Television inventions 04/08

20080094466 - Target use video limit notification on wireless communication device: A method and system for informing a user of a wireless communication device about conformance of a video sequence captured by the user with a target use for the video sequence. In one aspect, a wireless communication device comprises a video capture system, a user interface and a processor communicatively... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20080094467 - Video telephony apparatus and signal transmitting/receiving method for mobile terminal: A video telephony apparatus and signal transmitting/receiving method for a mobile terminal are disclosed. The video telephony apparatus includes: a radio frequency unit for establishing a video call connection; an audio processor for collecting and reproducing an audio signal including a voice signal; a caption generator for converting the voice... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080094468 - Method for displaying stereoscopic image and display system thereof: The invention discloses a method and system thereof for displaying a stereoscopic image including left-eye image data and right-eye image data. The invention utilizes persistence of vision to process the stereoscopic image based on display frequency, such that different images can be displayed at different time but on the same... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080094469 - Circuitry testing method and circuitry testing device: A circuitry testing method, comprising: providing a circuit board needing testing; applying a potential(160) to the circuit board needing testing so that the circuit board works and operating elements of the circuit board needing testing emit infrared rays; testing an intensity of radiation of the infrared rays using an infrared... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080094470 - Surveillance security system and method: A surveillance security system is used for selectively storing motion image data of an object to be detected. The surveillance security system includes an image-capturing device for capturing images from an object; a memory module for storing the image data; and a controller for controlling a storage process of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094471 - Image processor for vehicles: A camera [[17]] captures an image by applying for every frame camera control values that are computed for a white line detection, and captures the image by applying for every frame camera control values that are computed for a three-dimensional object detection. The captured frame is transmitted to a stereo... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080094472 - Method for analyzing the motion of a person during an activity: A method is disclosed for analyzing with a computer (1) the motion of an athlete (3), of a team or a patient during an activity, said method comprising the steps of defining a number of unevenly time-spaced key positions in said motion, said key positions being of particular interest for... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080094473 - Weapon sight assembly and weapon system including same: A weapon sight assembly, comprising: a platform for mounting the weapon sight assembly on a weapon; a weapon sight carried by said platform to facilitate orienting the weapon in alignment with a target in a field of view; a video camera carried by the platform for generating and outputting video... Agent: Martin Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080094474 - Calibration methods and apparatus for digital cameras: Digital cameras are calibrated so that detailed highlights and shadows in scenes being photographed are reproduced in digital images of those scenes by calibrating holographic data obtained from target images at those scenes. In one embodiment the target image is obtained from an actual target having black and white, and... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080094475 - Measuring instrument for measuring video signal level and display device for displaying video signal level: A measuring instrument 50 comprises: a) means which is fed with a video output signal, and performs RGB processing on the video output signal to generate graphic data; b) means for measuring a video signal level in the graphic data, and generating video signal level data; and c) means for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080094476 - System and method of high-speed image-cued triggering: A high-speed digital camera system and method for processing high-speed image data is claimed. The method comprises generating images with at least 3×105 pixels at greater than 60 frames-per-second with an image sensor, downloading an image; defining an area of interest in the downloaded image comprising a plurality of adjacent... Agent: Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C.

20080094477 - Webcam with a wire control device: The wire control device has at least one operation button; the operation button could be a shooting button, a network visual controlling button, or an image adjusting button. The wire control device is used to let the user operate the button direction and control the digital image processing with the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080094478 - Image capture and display devices, methods, and computer readable media: An image capture device according to the present invention includes: an image capture unit that captures an image; a focus control unit that controls a to-be-focused position of the capture unit; a display unit that displays the image; an area specifying unit that specifies a specific area within the image,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094479 - Determination of state of digital imaging device: A method comprises determining whether a digital imaging device is in a stable state or an unstable state and causing an event to be performed upon the digital imaging device transitioning from the unstable state to the stable state. The method also comprises precluding the event from being performed while... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080094480 - Image processing system and method for improving repeatability: Embodiments of the invention relate to a dome camera assembly that is able to ensure repeatability. The dome camera assembly includes a nonvolatile storage mechanism including a stored video image and a corresponding stored camera position. The assembly may further include an image capturing device for capturing a current video... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080094481 - Intelligent multiple exposure: In one embodiment, an apparatus creates a multiple exposure image from two or more frames of pixels. The apparatus includes a first memory to store pixels of a first frame and a comparing unit. The comparing unit, for pixels of a second frame, compares at least one parameter with a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080094482 - Image processing device, image processing method, recording medium, and program: An image acquisition unit acquires multiple image data sets of pixels in array, having subject distortion due to focal plane shutter effects, corresponding to images taken at continuous exposure timings; a coefficient storage unit stores coefficients, determined by which number-in-order of multiple images that the image data set corresponds to,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080094483 - In-pixel ktc noise suppression using circuit techniques: A circuit and method for reducing kTC noise in CMOS imagers while minimizing power dissipation is disclosed. Correlated double sampling (CDS) is performed within each pixel such that the reset voltage and the integration voltage are sampled and stored within the pixel until the voltages are forwarded to a differential... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080094484 - Image capture methods and systems: Image capture methods and systems. First image data with an environmental light source is captured, and second image data with a pre-flash light source of a strobe is captured. During image capture, each pixel therein is respectively performed with a white balance adjustment according to the first and the second... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080094485 - Imaging pickup apparatus, image pickup method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: An image pickup apparatus includes a color component acquiring unit that acquires picked-up-image color-component signals representing color components of a picked-up image, a face detecting unit that detects a face, a skin-color-region color-component acquiring unit that, when the picked-up image includes a face, acquires skin-color-region color-component signals based on a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080094486 - Method and system of generating high dynamic range image corresponding to specific scene: A method of generating a high dynamic range image corresponding to a specific scene. The method includes shooting a specific scene to generate a base image; selecting a bright area and a dark area from the base image; determining base luminance according to the base image; shooting the specific scene... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094487 - Moving image recording/playback device: A moving image recording/playback device records a moving image of a subject. In the case of recording, the moving image recording/playback device sequentially outputs a plurality of image frames that constitute the moving image at a predetermined frame rate and, of the plurality of image frames, wholly records image frames... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080094488 - Image taking apparatus: An aspect of the present invention provides an image taking apparatus, comprising: a solid-state image sensor; and a taking lens including a lens barrel that houses a lens disposed in front of the solid-state image sensor, wherein a shielding member that blocks an electromagnetic wave radiated from the front surface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094489 - Solid-state image pickup device and image pickup apparatus: A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each having a photoelectric converter; a signal conversion circuit converting a pixel signal from the pixel array into an output signal; and a clamp correction circuit correcting a clamp level included in a predetermined signal dealt... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080094490 - Electronic imaging system with adjusted dark floor correction: An image sensor includes an array of pixels used in capturing images. First dark floor values are captured at a first time from substantially all of the pixels in the array. Contemporary dark floor values are captured at a second time from substantially all of the pixels in the array,... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080094491 - Image processing apparatus and method: The invention discloses an image processing apparatus and method. The method of the invention first splits the image into a green color plane, a red color plane and a blue color plane. Afterward, each one of the green color plane, the red color plane and the blue color plane is... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080094492 - Image defect correction apparatus, image defect correction method, and program therefor: An image defect correction apparatus capable of satisfactorily correcting a white vertical line caused by point defects on the same vertical CCD. A first correction value is determined from a difference between an average value of luminance signals obtained by a vertical CCD including one or more point defects and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080094493 - Imaging apparatus: To reliably obtain a captured image expected by a user, such as an image precisely showing the shades of a blue sky or a flower, or an image captured under flat illumination and having high contrast, an apparatus comprises an aperture, shutter, CCD, and an AGC, and applies gamma correction... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080094494 - Apparatus and method for cds and adc with multiple samplings in image sensor: For analog to digital conversion with correlated double sampling in an image sensor, a pixel signal from a given pixel is sampled to generate a respective sampled signal N-times, with N>1 within a horizontal scan time period. A ramp signal is generated with a respective ramping portion for each respective... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080094495 - Solid-state image capturing device, method for driving the solid-state image capturing device, and electronic information device: A solid-state image capturing device according to the present invention includes: a plurality of light receiving sections, arranged in a matrix in an image capturing region, for photoelectrically converting received light into signal electrical charges; signal readout sections for reading out the signal electrical charges from the light receiving sections;... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080094496 - Mobile communication terminal: A camera equipped mobile communication terminal is used in an image recording mode during which a camera view is displayed. A guiding pattern is displayed in a viewfinder mode such that it facilitates for a user to adjust the camera view. Detection is made that the camera view is in... Agent: Perman & Green

20080094497 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus configured so that, when the lens unit is mounted in one-touch on the module unit, the conical outer circumferential surface of a tip-end part of a lens press-fitting part is in close contact with the inner circumferential surface of the conical concave part of the holder to... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080094498 - Imaging apparatus and imaging control method: The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor for obtaining a picture image from an optical image that is projected to the image sensor through an optical system, an image moving portion for moving the optical image on the image sensor, a motion detecting portion for detecting a movement on the... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080094499 - Imaging apparatus, data recording method and data-display control method, and computer program: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture an image; a GPS (Global Positioning System) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite; a power-supply control unit configured to control power supply to the GPS device; an apparatus control... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080094500 - Frame filter: One or more streams of image frames are filtered and restored using filtering and restoration patterns, respectively.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080094501 - Reduced memory and bandwidth motion adaptive video deinterlacing: A method for motion adaptive video deinterlacing is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) in a first plurality among a plurality of modes, generating a frame by deinterlacing a current field using a plurality of memory bandwidth configurations and (B) in a second plurality among the modes,... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080094502 - Method and apparatus for providing a picture cropping function: A method and apparatus for providing a picture cropping function enables users to crop pictures in a convenient and direct manner using discrete navigation keys of a user input device. According to an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a first processor operative to provide at least one of an audio... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080094503 - Method and apparatus for restrainng erroneous image colors: A method and related apparatus for restraining erroneous image colors are provided for correcting pixel values of three sequential image fields of a video data while de-interlacing the video data. The method is utilized to correct the video data by detecting whether penetrations from luminance signals into chrominance signals or... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080094504 - Field balancing device and method: A field balancing device for balancing the lightness/color of top fields and bottom fields of an interlaced signal includes: a detection circuit for detecting a lightness/color difference between at least one portion of at least one top field of the interlaced signal and at least one portion of at least... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094505 - Reduced memory and bandwidth motion adaptive video deinterlacing: A method for reduced memory and bandwidth motion adaptive video deinterlacing is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a frame by deinterlacing a current field in a first of a plurality of modes, (B) generating the frame by deinterlacing using both of the current field and... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080094506 - Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature: A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-flutter filtering and scaling of graphics. Anti-flutter filtering may help... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080094507 - Signal detection device and methods thereof: A device for detecting synchronization pulses in a video signal is disclosed. The device includes a transistor. The base-emitter voltage of the transistor is maintained below a threshold level in response to receiving active video information. The base-emitter voltage is increased above the threshold level in response to receiving synchronization... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080094509 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus and method for providing multiple screens are provided. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing module which confirms whether a focus request regarding a first region on a screen has been issued, and an operational module which operates the application on the screen based on the confirmed result,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094510 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens is provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens is capable of connecting a plurality of screens to a plurality of output ports so as to dynamically configure the plurality of screens which provide multiple contents on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094511 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens is provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens is capable of connecting a plurality of screens to a plurality of output ports so as to dynamically configure the plurality of screens which provide multiple contents on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094512 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing module which receives at least one of video information, audio information, and data information and rectories a plurality of services based on the at least one of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094508 - Apparatus for providing mutliple screens and method of dynamically configuring: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing module receiving at least one of video information, audio information, and data information and restoring a plurality of services based on the at least one of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094513 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The method of dynamically configuring multiple screens includes generating a plurality of logical screens; associating a service context with a first logical screen selected from the generated logical screens; and moving the service context... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094514 - Method for controlling electronic apparatus: A method is provided for enabling users to control an electronic apparatus such as a television signal receiver, multimedia device, and/or other device in an easy and convenient manner using a single key of a user input device. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes steps of enabling each... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080094515 - Dominant color extraction for ambient light derived from video content mapped thorugh unrendered color space: Extracting and processing video content encoded in a rendered color space to be emulated by an ambient light source, comprising extracting dominant color information from a video signal and transforming the color information through unrendered color space using tristimulus primary matrices to form a second rendered color space for ambient... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094516 - Digital image processing method for analog transmission network, and camera apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing system therefor: A camera apparatus having a digital image processing function for an analog transmission network is provided. The camera apparatus divides each of frames of first resolution digital image data into N equal regions, converting each frame of the digital image data into N fields by interlacing the regions in order... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080094517 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a hue specifying unit, a pixel extracting unit and a luminance data converting unit. The hue specifying unit generates hue specification information that specifies a hue to be converted on a basis of a user operation. The pixel extracting unit extracts pixels having a hue... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080094518 - System and method for controlling tv display lamp brightness: The remote control signal receiver of a TV sends not only user-generated commands to the TV processor but also, when no commands are sensed, an ambient light signal that can be used to adjust the brightness of the TV.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080094519 - System and method for using partial interpolation to undertake 3d gamma adjustment of microdisplay having dynamic iris control: In a microdisplay TV with dynamic iris control, interpolation is used to undertake 3D gamma adjustment of the display for intermediate brightness levels.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080094520 - Simplified switch over between content related media streams: The invention relates to methods, devices and computer program codes for enabling simple seamless switch over between content related media streams, selecting a switching scheme and performing simplified switch over between such streams, as well as a set of media signals. The media streams (TS1, TS2, TSN) have access units... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094521 - Systems and methods for automated channel updating: A method for automated channel updating is provided. In step (a), a frequency carrying channel data is detected. In step (b), it is determined whether a channel list comprises the frequency by retrieving a frequency table, where the frequency table stores information indicating whether the frequency is comprised in the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080094522 - Television receiver: The present invention provides a television receiver capable of automatically identifying the kind of a tuner and controlling the tuner in accordance with the kind. In a television receiver having a tuner for receiving a television broadcast signal and a module for detecting an intermediate frequency signal output from the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080094523 - Controllable system having functions that can be activated control commands: The invention relates to a controllable arrangement (1) having functions that can be activated by control commands, comprising: an input system (7) for control commands (CI) and acknowledgment signals (ACK), which input system (7) is connected to a recognition system) (9) for recognizing received control commands (CI) and a detection... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094524 - Audio source selection: A processor (4) receives (I1,I2) a first audio and/or video input signal (A1, V1), and a second audio and/or video input signal (Λ2, V2, Λ1b, Λ1c, Λ3, A5). A comparator (41) compares the fist audio or video input signal (A1, V1) and the second audio or video input signal (A2,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094525 - Display apparatus, display system, and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes: a display unit; a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) through which an external device can be connected; a user input unit; a user interface (UI) generator; and a controller which outputs a command signal for generating a UI for external device through the HDMI if a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094526 - Systems and methods for optical block level adjustment of rear projection tvs: In a rear-projection TV system in which the image is generated by an optical engine and projected through a mirror towards a diffusion plate screen, picture quality adjustment is undertaken at the optical block level to reduce the distance between the adjustment device and screen and thereby improve production throughput... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080094527 - Systems and methods for reducing defects during assembly of rear projection tv screens: Systems and methods for reducing defects during assembly of rear projection TV screens by using direct high intensity light characterized and classified with spectroscopy analysis to identify contaminants in diffusion plates, and then controlling air flow to reduce or eliminate the contaminants.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080088693 - Content transmission method and apparatus using video call: A content transmission method and apparatus using video call is provided. The content transmission method includes performing an encoding operation on reproduced content; and transmitting the encoded content to at least one of video call apparatuses connected to a network, wherein the content is distinguished from video and the voice... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088695 - Video camera stand with video server function: A video camera stand with a video server function is provided, which is used for joining with a video camera. The video camera stand includes a stand body, a base, and a network video server module disposed in the stand body, and furthermore, the video camera stand and the video... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080088698 - Interaction based on facial recognition of conference participants: In one embodiment, a method includes capturing a facial image of a participant to a video conference session from a video stream of the video conference session. A database containing a plurality a stored facial images is then accessed in an attempt to match the facial image with one of... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080088699 - Network camera system: A network camera system which is capable of generating a panoramic image by smooth or seamless connection of images, even when a network camera having a wide-angle lens is used. A network camera system includes a network camera that has a wide-angle lens which can be controlled for zooming, and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080088700 - Method and apparatus for improving identification of a party in a communication transaction: A method and apparatus for improving identification of a party in a communication transaction is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a User Interface (UI) element that presents an image identifier that identifies one among a calling party... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080088701 - Endoscope and endoscope apparatus: An endoscope in accordance with the present invention provides an endoscope having an image pickup apparatus and including a first connection portion provided on one side surface of a first solid-state image pickup device to connect the first solid-state image pickup device to a first circuit board, and a second... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080088694 - Two-way mobile video/audio/data companion (mvic) system: A roaming videoconferencing (VTC) system incorporates a portable VTC device with client bridge wireless connectivity that couples to the closest access point (AP) assembly with FCC compliant, enhanced range. Use of APs in combination with amplified directional antennas is successfully demonstrated for two-way VTC, even given their generally-known low Effective... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080088696 - Compact, portable universal script prompter and videoconferencing eye contact-assisting device for personal computers: A portable, universal script prompter and videoconferencing eye contact-assisting device for personal computers for mounting on a personal computer monitor and covering an insubstantial portion of the surface of the monitor comprising a housing comprising a front face with an opening, two sides, a mirror attached to the inside of... Agent: Vesna N. Rafaty

20080088697 - Image signal processing apparatus, image coding apparatus and image decoding apparatus, methods thereof, processors thereof, and, imaging processor for tv conference system: In the teleconference and videophone system, a display apparatus is placed in front of the speaker, and thus a camera cannot be placed in front of the speaker. This causes distortions in the image shot by the camera. With the image signal processing apparatus of the present invention, a parameter... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080088702 - Camera system, method for operation of a camera system and sensor device of a camera system: The invention concerns a camera system, especially a camera system in a camera-based analysis system and/or assistance system of a vehicle, comprising a camera with an optical beam path (12), which has at least one optical element to guide image information to a light-sensitive image sensor (14). At least one... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080088703 - System, method and apparatus for automatically tracking and recording objects: In accordance with at least one exemplary embodiment, a method, system and apparatus for automatically tracking and recording an object are disclosed. The moving image capture method, system and apparatus can have a video camera coupled with one or more electronically-controlled aiming mechanisms. A wireless signal transmitter can be associated... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20080088704 - Method of making digital planimetry measurements on digital photographs: A novel method of calibrating digital photographs providing accurate planimetry measurements of objects within digital image 12 is disclosed herein. Digital image 12 is imported into a computer program where a calibration method is performed using calibration line 20 that is dragged and dropped to ruler 10 in digital image... Agent: Martin E. Wendelken

20080088705 - Image forming apparatus processing file according to index information and method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes: an image processing unit; a display part which displays a plurality of files; an input part which receives at least one index information with respect to at least one of the files; a storing part which stores the files and the received index information together;... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080088706 - Interface for browsing and viewing video from multiple cameras simultaneously that conveys spatial and temporal proximity: An interface and display of video from multiple fixed-position cameras is provided. A main video stream captured by a camera is selected to be the main video stream and is displayed to the interface. Video streams captured by the set of cameras and the main camera that are temporally related... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080088707 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes an imaging unit which is mounted on a mobile object and picks an image of a predetermined field of view to generate an image; and a moving information detection unit which detects moving information including a speed of the mobile object. The apparatus also includes... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080088708 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus has: a communication unit for performing a wireless communication with an external device; a device for performing a predetermined operation; a drive unit for driving the device; and a control unit for putting restrictions on one of the wireless communication with the external device by the communication... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080088709 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes a photodetector element for receiving an infrared signal transmitted from a remote controller and outputting the received signal, a conversion unit for converting the received signal outputted from the photodetector element into a binarized pulse signal and outputting the signal, and a decode unit for converting... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080088710 - Imaging apparatus, continuous imaging method, and recording medium for recording a program: When a continuous imaging mode is set, a screen is displayed for allowing input of a number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of the images, a determination is made as to whether the number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080088714 - Device having imaging function: A device having an imaging function includes: a camera portion to capture optically an image of an object and to output the image as an image data; a display portion to perform an image displaying using the image data from the camera portion; and a control portion to decide a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080088711 - Digital image with reduced object motion blur: A method of producing a digital image with reduced object motion blur, includes capturing at least a first and second digital image of a scene using an exposure time that reduces image blur; combining pixels of the first digital image to produce a third digital image which is brighter than... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080088715 - Image capture apparatus, signal processing apparatus, signal processing method and computer program product: An image capture apparatus includes a charge coupled device (CCD), an analog front end circuit, and a control unit. The CCD individually output an image capture signal corresponding to each of divided areas of an image capture area through a horizontal CCD. The analog front end circuit includes an amplifier... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080088712 - Slimming effect for digital photographs: Systems and methods are disclosed for applying a slimming effect to a subject in a digital image on a camera. An exemplary method may comprise compressing the digital image in one dimension so that a subject appears thinner. The method may also comprise selecting a portion of the compressed image... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080088713 - Image transformation estimator of an imaging device: A technique includes obtaining an operational capacity of an imaging device. The technique can also include estimating one or more operational resources to perform an image transformation that estimates whether the imaging device has adequate operational capacity to transform one or more images.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080088716 - System and method for providing automatic gain control in an imaging device: A system and method of providing automatic gain control (AGC) in an imaging device uses accumulated signals stored in active pixels of an image sensor during an exposure period to derive a shutter value for subsequent image capture.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080088717 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium: An image capturing apparatus for recording information on a main subject at image-capturing is provided. The image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an image capturing section; a pre-image acquiring section for acquiring a pre-image captured by the image capturing section when a focal point provided at a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088718 - Template creator for digital cameras: Systems and methods are disclosed for applying cutout effects to digital images. An exemplary method of applying user-generated templates to a digital image on a camera may comprise converting at least a portion of a first digital image to a template for use on a second digital image based at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080088719 - Digital camera with non-uniform image resolution: A digital camera includes a sensor adapted to provide a digital representation of a portion of a field of view and an optical system that causes a plurality of locations within the field of view to become incident on the sensor. A pixel correction module adds a bias value to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20080088721 - Automatic gain control for a confocal imaging system: Automatic gain control is provided for a confocal imaging system to improve the quality of images produced by the system. The confocal imaging system utilizes an illumination source, such as a laser, to produce illumination which enables imaging of an object. The automatic gain control is provided by an automatic... Agent: Kenneth J. Lukacher South Winton Court

20080088720 - Method and apparatus for displaying a gain control interface with non-linear gain levels: A method for displaying a gain control interface having a gain level display with non-linear gain levels. The gain level display has a first end having an associated first pixel offset value and a second end having an associated second pixel offset value. A range of pixel offset values span... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080088722 - Photoelectric converter: A photoelectric converter comprising a resin layer that absorbs infrared light cuts out unnecessary infrared light, while the photoelectric converter has a problem that the resin layer also reduces the transmission of light in the visible range. A photoelectric converter improving the problem comprises a semiconductor substrate (2) on which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088723 - Semiconductor element, method of driving semiconductor element and solid imaging apparatus: A semiconductor element comprises: two-dimensionally aligned pixels with a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions that photoelectrically converts incident light into a signal charge; a plurality of vertical transfer paths to which the signal charges are transferred from said plurality of photoelectric conversion portions; and read gates that amplify the signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080088724 - Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus and camera: A solid-state imaging device includes: multiple pixels making up a slanted grid array inclined to a scanning direction, which include a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert incident light quantity into an electric signal; and a charge-to-voltage conversion unit configured to convert signal charge read out from the photoelectric conversion... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080088725 - Solid-state imaging device: An amplification-type solid-state imaging device adds a plurality of signals from pixels of the same color, R, G, or B, in order to output the signals. A gravity center in each group of added pixels is arranged without being partial in a pixel region.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080088726 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a solid-state imaging device including a pixel section having unit pixels for generating imaging signal associated with an object each formed of a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel where a plurality of the unit pixels are two-dimensionally arranged so... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080088728 - Camera: In a camera in which a lens unit can be replaced, a camera, which individually grasps lens characteristics corresponding to a picked-up subject image, is provided. The camera is characterized by including a camera main body, a lens unit having an image pickup optical system for focusing a subject image,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080088729 - Camera: A camera includes a first image pickup section that photographs a recording-purpose image, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, a displaying section, an operation section, and a controlling section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section that can observe an optical image of a subject with... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088727 - Image taking device with removable optical unit: There is provided an image taking device with removable optical unit, with which it is possible to perform switching of the operating mode of the image taking device body without operating mode change switch, and an operating mode switching operation of the image taking device body is made easy. There... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080088730 - Image capture apparatus and method of manufacturing the same: An image capture apparatus is provided. The image capture apparatus includes a prism that separates light incident through a lens into at least two color components of light to be output and an image capture device that converts light separated by and output from the prism into a captured image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080088731 - Lens array and image sensor including lens array: A thin image sensor which is capable of projecting an illuminating light for illuminating an object and has high optical performance is provided. An image sensor (10) includes: a lens array (11) including lens elements (11a) arranged in an array on a plane; an imaging element (13) for converting an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080088732 - Lens structure: A lens structure disposed in an image capturing device is provided, and is imaged by a lens group and an image capturing unit. When the user presses a zooming key of the image capturing device, a driving mechanism drives a zoom lens group having a plurality of lenses to rotate,... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080088733 - Digital camera and flash emission control method: A digital camera including an imaging unit, a flash unit, a face detection unit that performs face detection on image data generated by the imaging unit, and an emission control unit that controls a redeye reduction emission and a main emission performed by the flash unit. The emission control unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080088734 - Image catching module and portable computer having the same: A portable computer including a display module and an image capture module disposed in the display module is provided. The image capture module includes a first image capture device, a pivot mechanism, and a second image capture device. The first image capture device has a circuit board, a first image... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080088735 - Social media platform and method: A Social Media Platform and method are provided wherein contextual content, in real-time, is delivered to a user along with the original content from which the contextual content is derived.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080088736 - Co-channel interference detector: A receiver processes a received signal for determining the presence of a co-channel interfering signal by (a) measuring a power level of a first signal in a first narrowband frequency region of a wideband frequency channel; (b) measuring power levels of signals in narrowband frequency regions adjacent to the first... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080088737 - Compressed timing indicators for media samples: A first frame of data is encoded and a first timestamp associated with the first frame of data is generated. The first timestamp includes complete timing information. The first frame of data and the associated first timestamp is transmitted to a destination. A second frame of data is encoded and... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080088738 - Signal separator: A signal separator for separating luminance and color signals from a composite video signal includes: a first line delay element for delaying the composite video signal by one line period; a second line delay element for delaying the composite video signal by two line periods; an adder element for adding... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080088739 - Usb hub with a tv receiver: An USB HUB with a TV receiver is provided mainly with a TV module that is able to shift a wireless signal received into a TV signal. Which is then transmitted to an electronic appliance connected with the USB HUB, achieving a purpose of miniaturization for saving space.... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080088740 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus for displaying an input image on a display, includes an image converting unit for converting the input image into an equiaspect ratio image, the equiaspect ratio image having the same aspect ratio as the input image, having one of a horizontal size and a vertical size... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080088741 - Video image data reproducing apparatus: A video image reproducing apparatus reads out sub-content information related to sub-content to be reproduced, from a recording medium, obtains attribute information indicative of the features of the sub-content, on the basis of the sub-content information, and controls each reproduction procedure of the main content and the sub-content on the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080088742 - Av player chip, av system, and related method capable of sharing digital-to-analog converters: An AV player chip includes a TV encoder, a timing controller, a multiplexer and a plurality of digital-to-analog converters. The TV encoder is used for transforming a first image signal into a TV video signal. The timing controller is used for generating an output signal. The multiplexer includes a first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080088743 - Method, electronic device, system, computer program product and circuit assembly for reducing error in video coding: A method, electronic device, computer program product, system and circuit assembly are provided for allocating one or more redundant pictures by taking into consideration the information content of the primary pictures, with which the redundant pictures would be associated. In particular, primary pictures that are determined to be more sensitive... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080088744 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: Provided are an apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens in which a plurality of screens for providing a plurality of content items are dynamically configured using flags included in received packets. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing module which determines whether an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088745 - Signal separator: A signal separator for separating luminance and color signals from a composite video signal includes: a first band pass element for passing a part of the composite video signal within a color signal band and within a predetermined frequency band; a second band pass element for passing a part of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080088746 - System and method for bad weave detection for inverse telecine: A system and method for bad weave detection for inverse telecine. To detect a bad weave artifact, the number of reversals of the difference polarity between successive lines within a column of samples is counted. The count of the number of reversals of the difference polarity is referred to as... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080088747 - Image capturing apparatus, program for controlling image capturing apparatus and method for controlling image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit, a first storage unit configured to store sample images and corresponding image capture frame rates, a display unit configured to display the sample images stored in the first storage unit at a predetermined frame rate, a detecting unit configured to detect... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080088748 - Voice multi-function remote control: A remote control apparatus, besides the controlling system for controlling electronics devices such as a television, further includes a timing and alarm system, a display screen, and a recording system with which important data such as important TV programs or favorite channels can be recorded, and each record can be... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080088749 - Television module provided with an antenna on its pc board: A television module provided with an antenna on its PC board includes a PC board, an antenna unit secured on the PC board, a modulation unit fixed on the PC board and connected with the antenna unit, and a digital image processing unit fixed on the PC board, having one... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080088750 - Display device with speaker grill: The disclosed embodiments relate to a display device with a speaker grill. More specifically, there is provided a display device (10) comprising a display screen (16), a frame (14) disposed around the display screen (16), and a speaker grill (18) coupled to the frame (14) and the display screen (16),... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080084470 - System, method and computer program for providing scalability in two or more streaming and/or archiving systems for video conference calls: The present invention is a method and system for clustering two or more video conferencing recording/streaming devices, making the cluster of two or more devices appear as one single device for the user. One of the recording/streaming devices acts as a cluster controller and provides a user interface to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080084471 - Display device and electronic apparatus: In a SW-LCD, an orienting film is divided into first and second regions having different directions of orientation, and a transparent electrode film is also patterned so as to be divided into regions respectively corresponding to the first and second regions. In the first region, a viewing angle in right... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080084472 - System and method for dynamically correcting parallax in head borne video systems: A dynamically corrected parallax system includes a head borne video source for imaging an object and providing video data. A controller electronically offsets the video data provided from the head borne video source to form offset video data. A display device receives the offset video data and displays the offset... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080084473 - Methods and apparatus related to improved surveillance using a smart camera: Methods and apparatus related to smart surveillance camera operation and implementation are described. A smart surveillance camera stores a map corresponding to an area subject to monitoring. The camera provides at least one image detected by said camera and at least a portion of the stored map in conjunction with... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080084474 - Surveillance camera: Surveillance camera comprising a camera housing and a transparent view port cover, the camera housing including a top surface and a side surface, the side surface is extending along the periphery of the top surface is connected to the top surface, the transparent view port cover is asymmetrically arranged on... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080084475 - System for target designation and/or illumination and for air reconnaissance: The invention relates to a system for target designation and/or illumination in a scene, that is designed to be attached to an aircraft comprising one optical path fitted with a matrix sensor forming an image of the scene, each image corresponding to an instantaneous field centered around a line of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080084476 - Image forming apparatus: A color material specifying unit of a digital camera generates color material specification data that specifies a color material to be used when forming an image in a printer. A transmitting unit transmits, to the printer, print instruction data including the color material specification data generated by the color material... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080084477 - Image transmission device and system: An image transmission device and system includes an image transmission device for use with a user-supplied communications and camera devices and a converter for use with another communications device and display. The image transmission device includes a cradle for respectively securing a cellular phone and camera and circuitry for electrically... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20080084478 - System and method for an in-vivo imaging device with an angled field of view: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for imaging a body lumen using a device with a centerline, where the center of gravity of the device is displaced from the centerline, and the centerline has a radius of curvature. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a system... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080084479 - Angular velocity detection apparatus: An angular-velocity detector comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The first sensor is used for detecting motion around an axis of a second direction perpendicular to a first direction. The second sensor is used for detecting motion around an axis of the first direction. The controller... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080084480 - Apparatus and method for compensating trembling of a portable terminal: A method for trembling compensation of a portable terminal includes obtaining a first image having lower brightness and a second image having higher brightness, the lower and higher brightness being different, by adjusting an iris when an image photograph event occurs, computing motion vectors at respective regions of the first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080084481 - Camera control interface: The disclosure relates to a camera control interface for a video camera having powered translation/rotation in multiple axes. The control system comprising a monitor for replicating the field of view of the camera, a manually operable controller for inputting translation/rotation commands in multiple axes and a processor for transmitting input... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080084482 - Image-capturing system and method: An electronic device may include a first camera and a second camera. The method comprises simultaneously, with the first camera, capturing a picture of a first object and processing it into a first frame and with the second camera, capturing a picture of a second object and processed into a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080084484 - Camera: A camera includes a first image pickup section that photographs a recording-purpose image, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, a mounting section, a display processing section, a displaying section, and a controlling section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section that can observe an optical image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084483 - Image-capturing device: An image-capturing device includes: a destructive read-type image sensor that executes photoelectric conversion of a light flux from an optical system at a plurality of pixels, stores electrical charges resulting from the photoelectric conversion at the plurality of pixels, and outputs a signal corresponding to each of the stored electrical... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084485 - Imaging and recording apparatus: An imaging apparatus connectable to an external device includes a recording instruction module which instructs a recording, an imaging module which generates an image signal from an optical image, a memory module which stores the image signal generated by the imaging module, a connecting module which enables connection of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080084486 - Providing multiple video signals from single sensor: A method for using a capture device to capture at least two video signals corresponding to a scene, includes: providing a two-dimensional image sensor having a plurality of pixels; reading a first group of pixels from the image sensor at a first frame rate to produce a first video signal... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080084487 - Imaging apparatus, imaging pickup unit connectable to a lens unit, and a lens unit connectable to imaging pickup unit: An imaging apparatus including a lens unit and an image pickup unit. The lens unit includes an optical system that projects a subject image onto an imaging device, the imaging device that converts the subject image into an electric signal, an imaging device driving part that drives the imaging device,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080084488 - Digital photographing apparatus and method for detecting and correcting smear by using the same: Disclosed is a digital photographing apparatus which includes a lens for optically photographing an object, a CCD for performing photoelectric conversion for an image photographed by the lens, a buffer unit for storing the image converted by the CCD in a unit of frame or field, a controller for determining... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080084489 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus provided with arrangement of plurality of pixels each having plurality of photoelectric conversion devices and accumulating unit for temporarily accumulating charges accumulated in plurality of photoelectric conversion d: A pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels shares an accumulating unit for temporarily accumulating charges accumulated in photoelectric conversion devices, is arranged so that a control unit of a photoelectric conversion apparatus is adapted, when an accumulated charge amount of a first photodiode exceeds a saturation charge amount,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080084490 - Solid-state imaging device and electronic device: A solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes an imaging area including a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix. Each of the pixels includes a photodiode having a first conductivity-type electric charge accumulation area and a transistor for reading electric charges obtained at the photodiode;... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080084491 - Scaling video processing complexity based on power savings factor: A method of scaling complexity of a video processing system including determining a power saving factor based on an operating parameter and adjusting processing of video information based on the power saving factor to reduce computation complexity. The operating parameter may include available power and/or available processing capacity. A method... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20080084492 - Dust removal apparatus of photographing apparatus: A dust removal apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit has an imaging device and is movable. The controller strikes the movable unit against a boundary of a range of movement of the movable unit as a dust removal operation. The controller... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080084493 - Camera, camera unit and camera system: A camera includes a first image pickup section photographing a recording-purpose image, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, and a displaying section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section capable of observing an optical image of a subject with a light flux from a photographing optical... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084494 - Ribbon cassette for mailing machine: A thermal ink ribbon cassette for a mailing machine has an anti-reverse leaf spring for preventing rotation of the take-up spindle in the unwinding direction, and a member that serves to limit deflection of the spring produced by engagement with teeth that surround the spindle base.... Agent: Ira S. Dorman

20080084495 - Method and apparatus for controlling lens position: An optical apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting a reference position, a detection unit for detecting a relative position, and a control unit for outputting a control signal for the optical apparatus after an operation speed of a moveable input member for drive-controlling the optical apparatus becomes equal to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080084496 - Adaptive illumination for color-corrected underwater imaging: Described are a method and an apparatus for color-corrected underwater imaging. A range to an underwater object to be imaged is determined and control values are selected according to the range. Control values are predetermined for a number of ranges according to an optimization of a color quality factor for... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080084497 - Auto focus system: An auto focus system is provided in which a focus movement speed and a cut off frequency of a filter for detecting a contrast from a video signal in AF of a contrast detecting system can be manually set in AF, so that an optimum AF can be achieved under... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080084498 - Camera iris apparatus and method: Disclosed are methods and devices for the irises of cameras. A non-mechanical or electro-optical camera iris includes a controlled material that is configured to change from substantially transparent to substantially opaque by changing the state of the controlled material to effectively adjust the size of the central window of the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080084499 - Illumination and imaging system with glare reduction and method therefor: A system and method are provided for actively illuminating and capturing images of an object, such as a driver of a vehicle to reduce glare. The system includes a video imaging camera orientated to generate images of the subject object (e.g., eye(s)) in successive video frames. The system also includes... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080084500 - Scalable predictive coding method and apparatus: A scalable predictive coder in which the current frame of data is predicted at the enhancement-layer by processing and combining the reconstructed signal at: (i) the current base-layer (or lower layers) frame; and (ii) the previous enhancement-layer frame. The combining rule takes into account the compressed prediction error of the... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20080084501 - Image processing device: The present invention provides an image processing device that converts an interlace image signal into a progressive signal so as not to cause degradation of image quality in edge parts of letters or the like, when performing an IP conversion with respect to an image that is mixed with an... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.c.

20080084502 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data: A data transmitting/receiving apparatus and method in which color gamut information is added to a teletext signal in a blanking interval so that a display device can recognize whether a color gamut has been extended, are provided. The apparatus includes a control unit which determines whether an image signal is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080084503 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for processing image: An image processing apparatus for causing a display unit to display an image, includes an image format detecting unit for detecting an image format of the image containing an aspect ratio of the image, a converting unit for converting an effective image as an effective moving image portion of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080084504 - Image synthesizing apparatus: An image synthesizing apparatus is provided. The image synthesizing apparatus includes: a key image selector, a background selector, a key processor, an image synthesizer, a frame memory, a part designator, and a writing device. In the image synthesizing apparatus, the image signal that has been selected by the key image... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080084505 - Dust removal apparatus of photographing apparatus: A dust removal apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, a detector, and a controller. The movable unit has an imaging device and is movable. The detector is used for specifying a holding position of the photographing apparatus in relationship to the direction of gravity. The controller moves... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080084506 - Real time scene change detection in video sequences: An apparatus configured to process a digital video signal comprising an input circuit, a processing circuit and an encoder circuit. The input circuit may be configured to present a digital video signal comprising a plurality of frames. The processing circuit may be configured to detect scene changes in the digital... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080084507 - Method and system for improving video combing decisions: A system and method for improving decisions for 2D combing of a video. A 2D-comb is applied to a baseband video signal, thus producing a chroma component of the signal, and an associated combing error. A narrowband filter is applied to the chroma component to produce a filtered chroma component.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080084508 - Asynchronous camera/ projector system for video segmentation: An asynchronous camera/projector system includes a projection screen, having a key color, a projector, oriented to provide a sequenced background image to the screen, and a camera, located in front of the screen, and oriented to capture a sequenced image of the screen and a real object positioned in front... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080084509 - Projection-type image display device: A projection-type image display device has a solid light source and a light valve, and causes light emitted from the solid light source to perform scanning on the light valve along a predetermined scanning line. The projection-type image display device is provided with a modulation amount controller configured to control... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080084510 - Projection display apparatus and projection display method: Display an image by adjusting upper limit of brightness of the image projection light. Here, determine the target value, according to analysis result of the image data, for the detected brightness of the image projection light, and adjust the upper limit of brightness of the image projection light to cause... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084511 - System and method for displaying an image: According to one embodiment, an apparatus for displaying an image includes an interface, an image generator, an optical lens, and a speaker. The interface accommodates a media device to dock the media device, and receives a data signal from the media device. The data signal comprises a video signal and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080079800 - Tv conference apparatus: A TV conference apparatus includes a main body, a plurality of monitors, arms for connecting the monitors to the main body such that they are free to turn about a vertical axis, and a camera disposed to an upper portion of the main body to pick up an image of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080079801 - Video conference system and video conference method: According to one embodiment, a video conference system comprises a server and a plurality of client terminals. Each of the client terminals includes a selection unit configured to select the layout information stored in the storage unit of the server, a display unit which displays the synthesized image received from... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080079803 - Electronic endoscope apparatus: An electronic endoscope apparatus is provided and includes: a light source that illuminates a subject with white light; a color imaging device that takes an image of the subject illuminated with white light; and a spectral-image forming circuit that operates RGB three color image signals based on an output from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079804 - Display device, image processing method, and electronic apparatus: A display device for displaying a plurality of images comprising pixels including a plurality of subpixels of different colors, a display unit capable of arranging the pixels in the horizontal and vertical direction, an image data combining circuit capable of combining image data for a first and second image to... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080079805 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus and stereoscopic image producing method: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a two-dimensional display device having a display surface formed of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, and an optical plate which is provided in front of the display surface of the two-dimensional display device, which includes a plurality of lenses arranged... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080079806 - Imaging device and endoscopic apparatus: An imaging device comprising: in-substrate photoelectric converting devices arranged on the same plane in a semiconductor substrate; on-substrate photoelectric converting devices, formed on the same plane above the semiconductor substrate, each of which corresponds to each of at least a part of the in-substrate photoelectric converting devices and comprises a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080079807 - Image processing apparatus, endoscope, and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a color image data generation section 54 that generates color image data from an image pickup signal of a red component, an image pickup signal of a green component, and an image pickup signal of a blue component which are output from an image pickup... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080079802 - Structured light imaging apparatus: The present invention integrates a structured light source into an imaging system for reconstructing surface topography of an object being imaged. The structured light source includes a mechanism for transmitting a set of lines onto the object from an angle. The lines are displaced, or phase shifted relative to a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080079808 - Method and device for collection and application of photographic images related to geographic location: A system and method for providing visual images of real property are provided. A 360-degree panoramic digital camera generates instances of photographic image data that are each recorded in a separate digital document. Each digital document further contains a location indicator of where the image data was captured. The documents... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20080079809 - Surveillance camera and surveillance camera system with laser positioning function: A surveillance camera including a housing, a monitoring lens and at least a light beam sight is provided. The monitoring lens is fixed in the housing and faces a monitoring direction. The light beam sight is fixed to the housing and disposed nearby the monitoring lens. The light beam sight... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080079810 - Barrier operator system and method with obstruction detection: At least one of an area to protect and an area to ignore are marked using a visual indicator. The area to protect and the area to ignore are in proximity to a moveable barrier operator system. Visual inputs from a camera representative of the visual indicator are received and... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080079811 - Device having camera function and display method and medium therefor: When an error occurring in a terminal (device) is detected, one or more solutions for removing the detected error are displayed to a user, so that the detected error can be easily removed by the user even though the user is not familiar with operations or detailed functions of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079812 - Image capturing apparatus: An optical member is provided, in front of an image sensor to convert an optical image of an object into an electric signal, and on a photographing optical axis. The optical member is vibrated, thereby foreign substances attached to the optical member are removed. Further, a frame member is held... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080079813 - Imaging device: An imaging device for making camera shake compensation by relatively moving an imaging optical system and an imaging element in directions perpendicular to an optical axis direction, includes first to third actuators and a moving member. The first actuator relatively moves the imaging optical system and the imaging element in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079814 - Imaging apparatus, control method thereof, and imaging system: An imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels, a driving unit configured to successively reset signal charges stored in a photoelectric conversion unit at every predetermined line and successively read out a signal based on the signal charges at every predetermined line, and a control unit. The control unit has... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080079815 - Method of transmitting data: A method and device for transmitting data are discussed. In an embodiment of the present invention, a display state of image data for which transmission is requested is checked, and all or part of image data is transmitted depending on the checked state. The image data is downsampled and compressed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079816 - Color matching method, and image capturing device and electronic apparatus using the same: The present invention provides a color matching method for a digital image comprising a step of extracting signals of a plurality of main colors in the digital image; a step of transformation for generating a 3×3 color matrix from the signals of the plurality of main colors and transforming the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080079817 - Imaging apparatus, recording medium for recording a computer program, and imaging control method: An image apparatus records images of a subject corresponding to a photo opportunity without intensifying complex operations after the imaging. When a SLOW button is depressed, a process is started in which frame image data that is obtained at an imaging frame rate is stored sequentially in a buffer memory.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080079818 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080079819 - Photographing apparatus and exposure control method:

20080079821 - Camera, lens unit, and camera main body: To provide a camera and a lens unit that can easily obtain image data subjected to predetermined filtering processing. A camera includes a camera main body, a lens unit having an photographing optical system that forms an image of a subject, image pickup means that captures the image of the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080079822 - Image correction device, image correction method, and computer readable medium: An image correction apparatus comprises a sample image memory configured to store sample images corresponding to types of objects, a display unit configured to display the sample images stored in the sample image memory unit to make a user select one of the sample images, and a corrector configured to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080079823 - Image display controlling device, imaging device, and image display method: In a digital camera, it is checked whether a stored image file belongs to an image file group including a pre-development RAW file and a JPEG file generated by developing the RAW file. When the storage image file belongs to an image file group, an image belonging to the image... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080079820 - Image capture and display arrangement: An electronically delayed mirror apparatus (200) is disclosed. The apparatus (200) is adapted for capturing a visual recording of a person, and displaying said recording in a manner offset in time from said capturing. The apparatus comprises an image detector (202), a storage device (303) for storing the visual recording,... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080079824 - Image taking system: In the image taking method where images of an object are taken by a running image taking portion provided with a zoom lens, and at least one image taking portion for measuring a distance provided with a fixed focus lens equal to the wide-angle-side end of the zoom lens to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080079825 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in rows and columns; a vertical scanning section; a noise suppressing section having clamp capacitors each connected at one end thereof to output ends of the pixels and a mixing switch for connecting in parallel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080079826 - Apparatus for processing dead pixel: The present invention is related to a method and an apparatus for processing a dead pixel, more specifically to a method and an apparatus thereof for detecting and compensating a dead pixel that can maintain a good image quality by reducing image distortion and deterioration. With the present invention, the... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080079827 - Method of processing noise in image data, noise reduction unit, and imaging apparatus: A method of processing noise in image data by an image processor having a signal-processing portion converting an image signal from an image sensor into a digital signal and outputting the converted signal as image data for each frame, the image data indicating sets of pixel values each having a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080079829 - Camera module and method for manufacturing same: Disclosed is a camera module and a method of manufacture. The camera module includes a ceramic printed circuit board having a recess formed on its upper surface, an image sensor seated in the recess, a flexible printed circuit board positioned on the image sensor and electrically connected to the image... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080079828 - Solid-state image sensor: A solid-state image sensor includes photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a matrix pattern. A filter, disposed on a light-receiving surface of each photoelectric conversion element, is one of three visible light filters which have central wavelengths for transmitting mutually different light components or a near-infrared filter having a transmission central... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079830 - Time delayed integration cmos image sensor with zero desynchronization: A time delayed integration image sensor provides over-sampled image data on a time-shared column bus to maintain data synchronization.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080079831 - Solid-state image pickup apparatus multiplying signal charges depending on image circumstances: A solid-state image pickup apparatus selects, in a first image pickup circumstance in which dark current is liable to occur in vertical transfer paths of an array of photo-sensors, a first transfer mode in which the potential well capacity in the vertical transfer paths is relatively small, and, in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079832 - High-speed cmos image sensor: A CMOS image sensor having two ASPs can reduce increasing design difficulty as arising from a pixel array becoming larger and larger. The image sensor includes a selection circuit for transmitting outputs of CDS circuits through four divided buses to reduce parasitic loading and achieve high-speed operation. Then, the selecting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080079833 - Solid-state image sensor: A solid-state image sensor of a charge sorting method used in a time-of-flight measurement method, in which noise derived from background light, which is caused by the reflection light from the subject derived from background light is eliminated, reflection light from the subject derived from a predetermined light source, which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079834 - Terminal having photographing function and display method for the same: Provided are a terminal having a photographing function and a displaying method for the terminal. The displaying method includes generating a plurality of process images by processing an original image, which is an image shown through a lens of the terminal, several times using different setup information each time, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079835 - Digital camera with lens being automatically retractable and automatic retraction method thereof: A digital camera with a lens being automatically retractable and an automatic retraction method thereof are provided. After the digital camera is turned on, it can continuously capture images from the outside at a predetermined time interval, and convert the images into corresponding image characteristic values and then compare them.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079836 - Camera, lens unit, camera body and picked-up image processing method: There is provided a camera, a lens unit, a camera body and a photographed image processing method that allow a good image to be readily obtained even by using the lens unit having new lens characteristics or that requires to use a new image processing algorism. The camera has the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

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20080079838 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes a finder optical system capable of guiding an observation beam to a finder window, the observation beam being a beam traveling from a photographing optical system and reflected by a main reflecting surface; and a first image pickup device configured to detect the observation beam... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080079839 - Multi-focal camera apparatus and methods and mediums for generating focus-free image and autofocus image using the multi-focal camera apparatus: A multi-focal camera apparatus and methods and mediums for generating a focus-free image and an autofocus image using the multi-focal camera apparatus are provided. The multi-focal camera apparatus includes a lens module which comprises a plurality of lenses that concentrate light incident thereupon, and an image-sensor module which comprises a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079837 - Focusing area adjusting camera-carrying portable terminal: A so-called out-of-focus problem occurs when a subject is not positioned in the center of a lens in an ordinary auto-focus function. A focusing point adjusting device is proposed to solve such a problem which divides a photographing area captured by a camera into a plurality of areas, and selects... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079841 - Digital motion picture camera: A digital motion picture camera for the taking of motion pictures includes an optoelectronic sensor device having a plurality of sensor elements for the generation of received signals in dependence on the exposure time, a digitizing device for the digitizing of the received signals and an electronic control device for... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080079842 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer program product: An image forming apparatus causes an illuminating unit and an imaging unit to equally split a predetermined exposure time into a plurality of split exposure times, and acquire an image with illumination and an image without illumination in each of the split exposure time. A luminance difference image for a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080079843 - Imaging apparatus and methods for capturing and analyzing digital images of the skin: An imaging station for taking a plurality of digital images of a subject under a plurality of illuminating conditions and storing and analyzing the digital images, includes a housing, containing the digital image capturing apparatus, like a camera or video recorder, a computer for processing the image data and one... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080079844 - Digital camera: Sinking when pressing a release button is reduced and hand shaking is suppressed, while maintaining compactness. A digital camera having a volume of 40 to 240 cc and a weight-to-volume ratio of 1.6 to 2.3 g/cc is provided. It has a weight-to-volume ratio sufficiently larger than the weight-to-volume ratio of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080079845 - Camera module: A camera module includes a lens unit which constitutes an optical system of the camera module; a holder which houses the lens unit and is displaceable along an optical axis direction of the lens unit; a coil provided on the holder; a yoke and magnets provided on the yoke for... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080079846 - Digital camera of collapsible type: A digital camera of a collapsible type includes a camera body. A lens barrel is movable back and forth relative to the camera body. An image sensor module is incorporated in the camera body, for detecting object light from the lens barrel. A sensor support supports a rear surface of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080079847 - Rotatable camera by single motor to actuate camera len moved in panning or tilting: A rotatable camera has a lens unit comprising a photographing head and an oblique driving shaft arranged in oblique position with the photographing head, a bearing support for pivotally mounting the photographing head inside, a motor and a driving gear set driven by the motor to in turn drive the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080079848 - Rotatable camera to move carema len in panning or tilting by single motor: A rotatable camera has a motor, a lens unit comprising a photographing head and a driving rod coupled to the photographing head, a spherical bearing support for pivotally mounting the photographing head, and a rotatable disc driven in rotation motion by the motor to drive the driving rod of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080079849 - Digital camera: A rack is inserted to a longitudinal rack mounting groove formed in both right and left end neighborhood on the backside of an image pickup substrate with a plate spring sandwiched therebetween. A right and left pair of racks are engaged with a horizontal pinion shaft. The rack is pressed... Agent: Paul A. Fattibene Fattibene & Fattibene

20080079850 - Broadcast receiving apparatus for providing commerce broadcast without modifying broadcast picture and broadcast providing method thereof: Provided are a broadcast receiving apparatus for providing a commerce broadcast without modifying a broadcast picture, and a broadcast providing method thereof. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes a broadcast receiver which receives a broadcast signal; a broadcast processor which processes the broadcast signal received through the broadcast receiver; and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080079851 - Audio video timing measurement and synchronization: A method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video portions of a media program signal is disclosed. In a transmitting embodiment, the method comprises the steps of identifying a video event according to an video event discriminant in the video signal, and inserting a timing signal into the audio signal,... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080079852 - Video display method, video signal processing apparatus, and video display apparatus: A video display method is used in a display device that displays images in correspondence with frames or fields defined by a video signal on the basis of the video signal. The video display method includes a step of generating mask patterns in correspondence with frames or fields defined by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079853 - Projection type display apparatus: A projection type display apparatus is capable of significantly reducing operational noise of a color wheel. The projection type display apparatus includes a color wheel, a color wheel assembly in which the color wheel is installed, and a noise damping section which changes air flow caused by a rotation of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080079854 - Projector and correction method: A projector includes a projecting unit that projects a calibration image containing a plurality of types of pattern images having different shapes, a storing unit that stores correction data showing a correction value for each of the pattern images, a selecting unit that receives selection of a pattern image selected... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079855 - Laser source device and projector equipped with the laser source device: A laser source device includes a laser source for oscillating a laser beam with a predetermined wavelength, a mirror for reflecting the laser beam emitted from the laser source to form a resonator, and including a dielectric multilayer film having a property of reflecting a light beam with an oscillation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC