Television inventions 10/07

20070247516 - Apparatus and method for distributing video image: An apparatus and a method for distributing video image are provided. The apparatus stores a video image captured by a video unit through a monitor module. When a plurality of communication interfaces are activated simultaneously, the video image previously stored in the monitor module is directly loaded into each communication... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070247521 - Apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal and a data structure thereof: A method for transmitting a broadcast signal including generating display control information for a plurality of broadcast objects to be displayed on a receiving terminal, and transmitting the broadcasting signal including both the plurality of broadcast objects and the display control information to the receiving terminal. Further, the display control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247515 - Handheld video transmission and display: A handheld, wireless video receiver that receives compressed video, decompresses the compressed video, displays the decompressed video. The receiver is part of a system comprising methods, medium, and handheld, wireless devices which compress, enhance, encode, transmit, decompress and display digital video images in real time. Real time wireless videoconferences connect... Agent: Kendyl A Roman

20070247517 - Method and apparatus for producing a fused image: A method and apparatus for producing a fused image is described. In one embodiment, a first image at a first wavelength and a second image at a second wavelength are generated. Next, range information is generated and subsequently used to warp the first image in a manner that correlates to... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070247518 - System and method for video processing and display: To supplement a video display on a conventional television, a surround video stream may be projected onto wall and other surfaces adjacent the television. The surround video stream may derive from a wide angle lens camera positioned alongside the main camera. The surround video stream may be processed in a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070247519 - Display system with moving pixels for 2d and 3d image formation: Various embodiments of displays form a multi-dimensional image with moving pixels.... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070247520 - Negative current compensation method and circuit: A power supply controller (10, 60, 70) uses a negative current (36) of a power transistor (16, 71) to detect the valley point for enabling the power transistor when driving an inductor (17). The negative current occurs when the inductor is de-magnetized and can be used for controlling the time... Agent: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC Attn: Robert D. Atkins/law Dept./md 1700

20070247522 - Method and apparatus for generating a stereoscopic image: A method of generating a stereoscopic image is disclosed. The method includes defining at least two, three or more regions in a scene representing a region of interest, a near regions and/or a far region. This is followed by forming an image pair for each region, this image pair containing... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070247523 - Examination apparatus: The invention provides an examination apparatus including an objective optical system for positioning a focal point inside a specimen mounted on a stage; an image-acquisition apparatus for detecting light emitted in different optical-axis directions from the vicinity of the focal point inside the specimen and collected by the objective optical... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070247524 - Attention level measuring apparatus and an attention level measuring system: An attention level measuring apparatus, comprising: an eye direction measurement unit, which is configured to input image data and to measure an eye direction of a person photographed; an attention position information calculate unit, which is configured to calculate attention position information of said person, from the eye direction measured... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070247525 - Video flashlight/vision alert: A method and apparatus for providing a “Video Flashlight” system for managing large numbers of videos by overlaying them within a 2D or 3D model of a scene.... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070247526 - Camera tamper detection: A security system (20) includes at least one camera (22) that provides a reference image regarding an area within a field of vision (24) of the camera (22). A controller (30) determines whether a difference between at least a portion of a test image obtained by the camera (22) and... Agent: David J. Gaskey Carlson, Gaskey & Olds

20070247527 - Home/office printer for selectively printing and transmitting photographs from a memory card: A home/office printer for selectively printing and transmitting photographs as recorded on a memory card is disclosed. The printer includes a read-slot for inserting a memory card and a network coupling for transferring photographic images to an online printing service. The printer further includes an operating software, which is configured... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070247529 - Image processing method and image processing device: An image processing device according to the present invention uses a representative picture having a first resolution and multiple reference pictures having the first resolution to generate a high-resolution picture having a second resolution higher than the first resolution. The image processing device includes a first repetition processing unit operable... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070247528 - System and method for synchronizing an illuminator to a video camera: The present invention provides synchronization and control between the wavelength of a multi-wavelength illuminator and the image frames acquired by a video camera. In accordance with the present invention, the trailing edge of a camera expose-signal triggers a pre-loaded digital value to be output from a FIFO buffer. The digital... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070247530 - Interpolation method for captured color image data: To achieve more appropriate interpolation of a missing pixel, an image is input to a processing section for interpolation. The interpolation is applied utilizing image data of pixels located around the pixel to be interpolated. Specifically, correlations between the image data of the pixels to be interpolated, and pixel data... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070247531 - Method and system to reduce flicker artifacts in captured images: In one embodiment, a method for controlling artifacts in an image due to a presence of flicker in ambient light is provided. The method comprises determining a power frequency for the ambient light; determining a magnitude and phase of flicker fluctuation in the image due to the flicker; and adjusting... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20070247532 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided which offers higher versatility than conventional image processing apparatuses. When an input signal to a spatial filtering block is a monochrome signal that contains Y component only, a selector selects its input terminal and a selector selects its input terminal. Then, a low-pass filter... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247533 - Dc level control method, clamp circuit, and imaging apparatus: A dc level control method for holding a dc level of a clamp portion in an electric signal to be a prescribed value is disclosed, wherein the method comprises the steps of: comparing a dc level of a sampling interval in said electric signal with a predetermined reference value to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070247535 - Solid-state image sensing device and image sensing device: A solid-state image sensing device includes: a pixel array in which pixels performing photoelectric conversion are arranged in rows and columns; and a column amplification section in which an image signal output from each pixel is amplified. The column amplification section includes amplifiers each of which is provided for each... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070247534 - Solid-state imageing device, its production method, camera with the solid-state imaging device, and light receiving chip: Provided is a light-receiving chip whose transparent protection plate has an area equal to or smaller than an area of the light-receiving chip, and which does not require a base portion for mounting. Provision of the light-receiving chip contributes to reduction in size and weight of cameras. In addition, provision... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070247536 - Driving method for solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device: There is provided a driving method for a solid-state imaging device in which the number of effective pixels is not reduced, a difference between resolutions in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction is not caused, blurring of an image is reduced as compared with conventional cases, image inconsistency at... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070247537 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device that suppresses crosstalk of light in a semiconductor substrate that caused by diffraction of light is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a solid-state imaging device comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a photoelectric conversion element that is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247538 - Imaging device and driving method for solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device of the present invention includes: photodiodes having a vertical overflow drain structure; vertical shift registers for temporarily storing signals transferred from the photodiodes; and a horizontal shift register for storing and horizontally transferring signals transferred from the vertical shift registers, wherein a φSUB pulse is applied... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070247539 - Multi-stage lens driving device: A multi-stage lens driving device comprises a lens holder, a lens mounted on the lens holder, a carriage carrying the lens holder in a movable manner, at least one magnet coupled to the lens holder, at least one coil disposed on the carriage and corresponding to the magnet, and at... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070247540 - Camera and image display apparatus mounting the same camera: To provide a camera, by which a photographer takes a photograph of him/herself, while checking his/her facial expression, and further checking whether his/her eye line is directed to a photographing lens of the camera, and to provide an image displaying apparatus including the same camera. The camera has a display... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070247541 - Image recording device for connection to an observation device and observation device having an image recording device of this type: An image recording device for eyepiece-side connection to an observation device, in particular to a monocular observation device, which provides an object image of an object to be observed, comprises an image recorder unit for recording the object image, and an eyepiece unit. The image recording device further comprises, on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070247542 - Camera: An auto-focus (AF) camera enables AF operation with high speed and enhanced accuracy. The AF operation encompasses step-scanning the focus lens of the camera from the closest focal position to infinity, or vice versa. In one embodiment, the steps in the step-scanning are made smaller around a position judged to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070247543 - Optical filter and image-pickup apparatus: An optical filter which can remove dust stuck to the incidence surface of incidence of light and reduce the mounting space. A filter body is adapted to have predetermined transmittivity as well as a piezoelectric characteristic. At least two electrodes are formed on the filter body. A drive voltage is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070247544 - Display control apparatus, display control method and recording medium that stores display control program: In a digital camera 1, multiple graphic parameter tables in which environmental brightness values (LV) corresponding to the display mode and multiple graphic parameters such as on illumination brightness have been stored in a memory 12. Next, the graphic parameters corresponding to the acquired LV and the display mode that... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070247545 - Auxiliary light irradiating device for photographing device, method thereof and storage medium storing program: The present invention provides an auxiliary light irradiating device for a photographing device provided with a light source irradiating an auxiliary light toward an object, a liquid crystal panel provided in a light path toward the object of the auxiliary light by the light source, and being configured to displaying... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20070247546 - Apparatus and methods for processing video signals: A video signal processing apparatus may include a frame memory and a separator and deinterlacer circuit. The frame memory may store an interlaced video signal. The separator and deinterlacer circuit may execute operations of separating and deinterlacing the interlaced video signal stored in the frame memory. The apparatus may output... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070247547 - Motion compensated video spatial up-conversion: A method for performing motion compensated video spatial up-conversion on video. The horizontal samples in successive fields are first interpolated using a spatial interpolation technique. This is followed by interpolating the corresponding vertical samples using a motion compensated deinterlacing technique. Such techniques can include an adaptively recursive motion compensated video... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070247548 - Information processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of signal processes. The data processing apparatus switches processes of a pre-processing portion, a data processing portion, and a post-processing portion with a control signal supplied from a function controlling portion corresponding to a command supplied from the outside. Thus,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070247549 - Method for encoding/decoding a video sequence based on hierarchical b-picture using adaptively-adjusted gop stucture: Provided is a method for performing hierarchical B picture-based coding on a video sequence using the structure of adaptively divided group of pictures (GOP). The method includes the steps of, for each predefined 2N frame-sized group of pictures (GOP) of the video sequence, (a) encoding the 2N frame-sized GOP of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070247550 - Systems and methods for synchronizing audio and video data signals: Systems and method for synchronizing audio and video signals are described. The audio and video signals are tagged in an encoder. The tagged signals are transmitted across a network. The tagged signals are analyzed to detect phase errors or lip synch errors between them. A synchronization signal is generated in... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070247551 - Ufd-accomodating multimedia system: The present disclosure relates to display devices, external storage devices and methods of operating the same. In some embodiments, a display device that detects a coupling with an external media device is provided. Before device coupling, the display device displays a video signal from a first source. In response to... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070247552 - Image display device in digital tv: Disclosed is an image display device in a digital TV that is capable of carrying out the conversion into various kinds of resolution by using single bit map data in the digital TV. The image display device includes: a data processing part for executing bit map conversion, compression, restoration and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247553 - Polarization difference matting using a screen configured to reflect polarized light: A method for extracting an alpha matte from images of a scene illuminated by unpolarized light is presented. A first pair of images is acquired with a foreground object placed in front of a background producing polarized light. One image of the first pair of images measures vertically polarized light... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070247554 - Noise reduction apparatus of frame recursive type: Disclosed is a noise reduction apparatus of a frame recursive type which can reduce occurrence of an afterimage phenomenon such as blurring or trailing of contours of motion images even when the difference between image frames is small. In the noise reduction apparatus, a frame recursive type filter generates a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070242129 - Systems and method for enhancing teleconferencing collaboration: An advanced video teleconferencing (AVTC) system uniquely combines a number of features to promote a realistic “same room” experience for meeting participants. These features include an autodirector to select audio and video sources and to compose shots, a collaboration interface for each participant to communicate nonverbal information, directional LEDs to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070242131 - Location based wireless collaborative environment with a visual user interface: A wireless networked device incorporating a display, a video camera and a geo-location system receives geo-located data messages from a server system. Messages can be viewed by panning the device, revealing the message's real world location as icons and text overlaid on top of the camera input on the display.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070242130 - Secure audio-visual communication device: A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing audio-visual communication between registered users. Similar to the traditional walkie-talkie, a user depresses a button to transmit audio information, such as voice, and releases the same button to receive audio information from a transmitting device. Additionally, when communicating to another unit, the... Agent: Oc Patent, P.c Attn: Matt Mushet, Esq

20070242132 - Body-insertable apparatus and body-insertable apparatus system: To achieve a body-insertable apparatus such as a capsule endoscope that moves in a subject at a low speed at which acquisition of in-vivo information is sufficiently possible, the body-insertable apparatus is inserted into the subject and moves in the subject. The body-insertable apparatus includes an in-vivo information acquiring unit... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070242133 - Microscope observation method, microscope, differentiation interference microscope, phase difference microscope, interference microscope, image processing method, and image processing device: A special image such as a super-resolution image is obtainable without a microscope of a specialized configuration. A microscope observation method includes: a measurement step for changing the illumination angle of an object and measuring the complex amplitude distribution of each lightwave generated separately on the image surface by each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242134 - Submersible video viewing system: A modular, portable, submersible video viewing system. The system includes a viewing monitor, camera and interconnecting multi-conductor cable that store and deploy for underwater viewing. Webs at the camera housing interconnect to cable clips, bottom support plates, a swivel coupler or steering guide and/or pole to control camera orientation. Alternative... Agent: Douglas L. Tschida

20070242135 - Airborne reconnaissance system: The present invention relates to an airborne reconnaissance system for capturing images in a wide field of regard which comprises: (a) An array of a plurality of n prisms being one next to the other, each prism having an essentially flat and rectangular front surface, and at least an output... Agent: Marsteller & Associates

20070242136 - Video generation and capture techniques: Method and arrangement for capturing and automatically formatting video signals in both synchronized and deflection driven forms in which a single real-time capture module is provided including three input channels for receiving the video signals, three analog to digital converters for processing the video signals and three dynamic memories. Data... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20070242137 - Combined editing system and digital moving picture recording system: A moving picture recording device includes a random-access, computer-readable and writable storage medium to provide non-linear access to recorded clips. The device provides digital capture of both video and audio information. Multiple data paths are provided to allow recording to and playback from the storage medium. Lists are maintained to... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070242138 - Camera user input based image value index: In an imaging evaluation method, camera, and system, a scene is imaged with a camera. User inputs to the camera are received concurrent with the imaging. The inputs each define a setting of one of a plurality of operational functions of the camera. The inputs are valued to provide a... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070242140 - Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor which photo-electrically converts an object image, a memory which stores foreign substance area information associated with a foreign substance adhering to an optical member disposed in front of the image sensor, a positional shift detection unit which detects the mutual positional shifts... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070242139 - Moving-image shoot device, method of shooting moving-image, recording medium in which video signals are recorded by the same shooting device, moving-image reproducing device for reproducing the video signals recorded in the same: A shooting device includes a frame-rate setting section, a shooting section, and a recording section. The frame-rate setting section sets a frame rate at the shooting and a frame rate at the reproducing arbitrarily and independently. The shooting section shoots moving images at the shooting frame rate, and the recording... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070242142 - Image restoration apparatus, camera and program: The present invention provides an image restoration apparatus, a camera and a program which are capable of performing image restoration with simple construction. A specific area within a captured image is specified, and a calculation of a point spread function and the image restoration calculation are carried out using an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242141 - Adjustable neutral density filter system for dynamic range compression from scene to imaging sensor: An apparatus and method that extend the graduated neutral density filter approach by implementing an in-camera adjustable neutral density filter are described. The adjustable neutral density filter is implemented by the means of a transmissive LCD. The transmissive LCD is controlled to form a mask image. This mask image is... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070242143 - Digital still camera, image reproducing apparatus, face image display apparatus and methods of controlling same: The image of a subject is sensed, the image of the subject is displayed on the display screen of a digital still camera and the image of a face is detected in the image of the subject. The image of the subject is shifted in such a manner that the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070242144 - Defective pixel correction device: First pixel data of a pixel of interest is output from a first shift register, while second and third pixel data of neighboring pixels indicative of the same color are output from second and third shift registers, respectively. Differential data between estimated pixel data calculated from the second and third... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242145 - Smear reduction in ccd images: Vertical and horizontal smear in images produced by a CCD imager can be compensated for by detecting the boundaries of the smear and substituting data from an alternative part of the image, or interpolated data within those boundaries. Vertical, or frame transfer, smear can also be compensated for by producing... Agent: Venable LLP

20070242146 - Apparatus and methods providing dynamic biasing of cascode transistors in class ab amplifiers: An amplifier and method of fabricating and operating it are disclosed in which dynamically biased cascode transistors are provided in an output stage along with output transistors which are dynamically biased by differential control circuits to provide an output signal.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070242147 - Imaging apparatus: a driving control device which controls the read-out control device and the vertical transfer control device so that the R and B signals are each vertically added for a first number of vertical addition pixels and the G signals are vertically added for a second number of vertical addition pixels... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242148 - Imaging apparatus and driving method of solid-state imaging device: A driving method of a solid-state imaging device including plural high-sensitivity pixels and plural low-sensitivity pixels that are arranged in mixed form in a manner of a two-dimensional array on a semiconductor substrate, the method including driving the solid-state imaging device in such a manner that an exposure period of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242149 - Image display control apparatus, method of controlling the same, and control program therefor: To display a face image portion having a desired facial expression. For this purpose, detection processing of a face image portion from a subject image is performed. When a plurality of face image portions are detected, facial expression analysis is performed for each of the face image portions. The face... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242150 - Display apparatus and imaging device: Disclosed are a display apparatus having a display section tiltable in at least two directions within a predetermined tilting range using at least four tilting members, and an imaging device using the display apparatus. An example of the predetermined range, a range where a display surface of the display section... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070242151 - Solid state image pickup device: The present invention relates to a solid-state image pickup apparatus which allows, when being applied as an element of a solid-state image pickup array, to reduce a non-sensitive region between the adjacent devices, and can thus obtain more accurate imaging results. The solid-state image pickup apparatus comprises a photodetecting section,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070242152 - Auto-focus imaging system: An exemplary auto-focus imaging system having a compact configuration and a high-focusing accuracy includes a lens assembly, an image sensor, a locator, a control unit, and a voice coil actuator. The lens assembly is configured for picking up and manipulating optical information. The image sensor is configured for sensing the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070242153 - Method and system for improving image region of interest contrast for object recognition: A method includes locating a region of interest in an image and measuring a contrast level of the region of interest. At least one sensor setting is adjusted to increase the contrast level of the region of interest to at least the predetermined threshold level in response to the contrast... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070242154 - System and method of controlling a feature of a portable electronic device: A camera-equipped portable electronic device captures an image responsive to an occurrence of a predetermined event. The captured image is processed to derive color information. This color information is then employed to control one or more multicolor lighting elements of the portable electronic device to emit a selected color of... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070242155 - Image processing device, image scanning device, and image forming apparatus: A disclosed image processing device includes an analog processing unit configured to perform line-clamping on an analog electric signal representing image data and to output the line-clamped analog electric signal as an analog image signal; a fixed electric potential supplying unit configured to supply a fixed electric potential; a variable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242156 - Method and apparatus for synchronous translation of image using single clock: A synchronous translation apparatus and method using a single clock are provided. The method includes translating an image source signal format via an input control element at a first clock cycle and saving it in a buffer. Then, the formatted image source signal is read from the buffer through an... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070242157 - Wireless environment method and apparatus: A method and apparatus are provided for a first controlled device, such as a wireless local transmitter that accepts a plurality of digital audio signals and corresponding program information signals converted from a controlled source, such as the encoded digital data provided by a digital data signal source, typically a... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070242158 - Apparatus and method for processing signals in a multi-channel receiver: Signal processing apparatus suitable for performing front-end signal processing in a multi-channel receiving device such as a multi-channel television signal receiver utilizes a cost-effective and scaleable architecture. According to an exemplary embodiment, the signal processing apparatus includes an RF signal source operative to generate first and second RF signals responsive... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070242159 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: An information processing apparatus including: a display that is capable of displaying moving image data in a full screen mode; a first signal processing section that generates a signal for forming the moving image data to be displayed on the display; a second signal processing section that executes image quality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070242160 - Shared memory multi video channel display apparatus and methods: The invention includes a system and the associated method for reducing memory access bandwidth in various sections of one or more video pipeline stages of one or more channels in order to produce multiple high quality video signals. Signal processing stages of a video processor may share portions of memory... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070242161 - System and method to insert a person into a movie clip: This invention is a process comprising replacing an actor in a completed film with another person into the completed film so that a person can view himself in one of him or her favorite films. In addition, video processing software is included to implement the invention are included.... Agent: Jonathan Hudson

20070242162 - Dominant color extraction using perceptual rules to produce ambient light derived from video content: Extracting and processing video content encoded in a rendered color space to be emulated by an ambient light source, using perceptual rules for intelligent dominant color selection. Steps include quantizing the video color space; performing dominant color extraction by using a mode, median, mean, or weighted average of pixel chromaticities;... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070242163 - Video abnormality detection: Methods and apparatuses to detect presence of undesirable video abnormalities during, for example, video ingest or playback. These undesirable characteristics may include an average picture level that is less than a preset threshold value, or static input, in which the content does not change over a significant number of frames.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070242164 - Personal configuration information sharing system: Disclosed is a personal configuration information sharing system comprising a plurality of pieces of electric equipment connected with one another through a network, the plurality of pieces of electric equipment sharing personal configuration information with each other, wherein a setting time of set contents in a first personal configuration information... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070242165 - Broadcast receiving apparatus, and a tuner and a distributor for the same: Within a broadcast receiving apparatus, mounting therein two (2) pieces of tuner units, each being receivable at least three (3) kinds of broadcasting signals, and being receivable plural numbers of broadcasting signals, simultaneously, the tuner units, each capable to receive an analog terrestrial broadcasting signal, digital BS/CS broadcasting signals, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070242167 - Tv broadcast receiver: In the course of the channel presetting process, the central frequency is set by a step of 1 MHz within the range from the minimum frequency in the VHF band channel plan to the maximum frequency of the VHF band adopted in the place of destination for the scheduled shipment... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070242166 - Broadcast receiver: A broadcast receiver in which a digital broadcasting and an analog broadcasting can be received includes a judgment unit for judging that the analog broadcasting is terminated when a preset condition is met and a deletion unit for carrying out a deletion process for deleting a predetermined function for the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070242169 - Method and adjusting device for projection-type display: An image display device (1) including an image input means (10) to which image signals (S1 and S2) are input, an image display means (30) for forming an optical image based on the image signals (S1 and S2), and a device adjusting means (40) for adjusting internal conditions of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242168 - Method and arrangement for presenting a virtual landscape: The subject of the invention is a method for displaying a three-dimensional virtual scenery where consecutive, visible scenery elements (5, 5a, 5b, 5b′, 5b″), visible to the spectator (1) as a three-dimensional impression, are produced in consecutive, at least partially transparent planes. The scope of the invention also includes an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242170 - Liquid crystal tv set and liquid crystal display unit: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display unit and a liquid crystal TV set, each of which has a sequence circuit 13 that includes first, second, and third voltage output units. The sequence circuit 13, upon the turning-on of the power to the liquid crystal display unit 11, supplies the first,... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070242171 - Muting device, liquid crystal display television, and muting method: A muting device includes an external sound input unit that receives an external sound and an internal sound input unit that only receives an internal sound. The external sound received by the external sound input unit has a component, which corresponds to the internal sound received by the internal sound... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070242172 - Interchangeable switch assembly for media device: A media device for a vehicle includes an interchangeable switch assembly, and a console including a receiving part accommodating the interchangeable switch assembly. The interchangeable switch assembly includes a switch panel and a circuit board. The interchangeable switch assembly further includes a backlight unit for providing light to the switch... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070236558 - Method and apparatus to conduct a game of chance via video conference from remote both: A method for conducting a game of chance. The game of chance is conducted via a video conference from a remote booth.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070236559 - Video phone terminal apparatus and address display method: A video phone terminal apparatus that communicates with another video phone terminal apparatus over a private network and a global network includes a unique address defining section defining a unique address of a terminal of the apparatus, an address-upon-connection obtaining section obtaining an address upon connection of the terminal to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236566 - Liquid crystal display having matrix-converting circuit and method of transmitting signals therein: An exemplary liquid crystal display (3) includes a matrix-converting circuit (316) and an inverse-matrix-converting circuit (327). The matrix-converting circuit receives an RGB (red green blue) signal, and converts the RGB signal to a YCbCr signal. The inverse-matrix-converting circuit converts the YCbCr signal back to the RGB signal. The liquid crystal... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070236560 - Vertical surround parallax correction: Three general designs for reducing parallax in a moving picture are disclosed. One design comprises stretching graphics content near the left and right frame edges of stereo pair elements in order to modify parallax settings. A second design comprises identifying a plurality of substantially corresponding points in a left eye... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070236561 - Image processing device and method: An image processing device is provided that can precisely measure the photographing position or posture of a photographing device or the coordinates of an object based on sequentially changing photographed images. A series of sequentially photographed images are acquired, from which feature points are extracted. The feature points are tracked... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070236562 - Method for combining information of image device and vehicle or personal handheld device and image/text information integration device: A method for combining information of an image device and a vehicle or a personal handheld device is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, an image information caught by the image device is provided, in which the image device is disposed on a movable carrier. Then, a text... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070236563 - Vehicle periphery monitor: A front camera for filming an area stretching forwards is disposed in a front portion of a vehicle. A side camera for filming an area stretching laterally and diagonally forwards is disposed in a lateral-left portion of the vehicle. An indicator display that can be visually recognized by a driver... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070236564 - Color compensation system for images captured underwater: A color compensation system (12) for providing an adjusted image (700) of a captured image (474) of a scene (15) that is within a fluid (16) includes compensation software (698). The compensation software (698) can adjust the captured image (474) utilizing information regarding at least one of a plurality of... Agent: The Law Office Of Steven G Roeder

20070236565 - Optical guide and online control of a tool: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system arrangement and method for the optical control of the work result of a tool and/or guiding the tool with all-around view, wherein tool and workpiece are moved relative to each other, along a straight path or, particularly, on curved path. According... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070236567 - Camera and method with additional evaluation image capture based on scene brightness changes: In a method and digital camera, initial evaluation images of a scene are captured with the camera. A change in scene brightness between two or more of the evaluation images is computed. When the scene brightness change is outside a predetermined brightness range, a metric of scene-to-capture mismatch in the... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070236568 - Method and system for communicating incident scene information: A method and system for communicating incident scene information between wireless devices in an ad hoc network is useful for providing an updated source of incident scene information. The method comprises providing an Incident Scene Services Database (ISSD) in a first wireless device (step 305). An update of the ISSD... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070236569 - Car-use camera: A car-use camera comprises: a monitor shell having a monitor lens on the outside thereof and a charge-coupled device on the inside thereof; and a motherboard shell having a motherboard having peripheral circuits on the inside thereof, wherein a transmission line is located to electrically connect the motherboard and the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070236570 - Method and apparatus for providing motion control signals between a fixed camera and a ptz camera: The method and apparatus for providing motion control signals between a fixed lens static camera and a PTZ camera that includes an adjustable-in-use focal length adapted to provide improved surveillance. In one aspect of the present invention, the improved method and apparatus includes an improved PTZ process in which fuzzy... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070236571 - Digital tv receiving smart antenna control system and controlling method of the same: Disclosed is a digital TV smart antenna system and controlling method of the same, the system converges a smart antenna into an optimal reception by detecting a maximum signal power in a signal acquisition process for a fast acquisition performance and selectively assembling information such as signal power, multi-channel, SNR,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070236572 - in-car entertainment unit incorporating a printer: An in-car entertainment (ICE) unit includes a compact disc (CD) player configured to play a CD. A radio receiver is configured to receive a radio broadcast. A docking station is provided in which a digital camera can be docked so that information can be downloaded from the camera. A liquid... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070236576 - Camera interface module: A camera interface module is disclosed. The camera interface module has a first connector on one side configured to couple with a camera dock. The camera interface module has a second smaller connector on a second side configured to couple to a camera. The camera interface module has a standard... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070236573 - Combined design of optical and image processing elements: A method for designing a camera, which includes objective optics for forming an image on an electronic image sensor and a digital filter for filtering an output of the image sensor. The method includes estimating an enhancement of the image that can be accomplished using the digital filter. A target... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070236574 - Digital filtering with noise gain limit: A method for producing a camera, which includes objective optics for forming an image on an electronic image sensor and a digital filter for filtering an output of the image sensor. The method includes defining a maximum permissible value of a noise gain and determining one or more aberrations due... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070236575 - Mobile device, method and computer program product for displaying images on a display screen: A mobile device, method and computer program product are provided for displaying a predefined subset of images captured on a display screen of a mobile device, thus eliminating the need to access a gallery, or image storage, application installed on the mobile device and, in some instances, open the mobile... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070236578 - Electronic video image stabilization: This disclosure describes electronic video image stabilization techniques for imaging and video devices. The techniques involve determining motion and spatial statistics for individual macroblocks of a frame, and determining a global motion vector for the frame based on the statistics of each of the macroblocks. In one embodiment, a method... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070236579 - Hand jitter reduction for compensating for linear displacement: The registration of images comprising generating a plurality of projections from a base frame and generating a plurality of projections from a movement frame. Comparing a set of projections from the base frame, with a second set of projections from the movement frame, and generating a global motion vector estimate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070236577 - Systems and methods for providing image stabilization: A system and method provides image stabilization in an image capture device. In one embodiment, a system includes a stationary base included in an image capture device. The system may also include a movable base positioned on top of the stationary base. A point contactor including a set of ball... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236581 - Imaging device, method of recording location information, and computer program product: A shooting-location acquiring unit acquires a current location, and stores acquired current location as a shooting location. A distance acquiring unit acquires a distance between a subject and the current location, and stores acquired distance as an imaging subject distance. An orientation acquiring unit acquires an orientation of the subject,... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070236580 - Error analysis for image interpolation and demosaicing using lattice theory: A spatial transformation methodology provides a new image interpolation scheme, or analyzes an already existing one. Examples of spatial operations include but are not limited to, demosaicing, edge enhancement or sharpening, linear filtering, and non-linear filtering. A demosaicing operation is described herein, although the scheme is applied generally to spatial... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070236584 - Portable high capacity digital data storage device: A portable data storage device compatible with both standard and high definition digital video cameras is provided. The device includes at least one SDI I/O, and preferably at least one audio I/O and preferably at least one medium speed I/O interface. A device controller takes the high speed serial data,... Agent: Patent Law Office Of David G. Beck

20070236583 - Automated creation of filenames for digital image files using speech-to-text conversion: A system and method for automatically generating annotated filenames for digital image files allows users to create meaningful filenames for digital image files captured by a digital camera. After an image is captured by the digital camera, an audio annotation containing audio information is associated with the digital image file.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070236582 - Video camera with multiple independent outputs: A multiple output video camera employs a multi-tap memory access system, in which an image input DMA master writes frames of a source image at a maximum frame rate and maximum resolution, via an image bus and a memory controller, into an image memory. In the multi-tap multiple access memory... Agent: Bernhard P. Molldrem, Jr.

20070236586 - Performance-driven promotional super network with recording booth nexus: A promotional super network consisting of a plurality of nodes linked by a nexus comprising a plurality of separate remote recording booths producing performances distributed throughout the network.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070236585 - System to format a performance by selecting, recording, and storing for recall a specific scenic environmental backdrop therefore: A system for formatting a performance selects, records, and stores for recall a particular scenic background associated with the performance.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070236587 - System to produce in portrait and landscape modes media comprising a recorded performance integrated with a scenic environmental backdrop: A system produces in portrait and landscape modes media comprising a recorded performance integrated with a scenic environmental backdrop.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070236588 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus comprises an image-capturing element that outputs image signals representing a plurality of color components and an analyzing device that analyzes a captured photographic image based upon image signals with linearity, which are output from the image-capturing element.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236589 - Solid-state imaging device, imaging method and imaging system: A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, a light receiving portion, and a spacer. The solid-state imaging device photoelectrically converts light incident from an object to be imaged upon a light incidence surface in the light receiving portion provided in the semiconductor substrate, thereby acquiring an image of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070236591 - Method for mounting protective covers over image capture devices and devices manufactured thereby: A method for manufacturing camera modules including image capture devices with protective covers is disclosed. The method includes providing a unitary transparent substrate including a plurality of individual protective covers, providing a unitary component substrate including a plurality of individual component parts, bonding the unitary transparent substrate to the unitary... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20070236590 - Output auto-zero for cmos active pixel sensors: Method and apparatus for dynamically biasing pixels in an image sensor array to remove pixel offset variations.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070236592 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and method for driving solid-state imaging device: Vertical transfer portions for transferring signal charges from photoelectric conversion portions in a vertical direction and a horizontal transfer portion for transferring them in a horizontal direction are provided, and each of a plurality of vertical transfer stages constituting the vertical transfer portion is provided with a plurality of phases... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070236593 - Image capturing appatatus and method for use in a mobil terminal: Provided are an image capturing apparatus and method for use in a mobile terminal. The image capturing method includes when an image capturing menu is selected during a preview operation, pausing the preview operation; releasing an image sub-processing of the preview operation; and resuming the preview operation and capturing the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070236595 - Method for improving image stitching accuracy with lens distortion correction and device for implementing the same: The invention provides a method for improving image stitching accuracy and a device for implementing the same, which apply to the multi-camera system for wide-angle image generation. Lens distortion causes mismatches of the features in the overlapping region of the images captured by the multi-camera system. As a result, the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236594 - Techniques for radial fall-off correction: A system, apparatus, method and article to perform radial fall-off correction are described. The apparatus may include a coefficient determination module and a fall-off correction module. The coefficient determination module determines a fall-off correction coefficient for a pixel of an image sensor, and the fall-off correction module corrects the pixel... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070236596 - Solid-state image pickup device, a camera module and a method for manufacturing thereof: A solid-state image pickup device includes a solid-state image sensor chip having a solid-state image sensor having a photosensitive element formed on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate and chip electrodes led to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, a passive chip bonded on the back surface of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236597 - Autofocus apparatus: An autofocus apparatus with a photographic optical system having a movably disposed focus adjusting lens, an optical element to split light beams received from an object, a plurality of image forming lenses to form images from portions of the split light beams, a plurality of focusing estimating portions to create... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070236598 - Imaging device, camera and image processing method: An imaging device includes an image sensor that includes imaging pixels that are disposed in a two-dimensional array and focus detection pixels disposed in part of the array of the imaging pixels, a coefficient setting circuit that sets a conversion coefficient to be used to convert an output from each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236599 - Accelerated media coding for robust low-delay video streaming over time-varying and bandwidth limited channels: A system includes effective transmission of compressed audio/video stream as a sequence of audio/video (AV) data units. The system includes a transcoder that transcodes the data at different data unit rates. The system also includes a transmitter that transmits the data units at different average data unit rates. A controller... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20070236600 - Systems and methods for improving radio frequency signal reception: A demodulator cancels out the echo signal properties in the received signal to generate a primary signal, and cancels out the primary signal properties in the received signal to generate a separate echo signal. In addition, the demodulator may combine the primary signal and the echo signal in a comparison/combination... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070236602 - Advanced pulldown format for encoding video: A pulldown format for PAL that is useful for material that will be provided to an editing system mixes fields from different input frames in only one output frame per second. This one output frame includes the odd or even field from the previous frame and the odd or even... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070236603 - Image processing system and method, and image display system: There is provided an image processing method capable of improving the picture quality. The image processing method comprises: incorporating input frame pictures to be displayed on a display device, on the basis of an input picture signal and an input synchronizing signal which is synchronized with the input picture signal;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236601 - Iterative method of interpolating image information values: e

20070236604 - Motion detection in an interlaced field sequence: It is proposed a method for motion detection in an interlaced field sequence (4), comprising selecting at least two initial fields (1, 2) from the interlaced field sequence (4), said initial fields (1, 2) having different scan lines (5, 6, 7, 8), interpolating each of said two initial fields (1,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236605 - Content reproducing system and content reproducing method: A content reproducing system having a first device and a second device connected to each other through a transmission path for transmitting content data is provided. The first device includes an outputting unit and an output controlling unit configured to output the content data output from the outputting unit a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070236606 - Methods and arrangements for accessing information via a graphical user interface: This application discloses, in one general aspect, a terminal, such as a mobile terminal, that accesses information elements, in which sub-areas are defined within a two-dimensional area of a display. Each of these sub-areas is associated with one of the information elements, and they can be organized according to a... Agent: Kristofer E. Elbing

20070236607 - Method and apparatus for controlling a display function: A method (300) for controlling a display function of an apparatus such as a television signal receiver is capable of remedying a display locked in an extinguished state to thereby ensure that a usable display is provided. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method (300) includes steps of detecting a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070236608 - Two dimensional rotation of sub-sampled color space images: In a method and system for controlling rotation of a color image stored as sub-sampled image data in a memory, a controller includes a finite state machine (FSM) operable to fetch the sub-sampled image data and provide the sub-sampled data as a plurality of pixels to form the color image... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070236609 - Reconfigurable self-calibrating adaptive noise reducer: A video noise reducer reduces the noise artifacts in a video signal. The video noise reducer is reconfigurable to provide spatial noise reduction and temporal noise reduction in either a parallel or cascade architecture. The video noise reducer is self-calibrating by providing estimation modules that estimate the amount of noise... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070236610 - Recursive 3d super precision method for smoothly changing area: An image processing system implements recursive 3D super precision for processing smoothly changing video image areas by performing temporal noise reduction and then 2D super precision. The temporal noise reduction is applied to two frames, one being the current input low precision frame, and the other being the previous higher... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070236611 - Method of quickly selecting a television channel and related video device: A method of selecting a television channel on a video device having a television tuner includes displaying a currently selected channel on the video device, controlling the video device to simultaneously display the currently selected channel and a plurality of other channels that are not currently selected, each of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070236612 - Television broadcast signal receiving apparatus: Disclosed is a television broadcast signal receiving apparatus including: a selection section to select any one of the first antenna and the second antenna according to a frequency; a detection section to detect a reception level; a channel setting section to set a channel as a receivable channel when the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070236615 - Television system, television set and remote controller: In response to an operation such as power-on or power-off, channel change and sound volume change, a television set combined with a personal computer automatically makes e-mail with information in a predetermined format indicative of the operation attached. The e-mail is automatically sent to another television set to inform the... Agent: Masahide Tanaka

20070236614 - Multiple-tv display channel setting method and module: A multiple-TV display channel setting method for synchronously a setting mapping relation between display channels and transmission channels to a first TV and a second TV is disclosed. The method includes setting the mapping relation between the display channels and the transmission channels to the first TV, allowing the first... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070236613 - Tv remote with image capability: A hand-held remote control device has a viewing screen that displays information, possibly including real time information available through reception in the television or reception available to the television. The remote control displays the information, which may be different than the information actually displayed on the television, including available menus... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates Suite 205

20070236616 - System and method for projection systems using sequential color techniques: A projection system using a sequential color filter is provided. The sequential color filter utilizes various colors, such as red, blue, and green, divided into segments to produce images. Each color may be divided into two or more segments and arranged such that high sequential color rates may be obtained... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070229654 - Image display apparatus that allows viewing of three-dimensional image from directions: An image display apparatus includes an image display device having pixels to display right- and left-eye images for a three-dimensional image, a first and second optical shutter devices located on rear and front sides of the image display device. The pixels include pixel pairs that have pixels arranged across first... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229655 - Assembly and method for securing an endoscope to a digital camera: An assembly for securing the eyepiece of an endoscope to a digital camera includes a bar that supports the camera and a block that supports the eyepiece. The camera can be secured to the bar using the camera's tripod mounting hole. The block can normally move in three orthogonal linear... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070229650 - Mobile communications terminal and method therefor: A mobile communications terminal (201) for optical projecting of a media content (202) comprises means (203), which are arranged for receiving (401) an incoming communication having the media content (202), a light emitting projector (204), which is arranged to present (402) an image (205) of the media content (202) onto... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070229651 - Communication system, information processing device, information processing method, and program: Herein disclosed a communication system including a first information processing device and a second information processing device connected to each other via a network, wherein the first information processing device includes a display controlling unit and a setting unit. The second information processing device includes a display controlling unit and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229652 - Methods of establishing a communications link using perceptual sensing of a user's presence: A method of establishing a communications link uses automatic sensing of a computer user's presence and activity state to record user attributes in a form accessible to other computers in a communications network. Such automatic sensing may include keyboard/mouse monitors, cameras with associated image processing algorithms, speech detectors, RF radiation... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070229653 - Method and system for acquiring and displaying 3d light fields: A method and system acquire and display light fields. A continuous light field is reconstructed from input samples of an input light field of a 3D scene acquired by cameras according to an acquisition parameterization. The continuous light is reparameterized according to a display parameterization and then prefiltering and sampled... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070229656 - Battery contacts for an in-vivo imaging device: The invention provides an in vivo imaging device, the device comprising a first support having thereon a first battery contact, a second support having thereon a second battery contact, a battery disposed between the first support and the second support such that the battery is in contact with the first... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070229657 - Heat treatment apparatus of light emission type: A reflector is so provided as to entirely cover a plurality of flash lamps arranged in parallel with one another. The reflector reflects flash light emitted from the flash lamps. A plurality of trigger electrodes needed to allow the flash lamps to discharge are so fixed to the reflector with... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070229658 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image processing program, and image file format: In a learning process, first, images having different resolutions are obtained from a target region of the subject (S101). Further, the subject characteristic of the target region is obtained (S102). Then, the resolution conversion rules are learned from the images having different resolutions, and those are recorded to a storage... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070229659 - Image recording apparatus, image recording method and image recording program: There is provided an image recording apparatus including an image-capturing section that captures an image of the observed person, an observation result input section that inputs a result of the observation done by the observer, an input detecting section that detects the input of the observation result by the observation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229660 - Image recording apparatus, image recording method and image recording program: There is provided an image recording apparatus including an image-capturing section that captures an image of the observed person, an observer's point of sight measuring section that measures a point of sight of the observer when the image-capturing section captures the image of the observed person, an image storing section... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229661 - Object detecting system and method: An object detecting system for detecting information about objects on vehicle seats utilizes a camera having a single view point, which is effective for conducting a rationalized setting for the viewing field of the camera. According to the setting for the viewing field of the camera in an object detecting... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070229662 - Object detecting system and method: An object detecting system for detecting information about objects on vehicle seats utilizes a camera having a single view point, which is effective for conducting a rationalized setting for the viewing field of the camera. According to the setting for the viewing field of a camera in an object detecting... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070229663 - Image processing apparatus, monitoring camera, and image monitoring system: An image processing apparatus, a monitoring camera, and an image monitoring system are provide which are capable of eliminating false reports made in a motion analysis process to provide more advanced behavior analysis. The image processing apparatus includes: a motion analysis unit which receives a moving image on a monitoring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229664 - Image signal processing apparatus, image system and method of processing image signal: Providing an image signal processing apparatus, in which burn-in of a display can be ignorable and power consumption can be reduced, when a blank datum for a blank area in an image signal is detected by a blank area detecting unit, an image signal processing unit processes the image signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229666 - Method for device spectral sensitivity reconstruction: A method and system are provided for approximating spectral sensitivities of a particular image sensor, the image sensor having a color filter array positioned over the image sensor. In one example of the method, the method involves measuring spectral sensitivities of a set of image sensors each having a color... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070229665 - Robust field of view distortion calibration: A method characterizes field of view (FOV) distortion and may correct machine vision measurements accordingly. A plurality of distorted images are acquired, with the same calibration target at a plurality of spaced-apart locations within the FOV. The method analyzes the images and determines distortion parameters that can correct the distortions... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070229667 - Methods and systems for example-based tv color calibration: An example-based method and system for electronic display color calibration is provided. By comparing the colors of commonly available objects with a color database under a controlled lighting condition, the user adjusts the gain and offset parameters of the Red, Green and Blue color components of the display. Two different... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070229668 - Display for color image projection arrangement and method: A lightweight, compact image projection module, especially for mounting in a housing having a light-transmissive window, is operative for causing selected pixels in a raster pattern of scan lines to be illuminated to produce an image of high resolution in color. The direction of scanning of the scan lines is... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070229669 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal includes: a photographic unit for photographing an object; an acceleration sensor for measuring acceleration: and a control unit for disenabling photographing by the photographic unit when the acceleration sensor produces a predetermined output after the photographic unit is set to a photographic mode.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070229670 - Information apparatus system, electronic camera for use therein, and method for controlling information processing apparatus from the electronic camera: An information apparatus system includes an access point which sets a wireless network, a first information processing apparatus having an image output section, and a second information processing apparatus having an image pickup section is disclosed. In the information apparatus system, the first information processing apparatus output information necessary to... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070229671 - Remote control system including remote controller with image pickup function: A remote control system is made up by a remote controller for remotely operating equipment such as an air conditioner and a television, and a cradle connected to a commercial power supply and having a charging function for the remote controller. The remote controller is equipped with a camera and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070229672 - Lens apparatus, image-pickup apparatus, and image-pickup system: Lens apparatuses are disclosed capable of smooth image-pickup operation by facilitating operations of functions provided separately between the lens apparatus and the image-pickup apparatus. The lens apparatus, which is detachably mounted on an image-pickup apparatus, comprises a controller which outputs a signal for controlling a function provided in the image-pickup... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070229673 - Image capturing apparatus: During capture of a motion picture, a still image of high resolution and frame images of a moving mage are formed from one image signal. Each of the frame images is synthesized with a tag image for identifying the frame image. A motion picture is formed from the frame image... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070229674 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus of the present invention includes a recording unit for recording in a recording medium, motion image data in accordance with a predetermined movie recording method and recording still image data in accordance with a still image recording method different from the movie recording method, a conversion motion... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070229675 - Imaging apparatus, high frequency component detection circuit, high frequency component detection method and computer program product: A high frequency component detection circuit detecting a high frequency component included in a video signal is provided. The high frequency component detection circuit includes a filter acquiring a group of a predetermined number of pixels including a focused pixel and pixels surrounding the focused pixel with respect to each... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070229676 - Physical quantity interpolating method, and color signal processing circuit and camera system using the same: A physical quantity interpolating method includes interpolating a third vector sandwiched between first and second vectors on the basis of a ratio of vector products computed using coordinate data of the first and second vectors and coordinate data of the third vector, the first and second vectors representing physical quantities.... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070229677 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor integrated circuit device such as a for-camera preprocessing LSI suitable for a semiconductor integrated circuit and having improved responsiveness. In a D/A converter circuit for generating a feedback signal for compensating for black level variation in a for-camera preprocessing LSI, first-conductivity-type MOSFETs as first current... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070229678 - Camera for generating and sharing media keys: A digital camera configured to generate a media key for media data. A camera is configured to determine a data identifier for one or more images captured by the camera. The camera may also optionally determine a decryption key for the one or more images. The camera is configured to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070229679 - Image pickup device, projector including the image pickup device, and image pickup method: An image pickup device includes: a pickup unit for capturing an image; a background image processor for determining a pickup object area to be captured to be an illumination image, and displaying the pickup object area as a background image; a display for displaying the background image; and a main... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070229680 - Resolution proportional digital zoom: A resolution proportional digital zoom system comprises a CCD imaging device with over a million pixels resolution. A standard fixed-1X optical lens is fitted to the imager. A communication channel with a limited bandwidth is used to transmit video. Such bandwidth is substantially less than the imager's full resolution times... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel A Professional Corporation

20070229681 - Responsivity correction for electro-optical imagers: An imaging system and method with an arrangement for sensing the performance of an optical system and providing data in response thereto and electronically correcting nonuniformity in the performance of the optical system in response thereto. In the illustrative application, the nonuniformity is a porthole effect. In the preferred embodiment,... Agent: Raytheon Company Intellectual Property & Licensing

20070229682 - Imaging apparatus, video signal processing circuit, video signal processing method and computer program product: A video signal processing circuit converting a color image represented using a plurality of primary color signals into a monocolor image is provided. The video signal processing circuit includes: a chroma adjustment unit adjusting the chroma of the plurality of input primary color signals; a gain correction unit provided for... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070229683 - Color wheels, assemblies and methods of producing them: A color wheel comprises a plurality of light filters mounted on a hub or other mounting surface for rotation. The outer circumferential edge of the filters extend radially beyond the outer circumferential edge of the mounting surface. The mounting surface is beveled at its outer circumferential edge. The filters are... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070229684 - Color interpolation method for bayer filter array images: The present invention relates to a color interpolation method for Bayer filter array images. The method first inputs a 3×3 Bayer pattern block with a center pixel. Next, a color filter interpolation case is determined according to the type of the center pixel. Next, Bayer pixel averages and Bayer pixel... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070229685 - Driving apparatus for solid-state image pickup element and driving method therefor: According to one embodiment, a driving apparatus for a solid-state image pickup element includes a generating unit configured to generate a drive voltage having an amplitude to obtain a predetermined multiplication gain to an electron-multiplying solid-state image pickup element, a calculating unit configured to calculate a change amount obtained when... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070229686 - Image sensor: An image sensor has a plurality of pixels arrayed to form a plurality of columns. The sensor includes a plurality of readout circuits which generate pixel signals based on signals supplied from the pixels of respective columns, a plurality of output channels, a plurality of column selecting switches, and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229687 - Image sensor: An image sensor includes a plurality of operation circuits. The operation circuit operates pixel signals read out from a group of pixels included in a readout area to generate a pixel signal in the thinning readout mode. A plurality of column selecting switches are arranged between the output terminals of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229688 - Control method for a photosensitive device: The present invention relates to a method of driving a photosensitive device comprising a matrix of photosensitive pixels distributed at the intersections of rows and columns of the matrix. The invention relates more particularly to the control of such devices used for the detection of radiological images. The method consists... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

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