Television inventions 06/08

20080151037 - Session initiation protocol (sip)-h.323 video interwork: In one embodiment, a first message for a video call is received from a first end point. The first end point may be communicating using a first protocol, such as H.323. The first message is for a second end point that communicates using a second protocol, such as SIP. The... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080151038 - Video contact center facial expression analyzer module: In one embodiment, a method determines an indication of a mood for a caller during a service call. The mood may be determined using a facial analysis of the caller's facial expressions. The mood may indicate an emotion of the user, such as the user is angry, happy, etc. The... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080151039 - On-screen relief viewing method and device: The invention relates to a system for viewing stereoscopic and panoramic images, comprising a display screen and a means for the sequential masking of the display screen in order to enable the screen to be viewed selectively by an observer using only one eye. The invention is characterised in that... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080151040 - Three-dimensional image display apparatus and method and system for processing three-dimensional image signal: A three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus, a method and a system which process a 3D image signal are provided. The 3D image display apparatus includes an input unit which receives an input of a left-eye image frame and a right-eye image frame with a specified time difference between the frames,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151041 - Stereoscopic endoscope: Two side-by-side optical paths transmit stereoscopic right side and left side images onto the surface of a single image sensing chip. The single image sensing chip may be placed at various orientations with respect to the lens trains in the optical paths. In some embodiments a single prism is used... Agent: Patent Dept Intuitive Surgical, Inc

20080151042 - Method and apparatus of generating image data having parallax, and image sensing module: A method of generating image data having disparity (or parallax) using a digital image-capturing device, as well as a digital image-capturing device are disclosed. The feature is to rotate a focus lens of the digital image-capturing device at two opposite directions or to place a refractive sheet having two opposite... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080151043 - Apparatus for processing image signal and method for controlling thereof: An image signal process apparatus and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The image signal process apparatus includes a storage unit storing pixel data of an incoming frame image, a scaling filter generating one frame image by scaling the pixel data, and a controller retrieving a part of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151044 - Method and apparatus for generating files for stereographic image display and method and apparatus for controlling stereographic image display: An apparatus for generating a file comprises a file obtaining means, image composing means and a file generating means. The file obtaining means obtains a main image file in which a main stereographic image is recorded and a sub-image file in which a sub-image is recorded. The image composing means... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151045 - Electronic appliance: An electronic appliance has a video camera for picking up an image of a user of the electronic appliance. The user's image is displayed on a display of the electronic appliance. To adjust the size of the user's image on the display, a measurement zone having a first area is... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080151046 - Heat protection systems and methods for remote viewing devices: Heat isolation and relocation systems and methods are provided to enable utilization of a remote viewing device in a wider range of temperature environments and while operating its one or more light sources at or near full power without fear of causing temperature-related harm to the one or more light... Agent: Ge-gpo-marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP General Electric / Global Patent Operation

20080151047 - Inspection apparatus method and apparatus comprising selective frame output: A control signal for selectively outputting a frame of image data can be initiated using an inspection apparatus, and an inspection apparatus can process one or more frames of image data for determining a motion parameter. Responsively to the processing, the inspection apparatus can selectively output a frame of image... Agent: Ge-gpo-marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP General Electric / Global Patent Operation

20080151048 - Driving supporting apparatus: A driving support apparatus includes: an image sensing device that is provided in a vehicle, and is able to photograph a rearward region of the vehicle, and a dead angle region that is adjacent to the rearward region and cannot be perceived by a driver with a side mirror; and... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080151050 - Enhanced multimedia intrusion notification system and method: A system and method are provided for remotely providing multimedia information to a user, which allows the user to evaluate whether an intrusion has occurred. More particularly, image and/or other information is captured in response to the detection of motion in a monitored area. Additionally, at least one of image... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.a.

20080151049 - Gaming surveillance system and method of extracting metadata from multiple synchronized cameras: In one embodiment, the gaming surveillance system includes a camera subsystem, wherein the camera subsystem contains a means for extracting features in real-time, an image server, wherein the image server is connected to the camera subsystem, and communicates with the camera subsystem, and a client connected to the image server,... Agent: Schox Plc

20080151052 - Infrared illuminator with variable beam angle: An infrared surveillance system including a first member with a first infrared light source mounted thereto, and a second member with a second infrared light source mounted thereto. The second member is positionally adjustable relative to the first member. The surveillance system also includes an infrared camera in operative communication... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. Pc

20080151051 - Monitoring system, monitoring apparatus and monitoring method: In a monitoring system for monitoring parking of a vehicle in a specific area by a monitoring image pick-up device, and a monitoring apparatus, the monitoring image pick-up device includes an image pick-up portion. And the monitoring apparatus includes: a parking area enter/exit determining portion for determining whether or not... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080151054 - Driving support method and driving support apparatus: A driving support method and a driving support apparatus clearly project an image of a specific target object onto a pillar within a vehicle. The apparatus includes a camera installed on the vehicle that captures a dead-angle area created by the pillar and a projector projecting the image captured by... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080151053 - Operation support device: It is an object to provide an operation support device which can produce an image to be displayed on a screen at a relatively high quality without being affected by the swing of the rod-like retaining means. The operation support device includes a rod-like retaining unit 12 projected from an... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080151055 - Surveillance apparatus, system, and methods of constructing and utilizing same: A digital image recording surveillance apparatus and system for 24-hour home or business security, surveillance, or to monitor and detect animal movement. The apparatus has a camera, which when activated, photographs an object entering a heat-in-motion detection zone.... Agent: Irving M. Weiner Weiner & Burt, P.c.

20080151056 - Automatic camera with inbuilt smoke and motion detectors that can send picture/pictures with audio or text: This invention is more particular to a camera that is fully equip with an inbuilt motion and smoke detector and a digital audio recorder and a vice synthesizer and a text generator, the camera is specially design to be set by the user to capture any emergency condition detected by... Agent: Chukwu Ahamefula Apt 2114

20080151060 - Camera apparatus and chapter data generating method in camera apparatus: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus includes a chapter data generating unit generating chapter data specifying a reproduction start point of moving image data corresponding to a time point at which a scene change occurs, when the scene change occurs during generation of the moving image data indicating a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151057 - Image capturing apparatus with clarity sensor, underwater image compensation and underwater flash compensation: An image capturing apparatus (210) for providing an image (214) of a scene (12) that is within a fluid (16) includes an apparatus frame (228), a capturing system (230), and a control system (236). The capturing system (230) captures a captured image (614A). The control system (236) adjusts a color... Agent: Roeder & Broder LLP

20080151059 - Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling image pickup apparatus, and storage medium: An image pickup apparatus captures a subject to obtain image data, is connected to an information processing apparatus, and receives and stores therein information about the information processing apparatus when being connected to the information processing apparatus. The image pickup apparatus generates an identifier on the basis of the information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080151058 - Method for acquiring video data by using camera mobile phone as computer camera: The present invention provides a method for acquiring video data by using a camera mobile phone as a computer camera, which comprises: step A: the camera mobile phone is virtualized as a video-capturing device in a computer; step B: the mobile phone virtualized as the video-capturing device in step A... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080151062 - Digital camera: A digital camera, comprising a live view display section for repeatedly acquiring a subject image, cropping and enlarging part of the subject image, and displaying as a moving image, a vibration detection section for detecting vibration of the digital camera and calculating at least one of vibration direction and vibration... Agent: The Law Offices Of Straub& Pokotylo

20080151061 - Mobile communication terminal: The mobile communication terminal includes a body, a lens module, a first accelerator sensor, a second accelerator sensor, a range finder, and a processor. The lens module, the first accelerator sensor, a second accelerator sensor, and a range finder are disposed on the body. The lens module is configured to... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080151063 - Stage apparatus and camera shake correction apparatus: A stage apparatus includes a stationary support board; a stage member supported by the stationary support board so as to face the stationary support board and to be movable relative to the stationary support board; a retainer, provided on one of opposed surfaces of the stage member and the stationary... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080151065 - Camera capable of displaying moving image and control method of the same: There is disclosed a camera capable of display a moving image, which executes auto focusing of a hill-climbing system while executing a blur correcting operation to reduce image blur generated by vibration applied to the camera. Examples of the blur correcting operation include a correcting operation by a mechanical blur... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080151064 - Image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus: An image processing apparatus capable of performing processing for reducing a shake in the image including a distortion without performing processing for reducing the distortion is disclosed. The apparatus includes a shake detecting part that detects a shake in a first image area of an input image including a distortion,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080151066 - Imaging apparatus: The imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a blur detection section detecting image blurs, a high-pass filter connected to the blur detection section, a potential difference detection section detecting a potential difference between both ends of a passive circuit element constituting the high-pass filter, a reference voltage adjusting... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080151067 - Imaging apparatus, imaging signal processing method, and program: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section; a moving-object detection processing section for detecting a moving object in a plurality of frame images captured by the imaging section; and a fluctuation-elimination processing section for masking a portion detected including the moving object by the moving-object detection processing section, and performing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080151068 - Image device for capturing still image and control method thereof: An image device for capturing a still image and a control method thereof are provided. The image device includes a storage unit for storing compressed pictures of a moving image, and a control unit for extracting at least one of the compressed pictures, which corresponds to a scene selected from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151069 - Image processing apparatus: When an acquired image file GF includes image processing control information GI, a CPU executes image quality adjustment of image data GD in an image processing mode GM specified by the image processing control information GI. When the acquired image file GF does not include the image processing control information... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080151070 - Image capture and display control apparatus, image capture and display control method, and image capture and display system: The invention provides an image capture and display control apparatus that includes an imaging control unit that operates an image capturing unit at a first time interval so as to obtain a captured image with the image capturing unit and a display control unit that displays the captured image on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080151071 - Sensitivity-settable image capture apparatus: An image capture device includes an image pickup unit including a plurality of pixels and photoelectrically converting an object image by the plurality of pixels; a white balance control unit for performing a white balance correction processing on pixel signals from the image pickup unit; and a sensitivity changing unit... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080151072 - Image pick-up device: An image pick-up device includes a camera body; a lens barrel mounted to the camera body; a pop-up type flash device that is retracted in the camera body when not in use and projected from the camera body when in use; and a structure including a gripping surface provided by... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080151073 - Apparatus, method and program for information processing: A personal computer (12) executes an information processing program (43) to start a shooting process. Under the shooting process, a judgment circuit (48) reads an allowable range of each shooting parameter from a HDD (42) and judges whether all the shooting parameters sent from a digital camera (10) via a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080151074 - Adaptor having exchangeable holder to connect with different types of digital cameras: An adapter for different models of digital cameras includes a universal base for supplying a battery of the digital camera with electric power and for taking out digital images from a memory of the digital camera and an exchangeable holder mounted on the universal base. The exchangeable holder is shaped... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080151075 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling continuously shot images: An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same. Since the image forming apparatus supports a search function to automatically search to find continuously shot images in images shot by a digital camera based on a shooting time, it is possible to reduce problems which arise when a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080151076 - Photographing apparatus, method and program: A photographing apparatus which converts a subject image received via a photographic optical system into image data, compresses and encodes the image data, and stores the image data in a predetermined storage medium, comprises a calculation part which calculates the storable number of image data according to an available space... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151077 - Image processor and imaging device: An on-screen data generating section generates on-screen data that becomes a superimposed image that is superimposed on an image displayed based upon a standard digital signal. A data superimposing section superimposes the on-screen data on the standard digital signal. A specific-area detecting section detects a specific area in an image... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080151078 - Image pickup apparatus and imaging method: An embodiment of the invention provides an image pickup apparatus to which a zoom lens having a variable imaging angle of view is mounted, including: a dynamic body detecting portion for detecting a dynamic body from an image signal obtained by capturing an image; a motion vector detecting portion for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080151080 - Image processing device: A noise shaping processing part performs noise shaping processing on pixel data. An adding circuit performs accumulative adding processing on the noise-shaped pixel data. A first bit-shift part performs bit-shift processing on the accumulatively-added and noise-shaped pixel data. A second bit-shift part performs bit-shift processing on unprocessed pixel data. An... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080151079 - Imaging device and manufacturing method thereof: A small, low-profile imaging device that obtains imaging signals having similar light intensity distributions for different colored light, even when there is variability in component precision or assembly. The imaging device (101) includes a plurality of lens units (113) each including at least one lens, a plurality of imaging areas... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.c.

20080151081 - Removal of stationary noise pattern from digital images: A method for removing a stationary noise pattern from digital images uses an adaptive noise estimation algorithm to calculate a prediction of the fixed pattern noise and a confidence estimate for the prediction. In one embodiment, a predicted noise value is obtained from the captured image and a predicted image... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080151082 - Dead pixel real-time detection method for image: A dead pixel real-time detection method for image applicable in a digital camera is provided. The method is utilized to achieve the real-time detection of dead pixels in an image, upon obtaining the image by the digital camera, thus locating the dead pixel desired to be repaired. Through the real-time... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080151083 - Color filter pattern for color filter arrays including a demosaicking algorithm: A device for acquiring color images using a color filter array. The color filter array includes a pattern of red array elements, green array elements, and blue array elements. The red array elements and green array elements occur in the color filter array more frequently than the blue array elements.... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080151085 - system with a random number generator used to remove contouring in cmos imager data having an extended dynamic range: The present invention is a method of image data processing that includes determining whether the image data indicates photodiode saturation, and removing contouring from the image data caused by the saturation. The contour artifact removal is accomplished by adding a random number to adjusted photodiode data from an extended range... Agent: F-p, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080151084 - Sensor surface with 3d curvature formed by electronics on a continuous 2d flexible substrate: A method of making a curved sensor is described. The method involves projecting portions of a curved three dimensional structure such as a hemisphere onto a two dimensional substrate in an outline pattern. The outline pattern typically serves as a perimeter of a sensor. After forming a sensor in the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080151086 - Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium: This invention improves the response characteristic of exposure control while keeping the exposure control precision high in an image capturing apparatus. An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor which photo-electrically converts an object image to output an image signal, an output interval control unit which controls the output interval... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080151087 - Image sensing apparatus with electronic shutter function and mechanical shutter function, and image sensing method: An image sensing apparatus having an electronic shutter for controlling the charge accumulation time of an image sensing element and a mechanical shutter for releasing/shielding an optical path to the image sensing element includes an electronic shutter mode of controlling the image sensing time mainly by the electronic shutter and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080151090 - Digital eyepiece module: The invention relates to an eyepiece module, for an optical monitoring instrument, comprising at least: a digital image sensor, for the recording of images in an imaging plane of the optical monitoring instrument, a connector, for transmission of the recorded image-related data signals to at least one external device, an... Agent: Gray Robinson, P.a.

20080151089 - Flexible segmented image sensor: A method of making a curved sensor is described. The method involves projecting portions of a curved three dimensional structure such as a hemisphere onto a two dimensional substrate in an outline pattern. The outline pattern typically serves as a perimeter of a sensor. After forming a sensor in the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080151091 - Small size, high gain, and low noise pixel for cmos image sensors: The invention describes in detail a solid-state CMOS image sensor, specifically the CMOS image sensor pixel that has only two row lines per pixel, pinned photodiode for sensing light, and one or two column lines. The pixel does not have an address transistor and the sensing and reset transistors are... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080151088 - Switching circuit arrangement: A switching circuit arrangement is disclosed. The arrangement includes a substrate, a plurality of functional units arranged on the substrate, a plurality of selection line groups including selection lines, a plurality of signal line groups including signal lines, a buffer unit for each signal line group, a selection unit which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080151092 - Devices, systems and methods of capturing and displaying appearances: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include systems, devices and/or methods enabling appearance comparison. The system, according to some demonstrative embodiments, may include at least one interactive imaging and display station. The station may include, for example, a mirror-display device capable of selectably operating in either or both a mirror... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080151093 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes a mechanical lock mechanism capable of holding a first curtain and a second curtain in an open state mechanically and a controller that controls the mechanical lock mechanism so as to hold the second curtain in the open state and controls... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.c.

20080151094 - Digital camera: A camera includes an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject; a generating unit that generates an image data based on the captured image; a loading unit capable of loading a recording medium for recording the image data generated by the generating unit; a recording control unit that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080151095 - Image-capturing system and method: An image-capturing system and method analyze the darkest and brightest pixels indicated by an electrical signal to adjust the transmittance of each pixel of an optical element, so as to enhance the dynamic range of an image and to exhibit the details in bright and dark portions of the image.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080151096 - Optical apparatus with unit for correcting blur of captured image caused by displacement of optical apparatus in optical-axis direction: A focus range is determined on the basis of an object distance, focal distance, and aperture value, after an autofocus operation. When SW2 is operated, an exposure is performed only during a period that a displacement of a blur in an optical-axis direction is within the focus range. If an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080151097 - Autofocus searching method: An autofocus searching method includes the following procedures. First, focus values of images, which are acquired during the movement of the object lens, are calculated, in which the focus value includes at least the intensity value of the image derived from the intensities of the pixels of the image. Next,... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080151098 - Camera module: A camera module (10), includes a lens holder (12) having an aperture (1202), at least one lens module (11) threadedly installed in the lens holder, and a motor (13) mounted on the lens holder. The motor includes a rotor (132) and an endless belt (14), wherein the endless belt extends... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080151099 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device comprises a body, a cover, an input interface, a display, an image capture device and a fixing arm. The cover is rotatably connected to the body. The input interface is disposed on the body. The display is disposed on the cover. The image capture device is... Agent: Quintero Law Office, Pc

20080151100 - Image aspect ratio adjustment system and method: An image aspect ratio adjustment system comprises an adjustment module configured to adjust image content to correspond to an aspect ratio of a display device based at least in part on motion within the image content.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080151102 - Image display apparatus, image signal processing apparatus, and image signal processing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an image signal processing apparatus includes an interlace-to-progressive conversion circuit and a resolution enhancement circuit. The interlace-to-progressive conversion circuit outputs first signals by performing an interlace-to-progressive conversion process on image signals. The resolution enhancement circuit outputs second signals by performing a resolution enhancement... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151104 - Method and apparatus for increasing a perceived resolution of a display: According to one embodiment, a method of increasing a perceived resolution of a display includes directing light at a optical dithering element and repeatedly transitioning the optical dithering element from a first position to a second position and then back to the first position such that the mirror alternately reflects... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080151101 - Preprocessor method and apparatus: The invention generally relates to multimedia data processing, and more particularly, to processing operations performed prior to or in conjunction with data compression processing. A method of processing multimedia data includes receiving Interlaced video frames, obtaining metadata for the interlaced video frames, converting the interlaced video frames to progressive video... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080151103 - Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and video signal display apparatus: A video signal processing apparatus, which can prevent degradation of picture quality in converting an interlaced scan video signal to a progressive scan video signal, includes an interframe correlation detection means (11); an interfield correlation detection means (12); a field resolution determination means (13) which generates a signal (filhv) indicative... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080151105 - Color motion detection circuit and y/c separation circuit: A color motion detection circuit includes 2 color correlation detection circuits for detecting a correlation of chrominance signals in a plurality of lines and detecting whether there is a color correlation between the lines, a 1 frame color motion detection circuit for performing a vertical band pass filter process to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080151107 - Progressive scanning conversion apparatus and progressive scanning conversion method: According to one embodiment, a progressive scanning conversion apparatus comprising: a motion detecting unit that detects a motion during one frame for each pixel and that outputs an output value between a still image determination value and a moving image determination value; a still image interpolation pixel generating unit that... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151106 - Reducing artefacts in scan-rate conversion of image signals by combining interpolation and extrapolation of images: This invention relates to a method, a device, a computer program and a computer program product for scan-rate conversion of an image signal, comprising interpolating between at least a first image area of a first image of said image signal and a second image area of a second image of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080151108 - Video processor architecture and method for frame rate converstion: A video processor, upstream of a frame rate converter determines video attribute data. This attribute data is formatted and passed along a channel to the frame rate converter. The frame rate converter extracts the attribute data from the channel for use in frame rate conversion. The frame rate converter may... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.c.

20080151109 - Low latency cadence detection for frame rate conversion: A frame rate converter sequentially buffers video frames in a sequence of video frames in a buffer and interpolates at least two of the plurality of video frames in the buffer based on at least one interpolation parameter, to form interpolated output frames. Conveniently, the interpolation parameter is adjusted with... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.c.

20080151110 - System for receiving and storing broadcast content, and device for reception and storage: In a system for receiving and storing broadcast content data, a reception and storage device receives and stores a portion of broadcast content data in a storage unit, and then generates and stores a first piece of error check data for the data portion. The reception and storage device receives,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080151111 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for storing open caption information: A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for storing open caption information in the broadcast receiving apparatus are provided. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes a determiner which determines whether open caption information is displayed on a screen; a detector which detects the open caption information, if it is determined that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151113 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus and synchronization method: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus which supports a high-definition multimedia interface-consumer electronics control (HDMI-CEC) function is provided including, an input part which inputs a user command; an HDMI interface part which communicates with a plurality of external devices; and a controller for synchronizing time information of the plurality of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151114 - Microcontroller-based multi-format video agc/sync loop regulator: A microcontroller-based video AGC/sync regulator in which the parameters of various synchronizing signals of several different video formats are incorporated into a user program to generate signals to be processed by other sub circuits that correct and reinforce the AGC levels and sync signals of an incoming video signal is... Agent: John L. Kotos

20080151112 - System and method for synchronizing a viewing device: System and method for synchronizing shutter glasses with a display system. An embodiment comprises displaying a first image from a first image stream on a display plane, displaying a second image from a second image stream on the display plane, and displaying a synchronization signal on the display plane, during... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080151115 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided that is capable of performing combining processing of image from image processing sections without the intermediation of a frame buffer, and can reduce the delay between image input and display and improve real-time capability. An image processing main chip 110 of a three-input image... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080151116 - Method and related device for determining timing sequence of video and audio data for high density multimedia interface: A data processing method for a high density multimedia interface (HDMI) includes receiving video and audio data, sampling the receiving data according to a sample clock, outputting a sampling pattern according to the sampled receiving data and the sample clock, comparing the sampling pattern with a plurality of predetermined patterns,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080151117 - Horizontal synchronous circuit, display device, and clock adjusting method: This horizontal synchronous circuit is a horizontal synchronous circuit generating a first horizontal synchronizing signal synchronous with a second horizontal synchronizing signal included in a video signal, and includes: a PLL oscillator generating a pixel clock signal; a phase comparator outputting a difference signal of the first horizontal synchronizing signal... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151118 - Switching system capable of reducing noise of output signal: A switching system capable of reducing the noise of the output signal is provided. The switching system includes a first switch and a second switch, wherein the first switch conducts a first signal according to a first control signal; the second switch conducts a second signal according to a second... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080151119 - Video display device, video display system, and video display method: A video display system is a system in which a video transmission device 10 and a video display device 20 are connected via an HDMI 1. The video display device 20 includes an EDID memory 25 in which display side recognition data in plural formats are stored and one of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151120 - Image reproducing apparatus and method of improving image quality: An image reproducing apparatus and a method of improving an image quality are provided. The image reproducing apparatus includes a first filter unit which filters an input image signal, a second filter unit which amplifies the input image signal filtered through the first filter unit, and a control unit which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151121 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program: Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus that processes a signal transmitted over a transmission path that causes stationary distortion to occur in a waveform representing a signal value of a specific symbol in accordance with a value of a symbol transmitted before the specific symbol. The apparatus includes: storage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080151122 - Method and apparatus for detecting motion in an image display device: A method for detecting motion in an image display device includes receiving a plurality of composite signals having luminance signals and chrominance signals corresponding to a plurality of frames, determining luminance motion factors of the plurality of frames according to the luminance signals of the plurality of composite signals, determining... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080151123 - Broadcasting receiver: This document relates to a broadcasting receiver that receives TV and radio broadcasting. In an embodiment of this document, the broadcasting receiver comprises one or more channel select units for receiving TV and radio services, a display unit, a plurality of audio output units, and a controller. If a radio... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080151124 - Reducing channel changing time for digital video inputs: An apparatus for changing a channel of a digital input stream includes decoding hardware for reinitializing video decoding variables and decoding video data in response to new data input from a video stream; and storage for video content of a channel of said buffer being displayed until said new data... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080151126 - Remote control having audio-visual function: A remote control device having a tracking unit is provided. The remote control device has an audio code receiver therein and cooperated with a transmitter. When the device being used by a user, the transmitter generates an audio signal to the corresponding audio code receiver in the remote control device,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080151125 - Systems and methods for controlling a display: An apparatus is provided for controlling a display. The apparatus is moveable by an individual user and includes a motion sensor for detecting and providing an indication of one or more types of movement of the apparatus. The apparatus also includes a transmitter, which is configured to receive the indication... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080151127 - Display apparatus having network communicating function and control method thereof: A display apparatus having a communication function, and a control method thereof, are provided. A display apparatus includes a communication module which performs communication with an external network, a display module which displays a video received from one of an external device and the communication module, on a display, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151128 - Projection apparatus and system: A projection apparatus comprises a receiver, a processor, and a frame projector. A sensor detects a horizontal position of a user in front of a screen and transmits a horizontal position signal. The receiver receives the horizontal position signal. The processor generates an on screen display (OSD), and superimposes the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080151129 - Image projection apparatus and image projection system: An image projection apparatus includes: an imaging portion that takes an image of an object; an optical element that is disposed halfway on an optical path between the object and the imaging portion, and that branches the optical path; a projection portion that projects image light onto the object through... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080151130 - Mobile rendering device and method providing context aware power saving: A wireless detachable rendering device (1) having a display (10) and a wired network connection (14) to a data server (16) is equipped with a local storage means (11) such as a HDD. When device (1) is docked in a stand, data to be rendered on display is in a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080143816 - Interconnecting ip video endpoints with reduced h.320 call setup time: In one embodiment, a method includes sending, from an originating gateway device (OGW) to a terminating gateway device (TGW), a setup message for setting up a call on a primary bearer channel (B-channel) of an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). The OGW interconnects with a first Internet Protocol (IP) video... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080143817 - Method and system for video telephone communications set up, related equipment and computer program product: A method of setting up a video telephone call between a first video telephone terminal and a second video telephone terminal on a data network includes the steps of: establishing a telephone call over a telephone network between the first and second terminals; exchanging between the first and second terminals... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080143819 - Conference link between a speakerphone and a video conference unit: A conference link between devices in teleconference system at one site is disclosed. The linked devices include video conference units, speakerphones or stand-alone loudspeakers. Audio data can be transmitted through the conference link between devices. Audio data processing can be performed in either a video conference unit or a speakerphone.... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.l.p.

20080143818 - Systems and methods for enhancing teleconferencing collaboration: An advanced video teleconferencing system facilitates an engaging and realistic video conferencing experience. Key design elements and video, audio, and control capabilities are provided for a video conferencing experience that cannot be attained with conventional methods, which elements and capabilities include careful design of the table and room at each... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080143821 - Image processing system for integrating multi-resolution images: The image processing system for integrating multi-resolution images mainly applies several different multi-resolution image capture devices to extract the images from the observed scene and using the multi-resolution imaging devices to present the scene images relative to the observed scenes, respectively, by means of integration. In order to present a... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080143822 - In vivo sensor with panoramic camera: The invention is directed to a system and method for vivo image capturing system. The system includes a camera having an entrance pupil, where the camera is configured to capture a panoramic image of an environment surrounding the camera, wherein the panoramic image is captured on a single image plane.... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080143820 - Method and apparatus for layer-based panorama adjustment and editing: Method and apparatus for layer-based panoramic image blending, adjustment and editing. A panoramic image mechanism may provide the automated generation of a panoramic image from a set of input images. The panoramic image may be generated, organized and persisted as a set or stack of component layers, which enables manual... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080143823 - System and method for providing stereo image: A system includes a stereo image creation device for converting image data created by image detectors into stereo image data, receiving sounds collected by microphones so as to create sound data from the received sounds, creating stereo moving image data containing the stereo image data, the sound data, and synchronization... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080143824 - Three-dimensional image pickup apparatus, three-dimensional display apparatus, three-dimensional image pickup and display apparatus and information recording method: A three-dimensional image pickup apparatus, a three-dimensional display apparatus and a three-dimensional image pickup and display apparatus are disclosed by which high-definition three-dimensional display from a plurality of eye points of different directions can be achieved by a simple apparatus configuration. The incoming directions and the intensities of a plurality... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080143825 - Portable multimedia device: The present invention is a portable multimedia electronic device, comprising an enclosure housing a processing means, a display means for displaying videos and images, a data storage means, data transfer interfaces, a means for supplying power, control means, and a means for viewing videos and images in 3D from outside... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20080143827 - Endoscope apparatus: An endoscope apparatus to which an endoscope is detachably connected has an endoscope interface, an image processor and a parameter transfer control section. Here, the endoscope multiplexes a video signal obtained by an image pickup section with an endoscope ID as endoscope identification information, and transmits the signal to the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080143826 - Image-signal transmission system, electronic endoscope, and endoscope processor: An image-signal transmission system comprising an imaging device, a transmitter, and a determination block, is provided. The imaging device outputs first pixel signals at a first frequency. The first pixel signals vary according to the amount of light received by pixels. A plurality of the pixels are arranged in two... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080143828 - Vision analysis system for a process vessel: A remote vision analysis system for a vessel containing a process liquid having gas bubbles or particles floating therein. A probe extends into the vessel and enables in-situ observation of the process liquid, gas bubbles or particles, and/or surfaces within the vessel. The probe has a proximal end that includes... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080143830 - Cctv camera device with vari-focal lens operable from outside: Disclosed is a closed circuit television that allows a focus and a focal distance of a lens located inside a camera body to be adjusted in the outside, without disassembling the camera body.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080143829 - Solid-state imaging device, camera, vehicle, surveillance device and driving method for solid state imaging device: The solid-state imaging device according to the present invention includes a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit that include photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix, and output a video signal according to incident light; a first light introduction unit which introduce light into the first imaging unit;... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080143831 - Systems and methods for user notification in a multi-use environment: The present invention relates to systems and methods for notifying a user of a video monitoring system event while other video monitoring system related functions may be performed in the background of a multi-use computing environment. For example, a graphical pop-up, priority image, and/or notification sound may be transmitted to... Agent: Baker & Associates Pllc

20080143832 - Device and method for the surveillance of an aircraft: The method includes a step consisting in furnishing the detection signal and, when the detection signal changes over from the second state to the first predetermined state, a step consisting in making the said device change over from the waiting mode to the working mode and a step consisting in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080143835 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus combines vehicle-surroundings images photographed by cameras and displays a top view image. The image display apparatus includes image memories for storing images of landscapes ahead of the vehicle, at the left side of the vehicle, at the right side of the vehicle, and behind the vehicle... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080143833 - Image pickup device and image pickup method: To provide an image pickup device and image pickup method for displaying the optimum range of observation without relying on the conditions in which the vehicle enters the road or the installation situation of the plurality of cameras. To provide a plurality of periphery image pickup means 10 and 11... Agent: Young & Basile, P.c.

20080143834 - Method and apparatus for testing and monitoring driver proficiency, safety and performance: A system for evaluating and monitoring driver proficiency, performance and safety is disclosed. The system includes an apparatus having a controller that is in operative association with one or more video cameras mounted within a vehicle for providing audio/video data to the controller as well as with an OBD connection... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus Pc

20080143836 - Video surveillance camera with covert field of view: A video surveillance camera is provided that includes a first camera objective directed towards a primary surveillance field of view and at least a second camera objective that is concealed within the camera and directed towards a second covert field of view. The second camera objective is mounted within the... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20080143837 - Video quality objective assessment device, assessment method, and program: A video quality objective assessment device includes a temporal/spatial feature amount derivation unit (12) which derives a temporal/spatial feature amount (PC) which is the feature amount of deterioration which has occurred in a deteriorated video signal (PI), from the deteriorated video signal (PI) to be assessed and a reference video... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080143838 - Method and apparatus for calibrating a mark verifier: A method for calibrating a mark quality verifier assembly wherein the assembly includes a camera including a camera field of view (FOV) and a processor for running software programs that are stored in a memory that is accessible to the processor, the method comprising the steps of providing a calibration... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080143839 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: In an image processing apparatus that performs image processing on an image supplied from an imaging apparatus that captured an original image and that performed gamma processing on the original image to generate the image to be supplied to the image processing apparatus, inverse gamma processing means performs inverse gamma... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080143840 - Image stabilization system and method for a digital camera: Deblurring digital camera images captured in low-light, long-integration-time conditions by capturing multiple short-integration images and fusing with on-the-fly motion estimation and alignment to limit the frame memory requirements. In one embodiment, an image stabilization system includes: (1) a frame memory and (2) a processor coupled to the frame memory and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080143841 - Image stabilization using multi-exposure pattern: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for image stabilization of an image taken with a fixed (i.e., pre-selected) multi-exposure pattern for at least one color channel by an image sensor of a camera, wherein a plurality of groups of pixels of the image sensor... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080143842 - Camera arrangement and method: A camera arrangement comprising a plurality of camera elements and a corresponding method of arranging camera elements is described. The camera arrangement improves the resolution of a stitched image by maintaining a uniform overlap between the fields of view of adjacent camera element. The uniform overlap is achieved. This is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080143843 - Method of executing an image processing procedure and a related digital image capturing device: A method of executing an image processing procedure is disclosed. The method is used in a digital image capturing device. The image processing procedure comprises a readout period and a sweep period. The method comprises the steps of: dividing an image of a frame into a plurality of regions; choosing... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080143845 - Image capturing apparatus and white balance processing apparatus: There is provided a technique of preventing occurrence of a shift in white balance even when the ratio of a dark area is greater than the ratio of a bright area as in the case of a night view. A white balance gain calculator calculates white balance gains for an... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080143846 - Method and apparatus for automatic white balance: A method of automatic white balance for an image capture system is disclosed. The automatic white balance mechanism ascertains the illuminant source of an image by analyzing the number of white pixels within a predefined white area in a color space diagram. The automatic white balance mechanism also determines gain... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080143847 - Method and apparatus for automatic white balance: A method of automatic white balance for an image capture system is disclosed. The automatic white balance mechanism ascertains the illuminant source of an image by analyzing the number of white pixels within a predefined white area in a color space diagram. The automatic white balance mechanism also determines gain... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080143848 - Method and apparatus for automatic white balance: A method of automatic white balance for an image capture system is disclosed. The automatic white balance mechanism ascertains the illuminant source of an image by analyzing the number of white pixels within a predefined white area in a color space diagram. The automatic white balance mechanism also determines gain... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080143849 - Method and apparatus for automatic white balance: A method of automatic white balance for an image capture system is disclosed. The automatic white balance mechanism ascertains the illuminant source of an image by analyzing the number of white pixels within a predefined white area in a color space diagram. The automatic white balance mechanism also determines gain... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080143850 - Method and apparatus for automatic white balance: A method of automatic white balance for an image capture system is disclosed. The automatic white balance mechanism ascertains the illuminant source of an image by analyzing the number of white pixels within a predefined white area in a color space diagram. The automatic white balance mechanism also determines gain... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080143851 - Method and apparatus for automatic white balance: A method of automatic white balance for an image capture system is disclosed. The automatic white balance mechanism ascertains the illuminant source of an image by analyzing the number of white pixels within a predefined white area in a color space diagram. The automatic white balance mechanism also determines gain... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080143844 - White balance correction using illuminant estimation: A method and apparatus for white balance correction using illuminant estimation includes calculating a weighted average of the color coordinates of points in a color image to determine an estimated illuminant of the color image in the color space of an image sensor and selecting white balance correction factors for... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080143852 - System and method for flicker dc offset detection and correction: The present disclosure provides a method for detecting flicker DC voltage offset. The method includes receiving an output signal of an image sensor, the output signal comprising a reference signal and an image signal, and generating a combined signal by combining the image signal with a peak flicker DC voltage... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080143853 - Image processing apparatus: When an acquired image file GF includes image processing control information GI, a CPU executes image quality adjustment of image data GD in an image processing mode GM specified by the image processing control information GI. When the acquired image file GF does not include the image processing control information... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080143854 - Perfecting the optics within a digital image acquisition device using face detection: Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within the captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determined of one or more image attributes of at least some... Agent: Fotonation Ip Dept.

20080143855 - Fixed pattern noise compensation method and apparatus: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for configuring an imaging system to compensate for fixed pattern noise, variations in pixel values captured from an image sensor that vary according to a fixed pattern. In a method for configuring an imaging system for compensating an additive term component of... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080143856 - Dynamic identification and correction of defective pixels: Rather than storing a table within a digital camera or other optical device of defective pixels within its image sensor, defective pixels are dynamically identified by comparing the output values of individual pixels under test with those of neighboring pixels. If the neighbors are all above or below the pixel... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080143857 - Image processor: A system and method for making an image processor. A system for processing an image may include a target image processing element, a distorted image calculating element coupled to the target image processing element, an eccentricity estimator coupled to the distorted image calculating element, an eccentricity compensator coupled to the... Agent: Steinfl & Bruno

20080143858 - Image sensor, focus detection device and imaging device: An image sensor equipped with imaging pixels disposed in a two-dimensional array, which converts an image formed through an optical system to an electrical signal, includes: first focus detection pixel groups each formed by disposing in the array of the imaging pixels a plurality of first pixels adopting a split... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080143859 - Methods for making a pixel cell with a transparent conductive interconnect line for focusing light: The invention relates to an imaging device having a pixel cell with a transparent conductive material interconnect line for focusing incident light onto a photosensor and providing an electrical connection to pixel circuitry, and the method of making the same.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080143860 - Imaging apparatus and camera: An imaging apparatus includes a pixel, a current source, and a signal processing circuit. The pixel outputs signal charge, obtained by imaging, as a pixel signal. The current source is connected to a transmission path for the pixel signal and has a variable current. The signal processing circuit performs signal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080143861 - Solid-state imaging device driving method: Photosensitive cells each includes a photodiode (1), a transfer gate (2), a floating diffusion layer portion (3), an amplifying transistor (4), and a reset transistor (5). Drains of the amplifying transistors (4) of the photosensitive cells are connected to a power supply line (10), and a pulsed power supply voltage... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080143862 - Image capturing apparatus: According to this invention, even when an image capturing apparatus has a plurality of read modes, the frame rate can be prevented from decreasing in a high-resolution video photographing mode. The image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor and drive unit. The image sensor includes an effective image sensing area... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080143863 - Imaging device that prevents loss of shadow detail: An imaging device outputs brightness information according to an amount of incident light and includes: an imaging unit that includes a plurality of unit cells arranged one dimensionally or two-dimensionally, each unit cell including a photoelectric conversion part that generates a first output voltage in a reset state and a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080143864 - Image pickup device and image pickup lens: An image pickup device provided on a base board, comprises an image pickup element provided on the base board and including a photoelectrically converting section in which pixels are arranged, a peripheral surface formed around the photoelectrically converting section and a side surface crossing the peripheral surface; an optical member... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080143866 - Camera having a focus adjusting system and a face recognition function: A camera having a focus adjusting system and a face recognition function includes a photographing optical system; an image pickup device; a focus adjusting device which performs a focus search process in which the image pickup device captures object images at different positions while the focusing lens group moves between... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080143865 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract feature points of an object from picked-up image data, a focus adjustment unit configured to, before starting pickup of an image for recording and/or storage, detect an in-focus position by moving a focus lens in a direction of an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080143867 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus using the same: The present invention relates to a low-cost zoom lens which has high optical performance specifications such as a wide angle of view and a high zoom ratio of as high as 5, is extremely small in depth and ensures that the optical path of the optical system can easily be... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080143868 - Camera module: A camera module for imaging a plurality of types of light such as visible light and infrared light with a single lens unit and sensor unit. The camera module includes a lens unit and a housing capable of attaching the lens unit so that it is in opposition to a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080143869 - Imaging apparatus with protecting circuit for ccd: An imaging apparatus is provided with a power source, a power supply circuit connected to the power source and having power supply lines for supplying a positive voltage and a negative voltage, an image pickup element, plural drivers for generating multi-phase driving signals and applying the generated multi-phase driving signals... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080143870 - Electronic apparatus and camera module unit: A camera module unit includes a printed wiring board overlaid on a shielding enclosure. A camera module is supported on the surface of the shielding enclosure. The camera module is located inside a recess defined in the printed wiring board. A shielding metal plate covers over the camera module. An... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080143871 - Camera module having a ground dummy board: A camera module having a ground dummy board, the camera module including: a lens holder having at least one lens; an image sensor having an image region where light passed through the lens is imaged; a board having the image sensor mounted at one side assembled to a lower surface... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080143872 - Electronic device having an image capturing device: An electronic device includes an image capturing device disposed on a housing and including a casing that is disposed partly in an inner receiving space in the housing and that is pivotable relative to the housing, an imaging lens mounted on the casing for generating an optical image of an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080143873 - Tv user interface and processing for personal video players: Methods and systems for providing a video interface between a handheld video player and a television are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may include activating a video processing interface that enables processing of input video signals in a compressed format suitable for display on a handheld video player; and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080143874 - Video apparatus and method of measuring jitter/wander: A video apparatus for processing an input video signal in synchronization with an external reference signal is provided. The video apparatus includes a phase compensation FIFO memory and a measuring device. The phase compensation FIFO memory is configured such that the input video signal is written in synchronization with a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080143875 - Method and system for synchronous video capture and output: A method and system for processing a plurality of digital video data streams is provided. A plurality of digital video data streams are captured at a plurality of nodes. Each digital video data stream comprises a plurality of video clips and includes data identifying the content of each of said... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20080143876 - Video stream timing detection: A video signal identification system including an input module configured to receive an unknown video signal, a video signal processing module configured to process known video signals, and a processor coupled to the input module and to the video signal processing module and configured to determine and store information indicative... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080143877 - Video processing apparatus and control method for the video processing apparatus: A video processing apparatus uses information related to an image quality of an inputted video signal which is to be displayed on a display apparatus and a determination table in which video display sizes previously set in accordance with video resolution or bit rate are held to determine an optimal... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080143878 - Broadcast receiving apparatus: This broadcast receiving apparatus is configured so that if such an off-screen program is selected, program information concerning the selected off-screen program is displayed in the [off-screen program check] OSD without occupying the currently viewed broadcast program and, asynchronously with this program information, broadcast video information concerning the selected off-screen... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080143879 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for providing tuned broadcast and previous broadcasts of broadcast channels not tuned on single screen: A broadcast receiving apparatus and a broadcast receiving method in which a tuned broadcast and previous broadcasts of broadcast channels not tuned are provided on a single broadcast screen, are provided. The broadcast receiving apparatus stores separately, for each regular time interval, previous broadcasts provided on tunable broadcast channels, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080143880 - Method and apparatus for detecting caption of video: A method of detecting a caption of a video, the method including: detecting a caption candidate area of a predetermined frame of an inputted video; verifying a caption area from the caption candidate area by performing a Support Vector Machine (SVM) scanning for the caption candidate area; detecting a text... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080143881 - Image processor and image processing program: The digital camera (100) has an image processor that corrects an input image for a spatial frequency band. The edge enhancement block (106) computes an edge component for band correction. A signal interpolated at color interpolation block (107) to make compensation for a color component missing from each pixel of... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo Bldg. B., 2nd Floor

20080143882 - Video signal processing device and video signal processing method: According to one embodiment, a video signal processing device includes a set-up level detecting unit that detects a set-up level of an input video signal, a set-up level correcting unit that corrects the set-up level of the input video signal, and a histogram detecting unit that detects a histogram corresponding... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080143883 - Brightness adjusting methods for video frames of video sequence by applying scene change detection and/or blinking detection and brightness adjusting devices thereof: A brightness adjusting method for video frames of a video sequence includes receiving a current video frame of the video sequence and performing a scene change detection to determine if a scene change occurs between the current video frame and a previous video frame. Thereafter, one of a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080143884 - Property development utilizing structure depicted in a motion picture or television show: A method of design for creating a habitable structure containing architectural elements that collectively cause the habitable structure to resemble a fanciful structure portrayed in a motion picture or television show. The fantasy of the motion picture or television show is made more real by determining the dimensions of the... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080143885 - Television upconverter structures: Upconverter structures are provided that generate selected television signals with digital upconverters that are coupled between analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters. Embodiments of the digital upconverters generally include at least one digital quadrature modulator that facilitates the conversion of digital intermediate-frequency sequences to digital broadcast sequences and further include at... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080143886 - Techniques to enable digital television and gps coexistence: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a digital television (DTV) receiver including at least a one-bit-flag such that when the flag is “on”, the DTV receiver is not allowed to start an initial acquisition process, and at least one additional receiver sharing part of a receive... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080143887 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for distinguishing, displaying and automatically tuning to specific broadcast channel: A broadcast receiving apparatus and a broadcast receiving method in which specific broadcast channels are distinguished, displayed and automatically tuned are provided. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes a broadcast receiver which tunes to a broadcast channel, a display information generator which generates display information to be displayed on one field... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080143888 - Laser illuminated projection displays: A projection video display includes a light source including an OPS-laser delivering laser radiation in multiple transverse modes (a multiple-transverse-mode OPS-laser). The display includes a spatial light modulator for spatially modulating the radiation from the multiple-transverse-mode OPS-laser in accordance with a portion of an image to be displayed. Projection optics... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080143889 - Video reproducing apparatus: A video reproducing apparatus which comprises a radio control signal receiving portion, a video sound data reproducing portion connected to the radio control signal receiving portion, a video projection portion connected to the radio control signal receiving portion and the video sound data reproducing portion, speakers connected to the video... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080143890 - Digital picture frame device and system: A digital picture frame device and system are described. The system includes a server, a computer, and a digital picture frame device. The system also includes a first communications link for transmitting digital content from the server to the computer and a second communications link for transmitting digital content from... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080143891 - Integrated power center and mount system for flat screen video displays and projectors with wireless signal transmission: A power center system for use with video display devices having a housing 2 for power conditioning circuitry for ameliorating electrical anomalies, housing 2 adapted for attachment to a flat surface 9, and mount 21 attached to housing 2 for supporting a video display device. The system includes a retransmitter... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20080143892 - Mobile control system: A passenger-oriented mobile control system which governs multiple audio, video, vehicle, communications and entertainment components through a single graphical interface in a mobile vehicle environment is disclosed. The system provides multiple satellite radio channels, satellite television, a GPS system, DVD entertainment, the ability to upload various types of flash media/presentations... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.l.c.

20080136894 - Communications installation for aircraft: An arrangement for audio, video and/or data communication between a ground station and an aircraft, having at least one communications channel and a monitoring device provided on board the aircraft includes at least one audio, video or flight data recording apparatus or combinations thereof, which can be activated either from... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080136895 - Mute function for video applications: A mute function is provided that allows a user to mute a video application without alerting other participants to the muting. A user participating in the video application selects the mute function, which causes the user's video device to present a virtual image of the user to the other participants... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080136897 - Communication control method, computer system, conference managment server, communication method and portable terminal: A computer system has a presence server having a presence management unit that carries out a processing associated with presence data; and a conference management server that carries out a control processing of a conference. Then, when a request of an image delivery to another participant of a voice-based teleconference... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080136896 - System and method for displaying a videoconference: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for displaying a videoconference includes receiving a first video feed. The first video feed includes a first plurality of video signals, each video signal from at least one source and originating from one or more sites. The method also includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080136898 - Method for creating a videoconferencing displayed image: The present disclosure provides methods and systems of multipoint videoconferencing wherein layout description information is used to create videoconferencing displayed images of a composite video of one or more video images and one or more accessory elements. The layout description information is responsive to events in the videoconferencing session. Synchronization... Agent: Raymond Reese Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford &

20080136899 - Method for creating a videoconferencing displayed image: A user can design their own custom composed view for a videoconference depending on the users' individualized needs. The view can include segments (windows) in which participating conferees' video images are presented and accessory elements such as window borders, text, icons, and the like. The content of the accessory elements... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.l.p.

20080136900 - Method for the autostereoscopic representation of a stereoscopic image original which is displayed on a display means: The invention relates to a method for the autostereoscopic representation of a stereoscopic original image displayed on a display unit. Said method is characterized in that individual perspective views of the stereoscopic original image are selectively allocated to perspective-dependent display structures and an autostereoscopic representation of the image is generated... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20080136901 - Sweet spot unit: The invention relates to a sweet spot unit which focuses light at predeterminable regions in space in sweet spots by at least one flat controllable optical matrix and an optical mask. Sweet spots designate the zones of autostereoscopic viewing that are free of cross-talking. The unit comprises a controllable optical... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080136902 - Portable video/audio device: A portable video/audio device that is mainly composed of a portable video/audio player and N (Our RD could not understand what is “N”? please check.) connection bases, wherein the connection bases can be disposed at any place and any position. The connection base is configured with a receiving for receiving... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080136903 - Endoscope: An endoscope includes an electronic endoscope unit 50 and an external control unit 30 for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the electronic endoscope unit 50. The electronic endoscope unit 50 includes a front end section 10 having an imaging element 11 and a cable 20 housing a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080136904 - Extendible operating and inspection arm: Extensible inspection and operation arm that allows viewing the state of surfaces of elements located in areas of difficult access, even underwater, which in turn is also able to perform certain corrective actions on them such as cleaning, painting or minor repairs. The invention is constituted by an upper manoeuvring... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080136905 - Position detecting apparatus: A position detecting apparatus includes an indicating unit 2 for projecting light onto the front surface of a display screen 11 on which imaging light is projected from the back thereof by a projector 12, an imaging unit 3 placed at the back of the display screen 11, for picking... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080136906 - Video signal selecting method and video processing apparatus: A video processing apparatus and a method capable of selecting various video signals are provided. The video processing apparatus includes an input unit which receives a video signal select key value by which a video signal select command to select one of the plurality of video signals is recognized; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080136908 - Detection and viewing system: An audio-video communication system comprises a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, a computerized controller running a software application, and a remote peripheral device. The wireless exterior module includes a proximity sensor for detecting a person at the entrance, a video camera for recording an image of the person... Agent: Tillman Wright, Pllc

20080136910 - Method and apparatus for video surveillance system field alignment: The present invention provides a video surveillance apparatus and method of operation for a system having at least one predefined setting. A first parameter corresponding to an alignment of a video camera assembly with a visual target is stored. A second parameter corresponding to the alignment of a modified video... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080136907 - Method and measuring device for motional performance: A measuring device comprises cameras for imaging a person performing a movement from at least two different directions so as to provide image data. An image-processing unit measures the image data for values of predetermined parameters representing motion so as to provide measurement data. The image-processing unit presents the performance... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080136909 - Video surveillance system having communication acknowledgement nod: The present invention provides a system and method for controlling a motor in a video surveillance system including a video camera, a tilt motor operable to move the video camera in a tilt direction, a pan motor operable to move the video camera in a pan direction, and a controller... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080136911 - Display system for a vehicle: The embodiments described herein include a display system and method for a vehicle. The vehicle includes an interior with a front portion and a camera that is configured to capture images of an area in a vicinity of the vehicle. A display unit is configured to communicate with the camera... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080136912 - Image generating apparatus and image generating method: An image generating apparatus, which generates monitor image data from camera image data through a viewpoint transformation, includes a rear camera 1, an image processing controller 2, and a monitor 3. The image processing controller 2 sets a virtual stereoscopic imaging plane 9 as a virtual imaging plane of a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080136913 - Method and system for video surveillance system motor overcurrent protection: The present invention provides a video surveillance system, having a video camera; a motor operable to move the video camera; and a processor monitoring a value of a signal provided to the motor, the processor terminating the signal to the motor when the monitored signal value exceeds a predetermined value... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080136914 - Mobile monitoring and surveillance system for monitoring activities at a remote protected area: A mobile, integrated, self-contained surveillance system providing motion detection, audio and video capture, and audible alarm capabilities and capable of operation from solar power alone. The system implemented on a trailer configured to be towed by a motor vehicle. The system may be towed to a site or area to... Agent: Ipa

20080136915 - Wall mount camera: A wall-mounted security camera is provided. A camera unit captures video within a field of vision of the camera unit. A base module couple to a power outlet, controls the camera unit, receives an input video signal from the camera unit, and transmits an output video signal across a network.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20080136916 - Eye tracker/head tracker/camera tracker controlled camera/weapon positioner control system: A user has both a head tracker and eye tracker sending signals to a processor to determine the point of view of the user. The processor also receives signals indicative of the point of view of a camera, weapon or laser target designator. The microprocessor compares the two points of... Agent: Furgang & Adwar

20080136918 - Captured image outputting system, display control apparatus, liquid crystal projector and digital camera that transmit images via wireless network: In a captured image outputting system, an image shot by an image capturing device is, upon shooting the image thereby, instantaneously transmitted to a display control device of a display system via wireless communication. The display system instantaneously projects the received image on a projection screen. The display system is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080136919 - Imaging apparatus, an imaging method, a reproducing apparatus, a reproducing method and a program: An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging part; and an imaging control unit for instructing a user to take a predetermined target subject to store a resulted image taken by the imaging part in accordance with the instruction on a recording medium.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080136917 - System and method for storing images of a workpiece: A method for storing images of a workpiece is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) reading an image of the workpiece from the storage; (b) reading one byte of the three bytes' color information of each pixel of the image; (c) storing one by one the read one... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080136921 - Captive universe: a 26 viewpoint method to contain infinity: In the fields of art and photography there is a new process. It allows the entire realm of vision from any particular location to be captured by photograph, and held in the palm of your hand like a globe of the entire universe. This process is called “The Captive Universe:... Agent: Gregory Michael Hernandez

20080136920 - Image module: The invention relates to an image module comprised of the following principal elements: a module board with an image sensor that is mounted thereon or on the rear side thereof by means of flip-chip technology. The aim of the invention is to create an image module in which a simple,... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti Pc

20080136922 - Method of mapping error-detection and redundant encoded data to an image: This invention provides for a method of mapping data to data region dots on a photograph. The method includes the steps of compressing the data with a JPEG compression technique, and redundantly encoding the compressed data using Reed-Solomon encoding techniques. The method also includes the steps of shuffling the encoded... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080136924 - Image pickup apparatus including image shake correction: An image pickup apparatus includes a first detection unit for detecting a rotation shake, a first computation unit for processing a detection signal of the rotation shake into a rotation shake correction target value, a second detection unit for detecting a parallel shake in a plane surface perpendicular to an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080136923 - System and method for stabilizing an image: System for producing a stabilized image of a scene viewed by an image detector, the image detector detecting a plurality of images of the scene, the image detector being supported by gimbals, the gimbals including a servo system for moving the gimbals at least one degree of freedom, the system... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

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20080136926 - Apparatus and method for shake detection, and imaging device: An amplification signal of a difference signal between a sensor signal and an offset signal to be variably set is converted into a digital signal. The sensor signal is in accordance with shake of an imaging device and outputted from a sensor. The first digital signal is obtained while a... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080136927 - Electronic camera and recording medium recording image reproduction program: An electronic camera that generates a still image by photographing a subject, generates image information related to the still image having a data volume smaller than a data volume of the still image and records the still image and the image information, includes: a frame feed reproduction device that sequentially... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080136930 - Camera and method for controlling the same: A camera receives an identifier that represents an event held at a predetermined location during a predetermined period of time, and assigns the identifier to a captured image. The camera requests another device to process an image corresponding to the identifier.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080136931 - Image correction apparatus, method thereof and electronics device: In an imaging device that generates a correction image by performing, on the basis of shake information on a target image, shake correction processing on the target image when a correction instruction is issued by a user while the target image is displayed on a display unit, and that displays... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080136932 - Image pickup processing method and image pickup apparatus: A roll correction section (21) performs correction to an image captured by a camera (11). A region limiting section (15) limits image data of an image in an upper region of the image and outputs the image data and a roll amount detection section (13) detects, from the limited and... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20080136928 - Method of accelerating an image capturing process and related digital image capturing device: A method of accelerating an image capturing process is disclosed. The method is used to a digital image capturing device. The image capturing process comprises a sub-period and an exposure period. The method comprises the steps of: executing the image capturing process for a frame; receiving an instant control signal;... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080136929 - Photographing apparatus and still image photographing method thereof: A photographing apparatus and a still image photographing method thereof are provided where the photographing apparatus includes a lens for forming an optical image of a subject in an image pickup unit; an image pickup unit for photoelectrically converting the optical image formed through the lens to an electrical image... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080136933 - Apparatus for controlling operation of a multiple photosensor pixel image sensor: An apparatus for controlling operation of a color multiple sensor pixel image sensor includes a row control circuit in communication with rows of the array of plurality of color multiple sensor pixel image sensors. The control apparatus generates reset control signals, transfer gating signals, and row selecting signals for control... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20080136934 - Flame detecting method and device: A flame detecting method is provided. The method comprises steps of capturing a video segment for a object; analyzing if an image of the object is moving; analyzing at least one of a color model and a flickering frequency of the moving object; comparing analyzed results obtained from the analyzing... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20080136935 - Recording apparatus and control method thereof: A recording apparatus is able to suppress instances in which the user misses shutter opportunities or has to abort shooting due to insufficient remaining capacity on a recording medium. When the remaining capacity of the recording medium falls below a threshold, the user is allowed to set a desired recording... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080136936 - Data transfer apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and data transfer system: The data transfer apparatus includes a recording unit which records a plurality of image data on a first recording medium, a management unit which manages the plurality of image data by classifying the image data into a plurality of groups, an addition unit which adds one of the plurality of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080136938 - Digital image storage system: A digital image storage system includes a digital camera having a memory capable of storing digital images and an adapter on which the digital camera is to be laid down for informing the adapter of the digital images in the memory. The digital image storage system further includes a data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080136937 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a feature extracting unit for extracting features of images forming video content, a selection unit for selecting a plurality of images from the images forming the video content on the basis of the features extracted by the feature extracting unit, an image processing unit for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080136944 - Digital camera: Either of two power off modes can be selected in a digital camera that reads out images from an image-capturing element, temporarily stores them in a buffer memory and then transfers and records the images from the buffer memory into a recording medium. In a first power off mode, the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080136943 - Image pickup device: An image pickup device may include an optical system having a distortion that captures a distortion-containing optical image, a conversion unit that converts the distortion-containing optical image into distortion-containing image data, a storage unit that stores the distortion-containing image data and additional data related to a distortion of the distortion-containing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080136939 - Image processing and image processing program for image processing: A camera includes an image taking system for taking plural images to be synthesized into a first image for recording use, and an image generator for generating a second image for display use by imaging-processing a specific image among the plural images.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080136942 - Image sensor equipped photographing apparatus and picture photographing method: An image sensor equipped photographing apparatus and a picture photographing method thereof are provided. The picture photographing method includes generating image data from an image signal output by an image sensor, storing the image data, outputting the image data as a preview image data, inputting a photographing signal to process... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080136941 - Lens apparatus and camera system: A lens apparatus includes an optical system having an aperture unit and a plurality of extender lenses that are selectively locatable in an optical axis. The lens apparatus is mountable on a camera having an image pickup element. To maintain the brightness of the image when changing the extender lens,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080136940 - Method and apparatus for automatic image management: Provided is a method and apparatus for automatic image management in an imaging device. The method and apparatus includes serially capturing and temporarily storing a predetermined number of still images in a predetermined time interval; and if the new still images are stored when all of the predetermined number of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080136945 - Apparatus and method for reducing dark current: An apparatus and method that reduces the dark current in each pixel of an image sensor, where each pixel has a pinned photodiode. A negative potential barrier at the transfer gate of each pixel is raised when the photodiode is integrating (when the transfer gate is “off”) to thereby eliminate... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20080136951 - Image capturing apparatus and method: When driven in an all-pixel read mode, a CCD (1) outputs, with each horizontal sync timing signal, captured image signals including signal charges arranged in a different order from that in which the pixels are actually arranged on a photosensitive surface of the CCD. During this time, the respective pixel... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080136947 - Image sensor occlusion localization and correction apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments described herein may operate to illuminate an image sensor array (ISA) used in, for example, a digital imager alternately using a first illuminator and a second illuminator laterally offset from the first illuminator with respect to a face of the ISA. A reduced illuminance level consistent with an existence... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080136946 - Imaging apparatus using solid-state image pickup element: The present invention solves the above problem, and includes a plurality of prisms (2) intended for use in a television camera or the like to allow optical dispersion in a plurality of directions, a plurality of solid-state image pickup element packages (3) placed in the vicinity of emission planes thereof,... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080136949 - Optical image capture structure: An optical image capture structure is provided, which includes a substrate, a frame, a photosensitive element, a first axial actuator, a second axial actuator, and a third axial actuator. The frame moves relative to the substrate, and the photosensitive element is mounted in the frame for capturing an optical image.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080136948 - Solid-state image-pickup device, camera system, and method for driving same: A solid-state image-pickup device having a plurality of analog-to-digital converters that has a plurality of pixels converting an incident-light quantity into an electrical signal and that converts an analog signal obtained from each of the pixels into a digital signal is provided. The analog-to-digital converter includes a plurality of comparators,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080136950 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel section having two-dimensionally arranged pixels, each having a photoelectric conversion means, a memory means, a transfer means, a first reset means for resetting the memory means, a second reset means for resetting the photoelectric conversion means, and a read means for reading the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080136952 - Column amplifier with automatic gain selection for cmos image sensors: A column amplifier architecture having automatic gain selection for CMOS image sensors, which reduces the effect of analog noise, while maintaining a system's dynamic range. A comparator compares an amplified column buffer output signal to a reference voltage. The output of the comparator controls the gain of the amplifier based... Agent: Doyle B. Johnson Reed Smith LLP

20080136953 - Method and apparatus for imaging of scenes having large intensity variance: The present invention is an electronic imaging device and method of expanding its dynamic range. The invention comprises modifying the imaging device by providing a comparator and reset trigger circuit located at or near the site of each of the pixels. The comparator triggers a reset mechanism when the voltage... Agent: Venable LLP

20080136954 - Image capture apparatus: A panel housing moves across a storage position and first and second usage position. In the storage position, the panel housing closes against a housing body and a display surface is positioned in close proximity to a storage face of the housing body. In the first usage position, the panel... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080136955 - Integrated camera and associated methods: A method for forming a camera including an integrated optical subsystem, includes aligning a plurality of second dies with a plurality of first dies, each first die having a second die aligned therewith, at least one of the plurality of first dies and the plurality of the second dies include... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20080136956 - Internal noise reducing structures in camera systems employing an optics stack and associated methods: A camera system may include an optics stack including first and second substrates secured together in a stacking direction, one of the first and seconds substrates including an optical element, a detector on a sensor substrate, and a feature reducing an amount of light entering at an angle greater than... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20080136958 - Camera having a focus adjusting system and a face recognition function: A camera includes an image pickup device; a focus adjusting device which captures an object image at different positions while the focusing lens group is moved to detect an in-focus lens position, based on image signals of the object images, and the focusing lens group is moved to this in-focus... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080136957 - System and method for assisting fixed-focus image-capturing device to focus: A system for assisting fixed-focus image-capturing device to focus, which includes: an image-capturing device with fixed-focus function; a platform for placing objects; a movable structure connected to the image-capturing device or the platform, for adjusting the distance between the image-capturing device and the platform; a notifying unit, which generates a... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080136959 - Automatic focusing system: To provide an automatic focusing system which has an AF pickup device dedicated to an AF operation and which can perform the AF operation with high following ability to a moving subject. At the time of performing an AF control operation, a CPU of a lens unit sets a focusing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080136960 - 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

20080136961 - Devices and methods for an image recording indicator: Disclosed are devices and methods for indicating operation of an imager by positioning a notification light within the no light zone that is between the imager and a lens and/or approximately in the same plane as the imager. The notification light can be configured to operate according to the duty... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080136962 - Multi-output system and method: An output system and method, and, more particularly, a multi-output system and method capable of simultaneously outputting data to a plurality of output apparatuses are disclosed. The multi-output system includes: a reception unit which receives data to be output; a storage unit which stores a plurality of different conversion formats;... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080136963 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing image: The present invention relates to the field of video data de-interlacing, and in particular to a method for reconstructing full-resolution frames from a line-skipped-sequence of fields and a corresponding apparatus. It is the particular approach of the present invention to substitute missing lines of a block of a reconstructed full-resolution... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080136964 - Electro-optical device, scan line driving circuit, and electronic apparatus: The object of the present invention is to suppress a high impedance state of scan lines in a case where the scan lines are driven by using a demultiplexer. A logic AND circuit 34 outputs signals resulting from logical product of block selection signals Y-1, Y-2, and Y-3, . .... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080136965 - Apparatus and method of motion adaptive image processing: A method of image processing for conversion of an image in a sequence of images comprises the steps of associating pixels of an image with respective motion values indicative of a degree of inter-image motion for each pixel; adjusting the motion value of each pixel based upon the motion value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080136966 - Frame synchronizer, synchronization method of frame synchronizer, image processing apparatus, and frame synchronization program: Disclosed is a frame synchronizer 10 capable of suppressing the generation of a jaggy phenomenon without deteriorating image quality. The frame synchronizer comprises a buffer memory for sequentially storing an input video data stream supplied in synchronization with a first synchronization signal, and a memory control section for reading video... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080136967 - H-sync phase locked loop device and method for a tv video signal: A H-sync phase locked loop device for TV video signal is provided herein. After the TV video signal is digitalized, clamping and slicing operations are performed on the digitalized TV video signal to respectively generate a clamped signal and a sliced signal. According to the clamped signal and the sliced... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080136968 - Auto-detection circuit and control method for video signals: An auto-detection circuit for detecting video signals includes a reception end for receiving a video signal, a synchronization signal detector coupled to the reception end for generating a waveform according to voltage variation of the video signal, a peak value detector coupled to the synchronization signal detector for determining peak... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080136969 - Satellite signal recieve and method of conditionally accessing digital tv program by using the same: A satellite signal receiver includes a downconverter, a GPS chip and a transmission controller. The downconverter downconverts satellite signal of digital television into baseband signal for output to the transmission controller. The GPS chip scrambles and encrypts GPS signal into address data and outputs address data to the transmission controller... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080136970 - Digital signal receiver and method for controlling the same: A digital signal receiver comprises a signal separating section (11), a clock signal generating section (12), a video data processing section (14), an audio data processing section (15), and a control section (17). The clock signal generating section (12) generates an operation clock signal (105) for the signal separating section... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080136971 - High-frequency signal receiver using diversity antenna, and high-frequency signal receiving apparatus using the same: The object of the present invention is to provide a high-frequency signal receiving apparatus using a high-frequency signal receiver which performs diversity control by using tuners, wherein the first tuner comprises a first high frequency amplifier gain-controlled by the first gain controller, and a first amplifier gain-controlled by the second... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080136972 - Control system and user interface for network of input devices: Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and the like, over a variety of protocols within a network system and, more particularly, a control system and uniform user interface for centrally controlling... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080136974 - Apparatus for projecting video image and method thereof: An apparatus for projecting video image comprises a CPU for producing all kinds of control signals, a signal converting circuit, a Firstin First-out memory unit for converting the digital video signal streams into the video signal streams with time character, a serial/parallel converting unit and a playing unit for playing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080136973 - Portable projector system: A projector system is adapted for use with a portable computer and comprises a projector assembly configured to be detachably connectable to the portable computer. The projector assembly includes a projector lamp for projecting images onto a surface and is wirelessly connectable with a remote server such as via satellite... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080136975 - Projector and adjustment method of the same: A display apparatus for displaying color images on a screen by projecting each-color image beams modulated with a display device includes a memory storing correction data exhibiting a registration deviation amount on the screen; a displacement calculating unit calculating the registration deviation amount every one pixel of at least one-color... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080136976 - Geometric correction method in multi-projection system: A geometrical correcting method allowing geometrical correction to be performed simply, accurately and in short a time, even in a multi-projection system including a screen of complex shape and projectors complexly arranged, for significantly improving the maintenance efficiency. Test pattern images having feature points are projected by respective projectors, and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080136977 - Projection display: A projection display uses a light modulating device to modulate, in accordance with image data, light radiated from a light source, project the modulated light onto a screen, and display an image. The projection display separates a unit of time configuring the image data into an effective light time when... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080136978 - Reduced rainbow artifacts in digital light projection systems: A projection system can include a color wheel and at least one digital micromirror device. The color wheel can produce different colors of light from a light source. Each color can be produced in sequential order for a predetermined color phase. Each of the digital micromirror device(s) can have a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080129815 - Method and system for realizing ring back tone and ring back tone and ring back image in video phone service: A method for realizing ring back tone and ring back image in video phone service, wherein when the calling subscriber initiates the VP service call, the control module adopts the calling subscriber supported phonetic and image encoding form which are resolved or preliminary arranged, and plays the ring back tone... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080129816 - Childcare video conferencing system and method: A child video conference terminal located at a childcare facility and configured for use by a plurality of children to enable the children to video conference with remotely located parties.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080129817 - Videoconferencing network adapter detection using stun protocol: A network adapter detection is used to establish a videoconference between a videoconferencing unit and a remote endpoint. Information about a plurality of network adapters available for the videoconferencing application is obtained, and one or more test messages are sent to at least one open source server using each of... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.l.p.

20080129818 - Methods for practically simulatnig compact 3d environments for display in a web browser: A method for simulating movement of a user through a remote environment utilizes a still camera with a panoramic lens to capture 360 degree panoramic still images at intervals along a predefined path through the remote environment. A computer system stores the 360 degree panoramic still images and displays a... Agent: Law Offices Of Eric Karich

20080129819 - Autostereoscopic display system: An autostereoscopic display system includes a lenticular lens display screen that projects a plurality of views of a scene from its front surface. A plurality of video projectors are disposed to the rear of the display screen and focus on a convergence point of the display screen's rear surface. Imaging... Agent: Momkus Mccluskey, Llc

20080129820 - Tv system capable of recording multimedia audiovisual program: A TV system capable of recording a multimedia audiovisual program is provided, which comprises a first TV apparatus for receiving a TV audiovisual signal and displaying a corresponding audiovisual program; and a portable second TV apparatus with a built-in storage unit, which is electrically connected to the first TV apparatus... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080129822 - Optimized video data transfer: The present invention relates to systems and methods for combining video data to optimize video performance for use with distributed multiple video monitoring systems. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a computer controlled surveillance system including distributed multiple real-time video display. The system includes a local data transmission... Agent: Baker & Associates Pllc

20080129821 - System and method for home monitoring using a set top box: A system and method for displaying security content from a set top box to a television. In one embodiment, the television receives media content for display. Security content from one or more wireless cameras replaces the media content in response to receiving an alert from the one or more wireless... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080129823 - Video surveillance system and method: A video surveillance system includes a first combiner, and a monitor, a power source and a camera control unit, each of which is electrically coupled to the first combiner. A regulated combiner located remotely from the first combiner and being electrically connected to the first combiner with at least one... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20080129824 - System and method for correlating objects in an event with a camera: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of correlating objects in an event with a camera comprises determining at least a two-dimensional temporal location of an object. A statistical analysis based upon the at least a two-dimensional temporal location of the object is conducted, yielding semantics of the... Agent: Ryan Loveless

20080129825 - Autonomous systems and methods for still and moving picture production: Systems and methods facilitate autonomous image capture and/or picture production. A location unit is attached to each tracked object. An object tracking device receives location information from each location unit. A camera control device controls, based upon the location information, at least one motorized camera to capture image data of... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080129826 - Video testing using a test pattern and checksum calculation: A method, an apparatus, and logic for testing a video data path. One method includes sending video data corresponding to a video test pattern to an input port of a video data path; receiving video data at an output port of the video data path; and calculating a function of... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080129827 - Electronic camera and control method thereof: An electronic camera is provided which can transfer shot data to an external device. The electronic camera includes an operation unit configured to instruct a shooting preparation operation or a shooting operation, a connection unit configured to establish a logical connection with an external device, and a control unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080129828 - Incident recording apparatus: The housing, for example of a mobile phone equipped with a camera and a microphone, contains a plurality of discrete memory cards and means for recording data received from the camera and microphone cyclically onto the cards in sequence, overwriting after a given time interval. In the event of seizure... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080129829 - Sight stabilization apparatus for mobile robot: Provided is a sight stabilization apparatus for a mobile robot having a camera. The sight stabilization apparatus includes a camera vibration detector, a moving pattern analyzer, a sight controller, and a camera sight adjustor. The camera vibration detector detects vibration of the camera when the mobile robot moves. The moving... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080129831 - Apparatus amd method for correcting shake of image photographing device: Provided is an apparatus and a method for correcting a shake of an image photographing device, which enables miniaturization and thin-shaping of the image photographing device, and yet can implement an anti-shake function. This apparatus includes a shake sensing unit sensing the shake of the image photographing device which photographs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080129830 - Optical apparatus: The invention relates to an optical apparatus having a vibration detector that detects vibration, a holding member that holds an image stabilizing optical system, an elastic member that elastically supports the holding member so that the holding member can shift within a plane perpendicular to an optical axis, a drive... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080129832 - Imaging device: An imaging device comprising an image sensor, a shutter release button, and a microcontroller. On detecting that the shutter release button is pressed, the microcontroller calculates camera shake cycle based on both displacement per unit time of an attention area between each taken image and the time when the each... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080129834 - Simultaneous global shutter and correlated double sampling read out in multiple photosensor pixels: An apparatus controls operation of an array of color multiple sensor pixel image sensors to provide a global shuttering for one half of the color multiple sensor pixel image sensors and a rolling shuttering for all color multiple sensor pixel image sensors of the array. The apparatus includes a row... Agent: Stephen B Ackerman

20080129833 - System and method for measuring field of view of digital camera modules: A measuring system (200) for measuring a FOV of a digital camera module (52) includes a measuring chart (22), a parameter inputting module (32), and a processing module (42). The measuring chart defines a colored portion. The parameter inputting module is used to input relative parameters. The processing module is... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080129837 - Image reproduction device: In a case where a thumbnail image is displayed at the time of insertion of an image file storage medium including an automatic reproduction file, the thumbnail image is displayed only for the image file which contains description of automatic reproduction in an automatic reproduction file. Also, a thumbnail image... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080129835 - Method for processing image files using non-image applications: A device is configured to enhance operation using non-image data in an image file. This non-image data may be added to the image file by the device. The non-image data may include event information such as events from a user's calendar application, public event information, etc. The non-image data could... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080129836 - Method of controlling digital photographing device and digital photographing device using the same: A method of controlling a digital photographing device for storing an image file obtained by taking a photograph in a storage medium, and reproducing an image file stored in the storage medium to display on a display unit, the method including: marking an image file corresponding to an image last... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080129838 - One-time-use digital camera: In one embodiment, the present invention provides a one-time-use camera. The one-time-use camera includes an electronic digital camera system for generating digital image data representative of a captured image. A non-volatile memory is provided in communication with the electronic digital camera system for storing the digital image data. The non-volatile... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080129841 - High performance imager ic with minimum peripheral circuits: An imaging system provides a serial video signal that is indicative of the intensity of the light. The imaging system has an array of pixel image sensors arranged in rows and columns. A control circuit is in communication with the rows of the array and the plurality of column switches.... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20080129840 - Image output system, image generating device and method of generating image: A system includes a first specifying unit which specifies a first output information showing at least the viewpoint of a multi-viewpoint image, a second specifying unit which specifies a second output information showing an image area to be output as a single viewpoint image out of the multi-viewpoint images, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129839 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including: imaging means for imaging a scene that is in a direction in which a user sees to obtain image data of the scene; temporary storage means for storing the image data obtained by imaging by the imaging means; and control means for controlling... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080129843 - Moving image recording apparatus with a stream recording function of a moving image: A stream recording of a moving image is executed every frame period. In case a frame data of the previous frame is still being written (YES at step SA4) at the time when the latest frame data is to be written, the latest frame data is set aside and a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080129842 - Photographing method and camera device equipped with temporary photographing: A photographing device successively performs temporary photographing operations and main photographing operations in a predetermined photographing mode. In the temporary photographing operation, a through picture that is displayed on a monitor of the photographing device is temporarily stored in a temporary storage as a reference picture for composition matching. After... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080129844 - Apparatus for image capture with automatic and manual field of interest processing with a multi-resolution camera: An apparatus for capturing a video image comprising a means for generating a digital video image, a means for classifying the digital video image into one or more regions of interest and a background image, and a means for encoding the digital video image, wherein the encoding is selected to... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080129845 - Image pickup device: An image pickup device may include an optical system having a distortion that captures a distortion-containing optical image, a conversion unit that converts the distortion-containing optical image into distortion-containing image data, a storage unit that stores the distortion-containing image data and additional data related to a distortion of the distortion-containing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080129846 - Image pickup device: An image pickup device may include an optical system having a distortion that captures a distortion-containing optical image, a conversion unit that converts the distortion-containing optical image into distortion-containing image data, a storage unit that stores the distortion-containing image data and additional data related to a distortion of the distortion-containing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080129847 - Imaging apparatus and signal processing method: A digital camera includes a solid-state imaging device in which plural pixel columns, each including plural pixels arrayed in a column direction, are arrayed in a row direction. The pixels of each pixel column include upper OBs, lower OBs, and PDs disposed between the upper OBs and the lower OBs.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129848 - Imaging apparatus having temperature sensor within image sensor: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor that comprises a pixel portion having a plurality of pixel sensors configured to generate an image signal, and a plurality of temperature sensors disposed in an area of the pixel portion and configured to generate a temperature signal corresponding to a detected temperature,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080129849 - Imaging device and imaging method: An image pickup unit takes an image of bar code. An ID extraction unit extracts an ID from the image taken of the bar codes. A communication unit acquires entity information corresponding to the ID, from an external database. The IDs and entity information are displayed to a user. The... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080129852 - Image sensor, method of manufacturing the same, and camera module having the same: Provided is an image sensor including a wafer; a plurality of light receiving elements provided on the wafer; a color filter provided above the light receiving elements so as to overlap the light receiving elements; an infrared (IR) filter layer provided on the color filter, the IR filter layer having... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080129850 - Method of reading out digital images and related device: A method of reading out images is disclosed. The method is used for a digital image capturing device. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a first frame with a digital image capturing module; activating a pre-control signal with a processor when the first frame needs to be expanded; activating... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080129853 - Solid-state image sensing device driving method and solid-state image sensing apparatus: A method of driving a solid-state image sensing device comprises plural photoelectric conversion devices arranged in rows and columns perpendicular to the rows, VCCDs through which charges generated by the photoelectric conversion devices are transferred in the column direction, and an HCCD through which the charges transferred from the VCCDs... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129851 - Solid-state imaging device and imaging system: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit which is composed of a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each pixel circuit outputting an analog signal by performing photoelectric conversion; an AD conversion circuit 15a provided for each of columns which sequentially converts a plurality of analog signals... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080129854 - Imaging appartus, imaging method and program thereof: In a digital camera 1, when a lagged-timing is recorded (Yes at Step S9), from the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed, a frame image picked up at a timing equivalent to the lagged-timing is displayed (Step S10). When the cross-shaped key is operated before the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080129855 - method and apparatus for dynamic panormaic capturing: A method and apparatus for capturing an image depicting an area or region of interest. The method and apparatus use a large sensor, and a sampling function, which can be non-uniform, so that sensor cells depicting the region or object of interest are sampled more densely than other sensor cells,... Agent: Gibbons P.c.

20080129856 - Image sensor color filter array and method of producing the same: A color filter array of a CMOS image sensor according to an example embodiment may include microlenses, color filters, and/or pixels. The microlenses may be configured to condense incident light. The color filters may be configured to extract colors from light passed through the microlenses. The pixels may be configured... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080129858 - Auto-focus imaging system: An exemplary auto-focus imaging system includes a holder, an image sensor, a barrel unit, a stepper motor, and a belt. The image sensor is disposed in the holder. The barrel unit is coupled to the holder, in a threaded manner. The belt is looped around the barrel unit and the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080129859 - Focus compensated system for tilted images: A focus compensated system for tilted images includes a light source having an illumination device, an object for providing a number of lines of light; and an object lens having an optical axis for projecting the lines on to a part; a camera including a light sensitive element and an... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080129857 - Method and camera with multiple resolution: the capture (10) of a first image (12), according to a first shooting field, using a camera (13) equipped with a variable focus lens set to a first focal length; the automatic search (20) in the first image of interest zones (16a, 16b), and when at least one interest zone... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080129860 - Digital camera: A digital camera including: an imaging device having a function to control a quantity of transmitted light of an imaging optical system and a function to subject the transmitted light to photoelectric conversion to generate a video signal; an area specifying portion specifying an area to control; an image data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080129861 - Method of transmitting color gamut information and image device using the same: A method of transmitting color gamut information and an image device using the same are provided. The image device includes a color gamut information generating unit which generates color gamut information; an ancillary data generating unit which generates ancillary data including the color gamut information; and a composition unit which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129862 - Frame rate conversion apparatus for video signal and display apparatus: Provided is a frame rate conversion apparatus for inputting a video signal and inserting an interpolation frame into the video signal so as to convert a frame rate of the video signal. The apparatus includes: an input unit for inputting the video signal; a video interpolation unit for generating an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080129863 - Method and system for motion adaptive deinterlacer with integrated directional filter: A system and method that produces a spatial average for interlaced video in a deinterlacer. The system detects edges in the video images and determines the angle at which the edges are oriented based on the gradient in the x-direction and the gradient in the y-direction. The direction of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080129866 - Caption detection device, caption detection method, and pull-down signal detection apparatus: A caption detection device including a delay unit which delays a current-frame image to output a previous-frame image, a current feature detection unit which receives the current-frame image to detect a caption feature in each region, a previous feature detection unit which receives the previous-frame image from the delay unit... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080129867 - Closed caption timecode: This invention relates to the field of synchronizing overlay video signals with a television video signal feed, in order to allow the overlay video signals to be mixed with the television video signal feed at the proper time intervals. The synchronization is performed by using a synchronization signal which is... Agent: Raymond R. Ferrera

20080129864 - Distribution of closed captioning from a server to a client over a home network: A multimedia server distributes closed captioning over a network to a client device running a media player that does not support standardized closed captioning. The multimedia server receives a media stream including closed captioning that is encoded according to a closed captioning standard such as Consumer Electronics Association CEA-608-B or... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080129865 - System and methods for rapid subtitling: A system and method for rapid subtitling and for alignment of various types of data sequences is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes an input module adapted to receive parameter values from a user, a computer readable memory adapted to store the parameters in a manner so that the... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20080129869 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes a signal input unit through which an image signal is input, the image signal comprising a synchronization signal and an active signal; an adjustment signal generating unit that generates an adjustment signal; a signal processing unit that receives the adjustment signal and adjusts the image signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129868 - Method and apparatus for providing a synchronized video presentation without video tearing: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for feeding a video stream from a video source in a manner that prevents video tearing.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080129870 - System and method for overlay of a motion video signal on an analog video signal: A system for overlaying a motion video signal onto an analog signal on a display. The system includes a motion video processing unit for receiving and processing the motion video signal into a signal having an analog video format, a video format analyzer and synchronizer device for receiving the analog... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080129872 - Method, system, and program product for eliminating error contribution from production switchers with internal dves: Measurement of the relative timing between images and associated information, for example video and audio. Image mutual event characteristics are recognized in the images and associated mutual event characteristics are recognized in the associated information. The image mutual events and associated mutual events are compared to determine their occurrences, one... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080129871 - Video and audio synchronization method and related apparatus for a multimedia interface: A video and audio data synchronization method for a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) having a plurality of channels for outputting video and audio data includes determining a boundary between a control period and a data/video period in each of the plurality of channels, adjusting timing sequences of the plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080129873 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: A motion-vector-setting section (31) sets a motion vector in units of pixel in a target image. Based on the motion vector, a target-pixel-setting section (35) sets a target pixel for each image in plural images to be processed. A motion-blur-amount-setting section (33) sets a motion blur amount in units of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080129874 - Mixture model for motion lines in a virtual reality environment: Improved human-like realism of computer opponents in racing or motion-related games is provided by using a mixture model to determine a dynamically prescribed racing line that the AI driver is to follow for a given segment of the race track. This dynamically prescribed racing line may vary from segment to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080129875 - Motion and/or scene change detection using color components: The present invention relates to the fields of motion detection, scene change detection and temporal domain noise reduction. Especially, the present invention relates to a device, a method and a software for detecting motion and/or scene change in a sequence of image frames. The device for detecting motion and/or scene... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080129876 - Method of accelerating an image processing procedure: A method of accelerating an image processing procedure is disclosed. The method is used for a digital image capturing device. The method is used for executing an image processing procedure under a first FPS (Frame Per Second) clock. The method comprises the steps of: using a second FPS clock to... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080129878 - Digital television receiver and method for processing the digital television signal: A method of processing a digital television signal in a digital television receiver includes receiving a digital television (DTV) signal including an event information table (EIT) containing information chronological order for events on defined virtual channels, demodulating the received DTV signal, demultiplexing the EIT from the demodulated DTV signal, parsing... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080129877 - Image control apparatus and image control method: An image control apparatus is configured to input a plurality of image data associated with a plurality of image sources and to display a plurality of images on a same screen based on the plurality of image data. The image control apparatus includes an image quality determining unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080129882 - Data transfer device and transfer control method: A video/audio transmitting device according to the present invention comprises a transmitter, a controller for controlling the transmitter, and a plurality of memory elements, wherein the transmitter comprises a video/audio transmitter for transmitting a video/audio signal to a receiving device outside and a device information obtaining unit for receiving from... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080129880 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a beacon length indication: A system and method for efficiently communicating messages over a low-rate channel between multiple devices in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video is disclosed. A beacon length indication and processing method is provided to solve the problem of long beacon processing delay at the MAC layer of a... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080129881 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having beacon design: A system and method for efficiently communicating messages over a low-rate channel between multiple devices in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video is disclosed. The method includes various control bits in a beacon control field of a beacon frame to improve the efficiency of the beacon processing, thereby... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080129879 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having connection control protocol: A system and method for wireless communication of uncompressed audiovisual data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a first device and a second device wirelessly connectable to each other. The first device is configured to transmit a connection control information request from the first device to the second... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080129883 - Video receiving apparatus and video receiving method: A video receiving apparatus is provided. The video receiving apparatus may have a video input terminal to input video data, and may include a voltage detector configured to detect a voltage applied to a specific contact point in the video input terminal; and a control unit configured to determine whether... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080129886 - Broadcast receiving system: A broadcast receiving system includes a plurality of remote controls and a broadcast receiving device. The plurality of remote controls each includes a plurality of keys and a control component. The control component outputs an operation signal having key identification information for identifying a key being operated out of the... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080129885 - Digital broadcasting receiver and one-touch channel setting method: A digital broadcast receiver and a one-touch channel setting method are disclosed. In order to set channels, the digital broadcast receiver tunes a tuner corresponding to an applied channel setting value chosen from available channel setting values that are made from combinations of channel setting value factors by referencing a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080129884 - Display apparatus and driving method thereof: A display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a channel setting storage unit which stores mode selection information about a plurality of channel designation modes each of which designates a way of setting an initial channel to be automatically tuned to upon turning on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129887 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus and control method thereof: A broadcasting receiving apparatus and control method thereof are provided, the apparatus including: a broadcasting tuner which receives a broadcasting signal and tunes at least one channel; and a controller which controls the broadcasting tuner to tune a channel and determines whether the tuned channel has software data, and stores... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129888 - Television device with telephone function, and television system including such television device: A remote controller device includes a first audio processor converting externally received sound to an external audio signal, an operation unit including a plurality of buttons, detecting whether each of the plurality of buttons is depressed or not to generate an operation signal representing the detected result, and a transmitter... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080129889 - Electronic window system having air conditioner equipped thereon, electronic window system using digital television and method for operating the same electronic window systems: An electronic window system having an air conditioner function and an aesthetic function, includes a memory unit storing a back ground picture, .a window picture, and voice data, a control unit generating a synthesized window background picture by synthesizing the background picture and the window picture and outputting control variables... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129890 - Method of detecting an image display device in an electronic system and related devices: A method of detecting an image display device for an electronic system includes the following steps: determining a first coupling status of the display device and the electronic system according to a first signal level of a first pin of the image display device; detecting a second signal level of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080129891 - Diffuser having shape profile for reducing speckle noise and a laser projection system employing the same: A diffuser having a shape for reducing speckle noise and a laser projection system including the diffuser are provided. The diffuser is employed by a laser projection system to reduce speckle noise, and includes a scattering pattern. The scattering pattern includes a plurality of scattering ribbons, and a curved surface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129892 - Scanning image display apparatus: A scanning image display apparatus includes: a scanning unit rotating a mirror to scan a light flux from a light source; an input unit to input a display condition of an image; and a controller changing a rotation angle of the mirror in the scanning unit in accordance with a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080129893 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes configuration to apply, to a plurality of the data lines through capacitors, inverted data signals that are generated by inverting voltage levels of data signals supplied to image signal lines with respect to a predetermined electric potential.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080129894 - Geometric calibration apparatus for correcting image distortions on curved screen, and calibration control system and method using the same: Provided are a geometric calibration apparatus for correcting image distortions of a curved screen, and a calibration control system and method using the same. In the calibration control system for correcting the image distortions of the curved screen, a high resolution camera including a pan-and-tilt controller is installed at a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080129895 - Controller ic and liquid crystal television mounting the same: In a controller IC in which a decoder for decoding a video signal from a tuner and a controller for controlling a liquid crystal display section for displaying video of a video signal decoded are incorporated into a one-chip semiconductor, a signal selection section is provided between the decoder and... Agent: Jonathan P. Osha Osha Novak & May L.l.p.