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 recorded using a camera located proximate the entrance to a computerized controller... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070103543 - Network panoramic camera system: The present invention provides a 360 degree panoramic IP network camera system. Analog panoramic data is obtained by an imaging subsystem, which is then digitized, processed, encoded, and streamed by a control subsystem in accordance with user input through a graphical user interface. Access to and control of the imaging... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070103544 - Panorama image creation device and panorama image imaging device: Acquisition of images for creating a panorama image is facilitated and any images can be selected. Each still image corresponding to each frame of a moving image imaged with a camera 1 is created by a moving processing unit 3 and saved once in a working memory 4 as a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070103545 - 360 degree display: A display apparatus capable of displaying images around a 360 degrees cylindrical surface is disclosed. The display surface may be divided into multiple segments. The display apparatus is comprised of two parts, a static cabinet-like structure that encases the complete unit, and an inner cylindrical rotating unit that creates a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070103546 - Movie theatre: A movie theater that includes a screen located between the front and back of the movie theater, a substantially spherically concave mirror proximal the front of the movie theater; and a viewing volume located between the screen and the mirror such that (i) each observer in the viewing volume can... Agent: Bradley K. Desandro Lewis And Roca LLP

20070103547 - Three-dimensional display device and driving method thereof: A three-dimensional display device according to the present invention includes a panel that time-shares images and displays left and right eye images, a panel control unit for controlling the panel by applying a display control signal that includes vertical and horizontal signals to the panel, a barrier facing the panel... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070103548 - Audio-video communication system for receiving person at entrance: An audio-video communication system comprises a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, a computerized controller running a software application, and a remote peripheral device. The wireless exterior module includes a proximity sensor for detecting a person at the entrance, a video camera for recording an image of the person... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070103549 - Monitor for automobile: A monitor (100) used in an automobile includes an image sensor (10), a visual field adjustor (20) and a display (30). The image sensing module is secured on the automobile. The visual field adjustor is installed on an incident light path of the image sensing module. The display is electronically... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070103550 - Method and system for detecting relative motion using one or more motion sensors: One or more optical motion sensors are connected to a central processing device. At least one of the motion sensors captures representations of a region, such as images or patterns that represent the region. Each optical motion sensor processes its representations to generate resulting data that are used to detect... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070103551 - Method and system for measuring video quality: A method for measuring video quality includes: receiving subjective video quality measuring data from a plurality of video quality measurers; photographing or capturing a test-target video image and receiving image data; calculating video quality measurement factor values with respect to the received image data, item by item; reflecting the video... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103552 - Systems and methods for disabling recording features of cameras: Systems and methods for controlling or effectively disabling recordation by a camera in an environment are disclosed. One system embodiment includes, among others, a detector and a neutralizer disposed in the environment and coupled to each other. One method embodiment, among others, includes emitting light or a signal into the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070103553 - Image capture apparatus: In the presence of a switching instruction of operation modes in an image capture apparatus, it is examined whether image data is being transferred or not. When the image data is not being transferred, the operation modes are immediately switched. When the image data is being transferred, the operation modes... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070103554 - Image pickup apparatus with foreign object removal capabilities: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image pickup apparatus which includes an optical member that is vibrated in a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axis to facilitate removal of particles (e.g., dust), where the vibration of the optical member is substantially isolated from an image pickup... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070103555 - Image stabilized digital imaging: An electronic device is disclosed, which includes an image sensor, an optics for forming an image on the image sensor, a detector for detecting a movement effect caused by an external source aimed to the device in connection with an imaging procedure and an optical image stabilizer unit arranged to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070103556 - Image shake correction image processing apparatus and program: An image processing apparatus comprising: a block selector that selects one of blocks that contain an amount of features, larger than a predetermined amount of features, from among a plurality of blocks which compose a particular one of a plurality of frames of a moving image of a subject; a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070103558 - Multi-view video delivery: The present example provides a system for delivering video streams with multi-view effects. Single-view video streams, each associated with a particular view, are provided by a server. A client may select to receive any of the single-view video streams. The server is further configured to generate a multi-view video stream... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070103557 - Customizing a digital camera using firmware components provided by a service provider over a network: A method for customizing a digital camera for at least one particular user is disclosed. The digital camera includes a reprogrammable memory for storing firmware which controls the operation of the digital camera and a camera graphical user interface responsive to the firmware stored in the reprogrammable memory. The method... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070103559 - User-controlled security camera system for vehicles: A user-controlled security camera system for vehicles is provided to deter and record crimes involving the vehicles. The user employs a remote control device to activate and deactivate recording equipment, for example for VHS cassettes, DVDs, or any appropriate technology, that records motion pictures of an interior or exterior area... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070103560 - Video system: In a video system of the invention, control means is provided for a terminal input apparatus which is connected by a communication network of a camera on the partner side and which comprises an image display apparatus having a multiwindow display function for selecting and displaying the camera. An image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070103561 - Image sensing apparatus and control method: The present invention allows still images to be recorded during moving image recording, and does not require frame data to be generated and written for all frames missed as a result of the still image recording. Thus, when the recording of a still image is instructed during moving image recording,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070103562 - Image-pickup device, image-pickup method, and program: An image-pickup device including an image-pickup element converting an optical image of a subject into an electrical signal is provided. The image-pickup device includes a detection unit which detects brightness of the subject, a first determination unit determining an exposure-time period on the basis of the detected brightness, a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103563 - Color-balanced brightness enhancement for display system: A technique for providing a desired level of color balance in field sequential color systems with brightness enhancement. In color wheels having a spectrally-broad transmissive segment, the spectrally-broad segment has a transmittance that is selected to provide a desired level of color balance. This can include transmittance characteristics that are... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070103564 - Image processing device, image processing method, and program: An image processing device to correct chromatic aberration of image data is provided. The image processing device includes an overexposed pixel detecting unit configured to detect overexposed pixels by using a luminance signal of the image data; an overexposure distribution information generating unit configured to generate overexposure distribution information indicating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103565 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit operable to extract metadata used for recognizing an event associated with a captured image from at least one of the captured image and attribute information concerning the captured image, and a recognition unit operable to recognize, on the basis of the metadata... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103566 - Methods and devices for image and ancillary data capture and output: Described herein is an image capturing device such as a mobile communication device and methods for capturing and transmitting data. The methods include capturing an image to generate a data file, capturing a ancillary data embedded in a signal of a digital tag to retrieve the data of the digital... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070103567 - Using a graphics processing unit to correct video and audio data: Described is a device (e.g., a cell phone incorporating a digital camera) that incorporates a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process image data in order to increase the quality of a rendered image. The processing power provided by a GPU means that, for example, an unacceptable pixel value (e.g., a... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070103568 - Method of enlarging an image by interpolation means and a related digital camera using the same: A method of enlarging an image by interpolation means and a related digital camera are disclosed. The method comprises: dividing an original image into a plurality of divided sections; defining a first divided section selected from the plurality of divided sections; defining a second divided section from the divided sections... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070103569 - Wide dynamic range image sensor: The present invention relates to a CMOS image sensor having a wide dynamic range, which permits favorable imaging even in cases where a bright portion and a dark portion exist simultaneously. The dynamic range can be widened by preventing the saturation of optical charge at a high illuminance by removing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070103570 - Apparatus, method, recording medium and program for processing signal: A horizontal direction component pixel extractor extracts a pixel of interest and a horizontal direction component pixel thereof from an input video signal. A vertical direction component pixel extractor extracts the pixel of interest and a vertical direction component pixel thereof from the input video signal. A threshold setter sets... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070103571 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus including: CCD image pickup device; a light blocking plate for shutting out light incident upon the image pickup device; an exposure period controlling section for setting exposure time by controlling the light blocking plate and the image pickup device; a dark signal storing section for storing... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070103572 - Solid-state imaging device and method of manufacturing the same: A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are arranged in a matrix form on the semiconductor substrate; and color filter layers of a plurality of colors that are formed in a predetermined pattern above the photoelectric conversion elements. A green color filter... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070103573 - Driving method of solid-state image pickup device: During a first horizontal blanking period, signal charges on a first row are transferred from a vertical transfer channel to a line memory. During a second horizontal blanking period, the transferred signal charges are partly transferred from the line memory to a horizontal transfer channel. During a third horizontal blanking... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070103574 - Solid imaging device and driving method thereof: A solid imaging device includes a vertical signal line, a unit pixel including a photodiode which photoelectrically converts and stores incident light, an amplifying transistor which amplifies an input signal from the photodiode and outputs the amplified signal to the vertical signal line, and a reset transistor which resets a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103575 - Solid-state image pickup device and driving method of solid-state image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device including: a pixel region on a semiconductor substrate, the pixel region including: a sensor region for photoelectrically converting incident light; a vertical CCD formed on one side of the sensor region with a readout region interposed between the sensor region and the vertical CCD; and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070103577 - Digital camera: A digital camera comprises two photographing systems which are independent of and substantially identical to each other, and each of which includes a photographing optical system and an image pickup device. The photographing optical system is configured to include a photographing lens, a focusing lens and an aperture stop. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103576 - Folding mobile communication terminal: A portable communication terminal having an image-taking function is composed of a camera unit that takes an image of a subject through a photographic lens, and two displays, the first display being positioned on same a front surface of housing of the portable communication terminal as the photographic lens and... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20070103578 - System and method of processing a digital image for user assessment of an output image product: A system and method of processing a digital image for user assessment of an output image product intended to be generated using the digital image. The method comprises the steps of: (a) accessing the digital image using an imaging device having a viewing member; (b) selecting the output image product... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070103580 - Image capturing apparatus: This invention can suppress adhesion of dust to the surface of an optical filter and the cover glass surface of a solid-state image sensor without any optically adverse effect. An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device which converts the optical image of an object into an electrical signal,... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070103579 - Imaging apparatus including device for removing foreign matter adhering on surface of optical member: An imaging apparatus capable of easily removing a foreign matter adhering on an optical filter surface is disclosed. A rubber member holding an optical low pass filter seals an imaging sensor and the optical low pass filter, and a piezoelectric element vibrates an edge portion of the optical low pass... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070103581 - Scanning imaging system and method for imaging articles using same: An imaging system includes a line-scan camera (8) having an image line in an planar imaging beam path and a depth of focus. Line forming optics are arranged between at least two arrays of LEDs (4,6) and the image object so as to form two respective illumination stripes in two... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070103582 - Psp video conversion device: The present invention is related to a PSP video conversion device, which uses a video capture camera (CMOS, CCD module) and convert and output the video on LCD screen through AV cable to a large video display like TV or computer screen. Besides, an audio line is used to capture... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070103583 - Display wall comprising multiple displays and method of operation thereof: The display wall comprises a plurality of display modules, each have a screen held in place with a plurality of pins at the screen's perimeter. A processor adjusts border brightness such that adjacent border areas of adjacent screens match brightness within about 5% of each other.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070103584 - Systems and methods for wireless transmission of uncompressed hdtv signals: Systems and methods for wireless transmission of uncompressed HDTV signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for communicating an uncompressed HDTV signal over a wireless RF link includes providing a clock signal synchronized to the uncompressed HDTV signal; providing a stream of regenerated data from the uncompressed HDTV signal,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070103585 - Moving image display device and method for moving image display: In the moving image display device of the invention, a synthesis circuit inputs signals representing specified values of pixel rate factors R2 and R3 from a pixel rate factor specification circuit, while inputting overscanned frame image data D1 in the units of pixels from a 1st latch circuit. The synthesis... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070103589 - Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing method and program: Disclosed herein is an image signal processing apparatus configured to convert an interlaced signal into a progressive signal, including: a first conversion unit; a second conversion unit; a decision unit; and a selection unit.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103588 - System and method for adjacent field comparison in video processing: Methods and systems for processing video information are disclosed herein and may comprise calculating a first two-field difference between a first plurality of pixels from a current field and a second plurality of corresponding pixels from an alternate field adjacent to the current field. At least one pixel from the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070103587 - System and method for blending of spatial interpolation and weaving: A method for processing video information may include calculating a plurality of motion indicators for a plurality of pixels in a current field and at least one corresponding plurality of pixels in at least one adjacent field. At least one of the plurality of motion indicators may indicate an amount... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070103586 - System and method for static region detection in video processing: A system and method for processing video information are disclosed and may include calculating at least one pixel difference between at least one pixel in a first field and at least one corresponding aligned pixel in a second field. The first field and the second field may be adjacent to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070103590 - Video processing with multiple graphical processing units: One embodiment of a video processor includes a first media processing device coupled to a first memory and a second media processing device coupled to a second memory. The second media processing device is coupled to the first media processing device via a scalable bus. A software driver configures the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070103591 - Method for managing key operation information for a jog key: An apparatus for managing input key operation information includes a key input unit configured to receive a key input signal from a jog key, e.g., such as a jog dial or jog stick. A controller is configured to determine whether the key input signal is a jog message signal and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070103592 - [method of synchronously receiving digital and analog television signals]: The present invention describes a method of synchronously receiving digital and analog television signals that installs an application software, a direct show, a driver and a tuner in a host end, and the digital television signals and analog television signals transmitted by the application software are sent to the driver... Agent: Animation Technologies Inc.

20070103593 - Broadcast receiving apparatus for capturing broadcast signal and method thereof: A broadcast receiving apparatus, and method, for capturing a broadcast signal, the apparatus including a signal processor to receive broadcast signals and process the broadcast signals, a controller to capture a certain frame data from the broadcast signals processed by the signal processor, check an input resolution of the broadcast... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103594 - Recursive noise reduction with still pixel detection: A system and system for performing adaptive recursive noise reduction with still pixel detection on a video stream is presented. After processing a field pixels that were modified are stored in the field so that processing of later fields uses the modified pixels. Furthermore, the system uses novel still pixel... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20070103595 - Video super-resolution using personalized dictionary: A video super-resolution method that combines information from different spatial-temporal resolution cameras by constructing a personalized dictionary from a high resolution image of a scene resulting in a domain specific prior that performs better than a general dictionary built from images.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20070103596 - Method of using matrix to adjust hue and color saturation: A method of using matrix to adjust hue and color saturation includes the following steps: transform a YUV format signal into a RGB format signal with a first matrix; the RGB format signal is multiplied by a second matrix to obtain a RGB format signal whose hue and/or color saturation... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070103597 - Receiver apparatus and receiver system: A receiver apparatus 3 has a digital circuit portion 13 that converts a compressed digital signal outputted from a digital demodulating portion 12 into digital video and audio signals, a video/audio output circuit 14 that converts the digital video and audio signals outputted from the digital circuit portion 13 into... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070103598 - Video signal processing apparatus: Again controller gain controls digitalized video signals for each minimum video unit. A variation controller establishes video blocks each consisting of a plurality of minimum video units, and also establishes a gain control value of the gain controller for each of the minimum video units constituting the established video blocks.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070103599 - Brightness-adjusting device for video wall system and method therefor: A brightness-adjusting device for a screen is provided. The brightness-adjusting device includes a light source providing an incident light required to project an image on the screen, a sensor disposed at a position so as to receive the incident light and obtain a digital brightness signal accordingly, and a processor... Agent: Haverstock & Owens

20070103601 - Image data processing apparatus and method of processing image data: The brightness characteristic detection circuit 1 divides the frame 21 into a plurality of pixel blocks 22, detects average brightness characteristics of respective pixel blocks, and obtains the maximum or minimum brightness value of input image data from the average brightness characteristics of the pixel blocks. Correcting input image data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070103600 - Tv set and method for managing gain value for each channel: The present invention relates to method for managing gain value for each channel of a TV set, includes steps: signaling a tuner to receive broadcasting signals of the channel in response to a channel selection command; reading a predetermined gain value of the channel from a setting table; amplifying and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070103602 - Digital terrestrial broadcast tuner module and digital terrestrial broadcast receiver: A digital terrestrial broadcast tuner module and digital terrestrial broadcast receiver are provided. The digital terrestrial broadcast tuner module that allows reception of both a digital terrestrial television broadcast and a digital terrestrial radio broadcast, which includes a first frequency converter configured to convert a frequency of a received RF... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070103603 - Rear projection display screen: d

20070103604 - Projection type image display: An image that has been displayed on the display screen of an image generator 1 is first passed through a projection lens section 2 consisting of a front group and a rear group. Next after being reflected on the reflecting surface of a free-form surface mirror 5, the image is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070103605 - Plasma television and panel type television: An upper left protruding section 63a, an upper right protruding section 63b, a lower left protruding section 64a, and a lower right protruding section 64b are provided at vertically extending bridge frames 60, and an upper left screw-fixation section 65a, an upper right screw-fixation section 65b, a lower left screw-fixation... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070097204 - Portable audio visual communication system and method: The present invention provides for an audio visual communication system that comprises a communications network, a first central processing unit housed within a body, a display and an audio and visual capturing apparatus. A link between a first central processing unit and a second central processing unit is established over... Agent: Brad Close Tighe Patton, PLLC

20070097205 - Video transmission over wireless networks: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for transmitting video over a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070097206 - Multi-user stereoscopic 3-d panoramic vision system and method: A panoramic camera system includes a plurality of camera units mounted in a common, e.g., horizontal, plane and arranged in a circumferential array. Each camera unit includes one or more lenses for focusing light from a field of view onto an array of light-sensitive elements. A panoramic image generator combines... Agent: Scott C. Rand, Esq. Mclane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Pa

20070097207 - Image processing method, image processing device and image display apparatus employing the image processing device: An image processing method is provided. The method includes a process carried out by a pair of imagers to extract a parallax caused by a distance to an object of photographing as a positional shift between mutually corresponding pixels included in said imagers or between mutually corresponding image blocks included... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070097208 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus, text data processing apparatus, program, and storing medium: A deviation amount of a pictographic character portion of “G” is calculated based on a description of a file, and left eye-use display data (ABCDEF GIJK) and right eye-use display data (ABCDEG HIJKL) in a portion (b) in FIG. 3 are generated. A starting location of a description of “ABCDEFGHIJKL”... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070097209 - Parking assist method and a parking assist apparatus: A parking assist apparatus includes a CPU for generating recorded image data based on image data obtained from a camera which is mounted on a vehicle, the image data being related to at least an imaging position, and an image memory for retaining the recorded image data even after the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070097210 - Headrest mounted entertainment system: In certain embodiments, a mobile video system is provided that includes a first entertainment system mountable in a first headrest of a vehicle. The first entertainment system includes a first input having a structure and a first output having a structure. The mobile video system also includes a second entertainment... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070097211 - Systems and methods for location of objects: Systems and methods that may be employed to visually locate and/or track objects equipped with active RFID tags. The disclosed systems and methods may employ an articulated camera/s, such as closed circuit television (“CCTV”) or other suitable type of articulated camera/s, that is equipped with an antenna array.... Agent: William W. Enders O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders

20070097212 - 360 degree surveillance system and method: A 360 degree surveillance system includes a 360-degree digital camera, a power source, a camera control system, a portable digital storage medium, a wireless communications system, and an archive digital storage medium. The digital camera has a fixed lens unit with a simultaneous 360-degree panoramic view, or a movable lens... Agent: Law Office Of Timothy M. Barlow

20070097213 - Correction data acquisition method and calibration sysytem for image display device: A correction data acquisition method for an image display device, which is used to display a predetermined image using a plurality of primary colors. An offset image at a black level is displayed at an image display section of the image display device. A multiband offset captured data is acquired... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070097215 - Degradation/preservation management of captured data: In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input for designation of a first portion of a data stream for retention at a first resolution, wherein the data stream represents video and/or audio information: and accepting input for designation of a second... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070097216 - Image-sensing method and control method and apparatus therefor, and medium: An image sensing apparatus improves operability in transmission of image data to a computer or the like. An image sensing apparatus 12 has an image sensing device 2 which image-senses an object and outputs an image signal, signal processing circuits 3 and 4 which convert the image signal outputted from... Agent: Brian W. Brown Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070097214 - 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

20070097217 - Image management apparatus: The image management apparatus of the present invention is an image management apparatus that can secretly manage an image data, including: an authenticating portion that authenticates an operator; and a controller 15 that has at least a first controlling mode and a second controlling mode, wherein the controlling portion does... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070097220 - Systems and methods of anti-aliasing with image stabilizing subsystems for cameras: Systems and method for implementing anti-aliasing with image stabilizing subsystems for cameras are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment the method may comprise characterizing motion of a camera, characterizing aliasing for an image being photographed by the camera, and moving at least one optical element in the camera during exposure of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097221 - Systems and methods of exposure restart for cameras: Systems and methods for implementing exposure restart in cameras are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment the method may comprise starting image exposure in response to user input to photograph a scene. The method may also comprise characterizing camera shake based at least in part on motion of the camera. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097218 - Digital camera module: A digital camera module (100) includes a lens module (110), an image sensor (120) and a linear voice coil actuator (130). The lens module further includes a lens set (111), an infrared cut filter (112), a spacer set (113) and a barrel (114). The image sensor is a CCD or... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070097219 - Image stabilizer, and image shake correction method for imaging device: An image stabilizer includes an imaging device including an object coverage area changing device for changing an object coverage area, and an image sensor; an image shake correction device which moves a shake correction optical element of the imaging optical system in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070097222 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: According to one embodiment, when moving image data and speech data received via a communications device are displayed on a display unit, speech data corresponding to the moving image data are appropriately distributed to output units and loudspeakers and then output in accordance with a position of the displayed moving... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070097223 - Parameter configuration apparatus and method: An image corresponding to an image processing parameter value currently configured in an image input device is displayed in an area. Images obtained when the image parameter value is changed to different values are displayed in areas around the area. A user can configure the parameter value in the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070097224 - Camera system: A camera system includes a synchronization signal generator and a camera device separated from the synchronization signal generator. The synchronization signal generator generates a subframe synchronization signal having a constant period and a variable-frame synchronization signal having a variable period. The camera device further includes an internal synchronization signal generating... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070097226 - Image data processing semiconductor integrated circuit: The invention is intended to reduce the number of parts constituting an image capturing system using a solid-state image sensor and reduce the size and cost of a mobile electronic appliance having camera functionality. An analog front end circuit for an image capturing system, which samples pixel readout signals input... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070097225 - Image signal processing unit: An image signal processing unit comprising an image signal receiver, a first addition block, a compression block, and a determination block, is provided. The image signal receiver receives an image signal. The image signal is generated by an imaging device. The imaging device has a plurality of pixels generating pixel... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070097228 - Image-processing devices, methods, and programs, and electronic cameras and the like comprising same: Image-processing devices and methods are disclosed. Such a device includes an image-input unit, a fluctuation-extraction unit, a modulation-signal-generation unit, a level-compression unit, and a gradation-correction unit. The image-input unit inputs an image. The fluctuation-extraction unit extracts a local-fluctuation component from the input image and generates a local-fluctuation image containing a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070097227 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device includes a large number of pixel portions each of which includes a photo diode 30. A part of the large number of pixel portions are pixel portions for detecting a black level. The pixel portions for detecting the black level are scattered in a region where... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097229 - Image data selecting method and image data processing device: In an image data selecting method and an image data processing device, image data to be erased, resized or compressed is automatically selected from image data recorded in a recording medium in accordance with the number of printing times, the number of digital copying times into another recording medium, or... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070097230 - Image file for storing digital images and ancillary data values using multiple encoding methods: An image format for storing digital images within a baseline DCT compatible bitstream comprises entropy coded image data, a first application marker storing a first data value using a first encoding method to convey a first information value related to the image, and a second application marker storing a second... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070097231 - Image recording device and method: A camera device for recording an image comprises an image sensor having a plurality of light-sensitive image cells. The image cells can be selectively addressed in order to read their image signal values. The device also has a plurality of memory cells for storing identification codes, with an identification code... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070097234 - Apparatus, method and program for providing information: When various kinds of information is provided by an apparatus in the form of characters or the like, an assistance function is automatically provided for letting a user of the apparatus understand the information. For this purpose, an extraction unit extracts the face of the user from an image obtained... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097233 - Multiply effect: A user captures an original digital image, which is then selected for post-processing within the image capture device. The user selects a number of images from a defined list of multiples. The image capture device then down-samples the original image and duplicates the down-sampled image to create multiple tiles of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097232 - Programmable anti-aliasing systems and methods for cameras: Systems and methods for implementing programmable anti-aliasing in cameras are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment the method may comprise characterizing at least one image for existing aliasing, and characterizing existing blur in the at least one image. The method may also include introducing blur during image capture operations by the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097235 - Lens and ccd correction using singular value decomposition: Imaging devices, such as digital cameras, scanners, displays and projectors, and related processing methods that implement calibration and post-capture image processing that quickly and accurately corrects image quality resulting from lens and CCD imperfections using a minimum amount of computation and memory storage space.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097236 - Method and apparatus for reducing noise of image sensor: An apparatus and a method for reducing noise from an image sensor are provided. The apparatus includes a noise-estimation unit which estimates a noise level representing an image frame expressed as a component in a color space, a filter-strength-calculation unit which determines filter strength based on the estimated noise level,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097237 - Method and apparatus of defective pixel correction for a solid-state imaging device: A defective pixel correction method and a defective pixel correction apparatus usable with an imaging device of the one-chip type including one color CCD. A video signal level of a pixel under consideration of a solid-state imaging device in which pixels respectively coated with mutually different color filters are disposed... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070097238 - Method for rapidly changing the color of a light source and image apparatus using the same: A method for rapidly changing the color of a light source is provided. An image apparatus comprising at least one light mask and one voltage converter is provided. The voltage converter applies a first voltage to the light mask to show a first color. A control signal is sent to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070097239 - Cmos image sensor apparatus with on-chip real-time pipelined jpeg compression module: A CMOS imager in which a CMOS image sensor, a color image processing module and an image compression module are all provided on a single die. Both the color image processing module and the image compression module incorporate pipelined architectures to process the image data at a video rate in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070097240 - Amplification-type cmos image sensor of wide dynamic range: A solid-state image sensor which includes a pixel section, AD converter, line memory, controller and synthesizer is disclosed. The line memory stores a digital signal output from the AD converter. The controller controls the pixel section and AD converter to subject analog signals of different exposure times to an AD... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097241 - Solis-state imaging device, method of driving same, and camera apparatus: A solid-state imaging device of a three-transistor pixel configuration having no selection transistor has a problem of a non-selection hot carrier white point, which is specific to this apparatus. A bias current during a non-reading period of pixels is made to flow to a pixel associated with an immediately previous... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070097243 - Solid state image pickup device having a time pulse generator, and method for replacing signals from a switch: A solid state image pickup device being provided with a photoelectric converter portion being composed of a plurality of pixels disposed in a row, a charge transfer portion for transferring the charges generated in the photoelectric converter portion, and a charge/voltage converter portion for converting the charges transferred by the... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070097242 - Solid-state image pickup system with the number of signal readout outputs changeable and a method therefor: A solid-state image pickup device generates a control signal responsive to an operating signal providing at least one of the operating, setting and environmental conditions. Based on the control signal, a timing signal generator and a driver generate timing and driving signals, respectively. Signal charge read out from the photosensitive... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097244 - Method for driving solid-state image pickup apparatus, solid-state image pickup device and camera: Three transfer electrodes (CR1, CR2, CR3) are provided per one column of the vertical register (4) in a part of the vertical register on the side of horizontal register (7). These three transfer electrodes (CR1, CR2, CR3) are each formed from one layer of three different gate electrode layers. The... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070097245 - Digital camera having a touch pad: A digital camera is disclosed herein. An embodiment of the digital camera comprises a display, wherein previously captured images are displayable on the display when the camera is in a first mode. Images of scenes that are capturable by the camera are displayable on the display when the camera is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097246 - Image capture device and method of capturing an image: An image capture device (2) comprising: an input means (16, 300) arranged to allow a user to make an input to the device (2); a display (12) arranged to indicate at least one parameter associated with the capture of an image; wherein the input means (12, 300) is arranged to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097248 - Portable terminal having digital camera function: A portable terminal is provided having a digital camera function that includes a display main body having a display, a camera assembly having a camera module for focusing on a subject and photographing an image of the subject displayed on the display and a turning unit to rotatably couple the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097247 - Image displaying system, image displaying method, image printing system, and image printing method: An image displaying system comprises a display unit displaying an image, an extracting unit extracting an image based on a predetermined rule from among images which are recorded on a recording medium, and attached with shooting information and obtained by shooting, and a representative image display unit making the display... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070097249 - Camera module: A plurality of single lenses (11a to 11d) form images of a subject in a plurality of imaging regions (17a to 17d), respectively, and electrical signals from the plurality of imaging regions are synthesized, whereby an image is obtained. The plurality of single lenses are held by a lens holder... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070097251 - Camera module and electronic apparatus: The present invention provides a camera module including: a camera body including a lens-barrel, a substrate, an image pickup device, and a signal processing unit; and a shield case. The shield case has a substrate-covering plate part and a lock part. An insulating and elastic cushion material is disposed between... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070097250 - Imaging system and method: An imaging system comprises an optical module for generating a scanned image of an object. The optical module comprises a photosensitive element integrally molded to a lens array.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097252 - Imaging methods, cameras, projectors, and articles of manufacture: Imaging methods, cameras, projectors, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects of the disclosure. According to one aspect, an imaging method includes providing light of a plurality of regions of an input image, associating light of an individual one of the regions of the input image with... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097253 - Optical system having multiple curvature lens and manufacturing method thereof: Provided an optical system having a multiple curvature lens and a method for manufacturing the same. The optical system includes an image-forming lens group, an image sensor, and an image processing unit. The image-forming lens group has one or more multiple curvature lenses each having a multiple curvature surface provided... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070097254 - Devices and methods for calculating pixel values representative of a scene: Methods of calculating pixel values representative of a scene are disclosed herein. One embodiment of the method comprises focusing light representative of the scene onto a photosensor for a period of time using at least one exposure setting, wherein the photosensor has a plurality of pixels. Numeric values corresponding to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097255 - Demo dock for digital cameras: When a digital camera detects that it has been placed in a demo dock, it resets internal settings to demo defaults and may launch a point-of-purchase dock demo to attract attention. When a customer removes the camera from the demo dock, an interactive demo may begin. The demo may instruct... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097256 - Receiver, transmitting/receiving system, and communication method: The amount of data stored in a buffer 15 included in a transmitter 2 is detected by a buffer amount detecting section 18 with predetermined timing, and according to the amount of data stored in the buffer, the time intervals at which the data is fed out are adjusted based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070097258 - Frame buffer management program, program storage medium and management method: This is a computer-readable portable storage medium which is used by a computer managing a plurality of frame buffers and which stores a program enabling the computer to execute a process, and the process comprises preparing an area in which data of a valid chain indicating a connection among frame... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070097257 - Video source rate control for video telephony: The disclosure relates to techniques for video source rate control for video telephony (VT) applications. The source video encoding rate may controlled using a dual-buffer based estimation of a frame budget that defines a number of encoding bits available for a frame of the video. The dual-buffer based estimation technique... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070097259 - Method and system for inverse telecine and field pairing: Certain aspects of a method and system for inverse telecine and field pairing may comprise receiving a plurality of fields of alternating polarity. A current field may be weaved with its corresponding adjacent field of opposite polarity. A polarity change count value may be calculated based on the weaving of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070097260 - Moving image display device and method for moving image display: The synthesizing circuit inputs signals representing the brightness coefficient K2 and the brightness coefficient K3 from the multiplexer, and inputs the overscanned frame image data D1 in pixel units from the first latch circuit. When the start frame image read the third time and the after frame image read the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070097261 - Region or frame based aspect ratio scaling: An aspect ratio converter. The aspect ratio converter scales different segments of a video stream using different scaling functions. The aspect ratio converter can scale one region of a video frame using a first scaling function and scale another region of a frame of video using a second scaling function,... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070097262 - Broadcasting receiver, broadcasting transmitter, broadcasting system and control method thereof: A broadcasting receiver, broadcasting transmitter, broadcasting system and a control method are provided. The broadcasting receiver includes a broadcasting reception unit which receives caption data including information on an edge shape of a caption window and caption text to be displayed in the caption window, and a caption processor which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097263 - Video signal receiver including display synchronizing signal generation device and control method thereof: A video signal receiver including a display synchronizing signal generation device and control method are disclosed. The video signal receiver includes: a video processor converting an input analog video signal into a digital signal; a display processor scaling the video signal converted at the video processor with an output resolution;... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070097264 - Clock and data recovery: Improved clock and data recovery involves transmitting one or more null frames prior to transmitting a sync frame. A receiving component detects for the sync frame to lock to a data signal sent on a signal path by a transmitting component. The one or more null frames transmitted prior to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070097265 - Image display apparatus and method: Disclosed is an image display apparatus for displaying a plurality of images in the form of an array on a display screen. The apparatus decides display positions of a plurality of items of image data and presents an image display that is based upon image data at each of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070097267 - Imaging device having chromatic aberration suppression: Accurately suppress chromatic aberration arising in a subject image is described. An image signal, which is obtained by a lens and a CCD and pertains to a subject image, is subjected to white balance adjustment performed by a white balance adjustment circuit. The signal is supplied to a color-blurring detection... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070097266 - Spatial and temporal alignment of video sequences: Some embodiments allow a video editor to spatially and temporally align two or more video sequences into a single video sequence. As used in this application, a video sequence is a set of images (e.g., a set of video frames or fields). A video sequence can be from any media,... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20070097268 - Video background subtractor system: A video processing system includes at least one video source, a region selecting unit, a subtracting unit and a display unit. The region-selecting unit selects the user-defined region of interest from the video source. The subtracting unit subtracts the required region, selected by the region selecting unit. The output of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070097269 - Electronic equipment, system for video content, and display method: There is provided electronic equipment including a storage section storing data for creating a menu screen; a metadata acquisition section acquiring metadata for displaying a menu item for operating external equipment, from the external equipment, the metadata having data for defining at least a type of the menu item and... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070097270 - Multiple tv signal processor: A multiple TV signal processor is disclosed. The multiple TV signal processor comprises a plurality of signal receiver, a signal-processing module, a decoder and a transmission interface. The signal receivers are adopted for receiving and transmitting external TV signals. The signal-processing module is electrically connected to the signal receivers and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097271 - Receiver with image rejection calibration at an undesired picture carrier and method therefor: In one embodiment, a method is provided. An in-band calibration tone is generated at a frequency of an undesired interfering signal. A receiver is calibrated using the calibration tone to reject image interference caused by the undesired interfering signal.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070097272 - Delay-less channel switching: A method for enabling delay-less switching of TV channels in a mobile device is as follows. Memory space is allocated in a buffer memory to each of a user's favorite TV channels. Each allocated memory space is updated with a corresponding burst of newly received data. In response to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070097273 - Remote control unit code learning television set: A television set which learns to work with a remote control unit not specifically designed to operate that television set. The television set enters a learning mode in response to the user pressing a “Learn Remote” button or menu item, or in response to receiving an unknown remote control signal... Agent: Richard Calderwood Stexar Corp.

20070097274 - Television remote control location: A television system includes a wireless transmitter in the television set and a wireless receiver in the remote control unit. The television set includes a mechanism such as a button or a menu item which the user can activate, causing the television set to send a signal to the remote... Agent: Richard Calderwood Stexar Corp.

20070097275 - Two way communication using light links: Two-way communications between a video system and a control device is disclosed. The communications links comprise visible light, IR light, or a combination of visible and IR light. The communications link provide a convenient route to capture data or lock system features or various combinations thereof.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP