Television inventions 01/08

20080024591 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, and computer readable medium storing wireless information setting program: A wireless communication system comprises a base station, and a wireless communication apparatus performing wireless communications with the base station, wherein the wireless communication apparatus comprises a communication unit that performs wireless communications with the base station and wireless communications between apparatuses without involving the base station; a storage unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080024592 - Method and apparatus for taking images during a video call on a mobile communication terminal: A method and apparatus for taking images while making a video call on a mobile communication terminal having a video call feature are provided. A method for taking images on a mobile communication terminal including a camera sensor for photographing an image to output an image signal and a signal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080024593 - Multimedia communication system: A multimedia communication system for enabling a variety of high quality video applications over an internet protocol (IP) network is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a videoconference can be established between participants equipped with a television centric multimedia communication system, without any PC computers or expensive videophone services. The... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080024596 - Stereo image and video capturing device with dual digital sensors and methods of using the same: An apparatus comprising a first image sensor, a second image sensor spaced apart from the first image sensor, a diversity combine module to combine image data from the first and second image sensors, and an image processing module configured to process combined image data from the diversity combine module.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080024597 - Face-mounted display apparatus for mixed reality environment: A display apparatus for a mixed reality environment includes an image processor for mixing an actual image of an object around a user and a artificial stereo images to produce multiple external image signals, a user information extractor for extracting the user's sight line information including the user's position his/her... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080024600 - Microscope picture processing: A microscope image processing method includes applying a computing operation to at least one part of a microscope image, having the following steps: (a) providing the image in the mass storage device, (b) breaking down the microscope image into at least two image segments that can be loaded into the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080024594 - Panoramic image-based virtual reality/telepresence audio-visual system and method: A panoramic system generally employs a panoramic input component, a processing component, and a panoramic display component. The panoramic input component a panoramic sensor assembly and/or image selectors that can be used on an individual or network basis. The processing component provides various applications such as video capture/control, image stabilization,... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20080024595 - 3d image capture camera and non-stereoscopic 3d viewing device that does not require glasses: The invention relates to a system that is used to capture and reproduce 3D images such that they can be viewed without glasses. The inventive system rerolves the issue of acquisition and reproduction from multiple view points, using the characteristics of simple non-multifaceted lenses. Different images are integrated by means... Agent: Thomas L. Kautz Gray Robinson

20080024598 - Autostereoscopic display: An apparatus for displaying an image to an observer. The apparatus comprises a display screen upon which stripes of the image appear in at least three distinct phases. The apparatus comprises a light blocking shutter disposed in front of the display screen forming a stripe pattern which lets through only... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20080024599 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus that can shorten time for observing a series of images of an interior of a subject without hampering observation of a desired region of interest is provided. The image display apparatus according to the present invention is an image display apparatus for displaying the series of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080024601 - Electron microscope: There is provided an electron microscope which is capable of making a significant contribution to accomplishment of efficiency in investigating causes for pattern abnormalities found out. The electron microscope including an I/O for capturing image data on a microscopic image acquired by another electron microscope, a computation processing unit for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080024602 - Method and apparatus for automatic application and monitoring of a structure to be applied onto a substrate: A method and apparatus are provided for automatic application and monitoring of a structure to be applied onto substrate. A plurality of cameras positioned around an application facility are utilized to monitor the automatic application of a structure on a substrate by means of a stereometry procedure. Three-dimensional recognition of... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group

20080024604 - Closed-circuit telecamera housing: The finding relates to a closed-circuit telecamera housing (CCTV), of the so-called “discreet” type, or that is, which adopts the configuration of an object already present in the environment to be video monitored, which incorporates the telecamera and the accessories for the operation of the same. Said housing is, in... Agent: Bucknam And Archer

20080024605 - Concealed pinhole camera for video surveillance: A concealed pinhole camera assembly for video surveillance is described where the image sensor is mounted opposite a pinhole opening in the face plate for a wall plug or switch, mounted in turn on an electrical junction box. The pinhole opening is located in the position normally occupied by a... Agent: Robert Osann, Jr.

20080024603 - Surveillance device: There is provided a surveillance device capable of transmitting an operation history of an appliance and image data while suppressing an increase in data transmission cost. A surveillance camera includes a control unit controlling an operation of the surveillance camera, a light receiving unit receiving an infrared signal transmitted from... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080024607 - Image display apparatus and method: An image display apparatus includes a camera, a laser radar, a depression angle correction calculation device, a three-dimensional object detection device, and a viewpoint conversion device, which are installed in a vehicle. The laser radar detects changes in the condition of a road surface with respect to the camera The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080024606 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing unit for use in a vehicle has a camera for capturing an image of a field around the vehicle, and the image captured by the camera is used to estimates an external environment of the vehicle. The external environment of the vehicle such as a luminance of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080024608 - Method and device for visualizing the surroundings of a vehicle by fusing an infrared image and a visual image: A method for visualizing surroundings of a vehicle, especially in the dark is provided. A visual image, containing the digital data of the surroundings shows the visually perceptible objects. An infrared image, containing the digital data of the surroundings, shows the infrared radiation, emitted by the visually perceptible and/or other... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080024609 - Monitoring apparatus, filter calibration method, and filter calibration program: A monitoring apparatus includes a filter setting unit configured to store filter setting information for analyzing the video data, a filtering unit configured to determine whether the video data satisfies a filter condition of a filter stored in the filter setting unit and, when the video data satisfies the filter... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080024610 - Monitoring apparatus, monitoring system, monitoring method and program: A monitoring apparatus using video data imaged and outputted from a monitoring imaging device for monitoring, the apparatus includes: a filter setting part configured to store filter information for analyzing the video data; a vanishing point setting part configured to store a place in which an object included in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080024611 - Monitoring apparatus, monitoring method, and program: A monitoring apparatus which uses video data imaged and outputted from a monitoring imaging device for monitoring is disclosed. The monitoring apparatus includes: a detected object determination processing part configured to determine a position of a detected object from the video data; a reference position setting processing part configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080024613 - Digital camera and function appending method for the same: There is provided a digital camera to which external programs can be installed for appending desired functions thereto. Print image data generating programs to be stored in a recording medium in the digital camera are transmitted from a personal computer, an external extended recording medium of the digital camera, or... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080024612 - Display apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing system: In a display apparatus connected to an image processing apparatus which detects the change amount in an input image and stores, as a detected image, an image during a period with a change amount equal to or more than a predetermined amount, the change log of the change amount and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080024614 - Mobile device with dual digital camera sensors and methods of using the same: A mobile device comprising a first image sensor, a second image sensor configured to change position with respect to the first image sensor, a controller configured to control the position of the second image sensor, and an image processing module configured to process and combine images captured by the first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080024615 - Camera control: Tools for controlling cameras (and other objects), using an input device. Some such tools may establish a threshold, above which the input from the input device is fed directly to the object being controlled, and below which the input signal is processed to provide smoother operation. This can allow for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080024616 - Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor: An image sensing apparatus that carries out image sensing continuously and inputs a plurality of images, having a digital signal processing circuit that detects, at each input image, from image data thereof, an object that satisfies a preset condition, a first exposure value determination unit that calculates a first exposure... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080024618 - Adaptive binning method and apparatus: An image processing method and device are described. The method includes the steps of capturing the contents a scene in a first pass, determining a binning pattern for pixels representing the scene based on measured brightness values of the pixels and capturing contents of the image in a second pass... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024619 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program: An image processing apparatus includes: an object state detector detecting a state of an object in input images inputted in time series; an image-capturing controller controlling image-capturing of the input images in accordance with the detected state of an object; and an image combiner combining pixel values at corresponding pixel... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080024620 - Image-taking apparatus and output image generation method: An image-taking apparatus generates an output image from a photographed image obtained by photographing and displays this output image on a display screen of a display section. The image-taking apparatus includes a recognition processing section for recognizing a specific subject (facial region of a person, or a facial component such... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080024617 - Sketch effect for digital photographs: Systems and methods are disclosed for applying sketch effects to digital images. An exemplary method may comprise comparing an original image to a filtered image. The method may also comprise rendering changes in the filtered image as lines. The method may also comprise applying connected component labeling to lines in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024621 - System for and method of taking image and computer program: In an image taking system such as digital camera, especially when a predetermined objective body such as a face is included, an objective body detecting portion detects a predetermined objective body from an image taken by the image taking system. A storage portion stores a detection history including a past... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080024622 - Method for white balance adjustment and digital image capturing device using the same: The present invention provides a white balance adjustment method and a digital image capturing device using the same. The method according to the present invention comprises the following steps: capturing an image; partitioning the image into one or more blocks; obtaining a first brightness value of each block; obtaining a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080024624 - Photographing apparatus and exposure control method: The present invention provides a photographing apparatus comprising: a photographing device which photographs an image of a photographic subject; a display device which displays a photographic image photographed by the photographing device; a face detection device which detects a face of a person of the photographic subject from the photographic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080024623 - Image processing method: Disclosed herein is an image processing method. In an embodiment of the present invention, when areas having a luminance difference set by a user, for example, 45 dB or more, are preset in an image captured by a camera, an area, the luminance level of which exceeds a predetermined threshold... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080024625 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus is provided having an image capturing device, an image compressing device, a recording device, a definition calculating device, and a residual recordable number calculating device. The image capturing device outputs a captured image. The image compressing device compresses the captured image using flexible compression. The recording... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080024626 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus is provided having an image capturing device, an image compressing device, a recording device, a definition calculating device, and a residual recordable number calculating device. The image capturing device outputs a captured image. The image compressing device compresses the captured image using flexible compression. The recording... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080024627 - Image display apparatus, image taking apparatus, image display method, and program: The present invention provides an image display apparatus including a storage section which stores image data and a display section which is capable of displaying at least image data in the storage section, the image display apparatus comprising: a face information detection section which detects face information including a face... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024628 - Image composing apparatus and method of portable terminal: An image composing apparatus and method of a portable terminal are provided. The image composing method includes photographing an object when a key for photographing using a background image is input; extracting contours of the background image and the photographed image; and combining the background image and the photographed image... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080024629 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: An image processing apparatus which corrects input image data based on the image data and foreign substance information including information associated with a position and a size of a foreign substance adhering near an image sensor in an image capturing apparatus which has captured the image data includes a correction... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080024630 - Photoelectric conversion device and image capturing device: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel output line, a pixel which outputs a signal to the pixel output line, an amplifier unit which amplifies the signal output to the pixel output line, and a holding capacitor which holds the signal output from the amplifier unit. The photoelectric conversion device... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080024631 - Pixel information readout method and image pickup apparatus: When successively reading out pixel information from an image region, where image pickup devices are arranged two-dimensionally, which is divided into a plurality of sub-regions, a readout unit inserts pixel information on pixels of interest in the respective sub-regions successively at predetermined intervals and reads them out. A control unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080024632 - Photographing apparatus and photographing method: An image is generated which is able to upload to a weblog site as it is from a photographing apparatus. A conversion section converts an original image obtained by a shutter operation of a CCD to have a size for a blog image. A file control section generates a blog... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080024633 - Elimination of modulated light effects in rolling shutter cmos sensor images: Disclosed are digital imaging devices that embody a method for eliminating modulated light effects in rolling shutter CMOS sensor images. The digital imaging device comprises an image sensor utilizing an electronic rolling shutter, a processor and firmware for implementing the methods. Embodiments of the method comprise detecting the presence of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024634 - Drive circuit of solid-state image pickup device, method of driving solid-state image pickup device and image pickup system of solid-state image pickup device: There is provided a drive circuit of a solid-state image pickup device capable of generating pulse for vertical scanning the interval of which changes non-linearly and pulse other than the pulse for vertical scanning without increasing a circuit size and communication time for setting an electronic shutter. There is provided... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080024637 - Automatic adjuster for image capture circuit: A reference charge generator provided on an image capture element generates reference charge. The reference charge is transferred through a vertical transfer section as is signal charge of a pixel which is generated by a photoelectric converter. A reference signal corresponding to the reference charge is output from the image... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080024635 - Cmos image sensors adapted for dental applications: An image sensor having a two-dimensional array of CMOS pixel sensors, a row decoder and a column decoder is disclosed. The two-dimensional array of CMOS pixel sensors is organized as a plurality of rows and columns that are addressed with the aid of row and column decoders. At least one... Agent: The Law Offices Of Calvin B. Ward

