Television inventions 08/08

20080204542 - 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

20080204543 - 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

20080204544 - 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

20080204545 - 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

20080204549 - Apparatus and method for photographing three-dimensional image, apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional image, and apparatus and method for converting three-dimensional image display position: Described is a device and method that makes it possible to acquire image information required for displaying a three-dimensional image of an object in a space with a simple configuration and to achieve display of a stereoscopic dynamic image in a true sense with a simple configuration. Light from an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080204547 - Process and system used to discover and exploit the illusory depth properties inherent in an autostereoscopic image: A method, system and devices for optimizing and/or maximizing the perceived autostereoscopic effect for any chosen combination of photographic or electronic recording materials, recording methods and parameters, and imaging methods and parameters. The method first determines the parameters characterizing the optimum autostereoscopic effect of the combination materials etc. (the front... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080204550 - Stereoscopic display apparatus: In a stereoscopic display apparatus having optical directory elements such as lenticular elements (4) extending parallel to each other and being slanted at an angle to one of the rows and columns of picture elements the appearance of so called dark bands is prevented by certain combinations of the slant... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080204546 - Stereoscopic imaging device and means for construction thereof: A stereoscopic display device comprises a display device for displaying a pixellated display image; and a stereoscopic conversion screen. The conversion screen comprises an array of light guiding members, each light guiding member being associated with an underlying pixel or sub-array of pixels, and wherein alternate rows of light guiding... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080204548 - Switchable optical imaging system and related 3d/2d image switchable apparatus: The present invention is directed a switchable optical imaging system and a 3D/2D image switchable apparatus having high functional flexibility in a number of aspects and adaptability to various applications. The present invention is based on generating directional optical beams, transforming these optical beams and projecting transformed optical beams in... Agent: Thomas Loop

20080204551 - Miniature microscope camera: A hand-held microscope includes a rigid tripod stand with adjustable legs, a visual display component, an imaging detector and an optical assembly comprising an imaging lens and an objective lens housed within an imaging tube. Multiple illumination sources can be used in the microscope, including LED or laser diode sources.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080204552 - Device for monitoring with at least one video camera: A device for monitoring, comprising at least one video camera, a unit for moving the at least one video camera by swivelling, tilting, and swivelling and tilting, an acoustic locating unit configured for determining a direction from which a noise of a specified type arrives, and a control unit for... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080204554 - Electronic article surveillance system: An electronic article surveillance system (1) comprises a read/write station (2; 217, 218, 220-224) that is designed to communicate an electronic article surveillance status test-request command comprising zone information that indicates an electronic article surveillance zone for which an electronic article surveillance status that is assigned to said zone is... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080204553 - System and method for obtaining and utilizing maintenance information: A system for obtaining, recording, displaying, storing, transmitting and receiving maintenance and other information is provided. The system, which may include an electronic maintenance apparatus that may be in the form of a hand-held digital computer, allows a user to capture and store images, sound, and/or error codes and related... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080204555 - Automotive surveillance system: A motor vehicle monitoring system comprises controller 100, processor 110, memory 120, wireless transceiver 200, audio recording device 300, video recording device 400, information storage device 500, vehicle tracking device 600, video display device 700, and stimulus sensing device 800.... Agent: Ronald J. Koch

20080204557 - Driving support method and driving support device: A driving support device uses a camera mounted on a vehicle for imaging a blind spot area created by a pillar of the vehicle and displays an image taken by the camera on the interior surface of the pillar. A virtual plane passing through boundaries of the blind spot area... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080204556 - Vehicle camera security system: An automotive vehicle anti-theft, anti-vandalism and anti-carjacking system utilizing a visual monitoring system for reducing the incidence of theft or vandalism of an automotive vehicle and an emergency notification system is disclosed. The monitoring system comprises a plurality of video cameras mounted interior and exterior to the vehicle and interfacing... Agent: David J. Rotondo, Esq. The Bates Bldg.

20080204558 - Security system triggered by heart rate detection: A security system is provided for a facility (10). The security system includes: a central monitoring station (20) that controls one or more security measures for the facility (10); and, a heart rate monitor (30) that detects a heart rate of an individual (50), the heart rate monitor (30) being... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080204559 - Gate access system with visitor imaging and memory: The present invention is directed to a gate access system that includes an imaging system configured to capture an image of an object disposed in a predetermined field of view in response to an image capture signal. The imaging system is also configured to associate time/date data with the image.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080204560 - Method for compensating hardware misalignments in a camera: A method for compensating hardware misalignments in a camera is presented. The camera includes a maneuverable part and a fixed part, and the maneuverable part is controlled by a steering motor system. In a first step of the method mechanical coordinates from the steering motor system is received, wherein the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080204561 - Method for detecting digital video interface off-line mode and associated receiver: A TMDS receiver includes a plurality of data channels, a clock channel, and an off-line mode detector. Each data channel receives a video signal and the clock channel receives a clock signal. Each data channel comprises a channel decoder for decoding the signals received by the corresponding receiving channel. The... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080204562 - Camera system having serially connected camera devices to facilitate a cascade of imaging effects: This invention provides for a camera system having a plurality of hand held camera devices connected together in series. Each camera device includes an image input configured to receive image data from a camera device preceding in the series of devices, and an instruction reader configured to read instructions from... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080204563 - Picture freeze detector: The present invention describes a method and system for identifying a picture freeze situation on a display by adding a repeated electronic signature in the signal chain fed to the display, and detecting if the electronic signature is present on the display. If the electronic signature is not present a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080204566 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which provides an appropriate inclination guide display in accordance with an aspect ratio of a picked-up image and the like. The image pickup apparatus includes an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image pickup apparatus, a display device capable of superimposedly showing... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080204564 - Image pickup apparatus and lens barrel: An imaging apparatus capable of preventing photographing sensitivity from being increased more than necessary, reducing image quality degradation caused by camera shake or object shake and easily photographing images in good image quality. Digital camera 1 includes image shake correcting selection 16 that corrects shake of an optical image of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080204565 - Image pickup apparatus and lens barrel: An imaging apparatus capable of preventing photographing sensitivity from being increased more than necessary, reducing image quality degradation caused by camera shake or object shake and easily photographing images in good image quality. Digital camera 1 includes image shake correcting selection 16 that corrects shake of an optical image of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080204571 - imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus including an infrared video camera. The infrared video camera includes a sensor array operable to produce successive video images in the form of pixelated two-dimensional images. The imaging apparatus further comprises a processing arrangement operable to reduce or increase the overall brightness of an image in dependence... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080204568 - Camera, encoder, and modulator in same enclosure: An RF signal source having a camera that provides a camera output, an encoder that encodes the camera output in a compressed digital format, and a modulator that digitally encodes and modulates the compressed camera output and that provides the digitally encoded, modulated, and compressed camera output as an RF... Agent: Zenith Electronics Corporation

20080204570 - Event multiplexer for managing the capture of images: An image capture system for capturing images of an object, such as the Earth. The image capture system includes a moving platform, at least two image capture devices, a position system, an event multiplexer and a computer system. The image capture devices are mounted to the moving platform. Each image... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.c.

20080204569 - Method and system for indexing and searching objects of interest across a plurality of video streams: A seed search of a subset of analytical data corresponding to video objects displayable in a plurality of video frames is carried out to identify video objects that most closely match a selected video object and then complete searches of the analytical data may be carried out so as to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080204567 - Sample and hold circuits with buffer offset removed: An active pixel image sensor comprising: (a) a pixel array having a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising: (i) a photosensitive region connected to a charge-to-voltage conversion region; and (ii) an amplifier connected to the charge-to-voltage conversion region; and (b) a sample and hold circuit connected to one or more... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080204573 - Image sensing apparatus and method: It is an object of this invention to reduce image sensing errors due to wrong white balance control using wrong color temperature information in an image sensing device capable of performing white balance control using a color image signal from an image sensing device. In order to attain the above... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080204572 - Proximity-based system and method for reducing gain imbalance in a bayer pattern and digital camera employing the same: A proximity-based system for, and method of, reducing Gr-Gb gain imbalance and a digital camera incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a sensor configured to provide a input Bayer pattern array containing amplitudes corresponding to Gr and Gb cells and (2) a processor... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080204575 - Digital camera: A digital camera is disclosed to reduce shutter lag and improved accuracy in exposure. The digital camera includes an image pickup lens optical system, an iris, an image pickup device, a hold/gain control circuit, a luminance level detector, an exposure control circuit, a device control circuit and so forth. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080204574 - Shade correction for lens in image sensor: An apparatus for performing shade correction for a lens in an image sensor includes a gain profile extractor, a common profile calculator, a gain controller calculator, and a memory device. The gain profile extractor generates a respective channel gain profile for each of a plurality of color channels from image... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080204576 - Image recovery device: A date-stamped captured image is subjected to camera shake correction. When adding date data to a captured image, an image processing IC of a digital camera stores in a storage section image data pertaining to an area where date data are to be added. When a date-stamped captured image is... Agent: Frank Pincelli, Patent Legal Staff, Eastman Kodak Company

20080204577 - Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program product: An image processing system including: a CCD which outputs an image signal; an edge extraction unit which extracts an edge signal from the image signal; a false edge estimation unit which estimates an edge signal that arises due to noise components based upon the image signal; an edge correction unit... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080204578 - Image sensor dark correction method, apparatus, and system: A method of performing dark correction for signals generated by an image sensor is disclosed. Dark state signals are received from an image sensor and a dark correction ratio is determined for each pixel based on the dark state signals. Operational state signals are received from the image sensor and... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080204579 - Method of and apparatus for correcting contour of grayscale image: A grayscale image with corrected contours, which is suitably applicable to the art of recognition of objects, is obtained using a grayscale image and a distance image of a subject. The contour of the grayscale image where a grayscale contour image extracted from the grayscale image and a distance contour... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080204581 - Image capturing apparatus: When a selected target color space for a digital camera is changed, the colors of a final image, i.e., the colors of an image in the changed target color space, are predicted from an image that is displayed on a display unit of the digital camera. For example, if the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080204580 - Method, apparatus and system providing imaging device with color filter array: A method and apparatus that provide a color filter array for use in an imaging device and/or system. The color filter array contains a stopping layer located at least on selected color filters. The stopping layer allows a planarization process step, such as a chemical mechanical planarization process step, to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080204582 - Image sensors, interfaces and methods capable of suppressing effects of parasitic capacitances: An interface capable of suppressing parasitic capacitance effects includes an array of switches switched in response to a switching signal. The interface suppresses effects of parasitic capacitance included in a bus, which transmits a reset signal and an image signal output from an image sensor. The suppressed parasitic capacitance effects... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080204583 - Adapted piecewise linear processing device: A piecewise linear processing device applies different amplification rates according to a general environment and a low luminance environment where much noise exists. The piecewise linear processing device includes a knee point storing unit configured to store a user's default setting value and low luminance setting value; a luminance detecting... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080204584 - Imaging apparatus, driving method thereof, and imaging system: In an imaging apparatus according to the present invention, the driving unit drives each of the pixels in the non-readout region in the first mode such that the setting unit sets the input unit to a third electric potential with the transfer unit being ready to transfer the electric charge... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080204585 - Image sensor with variable resolution and sensitivity: A charge-coupled device image sensor includes (a) a two-dimensional array of pixels having a plurality of rows and columns, the two-dimensional array includes: (i) a plurality of gates arranged as a charge-coupled device; wherein the array further includes a plurality of charge-coupled devices that are arranged to be clocked by... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080204586 - Image sensor for still or video photography: A method for reading out charge from an interlined CCD having a plurality of photo-sensing regions and a plurality of vertical shift registers, and each photosensitive region is mated respectively to a CCD of a vertical shift register and a color filter having a repeating pattern of two rows in... Agent: F-p, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080204587 - Image-capturing device: An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures a subject image formed via a photographic optical system; a display unit that displays a through image of the subject image captured by the image-capturing unit; an enlargement area setting unit that sets a position of an enlargement area in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080204588 - Image-recording system: The present invention relates to an image-recording system having an optical module and a control unit, the optical module including a programmable logic module and the control unit including control means for the configuration of the logic module.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080204589 - Clip-on video camera system for medical, surgical and dental applications: A video camera system includes a mount with a clip-on structure adapted for attachment to a pair of eyeglass frames, loupes, or a headband. The preferred embodiment includes a camera mounted on a first pivot arm, and a light source mounted on a second pivot arm. One or both of... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080204590 - Lens drive apparatus, image pickup apparatus and mobile terminal: The present invention provides a lens drive apparatus including: an image pickup lens group; a lens frame holding the image pickup lens group; an actuator comprising a magnet, a yoke, and a coil formed of an electric conductor; a casing housing the lense frame and the actuator therein; and at... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080204591 - Electronic device and accessory device: A connector on an electronic device includes a pair of locking plates, a guide groove, and a space. Each locking plate has, on its edge, a first concave portion, a first convex portion, a second concave portion, and a second convex portion. An intermediate surface for determining a position of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080204592 - Motion compensated frame rate conversion system and method: Systems and methods of motion compensated frame rate conversion are described herein. These systems and methods convert an input video sequence at a first frame rate to an output video sequence at a second frame rate through a novel motion estimation and motion vector processing stage that produces a motion... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080204593 - Scan convertion image filtering: An image processing apparatus in which output pixels of an output image are generated with respect to input pixels of an input image, a first subset of the output pixels being identical to respective input pixels and a second subset of the output pixels being derived from respective groups of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080204594 - Video signal converter with signal filter: A video signal converter converts a color graphics array (CGA) video signal to a video graphics array (VGA) video signal without a horizontal sync spike. The converter includes an input interface, a conversion circuit and an output interface. The input interface is configured to receive a color graphic array (CGA)... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080204595 - Method and system for extracting relevant information from content metadata: A method and system for extracting relevant information from content metadata is provided. User access to content is monitored. A set of extraction rules for information extraction is selected. Key information is extracted from metadata for the content based on the selected extraction rules. Additionally, a type for the content... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080204596 - Display apparatus and display method thereof: A display apparatus includes: an image processing unit that processes a main image corresponding to an image signal received from an external source and an auxiliary image generated by execution of an application; a display unit that displays the main and auxiliary images processed by the image processing unit; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080204597 - Method and apparatus for reproducing moving picture data having sub-screen picture data: Provided are a method and apparatus for reproducing moving picture data which includes sub-screen picture data. The method includes outputting messages indicating that the moving picture data includes the sub-screen picture data, receiving a selection on whether to display the sub-screen picture data, and selectively displaying the sub-screen picture data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080204598 - Real-time film effects processing for digital video: A method, apparatus, and computer software for applying in real time imperfections to streaming video which causes the resulting digital video to resemble cinema film.... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.c.

