Television inventions 03/08

20080074488 - Method and apparatus for context sensitive control of associated devices: A method (100) or system (600) of controlling audible alerts includes detecting (102) a communication event among participant devices (204 and 206), detecting (104) a non-participant device (208, 210 or 212) within a predetermined range of a participant device, and sending (106) a wireless control signal by at least one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080074489 - Apparatus, method, and medium for generating panoramic image: Provided are an apparatus, method, and medium for generating a panoramic image. In the apparatus, a previously captured image and a currently captured image are projected onto a predetermined curved surface so as to form a first mapping image and a second mapping image, respectively. Movement values in predetermined directions... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080074492 - Endoscopic apparatus and control method for endoscopic apparatus: According to the invention, a processor CPU includes a scope information extracting section, a light source information extracting section, a main white balance searching section, a sub-white-balance extracting section, a main white balance update section, a sub-white-balance update section, and an image processing control section.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080074487 - Studio booth with preliminary low resolution transmission and subsequent high resolution transmission: A method to produce in an area of restricted size in a realistic manner while minimizing perspective distortion and subject distortion a recording of an individual that produces the illusion that the individual is located in a larger area.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20080074490 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: an elemental image display part including pixels arranged in a matrix form in a display plane; and an optical plate formed by arranging optical apertures installed so as to be opposed to the elemental image display part and prolonged in a straight line manner... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080074491 - Capsule endoscope system: To provide a capsule endoscope system capable of easily detecting or correcting a communication error, without increasing power consumption of the capsule endoscope. The capsule endoscope system includes a receiving apparatus that has a pixel defect corrector. The receiving apparatus receives a radio signal that includes image data imaged by... Agent: Thomas Spineli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20080074493 - Method and apparatus for providing audio comments about a product or service: A method and apparatus for providing audio comments about a product or service records audio comments provided by users of the system. The recorded audio comments are associated with an indicated product or service on a web-site. A link is generated between the recorded audio comments and an indicator of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080074495 - Surveillance camera with lens adjustment mechanism: A surveillance camera has a housing, a photographic lens installed in the housing, and an adjustment mechanism connected to the photographic lens. The photographic lens has a first adjustable lens for adjusting distance, and a second adjustable lens for adjusting focal length. A distance adjustment ring is coupled to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080074503 - Camera device and title edit method in camera device: According to one embodiment, a camera device includes; a moving image data generating device generating moving image data with preceding data, which has moving image data indicating a shot video and preceding data thereof indicating a preceding image reproduced prior to the moving image data; a title data generating device... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080074502 - Digital camera: A digital camera including a layout inputting unit that inputs a layout in drawing a digital image, an internal memory stored with the inputted layout, a selection receiving unit (S400) that receives selection of the layout stored in the internal memory, an object image outputting unit (S410, S420) that outputs... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080074504 - Image blurring correction unit, image blurring correction apparatus, and imaging apparatus: An image blurring correction unit comprises: a holding module that holds a lens; a support member having a support portion that holds the holding module at an axial point so as to be swingable in an optional direction, the axial point being one point along an outer periphery of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080074506 - Apparatus and method for photographing panoramic image: Disclosed is a panoramic image photographing apparatus including a camera module for photographing an image of subject, an image processing unit for generating preview image data according to an operating mode for panoramic photographing by the camera module, a storage unit for storing data of an image panoramic-photographed from the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080074524 - Skimmed charge capture and charge packet removal for increased effective pixel photosensor full well capacity: An imaging device having pixels that store charge from a photosensor under at least one storage gate during a sampling period. A driver used to operate the at least one storage gate, estimates how much charge in the pixel exceeds a predetermined limit during a non-destructive pixel sensing operation. A... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080074525 - Double sample active pixel sensor with double sampling temperature sensor: A system which operates to determine temperature of an image sensor using the same signal chain that is used to detect the image sensor actual outputs. A correlated double sampling circuit is used to obtain the image outputs. That's same correlated double sampling circuit is used to receive two different... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080074526 - Image pickup device and image pickup method: In a solid-state image pickup device using a CCD solid-state image pickup device, a vertical smear is reduced so as not to be influenced by a dark current such as a white blemish of the CCD solid-state image pickup device. A dark current variation in the vertical direction of a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080074527 - Solid-state imaging apparatus, driving method thereof, and camera: A solid-state imaging apparatus 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 is operable to vertically transfer a plurality of signal packets and a dummy... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080074528 - Zoom module using rotational actuator with anti-lock feature, even force distribution and shock damage prevention methods: An optical module includes a first optics group, a second optics group, and an image sensor, wherein the first optics group and second optics group are configured to provide an image having a focus and a magnification to the image sensor. In some embodiments of the present invention, a first... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080074530 - Imaging apparatus with af optical zoom: A novel imaging apparatus capable of correcting a focus state by an AF detection value both simply and surely has been disclosed. The imaging apparatus comprises an auto-focus drive section for moving a lens, an AF processing section for calculating an AF detection value indicating the focus state from imaging... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080074529 - Imaging apparatus, control method of imaging apparatus, and computer program: An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The imaging apparatus includes: a face detecting part configured to detect a face area from an input image in the imaging apparatus; a measurement frame setting part configured to set a measurement frame corresponding to a face area that includes a face area and a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080074531 - Imaging apparatus: There is disclosed an imaging apparatus for displaying a live view image, in which an enlargement ratio of the live view image dynamically changes according to changes in in-focus state of a subject.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080074537 - Video signal processing apparatus, video displaying apparatus and high resolution method for video signal: For providing a technology for preferably achieving high resolution of video signals of a video signal or moving video, with a small number of frames thereof, a video signal processing apparatus comprise an input unit to be inputted a plural number of video frames, a resolution converter unit, having resolution... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080074538 - De-interlacing method and apparatus: A de-interlacing method is applied to a to-be-de-interlaced field including display pixels of display lines and to-be-interpolated pixels of to-be-interpolated lines. First, a corresponding edge-direction value of each of edge pixels in the to-be-de-interlaced field is determined. Next, it is judged whether one of the display pixels near each to-be-interpolated... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080074539 - Apparatus and method for detecting vertical blanking interval signals: An apparatus for detecting vertical blanking interval (VBI) signals and an associated detecting method are disclosed. The apparatus can reduce the probability of false alarm by dynamically adjusting the range of a detection window within the VBI interval, thereby enhancing the detection accuracy. The apparatus includes a detection unit and... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080074540 - Portable image monitoring and identifying device: The present invention discloses a portable image monitoring and identifying device suitable for monitoring an activity in the image and/or identifying image contents and when an image activity and/or an identified image content triggers certain preset event, a command or trigger signal can be sent out for controlling other external... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080074550 - Mobile terminal having digital broadcast reception capability and pip display control method: A mobile terminal capable of digital broadcast reception and supports a touch screen function, and a picture-in-picture (PIP) display control method for the mobile terminal. The PIP display control method includes processing a received digital broadcast signal into channel signals of individual channels, displaying video data of a selected channel... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080074551 - Electronic flash, electronic camera and light emitting head: R, G and B LEDs are used as a light source of an electronic flash. Electric energy is supplied to a capacitor to the LEDs. A system controller controls light emitting amounts of the LEDs so that a color temperature of the electronic flash light becomes a color temperature that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080074552 - Image quality improvement device and method thereof: Disclosed are an image quality improvement device and method. The image quality improvement device includes a filter which separates an input video signal into a luminance signal and a chrominance signal, and a noise reduction unit which detects a motion in the input video signal by using the luminance signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080074553 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus includes: a cross-color detecting module for detecting whether at least one pixel carried by a composite signal has cross-color effect; and an image processing module, coupled to the cross-color detecting module, for performing a first predetermined operation or a second predetermined operation on the composite signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080068445 - Teleconferencing between various 4g wireless entities such as mobile terminals and fixed terminals including laptops and television receivers fitted with a special wireless 4g interface: Use of class of service characters combined with the receiving terminal address sent by the originating terminal will allow the wireless carrier to process the call as a video to video call by accessing a “caller ID” table distinct from the normal voice “caller ID” table. The new originating “caller... Agent: Alfred G. Rockefeller

20080068446 - Techniques for managing visual compositions for a multimedia conference call: Techniques for managing visual compositions for a multimedia conference call are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor to allocate a display object bit rate for multiple display objects where a total display object bit rate for all display objects is equal to or less than a total input bit... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080068447 - Bedside video communication system: A video conferencing system and method for establishing video conference sessions between residents of a facility and remote terminals.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080068448 - Method for adapting a device to participate in video conference calls: The present invention provides a method by which the capabilities of a device that is not specifically adapted for use as a video endpoint can be determined. The capabilities of the device may be, for example, whether or not an application required for the device to act as a video... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080068444 - Consistent quality for multipoint videoconferencing systems: A technique for maintaining consistent video quality between a plurality of videoconference sites is disclosed. Calibration correction factors are determined from video calibration data obtained from the videoconference sites. The calibration factors are applied to transmissions between the videoconference sites.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080068443 - Videoconferencing with enhanced illusion of physical presence in a common space: A technique for enhancing the illusion of physical presence in a common space during a multipoint video conference is disclosed. The technique may include controlling the appearance of a first portion of the video images separately from an appearance of a second portion of the video images to achieve a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080068450 - Method and apparatus for displaying moving images using contrast tones in mobile communication terminal: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying a moving image using a plurality of contrast tones in a mobile communication terminal, which allow effective display of color moving image data. The method includes generating contrast tone moving image data represented by a plurality of contrast tones from color moving... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080068451 - Rotating prism for a digital camera in a portable mobile communication device: The present invention presents an apparatus that can be manipulated to provide multiple views to a single camera module. The apparatus includes a cylindrical rotating prism assembly that can be rotated about its vertical axis. A first reflective surface reflects the field of view of a lens assembly 90° along... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20080068454 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes an image processing controller which acquires an image from an image storage unit, controls various types of image processing on the acquired image, and stores a processed image in the image storage unit, a region detector which detects a feature... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080068449 - Method and apparatus for using far end camera control (fecc) messages to implement participant and layout selection in a multipoint videoconference: A method, an apparatus and a medium encoded with instructions for providing layout selection, participant selection, and/or participant-to-participant far end camera control of the selected participant for use in a continuous presence multipoint videoconference. The method includes receiving one or more far end camera control messages over a packet network... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080068452 - Panoramic imaging device: A panoramic imaging device comprises: a lens array with lenses in a matrix; an imaging element; and prisms for mirror-reflecting lights entering in left/right ranges in a capture range to guide them to side lenses in left/right columns. Light in a front range is inverted up/down by center lenses and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080068453 - In-vivo information acquiring apparatus: Image information (corresponding to 1 pixel) of 8 bits acquired by an imaging unit (23) are input into an A/D converter (24a1) provided on an AD board (23a), the input image information are digitally converted to parallel signals of 8 bits, the parallel signals are divided into every 4 bits... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080068455 - Rear facing viewing system for large vehicles: A vehicular viewing system is disclosed that allows a driver following a large vehicle the ability to see in front of the large vehicle. The viewing system may consist of an electronic viewing arrangement, a periscope viewing arrangement or both.... Agent: George R. Reardon

20080068456 - Camera: A camera comprises an imaging unit for imaging an object image; a first storage unit for storing plural still pictures and plural motion pictures, as images, and information other than the images; a display unit for displaying one or plural images, or an image output from the imaging unit; a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080068459 - Apparatus and method for controlling video surveillance system: A video surveillance system includes a video camera, a display device, and a control apparatus. The video camera is used for capturing video images. The display device is used for displaying the video images. The control apparatus is used for controlling the video camera. The control apparatus includes a detector... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080068457 - Hidden security techniques for wireless security devices: A security device transmits captured information wirelessly while transmitting checksums for the information via a power line. The security device may be a security camera, a badge reader, or the like.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080068460 - Covert camera system having multiple configurations: An improved camera system is disclosed having multiple operating configurations useful for conducting covert surveillance. The covert camera system comprises separate camera and display units with associated housings containing respective image sensing and viewing means operatively connected by an electrical cable and movable relative to each other upon an articulated... Agent: Armand M. Vozzo, Jr., Esquire

20080068458 - Video monitoring system: A video monitoring system includes a video monitor configured to receive a video image from a video source such as a video camera, decompress the video image, and display the video image on a display screen according to a display format. The video monitor may be used to adjust one... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080068462 - Face camera mount structure: A face camera mount structure in a vehicle has a camera for imaging a driver's face being disposed on a reverse side of a dial at a portion that does not interfere with a speedometer design portion on the dial. A camera facing portion of the dial that faces a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080068461 - Traffic law violation recording and transmitting system: Presented herein is a system that enables a vehicle operator to record continuous images of surrounding traffic activity, wherein the vehicle is equipped with a video camera 20 for continuously recording the vehicle surroundings. The system further comprises a marking switch 42 that enables the vehicle operator, upon viewing a... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080068463 - system and method for graphically enhancing the visibility of an object/person in broadcasting: The present invention provides a system and a method for graphically enhancing the visibility of an object/person on a video image used in broadcasting a sport event. For broadcasting the sport event, one or a plurality of video camera acquire video images of the event. The object/person of which the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080068464 - System for delivering images, program for delivering images, and method for delivering images: The present invention provides a system for delivering images, a program for delivering images, and a method for delivering images, which can deliver images according to the monitoring state for the images. There is provided a system for delivering images to at least one monitor, which includes an image receiving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068465 - Camera system for communicating information related to user authorization and image data over a radio communication system: An information processing system, such as a camera system, includes a radio communication system and an information appliance (such as a camera) communicable with the radio communication system within a predetermined distance. The information appliance includes an image pickup for obtaining image data by photographing a subject, a storing part... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080068466 - Imaging apparatus, method, and program: An imaging apparatus capable of reliably obtaining and recording an image that satisfies a predetermined condition. When a continuous imaging mode is set through an operation system, an image is obtained through continuous imaging, and a determination is made as to whether or not the image obtained through the continuous... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068467 - Signal processing integrated circuit, image reading device, and image forming apparatus: A signal processing IC that receives analog signals each corresponding to one of three colors from a color linear image sensor includes two systems of input-signal processing for each color each including at least a sample-and-hold circuit, a multiplexer circuit, a variable gain amplifier, and an A/D converter circuit. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080068468 - Image processing apparatus performing white balance control: An image processing apparatus includes a white balance amplifying unit configured to amplify color signals included in an image signal output from an image sensor according to a white balance gain, a first color signal information obtaining unit configured to obtain first color signal information from the color signals before... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080068469 - Image reproducing apparatus, image reproducing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An apparatus designates a key for searching for an image, and acquires attribute information based on the designated key and image information on an image having the attribute information. The apparatus displays an amount of images classified into a group corresponding to the attribute information based on the acquired attribute... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080068470 - Electronic device mounted with memory card and reset method of the memory card: An electronic device mounted with a memory card and a reset method of the memory card. The electronic device includes a power supply unit to supply power to a memory card, and a card interface unit to cut off power from the power supply unit and then resupply the power... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080068471 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixel cells; a vertical signal line; a column signal processing circuit connected to the vertical signal line; a memory section for, during signal processing by the column signal processing circuit of the pixel cells of a first line,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080068472 - Digital camera and method: Adaptive brightness enhancement of digital camera images constructs tone mapping from increment high and decrement low occupancy levels' differentials.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080068473 - Studio booth contest using preselected chroma screen backdrop: A method of conducting a contest by producing in an area of restricted size in a realistic manner while minimizing perspective distortion and subject distortion a recording of an individual that produces the illusion that the individual is located in a different locale. The method utilizes a preselected scenic backdrop.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20080068474 - Imaging apparatus and defective pixel correcting method: A disclosed imaging unit includes an image sensor in which plural light receiving elements are arranged in a matrix; a defective information storage unit configured to hold position information of a defective light receiving element in the image sensor; an imaging region moving unit configured to change an imaging region... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080068475 - Image photographing apparatus, method and medium: An image photographing apparatus, method and medium that can enhance color reproducibility and sensitivity. The image photographing apparatus includes a filter unit having a first filter region to pass at least one band of an incident light signal corresponding to a complementary color of a first color, and a second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068476 - Image device and method of manufacturing the same: An image device which includes reflowed color filters. Reflowed color filters may be formed by heat treating preliminary color filters. When preliminary color filters are reflowed, color filters of different colors may be formed continuous with each other. Contiguous color filters in an image device may reduce manufacturing costs, maximize... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20080068477 - Solid-state imaging device: This disclosure concerns a solid-state imaging device comprising plurality of first pixels each including a colorless filter to convert the visible light into a first electric signal; plurality of second pixels each including a first filter having a peak of a spectral transmission at a first wavelength of the visible... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080068479 - Solid-state imaging device improving s/n ratio of signals obtained by electron multiplication and a method of driving the same: A solid-state imaging device includes photo-sensitive cells for converting incident light to signal charges, and a transfer path for transferring, in response to a drive signal fed through a transfer electrode, the signal charges read out from the photo-sensitive cells. The solid-state imaging device outputs electrical signals corresponding to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080068478 - Image sensor and digital camera: The present invention provides an image sensor that includes a plurality of light-receiving elements and a charge output component. The plurality of light-receiving elements are disposed inside the image sensor in a matrix arrangement corresponding to respective pixels. The light-receiving elements each includes a light-receiving surface at a front face... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080068480 - Solid state image pickup device and camera: An solid state image pickup device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions (PD1, PD2) for generating carriers by photoelectric conversions to accumulate the generated carriers, an amplifying unit for amplifying the carriers, being commonly provided to at least two photoelectric conversion regions, a first and a second transfer units... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080068481 - Solid-state image sensor device and driving method: A solid-state image sensor device having an image sensing portion performing the photoelectric conversion and being able to correspond to both progressive mode in which all picture element signals obtained by the scanning of one time are output independently, and interlaced mode in which a plurality of interlaced scannings are... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080068482 - Image-signal processing apparatus for use in combination with an image sensor: An image-signal processing apparatus (1) designed to process the signals output from a CCD image sensor (10) that reads pixel data for one screen, line by line, divides the pixel data into a plurality of channels and outputs the pixel data thus divided. The image-signal processing apparatus (1) detects and... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080068484 - Flat display panel and method of manufacture: A flat display for use in mobile terminals includes both a display function and a camera function, and the components for each of the functions are disposed on a common transparent substrate. The display function includes a plurality of display pixels, and each display pixel has an associated switching element.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080068485 - Image pickup device having quickview display function: In quickview display processing, a counter N is set to an initial value of 1, and a counter L is set to 4 times the counter N. Then, from a storage memory, the Lth frame of image data in frame data recorded by high-speed consecutive photographing is extracted, and an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080068483 - Image reproducing apparatus and image reproducing method: An image reproducing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display image data recorded on a recording medium, an instructing unit configured to instruct to change attribute information of image data displayed on the display unit, and an attribute information recording unit configured to record the attribute information instructed to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080068486 - Digital image apparatus and digital image system: A digital image apparatus includes: a storage unit in which digital image information is stored; a display unit that displays the digital image information stored in the storage unit; a setting unit that sets a recipient of the digital image information; and a communication unit that transmits the digital image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080068487 - Image display apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and image display method: An apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a captured image containing face detection information related to a face of an object detected during image capture, and information related to a focus detection area utilized during the image capture, an extraction unit that extracts an area based on the information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080068488 - Digital camera and dust reduction apparatus for digital camera: Arranged are an optical element, a piezoelectric element arranged on the optical element, and an oscillation circuit for causing the piezoelectric element to vibrate so as to generate vibrational waves, wherein the volume of the piezoelectric element is determined based on density of the piezoelectric element, mass of the optical... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080068489 - Image capturing apparatus: The present invention belongs to the field of an image capturing apparatus such as a camera for mobile phone and the like, and has an object to obtain a three axis lens shifting mechanism capable of achieving size reduction and cost reduction with simple structure and an image capturing apparatus... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080068490 - Digital camera: A digital camera of the present invention includes a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 133 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 133 to predetermined processing is displayed on a liquid... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080068491 - Imaging apparatus with automatic exposure adjusting function: In an imaging apparatus having LED 1j for emitting light toward an object, an imaging unit 1 having CCD id generates a first object image with LED 1j emitting light and a second object image with LED 1j emitting no light. Average brightness of the first object image and average... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080068492 - Image pickup apparatus having iris member and filter units: An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing a decline of resolution of a still image while keeping a dynamic range of exposure control. The image pickup apparatus capable of photographing with changing over a moving image and a still image, includes an iris mechanism for changing an amount of light... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080068493 - Image pickup apparatus with rotary lens barrel: An image pickup apparatus includes a lens barrel, a hollow shaft, a base, electric wiring, and a protection member. The lens barrel has a lens and an image pickup device embedded therein. The hollow shaft is rotatable about an axis intersecting with an optical axis of the lens. The axis... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080068494 - Hinge method and apparatus and electronic device having the same: A hinge apparatus includes a first hinge unit having a first hinge shaft rotatably connected to a first electronic unit, a second hinge unit having a second hinge shaft with a hollow to connect a second electronic unit to be rotatable in a predetermined angle to the first hinge shaft,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080068495 - Imajector: The named invention, Imajector, is an invention that will enable a user of an electronic device to simply project images (still or in motion) via built-in and/or inserted diminutive projector in a digital camera, digital camcorder, laptop computer, and cellular telephone. The purpose of this invention is to eliminate the... Agent: Gwenne Bacani

20080068496 - Broadcast program summary generation system, method and medium: A broadcast program summary generation system, method and medium are provided. The broadcast program summary generation system includes a format transformation unit to transform a broadcast format of digital broadcast data into a storage format, and a summary generation unit to decode video data of the transformed digital broadcast data,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068497 - Apparatus and method for video de-interlace: A video de-interlace apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes a combing detection apparatus and a de-interlace format determining apparatus. The combing detection apparatus receives a plurality of successive fields, performs combing detection to the fields, and outputs a combing detection result. The de-interlace format determining apparatus... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080068498 - De-interlacing methods and related apparatuses: The present invention provides de-interlacing methods and related apparatuses. One of the proposed de-interlacing methods includes edge detection of a target region corresponding to a target position. When the target region is assumed to include an edge that is considered stationary, and if the target position is on a stationary... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080068499 - Image processing method, image processing program and image processing apparatus, and playback method, playback program and playback apparatus: An image processing method for converting the frame frequency of a video signal includes a first step for subjecting a video signal having a first frame-frequency to three-times-repeat output and two-times-repeat output of a frame to convert the video signal having the first frame-frequency into a video signal having a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080068500 - Methods, apparatus, and systems for insertion of overlay content into a video signal with transrating capabilities: Methods, apparatus, and systems for inserting overlay content into a video signal are provided. An overlay content signal containing overlay content is received. In addition, a compressed video signal is received from a video source and decoded. An insertion window portion of the decoded video signal is identified. The overlay... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080068501 - Automatic video format identification system: A video format identification system includes a master clock circuit which provides timing and counting signals, a synchronization activity detector operatively coupled to the master clock circuit, and a synchronization width qualifier configured to filter out noise or reference burst signals from showing up as sync signals. The system also... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20080068502 - Multimedia television: A multimedia television is provided. The multimedia television includes a video playback apparatus, an audio processing device, M front loudspeakers, a rear audio playback apparatus, and a mixing device. The video playback apparatus is used for displaying a video signal. The audio processing device processes an audio signal into a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080068503 - Television receiver: A TV receiver, which comprises an image character recognition means to recognize captions included in images of the TV programs as characters, a TV program type determination means to determine types of the TV programs, and an information screen generating means to generate information screens whose form and contents are... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080068504 - Video-information processing apparatus, video-information processing method, and computer program: A video-information processing apparatus configured to amplify and output a video signal input from an external device, including the following elements: a plurality of video-signal input units configured to receive video signals as inputs; an input setting unit configured to set, from among the video signals input from the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080068505 - Image processing apparatus and image display apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit storing the OSD image data corresponding to plural subframes; a load storage unit loading and storing the OSD image data corresponding to the plural subframes; a reading unit reading out plural subframes of the OSD image data in parallel; and a controlling... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080068506 - Television and image display device: The present invention discloses an image display device, comprising: a lookup table specifying a corresponding relationship between color saturation represented by gradation and set values associated with part including the minimum value of the color saturation; a first color saturation setting unit for setting color saturation associated with the set... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080068507 - Methods, apparatus, and systems for managing the insertion of overlay content into a video signal: Methods, apparatus, and systems for managing the insertion of overlay content into a video signal are provided. A video signal is received from a video source. In addition, overlay content is provided in one or more overlay content signals. A tag is appended to the video signal and/or the overlay... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080068508 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program: In a signal processing apparatus, when a luminance signal in a first numeric range is assigned to an integer value in a second range narrower than a first range representable by predetermined bits, and a luminance signal and color-difference signals are outputted under a predetermined standard in which a color-difference... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080068509 - Image/tone control device and television apparatus equipped with same: A television apparatus 100 is so designed as to store into ROM 14 the table that contains image control parameters and tone control parameters used for approximating the image and tone characteristics from different manufacturers wherein a microcomputer 13 reads and uses the image control parameters and the tone control... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080068510 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: Color saturation in chroma correction is reduced. Hence, a two-dimensional histogram is generated in association with the luminance and chroma levels of an image for one frame. An ease of saturation of the image is calculated from the two-dimensional histogram. A chroma gain is set according to the ease of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080068511 - Method for indexing a sports video program carried by a video stream: A method for indexing a sports video program carried by a video stream is disclosed. The method includes temporarily indexing a plurality of shots of the video stream by performing shot detection. In addition, the method further includes extracting a plurality of shots of the sports video program from at... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080068512 - Digital radio frequency (rf) modulator: A digital radio frequency (RF) modulator provides modulation for base-band TV signals. The RF modulator provides direct conversion of digital base-band audio and video signals to a desired RF channel frequency, without any analog up conversion. The RF modulator includes an audio module, a video module, and a RF converter.... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080068513 - Remote controller: There is provided a remote controller facilitating the operation concerning reproduction of recorded program data and having a user-friendly function. The remote controller (50) transmits an operation signal of a digital recording/reproducing device (10) which has recorded television programs. The remote controller (50) includes a power button (60) for turning... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080068514 - Projection display: A projection display includes: an illumination unit which irradiates a plurality of single color light beams; a first scanner scanning the plurality of light beams irradiated from the illumination unit along a first direction; a light modulator with a linear array of micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices that are arranged parallel... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068515 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus including a projection unit, a control unit, a case, and a movable signal receiving module is provided. The projection unit is suitable to project an image beam onto a screen. The control unit is electrically connected to the projection unit, and the control unit is suitable to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080068516 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention prevents deterioration of image quality by lowering a heat value of a data driver connected to a liquid crystal display panel. In a liquid crystal display device, a pixel which connects a TFT thereof to one of two neighboring scanning signal lines and a pixel which has... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080068517 - Liquid crystal panel, plasma display panel, and wide-screen liquid crystal television: There is provided a liquid crystal television and a plasma television that can adapt to various destinations and are resistant to noise in view of the difference of circuit configurations between a liquid crystal television and a plasma television. A video signal processing circuit is formed on a digital board,... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080068518 - Projection television and mold for molding cabinet of the same: A projection television (TV) and a mold for molding a cabinet of the same are capable of reducing the number of parts and simplifying a production process. The projection TV includes a cabinet that has an upper space holding a mirror and a lower space holding an optical unit, wherein... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068519 - Networked personal audiovisual device having flexible housing: A portable information device including a frame structure is disclosed herein. The device includes communications circuitry and a core electronics unit supported by the frame structure. The core electronics unit includes memory in which are stored instructions for one or more computer programs received by the communications circuitry and executed... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080062250 - Panoramic worldview network camera with instant reply and snapshot of past events: Image viewing system and method for use with a video telephony application. The method includes forming a panoramic image by moving the camera about at least one axis, capturing images from at least two different camera positions, and joining the images together. The method also includes presenting the panoramic image... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080062249 - Portable terminal device: A portable terminal device for communicating other terminal device includes: a display configured to display an image data; a transmitting unit configured to transmit the image data to the other terminal device; a receiving unit configured to receive a reception image data from the other terminal device; a display control... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080062247 - Transmission of image for telephone, computer pc, laptop: Telephone has no facilities for us to see each other during calling. Image Screen Telephone is invented having image transmitted letting caller and call receiver talking face to face on phone screen and Transmission of all transmission materials by computer PC, laptop of Internet connection will save us time to... Agent: Henri Duong

20080062246 - Video messaging system: Systems and methods provide a video messaging service for transmitting video messages between network terminals over a network. After a caller's video-messaging terminal receives a notification that a receiver failed to respond to a communication request, the caller's video-messaging terminal may enable the caller to record a video message and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080062251 - Portable terminal device: A portable terminal device, having a video phone function of transmitting and receiving videos and sounds to and from other portable terminal device, transmits data of a prescribed contents after deteriorating the data thereof when transmits the data thereof to the other portable terminal device during the use of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080062252 - Apparatus and method for video mixing and computer readable medium: There is provided with a video mixing method including: receiving first to third video data expressing first to third videos from first to third terminals; mixing the first to third video data to generate first to third mixed video data; transmitting the first to third mixed video data to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080062253 - Fallback mobile communication: Conventional video call attempts encountering a device inoperable according to a desired capability will fail if the receiving device is unable to complete the call at the desired service level (i.e. video). In addition to frustrating the communication attempts between users, another issue is that resources consumed in the attempted... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080062255 - Self contained compact & portable omni-directional monitoring and automatic alarm video device: The present invention is a self contained portable and compact omni-directional monitoring and automatic alarm video device. The device enables automatic omni-directional detection, directional imaging inspection, tracking, real-time alarm transmission, and remote monitoring. The device comprises an omni-directional detection sensor, processor, and directional video imaging camera located inside a rotatable... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080062257 - Touch screen-like user interface that does not require actual touching: A system may be controlled by directing at least a portion of a field-of-view of one or more cameras across a screen of a display for the system, using the one or more cameras to track in three dimensions an object moving in a space in front of the screen,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080062258 - Method and system for transmission of images from a monitored area: A system and method including one or more cameras or other sensors to monitor an area, and to transmit such images or sensory data to a local hub that may include a cellular modem. The hub may transmit images or data to a remote cellular handset, where a user may... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080062259 - Shuttering eyewear for use with stereoscopic liquid crystal display: An active eyewear method and system for viewing stereoscopic images is provided. The eyewear comprises polarization altering elements, such as twisted nematics or super twisted nematics, configured to receive light energy and rotate the polarization of light energy passing therethrough, and linear polarizers having polarization axes oriented in substantially identical... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080062261 - Endoscope apparatus: An endoscope apparatus including: an endoscope unit having: a lens units; a photographing unit for photographing an optical image picked up through the lens unit; and a lens unit driving motor for driving the lens unit for realizing at least one of a zoom function and a focus function; and... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080062263 - Portable image capture and camera device: A portable image capture and camera device is provided including a device body, and an upper panel displaceably engaged to the body, and having an image capture module disposed thereon. A lower panel is also displaceably engaged to the body, for receiving and supporting a subject when the lower panel... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080062248 - Videophone police box system: In a police box, a police box terminal, a visitor sensor, a found article storage and other suitable components are provided. In a videophone reception center, a reception server, an automatic answering server, an MCU, and a reception terminal are provided. These components are connected to each other via a... Agent: Okada C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080062254 - System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode: A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software program may then produce a cohesive combined panorama image from the... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080062256 - Reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method for video objects received by digital broadcast: A multimedia optical disc for recording main video data which is composed of sets of frame data that is processed beforehand to allow compatibility with displays of a plurality of aspect ratios. The disc has a stream area storing streams made up of the main video data and a plurality... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080062260 - Imaging optical system and endoscope provided with imaging optical system: An imaging optical system includes a spherical or nearly spherical viewing port, an objective lens that includes an aspheric surface and is formed as a single lens element, and a solid-state image sensor that receives an image formed by the imaging optical system. Specified conditions are satisfied by the imaging... Agent: Arnold International

20080062262 - Apparatus, method and system for screening receptacles and persons: An apparatus for performing a security screening operation on receptacles to detect presence of one or more prohibited objects in the receptacles. The apparatus may comprise an input for receiving image data conveying an image of contents of a receptacle, the image data being derived from a device that scans... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20080062264 - Video test tools: A video test tool for diagnosing video processing for interlacing is disclosed along with a video test tool for quantifying “jaggies” in a video display.... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20080062265 - Systems and methods for generating video test sequences based upon captured video data: A video test system is provided with a circular buffer to capture a video input sequence in response to a trigger, and a test generator output to generate a video test sequence based upon the captured video test sequence. The system may be implemented using a single instrument, or a... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080062266 - Image test board: A method for testing an image capture device. The method for testing an image capture device comprises providing an image test board printed with at least two positioning marks and at least one test pattern, the at least one test pattern being positioned in a coordinate system defined by the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080062267 - Photographic system: A camera device capable of taking a commemorative image of an operator serving as a subject which includes a background image by a remote operation from an operation terminal held by the operator through a communication network, includes: a section that calculates a photographic target area based on position information... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080062268 - Apparatus, method and program for information processing: A personal computer (12) executes an information processing program (38) to start a shooting process. Under the shooting process, an extraction circuit (42) reads compressed image data from a HDD (37). The extraction circuit (42) analyzes the compressed image data to extract a portion including a human face, whose focus... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062269 - Underwater visual inspection: The present invention relates to a system and a method for underwater visual inspection, and in particular to a system and method for inspecting the underwater condition and installation or deployment of jack-up rigs. The inspection system comprises an underwater extending elongate member of an underwater structure, a camera system... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080062270 - Imaging devices and methods: An analog to digital converter of analog image feeds to simultaneous capture and display of video with simultaneous capture of still images and video images and multiple simultaneous delivery streams. These images may be stored with written records either digitally or in hard copy. Methods for utilizing the simultaneous ability... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080062271 - Electronic camera that reduces processing time by performing different processes in parallel: An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject and generates image data; a first bus to which the image data generated by the image capturing device are output; an image memory that is connected to the first bus and temporarily stores the image data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080062272 - Electronic camera that reduces processing time by performing different processes in parallel: An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject and generates image data; a first bus to which the image data generated by the image capturing device are output; an image memory that is connected to the first bus and temporarily stores the image data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080062273 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, a memory, and a display unit. The imaging sensor obtains image data. The memory stores the image data. The display unit indicates a still picture based on the image data and a white balance setting picture on the still picture. The white balance... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080062274 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor and a display unit. The imaging sensor obtains image data. The display unit indicates a first white balance setting picture that is used for setting a white balance gain in a white balance adjustment of the image data and a second white balance... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080062275 - Image sensing apparatus and exposure control method: In an image sensing apparatus and exposure control method, detecting an object that satisfies a certain preset condition from image data obtained by image sensing with an image sensing element, and carrying out photometry on the image data as a whole to acquire an overall photometric value while carrying out... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080062276 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, a controller, and an exposure-mode-selecting device. The controller performs a photometric operation on a photographing subject and obtains a luminance value of the photographing subject based on the photometric operation. The exposure-mode-selecting device is used for selecting an exposure mode of the photographing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080062277 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, a controller, and an exposure-mode-selecting device. The controller performs a photometric operation on a photographing subject and obtains a luminance value of the photographing subject based on the photometric operation. The exposure-mode-selecting device is used for selecting an exposure mode of the photographing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080062279 - Image processing methods and systems: Image processing methods and systems for use in digital cameras. An image is captured. A region image of a specific region in the image is copied. Data information is embedded on the specific region of the image. The region image, a start address of the specific region in the image,... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080062278 - Secure access camera and method for camera control: A camera and a method for controlling the camera. Also a face recognition secure access camera and a method of capturing an image that is not saturated or too dark.... Agent: J. Gordon Thomson

20080062280 - Audio, visual and device data capturing system with real-time speech recognition command and control system: An audio, visual and device data capturing system including an audio recorder for recording audio data, at least one visual recorder for recording visual data, at least one device data recorder for receiving device data from at least one device in communication with the system, a speech recognition module for... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080062282 - Image processing apparatus and image processing program: According to the present invention, groups each of whose number of photographed image data is large and whose photographing dates/times are consecutive are integrated as an important group, so that image data, for example, corresponding to a series of images photographed during event or the like over a few days... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062283 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, album creating apparatus, album creating method, album creating system and computer readable medium: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062281 - Image pickup apparatus, image pickup element, and method for controlling image pickup apparatus: The present invention relates illustratively to a video camera for recording image pickup results constituting moving pictures, an electronic still camera, and a monitoring apparatus. The invention envisages varying the charge storage time TE or the frame period of image pickup means 3 or the processing time TC of data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080062284 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus comprises an operation unit, a controller, and a display unit. The operation unit has a range setting unit that is used for setting an upper limited value of a range of a sensitivity of an imaging sensor and a lower limited value of the range in a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080062285 - Camera with an image sensor that doubles as a motion sensor: A camera includes an image sensor that doubles as a motion sensor. An image sensor in a camera according to the present teachings generates a digital image by sampling light from an image scene and also generates a series of motion frames that enable a determination of a camera motion.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080062287 - Increasing object resolutions from a motion-blurred image: The embodiments of the invention provide a method for increasing a resolution of a moving object in an image acquired of a scene by a camera. An image acquired of a scene including a moving object is temporally modulated, according to a temporally encoding pattern, while integrating the image in... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080062286 - Method and apparatus for suppressing noise in image sensor devices: An analog sampling circuit comprising a plurality of capacitors is used to sample the reset and video sampling levels at different instants in time to obtain a plurality of respective reset sampling values and a plurality of respective video sampling values. The reset sampling values are then averaged to obtain... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080062289 - Apparatus and method for processing image signal and imaging equipment: An image pickup device picks up an image. An image signal in association with the image is filtered in a time axis direction using a digital low-pass filter to generate an image signal having a reduced dynamic resolution power, which is equivalent to an image signal that would be obtained... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080062288 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method: A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory (not shown). A polynomial of degree n coefficient deriving unit expresses all distortion correction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062290 - Color pattern and pixel level binning for aps image sensor using 2x2 photodiode sharing scheme: A color image sensor includes an array of pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including a floating diffusion that is shared by four pixels disposed in a 2×2 arrangement. Each of said four pixels includes a photodetector and a color filter superposed over the photodetector,... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20080062292 - Imaging apparatus configured to correct noise: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging area having, in a vertical direction, a plurality of lines having a plurality of pixels in a horizontal direction, wherein each of the plurality of lines includes an light-shielded area and an effective pixel area that is not light-shielded, a first correction unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080062291 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: An image pickup apparatus includes image pickup means, user information acquisition means, and control means. The image pickup means is configured to pick up an image while regarding a user's gaze direction as the direction of a subject. The user information acquisition means is configured to acquire information about the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062293 - Method for multiphase charge transfer in a lamel shutter and apparatus containing such a shutter:

20080062294 - Signal reading apparatus and image pickup system using the signal reading apparatus: A signal reading apparatus includes first and second common signal lines from which a signal from a signal generation unit is output and first and second amplifier circuits and a switch configured to control a conductive state of the first and the second common signal lines. The signal reading apparatus... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062295 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus and image sensing system: To provide a configuration including a fully differential amplifier in which decrease in a reading speed can be suppressed. A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel area where a plurality of pixels are arranged; an amplifier configured to amplify a signal from the pixel area;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062296 - Photoelectric conversion device and imaging device: A photoelectric conversion device prevents a pseudo signal caused by the parasitic capacitance of a transfer switch from being input to an amplifier. A photoelectric conversion device (50) includes a pixel (10) which outputs a signal to a signal line (107), an amplifier which amplifies the signal supplied via the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062297 - Image capturing and displaying apparatus and image capturing and displaying method: An image capturing and displaying apparatus is disclosed. The image capturing and displaying apparatus includes an image capturing section, a display section, a user's information obtaining section, and a control section. The image capturing section captures an image such that a direction in which a user sees a subject is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080062298 - Document camera: A document camera includes an image-shooting module and a detachable module. The detachable module is installed under the image-shooting module, wherein the detachable module or the image-shooting module includes a magnetic attraction generator to attract each other such that the detachable module can be attached to the image-shooting module.... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080062299 - Endotrainer: A portable, folding-laptop style endotrainer including: a base defining a work area for endotraining; a camera for viewing said work area; one or both of i) a display screen for displaying an image from said camera said display screen being attached to said base; and ii) a wireless or wired... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080062300 - Electronic device and image-sensing device thereof: An electronic device includes a monitor (90) including a screen (91), and an image-sensing device (80) disposed on the screen. The image-sensing device includes a first plate (10), a second plate (20) opposite to the first plate, and at least one image-sensing element (30) disposed between the first plate and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080062301 - Automatic focusing mechanism: An automatic focusing mechanism comprises a plurality of lenses and an image sensor disposed along an optical axis, an electromagnetic driving device for generating an electromagnetic force to drive the image sensor to move along the optical axis, and a position-limited device for limiting the movement of the image sensor... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20080062302 - Electronic flash, electronic camera and light emitting head: R, G and B LEDs are used as a light source of an electronic flash. Electric energy is supplied to a capacitor to the LEDs. A system controller controls light emitting amounts of the LEDs so that a color temperature of the electronic flash light becomes a color temperature that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062303 - Mobile communication device and base or holder therefor: The invention relates to apparatus including a communications device such as a mobile telephone or P.D.A which is capable of receiving and transmitting data and of capturing video images. The device can be located on a movable means of a holder, so as to be movable to allow the angle... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20080062305 - Combined multi-image and router apparatus: An apparatus for displaying at least one of a plurality of video signals on a display according to a display selection signal and for simultaneously providing selected video signals according to a providing selection signal, the apparatus comprising a signal conditioning unit for receiving the at least one video signal... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080062304 - Method and apparatus for displaying at least one video signal on at least one display: According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for displaying at least one video signal on at least one display, the method comprising selecting at least one video signal to be displayed on the at least one display, providing, for each of the at least... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080062306 - Moving picture decoding apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a moving picture decoding apparatus for decoding a coded moving picture signal including a plurality of reference frames having a PTS information indicative of a reproduction time and a frame number information, and a plurality of subordinate frames having a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080062307 - Bad video edit detection: Film mode detection with bad edit detection used in de-interlacing video includes use of combing artifact detection in both 3-2 pull down detection and 2-2 pull down detection. Further, combing artifact detection uses only two field memories by accumulation of partial field statistics for comparisons.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080062308 - Film mode detection: Film mode detection with bad edit detection used in de-interlacing video includes use of combing artifact detection in both 3-2 pull down detection and 2-2 pull down detection. Further, combing artifact detection uses only two field memories by accumulation of partial field statistics for comparisons.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080062310 - Scan conversion apparatus: In a scan conversion apparatus, a first interpolation pixel generation unit generates an interpolation pixel of a nonexistent line for one of images of two fields based on a motion vector detected between the images of the same parity. A second interpolation pixel generation unit generates an intra-field interpolation pixel... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062309 - Motion detection for interlaced video: Motion detection in interlaced video fields, as useful in de-interlacing, includes spatial-temporal maximum filtering, temporal IIR filtering dependent upon spatial-temporal variance, and spatial variance dependent moving-still interpolation blending factor.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080062312 - Methods and devices of using a 26 mhz clock to encode videos: The present invention provides a method and a device that use two different clock frequencies to encode video. The method and device would allow videos taken by an electronic device with input clock frequency at 26 MHz, to be encoded for playing back on TV. An exemplary method of using... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080062311 - Methods and devices to use two different clocks in a television digital encoder: The present invention provides a method and a device that use two different clock frequencies to encode video. The method and device would allow videos taken by an electronic device with input clock frequency other than 27 MHz, to be encoded by using two clock frequencies for playing back on... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080062313 - Apparatus for processing video signals: The apparatus comprises processing circuitry for processing video signals and a memory (10) for storing information related to the video signal in a first operation mode. The apparatus further comprises a radio receiver (20) or other audio reception circuitry (1,5) for receiving an audio signal, and a memory controller (24)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080062314 - Text subtitle decoder and method for decoding text subtitle streams: A text subtitle decoder includes a text subtitle processor, a text renderer, and a presentation controller. The text subtitle processor parses a text subtitle stream into text data and reproduction control information, where the text data represent a subtitle text to be displayed within a text subtitle region. After the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080062315 - Method and device for generating and detecting fingerprints for synchronizing audio and video: This invention relates to a device and a method of generating a first and a second fingerprint (102,104) usable for synchronisation of at least two signals (101,103) and corresponding method and device for synchronising two or more signals. A fingerprint pair is generated on the basis of a segment of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080062316 - Sog signal detection circuit: A Sync On Green signal detection circuit includes a clamping circuit for clamping a voltage of a video graphics signal within a default range and then outputting a clamped input signal; a first PGA (programmable gain amplifier) for receiving and amplifying the clamped input signal by a first gain to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062317 - Data transmission and receiving apparatus for digital broadcast signals which include control information: In a transmission apparatus, still picture outputting control information is multiplexed to a transmission signal and in a receiving apparatus, still picture is extracted from moving picture. Still picture data to be outputted can be processed and the charge can be set for each kind of processing. A broadcasting system... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080062318 - Systems and methods for providing enhanced sports watching media guidance: Systems and methods for enhanced sports-related media content access and display are provided. An intelligent tuning module for multi-tuner systems may designate one sporting event as a primary sporting event and another sporting event as a secondary sporting event. A primary tuner may tune the primary event whenever possible and... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080062319 - Television system and video processing method: A video signal processing method applied for a TV system is disclosed. In this method, the received video signal is processed by a video decoding process, and then the decoded video signal is processed by a de-interlacing process. A still or corresponsively still image signal is generated and blended with... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080062320 - Apparatus for integrating video and power transmission signals: An apparatus for integrating video and power transmission signals that comprises a front pane, a back panel, a power indicator, an unshielded twisted pair (UTP)-based video signal converting circuit, a power supply circuit, a UTP I/O terminal, a BNC coaxial cable-based video output terminal, and a power input terminal, said... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080062321 - Scart fast blanking signal processing: A video receiver for SCART input includes an input configured to receive a composite video signal, RGB signals, and a switch-indicating signal, a first digitizer module coupled to the input and including a one-bit slicer configured to receive and convert the switch-indicating signal to a one-bit digital signal, the first... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080062322 - Digital video content customization: A set of customizing operations for digital content is determined in accordance with network condition of a current network communication channel between a content server and one or more receiving devices, wherein the digital content is provided by the content server for transport to the receiving device and includes multiple... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080062323 - High intensity display screen based electronic window: An electronic window (21) employing an image taking device (22) mounted outside of a room for providing an image of a scenery external to the room. The electronic window (21) further employing a display screen (21) mounted within the room for displaying and illuminating the image at a luminance level... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080062324 - Chroma/luma delay adjustment: In a system for synchronizing video signals using a sampled signal having a sampling cycle, the system includes a coarse offset module configured to receive a first input signal and a second input signal and to alter an offset of the first and second input signals to produce a first... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080062325 - Image processing apparatus, display apparatus comprising image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a color extracting part that receives an image signal and extracts a color signal from the received image signal; and a converting part that detects a saturation of a pixel of the color signal, determines whether the saturation of the pixel is higher or lower... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062326 - Method and apparatus for dc restoration using feedback: A feedback circuit for restoration of DC in video signals is presented. A sample pulse representing the back porch of an incoming video signal is generated from the horizontal sync signal. The sample pulse triggers a sample and hold circuit to acquire the correct offset voltage in the output signal... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20080062327 - Method and system for motion compensated temporal filtering using both fir and iir filtering: Certain aspects of a method and system for motion compensated temporal filtering using both finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) filtering may include blending at least one finite impulse response (FIR) filtered output picture of video data and at least one infinite impulse response (IIR) filtered output... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080062328 - Signal format selection based on physical connections: A device detects one or more physical connections and selects a signal format from a plurality of signal formats based on the one or more physical connections.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080062329 - Video switching apparatus and video input setting method: A video switching apparatus has a plurality of slots each for mounting any of a first input module capable of inputting any one of a plurality of predetermined types of video signals and performing processing, content of which varies depending on the type of input video signal and a second... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080062330 - Color processing apparatus, color processing method, and computer readable medium storing color processing program: A color processing apparatus includes an image signal acquisition section, a color conversion matrix storage section, a matrix regularization processing section and a normal color conversion section. The image signal acquisition section acquires an image signal containing a predetermined input color signal. The color conversion matrix storage section stores information... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080062331 - Digital television system with lcd tv controller and digital tv backend controller: A DTV system with a LCD TV controller and a DTV backend controller is disclosed. The LCD TV controller is applied to receive a decoded video signal from an analog TV signal source. And the LCD TV controller decodes, scales and executes the image process on the video signal according... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080062333 - Television receiving device and power supply control method: A television receiving device includes an operating mode determining unit and a power supply control unit. The operating mode determining unit is configured to determine an operating mode of the television receiving device. The power supply control unit is configured to automatically turn off the television receiving device when a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080062332 - Apparatus and method for processing a pilot signal: An apparatus (100) such as a television signal receiver processes a pilot signal to enable, among other things, proper generation of an L−R stereo difference signal. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus (100) includes a signal source (702) operative to provide a pilot signal, and a processing circuit (704-724)... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080062334 - Apparatus and method for restoring dc spectrum for analog television reception using direct conversion tuners: A DC compensation circuit restores the frequency spectrum of an input signal at DC (or 0 Hz) by removing or reducing DC offset, 1/f noise, or any other unwanted noise at or near 0 Hz. The DC compensation is performed using direct coupling, as opposed to AC coupling, so that... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080062335 - Tv tuner and the manufacturing method thereof: A TV tuner includes an Ultra High Frequency (UHF)/Very High Frequency (VHF) tracking filter, an UHF/VHF matching circuit and a single conversion Tuner IC. The UHF/VHF tracking filter includes a first Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) inductor, a first varactor diode and a fine-tune capacitor electrically connected to determine the maximum... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080062337 - Remote control: The customizable remote control for control of interactive multimedia devices, especially a set-top box (15), has a first hardware device, especially a fingerprint reader (15), by means of which authorized persons can be unambiguously identified. Moreover, the remote control has a second hardware device, preferably a SIM card reader (16a),... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080062336 - Smart zapper: An entertainment system includes a receiver having a tuner which is tunable to a various channels to receive various input signals. A controller is configured to generate a control signal to tune the tuner to a different channel. The controller detects an advertisement on the current channel, and generates the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080055395 - Creating a dynamic group call through similarity between images: A method (300, 400) for identifying an entity of interest to a user of a communication device (110). The method can include receiving an image (115) from the communication device and processing the image to identify at least one feature of the image. The method also can include, based on... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080055397 - Image-location imprinter, method of imprinting a location on an image and system employing the same: The present invention provides an image-location imprinter for use with a mobile electronic device. In one embodiment, the image-location imprinter includes a camera configured to create an image associated with a location of the mobile electronic device. Additionally, the image-location imprinter also includes a location designation unit coupled to the... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080055396 - Video phone communication system and method therefor: A video phone communication system and method therefor are provided. The system includes a master phone device and at least one extension phone device. The master phone device is connected to the extension phone device through a wired or wireless communication way. The master phone device is used to conduct... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080055394 - Video phone device: A video phone device is provided, which comprises a phone set, a first screen device, a first video camera device, and a second screen device, wherein the phone set is used for establishing video and audio communications with a communication partner over a network; the first screen device is installed... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080055399 - Audiovisual data transport protocol: The present invention discloses systems and methods for transmitting video messages between network terminals over a network. When transmitting video data, a first network determines at least one video parameter based on, at least, the performance of the first network terminal, the performance of the network performance and user-preference data.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080055402 - Closed loop feedback control to maximize stereo separation in 3d imaging systems: An apparatus and method for stereoscopic 3D image projection and viewing using a single projection source, alternating polarization, and passive eyewear. This approach is applicable to frame sequential video created using existing 3D graphics APIs, as well as other video signal formats, and is compatible with existing digital light processor... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080055401 - Stereographic imaging system using open loop magnetomechanically resonant polarizing filter actuator: An apparatus and method for stereoscopic 3D image projection and viewing using a single projection source, alternating polarization, and passive eyewear. This approach is applicable to frame sequential video created using existing 3D graphics APIs, as well as other video signal formats, and is compatible with existing digital light processor... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080055403 - Pcb board for hybrid circuit of an image sensor: A printed circuit board (PCB) for deployment of a sensor chip of an optical head of an endoscope is described. The PCB comprises at least one layer defined by a front surface, a rear surface and a recess provided on said front surface. The recess has a depth dimension and... Agent: Bruce E. Lilling Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20080055398 - Live broadcast interview conducted between studio booth and interviewer at remote location: A method to conduct a broadcast interview by producing in an area of restricted size in a realistic manner while minimizing perspective distortion and subject distortion a recording of an individual that produces the illusion that the individual is located in a larger area.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20080055400 - Optical device: Stereoscopic device including an image directing assembly, an image differentiator and an image detector, the image directing assembly having a first light inlet for receiving a first image and a second light inlet for receiving a second image, the first light inlet being spaced apart from the second light inlet,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080055404 - In-vivo imaging device, optical system and method: An in-vivo device may include an optical system, and a method for viewing in-vivo sites. A dome or cover may cover an end of the device, protecting optical elements such as illumination devices or imagers, which may be behind the dome. The dome may be forward projecting. The field of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080055406 - Microscope image pickup system, microscope image pickup method and recording medium: A microscope image pickup system is one having a microscope apparatus enabled to change an observation state by driving one or more optical members, which comprises: an image pickup unit for picking up an image of an observation object; an image process unit for applying an image process to an... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080055405 - Microscope system and method: A microscope system and method is described for determining a position of an area of an object within the complete object, wherein the image of the area of the object is contained within a field of view of a microscope. Image data representing a low magnification image of the complete... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080055407 - Apparatus and method for displaying an image of vehicle surroundings: When images of vehicle surroundings are captured by cameras and are displayed together with an image of a vehicle, surrounding images within a predetermined distance from the vehicle are displayed at the same scale as the scale of the vehicle image, and surrounding images outside the predetermined distance are displayed... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080055408 - Method for monitoring and controlling photographs taken in a proprietary area: Method for avoiding unauthorized images of a proprietor's information from being transmitted outside the proprietor's control. A photographic image captured with a camera incorporated upon the wireless handheld communication device is wirelessly transmitted to a proprietor's server. The image is stored on the server after capture and transmission, preferably while... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080055410 - Recording device with pre-start signal storage capability: A surveillance system uses a flash or other memory to store multiple data streams, each of which includes pre-start signal and post-start signal data. An area of the memory is preferably utilized as a circular buffer, in which a second data stream can be recorded without overwriting a first data... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080055409 - Surveillance camera system: A surveillance camera system capable of accepting any appropriate surveillance camera and video transmission option and is programmed to operate with a multitude of competitive communication protocols with minimal servicing required. The system can quickly convert and/or update the camera system to be able to transmit video data over coaxial... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080055411 - External monitoring system for securing driver's field of vision for vehicles: Disclosed therein is an external monitoring system, which includes cameras mounted at both sides of the front and rear of a vehicle and on side view mirrors, display devices for outputting images in a driver's front sight direction through the cameras, and controller for controlling the display devices. The display... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080055412 - Surveillance camera system: A surveillance camera system includes a first camera 5 having an angle of view θ1, a second camera 6 which is a combination of two camera modules 6a, 6b each having an angle of view θ2, a third camera 7 which is a combination of three camera modules 7a, 7b,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055413 - Automatic-tracking camera apparatus: An automatic-tracking camera apparatus which is capable of realizing continuous and smooth driving and obtaining an image with little position variation of a tracking target from a target position within the image and with little blur. The position of a camera body is changed by a gimbal device. The speed... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080055414 - Modified baird sequential detail scanning system: For a television scanning element with a scanning area, a method of scanning a television image comprises the steps of: scanning the scanning area at a predetermined fine detail picture scanning rate; imaging a fine detail picture of the television image onto a portion of the scanning area; and imaging... Agent: Stephen George Mican