20080024636 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes a storage portion of carriers, a multiplier section having a multiplier electrode multiplying carriers, a holding portion of the carriers and a readout electrode of carriers, wherein the multiplier electrode is set to an OFF-state potential and carriers are transferred to the holding portion after the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080024638 - Driving method for solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device: According to the invention, a driving method for a solid-state imaging device includes: a first holding step of holding electric charges which cause smear and are obtained from incident light in a first holding unit, in a previous field period which appears temporally earlier than a predetermined field; a second... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080024640 - Method for driving solid-state image sensor: In cases where AGP driving is applied to a CCD solid-state image sensor having a horizontal overflow drain structure, a problem arises in that the charges overflow into the regions in which the information charges are accumulated from the overflow drain regions (14), and noise is superimposed on the information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080024639 - Visual device, interlocking counter, and image sensor: An interlocked counter including a synchronous counter, a logic gate for judging end-value, a logic gate for amplifying an interlocking signal, at least one latch circuit for the interlocking signal, a logic gate for the interlocking signal, and a logic gate for an enable signal, wherein behavior of the synchronous... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080024643 - Image-taking apparatus and image display control method: According to the present invention, by providing operation members dedicated for an operation of switching on/of the face detection processing, a face image switching operation, and proceeding to the next image taking, operations related to the face detection processing can be simplified. Furthermore, by displaying a taken image and an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024641 - Index editing device for digital camera: A digital image taking device such as digital camera includes lens unit on one side of the case and a screen and a control panel located on the other side of the case. The control panel includes operation buttons installed thereon so as to operate the digital camera. A character... Agent: Wei Hsu

20080024642 - Camera unit configured to distort captured images: A camera unit includes a display configured to display an image to be captured. An image sensor is configured to digitally capture the displayed image. A card reader is configured to read a removable card carrying distortion information. A printer is configured to print a distorted image on print media,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080024644 - System for and method of taking image: In an image taking system such as digital camera, especially when a predetermined objective body such as a face is included, the predetermined objective body is detected from a pre-taken-image or a running image in order to obtain an image reflecting a photographer's intention. Out of image obtaining functions comprising... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024645 - Data reproducing apparatus, data reproducing method, and storage medium: A data reproducing apparatus enables selection between a first display mode and a second display mode. If the first display mode is selected, images indicating a first type of data and an icon indicating at least one of a second type of data are displayed. And, if the second display... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080024646 - Focus verification in a digital imaging device: Disclosed are digital imaging devices that embody a method or algorithm for transitioning from a displayable focus process to a high speed focus process which can be displayed, and wherein the transition is accomplished in a seamless fashion. In addition, the digital imaging devices may embody a method for quickly... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024648 - Image-pickup apparatus and focus control method: An image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector configured to generate first information corresponding to a contrast state of a picked-up image, a second detector configured to detect second information that is used for focus control and different from the first information, a controller configured to provide the focus control, and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080024647 - Image-pickup apparatus, method of determining attachment of accessory device and method of distinguishing attached accessory device: An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed onto which an accessory device is detachably attached and which is capable of recognizing that an output from a light-receiving sensor is influenced by an attachment of the accessory device. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which is capable of outputting a signal corresponding... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080024649 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to photoelectrically convert light of an object image formed by an imaging optical system to generate a signal, a first detection unit configured to detect a focusing state of the imaging optical system based on the signal generated by the imaging unit,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080024650 - Digital camera having sequential shooting mode: A digital camera comprises a CCD for subjecting subject light flux incident from a photographing lens to photoelectric conversion and outputting subject image signals, a movable mirror section, arranged in the imaging light path of the CCD, for reflecting some of the subject light flux and transmitting the remainder, a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080024651 - Image-pickup apparatus and focus control method for the same: An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which can prevent focus control from being performed on the basis of incorrect information on an object distance externally measured. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which produces first information corresponding to a contrast state of a picked-up image, a second detector which receives... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080024652 - Electro-optical device, image processing circuit, and electronic device: An electro-optical device in which an image to be projected on a projection surface as a projection image having a size changed by a display device is displayed on a display area on the basis of input image data includes a first input image correction circuit generating first correction data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080024654 - Image input device: In an image input device including a multistage aperture (13) which reduces a quantity of light by changing an aperture, and an ND filter (15) which reduces a quantity of light by changing transmittance of passing light, if ghosts tend to occur due to the second light reducing means, the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080024653 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of preventing light diffraction from being caused by a density step or a thickness step of a filter, thereby preventing degradation of resolution during still image shooting, and securing the dynamic range of exposure control during both moving image shooting and still image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080024655 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to image an object to generate image data, a flash control unit configured to control a main flash, to be performed by a flash unit configured to emit flash to an object, according to preliminary image data generated by the image sensor... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080024656 - Power supply system of a light source and a light source actuating method: A power supply system of a light source includes a luminance control unit, luminance adjusting unit, control circuit and voltage transformer. The luminance control unit is for receiving a turn-on signal and outputting a first luminance signal during a predetermined time period. The luminance adjusting unit is for outputting a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080024657 - Pulldown-sequence detecting device, method of detecting pulldown sequence, and computer program product: A pulldown-sequence detecting device includes a determining unit that performs motion determination on every pixel by comparing a field of an interlace image input into the device with a field of the preceding frame stored in a field memory, a calculating unit that calculates a difference between the features of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080024658 - Edge direction based image interpolation method: A method for interpolating pixel data of an omitted line by use of pixel data from an interlaced scan, for de-interlacing an interlaced video image. Image edge direction is detected at the center position of every two neighboring scan lines in an interlaced scan. All the directions detected in a... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080024659 - Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method: Upon receiving video signal data in a plurality of formats, a video signal processing apparatus may convert the video signal data into transmission video signal data synchronized with clocks having a fixed frequency common to the plurality of formats, in which the number of clocks corresponding to one frame determined... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080024660 - Sign detection device and associated method: A sign detection device including a first comparing device for comparing a first input signal with a first threshold signal in a first period and a second period to generate a first output signal; a second comparing device for comparing a second input signal with a second threshold signal to... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080024661 - Method and apparatus with multimedia interface for generating audio clock: A method for generating an audio clock includes: receiving a reference clock; receiving a received signal from a multimedia interface of a receiver, wherein the received signal comprises a video signal and an audio signal; utilizing one of the reference clock and a video clock of the video signal to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080024663 - Content receiver terminal device with zapping response improved in viewing multi-channel video content: A content receiver terminal device for receiving video content which belongs to one of plural channels and is distributed at two different bit rates includes a selector for selecting one of the channels, and a memory for receiving video content belonging to the channel selected and stores the video content... Agent: Venable LLP

20080024662 - Display with built-in video processor: A display with built-in video processor includes a display being internally provided with a female connector for transferring received signals to the built-in video processor, which demodulates the received digital audio/video signals and displays the signals on a panel of the display; and an external signal receiver for receiving and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080024665 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: In order to make it possible to precisely remove an adverse effect ascribable to degradation of compressed stream data in processing after the stream data has been decoded, a decoding portion obtains audio data by decoding an audio stream that is the compressed data, an error check portion makes an... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080024664 - Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method: According to one embodiment, a video signal processing apparatus has a display device displaying video, and causes the display device to display video by processing an input video signal inputted from an external apparatus. The video signal processing apparatus also has an apparatus-related information acquiring unit acquiring apparatus-related information concerning... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080024666 - Picture display device, picture display method, picture display program, and storage medium: A picture display apparatus, comprising: a synthesizing section for synthesizing divided screens to display a plurality of pictures on a single screen; a menu display section for displaying a menu in which a list of options is displayed, the options enabling a user to select a change to be made... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080024667 - Visual device, interlocking counter, and image sensor: An image sensor including plurality of sensor modules, each of at least one of which includes: plurality of pixel cells arranged in a shape of a two-dimensional lattice; a vertical shift register; a horizontal shift register; plurality of row selection gates; plurality of noise cancellers; and an output amplifier, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080024668 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for eliminating noise: A film determining unit determines whether input image data are originated from a film source. A controller determines a strength at which noise is to be eliminated from the image data based on the result of determination made by the film determining unit. A noise eliminating unit eliminates noise from... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080024669 - Imaging system: A signal processing circuit generates an image signal by performing signal processing to an imaging signal obtained through a picked up optical system that includes a lens, a diaphragm, an image sensor, and a lens barrel. A main light source detector detects a main light source contained in a picked... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080024670 - Self-adaptive image processing device and method: A dynamic motion degree of a video composite signal is estimated. A chrominance signal after Y/C separation and chrominance demodulation is narrow-band low pass filtered (NBLPF) and wide-band low pass filtered (WBLPF), so as to generate a narrow-band filtered signal and a wide-band filtered signal. The narrow-band filtered signal and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080024671 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device and an image display method, in which the display position of an image frame on a display screen changes in order to enhance the image quality, are provided. The image display device according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a decoder that decodes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024672 - Display apparatus: An apparatus including a base is disclosed. The base has a size and shape to accommodate at least a portion of a notebook computer. Also, an apparatus including a frame is disclosed. The frame having a size and, or shape to accommodate and frame at least a portion of a... Agent: Michelle Saquet Temple

20080024673 - Dynamic gain adjustment method based on brightness and apparatus thereof: A dynamic gain adjustment method and apparatus based on brightness are provided. The dynamic gain adjustment method and apparatus amplify or attenuate high frequency components of an input video signal by dynamically varying a gain that is applied to a peaking algorithm block for picture quality improvement in a video... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024674 - Brightness control system and method: An example brightness control system includes a light sensor positioned in the overscan portion of a television display. A control circuit compares a brightness level sensed by the light sensor to a reference brightness level and adjusts the brightness of a lamp in response thereto.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080024675 - Image correction circuit, image correction method and image display: An image correction circuit capable of performing more effective image correction on an input image is provided. An image correction circuit may include a correction means for performing image correction on input image data; a detection means for detecting a degree of motion picture in the input image data; and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080024676 - Audio/video signal auto switching system: Disclosed is an audio/video signal auto switching system. The system contains a last-on function block, a memory function block, a switch-back function block, and a memory-reset function block. If there is a plurality of input signals received by the system, then the last-on function block will select a last input... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080024677 - Display system and signal processing using diamond-shaped dmds: An imaging system 10 includes an image source providing an image having a resolution of X by Y pixels. The system also includes a digital mirror device 16 that includes an array of mirror elements. Each mirror element includes an edge that is not parallel to an edge of a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080024678 - Broadcast receiving device and screen changing method thereof: A method and apparatus including a broadcast receiving device and a screen changing method thereof are provided. The broadcast receiving device including a command input part which receives a channel change command to change the present channel, and a controller which controls to display an image on a screen while... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024680 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus and digital broadcast receiving method: According to one embodiment, a digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes a plurality of tuners selecting broadcast waves of digital broadcasting to receive frequencies in the same band. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus further includes a control unit which performs control in which, when a first channel currently viewed with the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080024679 - Method for changing channel according to status of image signal and image display apparatus adopting the method: Provided are a method for changing a channel according to a status of an image signal and an image display apparatus adopting the method. The method includes: determining a status of an image signal received from an external source; and if it is determined that the status of the received... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024682 - Touchpad remote controller and control method by using the same: A remote controller has a touchpad for users to operate thereon, so as to remotely control an under controlled apparatus. By recognizing the features of the operations on the touchpad, the remote controller could determine corresponding control signals to command the under controlled apparatus to start up and end off... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080024681 - Television link ifrared modulation circuit: A television (TV) link infrared (IR) demodulation circuit including: a reference voltage setting unit setting a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, different from each other; and a differential amplifier differentially amplifying the first reference voltage received via a first input terminal and a voltage obtained by coupling... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080024683 - Overlapped multi-projector system with dithering: A method of displaying a high-resolution image with a multi-projector display system, including receiving a high-resolution image frame representative of a high-resolution image and generating a low-resolution sub-frame for each projector of a multi-projector display system based on the high-resolution image frame, each low-resolution sub-frame including a plurality of pixels... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024684 - System, medium, and method measuring geometric reliability index for image compensation: A system, medium, and method measuring a geometric reliability index, e.g., in image compensation, and more particularly, a system, medium, and method measuring a geometric reliability index in image compensation that can measure a geometric model of a projection surface onto which an image is projected. The system include a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080024685 - Refrigerator: A refrigerator allow a user to watch a TV broadcast program or listen to a radio broadcast, by including a main controller (40) for selecting a TV function or radio function according to a user's request, a radio tuner (30) for receiving voice data included in a frequency band of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080024686 - Audio visual surface assembly: There is disclosed an arrangement for a visual and/or audio presentation wherein two or more enclosure modules are mounted adjacent each other. The modules each contain an enclosure volume, within which an audio or other component may be housed. The arrangement also provides a flat or planar surface on which... Agent: Lumen Ips

20080018729 - Communication terminal apparatus, communication method, and information recording medium: A storage unit stores name, phone number, and a videophoning flag indicating whether to preferentially use a videophone or not in association with each person to communicate with. A CPU refers to the videophoning flag associated with a person when controlling a communication unit to make a call to that... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080018730 - For-hire vehicle interactive communication systems and methods thereof: An interactive for-hire vehicle communication system and method of communicating selectable passenger-related information to a for-hire vehicle are disclosed. The system comprises an audio device located in a for-hire vehicle. A workstation is in communication with the audio devices and the workstation is also in communication with one or more... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080018733 - Electronic endoscope system: An illuminator of an electronic endoscope system is provided with a light emission mechanism that consists of a light source emitting white light as general illumination light and an optical chopper that turns a disc at a revolution speed in front of the light source. The disc consists of transparent... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080018734 - Endoscope system: An electronic endoscope system, having at least one electronic endoscope, and a processor to regenerate an image captured by the electronic endoscope is provided. The electronic endoscope includes an optical objective system, a first image capturing element with higher sensitivity, which generates a first voltage signal, and a second image... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080018735 - Microscope color image pickup apparatus, microscope color image pickup program product, and microscope color image pickup method: An apparatus includes: an image pickup unit capturing a color image observed by the microscope; a camera characteristic information storage unit storing camera characteristic information about a characteristic of the microscope color image pickup apparatus; a color correction parameter calculation unit calculating a color correction parameter for a color correcting... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080018732 - 3d display method and apparatus: A method and apparatus directed to the field of autostereoscopic displays. The method provided is for creating images or image data suitable for use with an autostereoscopic display. The method comprises a projection step and a transformation step for processing item coordinates representing at least one item in a 3D... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20080018731 - Steroscopic parameter embedding apparatus and steroscopic image reproducer: A stereoscopic parameter embedding apparatus comprising: a video image input unit operable to input a plurality of pieces of video image data to be processed sequentially; a parameter input unit operable to input stereoscopic parameters for converting a video image into a stereoscopic image, each of which is respectively associated... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080018736 - Mobile multimedia display apparatus: A mobile multimedia display apparatus comprises at least one elevating device having a plurality of monitors attached thereon for adjusting the height of the monitors by using the elevating device such that the related message can be outward transmitted via the monitors.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080018737 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and filter setting method: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an image data acquisition section, a metadata acquisition section, a display section, a filter setting section, and a combination setting section. The image data acquisition section is configured to acquire image data from a camera. The metadata acquisition section is configured to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080018738 - Video analytics for retail business process monitoring: A system for video monitoring a retail business process includes a video analytics engine to process video obtained by a video camera and generate video primitives regarding the video, A user interface is used to define at least one activity of interest regarding an area being viewed, each activity of... Agent: Venable LLP

20080018739 - Moving picture play system, method and medium thereof: A moving picture play system, method and medium which includes determining whether a driver of a vehicle is unable to view moving picture data, summarizing moving picture data when it is determined the driver of the vehicle is unable to view the moving picture data, and playing the summarized moving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080018740 - Remote instruction system: There is provide a remote instruction system including at least one image recorder and at least one image projector, the number of the image recorders plus the number of image projectors being three in total, the image recorder recording an image of at least a portion of a target region,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080018742 - Analog front-end device and imaging apparatus: The analog front-end device of the invention includes an analog-digital converter for generating digital data corresponding to an analog charge signal and a RAM for storing therein digital data generated by the analog-digital converter. A memory control section reads digital data stored in the RAM during the time period when... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080018743 - Image data processing system and method thereof: A system for processing image data includes a portable terminal for generating raw data and preview data by converting an optical signal of an image captured using a camera to a digital signal, compressing and storing the raw data and the preview data, generating an image file, and transmitting the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080018741 - Transmission of image data during application sharing: The invention relates to the transmission of image data during which first image data are continuously generated by a first computer (PC1) and are or can be displayed in the form of a first temporal sequence of first images on an image display device of the first computer. At least... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080018744 - Print system, image supply apparatus, control methods thereof, program, and storage medium: A print system in which an image supply apparatus and a print apparatus directly communicate with each other, and the print apparatus prints an image based on image data supplied from the image supply apparatus, the image supply apparatus comprises a designating unit adapted to designate a print image from... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080018746 - Method and apparatus for recording image data: An apparatus for recording image data has an encoding processor that compresses original image data (for example, RAW data), having a plurality of pixels, in accordance with a lossless compression coding; and a recording processor that records the compressed image data or the original image data into a memory. If... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080018745 - Remote instruction system, computer readable medium for remote instruction system and method: A remote instruction system includes: an imaging unit that captures an image of an object; a projecting unit that projects an annotation image in the imaging area of the imaging unit, the annotation image being formed in accordance with an instruction issued based on the captured image; and an annotation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080018747 - Solid-state image pickup module: There are included an image pickup device including a semiconductor-based photoelectric transducer, and a control unit that includes an arithmetic part to determine an image pickup condition and controls the image pickup device based on the image pickup condition, the control unit further includes a register in which a basic... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080018748 - Method in relation to acquiring digital images: A method for acquiring at least two digital images by means of a digital camera, wherein the digital images are to be stitched into a panoramic image, comprises capturing a first digital image, wherein a first scenery is imaged, determining a relation between the first scenery and a second scenery... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080018749 - Digital still camera: In a digital still camera, when the reproducing mode is selected, an indication to the effect that the operation is in standby for reproduction is displayed on an indicating device, and if the command dial is not operated until 16 seconds elapses after the indication has been started, the supply... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080018750 - Method and apparatus for color interpolation in digital photographing device: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for color interpolation in a digital photographing device, the apparatus comprising an optical unit including a lens and a lens adjuster so as to receive an optical signal, an image sensor installed to be movable in a predetermined direction, wherein the image sensor converts... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080018751 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method, recording medium, and program: An imaging apparatus includes an integrating unit to integrate pixel values of pixels in each of a plurality of areas of an image; a holding unit to hold integration values generated by the integrating unit; an operating unit to operate a waveform of a differential value between integration values of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080018752 - Information management apparatus, image recording apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image management system, image analysis information management method, and program: An image management apparatus may include an input image setting information acquiring unit configured to, when image analysis information on an input image is set, acquire setting information as input image setting information, an available setting information acquiring unit configured to acquire setting information as available setting information, an update... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080018753 - Method for modifying images by a way of capturing raw image data: A method for modifying images by a way of capturing raw image data, includes: capturing raw image data; storing the raw image data in a storage unit; reading the raw image from the storage unit; modifying the image's size and parameters for the raw image data via an image processing... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080018754 - Method for image data print control, electronic camera and camera system: An electronic camera includes a zoom changing unit that changes a focal length of a zoom lens, an image-capturing unit that executes photoelectric conversion for a subject image projected by the zoom lens onto an image-capturing area, a range finding unit that detects a distance to a subject, a photographic... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080018755 - Method and system for reducing mosquito noise in a digital image: A method and system is provided for reducing mosquito noise in a digital image. The method and system receives an input luminance value for a first pixel in the digital image, and determines whether the first pixel is in relative close proximity to an object appearing in the digital image,... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080018757 - Color correction in cmos image sensor: For color correction in an image sensor, an image sensor processing block generates a plurality of color correction parameters corresponding to a plurality of selected pixels of the image sensor for defining a plurality of areas of a sample image. In addition, a color correction value calculation block generates a... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080018756 - Self-scanned photodiode array with selectively-skipped pixels: A self scanning photodiode array allows low signal pixels to accumulate charge for multiples of predetermined exposure time to before being read. The pattern of exposures, the integers Mi where I runs from 1 to N the number of pixels in the array, is chosen such that the pixels of... Agent: Waters Investments Limited C/o Waters Corporation

20080018759 - Solid-state image pickup element including a thinning method to discharge unnecessary image data: In a case where a thinning operation is implemented at the point when signal charges are read out from each of pixels to thin out pixel information by lines (row), the thinning may be performed only in the vertical direction, but not in the horizontal direction. In an all-pixel-read-out type... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080018758 - Solid-state imaging device driving apparatus and digital camera: A solid-state imaging device driving apparatus for generating a driving pulse for a solid-state imaging device includes a status memory 48 that stores a status data at each address as a logic value, a command data memory (42, 43, 46, 47) that stores command data sequentially stored, and an output... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018760 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel section having two-dimensionally arrayed pixels each having a photoelectric conversion means, a memory means for storing photoelectric conversion signal, a transfer means for transferring the photoelectric conversion signal to the memory means, a reset means for resetting the memory means, a discharge means... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080018761 - Camera system: A camera system at least including: a MOS imaging device at least having a pixel section having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arrayed in row and column directions, each having a photoelectric conversion section for generating electrical signal corresponding to a quantity of incident light, an accumulation section for accumulating... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080018765 - Cmos image sensor and image sensing method using the same: Example embodiments may provide a CMOS image sensor. The CMOS image sensor may include a plurality of unit blocks each including two unit pixels. Each unit block may include two photodiodes having a hexagonal shape, a floating diffusion shared by the two unit pixels, a first transfer transistor and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080018763 - Imaging device: An imaging device comprises a photoelectric conversion element; first, second, and third capacitors; first, second, third, and fourth charge transfer elements; a reset element; and an amplifier element. The photoelectric conversion element generates an electrical charge according to the amount of received light. The first and second capacitors receive and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080018762 - Method, apparatus and system for charge injection suppression in active pixel sensors: A method and apparatus are provided for operation of an image sensor during signal readout. During a reset operation the gate of a reset transistor coupled to the storage node receives a voltage greater than a threshold voltage to produce a reset of the storage node. During a period where... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080018766 - Solid state image sensing device: A solid state image sensing device comprises an MOS transistor T2 that has a source thereof connected to a drain of an MOS transistor T1 being provided with a transfer gate which is connected to an embedded photodiode PD; an MOS transistor T5 that has a gate thereof connected to... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080018764 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having two-dimensionally arrayed pixels each having a first photoelectric conversion device and a second photoelectric conversion device located at positions regarded as the same position at which image is formed by an imaging optical system and a means for independently resetting each... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080018767 - Multiple output charge-coupled devices: An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels overlaid with a color filter pattern of at least two colors having the same color on every other pixel in one direction; three or more charge-coupled devices oriented parallel to the every other pixel color filter repeat pattern; a charge sensing amplifier... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080018769 - Analog front-end device and image pickup device: A preprocessor converts an analog image signal, which is outputted from a solid-state image pickup sensor that photoelectric-converts an optical image of a subject, into digital image data. A timing generator periodically generates a drive pulse for driving the solid-state image pickup sensor continuously/discontinuously, and generates an output stop position... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080018768 - Solid-state imaging device and method of driving same: A method of driving a solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric converting elements arranged in a two-dimensional array on a light-receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a charge transfer path disposed along each of columns of photoelectric converting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018770 - Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and camera: A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of light-receiving elements which are arranged by rows and columns; a plurality of vertical transfer units each of which is arranged for a corresponding column of the light-receiving elements, and vertically transfers a plurality of signal packets and dummy packets, the signal packet... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080018771 - Ccd solid-state image pickup device and method of driving the same: A method of driving a CCD solid-state image pickup device, the device comprising: a plurality of vertical charge-transfer channels that vertically transfers signal charges responsive to amounts of light received; a signal-charge temporary accumulation section, provided at an end of each of the vertical charge-transfer channels, that is driven independently... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018772 - Input apparatus for image: An input apparatus for image includes recording means for previously incorporating and recording a format list in which there are described the procedures of an operation of inputting employing selectively a plurality of different input functions possessed by the input apparatus for image by an external apparatus such as a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080018773 - Image display system: An image display system, including a display unit, a memory device configured to memorize a plurality of image data, and a mode switching device configured to set a one coma-reproduction mode and a division-reproduction mode selectively, and a display part provided in the display unit, the display part being configured... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080018774 - Image capture device: To provide a single lens reflex digital camera that can find a focus as intended by the shooter even when electronic zoom is ON. An image capture device includes: a movable mirror to be entered into, and removed from, an optical path; an imager for shooting an object image and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080018775 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup unit having device for removing foreign substance deposited on surface of optical member: An image pickup unit integrally includes an optical lowpass filter, a piezoelectric element, and an image pickup element. The optical lowpass filter is separated into a plurality of grouped optical members in an imaging light axis direction. The optical lowpass filter includes first to third grouped optical members. To remove... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080018776 - Apparatus and method to control focusing of photographing device: An apparatus and method to control the focusing of a photographing device, in which a light source portion is removed from an image, is provided. The focusing of the photographing device is controlled according to whether the image is in a high- or low-illuminance state. The apparatus includes a luminance... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080018777 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup control method: An image pickup apparatus in which contrast signals obtained by moving a focus lens and detecting image data corresponding to an image of a subject captured in a first exposure time are used to achieve focus includes a storage unit storing the contrast signals in correspondence to respective focus lens... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080018778 - Biochemical examination appartatus and biochemical examination method: First, image capturing is performed in the exposure time of ExpStart. If the maximum intensity value of all the pixels of an image is smaller than TransStart, the exposure time is increased and the image capturing is performed again. After that, increase in the exposure time and the image capturing... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080018779 - Imaging apparatus including multiple optical systems: The number of drive motors in a digital camera having multiple imaging optical systems is curtailed. The digital camera has a first imaging optical system and a second imaging optical system. The first imaging optical system has a zoom lens group and a focus lens. The second imaging optical system... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080018780 - Camera, an image inputting apparatus, a portable terminal device, and a method for transforming the camera configuration: A camera has a camera body formed in a longitudinal rectangular shape, and in the intermediate portion of the camera body, a flexion/transformation mechanism dividing the camera body into an image photographing section including a lens system for capturing an optical image of a subject and a gripping section for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080018781 - Video camera monitor shield: A video camera monitor shield for use with a video camera which has a hood for covering the LCD monitor of a video camera, a base member with an upward extending rod at its front to which the hood adjustably connects. The hood on the rod is adjustable up an... Agent: Frank G Morkunas

20080018782 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus may include a mechanical deck that drives a tape-shaped recording medium for recording/playing, and a grip section to be grasped by a user by putting his/her palm thereagainst during a shooting operation. In this case, the mechanical deck may be placed inside of the grip section. The... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080018783 - Video importance rating based on compressed domain video features: Systems and methods are provided for identifying important video frames and segments in multimedia content such as a segmented compressed domain video. Video frames in a segment are analyzed to determine intensity, contrast, and motion values for the frames and their segments. The values among frames and segments are compared... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080018785 - Adaptive video processing circuitry & player using sub-frame metadata: Video player circuitry used with encoded source video and a display. Decoder circuitry receives encoded source video and decodes the encoded source video to produce a sequence of full frames of video data. Pre-processing circuitry, pursuant to sub-frame information, generates a plurality of sequences of sub-frames of video data from... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080018784 - Simultaneous video and sub-frame metadata capture system: A video processing system captures a sequence of original video frames with a video camera, presents at least one frame of the sequence of original video frames on a video display, receives user input regarding the sequence of original video frames, and presents a sub-frame on the video display that... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080018786 - Video signal processing apparatus, video displaying apparatus and high resolution method for video signal: A video signal processing apparatus, for achieving high resolution of a video signal, in particular, the video signal of moving pictures, preferably, comprises a motion estimation portion (101) for estimating a sampling phase difference with using video data on an input video frame as a reference and each video data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080018787 - Method and apparatus for producing images: A method and apparatus for processing an image for storage or transmission, the method comprising dividing an image in the form of image data into three or more image data subsets, and sequentially outputting the image data subsets as fields in or as a television signal. The method may include... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080018788 - Methods and systems of deinterlacing using super resolution technology: A method of super resolution-based deintelacing processing in interlaced video sequences is provided. Block matching is applied on each image block to obtain a motion vector MV. Using MV as the initial motion vector, optical flow is applied on that block to obtain a sub-pixel resolution motion vector OF. Missing... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080018789 - Portable device integrated with external video signal display function: A portable device integrated with external video signal display function is provided. The device includes a video input interface, a display panel, a display chip, and a panel controller. The video input interface receives an external video. The display chip outputs an internal video. The panel controller includes a first... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080018790 - Method and system for detecting digital qam, vsb and analog tv signals: System and methods for processing signals in a television system are disclosed and may include measuring relative power of RF carriers over a full bandwidth of one or more received TV channels. The method may also include determining based on the measured relative power, whether the one or more received... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080018791 - Multiple closed captioning flows and customer access in digital networks: There are provided a customer premise equipment (CPE) device, a corresponding method, and a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) for connecting to a digital network. The CPE device includes a user input device for receiving a user input specifying one or more channels for which closed caption (CC) information... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080018792 - Systems and methods for interactive surround visual field: A surround visual field framework or system and methods are presented. In an embodiment, a surround visual field system comprises a control signal extractor that obtains a control signal that is related to the input stream. The control signal is provided to a coupling rule that links the control signal... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080018793 - Method of providing a horizontal active signal and method of performing a pip function in a digital television: A method of providing a horizontal active signal includes generating the horizontal active signal based on a line memory size and a time difference between a writing time that a variable scaler with a first operational clock frequency scabs an original video frame and writes a line of the scaled... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080018794 - Video data compression: Systems and methods for compressing data within a block of data for storage in memory and for transmission along a data path are described herein. By utilizing previously unused bits in data words, the valid data can be stored more efficiently and transmitted in fewer transfer cycles, thereby increasing the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080018795 - Video signal processing device and video signal processing method: According to one embodiment, a video signal processing device includes an input unit to which a brightness signal is input, a high band emphasis unit that extracts a first high band component from the brightness signal and outputs an output signal by adding the first high band component to the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080018796 - System and method for changing television channels in a video signal processor: A system and/or method that reduces the blanking time between changing from one video channel to another video channel, particularly from a digital video channel. The system provides as much video of the old video channel as possible for display until video from the new channel is acquired. Particularly, video... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080018797 - Method and apparatus for adjusting a saturation level of original image data: An apparatus for adjusting image color saturation and a method for adjusting a saturation level of an original image data are provided. The image color saturation apparatus includes a first color over-saturation level calculating unit, a parameter adjusting unit, a saturation adjusting unit and a second color over-saturation level calculating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018798 - Multi-color display device and driving method thereof: A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device includes a plurality of pixels that displays a first color, a second color, a third color, and a white color; a signal processor that generates a white color output image signal based on three input image signals... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080018799 - Video signal extracting method and related apparatus: A method and for extracting a chrominance signal of a video signal is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: generating a target video signal, a first delayed video signal, a second delayed video signal and a plurality of reference video signals; generating a HCS according to the target video... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080018800 - System and method for dynamic gamma correction in digital video: A technique for improving image quality using dynamic gray scale correction, in one example embodiment, includes dynamically computing non-linear gamma curves using histogram data extracted from a current video frame. A gray scale correction is then dynamically applied to each pixel in the current or next video frame as a... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080018801 - Method and apparatus for changing a pixel color: A method of changing a pixel color includes determining whether a chrominance of a pixel is in a preference chrominance area, where the preference chrominance area is defined as a conic section in a two-dimensional chrominance plane and an eccentricity of the conic section is not greater than 1, and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080018802 - Method and system for satellite communication: Certain aspects of a method and system for satellite communication are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a receiver that handles digital video broadcasting. The receiver may be enabled to dynamically vary spacing between one or more pilots within at least one frame based on a determined symbol rate.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080018804 - Television receiving apparatus equipped with a plurality of digital demodulating circuits: A television receiving apparatus includes a first tuner unit that receives a broadcast signal and performs frequency conversion on the received broadcast signal into an IF signal or a base band signal for output; a first digital demodulating circuit that demodulates the signal received from the first tuner unit and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018803 - Fast channel change in digital video broadcast systems over dsl using redundant video streams: There are provided methods and apparatus for enabling a channel change in a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system. A channel change processing unit for enabling a channel change includes a selectore for receiving at least two video streams corresponding to a same program, and for selecting one of the at... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080018805 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus for providing fixed channel, and method therefor: Disclosed are a broadcasting receiving apparatus for providing a fixed channel and a method therefor. The broadcasting receiving apparatus includes: a storing unit for storing one or more channels mapped in corresponding channel frequencies, respectively; and a control unit for, when the stored channel is changed, re-mapping a channel frequency... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080018806 - Carrier detection circuit, method for controlling carrier detection circuit, and infrared signal processing circuit having the carrier detection circuit: An infrared remote control receiver 20a includes a carrier detection circuit 12a. The carrier detection circuit 12a includes: a comparator 6a for comparing an output signal from a BPF 5 with a threshold voltage Vth1 which is a noise detection level; a comparator 6c for comparing the output signal from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018807 - Field sequential image display method and apparatus: A field sequential color display is obtained by successive display of a sequence of monochromatic images. Each monochromatic image is displayed with light occupying a different wavelength region, but one of the wavelength regions includes part or all of another one of the wavelength regions. These two wavelength regions are... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018808 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes: a light source emitting light; a spatial light modulator having a display region, and modulating the light emitted from the light source in accordance with an image signal; a projection device projecting the light modulated by the spatial light modulator onto a projection surface including... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080018809 - Video information display system and display apparatus applicable to the same: A display apparatus for displaying video information by superimposing a plurality of images obtained through a plurality of display systems, each being constituted by a light source, a reflection type liquid crystal panel and an optical system, characterized in that the apparatus comprises at least either of system selection means... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080018810 - Picture display device: A picture display device (1) comprises a power supply unit (3) operable to supply power from a power source (2), a picture size conversion unit (4) including a plurality of picture size conversion methods whose power consumption differs, a display unit (12) operable to display a picture for which size... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080018811 - Table type large-size imaging apparatus: Disclosed is a table type large-size imaging apparatus in which an imaging screen and a reflector are installed parallel to each other in front and rear end positions of a table type case with an inclination angle, to allow a viewer to watch an image formed on the screen through... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080012937 - A/v display device capable of swapping digital/analog a/v output modules: An audio/video (A/V) display device capable of swapping digital/Analog A/V output modules mainly comprises a socket set up for inserting a digital/Analog A/V output module. By swapping different digital/Analog A/V output modules, said A/V display device can let users watch digital TV and DVD discs, browse photos stored in a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080012935 - Inappropriate content detection and distribution prevention for wireless cameras/camcorders with e-mail capabilities and camera phones: Systems and methods are provided for preventing the transmission of pornographic or otherwise undesirable material from a wireless device. The wireless device 100 can be a device capable of capturing and storing video or photographic data. Prior to transmitting the video or photographic data, filter 110 can detect whether the... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20080012936 - 3-d displays and telepresence systems and methods therefore: A telepresence system enhances the perception of presence of a remote person involved in a video conference. The system preferably has a two-way mirror, which is between the observer and the display device, positioned at an angle to reflect a backdrop surface. The backdrop surface, which is further away from... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080012938 - Driving support method and apparatus: A driving support unit captures an image of a driver's blind spot due to presence of a pillar of a vehicle includes at least first and second cameras which are mounted on the vehicle, a display device for displaying the image on the interior surface of the pillar and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080012939 - Using quantum nanodots in motion pictures or video games: A quantum nanodot processing system, comprising: at least one image capture camera configured to capture scenes including actors and/or objects in a visible band; and at least one marker capture camera configured to capture motions of the actors and/or objects applied with at least one quantum nanodot (QD) marker, wherein... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080012940 - Vehicle image display system and image display method