Television inventions 02/08

20080049097 - Method and apparatus for video telephony in mobile communication terminal: Provided are a method and an apparatus for video telephony in a mobile communication terminal. According to the method, when a calling mobile communication terminal attempts video telephony, call connection between the calling mobile communication terminal and a called mobile communication terminal is made. The calling mobile communication terminal checks... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049099 - Entire-view video image process system and method thereof: The present invention generally relates to the field of an image system using a pantoscopic lens as an input video image source. In particular, all of the image process steps are in SOC (System on A Chip) without PC. The present invention provides the entire-view video image process method comprising... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080049100 - Algorithmic interaxial reduction: A system and method for determining an intermediate stereoscopic representation, thus offering adjustable interaxial separation values. The design comprises obtaining a first image using a first image collecting device and substantially simultaneously obtaining a second image using a second image collecting device. The two recoding devices are physically separated by... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080049098 - Method of creating a virtual window: The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and mapping the pixels of those outputs to the pixels of a display screen by means of a lookup table so... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080049101 - Scanning type image display device: A scanning-type image display device includes: a light source section; a horizontal scanner, a vertical scanner; and a vertical scanner control section that controls the vertical scanner in such a manner that, when a second video signal is input, the vertical scanner control section controls the vertical scanner so as... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049102 - Motion detection system and method: Provided is a motion detection system for detecting a motion of a subject, the motion detection system including a detection unit that detects a three-axis straight motion and a three-axis rotating motion of the subject; a control unit that, when a motion is detected by the detection unit, analyzes the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080049103 - Information recording/reproducing apparatus: When the camera surveillance mode is set, the signal waveform data of the input video image from the camera is compared with the signal waveform data of the reference video image stored in advance in the memory. Then, it is determined whether or not there is a change in the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080049104 - Repeater apparatus linking video acquirement apparatus and video recording apparatus using unshielded twisted pair cable: A video acquirement apparatus to acquire a video signal of monitoring area, to convert the acquired video signal into a differential video signal and a network stream, and to transmit the converted signal to a repeater apparatus using a UTP cable. The repeater apparatus supplies power to the video acquirement... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080049105 - Moving object locating device, moving object locating method, and computer product: v

20080049106 - Night vision device for a vehicle: In a night vision arrangement for a motor vehicle in which a camera captures an infra-red image of the roadway in front of the vehicle, a video signal generated by the camera is processed by a signal processor so that the field of view of the image displayed by a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080049107 - Method and system for processing a video instant message: There is provided a method and system for processing a video instant message. The method and system may include receiving at least one image; generating the at least one image into a composite image; and communicating the composite image to a receiver as the instant message. Preferably, the at least... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080049108 - Shake-amount detecting device and imaging device: When a camera body is shaken, a piezoelectric element generates a signal corresponding to angular velocity. The output signal of the element is amplified by a synchronous detection amplifier and is sent to a high-pass filter. An output signal of the filter is integrated after digital conversion and is outputted... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049109 - Imaging-element unit and imaging device: A compact and power saving imaging-element unit of handshake compensation type is provided. The imaging-element unit comprises an imaging-element board with an imaging element that performs photoelectric conversion of incident light formed or located thereon; a relay board that is disposed between the imaging element and an external control board,... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080049110 - Universal remote control digital cameras: The “Universal Digital Camera Remote Control” (“UDCRC”) allows users to add a remote control to any camera having an interface port. The UDCRC comprises an adapter unit that connects to the interface port of the digital camera, and a remote unit that communicates with the adapter unit. Controls on the... Agent: Rudolf O. Siegesmund Gordon & Rees LLP

20080049111 - Method of controlling digital photographing apparatus and digital photographing apparatus using the method: Disclosed are a digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus that allow a user to easily identify the current position of an image displayed on a display within a sequence of images and to easily identify a consecutive sequence of related images. The apparatus and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080049114 - Apparatus and method for automatically controlling aspect ratio of input window of camera module in portable terminal: Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling an input window of a camera module in a portable terminal. The method includes determining if an aspect ratio of the input window is equal to an aspect ratio of an image output resolution; and adjusting the aspect ratio of the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080049116 - Camera and camera system: The camera system of the present invention includes a plurality of cameras each including an imaging unit and an image processing unit. If configured to operate in a mode that is for cooperation with other cameras, a first camera included in the camera system causes the image processing unit thereof... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080049117 - Digital camera capable of displaying and/or recording movie image: There is disclosed a digital camera in which an aperture value is regulated between the open aperture value and a predetermined aperture value during acquisition of a movie image. The predetermined aperture value can be determined based on a range of a luminous flux for use in focal detection. The... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080049115 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: An image pickup device receives an incident light by way of the color filter that also transmits an infrared light component. For the purpose of correcting an infrared light component contained in an output signal, a control unit adds correcting infrared light components to image signals of multiple colors supplied... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080049113 - Image sensing apparatus: An image sensing apparatus includes a dividing unit which divides image data into at least first and second divided image data; a first hash calculation unit which calculates first hash value from the first divided image data; a second hash calculation unit which calculates second hash value from the second... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080049112 - Cmos image sensor: The present invention relates to a CMOS image sensor. According to the present invention, the CMOS image sensor includes a two-dimensional pixel array (110), a row decoder (130), and a column decoder (150). The two-dimensional pixel array (110) includes rectangular unit pixels each having a width to length ratio of... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080049118 - Self-contained wireless camera device, wireless camera system and method: A self-contained wireless camera (10) and a wireless camera system (25) having such a device and a base station (20). Video processing (e.g. video compression) circuitry (200, 210) of the camera device receives video signals from a camera (130) and provides processed video signals. These are transmitted over a shared... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma, Novusip, LLC

20080049119 - Digital camera: A digital camera has a signal processor, a high-frequency detector, a sampling processor, and a compression processor. The signal processor generates luminance and color difference data on the basis of image-pixel signals read from an image sensor. The high-frequency detector detects high-frequency components in the color difference data. The sampling... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080049120 - Video frame buffer: A video frame buffer may enable a high resolution image sensor video stream to be transmitted on a standard communication link at a high frame rate. The buffer may include an image stream input for receiving image frames from the image sensor, and a memory for buffering image frames. A... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080049121 - Image-taking apparatus and image-taking method: An image obtained as a result of an image-taking process carried out at a screen rate higher than a standard screen rate is stored in a recording medium in the contemporary video format. To put it more concretely, the image obtained as a result of an image-taking process is supplied... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080049122 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes: a luminance detection device that detects a luminance of a photographic field; an image sensor that captures an image of a photographic subject; a light reduction device that changes over between reducing an amount of light from the photographic subject that is conducted to the image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049123 - Video effect using movement within an image: A video effect is created that provides an experience to a viewer of freezing time during an event that is the subject of a video presentation, investigating the event during that frozen moment in time, and (optionally) resuming the action of the event. During that frozen moment in time, the... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080049124 - Image capture device: An image capture device which can reduce low-frequency noise even circuitry of a small scale is provided. An image capture device includes: an acquisition section which is used to acquire sensitivity information concerning a sensitivity; an imager for generating first image data; a zoom section for changing a size of... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080049125 - Method, apparatus and system providing adjustment of pixel defect map: A method, apparatus and system that allows for the identification of defective pixels, for example, defective pixel clusters, in an imager device. The method, apparatus and system determine, during use of the imager device, that a pixel defect, e.g., cluster defect, exists and accurately maps the location of the defective... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080049126 - Color filter array and method of fabrication and use: A pixel cell with a photosensitive region formed in association with a substrate, a color filter formed over the photosensitive region, the color filter comprising a first material layer and a second material layer formed in association with the first shaping material layer.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080049128 - Solid-state device for high-speed photographing and camera provided with the solid-state imaging device as imaging device: In each pixel of a MOS-type solid-state imaging device, a plurality of first signals and one or more second signals are accumulated in a plurality of storage areas in a storage unit during driving. Here, each of the plurality of first signals corresponds to a light receiving signal (light receiving... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080049127 - Solid-state imaging device, camera module, and camera-module manufacturing method: A cover glass covers only light-receiving elements formed on a semiconductor substrate of a solid-state imaging device. The other area of the substrate except the light-receiving elements is exposed. An FPC interposed between an optical unit and the solid-state imaging device is formed with an opening for exposing the cover... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049129 - Imaging device with improved signal to noise performance: A variable integration circuit processes an image based on variable pixel integration times. The variable integration circuit includes a threshold detect circuit that detects whether a threshold charge level has been reached at a pixel output. If the threshold charge has been reached at the pixel output, the threshold detect... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080049130 - Photoelectric conversion device and image pickup device: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array portion, signal processing portion, common readout circuit, and common signal line. The signal processing portion includes the first power line and the second power line which is formed on the opposite side to the first power line when viewed from the common... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080049131 - Cmos imaging facility and a modular array for use in such a facility: p

20080049132 - Image sensing apparatus and driving control method: An image sensing apparatus has a first setting unit that sets a charge accumulation period in an image sensor to an integral multiple of ½ a flicker period, a second setting unit that, when a horizontal scan period, which is a period after commencement of reading out a preset line... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080049133 - Method, apparatus, and system providing an imager with pixels having extended dynamic range: The dynamic range of a pixel is increased by using selective photosensor resets during a frame time of image capture at a timing depending on the light intensity that the pixel will be exposed to during the frame time. Pixels that will be exposed to high light intensity are reset... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080049134 - Camera system and method for controlling display during focus operation: A camera system includes a frame memory having a capacity for storing at least two frames of image data, and stores images output from an image sensor into this frame memory on a frame-by-frame basis. The stored image data is read out and displayed on a monitor. When a shutter... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080049135 - Imaging apparatus and lock mechanism: An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The image apparatus has: a camera body; a viewfinder unit including a frame; a revolving mechanism for revolving the frame; a frictional mechanism including a detachable plate and giving frictional resistance to the frame and maintaining rotation of the frame; and a lock mechanism for... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080049136 - Digital camera and control method therefor: Disclosed is a digital camera with a live view display function, which is designed to make dust less noticeable. The digital camera includes an image pickup device that receives a subject light flux which has passed a photographing lens and outputs a subject image signal, a dust-proof optical element arranged... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080049137 - Imaging device capable of reducing power consumption: An electronic camera is provided with a power-saving S-AF mode and a C-AF mode as focus adjustment modes. In the S-AF mode, focus adjustment is performed upon half depression of a release button. In the C-AF mode, the focus adjustment is repeated during a shooting mode regardless of the half... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049138 - Data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure: Video data and output data that need to be output in synchronization therewith are synchronized. When an output of video data is later than an output of output data synchronized with the video data, at step S273, a process for one access unit is caused to be skipped. At step... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080049139 - Method and device for synchronous control of image signal and audio signal in image apparatus: When a certain signal processing is performed on each of an image signal and an audio signal, an object is to correct a delay of the signal so as to synchronize the signals. An image signal processing portion (12, 16) that performs signal processing on an input image signal and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080049140 - Apparatus for recovering secam chrominance signal and method thereof: An apparatus for recovering a chrominance signal from a sequential color with memory (SECAM) composite video baseband signal (CVBS), and more particularly, an apparatus and method of recovering a SECAM chrominance signal to simplify a circuit configuration of a frequency demodulator since a phase different calculation scheme is simplified is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080049141 - Image display device: An image display device includes an MPEG decoder configured to generate image signals based on digital signals received by a tuner unit, an image segmenting unit configured to extract image signals included in a segment area being an arbitrary area portion from image signals outputted from the MPEG decoder, a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080049143 - On-screen display device with compressed data and display method thereof: An on-screen display (OSD) device includes a memory, a processing unit, a buffer, a buffer controller, a decompression engine and an OSD video processing engine. The memory stores an OSD data to be played or processed. The processing unit reads the OSD data from the memory and produces a compressed... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080049142 - Television interfacing: Among other things, on a wireless handheld device that has a display and keys, an interface is provided that enables a user to control aspects of presentation of video material on a display of the handheld device, the interface including presentation on the display of visible tokens that are associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080049144 - Frequency demodulator for recovering secam chrominance signal and method thereof: An apparatus for recovering a chrominance signal from a sequential color with memory (SECAM) composite video baseband signal (CVBS), and more particularly, to a frequency demodulator and method of recovering a SECAM chrominance signal which can utilize both a real number portion and an imaginary number portion, and generate a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080049145 - Image processing method, a program of an image processing method, a recording medium on which a program of an image processing method is recorded and an image processing circuit: An image processing method in which a video signal is processed to detect a conspicuous area which is thought that a camera person intends to shoot, the method includes the steps of: detecting a motion vector in each portion of the video signal; detecting a representative value that represents a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080049146 - Vsb reception system with enhanced signal detection for processing supplemental data: A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB receiver for processing the data received from the VSB transmission... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080049147 - Remote control system for a portable device: A remote control system for portable devices comprises a separate programmable remote controller, a base station communicatively interconnected with a portable device, and a detachable video capture unit communicatively interconnected with the base station. In operation, a user can instantly review, browse and manage an originally optimized user interface of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20080049149 - Design-superposing display apparatus and vehicle display unit: An object of the present invention is to provide a design-superposing display apparatus for superposing a design above a part of a display surface of a display device. The design-superposing display apparatus includes a design display portion disposed above the display surface for accepting a transmitted light from a rear... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080049148 - Display device having album display function: Disclosed is a digital camera 2 including: a communication control unit 24 that receives album information A transmitted from a display control device and formed of a plurality of JPEG image files and a play list indicating a linkage among the files; a recording medium 25 that records the album... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080049150 - Method of determining the passage of a vehicle through a gap: The invention discloses a method of determining the ability of a vehicle to pass through a restricted gap in the roadway, including the steps of: detecting a restricted gap in the roadway, defining an image of the vehicle, and comparing the vehicle image with the restricted gap.... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20080049151 - Projection system for aerial display of three-dimensional video images: An aerial projection system and method having a housing for positioning low cost optical elements capable of generating a three dimensional aerial images at video rates without reflected artifacts or visible display of the display screen. A method for generating the display images is based on a set of rules... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080043090 - Systems and methods for optimizing video processing: Systems and methods for constructing cost-efficient, low processing power continuous presence layouts are provided. In particular, new functionality to the H.264 Recommendation is added by providing an enhanced continuous presence feature.... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080043089 - Real time interactive entertainment: Sports fans enjoy sporting activities more when they can feel connected to the participants. Through a method of increasing communications between athletes, their fans and commentators, sports fans can feel a greater connection to the athletes whom they are watching and thereby obtain a greater degree of enjoyment from watching... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20080043093 - Panorama photography method and apparatus capable of informing optimum photographing position: A panorama photography method and apparatus is provided to inform a use of an optimum photographing position for the next photograph when capturing in succession several adjacent photographs to obtain a combined panorama photograph. In the method, after a first image is captured, a guide image is generated from a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043095 - Method and system for acquiring, encoding, decoding 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.

20080043096 - Method and system for decoding 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.

20080043091 - Rich media communication client device, method and computer program product: A method, computer program product, and system for initiating, routing and scheduling video conferences. A dial URL is introduced with a prefix unique for calling purposes. When a user activates such an URL in his web browser, a content handler associated with the browser will recognize the type of URL... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043092 - Multiple view display: A multiple view display comprises a parallax optic such as a parallax barrier (25) and a spatial light modulator (20) having a plurality of pixels arranged as rows and columns. The parallax optic (25) cooperates with the pixel structure to create a plurality of primary viewpoint-corrected viewing windows. The rows... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080043094 - Detection of view mode: A switchable display device (100) which is arranged to switch a portion of the display device (100) between a single-view mode and a multi-view mode is disclosed. The display device (100) comprises: receiving means (102) for receiving an information signal, the information signal having a format comprising structured elements having... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080043097 - Surround vision: A surround vision apparatus comprises at least one screen, at least one loud speaker, a plurality of projectors and a processor, wherein the at least one screen substantially encloses a space, and wherein the plurality of projectors project images onto the said at least one screen such that the said... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080043098 - Spotlight with integral low lux video camera system: The invention provides a searchlight device for a recreational boat or other suitable vehicle, vessel or device, featuring a housing for mounting on the recreational boat or other suitable vehicle, vessel or device; a light arranged in the housing, responsive to a light control signal, for projecting bright illuminating light;... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080043099 - Symmetric filter patterns for enhanced performance of single and concurrent driver assistance applications: A system mounted on a vehicle for performing vehicle control applications and driver warning applications, the system including a camera configured to acquire a plurality of images of the environment in front of the camera. The camera includes a filter wherein the filter is installed at the focal plane of... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080043100 - Projection screen and camera array: One embodiment in accordance with the invention is a video system that can include a display screen and a plurality of video capturing devices located behind the display screen. It is noted that each of the plurality of video capturing devices is for capturing a video stream through the display... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080043101 - Method and apparatus for analyzing video data of a security system based on infrared data: A security system comprises a surveillance unit comprising a visible light camera detecting video data from within a first field of view (FOV) and an infrared (IR) imager detecting IR data within the first FOV. An IR detection module determines whether at least a portion of the IR data is... Agent: Gerald Bluhm Tyco Fire And Security

20080043102 - Multi-source surveillance system: A surveillance system can include a first sensor apparatus configured to interrogate a subject, including a person and objects carried by the person, with millimeter-wave electromagnetic radiation for imaging the subject. A supplemental source provides additional information about the subject that is relatable to objects potentially carried by the person.... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20080043103 - Video data transmitting apparatus using a metallic body: The present invention relates to video data transmitting apparatus using a metallic body, comprising: an observation camera part in which is transmitted through metallic body of a motor such as automobile, ship, aircraft, and etc. to amplify modulated signal by wideband RF (Radio Frequency) amplifier, the modulated signal in which... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080043104 - Expanded data storage for vehicle-based applications with a periodic duty cycle: Mobile Digital Video Recorders (MDVR) for security applications can require extensive storage requirements as video quality, video resolution, and camera counts increase. Frequently, the storage requirements over many days or weeks exceed the capacity of any one storage device leading to the use of multiple storage devices. However, ruggedized storage... Agent: John L. Sotomayor Suite 300

20080043105 - Night vision arrangement: In a night vision arrangement for a motor vehicle a camera is provided which captures an image which is subsequently displayed on a display arrangement which may be a head-up display arrangement. The camera directs light on to a beam deflector which may be constituted by a mirror which deflects... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080043106 - Stereo camera intrusion detection system: A system and method is provided for an intrusion detection system. The intrusion detection system comprises a first camera configured to acquire first visual images of a monitored area and a second camera configured to acquire second visual images of the monitored area. The intrusion detection system also comprises a... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080043107 - Mediation device and method for remotely controlling a camera of a security system using dual-tone multi-frequency (dtmf) signals: A mediation device located in the user's home receives dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signals via a Plane Old Telephone Service (POTS) connection and decodes the signals into signals that are used to control one or more cameras of the user's home security system. The mediation device may be a device that... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080043109 - Apparatus and method for data transmission/reception: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for data transmission/reception for transmitting/receiving data, which can transmit and receive data by using a transmitter (display device) capable of receiving and displaying digital data, and a receiver capable of receiving digital data by photographing the digital data. The apparatus includes a transmitter for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080043108 - Capturing selected image objects: Exemplary embodiments provide a technique that processes captured images derived from selected targeted objects in a field of view. The captured images may be transferred via a communication link to a Storage location for future availability. A possible aspect may provide a cross-reference association between saved multiple exposures having different... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080043110 - Image input device, control method thereof and image input system: There is provided an image input device capable of connecting to a network, which can achieve, when a user wants to connect to a particular communication counterpart by operating the image input device, reliable connection with the counterpart that the user wants to connect by smoothly avoiding connection with other... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080043111 - Transmission bandwidth and memory requirements reduction in a portable image capture device: A system and method for reducing storage and transmission bandwidth requirements of a portable image capture device capable of establishing a communications connection on a network are disclosed. The method includes assigning an image identifier to captured images uploaded to a server on a network, wherein each of the images... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080043112 - Exposure of digital imaging: The invention relates to electronic equipment for performing imaging, including a camera (CAM) for forming image frames (FRp, FRc), using set exposure parameters (ET, AG, DG), and a unit for determining the total exposure level (EV), from at least some of the image frames, and a unit for adjusting the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080043113 - Image processor and visual field support device: Photographed images from a front camera and a side camera respectively installed at the front and left side of a vehicle are respectively converted into bird's-eye view images, and a synthetic bird's-eye view image is displayed which is obtained by synthesizing the bird's-eye view images. Based on a difference image... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080043114 - Image display apparatus and method of supporting high quality image: An image display method and a device to secure high quality of image are provided. The image display apparatus includes a photo sensitive module having a plurality of sub sensing areas corresponding to a plurality of lens areas, an exposure control module to set exposure starting times of the sub... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080043116 - Electronic device and a method in electronic device for forming image information, and a corresponding program product: The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes camera means, including at least one camera element (CAM1) for forming image data (DATA1) from an imaging subject, a first lens arrangement (F1) according to a set focal length, arranged in connection with the camera means, and means for processing the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080043115 - Image processing device and image processing program: In a high precision image processor and image processing program, an output of a one-chip Bayer array CCD is A/D converted and noise reduced, and then entered in a G interpolation circuit which comprises interpolation circuit B which implements interpolation processing of a less resolving power but does not reflect... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080043117 - Method and apparatus for compensating image sensor lens shading: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for compensating the lens shading phenomenon in image sensor. The invention first stores an inputted compensation reference value, identifies a center pixel using digital image signals received sequentially in correspondence to each pixel from a sensor, generates analysis data corresponding to each... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080043118 - Image-taking apparatus capable of saving image data files in folder on recording medium: An image-taking apparatus preferable for saving image data in folders as desired by a user for each scene or date of image-taking is disclosed. The image-taking apparatus of the present invention comprises an image processing circuit which creates image data files based on output from an image-pickup device, and a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080043119 - Physical quantity detection system, method for driving physical quantity detection system, solid-state image pickup device, method for driving solid-state image pickup device, and image pickup apparatus: A physical quantity detection system includes a pixel array unit including pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, where each of the pixel converts an externally supplied physical quantity into an electrical signal, a readout unit configured to read out a signal from each of the pixels n times by changing... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080043120 - Image processing apparatus, image capture apparatus, image output apparatus, and method and program for these apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: a contrast area detector detecting a partial area from among partial areas in an input image signal as a contrast area, the input image signal being formed by a plurality of pixels, the contrast area being a partial area in which contrast of an input... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080043121 - Optimized performance and performance for red-eye filter method and apparatus: A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a reflection within an eye of a subject of the photograph. A digital apparatus has a red-eye filter... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080043122 - Perfecting the effect of flash within an image acquisition devices using face detection: Within a digital acquisition device with a built in flash unit, the exposure of an acquired digital image is perfected using face detection in the acquired image is provided. Groups of pixels that correspond to plural images of faces are identified within a digitally acquired image, and corresponding image attributes... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080043123 - Imaging device: An imaging control unit specifies a scan region, including an effective pixel region and a blanking region, of an image based on a magnification for electronic zooming, and converts an input optical signal into an electrical signal by scanning the scan region. The imaging control unit reads the electrical signal... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080043124 - Methods and apparatuses providing noise reduction while preserving edges for imagers: Methods and apparatuses of reducing noise in an image by obtaining a first value for a target pixel, obtaining a respective second value for neighboring pixels surrounding the target pixel, for each neighboring pixel, comparing a difference between the first value and the second value to a threshold value and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080043125 - High sensitivity color filter array: A color filter array (CFA) and image processing system wherein a color filter overlaying an image sensor has a luminance element (i.e. green filter in RGB space, or yellow in CMY space) that is made larger than the other two chrominance elements (i.e. red, blue or cyan, magenta). Additionally, overlaying... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20080043127 - Solid-state image pickup device and method of producing the same: A solid-state image pickup device including a substrate having a first face and a second face which serves as an opposite face of the first face; a solid-state image pickup element having a plurality of electrodes and a light sensing part, an opposite face of the light sensing part being... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080043126 - Image pickup apparatus and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same: An image pickup apparatus includes an element-including optical system, a variable aperture, a detector, and a converter. The element-including optical system has an optical system and an optical wavefront modulation element which modulates an optical transfer function. The detector picks up an object image that passes through the optical system,... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080043128 - Image sensor adc and cds per column with oversampling: A solid state imager converts analog pixel values to digital form on an arrayed per-column basis. An N-bit counter supplies an N-bit DAC to produce an analog ramp output with a level that varies corresponding to the contents of the counter. A latch/counter or equivalent is associated with each respective... Agent: Bernhard P. Molldrem, Jr.

20080043129 - Semiconductor color image sensor: A semiconductor color image sensor comprises: an array of semiconductor photo-sensors (CMOS or CCD) and a color filter array comprising an array of red, green and blue filter elements in which each filter element is associated with a respective one of the photo-sensors. The sensor further comprises a phosphor (photo-luminescent)... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080043130 - Solid-state imaging device and camera system: When making a potential of a floating node 0V at the time of nonselection, electrons leak from the floating node to a photodiode and noise is generated. A MOS type solid-state imaging device comprised of unit pixels 10, each having a photodiode 11, a transfer transistor 12 for transferring a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080043131 - Image processing device, non-capture color signal calculating device, and image processing method: An image processing device includes a first calculation means for calculating a non-capture color signal corresponding to an H-th interpolation color for a pixel of interest, a second calculation means for calculating a non-capture color signal by multiplying a J-th capture color signal corresponding to the capture color for the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043132 - Method and apparatus for displaying a power-up image on an imaging device upon power-up: An imaging device and/or system which has an image sensor module for generating first image data representing images captured by the image sensor module. The imaging device also has an image processor for receiving and processing the first image data. The image processor has a power-up image circuit for generating... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080043133 - Method of continuously capturing images in single lens reflex digital camera: The first frame of captured image data is stored as raw data in a main memory, and parameters for exposure control and white balance control are calculated from the stored image data and are set in the RPU. The second and subsequent frames of captured image data are processed in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043134 - Imaging device: The imaging device includes an image sensor, a lens member adapted to focus external radiation towards the image sensor and a heat shield to inhibit thermal damage to the lens member. The heat shield may include an optical filter between the lens member and the external radiation.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080043136 - Automatic focusing apparatus and image pickup apparatus: An automatic focusing apparatus performs focusing a first automatic focusing method in which lens drive control is performed based on a focus signal so that a focus lens is moved to an in-focus point, and a second automatic focusing method in which lens drive control is performed based on information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080043135 - Photographing apparatus and in-focus position searching method: The present invention provides a photographing apparatus, in which an object image is formed on an image pickup element through a photographing lens, and a desired frequency component is extracted from an image signal obtained by the image pickup element through a filter so that the extracted frequency component is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043137 - Apparatus, method and system for image forming: An image forming apparatus includes a digital multi function peripheral (MFP) body, an external controller that is connected to an external apparatus via a network and exchanges data with the MFP body, plural communication units that signal-connect the MFP and the external controller, and an operation panel provided in the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080043138 - Digital image forming device and a digital image forming method used thereon: A digital image forming device and a digital image forming method used thereon are provided. The digital image forming device includes a light metering device, a processor, a frequency generator, a timing generator, and a light sensor. The light metering device detects a surrounding light value and transmits it to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043139 - Apparatus and method for mounting a photographing device: Provided are an apparatus and a method of mounting a photographing device capable of aligning the photographing device accurately when the photographing device is mounted. The apparatus for mounting the photographing device includes a base member including at least a lens unit; a photographing device converting light transmitted through the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080043140 - Method and apparatus for encoding and for decoding a main video signal and one or more auxilliary video signals: Normally, digital PIP video signals are directly edited into the main video signal and then encoded jointly into a single coded video stream. However, in order to give a user full control over the PIP presentation of the encoded video signals, each PIP signal requires a separate encoding, and in... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080043142 - Method and apparatus for detecting sawtooth and field motion: The present invention provides a video detecting device including a first pixel detector, a second pixel detector, and a determining unit. The first pixel detector compares the intensity of a target pixel of a target scan line in a first field with the intensity of first comparing pixels of scan... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080043141 - Video signal scaling apparatus: According to one embodiment, a video signal scaling apparatus converts an input video signal and outputs as a scaling video signal while enlarging or reducing the number of pixels. The video signal scaling apparatus includes an adaptive interpolation circuit converting the input video signal and outputting as an interpolation video... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080043143 - Mobile audio-video receiver with movable display: A mobile audio-video receiver with a movable display includes: a base for containing circuitry; a front surface of the base defined by a first long side of the base having a first direction, a second long side of the base opposite to the first long side and having a second... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080043144 - Multimodal identification and tracking of speakers in video: A computer program product includes machine readable instructions for providing enhanced video output by: receiving footage including likeness information in a plurality of modalities; demultiplexing the plurality of modalities to provide information for each modality; comparing information from at least two of the modalities for determining a correlation in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080043145 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image display apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus and image processing method capable of obtaining better picture quality by appropriately improving the sharpness of edges of an image. In order to achieve the object, the image processing apparatus comprises a zoom ratio control means for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043146 - Display device: A display device comprises a connecting port, a microprocessor, an on-screen-display circuit and a screen. The display device can connect to a signal source at least. When the microprocessor can not receive the product name of the signal source, the on-screen-display circuit displays the connecting port name on the screen.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043147 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a signal input part which receives a video signal; a signal processor which processes the video signal inputted through the signal input part according to a predetermined offset value; a controller which compensates the offset value of the signal processor to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043148 - Method and apparatus for image scaling: A source image with an input vertical resolution and an input horizontal resolution is received using an input clock signal. An intermediate image with an output vertical resolution and the input horizontal resolution is generated using an intermediate clock signal by scaling the source image. An output image with the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080043149 - Apparatus and method for compensating for varying adjacent channel conditions: An apparatus such as a television signal receiver is capable of removing adjacent channel energy for extremely different desired channel bandwidths and varying adjacent channel conditions. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a digital signal source for providing a digital signal having a symbol rate, and a plurality... Agent: Joseph J Laks Thomson Licensing Inc

20080043150 - Managing the color temperature for a light source array: Providing color management includes receiving measurements of the intensity of colors. A light source generates light beams to yield the colors, where the light beams are generated in accordance to image data to create an image. A target color value is established. A duty cycle sequence operable to control the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080043151 - Luminance signal/carriage color signal separating circuit and method: An embodiment has a C separating circuit which separates a carriage color signal and which outputs a reference, a lead, and a delayed composite video signals, a filter that extracts a high-frequency carriage color component with a significant variation in hue from the carriage color signal, a first calculation circuit... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080043152 - Apparatus and method of controlling black stretch: An apparatus for controlling black stretch includes a black stretching unit, an offset adjusting unit and an output unit. The black stretching unit performs black stretch processing on a video signal less than or equal to the maximum value of a black stretch control range in response to a slope... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080043153 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: Disclosed is a video processing apparatus including: a brightness adjusting part which adjusts the brightness of a whole portion of a received video signal according to a brightness adjusting value; and a brightness stretching part which calculates gradient values to stretch a first brightness in a first portion including a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043154 - Method and apparatus for processing video data: A method for processing video data including a plurality of fields is disclosed. The method includes: dividing the plurality of fields into a plurality of image blocks; examining each image block of a target field to determine whether each image block of the target field corresponds to a film mode... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080043155 - Receiving apparatus and receiving method: A receiving apparatus is disclosed. A digital tuner section selects a modulation signal having a predetermined frequency from a radio wave of a digital television broadcast, demodulates the modulation signal, and outputs a resultant transport stream. A separation section separates the transport stream into a video stream and an additional... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080043156 - Television display device and method of operating a television system: A television display device for use with a television display for displaying television services, an input for providing at least one command to the television display device and a broadcast stream containing a stream of key files including data representing respective key images, the television display device including a memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043157 - Three dimensional projection system for the display of information: An image projection system for displaying information for observation by at least one viewer of an event by projecting the information onto a venue structure or a game associated object, that comprises a projection device; an image projected by the projection device for observation by the viewer, and a projection... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080036849 - Apparatus for image display and control method thereof: An image display apparatus for controlling a picture in picture (PIP) function in a multi function monitor and a method thereof are provided. The image display apparatus for displaying an image based on a plurality of video signal includes: a processor which receives at least one video signal and displays... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080036850 - Videoconferencing environment: A method of videoconferencing includes arranging a portable environment to include a first wall generally parallel to and spaced from a second wall and facing a videocamera on the first wall toward the second wall. An on-camera subject zone is implemented between the first wall and the second wall via:... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080036851 - System, method, and device for providing content on a wireless communication device: A method for providing television content to a wireless communication device via a home network includes receiving channel selection information for a selected channel from the wireless communication device over a wireless communication link; tuning one or more tuners of a wireless access device to the selected channel; obtaining television... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080036852 - Panoramic imaging device: A panoramic imaging device comprises: a photodetector array; a lens array having, on one plane, a center lens for receiving light in a front range of 36° to form a central unit image on the photodetector array, and left and right side lenses for receiving lights in left and right... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080036853 - High resolution autostereoscopic display apparatus with interlaced image: An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a backlight unit, a polarizing plate disposed in front of the backlight unit; a display panel displaying a left eye image and a right eye image by interlacing pixel lines of the left and right eye images alternately and sequentially; a lenticular lens sheet, disposed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080036854 - Method and system of communicating and rendering stereoscopic and dual-view images: A method and system for communicating and rendering stereoscopic or dual-view images are provided. In one embodiment, a method rendering stereoscopic images includes alternating, on a display, left and right perspectives of an image. Each of the left and right perspectives corresponds to a respective array of pixels on the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080036856 - Imaging apparatus and endoscope apparatus using the same: An imaging apparatus that can shoot a moving image and a still image includes: a CCD 1; an illumination light source 3 for illuminating a subject; and a controlling apparatus 10 for controlling the CCD 1 and the illumination light source 3. The CCD 1 includes: a plurality of photoelectric... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080036855 - Sensing apparatus and method for vehicles: A sensing apparatus for a host vehicle or the like, the apparatus comprises sensing means arranged to capture a first dataset of digital data comprising a set of data points representative of an image of a scene around the host vehicle, said image including at least one salient feature; first... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080036857 - Video image positional relationship correction apparatus, steering assist apparatus having the video image positional relationship correction apparatus and video image positional relationship correction method: A video image positional relationship correction apparatus is disclosed. Coordinate conversion parameters including internal parameters of a camera and attachment parameters are used as unknown numbers. Relational expressions are produced such that the number of the relational expressions is larger than the number of the coordinate conversion parameters to be... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080036858 - On-deman vehicle entertaining device: A on-demand video entertaining device includes a video program unit, which has a plurality of video programs each providing a video signal, a modulation unit to modulate the video signal provided by the video program unit and output the modulated signal through a coaxial cable, a video device unit installed... Agent: Hdsl

20080036859 - Digital surveillance camera: A digital surveillance camera includes a video capture component, a data converter coupled to the video capture component and a signal transmission unit coupled to an output terminal of the data converter. The data converter processes the video signal with high frequency components from the video capture component in digital... Agent: Thomas E. Sisson Jackson Walker, LLP

20080036860 - Ptz presets control analytiucs configuration: A system and method for PTZ presets control analytic configuration in one aspect provides a camera that includes PTZ preset information and analytics configuration information to allow local, that is, within the camera, processing at each preset position. In one embodiment, the information is set-up or configured using, for example,... Agent: Honeywell Law Department Patent Services

20080036861 - Targeted object pursuit system: A targeted object pursuit system comprising a first setting block, a second setting block, a recognition block, a first determination block, a second determination block, and a re-designation block is provided. The first setting block initially designates a partial area as a pursuit area. The second setting block designates the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080036862 - Digital video surveillance system: A surveillance system is provided having a base unit for receiving digital video and audio transmissions from accessory units equipped with a camera having pan and tilt functions, a motion sensor, an intercom, infrared sensors and a doorbell button for contacting the interior of the dwelling a recording feature is... Agent: Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, PC

20080036863 - Method and apparatus for surveillance using an image server: Methods and apparatus for an image server surveillance system provide for as control and coordination of cameras that may be widely deployed, analyzing data from multiple cameras, making data available in such a way that it can be efficiently transmitted over a network and can be easily displayed to potentially... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20080036864 - System and method for capturing and transmitting image data streams: A method and system for capturing and transmitting image data streams. In one embodiment, the method includes capturing image data with a image sensor; creating a window within the image data and creating a detailed image data stream based on the windowed image data; reducing the image data and creating... Agent: Schox PLC

20080036865 - Automated test measurement system and method therefor: An automated test measurement system (ATMS) (100), for automatically measuring a device under test (DUT) (60), includes a control module (110), a signal generation module (120), an encoder module (130), and a signal analyzer module (140). The control module receives an encoder parameter and a test item, and generates a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080036866 - Method for examining shooting direction of camera apparatus, device thereof and structure for installing sensor: In a test method in which an image photographed by a camera apparatus 1 attached to a body of a vehicle is displayed on a display device 17 and an examiner examines compliance or non-compliance of the shooting direction of the camera apparatus 1 by comparing the position of a... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080036867 - Camera motion parameter retrieving system & solving process: A camera motion parameter retrieving system and solving process begins with using the equation of that the vector field divergence volume integral is equal to the total outgoing throughput passing through the surface area of the volume through the vector in conjunction with camera motion detection to solve the Motion... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080036868 - Digital camera: A digital camera has a display processor, a photographing processor, and a display controller. The display processor displays a moving image on a display on the basis of image-pixel signals read from an image sensor successively. The photographing processor carriers out an exposure in accordance with the operation of a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080036870 - Digital camera: In order to automatically determine a scene, a probability that a presumed target which is a characteristic target in an imaging scene is present is calculated in advance for each imaging scene as scene reliability. In order to calculate the scene reliability, a color characteristic and a brightness characteristic of... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080036872 - Image processing system, display device, program, and information recording medium: An image processing system is disclosed. The image processing system includes an image characteristic information generating unit for calculating a maximal luminance value, an APL, and a luminance histogram of one frame based on an image signal to be displayed, a luminance expansion rate calculating unit for calculating a luminance... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036869 - Voice remote control: A device may include an image capture device and logic. The logic may be configured to receive voice input from a user and identify the voice input. The logic may further be configured to perform a control action associated with the image capturing device based on the identified voice input.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080036871 - Electronic camera system, photographing ordering device and photographing system: An electronic camera system includes a photographing ordering system and a photographing system. The photographing system includes an image sensor which photographs a subject and generates an image signal; a camera-side communication unit which communicates with the photographing ordering system; a subject judging unit which judges whether or not the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036875 - Methods of creating a virtual window: The systems and methods for real time transmission of an image from an image sensor having a field of view to a processor for selectively adjusting a resolution of the image as a function of a viewer's focus point.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080036874 - Modular, multimedia pen having a camera module and a printer module: A modular multimedia pen has a camera module and a printer module. The camera module has an image sensor and a central processing unit. The central processing unit has program memory, image storage memory and an image processing unit for transforming the captured image into an L*a*b* format for printing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080036873 - System for configuring an optoelectronic sensor: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for automatic optoelectronic detection and inspection of objects, based on capturing digital images of a two-dimensional field of view in which an object to be detected or inspected may be located, analyzing the images, and making and reporting decisions on the status of the object.... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080036876 - Electronic apparatus having a display function: An electronic apparatus having a display function is able to alter the orientation of an image displayed on a display means for displaying images between a first orientation and a second orientation different from the first orientation. A plurality of operating means are provided at positions symmetrical between disposal positions... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080036877 - Network camera and control method thereof: The network camera of the present invention is connected to a terminal apparatus, and includes a camera and a memory. The camera photographs an image and is movable within a predetermined photographing range. The memory stores predetermined positional information indicating a position of the predetermined object. It is prohibited to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080036879 - Imaging apparatus and wireless communication partner searching method: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device for photographing a subject image to output as image data, a recording device for recording the image data as an image file, a wireless communication device, a partner device searching device for searching for a partner device of a wireless communication, and a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080036878 - System for capturing and displaying images: A system 1 for capturing and displaying images is described, which includes a camera module 10 having an image sensor 11, a display unit 18 and a control unit 17. The camera module 10 includes a memory module 14 for storing patterns and messages as well as a function module... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080036882 - Image taking apparatus and control method therefor: Disclosed is an image taking apparatus that has functions of performing plural types of corrections on a captured image, and can continuously execute the plural types of corrections on the image. The image taking apparatus can be configured in such a way that when image data recorded in a recording... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080036881 - Imaging device and imaging method for use in such device: An imaging device which assures high-quality image information free from a line noise by extracting line noise information from a taken image, detecting an existence of an extrinsic line noise in the image, and correcting the line noise if it exists. The imaging device comprises a memory circuit for storing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080036883 - Image pickup apparatus, defect compensation device, and defect-compensating method: An image pickup apparatus has an image pickup device, a defect-information-storing unit that stores defect information relative to a defective pixel in the image pickup element, a compensation-signal-generating unit that generates a compensation signal for each defective pixel, first and second compensation units that compensate for the pixel signal relative... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080036884 - Signal processing device, image sensing system, and signal processing method: An image sensing system is disclosed. The image sensing system includes a signal determination unit which recognizes a saturated region of an image obtained by photoelectric conversion where the signal level is saturated, and a desaturated region where the signal level is not saturated, and determines whether an inner region... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080036885 - Image-signal processing device: Defect correction and other de-noising as well as resolution maintenance and contour correction can all be appropriately performed in an image-signal processing device for processing an image signal from an image sensor. First through third de-noising parts 30a through 30c are provided separately to correspond to a brightness-processing part 36,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036886 - Methods for generating enhanced digital images: Slight camera movement between capture of successive images is advantageously utilized to minimize or eliminate the need to interpolate in order to fill in the “holes” in a Bayer pattern. The captured color values from multiple appropriately positioned images are used to fill these holes. For example, instead of interpolating... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080036888 - Optical sensor and solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels stored in one-dimensional or two-dimensional array, each of the plurality of pixels including a photodiode receiving light and producing photocharges, an overflow gate coupled to the photodiode and transferring photocharges that overflow the photodiode during a storage operation, and a storage... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080036887 - Photo-detecting apparatus: The present invention relates to a photo-detecting apparatus having a structure for enabling photodetection with high sensitivity and wide dynamic range. When light is incident on a pixel section of an active pixel-type within a photo-detecting section, a voltage value corresponding to the amount of an electric charge generated at... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080036889 - Solid-state imaging device and driving method for a solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device that enables more images to be photographed and a reading time to be shortened by effectively using storage cells is provided. By combining pieces of information which correspond to signal charges output from a photoelectric converter and are sequentially stored in storage cells, it is possible... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080036890 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus, control method thereof, imaging apparatus, and imaging system: Each pixel has a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert light into electrical charges and to store the electrical charges, an amplifying unit configured to amplify a signal based on the electrical charges stored in the photoelectric conversion unit and to output the signal to an output line, and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080036891 - Photoelectric conversion device and image capturing device: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel unit including a photoelectric converter, an amplifier arranged on the output side of the pixel unit, an output unit arranged on the output side of the amplifier, a first restriction circuit, and a second restriction circuit. The first restriction circuit restricts, between the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080036892 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a solid-state imaging device having a pixel section formed of a plurality of pixels in a two-dimensional array each containing a photoelectric conversion section for generating a signal corresponding to a quantity of incident light, a read drive section for setting one or more pixels... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080036893 - Ccd sensor and method for expanding dynamic range of ccd sensor: A CCD sensor arrangement comprises a CCD sensor, which comprises a detector having an active area comprising pixels that receive charges; a read-out register functionally connected with the aforesaid active area; means for transferring charges from the active area to the read-out register; at least two read-out wells functionally connected... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20080036894 - Comparison apparatus and method for obtaining photographic effects: A comparison apparatus and method for obtaining photographic effects is provided. The apparatus includes a digital display screen, and a digital memory containing multiple example images and diagrams to show how those example images were achieved. The images in the memory are classified by lighting type, color, camera, and lens.... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson PC

20080036895 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes a display that displays photographing information. When the display is turned off in response to an operation performed by a user, the photographing information is prevented from being changed even if a button or a dial for changing a set value, such as a shutter... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080036896 - Projecting accommodating device and projecting system using the same: A projecting accommodating device used in an electronic device having a display monitor is provided. The accommodating device includes a shell body and a lens. The shell body has a cavity for receiving the electronic device, and the lens is disposed on the shell body. When the electronic device is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080036898 - Image pickup apparatus, method of controlling the image pickup apparatus, and control program for implementing the method: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of removing foreign substance, such as dust, attached to an optical member disposed in front of an image pickup element, even when accessories are exchanged in a power-off state of the image pickup apparatus. The type or state of an accessory mounted on... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080036897 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a first image pick-up unit, a projecting unit that projects imaging light, an optical unit that transmits part of light entering from a first image pick-up direction and guides the part of the light to the first image pick-up unit while reflecting part of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080036899 - Target workpiece inspection apparatus, image alignment method, and computer-readable recording medium with program recorded thereon: A target workpiece inspection apparatus comprises an optical image acquiring unit to acquire an optical image of a target workpiece, a reference image generating unit to generate a reference image to be compared, a difference judging unit to judge whether an absolute value of difference between pixel values of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080036900 - Focusing information visualization device, and corresponding method, program and recording medium: The focusing information visualization system of the invention extracts an edge having an edge intensity of not less than a first reference value Th1 and an edge width of not greater than a second reference value Th2 in a photographic image and displays the extracted edge in a preset color... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080036901 - Imaging apparatus: An AF controlling unit (83) starts an outside light AF operation controlled by an outside AF unit (81) by a half-pressing of a shutter release button (61), and a change over between the outside AF operation and a CCDAF operation controlled by a CCDAF unit (82) is controlled corresponding to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080036902 - Image-pickup apparatus: An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which is capable of realizing a focus-effect function in a constant time without being influenced by contrast of an object or the position of a focus lens. The apparatus includes a signal generator which generates a focus evaluation signal, a detector which detects information corresponding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080036903 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, each pixel including a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions disposed in the depth direction of a semiconductor; and a filter which is disposed on the incident side of the image pickup region and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080036904 - Digital camera: A digital camera has a battery that supplies electric power, a battery level detector, a time detector, a remaining voltage calculator, and a boot controller. When the digital camera is turned off, the battery level detector detects a remaining voltage level of the battery. When the digital camera is turned... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080036905 - Display rotation apparatus and method of joining the display rotation apparatus to a display: A display rotation apparatus and a method of joining the display rotation apparatus with a display. The display rotation apparatus, which includes a fixed body, an arm part having one end joined to the fixed body, a hinge member joined to the other end of the arm part, and a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080036906 - Method and system for direct recording of video information onto a disk medium: A method for converting video information from an incoming format to an outgoing format using a process free from one or more intermediary files. The method includes receiving video information in a first format and receiving a desired output media format based upon a first input and a desired TV... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080036907 - Video display device: [Problem]To minimize an increase in the number of screen modes, and to provide modes capable of giving a remarkable sense of presence and modes capable of displaying right circles in the video display device whose aspect ratio is 10:3. [Means to Solve the Problem]A video display device whose aspect ratio... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080036908 - Method and de-interlacing apparatus that employs recursively generated motion history maps: A de-interlacer includes recursive motion history map generating circuitry operative to determine a motion value associated with one or more pixels in interlaced fields based on pixel intensity information from at least two neighboring same polarity fields. The recursive motion history map generating circuitry generates a motion history map containing... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080036909 - Method and apparatus for selective data reception: A terminal 13 for selectively receiving broadcast data in a transport stream 7 over a first network, the broadcast data including a series of bursts of associated data packets (B1), comprises a controller 16 and a receiver 19. The controller 16 is configured to extract information identifying a group of... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080036910 - Device and method for generating variable slice reference level: A device and a method for generating a variable slice reference level. At least two variable slice reference levels used for slicing VBI data are generated. The device includes a high/low average value generator, a reference value detector, and a slice level generator. The high/low average value generator generates an... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080036911 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing a graphics signal according to a reference signal: A method for synchronizing a graphics signal provided by a graphics generating unit according to a video reference signal, the method comprising recei