20080055416 - Camera, output image selection method, and recording medium storing output image selection program: Upon outputting an image from a camera to an external device, a screen image (preparation screen image) for showing candidate images to be output to the external device is displayed on a display part of the camera. Then, an image selected from display images on this preparation screen is output... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080055415 - Image recording and reproducing apparatus: An image recording and reproducing apparatus includes a group management information file creation circuit for, in recording, grouping recorded images at predetermined time intervals and creating, for each group, a group management information file storing group management information including a start time indicating the time when a first recorded image... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080055417 - Handheld electronic device: A handheld electronic device including a body and an image capturing module. A display is disposed on one surface of the body. The image capturing module is disposed at the body, and includes a lens and a filter unit. The lens is exposed from an opening on the body. Images... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080055418 - Portable terminal apparatus: A portable terminal apparatus includes a main body, a power key and a digital camera module. The power key is disposed on and exposed from the main body. The power key is pervious to light. The digital camera module is disposed inside the main body and has a lens device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055419 - Digital camera using an indicating device to indicate a plurality of functions: Operation situations of a plurality of functions of the camera can be checked from a front of the camera without adding any new hardware. A self-timer LED which is previously provided on a front of the camera is also used as an indicating device which indicates operation situations of other... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055420 - Camera shake correction mechanism and image capture apparatus: There is provided a camera-shake correction mechanism by which camera shaking is corrected for by moving an imaging device on a plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis and in directions that are mutually orthogonal. The mechanism includes a heat dissipating mechanism that diffuses heat from the imaging device... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080055421 - Lens driving device, image stabilizing unit, and image pickup apparatus: A lens driving device having a simplified structure in which a holding member is moved relative to a stationary member with appropriate viscous damping is provided. The lens driving device includes the holding member configured to hold a compensation lens for image stabilization, the stationary member configured to support the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080055422 - Shooting system, image sensing apparatus, monitoring apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium: A shooting system which has an image sensing apparatus and a monitoring apparatus, distributes an image from the image sensing apparatus to the monitoring apparatus, and allows the monitoring apparatus to remote-control the image sensing apparatus, comprises: an unit adapted to set access permission information containing at least information on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055423 - System and method of security monitoring: A system and method of security monitoring is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes determining a channel of a television system associated with video content from a security camera. In a particular embodiment, a method includes sending a first alert to a display device and sending a second... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080055424 - Methods, apparatuses and systems using windowing to accelerate automatic camera functions: Methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for accelerating the operation of the automatic functions of an imager, e.g. a camera system. The automatic functions may, for example, include one or more of auto-focus, auto-exposure and auto-white balance. A special “windowing mode” is implemented in which information is acquired from only... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080055425 - Measuring device: The invention relates to a measuring device comprising an image sensor, an electrowetting lens that is arranged to focus an image on the image sensor, and a control unit. The control unit is operative to determine the distance to an object based on the state of the electrowetting lens and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080055426 - Digital camera with selectively increased dynamic range by control of parameters during image acquisition: A parameter of a digital camera or other digital image acquisition device is adjusted to maintain the resulting digital signal within a range carried by a digital processing path that carries a limited number of bits. The magnitude of the parameter is then also used to represent the image. Examples... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080055427 - Video diary: A method of generating a video-based diary of a user's activities based on various information stored and/or collected by a mobile phone. More particularly, the invention provides a method of generating a video-based diary of a period of time based on information such as, for example, incoming, outgoing, and missed... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080055428 - Digital image processor for a digital camera: A digital image process for a digital camera contains a preprocessor and a postprocessor. The preprocessor can include, for example, a uniformity corrector, a sampling filter, a modulation transformer, and a ditherer. The postprocessor can include a color interpolator, an RGB reconstruction block, a digital compressor, and a color pattern... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20080055429 - Imaging apparatus and method for displaying zoom information: An imaging apparatus is provided, which includes an image capturing unit, an adjusting unit and a display unit. The adjusting unit adjusts a clipped area for an image captured by the image capturing unit on photographing mode. The display unit displays a first number of pixels of the clipped area... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080055431 - Dark frame subtraction using multiple dark frames: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for a dark frame subtraction using multiple dark frames by storing only one frame at a time, i.e., using only one frame storage so that the amount of memory can be minimized. Divisional and multiplication algorithms can be... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080055430 - Method, apparatus, and system providing polynomial based correction of pixel array output: Methods, apparatuses, and systems which correct values generated by pixels in a pixel array. From a row value and from stored polynomial coefficients, a polynomial correction function associated with a pixel location is generated. From the correction function and a column value associated with the pixel, a correction factor is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080055432 - Solid-state image sensor and image capturing apparatus: A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel array unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in the form of an array, column signal lines adapted to transmit pixel signals output from pixels in respective columns, a noise adding unit adapted to add temporally constant and two-dimensional spatially random noise to... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080055433 - Detection and removal of blemishes in digital images utilizing original images of defocused scenes: A method automatically corrects dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital acquisition device including a lens assembly and a translucent lens cap. Multiple original digital images are acquired with the digital acquisition device. Probabilities that certain pixels correspond to dust artifact regions within the images are... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080055434 - Image sensor defect identification using blurring techniques: Embodiments described herein may operate to image a scene with an imaging system using an image blurring technique. An image sensor array (ISA) element may be identified as a dark defect element if a first ratio of an average of a set of illuminance signal magnitudes from a set of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080055435 - Viewfinder and image pickup apparatus: A viewfinder configured to display a captured image includes: an edge correction signal generation unit configured to generate a peaking signal corresponding to an edge enhancement correction target hue that is a hue for which edge enhancement correction will be performed from three primary color signals generated from an input... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080055436 - Method, imager and system providing paired-bayer color filter array and interlaced readout: A pixel array, composed of rows and columns, has a first row which includes pixels of a first color alternating with pixels of a second color. A second row of the array adjacent to the first row includes alternating pixels of the first color and second colors aligned in a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080055438 - Image sensor package, related method of manufacture and image sensor module: The image sensor package includes: an image sensor chip including an image sensing unit which is positioned in an upper central portion thereof and including a plurality of chip bonding pads formed around the image sensing; a transparent board including a lower surface on which a first line electrically connected... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080055437 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device is provided and has; three photoelectric conversion layers stacked above a semiconductor substrate 1, each detecting a different color; three signal charge accumulators in a semiconductor substrate for accumulating signal charges generated in each of the three photoelectric conversion layers: and a signal readout circuit in... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080055439 - Physical quantity detecting device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus: A physical quantity detecting device includes a pixel array and a vertical driving circuit. In the pixel array, pixels each for converting a physical quantity supplied from the outside into an electric signal and storing the electric signal are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix. The vertical driving circuit scans a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080055441 - Method, apparatus and system providing a storage gate pixel with high dynamic range: A method, apparatus and system are described providing a high dynamic range pixel. An integration period has multiple sub-integration periods during which charges are accumulated in a photosensor and repeatedly transferred to a storage node, where the charges are accumulated for later transfer to another storage node for output.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080055440 - Wide dynamic range image capturing system method and apparatus: An image capture system is presented where the dynamic range of photo imaging devices, such as a still or video camera, is increased by varying sensor exposure time on a pixel-by-pixel basis under digital camera processor control. The systems photo sensors are continuously illuminated without reset over the exposure interval.... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080055444 - Branched outlet type image pickup apparatus free from charge transfer error caused by temperature change and a method therefor: An image pickup apparatus has an image pickup device including an imaging section, in which signal charges read out from plural photosensitive cells are vertically transferred over vertical transfer paths and the transferred signal charges are in turn horizontally transferred over a horizontal transfer path, which has a branching section... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055443 - Image pickup device including a solar cell and apparatus therefor: An image pickup device has a transparent insulation film formed on the primary surface of a semiconductor substrate and a solar cell formed on the insulation film. The solar cell has a transparent electrode film, a p-type conductive film, an n-type conductive film and a transparent electrode film stacked in... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080055442 - Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit formed of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, each having a photoelectric converter, and outputs the signals read from the pixels in the pixel array unit in parallel on a multiple-column basis; control means for performing window cutting in which signals... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080055445 - Photoelectric conversion device and image sensing system: This invention discloses a photoelectric conversion device. The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of readout circuits which read out signals from pixels for respective columns in the pixel array, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055446 - Positional gain adjustment and surface generation for image processing: Surface generation and positional gain adjustment techniques for an imager are described. Embodiments of the techniques use zones having flexible boundaries which can be reconfigured depending upon the type of lens being used in a given application. Each pixel within each zone is multiplied by a correction factor dependent upon... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080055447 - Circuit for processing a time-discrete analog signal and image sensor: A circuit for processing an analog signal having a time sequence of discrete signal levels, each of which lies in a time interval and represents an information-bearing segment of the interval while the rest of the time interval is a non-information-bearing segment, comprises a transistor in emitter-follower or source-follower configuration,... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080055451 - Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device includes a signal charge detection unit converting signal charges into voltage to be outputted, which have been obtained by photoelectrically converting incident light, and in which the signal charge detection unit arranges a drive transistor having a carbon nanotube channel over a channel region between an... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080055448 - Image sensor, and image pickup apparatus using same: An image sensor and an image pickup apparatus using the same, of this invention, has switching gates for coupling a plurality of storage/vertical transfer CCD cells together between a plurality of different photodiodes. Between a photodiode engaged in measurement by the photodiode, and a photodiode not engaged in the above... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080055450 - Multi-plate solid-state imager module and apparatus: A multi-plate solid-state imaging element module comprising a plurality of solid-state imaging devices identical in structure, each comprising a set of pixels, wherein said plurality of solid-state imaging devices are arranged so that the sets of pixels of said plurality of solid-state imaging devices are effectively deviated to each other,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080055449 - Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate in the form of a two-dimensional array so as to comprise a plurality of sets, each comprising a subset of the photoelectric conversion elements arranged in one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055452 - Remote cinematography viewing device: A remote video monitoring and control system for use in cinematography includes an ergonometrically balanced display device of sufficient size and resolution to display images useful in cinematography. A handgrip base is secured to the display device, and a power source is secured to the base. A video signal receiving... Agent: Mckenna Mcgovern Burkhart

20080055453 - Displaying a live view and captured images in a digital camera: A method for displaying a live view and captured images of a digital camera is provided. In the method, a live view is displayed. A first image of the live view is captured. In response to capturing the first image, the captured first image is displayed. The captured first image... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080055454 - Imaging device: An imaging device, such as a digital camera, has a mechanism for compensating an image blur caused by hand jiggling and is capable of consecutively shooting, through one operation of a shutter operation section (36), frames of an image in a state where the mechanism (20) is operational and in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080055457 - Camera having a focusing adjusting system: A camera with a photographing optical system, including a focus adjusting system which captures images at different focal positions via an image pickup device while moving a focusing lens group within a controllable searching range, and moves the focusing lens group to the in-focus position; a memory which stores a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080055456 - Camera module: A camera module that can be used in small-sized electronic apparatuses such as digital cameras, camera-equipped cellular phones is provided. The camera module includes a lens unit which constitutes an optical system of the camera module; a holder which houses the lens nit and is displaceable along an optical axis... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080055455 - Imbalance determination and correction in image sensing: The various embodiments described herein provide for the correction of spectral imbalance as might be caused where first pixels corresponding to a first spectral response have two or more different patterns of neighboring pixels contributing to cross-talk interference with the response of those first pixels. The differing patterns of neighboring... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20080055458 - Lens apparatus: Provided is a lens apparatus in which serial communication and parallel communication between a camera body and the lens apparatus are performed and resumption of the serial communication is accomplished after occurrence of a communication error, and controlling of a controlled object being controlled through the parallel communication is transferred... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055459 - Electronic imaging apparatus with anti-dust function: An electronic imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system which forms an optical image of an object. A photoelectric conversion element converts the optical image into an electric signal. The optical element is arranged between the imaging optical system and the photoelectric conversion element. An excitation unit vibrates the optical... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo Building 6

20080055460 - Auto focus method for obtaining image having two subjects: The present invention relates to an auto focus method for obtaining a sharp image of two subjects. The auto focus method includes the following steps. Firstly, a pre-taken image is obtained by focusing on a first subject with an image capture device. Then, the pre-taken image is divided into a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080055461 - Electronic still camera with capability to perform optimal focus detection according to selected mode: An electronic still camera includes a finder optical system for viewing a subject image. An imaging section obtains the subject image. A display section displays the subject image based on image data associated with the subject image obtained by the imaging section. A mode selecting section selects either a first... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080055462 - Shared memory multi video channel display apparatus and methods: A scaler positioning module may receive a video signal selected from among a plurality of video signals. The scaler positioning module may include scaler slots for arranging the signal path of the selected video signal through at least one scaler in the scaler positioning module. The scaler slots may enable... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080055463 - Transmission of stream video in low latency: The present invention is a new and innovative system and method for the stream transmission of video data. The disclosed invention enables a significant reduction in latency and in start decoding and displaying parameters in the transmission of the video data in comparison with existing stream video transmission methods. According... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080055464 - Method of automatically selecting resolution and video receiving apparatus to use the same: A method of automatically selecting a resolution and a video receiving apparatus to use the same. The method may include determining whether an external display apparatus is connected through a digital video output terminal, and automatically adjusting the resolution of a digital video signal outputted through the digital video output... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080055465 - Method and apparatus for de-interlacing video data: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for de-interlacing video data by using a horizontal motion vector of a horizontal motion between fields. The horizontal motion regarding a target pixel of a frame is compensated if the horizontal motion vector is found to be substantially not null according to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080055466 - Shared memory multi video channel display apparatus and methods: A shared memory video processor including signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry may enable a noise reducer and a de-interlacer to share access to field buffers in a memory device to store various field lines. Some of the stored field lines may also be shared within the signal processing... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080055467 - Method for detecting a program deviation period during a television broadcast: A method for detecting a program deviation period during a television broadcast having a main audio program and a secondary audio program includes: receiving the main audio program; receiving the secondary audio program; calculating a similarity value between the main audio program and the secondary audio program within a candidate... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080055468 - Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and data signal: An information processing apparatus, comprising: an acquisition section that acquires a plurality of items of document information to be time-sequentially presented and movie information which includes speech that time-sequentially changes in association with the plurality of items of document information; a character string extracting section that extracts, from character strings... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080055469 - Method, program and apparatus for generating scenario for music-and-image-synchronized motion picture: The present invention provides a method for generating a scenario for a music-and-image-synchronized motion picture comprising the steps of: extracting characteristics of music; extracting structure of the music on the basis of the extracted characteristics of the music and dividing the music into multiple components on the basis of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055470 - Shared memory multi video channel display apparatus and methods: The invention includes a system and the associated method for decoding multiple video signals. The video signals may be component video, composite video or s-video signals each having multiple portions using a multimode video decoder. A selection stage may combine the multiple video signals and select some of their video... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080055471 - Video integrated circuit and video processing apparatus thereof: Both a video integrated circuit that is connected to a video display apparatus for processing and displaying a plurality of video signals, and the video display apparatus thereof, are provided. The video integrated circuit and the video processing apparatus comprise a processor, a video capture unit, a watermark generating unit,... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080055472 - Image signal processing apparatus and image signal processing method for controlling optical black level of image signal: An image signal processing apparatus includes a clamp circuit that clamps an image signal having a horizontal synchronization signal, an optical black level period representing an optical black level, and an effective signal period representing an image signal for one horizontal line so as to clamp a value offset from... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080055473 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: Chroma correction is executed in consideration of the area effect of colors. To this end, an input image is segmented into a plurality of regions as sets of pixels having similar feature amounts, and a size evaluation value of the each segmented regions is calculated based on the number of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055474 - Projection apparatus and an automatic image adjustment method thereof: A projection apparatus includes a projection unit, an image processing unit, and a detection module. The projection unit receives an image output signal, and converts the image output signal into an image light beam for projecting a projection image. The detection module detects a placement orientation of the projection apparatus,... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080055475 - Display control method: A display control method and device are discussed. According to one aspect, the method includes dividing a screen into a first display region, on which a first broadcast signal is displayed, and a second display region having at least one sub screen, on which a second broadcast signal is displayed,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055476 - Video processing: Digital video contrast enhancement and skin tone correction by conversion to CIECAM02 color space with lightness transformation and a skin tone probability density function of hue and saturation.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080055477 - Method and system for motion compensated noise reduction: The present invention is directed to a method and system for improved motion compensated noise reduction. The system uses a temporal noise reduction filter to remove noise from the current input field and pass it through a de-interlacer to produce a noise reduced full output frame. The temporal noise reduction... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080055478 - Maintenance of hue in a saturation-controlled color image: A hue error may occur upon a saturation control CSC if for a given pixel not only the color becomes more saturated but also the color of pixel changes. In a first variant the invention proposes to predict the saturated color after a saturation increase by applying in a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080055479 - Color space appearance model video processor: A method of color processing determines whether a pixel color is within at least one range of predetermined colors corresponding to a viewer expected color. If so, the method altering the pixel color to better approximate the viewer expected color. For detection of skin tones determining whether the pixel color... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080055480 - Video signal judgment circuit: A video signal judgment circuit for judging the condition of a video signal compounded of a picture signal and a synchronization signal is provided. The video signal judgment circuit is adapted to first filter the video signal by a low-pass filter (LPF) having an adjustable cutoff frequency and then separate... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080055481 - Method and system for efficiently increasing the temporal depth of a 3d comb filter: Processing signals in a video system may include detecting motion in at least one of a plurality of video frames, storing the results of the detecting to a buffer and comb filtering at least one future frame using the results stored in the buffer. Detecting the difference may include computing... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080055482 - Image processing apparatus and method: Gradation transform considering a scene transitional direction is executed for a video signal. The statistic of the luminance distribution of the input video signal is detected. The transitional direction of brightness of a scene of the input video signal is detected. A transform characteristic in transforming the gradation characteristic of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080055483 - Method for detecting a program deviation period during a television broadcast: A method for detecting a program deviation period during a television broadcast having a main audio program and a secondary audio program includes: receiving the main audio program; receiving the secondary audio program; converting the audio programs into a main channel and a secondary channel; calculating a similarity value between... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080055484 - Image device to reverse play with minimal time delay and a method thereof: An image device capable of reverse play with minimal time delay, and a method thereof. The image device includes a buffer to store a greater number of pictures than constitute a single group of pictures (GOP), and a controller to operate the buffer to store decoded pictures. Accordingly, problems such... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080055485 - Generation of a frame synchronized clock for a wireless video receiver: An apparatus for receiving essentially uncompressed HDTV video must generate an accurate pixel-rate clock to enable the reconstruction of a video frame. The clock pixel-rate generated must match a received video pixel-rate. In such system, signals for generation of horizontal and vertical synchronization are not transmitted over the wireless link... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080055486 - Video transmission apparatus and connector module thereof: A video transmission apparatus and the connector module thereof are provided. The connector module includes a first resistor and a second resistor. The first resistor is coupled between a voltage source and a transmission pin. The second resistor is coupled between a ground terminal and a connector. When the transmission... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080055487 - Television tuner and method thereof: The invention provides a digital television tuner having at least two brances that receive a radio frequency signal, wherein the radio frequency signal carries M channels (M is a positive integer). A target image data is generated in real time since at least one of the branches pre-extracts the image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055488 - Video channel changing: A method for reducing the perceived channel change time in digital televisions systems includes receiving and decoding a first signal that includes first video streams each including a series of first images, the video streams being of frequencies in different frequency bands of available first frequency bands, receiving and decoding... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080055489 - Method for controlling automatic channel setup, and image display apparatus incorporating the same: A method and apparatus for controlling an automatic channel setup of an image display apparatus communicatable with an image receiving apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a controller which determines the status of a connection with the image receiving apparatus during an automatic channel setup; and stops the automatic channel... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080055490 - Image display device, image display method, and program: When an information screen is displayed while an application such as a game or the like is run, operation relative to the application is continued under a certain condition. The information screen can be displayed while an application is being run, irrespective of an application program such as a game... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080055491 - Cabinet with movable video screen: A video terminal may be provided. The video terminal may include internal hardware. The video terminal may include a cabinet, the cabinet enclosing the internal hardware. The video terminal may include a door movably attached to the cabinet, the door having a door opened and a door closed position. The... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP