and a still image, includes an iris mechanism for changing an amount of light... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120997 - Image processor and camera system: A motion detecting part detects moving regions in a plurality of frame images captured by rolling shutter type exposure, and obtains a motion vector of the moving regions. A moving region correcting part corrects the moving region in a to-be-corrected frame image of the plurality of frame images on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120999 - Electronic device: An electronic device includes a chamber having a chamber wall surface defining a liquid-tight sealed space; an electronic unit housed in a liquid-tight case, the case being disposed in the chamber to define an intermediate space between the case and the chamber wall surface; a biasing unit in the chamber... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070121000 - Electronic apparatus having camera: An electronic apparatus includes a shooting device, a housing and a switch ring rotatably engaged with and fixed onto said housing, wherein when said switch ring is rotated, a focal point for photography of said shooting device is manually switched.... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070121001 - Accurate motion detection for the combination of motion adaptive and motion compensation de-interlacing applications: A method for de-interlacing is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) determining a plurality of target mode values for a target pixel being synthesized to convert a current field into a current frame, wherein at least two of the target mode values are based on both (i)... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070121002 - System, method, and apparatus for displaying pictures on an interlaced display: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for displaying pictures on a display. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for outputting pictures. The method comprises receiving the plurality of fields for display in a particular order, where the plurality of fields are associated with the stream; detecting that... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070121003 - Method and apparatus for detecting data in a vertical blanking interval: An apparatus (10) and method (40) is provided for detecting data within the vertical blanking interval (VBI) lines of a video or television signal. The VBI data detection (18) samples (42) at least one point from the VBI lines of a video signal and compares (44) at least one data... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070121005 - Adaptation of close-captioned text based on surrounding video content: A method for displaying close-captioned text (116) associated with video is provided. The method including: determining a position on a portion of the video for display of the close-captioned text; detecting one or more attributes of the video surrounding the position; and adjusting one or more attributes of the close-captioned... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121004 - System and method for caching teletext: A teletext memory arrangement is organized as three memory sections, a first memory section (sequential memory 6a), a second memory section (sub-page memory 6b), and a third memory section (pipeline memory 6c). The sub-page memory (6b) and the sequential memory (6a) are dynamically dependent in the sense that whenever it... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121006 - Control signal transmitting and receiving techniques for video/audio processing ic and apparatus therefor: Control signal transmitting and receiving methods for video/audio processing integrate circuit (IC), the method applied to a video player, and an apparatus therefor are provided. The control signal transmitting method, in a video player having an integrated circuit (IC) for processing video/audio signals and a microprocessor generating control signals to... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070121008 - Receiving system: A receiving system includes: FIFO memory 13 storing audio data AD contained in a transmission signal T; an extraction unit 14 configured to extract a clock parameter contained in the transmission signal T; a parameter change unit 152 configured to change the clock parameter in accordance with a result of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070121007 - Video signal sampling system with sampling clock adjustment: A video signal sampling system comprises an analog-to-digital converter that samples an analog video signal under the control of a sampling clock signal to provide a digital video signal. A processor processes the digital video signal by computing at least two derivatives of the digital video signal in order to... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C. Suite 912

20070121009 - Method, apparatus and program for image selection: An operation for selecting a desired one of images can be simplified. Still image data sets are sequentially read from a recording medium according to order of file names and displayed on a TV. Upon display, the still image data sets are in a non-selection state. If an instruction is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121010 - Method of setting video device in accordance with video input and video device that uses the method: According to one embodiment, format data are stored by a last memory function for each of at least external input, and when an input is re-selected next time or the power is reset, the priority is given to the previously stored data through the last memory function, rather than the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070121011 - Spotlight effect in video processing and playback: Spotlighting and other special effects are applied by processing circuitry in real time to received video streams. Effects tracking may be applied to fixed regions or moving regions or objects of interest. Viewers interact via conventional remote controls and other user interfaces to set effect parameters. Other special effects employed... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070121012 - Information display method and information display device: A state change amount detector (103) obtains the state change amount in the image displayed on the display screen, and an OSD display state changing unit (107) controls the OSD or the display screen when a state change amount judgement unit (104 ) judges that the state change amount is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070121013 - Method and/or apparatus for cross-color and cross-luminance suppression using shimmer detection: An apparatus comprising one or more delay circuits, a shimmer detector circuit, an averaging circuit, and a multiplexer. The delay circuits may be configured to have a delay of one or more frame periods based on the format of the input video signal. The shimmer detector circuit may be configured... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070121014 - Device and method for adjusting video luminance: A device and a method for adjusting video luminance of at least a color in a display wherein the color is appointed by the user. The device comprises: a color flag generating module for transforming a plurality of color signals into a plurality of color flags; a luminance adjustment value... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121015 - Method of emendation for attention trajectory in video content analysis: A method for emendation of attention trajectory in video content analysis is disclosed. The method includes steps of extracting attention area for each frame in a video sequence, each attention area of a frame selectively being a reference for the other frames, projecting the attention area of the reference to... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070121016 - Audio/video switch circuit using and i2c bus: An audio/video switch circuit using the I2C bus includes a video decoder, an audio integrated circuit, an audio/video switch-unit and an MCU, in which the MCU is electrically connected to the audio/video switch unit through an I2C bus, allowing the control signals outputted by the MCU to be sent out... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070121017 - Video processing apparatus and control method thereof: A video processing apparatus for processing a plurality of video signals, includes: a display; an information storage which stores combination information relating to a combination of two or more video signals, among the plurality of video signals, that can be displayed concurrently on the display; and a controller which controls... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070121018 - Digital television with transfer function: A digital television with transfer function, which includes a digital television tuner, a digital television controller, a command input device and an input/output connector. The digital television tuner receives a digital television signal and demodulates the signal received to thus produce a transport stream. The digital television controller having a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070121019 - Channel changer in a video processing apparatus and method thereof: A video processing apparatus, comprises a signal receiving part receiving a video signal through one of a plurality of channels, a user inputting part in which the channel is selected and inputted by a user, a video processing part processing the video signal received by the signal receiving part, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121020 - Information processing device and control method for information processing device: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a display panel, a viewing angle control filter configured to control a viewing angle, a connector to which an external display is connectable, and an inhibit unit configured to inhibit to output a video signal via the connector when the viewing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115344 - Data encryption/decryption method and mobile terminal for use in the same: A mobile terminal including a sensing unit configured to detect a motion of the mobile terminal, and a controller configured to calculate at least one from a degree and a pattern of the terminal motion detected by the sensing unit, and to encrypt input data according to the calculated value.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115343 - Electronic equipment and methods of generating text in electronic equipment: An electronic device includes a text input device enabling a user to input text information, a predictive text device configured to determine at least one predictive text candidate on the basis of input text information, a camera device configured to capture a moving image of a user, a detecting device... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070115345 - Contents providing system and mobile communication terminal therefor: Disclosed is related to a contents providing system and mobile communication terminal therewith for providing pre-stored digital contents to the mobile communication terminal of a user, comprising: a controller for controlling an overall operation; an input unit for introducing an operation command from a user; a storage unit for storing... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070115346 - Method for performing video communication service and mobile communication terminal therefor: A method and terminal for performing a video communication service where the operation mode of the mobile communication terminal switches to a screen sharing mode upon receipt of a screen sharing request from a user during a video communication, screen data selected according to user selection information in the screen... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070115348 - Method and system for automatic scheduling of a conference: A method and a system for automatic scheduling of a conference in a network are provided. A conference is scheduled and organized, based on agenda and conference session parameters. The conference is scheduled on the basis of the signal received by the user input device, specifying the state of the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070115349 - Method and system of tracking and stabilizing an image transmitted using video telephony: Herein described is a system and method that tracks the face of a person engaged in a videophone conversation. In addition to performing facial tracking, the invention provides stabilization of facial images that are transmitted during the videophone conversation. The face is tracked by employing one or more algorithms that... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070115347 - Providing satellite images of videoconference participant locations: A videoconferencing method having corresponding apparatus and computer programs comprises receiving exchanging audiovisual data for a videoconference with a videoconference server; identifying a physical location of a videoconference client; and either sending an indicator of the location to the server, which obtains physical location video data for the location comprising... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070115350 - Video telephony image processing: Herein described is a system and method for modifying facial video transmitted from a first videophone to a second videophone during a videophone conversation. A videophone comprises a videophone image processing system (VIPS) that stores one or more preferred images. The one or more preferred images may comprise an image... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070115351 - Methods and systems for enhanced motion detection: Methods and apparatus for a video surveillance system are provided. The system includes a pan/tilt/zoom video camera assembly and a processor configured to control the pan/tilt/zoom video camera assembly to generate a panoramic reference image of a selectable motion detection area, acquire images of the motion detection area, and determine... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070115352 - System and method for multi-camera visual odometry: A visual odometry system and method for a fixed or known calibration of an arbitrary number of cameras in monocular configuration is provided. Images collected from each of the cameras in this distributed aperture system have negligible or absolutely no overlap. The relative pose and configuration of the cameras with... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070115353 - Device for automatically detecting markings on an ophthalmic lens: A device (100) enabling automatic detection of the index marks of an ophthalmic lens (10), includes a support (110) which is adapted in such a way as to receive the lens, and, on each side of the support, first elements (120) for the illumination of the ophthalmic lens installed on... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070115354 - Three-dimensional data preparing method and three-dimensional data preparing device: A 3-dimensional data preparing method, comprising a first step of continuously taking digital images of scenes in the surrounding when moving from a first point, which is a known point, via a second point, which is a known point, to a third point, which is an unknown point, a second... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070115356 - Method and apparatus for masking surveillance video images for privacy protection: The present invention makes a privacy protection area set on a video frame always match a masking block for the privacy protection area, thereby preventing video images taken from the privacy protection area from being exposed. One embodiment of the invention sets a masking zone corresponding to a privacy protection... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115355 - Methods and apparatus for operating a pan tilt zoom camera: Methods and systems for a video camera assembly are provided. The video camera assembly includes a video camera, a pan mechanism configured to rotate the video camera about a pan axis, a tilt mechanism coupled to the pan mechanism wherein the tilt mechanism is configured to rotate the video camera... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070115357 - Systems and methods for detecting obstructions in a camera field of view: A system mounted on a vehicle for detecting an obstruction on a surface of a window of the vehicle, a primary camera is mounted inside the vehicle behind the window. The primary camera is configured to acquire images of the environment through the window. A secondary camera is focused on... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070115358 - Methods and systems for operating a video surveillance system: Methods and systems for a video surveillance system include a plurality of video cameras, each including a field of view, the cameras are configured to at least one of zoom for changing the camera field of view, tilt for rotating the camera about a horizontal tilt axis, and pan for... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070115359 - Rf circuit with stacked printed circuit boards: An RF unit comprises a tuner, a demodulator and a mixer. At least the tuner and the mixer are disposed on separate first and second substrates. The RF unit further comprises a housing accommodating the first and second substrates. The first substrate and the second substrate are arranged on different... Agent: Joyce Lillian Strout

20070115360 - Video generator with ntsc/pal conversion capability: Programmable video generation and analyzer including a video asset for generating video signals having a primary composite video module for producing different types of a primary video signal and outputting the primary video signal via output channels, and a secondary video source module for producing a secondary composite video signal... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20070115361 - Dual camera calibration technique for video projection systems: A video projection calibration technique includes a first camera to view the video display screen from the projector side, and a second camera to view the video display screen from the viewing side. The first camera may be a lower resolution than the second camera. The combination of the two... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20070115362 - Method of detecting inclination and inclination detecting apparatus: The ratio is calculated between a first number of pixels and a second number of pixels on an image sensor. The first number of pixels is counted between two certain points projected on the image sensor from a first section of a plane. The second number of pixels is counted... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070115363 - Imaging device: The present invention provides an imaging device comprising: an image pickup device which picks up an object, an image acquisition device which continuously acquires image signals indicating the object via the image pickup device, a face recognition device which continuously recognizes the face of the object at predetermined time intervals... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115364 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program used therewith: An image processing apparatus includes an image capturing unit for capturing a first image by using an image capturing device, a detection unit for detecting applied vibration and outputting a vibration value representing a magnitude of the vibration, a calculation unit for calculating a first correcting value and a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115365 - Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, and program for implemenenting the method: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of identifying a criminal e.g. when the image pickup apparatus has been broken, without additionally providing a dedicated sensor for detecting an abnormality. A panhead unit supports a camera unit and rotates the same. A rotary encoder detects a rotating state of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070115367 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program: An imaging apparatus capturing and recording a moving image and a static image at the same time includes a converter converting an optical image of a subject into a pixel signal, performing decimation on the pixel signal and outputting the pixel signal that has been subjected to decimation when recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115366 - Moving image generating apparatus, moving image generating method and program therefore: A moving image generating apparatus is provided, that efficiently generates a moving image representing transition of still images. The moving image generating apparatus that generates a moving image in which a plurality of still images are transferred includes: a transition data acquiring section that acquires transition data indicating how are... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115368 - Photographing apparatus, display control method, and program: In a photographing apparatus, image data obtained when an instruction for capturing a still image is issued during capturing of a moving picture is saved in a first recording medium, and a still image is generated based on the image data saved in the first recording medium and is recorded... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115370 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and program: The present invention includes a coordinate rotating circuit which executes a coordinate rotating conversion based on a predetermined rotation matrix, on each of two color difference signals to obtain two color difference rotated signals, a normalizing circuit which divides the color difference rotated signal by a luminance signal to obtain... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070115371 - Image processing method, image processing program, and image processing apparatus: The image processing method and apparatus perform image processing on acquired image data. The method and apparatus detect a face from an image represented by the acquired image data and/or executing scene identification of the image, modify processing conditions for special processing to be performed in accordance with results of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115369 - Tone-conversion device for image, program, electronic camera, and tone-conversion method: The present invention relates to a tone-conversion device for converting a tone of an image having an achromatic signal and a chromatic signal, and it includes the following components: a signal extracting unit defining an achromatic signal of a first pixel or a second pixel from plural pixels as an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115372 - Automatic exposure control method and automatic exposure compensation apparatus: An automatic exposure control method and compensation apparatus are disclosed. It includes a coordinate system having sub-ranges with different corresponding exposure compensation values. It includes the setting of bright and dark regions threshold values and the calculation of the ratios of the pixel count in an image where the luminance... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070115373 - Location based image classification with map segmentation: In methods and systems for classifying capture records, such as images. A collection of capture records is provided. Each capture record has metadata defining a map location. This metadata can be earlier determined from a stream of data transmissions, even if there are gaps in transmission. The provided capture records... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070115374 - Image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image pickup apparatus having an image capturing unit capturing an image, a first recording unit temporarily recording an original image signal output from the image capturing unit, a processing unit performing predetermined signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, and an instructing unit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070115375 - Digital camera module with zoom function and focusing function: A digital camera module (100) includes a first sleeve (10), a first motor (20), a first barrel (30), a second sleeve (40), a second motor (50) and a second barrel (60). The first sleeve has at least one lens element (142) received therein. The first motor is received in the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070115376 - Image pickup apparatus having two image sensors: An image pickup apparatus having two image sensors includes two solid state image pickup devices and a prism group that includes a color separation coating that reflects green light. Red and blue transmitting “on chip” color filters are supported on one of the two solid state image pickup devices. The... Agent: Arnold International

20070115377 - Solid-state image pickup device: There is provided a solid-state image pickup device comprising a plurality of pixel units, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element, a signal line which reads out signals from said plurality of pixel units, a first capacitor element which has a first electrode connected to the signal line, an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070115378 - Fcc-compliant, movement artifact-free image sensor array with reduced lighting requirement: A capsule camera includes a pixel cell array of pixel cells exposed to light from a field of view, an illuminating system that illuminates the field of view, a signal processor receiving and processing data from the pixel cell array, and a control module that causes the pixel cell array... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070115379 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system having the apparatus: In order to provide a photoelectric conversion apparatus, which is an apparatus excellent in reading speed, high S/N, high tone level, and low cost, the photoelectric conversion apparatus has a photoelectric conversion circuit section comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, switching elements, matrix signal wires, and gate drive wires... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070115380 - Solid-state image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device is provided which causes no image degradation in the high-speed driving of the horizontal shift register. A charge transfer path (1) of a horizontal shift register is branched into two at a certain angle (θ) on the adjacent electrode parts of the final stage of... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070115381 - Solid-state imaging element and solid-state imaging device: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging element which includes a plurality of drive signal inputs, a plurality of bus lines, and a plurality of vertical transfer register electrodes. In the solid-state imaging element, a charge accumulated in light-receiving elements in a pixel region is vertically transferred by the drive signals... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070115382 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus includes a camera body having an image-capturing lens for receiving light to form an image of a subject and a display unit having a display screen for displaying the image. The display unit is slidably supported by the camera body. A surface of the display unit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070115383 - Image pickup apparatus and controlling method thereof: In order to display help information at the time when each of a self-timer button, an illumination button, AE lock button and the like is operated, an image pickup apparatus displays help information with understandable wording in use of simple terms in consideration of a possibility that a user is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070115384 - Image processing apparatus and method for preferably correcting distortion aberration: An image processing apparatus includes a distortion correcting part for correcting pixels of image data having distortion due to distortion aberration characteristics of an optical system, and outputting corrected image data; a filtering part for applying a predetermined filtering process based on filter coefficients to the image data to be... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070115385 - Picture taking apparatus having focusing device: A plurality of distance measuring points in a picture can be correctly and rapidly focused on. Images at a plurality of distance measuring points in the picture can be detected through a photographing lens by means of an image pickup element. These detected distance measuring points can be displayed on... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070115386 - Electronic camera: If an electronic camera is set in an image-capturing, sensitivity automatic control mode, a program autoexposure calculation is executed based upon the subject brightness and the image-capturing sensitivity setting to determine a control aperture value and a control shutter speed. If the correct exposure is not achieved, a control exposure... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115387 - Underwater camera combination: There is disclosed a snug, form fitting skin for a camera to protect against trauma like dust, dirt, scratches and water. There is additionally disclosed a rigid housing for such skin-encased camera.... Agent: Kenneth Kam-sing Ho

20070115388 - Management of video transmission over networks: Methods are provided for transmitting video data from a first user device to a second user device. The video data are received as a sequence of frames from the first user device at a video-transmission system. A portion of a first frame in the sequence of frames is identified as... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070115389 - System and method of delivering notifications: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of delivering notifications. The method can include receiving a communication at a server within an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network, where the communication is directed to a destination device outside of the IPTV network. The method can also include identifying... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070115390 - Television broadcast receiving apparatus, door phone apparatus, and interphone system: Disclosed is an interphone system that uses a home-use television broadcast receiving apparatus capable of receiving instructions for dealing with a visitor. According to the invention, a television includes a sending/receiving section for sending and receiving signals to and from a door phone apparatus, a storage section in which response... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070115391 - Automatic launch of picture-in-picture during commercials: Methods and systems are provided for automatically launching a picture-in-picture (PIP) display on a television screen in response to detecting a commercial break. PIP launch scheme information is stored in a memory and retrieved upon the detection of a commercial break during a television broadcast. The PIP launch scheme information... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20070115392 - Video processing apparatus and mobile terminal apparatus: A video processing apparatus includes a detector which detects whether pattern portions such as wallpaper portions having a pattern or the like or no-picture area portions having a single color are contained besides contents in a video signal input thereto, and a corrector which corrects the video signal. If the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070115393 - Video capture system: A video capture system includes an input for receiving a plurality of analogue video signals; switching mechanisms for selecting any one of the analogue video signals; memory for storing signals output from the switching mechanism; and a system control for extracting signals from the memory at a predetermined rate and... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20070115394 - Wireless reception apparatus and method: A wireless reception apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a scan unit for periodically scanning favorite channels which are selectable as a playing channel, and recording broadcasting signal properties of each favorite channel; an evaluation value calculating module for calculating an evaluation value of each favorite channel according to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115395 - Laser video projector having multi-channel acousto-optic modulator, and method and circuit for driving the same: Provided are a laser video projector having a multi-channel acousto-optic modulator, and a method and circuit for driving the laser video projector. The laser video projector includes a light generating portion, an optic modulator, an optic combining portion, and an optic scanning portion. The light generating portion emits light to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070115396 - Projection-type image display system, projector, program, information storage medium, and image projection method: To provide a projection-type image display system, a projector, a program, an information storage medium, and an image projection method that enable simple changing of a projection position, a liquid-crystal projector is provided with: a sensor which senses a projection target area and outputs sensing information; an edge detection section... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115397 - Projection display with internal calibration bezel for video: A projection display including a calibration bezel which forms a visual fiducial at the edge of a display screen. The calibration bezel may form a complete or partial border around the display screen and may be oriented at an angle to the display screen. Thus, a comparatively larger angle exists... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20070109397 - Video play mobile telephone and video play method in a broadband network: The present invention discloses a video play mobile telephone in broadband network, comprising: a video player, for isolating a video signal and a sound signal from a received signal; a video projector comprising data format converting means for converting a data format of the video signal isolated by the video... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070109399 - Video image capture device: A video image capture device of the present invention includes: an optical system having distortion characteristics which enlarge the center portion and compress the peripheral portions; an image sensor which performs photoelectric conversion of a subject image focused by the optical system to output as original image data; a distortion... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070109398 - Virtual reality camera: A camera including a camera lens, acquisition circuitry receiving images via the camera lens, for acquiring a first field of view when the camera lens is in a first orientation and for acquiring a second field of view when the camera lens is in a second orientation, and a viewfinder... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070109400 - Directional display apparatus: A birefringent lens structure comprises a birefringent lens array capable of directing light of a given polarisation into a directional distribution, the birefringent lens comprising a solid birefringent material and an isotropic material having an interface having a refractive structure. A switchable liquid crystal layer capable of rotating the polarisation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070109401 - Monitor with integral interdigitation: An autostereoscopic system is provided. The autostereoscopic system comprises a video source configured to provide video content in a video source format and a monitor system coupled to the video source and configured to receive the video content in the video source format. The monitor system comprises an interdigitation module... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070109402 - Medical image display system, medical image display method, and medical image display program: A medical image display system has a storage device, an input device, a combination determining unit, an information on display-format searching unit, a medical-image display information generating unit, and a display control unit. The storage device configured to store a combination of a plurality of image attributes and information on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109403 - Apparatus and method for conducting remote video inspection from above: An apparatus for conducting remote subsurface inspections from above is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a support structure, a telescoping mast held by a coupling and born by the support structure, an imaging system held by an extendable portion of the telescoping mast and an offsetting mechanism. The apparatus may further... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070109404 - Apparatus and method for conducting remote video inspection from above: An apparatus for conducting remote subsurface inspections from above is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a support structure having a fitting to secure the apparatus to a hitch receiver installed on a vehicle, a telescoping mast held by a coupling and born by the support structure and an imaging system held... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070109405 - Method of digital exposure modification of images: A method of digital exposure modification of shot images of a photographic support (10) comprising the shot images (12) and at least one sensitometry control (16), includes the digitization (20), in more or less the same conditions, of the images and the sensitometry control, in order to link at least... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070109406 - Image sensing system for a vehicle: An image sensing system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of light sensing photosensor elements. The system includes a logic and control circuit comprising an image processor for processing image data derived from the imaging sensor. The logic and control circuit generates at least one... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070109407 - Surveillance device: A surveillance device has a support secured to a structure, a first image collection device secured to the support, a second image collection device and a servo motor, the second image collection device being moveable with respect to the support by the servo motor, the second image collection device having... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070109408 - Surroundings monitoring system for a vehicle: A soundings monitoring system for a vehicle includes a first camera capturing a fist imaging surface, a second camera capturing a second imaging surface, and a monitor for displaying a first image of the first imaging surface and a second image of the second imaging surface. A standard point is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109409 - Method and system for processing multiview videos for view synthesis using skip and direct modes: 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: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070109410 - Apparatus for audio reproduction and image capturing: Apparatus for audio reproduction and image capture having a housing with a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is moveable relative to the second portion between a first position and a second position. There is at least one loudspeaker driver mounted in the second portion for audio... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070109411 - Composite image selectivity: 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

20070109412 - Driving apparatus: In an auto image stabilization system, a driving member formed as a wire of shape memory alloy (SMA) is retained by a projection of an image capturing unit. A distance Lb from the rotation center of an elastic deforming part to center of gravity (point of application) of the image... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070109413 - Portable electronic device with camera module: A portable electronic device (100) includes a body (20) and a camera module (10). The body includes an opening (210), the camera module is mounted in the opening. The camera module includes a first lens module (60), a second lens module (70), a stationary base (40), a moveable base (50)... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070109414 - Image pickup and reproducing apparatus: An image pickup position information acquisition unit acquires, from a position fixing unit, position information of an image pickup location of a moving image being picked up. A preceding image pickup position information storage unit stores position information of a preceding image pickup location as preceding image pickup position information.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070109415 - Methods and systems for anti-vibration verification for digital image acquisition apparatuses: A method for anti-vibration verification in a digital image acquisition apparatus is provided. An animation is shown on a display, simulating that images captured by the digital image acquisition apparatus is vibrating during recording. A video stream comprising multiple images is acquired, where the video stream is acquired by recording... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070109416 - Apparatus and method for remote inspection of a structure using a special imaging system: The present invention relates to inspection of underground conduits, railroad bridge support structures and other facilities that may be examined remotely, using a video camera or other imaging system. The present invention provides fast and cost-effective systems and methods to inspect such structures remotely and to produce comprehensive and detailed... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070109419 - Electronic pickup camera and control method of electronic pickup camera: An electronic pickup camera which can simply perform the transmission of picked-up image data to an external storage device is disclosed. In an electronic pickup camera including a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that picks up an object image and an image converter that converts the picked-up image... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070109420 - Electronic pickup camera and control method of electronic pickup camera: An electronic pickup camera which can simply perform the transmission of picked-up image data to an external storage device is disclosed. In an electronic pickup camera including a pickup unit having an electronic pickup element that picks up an object image and an image converter that converts the picked-up image... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070109418 - Image pickup apparatus: Disclosed is a picture-taking apparatus including an apparatus main body and a remote control device for controlling the apparatus main body, wherein the apparatus main body includes an image-pickup optical system having a plurality of movable optical elements, an actuator for moving the plurality of optical elements, a first optic... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070109417 - Methods, devices and computer program products for remote control of an image capturing device: Methods of controlling a remotely located image capturing device from a portable communication device include receiving man-machine interface (MMI) data at the portable communication device from the image capturing device. The MMI data may include a set of screen data related to a screen intended for presentation on a display... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070109421 - Method and imager for detecting the location of objects: A device determines the location of objects in an environment by receiving an optical image of an environment and converting the optical image of the environment into a live color digital image. The device employs software to perform an analysis of the live color digital image to determine the location... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070109422 - Solid-state honeycomb type image pickup apparatus using a complementary color filter and signal processing method therefor: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter including complementary color filter segments. When a shutter release bottom is pressed to its half-stroke or full-stroke position, light incident via the filter is picked up in a movie/photometry or a still picture mode, respectively. While signal charges are read out... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109423 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: an image pickup section for converting an object light into image signals of Bayer RGB array; a color information detecting section for obtaining color information of the object from the image signals obtained by the image pickup section; a first luminance data generating section for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070109424 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: an image pickup section for converting an object light into image signals of Bayer RGB array; a color information detecting section for obtaining color information of the object from the image signals obtained by the image pickup section; a first luminance data generating section for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070109425 - Automatic flicker frequency detection device and method: An image device, such as a digital camera, detects specific repeating patterns of signal variations by processing columnar information from the device's two-dimensional sensor array used to generate images. In one embodiment, the columnar information is derived from calculating row averages for two image frames, with each row average being... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd. C/o Klaas, Law, O'meara & Malkin, P.C.

20070109426 - Electronic imaging apparatus: In an electronic imaging apparatus, image information of an image signal photoelectrically converted from an image incident is stored in image information storing means in a format dependent upon a type of the applied storage device. Provided therein are communication means for transmitting and/or receiving image information generated in this... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070109427 - Electronic imaging apparatus: In an electronic imaging apparatus, image information of an image signal photoelectrically converted from an image incident is stored in image information storing means in a format dependent upon a type of the applied storage device. Provided therein are communication means for transmitting and/or receiving image information generated in this... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070109429 - Imaging apparatus: The imaging apparatus of the present invention can display both real-time images received by an image pickup device and an image(s) recorded on a recording medium at the same time on a display part. The image(s) recorded on the recording medium and to be displayed is selectively switched between image... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070109428 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: In an imaging apparatus capable of continuous shooting, the continuously shot image data are sequentially recorded, and some image data selected from the recoded image data are displayed on a display portion. At this selection, data associated with the shooting period of the image data is divided into approximately equal... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070109430 - Image noise estimation based on color correlation: Noise level estimation includes examining color correlation in a digital image.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070109431 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: A video processing apparatus and a video processing method to improve a video quality are provided. The video processing apparatus includes a storing unit which stores first pixel data of a first frame of a video, second pixel data of a second frame of the video, where the first frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109434 - Image sensor: An image sensor including an assembly of pixels each having a photodetector, and having circuitry for detecting, at a given time, pixels receiving a light intensity value substantially equal to a given value and coding circuitry providing an address for each of said pixels.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070109432 - Solid state imaging device, method for driving the same, and camera: A solid state imaging device includes an imaging area where a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels are respectively arranged in the form of a matrix, each of the first pixels and the second pixels having a photoelectric conversion portion and outputting a signal in accordance... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109433 - Solid-state imaging device for high-speed photography: A solid-state imaging device for high-speed photography includes an imaging element area in which a plurality of pixel portions having photodetectors for photography are disposed in a matrix form. The solid-state imaging device generates image data by capturing pixel information obtained from the photodetectors for photography. The solid-state imaging device... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070109435 - Light-receiving circuit: A light-receiving circuit is provided which is capable of reducing component counts, improving light-receiving accuracy and increasing a dynamic range of an amount of received light. The light-receiving circuit includes a photodiode made of thin films formed on an insulating substrate, a transferring TFT (Thin Film Transistor) to transfer charges... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070109436 - Physical quantity detecting device, method of driving the physical quantity detecting device and imaging apparatus: A physical quantity detecting device includes: a pixel array that has pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, each converting a physical quantity supplied from the outside into an electric signal; a driving circuit that scans, as read rows, N rows of pixels (N is an integer equal to or larger... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070109437 - Solid state image sensing device: A solid state image sensing device includes: a substrate of a first conductive type, a first well and at least one second well formed on the substrate, a pixel area with multiple pixels provided in the first well, a charge transferee, provided for each pixel, for charge transfer, and MOS-type... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070109438 - Image recognition system and use thereof: The present invention relates to a digital image recognition system having a minimum constructional length of less than one millimetre. The image recognition system hereby comprises a microlens array, a detector array and optionally a pinhole array. The mode of operation of this image recognition system is based on a... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070109439 - Semiconductor image sensing element and fabrication method therefor, and semiconductor image sensing device and fabrication method therefor: A semiconductor image sensing element has a semiconductor element including an image sensing area, a peripheral circuit region, a plurality of electrode portions provided in the peripheral circuit region, and a plurality of micro-lenses provided on the image sensing area and an optical member having a configuration covering at least... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109440 - Focus detection apparatus and image-pickup apparatus including the same: A focus detection apparatus is disclosed which can achieve excellent focus detection performance. The apparatus detects the focusing state of an image-pickup lens based on a phase difference in a plurality of images. The apparatus includes a field lens and a light-receiving element including plural focus detection areas. The light-receiving... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070109441 - Defogging device for a surveillance camera: A defogging device for a surveillance camera has a heating element, a circuit board and a power cord. The heating element is mounted over the lens of the surveillance camera. The circuit board compares ambient temperature to a preset temperature, activates the heating element and has a power input terminal,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C. Suite 500

20070109442 - Information reproducing device and electronic instrument: An information reproducing device includes a TS separation section 210 which extracts a first TS packet for generating image data, a second TS packet for generating sound data, and a third TS packet other than the first and second TS packets from a transport stream, a memory 220 including first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070109443 - Method and circuit for creating a multimedia summary of a stream of audiovisual data: As the amount of audiovisual data that can be received by consumers increases rapidly, there is an increasing need for proper summarisation of audiovisual data like films. Thereto, the invention provides a method of creating a multimedia summary of a stream of audiovisual data like a film. First, a textual... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070109444 - Av synchronization system: In synchronization of a conventional AV system, when a stream as the master stops, a system clock cannot be corrected for synchronization. Since the correction is consistently performed even when an error is small, overhead of correction is large. On the other hand, when an error is large, sharp correction... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109445 - Method for displaying wallpaper on digital broadcasting reception terminal: Provided is a method for displaying a wallpaper that includes setting a broadcast picture display function to display a specific broadcast picture as a wallpaper in response to a user's request; changing a standby mode to a digital broadcasting reception mode at preset time intervals to periodically capture a picture... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070109446 - Method, medium, and system generating video abstract information: A method, medium, and system generating a video abstract with high processing speeds, may include a detecting of an event candidate section from video data, based on audio information, a detecting of shot change information from the detected event candidate section, a detecting of final event sections from the detected... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070109447 - Visual processing device, visual processing method, visual processing program, and semiconductor device: It is an object of the invention to obtain an image having a better visual effect for the person who will view the visually processed image. A visual processing device 910 comprises an output portion 914 and a transformation portion 915. The output portion 914 outputs a luminance adjustment parameter... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070109448 - Noise adaptive 3d composite noise reduction: A method for filtering digital video is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) checking a plurality of original blocks in an original field for a plurality of artifacts, wherein detection of the artifacts is based on an adjustable threshold, (B) first filtering each of the original blocks... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070109449 - Method and apparatus for automatic detection and identification of unidentified broadcast audio or video signals: A system and method of detecting unidentified broadcast electronic media content using a self-similarity technique is presented. The process and system catalogues repeated instances of content that has not be positively identified, but are sufficiently similar as to infer repetitive broadcasts. These catalogued instances may be further processed on the... Agent: Ted Sabety

20070109450 - Signal processing apparatus and control method thereof: A signal processing apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The signal processing apparatus includes a signal receiver which receives a video signal; a video processor which processes the video signal received by the signal receiver; a display which displays the video signal processed by the video processor; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109451 - Light pipe configuration: A laser projection system preferably for use in commercial motion picture theaters and other large screen venues, including home theater, uses optical fibers to project modulated laser beams for raster scanning on the screen. The emitting ends of the optical fibers are arranged in an array such that red, green... Agent: Montgomery W. Smith

20070103541 - Two-way audio-video communication method for receiving person at entrance: A method for two-way audio-video communications between a first person at an entrance and a second person comprises the steps of detecting, with a proximity sensor located proximate an entrance, the presence of a first person at the entrance and providing real time audio-video communications between the first person at... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070103542 - Video communication method for receiving person at entrance: A method for receiving a person at an entrance comprises the steps of detecting the presence of a person at the entrance with a proximity sensor located proximate the entrance, transmitting video of the person at the entrance