20080204599 - Mobile display control system: A mobile display control system is provided including providing a camera for monitoring an ambient light level; modifying an unprocessed video stream based on the ambient light level from the camera for forming a video stream; generating a pixel brightness and a contrast from the video stream and the ambient... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080204600 - System and method for video noise reduction using an adaptive temporal method with motion detection and motion compensation: An adaptive temporal noise reduction method that adaptively combines motion adaptive filtering results and motion compensated results to reduce Gaussian additive noise in video sequences is described herein. The system determines the motion detection and motion compensation results from the current frame and the filtered previous frame. Measurements on the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080204601 - Ac coupling techniques for video drivers: A low bandwidth signal path is added to copy internal node DC signal to output node. Therefore, for a DC or low frequency signal, the output signal is controlled by this loop. On the other hand, a high frequency signal is not affected because of the low-bandwidth of added loop.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080204602 - Region-based motion estimation using dynamic asoect ration of region: The present invention relates to the field of motion estimation in video processing. Specifically, the invention relates to a video-processing method and device for ascertaining motion vectors for a plurality of first pixel blocks forming a currently processed image region of a currently processed image of an image sequence. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080204603 - Video displaying apparatus and video displaying method: A video displaying apparatus, for suppressing a blur of moving picture, or dynamic false contour, from generation thereof, comprises: an input unit for inputting a motion picture; a motion vector detection unit for detecting a motion vector starting from a pixel of one (1) field and ending at a pixel... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080204604 - Video buffer management: In one embodiment a video system comprises a first tuner, a first memory buffer coupled to the first tuner to receive a first video signal from the first tuner, a second tuner, a second memory buffer coupled to the second tuner to receive a second video signal from the second... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080204606 - Electronic equipment and semiconductor device: Provided is an electronic device which consumes less power in a standby state waiting for a signal sent from a remote controller. A photodiode (22) receives a signal from a remote controller (10) to generate a current based on the signal. A microcontroller control chip (23) recognizes a header part... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080204605 - Systems and methods for using a remote control unit to sense television characteristics: A system for sensing television characteristics comprises a display device, a speaker, a calibration manager, and a remote control unit, which has a light sensor, a microphone, a transmitter, and logic. The logic is configured to determine, based on the light sensor and the microphone, a value indicative of an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080204607 - Color image displays: A method of producing an image, comprises the steps of providing a beam of light comprising at least three colours in sequence during a frame period, the beam comprising a pure colour period for each colour and two or more transition periods when the beam of light changes from one... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080198219 - 3d image file, photographing apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, and image processing apparatus: A photographing apparatus has two binocular stereoscopic modes. In two-take photography mode, a 3D image file is generated from left and right monocular images acquired by performing monocular photographing twice, and the 3D image file thus generated is recorded. In one-take photography mode, a 3D image file is generated from... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080198218 - Stereoscopic image format transformation method applied to display system: In a display system, the invention discloses a stereoscopic image format transformation method being used for transforming a non-interlace format of a stereoscopic image into an interlace format. When an aspect ratio of the stereoscopic image is not equal to an aspect ratio of a panel, the stereoscopic image format... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080198220 - Compound camera and methods for implementing auto-focus, depth-of-field and high-resolution functions: A compound camera system for generating an enhanced virtual image having a large depth-of-field. The compound camera system comprises a plurality of component cameras for generating image data of an object and a data processor for generating the enhanced virtual image from the image data. The data processor generates the... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080198221 - Satellite-receiver equipped video monitoring device: A satellite-receiver equipped video monitor primarily comprises a housing, a signal output device, a satellite receiver module and a video camera module, which implements the satellite receiver module to acquire satellite signals and utilizes a software tool to integrate received real-time coordinate and position information with the real-time monitoring images,... Agent: Liou, Chii-moon

20080198222 - System and method for tele-presence: A computer based process for providing a visually impaired subject with multi-modal (local, remote, human-aided, computer-aided), multi-sensory (hearing, touch), information about the subject's physical environment is disclosed, involving identifying at least one guide; identifying at least one subject; establishing a communication connection between the guide and the subject; capturing information... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080198223 - Electronic endoscope system and processor for electronic endoscope: An electronic endoscope system includes an electronic endoscope, a processor connected with the electronic endoscope, and a server that performs data communication with the processor via a network. The processor sends, to the server, update request data including an adjusted image and positional information of an adjusted area in the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080198224 - Night vision device for a vehicle: In a night vision arrangement for a motor vehicle in which a camera captures an infra-red image of the roadway in front of the vehicle, a video signal generated by the camera is processed by a signal processor so that the field of view of the image displayed by a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080198225 - Tvms- a total view monitoring system: The present invention is a system for comprehensive observation and tracking of objects in distinct defined areas. This is implemented by the use of imaging sensors, comprising an electronic video camera and integrated processors, providing an overhead view of a pre determined sector during real time. The system also comprises... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080198228 - Active door monitoring system: There is described a door monitoring system comprising a display device integrated into a door of a vehicle; a camera including image capture circuitry hidden behind the display device; and a control unit in communication with the display device for determining information to be displayed thereon, and with the camera... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080198226 - Image processing device: The present invention provides an image processing device capable of enabling accurate recognition of a solid object present near a vehicle and displaying the solid object. The image processing device includes a viewpoint conversion unit for receiving data of images captured by at least one image capturing camera and generating... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080198227 - Night vision system: In a night vision system with which an image recording unit records the image of the surroundings of a motor vehicle, the recorded image is displayed by means of a display, wherein the position of the image recording device (2) is changed according to the driving situation.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080198229 - Vehicle operation support system and vehicle including system: A vehicle operation support system is provided in which a captured image or a guide displayed on a display device can be adjusted easily by a simple operation. In adjusting misalignment between the image and the guide displayed as an oblique captured image on the display device, the user converts... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080198230 - Gps based spectator and participant sport system and method: A spectator sport system and method that displays different views of a sporting event and, in particular, uses a position selected by the spectator to assist in displaying a view from the selected position. The spectator, using an internet device, can zoom, pan, tilt and change the view, as well... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20080198231 - Threat-detection in a distributed multi-camera surveillance system: A method is provided for detecting a threat in a distributed multi-camera surveillance system. The method includes: monitoring movement of an object in a field of view of a first camera using software installed at the first camera; detecting a suspicious object at the first camera when movement of the... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20080198232 - Digital video media duplication or transmission quality measurement: A system and method for measuring video quality of a video image, wherein the system comprises a source device comprising an original video image; a receiver comprising a received video image; a storage device adapted to store video images from the source device and the receiver; a decoder connected to... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080198233 - Video bit stream test: The present invention is a method for MPEG compliance testing that designs test bit streams such that every frame of the expected decoded video is known. The test bit stream is generated, decoded and stored as an expected output decoded video. The test bit stream is fed to the device... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080198234 - Video signal loss detection: Faults resulting in reception of a still, but unknown, frame are recognised by comparing each received frame of the video signal with its predecessor, incrementing a counter in the event that the difference between the frames falls below a threshold; and generating an alarm signal in the event that the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080198235 - High dynamic range image recorder: Methods and devices (400, 500) for capturing at least one digital image (550) are described. In one implementation, transmission of input light is modulated (410) onto the same pixel elements of a digital image sensor (420), comprising pixel elements. Frames of an image are captured having different exposures (440A, 440B,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080198236 - Imaging apparatus with multiple timing-adjusting parts: An imaging apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory storing multiple kinds of parameters, a volatile memory storing temporarily the parameters read out from the nonvolatile memory, a processing part executing a processing using the parameters stored in the volatile memory and a data controlling part reading out the parameters from the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080198239 - Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling same and program therefor: An image capturing apparatus for capturing the image of a subject includes: a lock/unlock unit adapted to lock and unlock operation of the image capturing apparatus; a registration unit adapted to register a main item and a sub-item that have been selected by a user, wherein the main item is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080198238 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus including a video controller that increases or reduces a pulse width of video data when video data is generated in synchronization with a video clock so as to vary a frequency of the video data. It is possible to effectively cope with emission of electromagnetic waves... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080198237 - System and method for adaptive pixel segmentation from image sequences: The image processing system includes an image processor performing adaptive pixel segmentation for a sequence of image frames collected during movement relative to a scene, with each image frame having a plurality of pixels. An image sensor collects the sequence of image frames while moving relative to the scene. The... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080198240 - Error reduction in image sensors: A vignetting-type chromatic error, particularly found in image sensors having pixel dimensions of a few microns, may be corrected by applying to each color channel a gain factor which increases with the radial position of the pixel. The gain factor may be also controlled based upon ambient color temperature... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080198241 - Image capture apparatus: An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a writing unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The image capture unit captures an image. The writing unit writes the captured image in a recording medium. The calculation unit calculates a number of free clusters in the recording medium.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080198242 - Data storage device with camera function: A data storage device with a camera function comprises a device body, a camera unit, and a storage unit. One side of the device body is formed with a first electrical connector, the camera unit is provided in the device body, and the storage unit is provided in the device... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080198243 - Digital camera and time lag setting method: A digital camera records, as image data for storage in storage memory, image data captured a preset time lag period before image data captured at the time of receipt of a capture instruction among a plurality of frames of image data consecutively output by an image sensor until receipt of... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080198244 - Device and method for measuring noise characteristics: A noise characteristics measurement device that facilitates the measurement of noise characteristics in an imaging sensor. The noise characteristics measurement device has a classification circuit including a plurality of pixel value regions obtained by dividing a numerical range that can be taken by pixel values of the imaging sensor in... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080198245 - Sample and hold circuit and active pixel sensor array sampling system utilizing same: An active pixel sensor array sampling system includes a plurality of video circuits and reset circuits. A video circuit generates a video voltage from each one of the pixels of a column of pixels. An associated reset circuit generates a reset voltage for each of the pixels of a column... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080198247 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer program product: Provided is an image capturing apparatus capable of outputting an image in a form displayable by a display apparatus, while making use of a space resolution and a temporal resolution of a captured image. A monitoring system includes an image capturing section that captures an image; an output image generating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198246 - Sensor-based gamma correction of a digital camera: The anti-blooming structure of an image sensor is supplied with varying voltages during different integration periods such that charges generated in response to low level light are fully captured, whereas charges generated in response to a bright light spill over in a controlled manner. Accordingly, sensor's response may be generated... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080198248 - Reduced edge effect from recesses in imagers: Methods for making a recessed color filter array for a semiconductor imager employing a sidewall spacer for reducing an edge effect from the array are disclosed. In one embodiment, a substrate is provided having an upper surface. Then, a recess is formed into the upper surface of the substrate. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080198249 - Image sensor device: An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized image sensor device having high precision of moving an object to be moved. The image sensor device includes: a fixed unit; a movable unit including an image sensor; a beam unit fixed to the fixed unit and movably supporting... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080198250 - Solid-state image capturing device, smear charge removing method and digital still camera using the same: In a solid-state image capturing device including a pixel array arranged in a row direction and a column direction orthogonal thereto, and a vertical register having a plurality of transfer electrodes which serves to read signal charges Qa, Qb, . . . generated by light receipt of each of pixels... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198251 - Method, apparatus, and system providing multiple pixel integration periods: A method, apparatus and system providing high dynamic range operation for an image sensor by using signals from multiple pixels having different integration times.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080198252 - Solid-state imaging device and method of driving the same: A shift gate is arranged to be adjacent to a pixel column including a plurality of photosensitive pixels. The shift gate controls a storage time of a signal charge generated in the photosensitive pixels based on a shift pulse signal. The signal charge generated in the photosensitive pixels is transferred... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080198253 - Viewfinder, and control method and imaging apparatus thereof: A viewfinder according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display unit including a display surface on which a picture is displayed based on a picture signal supplied from an imaging apparatus; and an eyepiece unit, which is detachably attached to the display unit, configured to enlarge a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080198254 - Voice coil motor: A voice coil motor lens module has a two part casing accommodating a magnet housing of annular form with an outer wall and an inner wall joined by a top wall. One or more magnets producing a magnetic field, are fitted to the inner surface of the outer wall. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198256 - Electronic motion picture camera: The invention relates to an electronic motion picture camera having an optical receiving system and a beam splitter which splits the receiving beam path into a taking beam path leading to an optoelectronic taking sensor and a viewfinder beam path leading to an optical viewfinder. The camera has an electronic... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080198255 - Viewfinder and imaging apparatus: A viewfinder includes: a main unit to be detachably attached to a camera body; and a display unit including a display portion on which a picture to be imaged at the camera body side; wherein the display portion includes a supporting member, a display panel including a display surface, a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080198257 - Image-pickup apparatus: An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element photoelectrically converting an object image, a light-receiving sensor outputting a signal in accordance with a phase difference between a pair of object images, and a controller performing first focus control of controlling drive of a focus adjusting member based on a focus evaluation... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080198259 - Auto focus system: The auto focus system obtains focus information on a lens-interchangeable camera body of a TV camera and sends the focus information to a lens apparatus mounted on the camera body. The lens apparatus controls an auto focus based on the focus information. It is thereby possible to control the focus... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080198258 - Single lens reflex type electronic imaging apparatus: There is disclosed an electronic imaging apparatus capable of selecting a first observation mode in which a subject image is observed using an optical finder and a second observation mode in which the subject image is acquired as image data from an image pickup device and is displayed in a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080198260 - Lens barrel and image pickup apparatus: A lens barrel capable of, in a housed state of the photographing lens barrel, making an image pickup apparatus more compact than the conventional image pickup apparatuses, while protecting an image pickup element from harmful light. The lens barrel comprises a lens holding section adapted to hold a lens, a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080198261 - Image capturing apparatus and a method of controlling thereof: An image capturing apparatus that commences a pre-shooting operation on a first stroke of a release button, executes a shooting operation on a second stroke of the release button, and stores generated image data in a connected storage medium. The image capturing apparatus includes a power supply unit adapted to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080198262 - Opening structure of portable apparatus: An opening structure of a portable apparatus includes a hook module and a camera module installed on a cover of the portable apparatus. The hook module includes at least one hook portion, at least one retaining portion and at least one resilient member. The camera module includes a casing, a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080198263 - Video signal converter and video display device: A video signal converter (100) comprises a target pixel setting unit (4) which sets up a position of a target pixel of an input video signal, a position parameter feeding unit (5) which supplies a position parameter depending on the position of the target pixel set by the target pixel... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080198264 - Methods and systems for improving low resolution and low frame rate video: Systems and methods are provided for improving the visual quality of low resolution and/or low frame rate video content displayed on large-screen displays. A video format converter may be used to process a low resolution and/or low frame rate video signal from a media providing device before the video is... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080198265 - Signal transmitter and signal receiver: In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter, and a demultiplexing part demultiplexes a video/audio multiplexed signal... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080198266 - Video output device, video output method, video output program, video processing system, video processing device, video processing method, and video processing program: A video output device which converts image data into a YUV system video signal composed of a brightness signal Y and a chrominance signal UV and outputs the video signal obtained by the conversion through a predetermined interface is disclosed. The video output device includes: a mantissa part converting unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080198267 - Interlaced image processing method and apparatus: In an interlaced image processing method for processing fields generated by interlacing and including a plurality of rows of scan signals, the method includes: performing horizontal line detection on a current field so as to determine which of the rows of the scan signals is a horizontal line; according to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080198268 - Pre-alarm video buffer:

20080198269 - Front-end integrated circuit for television receivers: A tuner front-end circuit for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal includes a first filter block that terminates the RF signal for unwanted frequency bands; a second filter block that provides selectivity within the unterminated signal by separating the unterminated signal into a plurality of separate signals, each of a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080198270 - Apparatus and methods for image decoding: A partially-built image stored in a buffer (such as for output to a display device) is combined by an image decoder with an encoded image update. The image is in a different format than the encoded image update (such as by being in a spatial domain, whereas the encoded image... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080198271 - Self operated computerized karaoke recording booth: An automated recording booth allowing a user to record a user multimedia file comprising an audio performance of the user in combination with a multimedia recording from a database, and to receive a computer-usable media with the user multimedia file. The recording booth comprises a door, ventilation means, a computer,... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080198272 - Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus: When a power source of a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is turned on, a microprocessor executes reading of a Read Data with specifying a Read Slave Address which is set by applying a prescribed electrical potential to an Address Select (AS) terminal, if the microprocessor confirms that an A/D converter... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080198274 - Self-diagnosis and sequential-display method of every function: The present invention related to an automatic machine, which performs automatically self-diagnosis and demonstration of functions without individual manipulations of every function by informing the consumer operation states of selected functions after displaying sequentially menu screens with executing a subroutine stored in a microcomputer according to an entrance of a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080198273 - System and method for decoding infra-red (ir) signals: The disclosed embodiments relate to an electronic device configured to receive infra red (IR) signals. The electronic device comprises a first IR decoder configured to decode the IR signals when the electronic device is operating in a first power mode, and a second IR decoder configured to decode the IR... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080198275 - Playback apparatus, playback method and program: A playback apparatus to play back content data including sound data includes an instruction operating portion to detect an instruction operation that instructs execution of prescribed processing, a hold operating portion to detect a hold setting operation that sets a state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080198276 - Automobile entertainment system: An automobile entertainment system includes a video system mounted within an automobile headrest. The headrest includes a headrest body in which the video system is mounted. The video system also includes an integrated housing supporting a video monitor and a television receiver.... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20080192108 - Call setup method between a calling terminal and a called terminal: The invention relates to methods for establishing a video call between calling (UEA) and called (UEB) terminals through a telecommunications network comprising a service node (SN) for providing a video application. The inventive method comprises the following stages: a stage for requesting to establish a call between the calling and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192109 - Device for carrying out a video conference: The invention relates to an assembly for carrying out a video conference between a location A and at least one location W, during which it is possible for at least some participants to make eye-to-eye contact or face-to-face contact. To achieve this, location A is equipped with at least two... Agent: Houston Office Of Novak Druce And Quigg LLP

20080192110 - Image capture and processing: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to capture a portion of an omniscopic or omni-stereo image using one or more image capture media. The media may be located substantially perpendicular to a converging ray originating at a viewpoint on an inter-ocular circle and having a... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20080192112 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus, stereoscopic image displaying method and computer program product: A stereoscopic image display apparatus which can accurately visually recognize all the regions of a stereoscopic image without using a varifocal lens, and can form a natural three-dimensional image on a retina with a processing load on a computer eased even if an image is viewed by a plurality of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080192111 - Volumetric display: A three-dimensional image display device generates a virtual image within a defined imaging volume. The device includes a two-dimensional image display panel for generating a two-dimensional image; a first focusing element for projecting the two-dimensional image to a virtual image in an imaging volume; and means for altering the effective... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080192113 - Automated wheel slide detector: A wheel slide detection system including an image capture means to capture an image of a wheel and a processing means to receive said captured image, identify said wheel and analyse the relative position of said wheel to determine whether said wheel is rotating.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080192114 - Wearable waterproof camera: A wearable, waterproof or water-resistant digital camera. The camera may be combined with a sport or athletic device such as swimming or diving mask or goggles. The frame for the goggles may also provide a waterproof housing that has internal compartments for camera-related elements or components. One or more compartments... Agent: Robert M. Ashen, Esq.

20080192115 - Determining scene distance in digital camera images: A method for producing a distance map of scene distance values for a digital image captured by a digital camera includes capturing a first digital image of a scene under a first illumination condition, wherein the first digital image includes a plurality of pixels and the scene includes a plurality... Agent: J. Lanny Tucker Patent Legal Staff

20080192117 - Driver perspective helmet-mounted video camera: Systems and apparatuses for displaying a participant perspective on a monitor are disclosed. A mosaic video channel in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of individual video feeds, and comprises a plurality of video cells presenting at least video information, each video cell associated with one of the... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080192116 - Real-time objects tracking and motion capture in sports events: Non-intrusive peripheral systems and methods to track, identify various acting entities and capture the full motion of these entities in a sports event. The entities preferably include players belonging to teams. The motion capture of more than one player is implemented in real-time with image processing methods. Captured player body... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080192118 - Three-dimensional surveillance toolkit: A three dimensional (3D) surveillance toolkit that translates data from a surveillance system for display on a three dimensional map provided by three-dimensional map search engine databases available on the internet. The toolkit includes translation software that provide graphical, geo-spatial representations of alarm and event data that is displayed on... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke, L.l.p.

20080192119 - System and method of managing video content quality: Disclosed is a system and method of managing video content quality. The method includes receiving performance data at a video quality prediction system where the performance data is related to a plurality of network elements of a network path linking a video-head end with a set-top box device. The method... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080192120 - Security camera image correction system and method: A security camera and an image, within the camera's field of view, of a test pattern, containing color elements and grayscale elements having know predetermined spectrophotometrical values and resolution elements. After taking of images at a scene, and when subsequently reproduced accurately the elements will produce electronic signals that are... Agent: George A. Rolston

20080192121 - Imaging apparatus and method of displaying image: An image apparatus, including: a recording unit configured to record therein as an image file an image data generated through conversion from an optical image representing a photographed subject into an electrical signal; an interface for connecting the imaging apparatus to an external device; and a displaying unit configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192122 - Photographing apparatus, method and computer program product: A photographing apparatus including a photographing unit for obtaining an image by photographing, a face detection unit for detecting a face candidate included in the image, a face component detection unit for detecting a candidate of at least one of face components included in the face candidate with respect to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192124 - Lens module: A voice coil motor lens module has a lens holder adapted to carry a lens or lens assembly. The lens holder supports a coil which interacts with a permanent magnet field generated by one or more permanent magnets supported by a magnet yoke. The maximum axial movement of the lens... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192123 - Camera mountings liquid formulation: A TV/video camera (12) converts optical images into electronic image data. A mounting (10) for the camera has moving and non-moving components to provide movement of the camera in pan and tilt axes and damping means for damping movement in each axis. To remove unwanted movement transmitted to the mounting... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080192126 - Analog to digital converter: An image sensor includes a pixel array, and a correlated double sample circuit coupled to one of the pixels in the pixel array. The correlated double sample circuit includes first and second inputs, and first and second sample capacitors respectively coupled to the first and second inputs. The first input... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080192125 - Panoramic photography method and apparatus: An apparatus may take a panoramic photograph without the need to set the order in which panoramic images. The method includes taking a reference image that is a portion of the panoramic photograph, generating a plurality of guide images using portions of the reference image, detecting movement of an image-taking... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080192127 - Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device includes a reference-signal generating unit that generates plural kinds of reference signals for converting an analog pixel signal into digital data, a reference-signal selecting unit that selects any one of the plural kinds of reference signals, a comparing unit that compares the pixel signal and the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080192128 - Device and method for generating an image of an object: A device for generating an image of an object is provided, comprising an illumination module, by means of which the object can be illuminated with a pattern whose phase is altered temporally, a recording module, by means of which a plurality of recordings of the object are carried out during... Agent: Duane Morris LLP Patent Department

20080192129 - Method and apparatus for automatically capturing and managing images: According to one embodiment of the invention, a camera determines whether to acquire an image (e.g., automatically), determines whether to store the acquired image, and determines how to store the acquired image.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, Llc

20080192130 - Method and apparatus for compensating black level by dark current of image sensor: The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for compensating for a black level of an image sensor. The apparatus for compensating for a black level comprises: an optical black area detecting unit, detecting a pixel located in an optical black area, the pixel being among a... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080192131 - Image pickup apparatus and method for extending dynamic range thereof: An image pickup apparatus and a method for extending a dynamic range thereof are provided. The image pickup apparatus includes a luminance and chrominance signal generator which generates a luminance signal and a chrominance signal; and a dynamic range extender which extends and outputs dynamic ranges for both the luminance... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192132 - Imaging device: The present invention relates to improved imaging devices having high dynamic range and to monitoring and automatic control systems incorporating the improved imaging devices.... Agent: Brian J. Rees Gentex Corporation

20080192133 - Solid-state imaging device and image capture apparatus: There is provided a solid-state imaging device having a pixel array section in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in a matrix form, and sweeping out unnecessary charges by setting a predetermined number, two or more, of adjacent rows or a predetermined number, two or more, of adjacent... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080192136 - Circuit for an active pixel: A pixel circuit includes a pixel-capture device having a pixel node and operable to convert light intensity into a pixel signal at the pixel node, the pixel signal representing a captured pixel. A row node carries a row signal that is operable to both (a) enable passage of the pixel... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080192134 - Solid-state image pickup device: There is provided a solid-state imaging device with an improved linearity as well as dynamic range. Each pixel portion Pm,n in the solid-state imaging device includes: a buried photodiode PD for generating charges of an amount corresponding to the intensity of incident light; a capacitive element C connected in parallel... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080192135 - Solid-state imaging device and method of driving the same: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section which includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional manner, and a vertical scanning circuit which successively performs selection and scanning for a plurality of rows of the pixel array section. Each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192137 - Imaging apparatus and microscope apparatus using the same: An image pickup device 1A is constructed with a photodetecting section 10 having a plurality of pixels; a charge transfer section 12 having 16 segmental charge transfer sections T01 to T16; an A/D converting section 15 that converts signals from the charge transfer section 12 to digital data signals; and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080192138 - Image processor allowing shooting at close range: An image processor includes a zoom lens for performing optical zooming by moving in a first range, an imaging unit for converting an object image obtained via a zoom lens into an image signal, and an electronic zooming unit for performing an electronic zooming operation on the image signal. The... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080192139 - Image capture method and image capture device: An image capture method, calculating a first focal length from acquired image data, and detecting whether or not there is -moiré in the image of the first focal length and carrying out image capture with the first focal length set as an image capture focal length when there is no... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080192140 - Selective control of display brightness level for fine to coarse control: A method for operating an informational handling system includes providing a user control for allowing a user to select a granularity between a plurality of brightness steps, detecting the selected granularity based on input from the user control, and implementing the selected granularity.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080192141 - Image output method and device, and image display: First and second division patterns are defined so that main areas A and A′ are similar to each other in shape, having the same horizontal-to-vertical ratio. Even if an image output apparatus is connected to a display unit having both first and second display screens, the image output apparatus generates... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080192142 - Apparatus and method for converting between interlaced and progressive scan video: An image processing apparatus generating output image pixels from groups of one or more input image pixels, the groups selected in accordance with an image feature direction in the input image. An interpolator interpolates intermediate pixels between the input image pixels, and a block comparator detects correlation between sets of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192143 - Method and system for automatic phase locking of analog inputs: Methods and systems for automatic phase locking of analog inputs are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include calibrating one of a plurality of video signals. A next phase for a sampling clock may be determined via the calibration, and a phase of the sampling clock may be adjusted to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080192144 - System and method for multi-picture display: Techniques for displaying multiple videos are disclosed. According to one aspect, video from a sub-channel is displayed together with other videos, where the video from the sub-channel is displayed in a resolution similar to the original. As a result, only an area of interest in the video from the sub-channel... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20080192145 - Motion adaptive upsampling of chroma video signals: Upsampling for video signals is described. In particular chroma pixels may be upsampled in a luminance, chrominance signal using motion adaptive approaches. In one example, the operations include selecting an absent chroma pixel of the current frame, developing a spatial candidate value for the absent chroma pixel using pixel values... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080192146 - Video signal processor: In the case of performing NR (noise reduction) and scaling on video signals, the NR buffer 104 is formed by, for example, five line memories. An NR section 103 and a scaling section 105 are controlled by a control section 108. The control section 108 controls the NR section 103... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080192147 - Apparatus for generating compressed image data and apparatus and method for displaying the compressed image data: An apparatus and method for generating compressed image data, and outputting decoded images using the compressed image data. A compressed image data generation unit receives and compresses image data taken from a first camera arranged to generate an additional image and inserts the compressed image data into a specified area... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080192149 - Digital tv receiver with a built-in antenna: A digital TV receiver with a built-in antenna includes a casing unit, a circuit unit, an output unit, an antenna unit and a protection cover. The circuit unit is disposed inside the casing unit. The output unit is electrically connected to the circuit unit and exposed outside the casing unit.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080192148 - Extraction of data from a television signal using an adaptable slicing level: From a television signal data such as teletext or closed caption data is extracted by slicing. A binary data signal is formed dependent on whether the television signal level is above or below a slicing level (S). The slicing level (S) is selected by defining a reconstructed data signal (D)... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080192150 - Receiving apparatus: A receiving apparatus is provided. The receiving apparatus includes: a tuner receiving an RF signal and converting a frequency of the RF signal into an intermediate frequency; a demodulator converting a signal of the intermediate frequency outputted from the tuner into a transport stream; and an MPEG decoder separating the... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080192151 - Color processing method usable in imaging systems: In a method embodiment, a method for image processing includes receiving one or more signals indicative of an optical characteristic of one or more respective light beams. A transform is generated based on the received one or more signals. The transform converts a first plurality of image components encoded by... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080192152 - Projector arrangement: A projector arrangement includes a first image generation and projection unit and a second image generation and projection unit. A first or two-dimensional projection/display mode and a second stereoscopic or projection/display mode can be realized by the cooperating first and second image generation and projection units. The second image generation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192153 - Projection apparatus: A projection apparatus is specified, comprising a light modulator having a light receiving region with a cross-sectional area to be illuminated of the size AM and a maximum acceptance angle a for incident light, and at least one light source by means of which, during its operation, a light cone... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080192154 - System and method for mounting a television screen: There is provided a system and method for restricting the movement of a television screen. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a display unit comprising a screen, and a frame member connected without a bezel to the screen, wherein the frame member comprises a first channel configured to... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.c.

20080186377 - Video call distributor: A Video Call Distributor, including systems and methods, for distributing high quality real time video calls over an IP Packet-Based Wide Area Network and for routing those calls based on an ability to communicate and leverage existing routing rules and logic of a call management system, such as a traditional... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080186378 - Method and apparatus for guiding towards targets during motion: A method and apparatus are disclosed for three-dimensional (3D) imaging and continuously updating organ shape and internal points for guiding targets during motion. It is suitable for image-guided surgery or operations as the speed of this guidance is achieved in real-time.... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080186379 - Camera control device: A camera control device capable of easily performing control even if more than one camera is provided. A common operation section performs a map operation and a camera operation with the same operation device. An operation management section switches between the map operation and the camera operation depending on the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080186381 - Customer service counter/checkpoint registration system with video/image capturing, indexing, retrieving and black list matching function: A system for capturing images of a person at a checkpoint including at least one image capture means for recording images of the person, a processing means to select a still image of the person from the recorded images, a control means for adding data to the still image and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080186380 - Surveillance system and method: A surveillance system includes a camera, a brightness detector, a light source, and a controller. The camera is used for capturing images of a monitored area, and generating captured images. The brightness detector is used for detecting brightness of the monitored area, and generating a brightness signal. The light source... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080186382 - Field watch apparatus: A field watch apparatus for use in a subject vehicle acquires a road image from a roadside capture unit located around the subject vehicle on a road and, based on the acquired image, generates an overhead view of a field around the subject vehicle in an intuitively recognizable manner by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080186383 - Method and apparatus for guiding placement of vehicle service fixtures: A machine vision system is configured to facilitate placement of a vehicle service apparatus relative to an associated vehicle. The machine vision system is configured to utilize images of optical targets received from one or more cameras to guide the placement of the vehicle service apparatus relative to the associated... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080186384 - Apparatus and method for camera calibration, and vehicle: A camera calibration apparatus has a parameter deriver adapted to find parameters for projecting an image shot with a camera onto a predetermined surface. The parameter deriver finds the parameters based on a shot-for-calibration image from the camera, and the shot-for-calibration image includes a plurality of calibration patterns of previously... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080186385 - Photographing apparatus capable of communication with external apparatus and method of controlling the same: A photographing apparatus capable of performing communication with an external apparatus and a method of controlling the photographing apparatus. The photographing apparatus can communicate with an external apparatus and store data received from the external apparatus together with a photographed image, even while photographing the image. Additionally, the data received... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080186386 - Image taking apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: In an image taking apparatus, an imaging unit senses an image of a subject, and a face detection unit detects a face in the image sensed by the imaging unit. A motion detection unit detects an amount of face motion indicating an amount of shake of an area of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080186389 - Image modification based on red-eye filter analysis: A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a reflection within an eye of a subject of the photograph. A digital apparatus has a red-eye filter... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080186387 - Imaging apparatus having moving image shooting function: In a digital camera (1), when a plurality of EV shift values are selected and operation of a set key is performed by a user, a CPU calculates shutter speeds that respectively correspond to the selected EV shift values (S6). Next, the CPU repeatedly picks up images in sequence at... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080186388 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes comparing means for comparing a pixel signal obtained by a pixel section and a reference signal the value of which varies in a stepwise manner, analog-digital converting means for outputting, as a digital value, the amount of time when the pixel signal and the reference... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080186390 - Super-resolution device, super-resolution method, super-resolution program, and super-resolution system: An albedo estimating section produces an albedo image of an object from an original image captured by an image-capturing section by using light source information estimated by a light source information estimating section and shape information of the object obtained by a shape information obtaining section. An albedo super-resolution section... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20080186391 - Solid-state image pickup apparatus with horizontal thinning and a signal reading method for the same: In a solid-state image pickup apparatus, a solid-state image sensor includes a color filter having filter segments arranged in a pattern, photosensitive cells for photoelectrically transducing light transmitted through the filter segments to generate corresponding signal charges, vertical transfer devices for vertically transferring the signal charges, a horizontal transfer device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080186392 - Image recording apparatus and method: An image recording apparatus converts a frame number of stream data of a moving image signal recorded at a high speed frame rate and generates stream data of a low speed frame rate. The image recording apparatus records in a recording medium, already recorded stream data of a low speed... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080186393 - Low-power driving apparatus and method: A low-power driving apparatus and method are provided. The low-power driving apparatus includes an illuminance-sensing module to sense illuminance, a minimum-perceivable-brightness-determination module to determine a minimum perceivable brightness having non-linear characteristics corresponding to the sensed illuminance, a driving-power-level-determination module to determine a power level based on the determined minimum perceivable... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080186394 - Column-wise clamp voltage driver for suppression of noise in an imager: An imager having column-wise clamp voltage drivers. Each clamp voltage driver is substantially identical to the output circuitry of the imager's pixels in that column and is designed to track the noise experienced by the readout pixels. Each clamp voltage driver generates and drives the appropriate clamp voltage to store... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080186395 - Photo diode fuse-id for cmos imagers: A CMOS image pixel array formed on a chip is used for storing programmed information within the pixel array. Manufacturing lot and other data is written to the array during manufacturing and testing by applying a laser to pixels to render the photodiode defective. The programmed data is read from... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080186396 - Display apparatus and display program: According to an aspect of the invention, a display apparatus includes: an image acquisition part which acquires image data of a page on which characters are written; an image reduction part which reduces the image data of the page at a predetermined reduction rate; a complexity degree calculation part which... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080186397 - Mobile phone camera module with optical zoom: In a camera module for use in a portable terminal, a lens group receives light from a subject through an exterior window (320) and a diverter (340) disposed between the exterior window (320) and an image sensor (310) diverts the light passing through the lens group. The image sensor (310)... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080186398 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes a first operation unit indicating a state set by the position of a first operation member, such as a dial, and a second operation unit indicating a state that is set so as to be irrelevant to the position of a second operation member, such... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080186399 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, a power supply control unit, and a moving-picture generating unit. The imaging sensor continuously performs imaging operations in a predetermined interval. The power supply control unit controls a power-supply operation to the imaging sensor during a waiting period that is defined as a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080186400 - Apparatus and method for converting multimedia content, and multimedia content distribution system: A multimedia content conversion apparatus and method, and a multimedia content distribution system are provided. The apparatus includes a storage unit storing original data received from a multimedia content provider, an authentication unit determining whether a viewer is authorized with respect to the original data stored in the storage unit,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080186402 - Image processing: An image processing apparatus in which output pixels of an output image are generated from one or more input images using motion vectors having a sub-pixel accuracy. A motion vector allocator allocates motion vectors in the set to pixels of the output image, and is configured to compare a current... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080186401 - Video de-interlacer using motion residue compensation: A method of de-interlacing input video information including averaging odd lines and averaging even lines of the input video information to determine first and second in-field information, determining differences between even and odd lines of the input video information to provide residue information, measuring a motion metric of the residue... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20080186403 - System and method for ensuring secure communication between tv and set back box: A random number or HDCP key is sent from a TV to a set back box (SBB) over a HDMI channel, and unless the SBB returns the same random number/key to the TV over a USB link, the TV will not communicate further with the SBB.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080186404 - Video error concealment: A temporal error concealment is described. A video stream comprises a current frame comprising a lost image region, and a reference frame. The method comprises forming a list of motion vector candidates, the list of motion vector candidates including a set of one or more motion vectors from the current... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080186405 - Method for generating gamma voltage and device using the same: The present invention discloses a method for generating gamma voltage and device using the same. The method for generating gamma voltage to a driver of a panel comprising following steps of: providing a plurality of first gamma reference values; providing a central value; generating a plurality of second gamma reference... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080186406 - Apparatus for detecting film mode and method thereof: The invention discloses an apparatus for dynamically detecting film mode and a method thereof. The method for detecting a film mode includes receiving an video signal; detecting an image characteristic based on at least one field of the received signal; generating a control signal according to the image characteristic of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080186407 - Signal equalizer for balanced transmission line-based video switching: A method of equalizing signals from a plurality of balanced transmission line cables having different lengths includes providing a first cable having a first length and a second cable having a second length, the first cable coupled to a variable resistor. A first signal is transmitted along the first cable... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080186408 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus: A micro processing unit 11 of a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is functionally equipped with a first intensity obtaining unit for setting an antenna connected to an antenna unit in a plurality of preset directions and obtaining reception intensity in each set direction, and an antenna judging unit for judging... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080186409 - Silicon tuner and a method of processing signal thereof: A silicon tuner using a sigma delta-analog digital converter (SD-ADC) includes a radio frequency (RF) signal processor to process an RF signal input from an antenna, a mixer to convert the RF signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal, an SD-ADC to convert an IF signal into a digital signal,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080186412 - Remote control with integrated optical mouse functionality: A device for identifying information on a remote video display is disclosed. The device includes a remote control having a housing with a first side and a second side, the second side defining at least one opening therein, at least one functional control located on the first side of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080186410 - System and method for effectively implementing a charging base for a remote control device: A system and method for effectively implementing a charging base for a remote control includes a television device that is controlled by the remote control over a wireless RC-TV communications link. The charging base recharges a battery of the remote control when the remote control is docked to the charging... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080186411 - Television receiver, control system and control method: A television receiver is provided. The television receiver includes a display unit, a remote control signal reception unit, and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display video based on a received or inputted video signal. The remote control signal reception unit is configured to receive a remote... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080186413 - Video display apparatus: A video display apparatus generates luminance information for individual frames of a video signal from histograms of the luminance component of the video signal, and classifies the content of the video signal on the basis of this information. Color saturation information is also generated from color saturation histograms, and scene... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080186415 - Curved screen display system and method: A curved screen display system and method are described. Embodiments include a processor coupled to receive standard video content, a light engine coupled to the processor, and an optics array positioned to receive a projected image output from the light engine, the optics array comprising a correction mirror configured to... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080186414 - Hand-held device having integraed projetor: A hand-held electronic device includes a flat-panel display device, a projector integrated in the hand-held electronic device, a data storage device configured to store data; and a display driver coupled to the flat-panel display device and the projector. The display driver can display the image data on the flat panel... Agent: Xin Wen

20080186416 - Flat display device: A flat display device includes a display unit, a pedestal part for supporting the display unit, a joint part for connecting the pedestal part with the display unit, a rotation drive mechanism provided to the joint part for rotating the display unit in the horizontal direction, a motor for giving... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP