Television inventions 07/07

20070171275 - Three dimensional videoconferencing: In various embodiments, a videoconferencing system may include a video capture device for capturing an image and a computer system for processing the captured image to produce a 3-D image. In some embodiments, the computer system may be coupled to the video capture device through a network and may process... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070171276 - 3d image display apparatus and method using detected eye information: Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus and method including: a display; a photographing unit including a camera, a first light source disposed on an axis identical to a camera axis and a second light source disposed on an axis different from the camera axis, which takes a photograph... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171279 - Capsule medical device, medical control device, medical image processing device and program: An image pickup unit captures an image of a subject and outputs the image of the subject as an image pickup signal. A control unit determines with respect to similarity among a plurality of images contained in an image group in accordance with the image pickup signals of two or... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070171273 - System and method for controlling videoconference with touch screen interface: A videoconferencing system includes a touch screen display device and a videoconferencing unit. The display device displays video data for the videoconference and generates touch data based on user selections relative to the touch screen. The videoconferencing unit is operatively coupled to the touch screen device by a video connection... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070171274 - Videoconference data relay server: A method, which may be implemented by an apparatus and/or computer program(s), for a data relay server comprises receiving a request to relay data for a videoconference between a videoconference server protected by a firewall and N videoconference clients not protected by the firewall, wherein N≧1; creating a connection pool... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070171277 - Image file creating apparatus and image file reproducing apparatus: A controller (101) designates the method of integrating viewpoint images. An image integrator (102) creates an integrated image by placing individual viewpoint images in appropriate positions. A 3D image control information creator (103) creates 3D image control information by formatting the placement mode of individual viewpoint images and various 3-dimensional... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171278 - Multimedia greeting card: A multimedia greeting card comprises a speaker, a memory unit, a power supply, a controller, a button, a rectangular frame and a paperboard having multiple folding pages and wrapping around the frame. The frame has multiple holders for holding the speaker, the button, and a circuit board on which the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070171280 - Inverse telecine algorithm based on state machine: A technique for processing video to determine which segments of video originate in a telecine and which conform to the NTSC standard is described herein. The current pull-down phase of the 3:2 pull-down (see below) in a telecine generated video segment is estimated and used to invert the telecine process.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171281 - Object initialization in video tracking: A system and method initializes objects in video data. In an embodiment, the video data is an output of a video tracker, and in a particular embodiment, the video tracker is a particle filter. A histogram is calculated that indicates a number of particles that do not cover an object... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070171282 - Camera apparatus and imaging method: A camera apparatus has an imaging unit, a display unit, a storage unit and a control unit. The imaging unit shoots an object and outputs image data thereof. The display unit displays an image. The storage unit stores shooting conditions. The control unit displays a real-time image based on the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070171283 - Remote instruction system, remote instruction method and program product for remote instruction: A remote instruction system includes a control portion. The control portion transmits an image captured by an image capturing portion provided for capturing the image of a subject to a remote terminal, and controls a projection portion to project an annotation image onto the subject according to an instruction issued... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070171284 - Imager resolution enhancement based on mechanical pixel shifting: Apparatus, systems and methods for imager resolution enhancement based on mechanical pixel shifting are disclosed. In one implementation, a system comprising a substrate, an imaging pixel array disposed on the substrate, imaging optics at least capable of providing an illumination field to the imaging pixel array, and one or more... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070171285 - Semiconductor photosensor device and information apparatus with sensitivity region for wide dynamic range: A semiconductor photosensor device includes a plurality of photodiode sections, a switch, and an output section is provided. The plurality of photodiode sections have different illuminance-output characteristics. The switch selects any one of the plurality of photodiode sections on the basis of an illuminance of incident light irradiated on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171286 - Image superimposing apparatus: A deepest part searching means divides each frame of a background image into a plurality of blocks, and searches for a candidate for the deepest part of the background image which is located the deepest in a direction of the depth of the background image, a deepest part determining means... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171287 - Image enlarging device and program: An image input unit (10) receives input of a low-resolution image file. An edge detection unit (12) detects an edge in the low-resolution image. A number of continuously differentiable times estimation unit (14) calculates the Lipchitz exponent (corresponding to the number of continuously differentiable times). An interpolation function selection unit... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070171288 - Image correction apparatus and method, image correction database creating method, information data provision apparatus, image processing apparatus, information terminal, and information database apparatus: A capturing unit captures and digitizes a printed image having an electronic watermark embedded therein and a lattice pattern image. A profile creation unit detects position deviations of intersections in the lattice pattern images captured at respective different zoom magnifications, generates correction information on distortion occurring in the images, and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171289 - Signal processing apparatus and method, and program: It is an object of the present invention to provide signals which allow colors in a wider color range than predetermined standards, which can be handled by apparatus according to such predetermined standards. A primary color converter 62 converts first color signals having primary color points in a wider color... Agent: Eric J Robinson Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office

20070171290 - Pixel patterns: The invention discloses an array of pixels to be arranged in electronic color imaging devices, where the risk of aliasing is reduced by arranging the pixels in the array according to irregular patterns. The array is provided with a first, a second and a third set of pixels representing a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171291 - Solid-state image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device is a solid-state image pickup device of a back-surface incident type which is provided with a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer, and a light receiving section. The semiconductor substrate has a specific resistance ρ1. The semiconductor layer is provided on the surface of the semiconductor... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070171292 - Image pick-up apparatus and image pick-up method: At a controller 5, pixel values that a CCD 3 outputs are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluation result, exposure times with respect to a light receiving surface of the CCD 3 in a shutter 2 constituted with, e.g., DMD (Digital Micromirror Device), etc. are set in pixel units.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070171293 - Digital camera: A digital camera comprising an imaging device, a memory, a monitor, and a monitor controller is provided. The digital camera is used for photographing an optical image of an object as an image of a first rectangle. An aspect ratio of the first rectangle is a first aspect ratio. The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070171294 - Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof and program for implementing the method: From image data for foreign substance detection obtained by an image sensing device that converts an optical image of an object into image data, correction data is created for correcting photographed image data in a case that normal image sensing is performed, and by correcting the photographed image data using... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070171295 - Dust removal camera: A dust removal camera which has an image pickup sensor which converts an optical image into an electric signal, a shutter which opens/closes an optical path to the image pickup sensor, an optical plate provided between the image pickup sensor and the shutter, and rectangularly formed, and a piezoelectric body... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070171296 - Object determining device, imaging device and monitor: An object determining device for selecting a target face for processing from plural faces in an image, includes a face detecting unit that detects faces from an image; a face information recording unit that records the face detected in the past by the face detecting unit and the detection history... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070171298 - Image capturing element, image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image capturing system, and image processing apparatus: An image capturing element having an electric shutter function of controlling exposure time for each frame includes: a photoelectric converter that has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix each of which converts light into charge and stores the converted charge; a first reading unit that reads... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171297 - Photographing apparatus for iris authentication, a photographing module for iris authentication, and a terminal having the photographing apparatus for iris authentication: The present invention generally relates to a photographing apparatus for iris authentication, a photographing module for iris authentication, and a terminal having the photographing apparatus for iris authentication, and the photographing apparatus for iris authentication in accordance with the present invention comprises: a body case whose front side is open;... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070171300 - Nonlinear movement and tilt angle control structure of an image capture device inside a light box: Nonlinear movement and tilt angle control structure of an image capture device inside a light box includes a light box, a nonlinear motion set, a rotation set, a cartridge and a compartment. The nonlinear motion set is with a dual guiding rails or a mono guiding rail to deliver the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070171299 - Automatic linear-motion and tilt-angle control apparatus for an image-capture device inside a photography light box: The present invention discloses an automatic linear-motion and tilt-angle control apparatus for an image-capture device inside a photography light box, which includes: a photography light box, a linear-motion module, a rotation module, and a fixing seat. The linear-motion module further includes: servo motors, ball screws, linear sliding rails and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171301 - Image static area determination apparatus and interlace progressive image transform apparatus: A unit for generating a pseudo image of an earlier field image by interpolation from a later field image in two consecutive field images in an interlace scanning system, and a unit of determining a static area in the images upon receipt of the input of a current frame image,... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070171302 - De-interlacing of video data: A method and apparatus are provided for deriving a progressive scan image from an interlaced image. In this, for each pixel to be inserted in the field from the interlaced image a difference value is derived from each pair of a set of symmetrically opposed pixels with respect to the... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070171303 - System and method for generating audio-visual summaries for audio-visual program content: The invention describes a system (1) for generating audio-visual summaries for audio-visual program content (3). The system comprises a search unit (4) for locating a pre-generated text summary (5) associated with the program content (3); a speech synthesizer (6) for converting the text summary (5i) into speech (7); a video... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070171304 - Method and apparatus for using the video blanking period for the maintenance of a modem that is used for wireless transmission of video: The vertical blanking period is an idle period in video transmission that was originally intended for allowing the trace back of an electron beam to its point of origin. When sending the video signal over a wireless channel, the wireless channel may remain free of transmission of data during this... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070171305 - Image processing apparatus capable of communication with an image source and method thereof: An image processing apparatus capable of performing communication with an image source, and an image processing method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a main communication part to receive additional data and an image signal from a signal source, the additional data representing additional image information necessary for implementing an... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070171307 - Media playback system with real-time camera image display and method thereof: The invention relates to a media playback system having a real-time displaying capability of displaying images generated from a camera and method thereof The media playback system receives a first input signal, and includes a real-time communication device for generating a second input signal, a playback processor, electrically coupled to... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070171306 - Digital television system with rapid channel surfing: A digital television system includes a first tuner and first decoder for tuning to and decoding a selected digital television signal. A second tuner and second decoder are included for tuning to and decoding a separate digital television signal containing mosaic views of the receivable television signals. Upon a channel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070171308 - Methods of color index searching: A method of color index searching in a color picture. An estimated color index X and an estimated range Y are obtained. An index range is set according to the estimated color index X and the estimated range Y. A color dimension of color signals corresponding to the index range... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070171309 - Color reproduction method and system, and video display method and device using the same: A color reproduction correcting system and method, and a video display device and method can reproduce original color by considering signal source and display device. Each signal source information and each display device information can be stored. The signal source and the display device, which are currently used (e.g., corrected),... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070171310 - Method and apparatus for adjusting the contrast of an image: A method and apparatus for adjusting the contrast of an input image is disclosed. Brightness level data of the input image is filtered to obtain at least a low frequency component and a high frequency component. The high frequency component is amplified. The low frequency component and the amplified high... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070171311 - Method and device for protecting displays from burn-in effect: The invention concerns a device and a method for protecting display panels from burn-in effect when displaying a still picture over a long period of time. The image processing method according to the invention comprises a step of shifting pictures by a pattern at a pixel shift frequency characterized in... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070171312 - Frequency converter: A BPF outputs a real RF signal by suppressing a band out of an RF signal frequency band in a received signal. A local oscillator outputs a complex local signal with a predetermined frequency. A half-complex mixer performs frequency conversion by multiplying the real RF signal by a real part... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070171313 - Projection device and projection method: A projection device comprises a light source, a color wheel which is inserted into an optical path of the light source and in which a plurality of color segments are formed along a peripheral direction of the color wheel. The color segments are configured to transmit a plurality of wavelength... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070171314 - Method for formation of a color video image for projection systems with one cathode ray tube: A method for formation of projection systems color video-images comprises: preliminary programmed processing of video-signals, dividing them into three primary colors components, and generating frame- and line-synchronizing pulses for CRT raster, provided by processing means; formation of three primary color images adjacently positioned on a screen of a single projection... Agent: Arayik Danghyan

20070171315 - Water jet propulsion boat: A water jet propulsion boat has a water jet propulsion device in a body, and is propelled by the water jet propulsion device. An electric unit having a waterproof structure and being separate from the body can be removably disposed in a storage section without using any tools. The storage... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070171316 - Video display system for a vehicle: A video display system for a vehicle may comprise a housing and a screen console coupled to the housing. The screen console may have a screen and a digital video disc player operably connected to the screen, each of the screen and the digital video disc player being integrally positioned... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070165103 - Terminal apparatus, method and computer readable recording medium: A terminal apparatus displays an enlarge-processed image based upon an image having predetermined resolution while an image having high resolution is acquired, and switches the displayed image to display an image having the high resolution when the acquiring operation of the image having the high resolution is accomplished. The terminal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165107 - Visual positioning system for closed circuit video magnification system: A visual positioning system integrated into a magnification device for use for amplifying the size of materials being scanned, can be manipulated to furnish greater length dimension to the material scanned, by shifting and pivoting of either its miniaturized television camera, or the reflecting mirror that scans the camera pickup... Agent: Paul M. Denk

20070165104 - Wireless communication system and methodology for communicating via multiple information streams: A wireless communication system is disclosed wherein an information source communicates with a mobile station via multiple intermediary base stations located in respective cells of a broadcast zone. In one embodiment, each base station sends multiple information streams that may be received by a mobile station located in the broadcast... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070165106 - Distributed videoconferencing processing: A videoconferencing system may include, for example, a camera, microphones, speakers, a computer system (e.g., a portable computer) and a codec box. The videoconferencing system may send/receive signals through a network coupled to the computer system. In some embodiments, the codec functionality may be incorporated in a set-top box (e.g.,... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070165105 - Multimedia conference recording and manipulation interface: A technique is provided for recording and manipulating a multimedia conferencece. For example, an audio and/or video conference is conducted via computer and the audio data from a set of one or more participants in an audio conference is received and recorded and stored, and the audio data for each... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070165108 - Vehicle surrounding image display device: A vehicle surrounding image display device according to the present invention combines an image obtained by reducing in size an image taken by a camera provided at the center of the rear side of a vehicle, and images obtained by deforming images taken by cameras provided at the left and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070165109 - Universal electronic device remote control power button status light: A system comprising a first remote controllable appliance and a universal remote control having an indicator light positioned under a power key for indicating that a device soft key has been activated, or that a function signal has been transmitted for controlling the selected remote controllable appliance.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070165110 - Storable test pattern image and method: A portable, self contained, deployable test pattern display, for use in optimising imaging quality having a portable protective display housing, a test pattern incorporating imaging information contained in and deployable from the housing, a retraction device connected to the test pattern for replacing it within the housing, so that the... Agent: George A. Rolston

20070165111 - Visual presenter: A visual presenter includes a base including a pivotal shaft support, a support column standing on the pivotal shaft support and having a distal end curved so as to protrude in such a direction that the distal end becomes more distant from the base, and an imaging camera rotatably mounted... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070165112 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, learning apparatus and learning method and program: An information processing apparatus includes an image taking means for taking images of a subject, a class-classification means for classifying a first image outputted by the image taking means into a class according to a characteristics thereof, a storage means for storing plural coefficient memories having different image taking conditions... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165113 - Image signal processing device, digital camera and computer program product for processing image signal: R, G and B signals are output from individual pixels provided at an image-capturing element. Pixel output averages corresponding to the R, G and B signals are calculated for each of partition areas into which the light-receiving surface of the image-capturing element is divided. Ratios of the R and B... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070165115 - Target detecting apparatus, image file recording apparatus and methods of controlling same: It is so arranged that a user can check whether face detection processing has been set. The back side of a digital still camera is provided with a face detection button for setting whether face detection processing is ON or OFF. If the button is pressed to set the camera... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165114 - Image-information recording device and image-information display device: An attribute-information obtaining section 221 obtains attributes. For respective chapters, the attributes are held by an attribute file 500. A condition searching section 223 searches the attributes for the respective chapters in accordance with a condition input from a condition inputting section 222. A thumbnail obtaining section 224 obtains thumbnails... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070165116 - Method and apparatus for adaptive and self-calibrated sensor green channel gain balancing: A method and apparatus for adaptive green channel odd-even mismatch removal to effectuate the disappearance of artifacts caused by the odd-even mismatch in a demosaic processed image. In one adaptive approach, a calibrated GR channel gain for red rows and a calibrated GB channel gain for blue rows are determined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165117 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device which can, in response to the problem of black-crush occurring in an image when strong light is enters the device, positively detect black-crush in a state in which a variance margin has been secured. The solid-state imaging device outputs a luminance signal in accordance with an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165118 - Method and apparatus for defective pixel detection based on the human visual system: A bad pixel detection method and module which provide a quick-test and a full-test for bad pixel detections in an image. The quick-test tests a current pixel to one and only one good neighbor having been previously tested. The quick-test is optimized by exploiting weaknesses in the human visual system... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165119 - Image processing apparatus for correcting defect pixel in consideration of distortion aberration: An image processing apparatus includes an optical system having distortion aberration characteristics for expanding a central part and compressing a peripheral part of an image plane; an image sensor for photodetecting an optical image via the optical system, converting the optical image to image signals, and outputting the image signals;... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070165120 - Imaging apparatus: An aspect of the present invention provides an imaging apparatus comprising: a solid-state image sensor having an effective pixel area and an optical black area; a smear detection device which detects smear intensity and smear occurrence position in a smear occurrence area, in which a smear occurs, in the effective... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165121 - Image capturing apparatus and image capturing system: The present invention provides an image capturing apparatus, which comprises a plurality of photoelectric converter-containing pixels that are positioned horizontally and vertically and a gain circuit, has a gain controller that can control the gain of the gain circuit in N stages (where N is an integer equal to or... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070165122 - Video signal clamping circuit: A filter performs a filtering process by sampling a digital video signal only for an OB period. A first subtracter subtracts an OB data target value from the output value of the filter. A second subtracter sets a subtraction amount based on the subtracted result of the first subtracter and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070165124 - Method of operating an image sensor: An image sensor may include a shared memory resources which can be selectively used by a digital filter for image scaling or by a defect correction circuit.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070165123 - Method and apparatus providing pixel storage gate charge sensing for electronic stabilization in imagers: An imaging device that stores charge from a photosensor under at least one storage gate. A driver used to operate the at least one storage gate, senses how much charge was transferred to the storage gate. The sensed charge is used to obtain at least one signature of the image... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070165125 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus: In order to solve the problem in which voltages Vsig1 read in units of rows have differences to cause vertical shading, thereby degrading image quality, and the problem in which the dynamic ranges of source follower circuits are different in units of rows because finite resistances are distributed in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165126 - Cmos image sensor: A CMOS image sensor includes a photodiode, a plurality of transistors for transferring charges accumulated at the photodiode to one column line, and a voltage dropping element connected to a gate electrode of at least one transistor among the plurality of transistors for expanding a saturation region of the transistor... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070165127 - Active matrix display device and semiconductor device for timing control thereof: An active matrix display device includes: a plurality of pixels that are disposed in a matrix; a plurality of image signal lines that are disposed to correspond to respective columns of the pixels; a plurality of scanning signal lines that are disposed to correspond to respective rows of the pixels;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165128 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and method for driving the same: To provide a solid-state imaging apparatus which is capable of preventing electric charge from being injected from a semiconductor substrate while electric charge is being accumulated into photodiodes. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and a driving pulse control unit. The solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165129 - Method of and apparatus for selecting a stereoscopic pair of images: A method is provided for selecting a stereoscopic pair of images, for example as they are captured by a camera or from an existing collection of captured images. A first image is selected and a cursor overlaid on the first image is aligned with an image feature. The cursor is... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070165130 - Optical input and/or control device: An optical input and/or control de and/or actuating variable functions of, for examp device, the optical input and/or control device ha radiation from a diode laser (3) is converged. As across the window (12), part of the scattered radi due to the movement of the finger (15), re-enters measured using... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165131 - System and method for measuring tilt of a sensor die with respect to the optical axis of a lens in a camera module: A system and method are provided for measuring tilt of a sensor die with respect to the optical axis of the lens assembly in a camera module by providing a camera module having a sensor die with a plurality of focal indicial located on a surface, and a lens or... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070165133 - Digital camera: A digital camera is provided with a photographing lens having a aperture mechanism, an imaging section, including an image sensor for capturing a subject image via the photographing lens, a display section capable of displaying image information, an aperture drive section for driving the aperture mechanism to a specified position... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070165132 - Electronic camera: A digital camera (10) includes a CCD imager (16). An image signal corresponding to an optical image is output from the CCD imager (16), and an incident light amount to the CCD imager (16) is restricted by an aperture unit (14). A CPU (40) adjusts an exposure time period of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070165134 - Three-dimensional imaging device: A three-dimensional imaging device repeats a process for outputting three-dimensional image signals for displaying first through N-th elemental images that constitute a three-dimensional image. The device includes: an imaging optical system that forms an image of a subject; an illuminating section that repeats an action to irradiate illumination light in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165136 - Digital camera module using stacked chip package: A digital camera module (10) includes a chip package (101) and a lens module (103) mounted on the chip package. The chip package includes a substrate (20), a first chip (40), a second chip (70), and a cover (80). The first chip is mounted on the substrate and is electrically... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070165135 - Imaging camera head for visual presenter: An imaging camera head for a visual presenter including a base, a support column standing on the base and having a distal end and an imaging camera having an operation section is disclosed. The imaging camera head is mounted on the distal end of the support column and includes a... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070165137 - Supporting frame for cctv camera enclosure: A support frame for CCTV camera enclosure is disclosed. The support frame comprises a support body supporting the structure of the support frame; a rotating section mounted onto the support body and the rotating section horizontally rotated with respect to the axial hole via the support body; a securing section... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070165138 - Waveform generator and related method thereof: The invention relates to a waveform generator and the related method thereof for generating a second image data according to a first image data, wherein the first image data and the second image data correspond to different signal formats. The waveform generator includes: a first memory unit, a second memory... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165139 - Object-based audio-visual terminal and bitstream structure: As information to be processed at an object-based video or audio-visual (AV) terminal, an object-oriented bitstream includes objects, composition information, and scene demarcation information. Such bitstream structure allows on-line editing, e.g. cut and paste, insertion/deletion, grouping, and special effects. In the interest of ease of editing, AV objects and their... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070165140 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program are provided. The image processing apparatus of processing an image includes: means for acquiring a display format operable to acquire a display format which displays an image on means for displaying an image; means for acquiring a shot image signal operable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165141 - Method and system to manage digital medical images: An interactive user interface (UI) for managing digital medical images is disclosed. The UI includes a first display panel for displaying more than one of the digital medical images and a point on each digital medical image located in associated regions for stitching pairs of the digital medical images together,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070165142 - Flexible diversity combine receiver architecture for digital television: A method of generating a smoothed transport stream to an MPEG decoder for a diversity combine digital television receiver includes generating a plurality of synchronization clocks and demodulated signals according to a plurality of digital television signals received from a plurality of antennas; monitoring a signal quality associated with each... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165143 - Methods and apparatus for implementing a receiver on a monolithic integrated circuit: A monolithic integrated circuit includes a tuner and a SAW filter function. The tuner receives a radio frequency (RF) television signal that has a range of fundamental frequencies from 55 mega hertz (Mhz) to 880 Mhz. The tuner down converts the RF television signal to an intermediate frequency (IF) television... Agent: Stattler-suh PC

20070165144 - Parallel television based media interaction: A control device for interacting with a television system that displays media information. The control device is adapted to cause a change in an audio and/or a video portion of the media information on receiving an input from a user. The control device may further, for example, be adapted to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070159524 - Method and apparatus for providing panoramic view with high speed image matching and mild mixed color blending: An apparatus and method of providing a panoramic image, the method including: preparing images of a plurality of levels, which are made by scaling each of two source images at several rates; computing a Sum of Square Difference (SSD) between two corresponding images in each of the plurality of levels... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070159527 - Method and apparatus for providing panoramic view with geometric correction: A method and apparatus of correcting geometric information and providing a panoramic view. In the method of providing a panoramic view, a tilting vector (X′, Y′) is generated by applying matrices H(a,b) and HF to a source image vector (X,Y). The matrix H(a,b) is defined by distortion angles “b” towards... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070159522 - Image-based contextual advertisement method and branded barcodes: Content media having images associated with remotely stored information are provided with barcodes marked with indicia to indicate a source of the information. In this manner, a user, having, for example, a camera phone, will become aware that the particular content medium has images that can be scanned to retrieve... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070159521 - Mobile station-centric method for managing bandwidth and qos in error-prone system: A wireless transmission system for multimedia in information having plural layers includes a base station (BTS) and a mobile station (MS) that can select which layers to transmit based on reported channel conditions, mobile location, and/or forward error correction (FEC) used for a particular layer, A respective FEC rate and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070159523 - Method of maintaining eye contact in video conferencing using view morphing: A view morphing algorithm is applied to synchronous collections of video images from at least two video imaging devices, and interpolating between the images, creates a composite image view of the local participant. This composite image approximates what might be seen from a point between the video imaging devices, presenting... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070159525 - Stereoscopic display apparatus and stereoscopic display method: In the invention, an image display unit 21 is constituted by a display portion 27 having an image display surface for displaying a two-dimensional image and an image transmission panel 29 disposed in spaced-apart relation to the image display surface 31a and adapted to allow the light emergent from the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070159526 - Electronic endoscope apparatus which superimposes signals on power supply: An electronic endoscope apparatus has a single coaxial cable installed between a scope A and a processor unit B. Waveform superimposing circuits superimpose a video signal on power transmitted through the coaxial cable and sequentially superimpose scope-side reference pulses and processor-side reference pulses alternately on horizontal scanning blanking periods in... Agent: Snider & Associates

20070159528 - Remote control transmitter apparatus: A remote control transmitter apparatus includes a ROM configured to store a plurality of sets of control data for remotely controlling a plurality of types of electronic equipment, a nonvolatile memory having first and second storage areas, a set key configured to place the remote control transmitter apparatus into either... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070159529 - Method and apparatus for controlling output of a surveillance image: A method and apparatus for controlling the output of a surveillance image, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes checking whether an event is detected in at least one inputted surveillance image; and if the event is detected, determining whether to switch over to a surveillance image in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159530 - Method and apparatus for controlling output of a surveillance image: A method and apparatus for controlling the output of a surveillance image, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes checking whether an event is detected in at least one inputted surveillance image, and composing a display form of an output screen according to a number of surveillance images... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159531 - Vehicle back seat monitoring apparatus: A back seat monitoring apparatus is provided for a vehicle which includes a back seat, an interior ceiling, a dashboard, and a steering wheel. The subject apparatus includes a closed-circuit television camera mounted on the interior ceiling for viewing the back seat. A monitor screen is mounted in the vehicle... Agent: S. Michael Bender

20070159532 - Image sensor test apparatus: An image sensor test apparatus that emits light to a light receiving surface of an image sensor (DUT) and inputs and outputs electrical signals from a contact part to input and output terminals of the image sensor so as to test the image sensor (DUT) for optical characteristics, which captures... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070159533 - Image filing method, digital camera, image filing program and video recording player: The user of a digital camera inputs an event title before shooting, so images shot under the same event title are stored in a group of image files. A face image extractor extracts face images from the respective image files, and characteristic values of the face images are calculated. In... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159534 - Electronic device with portable optical module: An electronic device with a portable optical module (100) is provided. The electronic device includes a main body (10) having a camera module (20) incorporated therein, an optical element (40), a holder (50) and a magnetic assembly (30). The optical element can be an optical filter. The holder is annular-shaped... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070159535 - Multi-eye imaging apparatus: A multi-eye imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of imaging systems (106a, 106b) each including an optical system (107a, 107b) and an imaging element (108a, 108b) and having a different optical axis. The plurality of imaging systems (106a, 106b) include a first imaging system (106b) having a pixel shift means (101)... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070159537 - Imaging apparatus and method: An imaging apparatus has: a white balance control circuit for detecting an achromatic portion of an image of an object and controlling gains of the chrominance; an object distance detecting circuit for detecting a distance to the object; and a zoom value detecting circuit for detecting a zoom value of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070159536 - White balance control method: A white balance control method is disclosed. The method first sets an initial white balance setting. Secondly, based on the white balance setting, an image is obtained. Both averaged RGB values of the whole image and white pixel are obtained. Information of both averaged RGB values of the whole image... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070159538 - Image pickup apparatus: A short-time exposure image data and a long-time exposure image data of the same object to be photographed are stored to SE memory and LE memory and then transferred to CPU, motion thereof being detected at a motion detecting section on the basis of the two image data; if no... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070159539 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes an information extraction unit which extracts foreign substance information which is information of a position and size of a foreign substance in an image sensing plane of an image capture unit and is recorded in association with captured image data and lens information of a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070159540 - Image-sensor signal-processing circuit: By flexibly coping with both image sensors of a CCD sensor and a CMOS sensor without providing any external circuit, a signal processing is performed. In a sensor selecting switch provided in an image-sensor signal-processing circuit, first and fourth switches are turned on when the CMOS sensor is connected, and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070159542 - Color filter array with neutral elements and color image formation: The invention is directed to a method and a device for providing higher performance imaging capture using a novel pattern of a color filter array that enables one to achieve higher sampling rate for luminance than for chrominance. A majority of the elements in the CFA are neutral elements. Gray... Agent: Gang Luo

20070159541 - Single camera multi-spectral imager: An imaging system has a single focal plane array that does not require the precise alignment of multiple cameras relative to one another. It incorporates a multi-band, band pass filter that includes filter elements corresponding to pixel regions of a detector within a camera. The imaging system may further incorporate... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070159544 - Method and apparatus for producing bayer color mosaic interpolation for imagers: A method and system for color plane interpolation in a color pattern which selects a color-interpolation point within a pixel image for which the color plane interpolation is performed for. Once the color-interpolation point is selected a value for each color in the color pattern at each color-interpolation point is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070159543 - Simplified image sensor module package: A simplified image sensor module package includes a flexible print circuit board having an upper surface, which is formed with a plurality of electrically circuits, and a lower surface. A frame layer is arranged on the upper surface of the flexible print circuit board. A chip is mounted on the... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070159545 - Managed memory component: The present invention provides a system and method for combining a leaded package IC and a semiconductor die using a flex circuitry to reduce footprint for the combination. A leaded IC package is disposed along the obverse side of a flex circuit. In a preferred embodiment, leads of the leaded... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070159546 - Wide dynamic range active pixel with knee response: A pixel circuit, and a method for operating a pixel circuit, to provide a multiple knee response characteristic. In one embodiment of the invention, one or more feed-through pulse (FTP) signals are transmitted to an integration node to end a first linear integration time period. The FTP signal allows electrons... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070159547 - Solid state image pickup device: A solid state image pickup device is provided which includes: a semiconductor substrate having a light reception region; a well being formed in the semiconductor substrate; charge accumulation regions disposed in the well in a matrix shape; a vertical transfer channel disposed in the well; a light shielding film formed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159548 - Device for positioning a user by displaying the user's mirror image, a corresponding positioning method and image-capture apparatus: The present invention relates to a device (4) for positioning the face of a user relative to an image-capture apparatus (1), the positioning device comprising a picture-taking device (7) arranged to supply horizontally-reversed images, a display screen (5) for displaying the reversed images and connected to the picture-taking device, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159549 - Image pickup apparatus and method for controlling the same: A digital single-lens reflex camera determines whether a predetermined time has passed since the start of display. If the predetermined time has not passed yet, the camera performs face detection to determine if a user is looking into an optical finder of the camera. When the face detection is performed,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070159550 - Digital camera module: A digital camera module is provided. The digital camera module includes a lens assembly, a magnetic field generator surrounding the lens assembly, a shell covering the lens assembly, and a plurality of radio magnetized magnets disposed separately at two sides of the magnetic field generator.... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20070159551 - Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: This invention enables suppression of the influence on a captured image of dust even when dust sticks to an image sensor, a protective glass fixed on the image sensor, or a filter. An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor which generates an image signal by photo-electric conversion of an... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070159552 - Method and system for video conference: Techniques for compressing video stream in a video conference are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, the method comprises obtaining a frame image sequence and selecting a reference frame image; determining whether an N-th frame image has acute movements relative to the reference frame image according to a... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20070159553 - Information signal processor, method for processing information signal, image signal processor ang image display apparatus using the same, coefficient seed data production device used in the same, method for producing coefficient seed data set and informa: An information signal processor that is well suitable for use in conversion of an SD signal into an HD signal. The pixel data set corresponding to an objective position in the HD signal is extracted selectively from the SD signal. Class CL to which pixel data set of the objective... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070159554 - Image processing circuit, image display device, and an image processing method: The present invention is arranged such that interlace image data, which has been supplied, is converted to progressive image data in an I/P conversion section, and the image data converted to progressive style in the I/P conversion section is subjected to image processing including data comparison in spatial or time... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159555 - Video displaying device: A video displaying device connected to a first display comprises a connecting port, a second display, a signal processing unit, a microcontroller, and a switching unit. The connecting port is used for connecting to the first display, the signal processing unit is used for generating a first video signal, the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070159556 - Luminance transient improvemet using video encoding metric for digital video processing: A method of improving luminance transition includes decoding a coded video bitstream around a transition from a first luminance level to a second luminance level; and providing luminance transition enhancement based on a metric indicative of video bitstream. Additionally, an apparatus that improves a luminance transition includes a video decoder... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070159557 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an audio signal amplifier and a video signal amplifier built in a single semiconductor chip, the audio signal amplifier and the video signal amplifier being configured to receive a supply of a positive power supply voltage and a negative power supply voltage. The semiconductor integrated... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070159558 - Power control method used with tv module of portable electronic apparatus: A power control method used with a TV module of a portable electronic apparatus is used for selectively entering the TV module in a power-saving mode. At first, the portable electronic apparatus is activated. When the portable electronic apparatus is activated, the power supply condition of the portable electronic apparatus... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070159559 - Method to switch on-off and the stand-by operation of a projection television: A fast control method controls the time of switch on-off and the stand-by operation of a projection television. The method with control units including state-assigned flags, state-completed flags and delay of a time control unit quickly carries out state transformations of the system to shorten the period turning on/off the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070153083 - Method and terminal for applying background skin in internet protocol network: In a method and apparatus for applying a background skin in an Internet protocol (IP) network, a first terminal sends a call request message, including background skin index information, to a second terminal. The second terminal sends a response message, including background skin index information, to the first terminal in... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070153081 - Method and apparatus for initiating support request from mobile station: Method and apparatus for initiating support request from mobile station by providing a digital image generated at the mobile station to a support center. The digital image is created upon pressing a preconfigured key combination and could be stored on the mobile station. Signals representative of the created digital image... Agent: Peter B. Manchev

20070153082 - Portable electronic device and method for sharing a common storage device via a by-pass mode: A portable electronic device for sharing a common storage device via a by-pass mode is disclosed. The portable electronic device includes a portable electronic system, a DSC (Digital Still Camera), and a mass storage system. The portable electronic system has a first process unit and a signal multiplexer electrically connected... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070153084 - Semiconductor wafer reader and illumination system: A reader for semiconductor wafers includes a camera for reading a mark on a semiconductor wafer. The wafer is positioned adjacent a surface of the housing including a reading window and an illumination device. The illumination device provides both bright and dark field illumination to the wafer, and light reflected... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070153085 - Rear-view mirror with front and rear bidirectional lens and screen for displaying images: A rear-view mirror with a front and rear bidirectional lens and a screen for displaying images is provided, which includes a mirror body, an image-capturing unit, and an image-displaying unit. The image-capturing unit is disposed in the mirror body and has a first lens and a second lens being shown... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070153086 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatuses, enabling to keep dynamic resolution, as well as, to obtain an image being wide in dynamic range, with using a plural number of cameras therein, and further enabling to photograph a further wider range, comprises: a plural number of photographing devices overlapping photographing regions thereof with each... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070153087 - Method and system for maintaining even tube burn-in: An arrangement for maintaining even tube burn-in. The arrangement identifies active and inactive display regions on a display unit when video content is displayed on the display unit. When inactive display regions are identified the arrangement monitors the duration that the active display regions remain active. After the active display... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070153088 - System and method for testing a cable television system: An improved and cost effective method is provided for testing the head end of a cable television system. The method includes: configuring the head end with a test signal generator; configuring the test signal generator with a phone interface mechanism; configuring a spectrum analyzer at a test point along the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070153089 - Method, system, and program product for measuring audio video synchronization using lip and teeth characteristics: Method, system, and program product for measuring audio video synchronization. This is done by first acquiring audio video information into an audio video synchronization system. The step of data acquisition is followed by analyzing the audio information, and analyzing the video information. Next, the audio information is analyzed to locate... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070153090 - System for operating a plurality of mobile image capturing devices: A system for operating a plurality of mobile image capturing devices, the system comprising: a first image capturing device comprising a transmission module for transmission of an instruction from the first image capturing device to at least one other image capturing device, the transmission being over a wireless medium; the... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070153091 - Methods and apparatus for providing privacy in a communication system: Methods and apparatus for providing privacy during video or other communication across a network. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed wherein digital video camera is coupled to a network via a processing server. The digital video camera generates one or more digital images that are processed by the processing... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070153092 - Video camera apparatus for whole space monitor: A video camera apparatus for whole space monitoring is provided, which includes a lens module having a plurality of lenses, a calculation unit, and a processing unit. The lens module captures images from different directions and generates a plurality of image data, then outputs the image data to the calculation... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070153093 - Apparatus and method for image capturing with an image scaling unit to scale a portion of an image: An apparatus for image capturing includes a sensing device, an image processing unit, an image scaling unit, and a memory device. The sensing device is for capturing an image, and the image processing unit is for processing the image. The memory device is for storing the portion of the image,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070153094 - Automatic flicker correction in an image capture device: The disclosure describes flicker detection and correction techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes flicker correction techniques that compare different image frames to detect flicker. In some embodiments, the comparisons involves summing intensity values associated with rows within... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153097 - Image acquisition apparatus: An image acquisition apparatus includes an optical system having such distortion aberration characteristics as a central region is expanded and a peripheral region is compressed. An imaging element converts a subject image formed image data. A first memory stores filter factors which are used for interrupting a spatial frequency exceeding... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070153096 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus for imaging an image using a solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of processing blocks operable to perform predetermined signal processing on an image signal obtained by imaging a subject; a memory operable to store image data; and a control circuit operable to selectively control a plurality... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070153095 - Memory organizational scheme and controller architecture for image and video processing: This disclosure describes an organizational scheme for memory that is useful for image processing. A memory controller architecture is also described, which takes advantage of the organizational scheme. The organizational scheme and controller architecture is particularly useful for high performance, high quality image processing of images that form a video... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153099 - Image signal processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image signal processing method and computer program thereof: There is provided an image signal processing apparatus having a luminance signal producing unit which receives input of a mosaic image of a signal acquired by a wide wavelength range signal acquisition element from signals acquired by a single-plate imaging device having element arrays including a specific wavelength range signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070153098 - Luminance compensation apparatus and method: A luminance compensation apparatus and method applied to an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The luminance compensation apparatus includes an environment detector, a processor, and a luminance compensation unit. The environment detector is for detecting environment luminance and outputting a luminance detection value accordingly. The processor is coupled to the environment... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070153100 - Image display apparatus, image display method, control program, and imaging apparatus: An image display apparatus holds plural color conversion information patterns for performing a color conversion of pixels of drawing data. The image display apparatus is capable of selectively changing color conversion information for performing a color conversion of pixels of the drawing data within the same display screen. The image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070153101 - Image processing system and method thereof: An image processing system and method thereof for a digital camera are disclosed. The image processing system comprises a sweep control unit, a line extend control unit and a WOI control unit. When the output time of a digital image needs to be prolonged, the line extend control unit will... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070153102 - Image processing apparatus and operation condition setting method thereof: An external I/F gives numerical information on an imaging device, input from PC or PLC, to a memory. The memory outputs the numerical information to CPU as well as retaining the numerical information. CPU transmits the numerical information through a camera to an operation control unit. The operation control unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070153103 - Image pickup device and noise reduction method thereof: An image pickup device having an electron multiplying-charge coupled device has: an electron multiplying magnification control unit of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; an obtaining unit for obtaining signals which are outputted from light-shielded pixels of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; an averaging unit for executing an inter-line averaging process... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070153106 - Method and apparatus providing color interpolation in color filter arrays using edge detection and correction terms: A method and apparatus for color plane interpolation are provided which interpolates the color values of pixels differently depending on an edge direction and whether a pixel is at an edge within an image. The use of the edge detection during the interpolation of each of the colors present in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070153105 - Method and device of high efficiency image capturing: A method and device of image capturing comprising of timing control of sequentially placing the corresponding color filter to top of the image sensor allows an image sensor cell to capture multiple colors and produce output of multiple colors. Thin films are applied to function as color filters to be... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung Rm. 308, Bld. 52

20070153104 - Pixel array, imaging sensor including the pixel array and digital camera including the imaging sensor: A pixel array in an image sensor, the image sensor and a digital camera including the image sensor. The image sensor includes a pixel array with colored pixels and unfiltered (color filter-free) pixels. Each unfiltered pixel occupies one or more array locations. The colored pixels may be arranged in uninterrupted... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. Burlington

20070153107 - Gapless microlens array and method of fabrication: A microlens array with reduced or no empty space between individual microlenses and a method for forming the same. The microlens array is formed by patterning a first set of microlens precursors in a checkerboard pattern on a substrate. The first set of microlens precursors is reflowed and cured into... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070153108 - Solid-state image sensor: There is disclosed a solid-state image sensor having an image region including a plurality of unit cells arrayed in a matrix on a semiconductor substrate, in which each of the unit cells includes a photodiode provided in the semiconductor substrate, which converts an input light signal into a signal charge... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153109 - Image sensor element with multiple outputs: The present invention concerns an image sensor having a plurality of pixels each including a photosensor, a first node having a first capacitance connected to the photosensor, a second node having a second capacitance and selectively connected to the photosensor, and reading circuitry operable to read independently a first voltage... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070153110 - Digital camera: First pixels and second pixels are arranged in an LCD of a digital camera. Image light from the first pixel is diffused by a diffusing filter. Image light from the second pixel is deflected by a prism and directed in an oblique direction. When the LCD is viewed from a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070153111 - Imaging device and method for displaying shooting mode: Upon pressing a power switch, a power supply of an electronic camera is turned on. A subject image is taken by a camera unit and is converted into image data for which a corrector performs image processing. The processed image data is displayed on a monitor as a through image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153112 - Digital camera: A digital camera of the present invention includes a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 130 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 130 to predetermined processing is displayed on a liquid... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070153113 - Digital camera: A digital camera of the present invention includes a receiving portion 155 that receives a control signal from a remote controller, and a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 130 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070153114 - Digital camera: A digital camera of the present invention includes a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 133 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 133 to predetermined processing is displayed on a liquid... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070153115 - Image pickup device: An image pickup comprising objective lens for forming an optical image of an object, a prism for turning a light path of light rays from said object, and a photoelectric solid-state image sensor for converting the optical image to electric signals. The prism has a plane of incidence for admitting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153116 - Photographic device: A photographic device includes an image sensor in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed. A horizontal scan circuit selects in order vertical drive lines to which the pixels are connected. And a vertical scan circuit reads voltages, due to accumulated electric charges, from the pixels in the horizontal row... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070153117 - Apparatus and method for adjusting display-related setting of an electronic device: An apparatus and method for adjusting display-related setting of an electronic device are disclosed. The apparatus includes an image sensing device, an image signal processing unit, and a determination device. The image sensing device is for capturing a number of images according to a number of exposure time values and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070153118 - Digital camera and method of controlling the same and apparatus for and method of outputting image: Even when a part of a subject image is cut down after imaging, an image of good image quality is obtained. When a subject is imaged, divisional photometry (divided brightness measuring) is performed. Image data representing an image of the subject and a divisional photometry values are recorded on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070153119 - Embedded camera with privacy filter: An apparatus includes a housing having an integrated camera. A panel is positioned in front of at least a portion of the camera and is operable to selectively switch between at least a substantially transparent state and at least a substantially opaque state.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070153120 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an outer housing; an imaging-block arranging section in the outer housing, the imaging-block arranging section including an imaging block having predetermined lenses and an imaging device; a media housing section in the outer housing, the media housing section being configured to house a recording medium for... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070153121 - Video data acquisition system: The present invention relates to a hardware and software system for filmmakers and videographers interested in recording the current maximum quality of digital video. The system includes extracting uncompressed image data from a digital camera, transmitting the data over an interface to any type of recording and/or monitoring device for... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070153122 - Apparatus and method for simultaneous multiple video channel viewing: A multiplexer interlaces first and second video signals to form a third video signal comprising fields from the first and second video signals in alternating sequence. A filter system enables a first person, when viewing the third video signal, to see the first video signal but not the second video... Agent: Design Ip, P.C.

20070153123 - Method and apparatus for progressive scanning of interlaced video: A method for deinterlacing an interlaced video signal is provided which employs a median single edge based line average field interpolation algorithm. The algorithm employs a median filter to determine whether motion occurred between scanning two fields of an interlaced frame and, based on the results, reconstructing intermediate lines in... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070153124 - Method and device for interline interpolation: The invention relates to interpolation of an image information value for a pixel of an interline. The method comprises selecting, from a number of image directions, to each of which a direction quality value is assigned, a direction of interpolation by comparing these direction quality values. The image information value... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070153125 - Method, system, and program product for measuring audio video synchronization: Method, system, and program product for measuring audio video synchronization. This is done by first acquiring audio video information into an audio video synchronization system. The step of data acquisition is followed by analyzing the audio information, and analyzing the video information. In this phase audio and video information is... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070153126 - Clock generation apparatus: A clock generation apparatus is provided with a frequency phase error calculation circuit 120, whereby a clock synchronized with burst lock and a line lock clock can be simultaneously generated by a DTO 121 on the basis of frequency information of a DTO 10 and phase error information from a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070153127 - System and method for three dimensional comb filtering: A system and method for determining whether to process a signal using three-dimensional comb filtering. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise method steps and system components that generate an inter-frame chroma signal. Various aspects may generate a filtered inter-frame chroma signal by removing a band of frequency components... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070153131 - Method of auto-configuring audio-video signals and associated apparatus: An AV switching method capable of auto-configuring a plurality of AV input signals and associated apparatus is provided. An audio-video detector capable of auto-configuring the AV input signals includes an audio-video detecting module, an impedance adjustment module, and an audio-video switching module. The audio-video detecting module receives and detects the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070153130 - Activating a function of a vehicle multimedia system: A vehicle multimedia system simplifies a user's interaction with the system. A user may access a specific media unit by actuating a switch corresponding to a media unit. A preference unit detects the user's selection of the media unit and selects an end item based on a programmed criterion. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070153132 - Method of intelligently selecting a signal source and associated apparatus: A method of intelligently selecting a signal source and associated apparatus is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A display is activated. The display detects activities of a plurality of connection ports to determine at least one active video source. The display displays an image according to the at... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070153128 - Smart cable for controlling video capture device: An element, such as a plug on a VGA cable, can communicate with a media storage unit to enable or disable media storage.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070153129 - Transmitting/receiving device and communication system using the same: Disclosed is a semiconductor IC device using a low-price oscillator, which is capable of bidirectional communication with a host and features a low price. In bidirectional communication between a host and a device, the device comprises a synchronization establishment unit, a frequency difference detector, a frequency generator, and an oscillator... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070153133 - Address generation for video processing: A video processing system includes input and output address generators. The address generators are capable of generating linear addresses associated with data to be read from and written to a device. The linear address is converted to a random address so that data associated with a macroblock may be read... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070153134 - Television receiver with a flat screen display: Television receiver comprising a flat screen display which has a component interface unit spatially separate from the television receiver for the external terminals, such as, for example, SCART sockets or speaker terminals, the component interface unit being connected through at least one high-capacity bus connection to the television receiver. The... Agent: Patrick J. O'shea, Esq. O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070153135 - Device for reducing power consumption in display system using diffractive optical modulator: Disclosed herein is a device for reducing power consumption in a display system using a diffractive optical modulator. The device includes a video input unit for receiving video signals, a noise elimination unit for eliminating noise from the video signals and then outputting noise-free video signals when the video signals... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070153137 - Display device with automatically rotated image and method thereof: A display device with automatically rotated images and a method thereof are provided. When the display device is rotated, the display device automatically switches the displaying direction of the image and maintains a sound output balance. A magnetic sensor is used to sense the change in magnetic flux generated when... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070153136 - Lcd tv capable of being used as a music station only: An LCD TV capable of being used as a music station only, which can turn off the internal video decoder and the internal backlight power when the LCD TV only desires to output an audio. The LCD TV panel has a backlight control terminal with a first state and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070153138 - Video screen panel apparatus and system: A first panel includes an optically transmissive body having a front side and a rear side. The body has a width, a height, and a depth. The depth is substantially less than either of the width or the height. The body includes a first edge on a first side defining... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070153139 - Automotive entertainment console and dockable entertainment devices: An entertainment console installed in a vehicle includes a docking bay for docking portable entertainment devices, such as portable media players (PMPs). A base of the console may be attached to the passenger compartment ceiling, with a display that can be flipped down from the base. A docked PMP can... Agent: Directed Electronics

20070153140 - Broadcast receiver: A broadcast receiver has a GPS reception section for clocking, a TV tuner for receiving a broadcast wave of TV broadcast, and a display for displaying video information of a program transmitted by a broadcast wave, and displays video information of a plurality of programs received on a single screen... Agent: Sughrue-265550