Television inventions 10/08

20080259154 - Simulating short depth of field to maximize privacy in videotelephony: An arrangement for simulating a short depth of field in a captured videophone image is provided in which the background portion of the image is digitally segregated and blurred to render it indistinct. Thus, the displayed video of a user in the foreground is kept in focus while the background... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080259155 - Online video operator management system: The present invention relates to systems and methods for communicating with various people from remote locations, and more particularly to assisting customers through online commercial transactions utilizing a mix of live and pre-recorded video presentations and interactions. Various embodiments of the invention comprise: a) a customer connected to a network... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080259156 - Stereoscopic display device with liquid crystal shutter light filter for naked eye viewing and a display method thereof: A stereoscopic display device with liquid crystal shutter light filter for naked eye viewing which comprises a personal computer and an image screen, wherein a dual display card is disposed inside the personal computer, and a light filtering screen is disposed in front of the image screen, and both the... Agent: Eric Chan

20080259157 - Lenticular design by applying light blocking feature: An autostereoscopic display apparatus (104, 200, 301, 401, 501) is disclosed, comprising lenticular means (203, 305, 402, 502) configured to direct and control light emitted from a source (201, 302). The lenticular means comprises an array of lenticular elements (204, 306, 403, 503), said array of lenticular elements comprising a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259159 - Supporting continuous pan rotation in a pan-tilt camera: The invention relates to a method for moving a maneuverable part of a pan-tilt camera from a first pan-tilt position, having a first pan coordinate and a first tilt coordinate, to a second pan-tilt position, having a second pan coordinate and a second tilt coordinate. The maneuverable part is moved... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080259158 - Video surveillance system controller: A video surveillance system controller that controls multiple cameras with at least two joysticks (2, 3) and a keypad (4) to enable live queuing of the cameras. Each joystick (2, 3) independently controls a camera selected by the keypad (4). The keypad (4) can also select one of a number... Agent: Gallagher & Dawsey Co., L.p.a.

20080259161 - Surveillance system with camera: A surveillance unit which includes a video camera (24) which provides images in the form of electrical signals, control circuitry (36) which determines when to store images captured by the camera (24) and a slot (30) for operationally receiving a memory card (28) on which the images are stored as... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080259160 - Vehicle video recording device: A vehicle video recording device includes surveillance cameras, an electronic memory for temporarily storing the videos shot by the cameras, a hard disk drive (HDD) for receiving and storing the video data from the electronic memory, a running environmental data memory for storing the running environmental data along a route,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080259162 - Imaging region adjustment device: To provide an imaging region adjustment device, including plural camera terminals, capable of imaging an entire imaging target without blinds spots. Each of the camera terminals includes a camera (201) which images a virtual imaging region obtained while changing the position of an imaging region within a specific region in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080259163 - Method and system for distributed multiple target tracking: A method and system for distributed tracking of multiple targets is disclosed. Multiple targets to be tracked by a plurality of trackers are detected in a frame. The motion state variable of each of the plurality of trackers is calculated in the E-step of a variational Expectation-Maximization algorithm. Further, the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080259164 - Data transfer circuit, solid-state imaging device, and camera system: A data transfer circuit includes at least one data transfer line that transfers digital data, at least one data detecting circuit connected to the transfer line, holding circuits that hold digital values corresponding to input levels and that transfer the digital values to the transfer line, a scanning circuit that... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080259166 - Camera having networked interactive printer: A camera is provided having a camera module, a network interface module and printing module. The camera module receives user input and captures the image with an image sensor in response to the user input. The interface module transfers the captured image to a computer system. The printing module prints... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080259165 - Camera having printer for printing interactive interfaces: A camera is provided having a camera module, a network interface module and printing module. The camera module receives user input and captures the image with an image sensor in response to the user input. The interface module transfers the captured image to a computer system. The printing module prints... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080259167 - Method for embedding animation in electronic mail and websites: Provided is a method for providing animation in electronic communications. An image is generated by capturing multiple photographs from a camera or video camera typically fixed in one position. The first photograph is called the “naked photo.” Using a graphics program, photos subsequent to the naked photo are edited to... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080259168 - Device for scanning acquisition of a digital image with passive stabilization: Device for scanning acquisition of a digital image by means of a photosensitive linear detector (11). The device is able to undergo movements perpendicular to the scanning direction. The device also includes two other photosensitive linear detectors (12, 13). The three photosensitive linear detectors being placed so that the detection... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080259169 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: A motion-vector-setting section (31) sets a first motion vector in units of pixel in a target image. An exposure-time-ratio-setting section (32) sets in units of image an exposure time ratio that is a ratio between a time interval of the target image and a period of exposure time. A motion-blur-amount-setting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259170 - Blur correction device, blur correction method, electronic apparatus including blur correction device, image file and image file creating apparatus: Image files are rearranged according to the blurring amount obtained from each of blurring information pieces of the image files and displayed as thumbnail images. After several image files are selected from the displayed image files, the image information pieces of the selected image files are sequentially corrected.... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080259171 - System and method for compensating offset of a solid-state imaging device: A method for compensating an offset of a solid-state imaging device includes obtaining a detection signal representing the offset of the solid-state imaging device disposed on a stage, generating a corresponding control voltage and control signal according to the detection signal; generating a corresponding regulation voltage according to the control... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080259172 - Image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, image pickup method, and image processing method: Images are photographed by focus bracket photography at an in-focus position of a main subject and at focal positions followed and preceded by the in-focus position. The images are synthesized so as to obtain a blur-emphasized image in which areas desired to be blurred are appropriately blurred.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259173 - Data processor: A data processor includes: a drive unit for writing at least one still picture file on a level that is lower in hierarchy than a still picture folder of a storage medium; and a control section for generating file specifying information that specifies the storage location of each still picture... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080259174 - Image recording apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, image recording method, and image reproducing method: An image recording apparatus recording motion picture data and still image data includes a management time adding unit that adds frame image display management times to temporally continuous multiple pieces of frame image data in the motion picture data; a management time detecting unit that detects the frame image display... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080259179 - Automatic multiscale image acquisition from a steerable camera: A system for automatically acquiring high-resolution images by steering a pan-tilt-zoom camera at targets detected in a fixed camera view is provided. The system uses automatic or manual calibration between multiple cameras. Using automatic calibration, the homography between the cameras in a home position is estimated together with the effects... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080259176 - Image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, image pickup method, and image processing method: The present invention, which transforms multiple images so that positions of corresponding points will coincide between the images and composites the images with the corresponding points matched, provides an image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, image pickup method, and image processing method which make it possible to obtain an intended... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259175 - Imaging device: It is possible to correct camera shaking even in an imaging device such as a camera-equipped mobile telephone having no sufficient ability for rapidly acquiring a plurality of images and a limited memory capacity. There is suggested an imaging device capable of correcting camera shaking by utilizing a small image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259177 - Solid-state imaging device, signal processing method for the same, and imaging apparatus: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including, a pixel array unit, driving means, signal processing means, level determining means and control means.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080259178 - Solid-state imaging device, signal processing method for the same, and imaging apparatus: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including, a pixel array unit, driving means, and analog-to-digital conversion means.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080259180 - Methods, systems and apparatuses for high-quality green imbalance compensation in images: Methods, systems and apparatuses for determining and compensating for green imbalance in imagers. An estimated local green balance correction term is limited, e.g., between an upper and lower limit. The upper and lower limits are determined from a set of parameters. The parameters are determined during a calibration procedure. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080259181 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method, integrated circuit, and storage medium: An imaging apparatus appropriately captures a large dynamic range image of even a scene including a backlit person with a blue sky background in a manner that the person's face has an appropriate luminance level without saturating the background sky. In the imaging apparatus, an imaging unit obtains analogue image... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080259182 - High gain digital imaging system: The present invention provides digital imaging architectures comprising detectors coupled to readout circuitry, wherein the readout circuitry is capable of providing large amplification to small, noise sensitive input signals to improve their noise immunity, as well as capable of providing a fast pixel readout time. The readout circuitry comprises an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

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20080259184 - Information processing device and computer readable recording medium: An information processing device that is connected to a projecting device that projects an annotation image input from an external terminal a projection area including an object and a background, and is connected to an image capture device that captures an image of the projection area including the object and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259185 - Method and apparatus for reducing effects of dark current and defective pixels in an imaging device: A method and apparatus for identifying and compensating for the effects of defective pixels in high resolution digital cameras having image processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a storage system for storing data corresponding to either a dark current reference image and a white reference image and at least one actual... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080259186 - Correcting a captured image in digital imaging devices: A method is provided for correcting a captured image. The method comprises determining an illuminant for the captured image. When the determined illuminant matches a reference illuminant the image is corrected with a reference inversion mask. When the determined illuminant matches a first extreme illuminant, the reference inversion mask is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259187 - System for and method of image processing and computer program for causing computer to execute the method: An image processing apparatus includes an edge detecting portion which detects edges contained in a first image, out of first and second images representing the same object, one being obtained by photographing without the infrared ray cut filter, the other being obtained by photographing with the infrared ray cut filter,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259188 - Method and imaging apparatus for correcting defective pixel of solid-state image sensor, and method for creating pixel information: In a solid-state image sensor in which a large number of pixel cells each comprised of a combination of a main photosensitive pixel having a relatively large area and a subsidiary photosensitive pixel having a relatively small area are arranged, if the subsidiary photosensitive pixel has a defect for any... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259189 - Imaging-device driving system: An imaging-device driving system, comprising a clock-signal generator, a smear detector, and a frequency-controller, is provided. The clock-signal generator generates a clock signal. The clock signal is used for driving an imaging device. The smear detector detects whether smear is present in an image signal. The image signal is generated... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259190 - Noise filter for bayer pattern image data: A method of filtering an image filter is disclosed. The filter is provided for a digital camera including image sensors sensitive to light, a color filter placed over sensitive elements of the sensors and patterned according to a Bayer mosaic pattern layout and an interpolation algorithm joining together the digital... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080259192 - Apparatus and method for capturing images: Provided are an apparatus and a method for capturing images by applying different color filters to two pixel regions with IR blocking filters removed so that optical signals in the visible band and IR signals can be received. The apparatus includes a filter unit having a plurality of filters having... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259191 - Image input apparatus that resolves color difference: A microcomputer outputs correction data. A shading correction circuit performs a shading correction to a digital image signal using the correction data outputted from the microcomputer. A YC processing circuit generates a video signal from the digital image signal having undergone the shading correction, performs processing such as a gamma... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080259193 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device includes column amplifiers that are each provided for a different one of column signal lines. Each column amplifier includes: a constant current circuit that supplies a constant current; an amplifier circuit that is connected in series with the constant current circuit, and amplifies a pixel signal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259194 - Method, apparatus, and system providing a rectilinear pixel grid with radially scaled pixels: Pixels in an imaging device pixel array are sized according to their geographic location in the pixel array to compensate for various optical characteristics/issues. In one example, pixel size is increased according to the distance of the pixel from the x-axis and/or the y-axis of the pixel array to correct... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080259195 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having unit pixels arranged into a two-dimensional matrix, each unit pixel containing a photoelectric conversion section for effecting a photoelectric conversion and an amplification section for amplifying and reading signal charges generated at the photoelectric conversion section; a current supply provided for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259196 - Generating an instant review image using fractional readouts: A method for creating an instant review image is disclosed. The method starts by creating image data by exposing an image sensor to a scene. A first sub-set of the image data is transferred from the image sensor and used to create an instant review image. The rest of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259197 - Imaging apparatus and gain adjusting method for the same: An imaging apparatus 1A includes an electron multiplying solid-state image pickup device which has an electron multiplier section for multiplying charge signals generated in respective pixels; a multiplication gain setting part 41 for setting a multiplication gain in the electron multiplier section; a standard deviation calculator 34 for calculating a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080259199 - Image display system, display apparatus, and display method: Disclosed herein is an image display system including a display apparatus, an imaging apparatus placed on a movable body; and a server apparatus. The display apparatus and the imaging apparatus are capable of communicating with the server apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section; a speed detection section; and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080259198 - Portable electronic device and method for adjusting backlight thereof: A method for adjusting backlight includes a series of operations. Providing a portable electronic device (10), the portable electronic device including an image sensor (12), a signal processor (14), a backlight adjuster (16) and a backlight module (18), which are all electronically connected together. The image sensor senses an outside... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080259200 - Image capturing apparatus: The present invention further improves foreign substance removal performance when removing foreign substances such as dust that adhere to the surface of an optical element disposed in front of an image sensor. The image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that performs photo-electric conversion of an optical image of an... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080259201 - Camera module and electronic apparatus provided with it: A camera module that can be made thinner and achieves a beautiful image over an entire image region regardless of a subject distance is provided. The camera module includes a plurality of lens portions, each including at least one lens, a plurality of imaging regions, provided in one-to-one correspondence with... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080259202 - Imaging device: Herein disclosed is an imaging device having an imaging optical system, the device including: an imaging element configured to include a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels arranged along a predetermined direction; a first processor configured to execute focal detection processing by a phase difference detection... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080259203 - Systems and methods for identifying camera sensors: Systems and methods for identifying camera sensors are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method for identifying camera sensors may include exposing a plurality of camera sensors at a time T1, each of the plurality of camera sensors having an array of pixels, and storing the location of unique pixels... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259204 - Digital image acquisition vision sensor: A digital image acquisition vision sensor, wherein a television camera defines a pickup axis, and a lighting device associated with the television camera has a Fresnel lens connected to the television camera so that the television camera is integrated with the lighting device, and the energy released by the lighting... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080259205 - Apparatus and method for upconverting content data: A signal processing apparatus includes an upconversion processing unit upconverting content data stored in a data storage unit, and an upconversion control unit determining an upconversion-target component and the upconversion processing order of components based on component attribute information such as a component type or a tag value of each... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259206 - Adapative de-interlacer and method thereof: An adaptive de-interlacer can convert an interlaced video signal into a progressive video signal, and comprises an intra-field interpolator, an inter-field interpolator, a static pixel detector, a motion detector and a blending unit. The intra-field interpolator outputs an intra-field interpolated pixel based on a current field of the interlaced video... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080259207 - Motion compensated de-interlacing with film mode adaptation: The invention relates to a method for de-interlacing a hybrid video sequence using at least one estimated motion vector for interpolating pixels. Field for petition patents, typically occurring in film originated video material, disturb the function of de-interlacing algorithm designed to convert interlaced video single into progressively scanned video. Therefore... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259208 - Program ancillary data producing device, pictrure program editing device and picture program producing device: An apparatus for producing program ancillary data pertinent to each scene of a picture program to be recorded includes a display control unit for demonstrating, on a display picture, an input form having, as an input item, the information pertinent to a scene as an object of preparation, and a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080259209 - System and method for converging and displaying high definition video signals: A system and method for processing and displaying a unitary image formed from the combination of a broadcast signal with a second signal with no or minimal modification, alteration or degradation of the broadcast signal. In one embodiment, the system and method processes and displays a High Definition Television (HDTV)... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20080259210 - Audiovisual display apparatus and method: The invention provides for an audio visual display apparatus (10) arranged to receive a broadcast signal comprising a video element and an audio element, wherein the audio element includes an audio description element providing a description of at least some of the video content, the apparatus (10) including means for... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259211 - Using subtitles for other purposes: Aspects of the invention are directed to using subtitles for purposes other than viewing them on a display screen overlaid on the sub-title's corresponding content. While watching television with sub-titles activated, a terminal user may be offered a short-cut and/or one or more options which will use a current (or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080259212 - Video signal processing apparatus and re-sampling apparatus: A video signal processing apparatus comprises a component video signal demodulator to demodulate a component video signal sampled by a burst lock clock signal from a composite video signal sampled by the burst lock clock signal, the burst clock signal having multiplied frequency of a color subcarrier in the composite... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259213 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus constituting a low-cost audio/video data transmission and reception system is disclosed. A reception buffer monitoring circuit 21 monitors the size of receiver data being accumulated in a reception buffer 6. When the size of accumulated data is found to become higher than a high threshold, the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080259214 - Video signal processing device, integrated circuit, and imaging apparatus: Provided is a video signal processing device that can reduce power consumption within an analog signal processing unit not only during an invalid frame period of a video signal but also during a blanking period within a valid frame period, thus enabling further reduction of the power consumption. The video... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259215 - Method and system to control multple types of scoreboards: A system and method accurately maintaining times and scoring for a sports activity.... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20080259216 - Color signal converting apparatus, video display apparatus including the same, and color signal converting method: According to one embodiment, a color signal converting apparatus includes: a minimum value detecting section detecting a minimum value signal having a smallest value among a plurality of input color signals; a difference extracting section extracting a difference between the minimum value signal detected by the minimum value detecting section... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080259217 - Dynamic softclipping of video levels: A method for improvement of contrast in an image shown on a display having a range of displayable video levels. The method comprises providing input video levels representing the image, said levels being within said displayable range; providing a transfer function (120, 121) having a slope greater than one everywhere... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259218 - Apparatus and method of processing image as well as apparatus and method of generating reproduction information: An apparatus of processing an image contains a scene-change-detecting unit that detects a scene change of input image based on an image signal relative to the input image, a display-position-controlling unit that determines a display position of an image after the scene change to a display position associated with an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259219 - Universal tuner for mobile tv: A tuner for use in mobile television devices comprises at least one RF front end component comprising a LNA adapted to amplify mobile television signals; a PLL circuit to generate signals; and a pair of mixers to receive the signals from the LNA and the PLL circuit and downconvert the... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080259220 - System and method of navigating previously viewed channels: The disclosure is directed to systems and methods of navigating previously viewed channels. In a particular embodiment, a method may include maintaining a channel list in a memory, the channel list comprising multiple previously viewed channels. The method may also include receiving a first signal to select a first selected... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080259221 - Portable device with video output: Circuitry for providing an output video signal from a portable device to an external display, the circuitry including a processor block with an image processor, and a video encoder block with a video encoder for providing the output video signal to the external display, the processor block and the video... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080259222 - Providing information related to video content: An apparatus for providing information related to video content includes a video display that displays the video content to a user. A content identifier identifies a segment of interest in the video content. An information processor obtains additional information related to the segment of interest. A presentation unit presents the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259223 - Equipment and methods for the display of high resolution images using multiple projection displays: The present invention discloses systems, equipment and methods that allow the improved tiling of multiple projections displays in order to create higher resolution images. Equipment and methods are disclosed for improved blending of the seam by optical means where edge blending masks are employed to create a brightness ramp in... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080259224 - Multi-primary color display: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of producing a color image using four or more primary colors. The apparatus, according to some demonstrative embodiments of the invention, may include four or more transmissive spatial light modulators to modulate four or more, respective, primary color light... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080259225 - Projection apparatus for vehicle: A projection apparatus for a vehicle of the present invention includes a projector for projecting an image onto a screen, a support bracket supporting the projector, a frame attached to a ceiling of the vehicle, and a vibration absorber arranged between the support bracket and the frame. The vibration absorber... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080259154 - Simulating short depth of field to maximize privacy in videotelephony: An arrangement for simulating a short depth of field in a captured videophone image is provided in which the background portion of the image is digitally segregated and blurred to render it indistinct. Thus, the displayed video of a user in the foreground is kept in focus while the background... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080259155 - Online video operator management system: The present invention relates to systems and methods for communicating with various people from remote locations, and more particularly to assisting customers through online commercial transactions utilizing a mix of live and pre-recorded video presentations and interactions. Various embodiments of the invention comprise: a) a customer connected to a network... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080259156 - Stereoscopic display device with liquid crystal shutter light filter for naked eye viewing and a display method thereof: A stereoscopic display device with liquid crystal shutter light filter for naked eye viewing which comprises a personal computer and an image screen, wherein a dual display card is disposed inside the personal computer, and a light filtering screen is disposed in front of the image screen, and both the... Agent: Eric Chan

20080259157 - Lenticular design by applying light blocking feature: An autostereoscopic display apparatus (104, 200, 301, 401, 501) is disclosed, comprising lenticular means (203, 305, 402, 502) configured to direct and control light emitted from a source (201, 302). The lenticular means comprises an array of lenticular elements (204, 306, 403, 503), said array of lenticular elements comprising a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259159 - Supporting continuous pan rotation in a pan-tilt camera: The invention relates to a method for moving a maneuverable part of a pan-tilt camera from a first pan-tilt position, having a first pan coordinate and a first tilt coordinate, to a second pan-tilt position, having a second pan coordinate and a second tilt coordinate. The maneuverable part is moved... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080259158 - Video surveillance system controller: A video surveillance system controller that controls multiple cameras with at least two joysticks (2, 3) and a keypad (4) to enable live queuing of the cameras. Each joystick (2, 3) independently controls a camera selected by the keypad (4). The keypad (4) can also select one of a number... Agent: Gallagher & Dawsey Co., L.p.a.

20080259161 - Surveillance system with camera: A surveillance unit which includes a video camera (24) which provides images in the form of electrical signals, control circuitry (36) which determines when to store images captured by the camera (24) and a slot (30) for operationally receiving a memory card (28) on which the images are stored as... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080259160 - Vehicle video recording device: A vehicle video recording device includes surveillance cameras, an electronic memory for temporarily storing the videos shot by the cameras, a hard disk drive (HDD) for receiving and storing the video data from the electronic memory, a running environmental data memory for storing the running environmental data along a route,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080259162 - Imaging region adjustment device: To provide an imaging region adjustment device, including plural camera terminals, capable of imaging an entire imaging target without blinds spots. Each of the camera terminals includes a camera (201) which images a virtual imaging region obtained while changing the position of an imaging region within a specific region in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080259163 - Method and system for distributed multiple target tracking: A method and system for distributed tracking of multiple targets is disclosed. Multiple targets to be tracked by a plurality of trackers are detected in a frame. The motion state variable of each of the plurality of trackers is calculated in the E-step of a variational Expectation-Maximization algorithm. Further, the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080259164 - Data transfer circuit, solid-state imaging device, and camera system: A data transfer circuit includes at least one data transfer line that transfers digital data, at least one data detecting circuit connected to the transfer line, holding circuits that hold digital values corresponding to input levels and that transfer the digital values to the transfer line, a scanning circuit that... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080259166 - Camera having networked interactive printer: A camera is provided having a camera module, a network interface module and printing module. The camera module receives user input and captures the image with an image sensor in response to the user input. The interface module transfers the captured image to a computer system. The printing module prints... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080259165 - Camera having printer for printing interactive interfaces: A camera is provided having a camera module, a network interface module and printing module. The camera module receives user input and captures the image with an image sensor in response to the user input. The interface module transfers the captured image to a computer system. The printing module prints... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080259167 - Method for embedding animation in electronic mail and websites: Provided is a method for providing animation in electronic communications. An image is generated by capturing multiple photographs from a camera or video camera typically fixed in one position. The first photograph is called the “naked photo.” Using a graphics program, photos subsequent to the naked photo are edited to... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080259168 - Device for scanning acquisition of a digital image with passive stabilization: Device for scanning acquisition of a digital image by means of a photosensitive linear detector (11). The device is able to undergo movements perpendicular to the scanning direction. The device also includes two other photosensitive linear detectors (12, 13). The three photosensitive linear detectors being placed so that the detection... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080259169 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: A motion-vector-setting section (31) sets a first motion vector in units of pixel in a target image. An exposure-time-ratio-setting section (32) sets in units of image an exposure time ratio that is a ratio between a time interval of the target image and a period of exposure time. A motion-blur-amount-setting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259170 - Blur correction device, blur correction method, electronic apparatus including blur correction device, image file and image file creating apparatus: Image files are rearranged according to the blurring amount obtained from each of blurring information pieces of the image files and displayed as thumbnail images. After several image files are selected from the displayed image files, the image information pieces of the selected image files are sequentially corrected.... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080259171 - System and method for compensating offset of a solid-state imaging device: A method for compensating an offset of a solid-state imaging device includes obtaining a detection signal representing the offset of the solid-state imaging device disposed on a stage, generating a corresponding control voltage and control signal according to the detection signal; generating a corresponding regulation voltage according to the control... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080259172 - Image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, image pickup method, and image processing method: Images are photographed by focus bracket photography at an in-focus position of a main subject and at focal positions followed and preceded by the in-focus position. The images are synthesized so as to obtain a blur-emphasized image in which areas desired to be blurred are appropriately blurred.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259173 - Data processor: A data processor includes: a drive unit for writing at least one still picture file on a level that is lower in hierarchy than a still picture folder of a storage medium; and a control section for generating file specifying information that specifies the storage location of each still picture... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080259174 - Image recording apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, image recording method, and image reproducing method: An image recording apparatus recording motion picture data and still image data includes a management time adding unit that adds frame image display management times to temporally continuous multiple pieces of frame image data in the motion picture data; a management time detecting unit that detects the frame image display... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080259179 - Automatic multiscale image acquisition from a steerable camera: A system for automatically acquiring high-resolution images by steering a pan-tilt-zoom camera at targets detected in a fixed camera view is provided. The system uses automatic or manual calibration between multiple cameras. Using automatic calibration, the homography between the cameras in a home position is estimated together with the effects... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080259176 - Image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, image pickup method, and image processing method: The present invention, which transforms multiple images so that positions of corresponding points will coincide between the images and composites the images with the corresponding points matched, provides an image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus, image pickup method, and image processing method which make it possible to obtain an intended... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259175 - Imaging device: It is possible to correct camera shaking even in an imaging device such as a camera-equipped mobile telephone having no sufficient ability for rapidly acquiring a plurality of images and a limited memory capacity. There is suggested an imaging device capable of correcting camera shaking by utilizing a small image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259177 - Solid-state imaging device, signal processing method for the same, and imaging apparatus: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including, a pixel array unit, driving means, signal processing means, level determining means and control means.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080259178 - Solid-state imaging device, signal processing method for the same, and imaging apparatus: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including, a pixel array unit, driving means, and analog-to-digital conversion means.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080259180 - Methods, systems and apparatuses for high-quality green imbalance compensation in images: Methods, systems and apparatuses for determining and compensating for green imbalance in imagers. An estimated local green balance correction term is limited, e.g., between an upper and lower limit. The upper and lower limits are determined from a set of parameters. The parameters are determined during a calibration procedure. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080259181 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method, integrated circuit, and storage medium: An imaging apparatus appropriately captures a large dynamic range image of even a scene including a backlit person with a blue sky background in a manner that the person's face has an appropriate luminance level without saturating the background sky. In the imaging apparatus, an imaging unit obtains analogue image... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080259182 - High gain digital imaging system: The present invention provides digital imaging architectures comprising detectors coupled to readout circuitry, wherein the readout circuitry is capable of providing large amplification to small, noise sensitive input signals to improve their noise immunity, as well as capable of providing a fast pixel readout time. The readout circuitry comprises an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

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20080259184 - Information processing device and computer readable recording medium: An information processing device that is connected to a projecting device that projects an annotation image input from an external terminal a projection area including an object and a background, and is connected to an image capture device that captures an image of the projection area including the object and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259185 - Method and apparatus for reducing effects of dark current and defective pixels in an imaging device: A method and apparatus for identifying and compensating for the effects of defective pixels in high resolution digital cameras having image processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a storage system for storing data corresponding to either a dark current reference image and a white reference image and at least one actual... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080259186 - Correcting a captured image in digital imaging devices: A method is provided for correcting a captured image. The method comprises determining an illuminant for the captured image. When the determined illuminant matches a reference illuminant the image is corrected with a reference inversion mask. When the determined illuminant matches a first extreme illuminant, the reference inversion mask is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259187 - System for and method of image processing and computer program for causing computer to execute the method: An image processing apparatus includes an edge detecting portion which detects edges contained in a first image, out of first and second images representing the same object, one being obtained by photographing without the infrared ray cut filter, the other being obtained by photographing with the infrared ray cut filter,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259188 - Method and imaging apparatus for correcting defective pixel of solid-state image sensor, and method for creating pixel information: In a solid-state image sensor in which a large number of pixel cells each comprised of a combination of a main photosensitive pixel having a relatively large area and a subsidiary photosensitive pixel having a relatively small area are arranged, if the subsidiary photosensitive pixel has a defect for any... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259189 - Imaging-device driving system: An imaging-device driving system, comprising a clock-signal generator, a smear detector, and a frequency-controller, is provided. The clock-signal generator generates a clock signal. The clock signal is used for driving an imaging device. The smear detector detects whether smear is present in an image signal. The image signal is generated... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259190 - Noise filter for bayer pattern image data: A method of filtering an image filter is disclosed. The filter is provided for a digital camera including image sensors sensitive to light, a color filter placed over sensitive elements of the sensors and patterned according to a Bayer mosaic pattern layout and an interpolation algorithm joining together the digital... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080259192 - Apparatus and method for capturing images: Provided are an apparatus and a method for capturing images by applying different color filters to two pixel regions with IR blocking filters removed so that optical signals in the visible band and IR signals can be received. The apparatus includes a filter unit having a plurality of filters having... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080259191 - Image input apparatus that resolves color difference: A microcomputer outputs correction data. A shading correction circuit performs a shading correction to a digital image signal using the correction data outputted from the microcomputer. A YC processing circuit generates a video signal from the digital image signal having undergone the shading correction, performs processing such as a gamma... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080259193 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device includes column amplifiers that are each provided for a different one of column signal lines. Each column amplifier includes: a constant current circuit that supplies a constant current; an amplifier circuit that is connected in series with the constant current circuit, and amplifies a pixel signal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259194 - Method, apparatus, and system providing a rectilinear pixel grid with radially scaled pixels: Pixels in an imaging device pixel array are sized according to their geographic location in the pixel array to compensate for various optical characteristics/issues. In one example, pixel size is increased according to the distance of the pixel from the x-axis and/or the y-axis of the pixel array to correct... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080259195 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having unit pixels arranged into a two-dimensional matrix, each unit pixel containing a photoelectric conversion section for effecting a photoelectric conversion and an amplification section for amplifying and reading signal charges generated at the photoelectric conversion section; a current supply provided for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259196 - Generating an instant review image using fractional readouts: A method for creating an instant review image is disclosed. The method starts by creating image data by exposing an image sensor to a scene. A first sub-set of the image data is transferred from the image sensor and used to create an instant review image. The rest of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259197 - Imaging apparatus and gain adjusting method for the same: An imaging apparatus 1A includes an electron multiplying solid-state image pickup device which has an electron multiplier section for multiplying charge signals generated in respective pixels; a multiplication gain setting part 41 for setting a multiplication gain in the electron multiplier section; a standard deviation calculator 34 for calculating a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080259199 - Image display system, display apparatus, and display method: Disclosed herein is an image display system including a display apparatus, an imaging apparatus placed on a movable body; and a server apparatus. The display apparatus and the imaging apparatus are capable of communicating with the server apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section; a speed detection section; and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080259198 - Portable electronic device and method for adjusting backlight thereof: A method for adjusting backlight includes a series of operations. Providing a portable electronic device (10), the portable electronic device including an image sensor (12), a signal processor (14), a backlight adjuster (16) and a backlight module (18), which are all electronically connected together. The image sensor senses an outside... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080259200 - Image capturing apparatus: The present invention further improves foreign substance removal performance when removing foreign substances such as dust that adhere to the surface of an optical element disposed in front of an image sensor. The image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that performs photo-electric conversion of an optical image of an... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080259201 - Camera module and electronic apparatus provided with it: A camera module that can be made thinner and achieves a beautiful image over an entire image region regardless of a subject distance is provided. The camera module includes a plurality of lens portions, each including at least one lens, a plurality of imaging regions, provided in one-to-one correspondence with... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080259202 - Imaging device: Herein disclosed is an imaging device having an imaging optical system, the device including: an imaging element configured to include a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels arranged along a predetermined direction; a first processor configured to execute focal detection processing by a phase difference detection... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080259203 - Systems and methods for identifying camera sensors: Systems and methods for identifying camera sensors are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method for identifying camera sensors may include exposing a plurality of camera sensors at a time T1, each of the plurality of camera sensors having an array of pixels, and storing the location of unique pixels... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080259204 - Digital image acquisition vision sensor: A digital image acquisition vision sensor, wherein a television camera defines a pickup axis, and a lighting device associated with the television camera has a Fresnel lens connected to the television camera so that the television camera is integrated with the lighting device, and the energy released by the lighting... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080259205 - Apparatus and method for upconverting content data: A signal processing apparatus includes an upconversion processing unit upconverting content data stored in a data storage unit, and an upconversion control unit determining an upconversion-target component and the upconversion processing order of components based on component attribute information such as a component type or a tag value of each... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259206 - Adapative de-interlacer and method thereof: An adaptive de-interlacer can convert an interlaced video signal into a progressive video signal, and comprises an intra-field interpolator, an inter-field interpolator, a static pixel detector, a motion detector and a blending unit. The intra-field interpolator outputs an intra-field interpolated pixel based on a current field of the interlaced video... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080259207 - Motion compensated de-interlacing with film mode adaptation: The invention relates to a method for de-interlacing a hybrid video sequence using at least one estimated motion vector for interpolating pixels. Field for petition patents, typically occurring in film originated video material, disturb the function of de-interlacing algorithm designed to convert interlaced video single into progressively scanned video. Therefore... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259208 - Program ancillary data producing device, pictrure program editing device and picture program producing device: An apparatus for producing program ancillary data pertinent to each scene of a picture program to be recorded includes a display control unit for demonstrating, on a display picture, an input form having, as an input item, the information pertinent to a scene as an object of preparation, and a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080259209 - System and method for converging and displaying high definition video signals: A system and method for processing and displaying a unitary image formed from the combination of a broadcast signal with a second signal with no or minimal modification, alteration or degradation of the broadcast signal. In one embodiment, the system and method processes and displays a High Definition Television (HDTV)... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20080259210 - Audiovisual display apparatus and method: The invention provides for an audio visual display apparatus (10) arranged to receive a broadcast signal comprising a video element and an audio element, wherein the audio element includes an audio description element providing a description of at least some of the video content, the apparatus (10) including means for... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259211 - Using subtitles for other purposes: Aspects of the invention are directed to using subtitles for purposes other than viewing them on a display screen overlaid on the sub-title's corresponding content. While watching television with sub-titles activated, a terminal user may be offered a short-cut and/or one or more options which will use a current (or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080259212 - Video signal processing apparatus and re-sampling apparatus: A video signal processing apparatus comprises a component video signal demodulator to demodulate a component video signal sampled by a burst lock clock signal from a composite video signal sampled by the burst lock clock signal, the burst clock signal having multiplied frequency of a color subcarrier in the composite... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259213 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus constituting a low-cost audio/video data transmission and reception system is disclosed. A reception buffer monitoring circuit 21 monitors the size of receiver data being accumulated in a reception buffer 6. When the size of accumulated data is found to become higher than a high threshold, the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080259214 - Video signal processing device, integrated circuit, and imaging apparatus: Provided is a video signal processing device that can reduce power consumption within an analog signal processing unit not only during an invalid frame period of a video signal but also during a blanking period within a valid frame period, thus enabling further reduction of the power consumption. The video... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259215 - Method and system to control multple types of scoreboards: A system and method accurately maintaining times and scoring for a sports activity.... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20080259216 - Color signal converting apparatus, video display apparatus including the same, and color signal converting method: According to one embodiment, a color signal converting apparatus includes: a minimum value detecting section detecting a minimum value signal having a smallest value among a plurality of input color signals; a difference extracting section extracting a difference between the minimum value signal detected by the minimum value detecting section... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080259217 - Dynamic softclipping of video levels: A method for improvement of contrast in an image shown on a display having a range of displayable video levels. The method comprises providing input video levels representing the image, said levels being within said displayable range; providing a transfer function (120, 121) having a slope greater than one everywhere... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259218 - Apparatus and method of processing image as well as apparatus and method of generating reproduction information: An apparatus of processing an image contains a scene-change-detecting unit that detects a scene change of input image based on an image signal relative to the input image, a display-position-controlling unit that determines a display position of an image after the scene change to a display position associated with an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259219 - Universal tuner for mobile tv: A tuner for use in mobile television devices comprises at least one RF front end component comprising a LNA adapted to amplify mobile television signals; a PLL circuit to generate signals; and a pair of mixers to receive the signals from the LNA and the PLL circuit and downconvert the... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080259220 - System and method of navigating previously viewed channels: The disclosure is directed to systems and methods of navigating previously viewed channels. In a particular embodiment, a method may include maintaining a channel list in a memory, the channel list comprising multiple previously viewed channels. The method may also include receiving a first signal to select a first selected... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080259221 - Portable device with video output: Circuitry for providing an output video signal from a portable device to an external display, the circuitry including a processor block with an image processor, and a video encoder block with a video encoder for providing the output video signal to the external display, the processor block and the video... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080259222 - Providing information related to video content: An apparatus for providing information related to video content includes a video display that displays the video content to a user. A content identifier identifies a segment of interest in the video content. An information processor obtains additional information related to the segment of interest. A presentation unit presents the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080259223 - Equipment and methods for the display of high resolution images using multiple projection displays: The present invention discloses systems, equipment and methods that allow the improved tiling of multiple projections displays in order to create higher resolution images. Equipment and methods are disclosed for improved blending of the seam by optical means where edge blending masks are employed to create a brightness ramp in... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080259224 - Multi-primary color display: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of producing a color image using four or more primary colors. The apparatus, according to some demonstrative embodiments of the invention, may include four or more transmissive spatial light modulators to modulate four or more, respective, primary color light... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080259225 - Projection apparatus for vehicle: A projection apparatus for a vehicle of the present invention includes a projector for projecting an image onto a screen, a support bracket supporting the projector, a frame attached to a ceiling of the vehicle, and a vibration absorber arranged between the support bracket and the frame. The vibration absorber... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080252716 - Communication control device and communication terminal: A first mobile communication terminal sends position data of an avatar for the terminal and position data of an avatar for a second mobile communication terminal, with which a user of the first terminal wishes to communicate, to a communication control device. The communication control device determines whether a position... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080252717 - Method for photographing panoramic image: Disclosed is a method for photographing a panoramic image including the steps of recognizing movement of a corresponding photographing apparatus by comparing a current real-time input image with a previous image through a motion estimation mechanism with exposure compensation, determining a time to photograph each next picture by determining whether... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080252718 - Enhancement of visual perception iii: A system, device within a system, and a method for enhancing visual perception in a two-dimensional image is disclosed, providing the induction of retinal disparity in the viewer by in a system with which the two-dimensional image is viewed. With fusion of the retinally disparate images of the two-dimensional image,... Agent: Anthony I. Provitola

20080252719 - Apparatus, method, and system for generating stereo-scopic image file based on media standards: Provided is an apparatus, a method, and a system for generating a stereo-scopic image file based on media standards. The system includes a stereo-scopic image file generation apparatus for generating a stereo-scopic image file including a data area including a first video track including a first image data and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080252720 - Highly efficient 2d-3d switchable display device: Provided is a highly efficient 2D-3D switchable display device. The image display device includes a display unit forming an image, and a switching visual field separation unit switching the image formed by the display unit into a 2D image or a 3D image, and comprising a lens array for separating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252721 - Film detection device and method, and picture signal processing device and method: Disclosed herein is a film detection device for determining whether an input picture signal is an interlaced signal generated by the telecine process, the film detection device including, a frame motion detection section, a field motion detection section, a motion judder detection section, and a film determination section.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080252725 - Method and device for tracking a movement of an object or of a person: The invention relates to a method, a device and a computer program product for tracking a movement of an object or of a person. Tracking the movement of a person or an object by means of electronic video frames is conventional but fails if the person of object experience a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252724 - Optically monitoring comb-line of escalators and moving walks: Method for monitoring at least part of a comb-line (18) of a comb plate (14) having a plurality of teeth (16), of a people conveyor (2) having a movable transportation band (4) and the comb plate (14) located at the transition (20) between the movable transportation band (4) and the... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20080252727 - People searches by multisensor event correlation: A data indexing system and method includes acquiring activity data in a context and indexing the activity data in accordance with contextual conditions. The activity data is stored in accordance with indices. An event is correlated with the activity data by using the indices to review the activity data in... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080252722 - System and method of intelligent surveillance and analysis: System and method of intelligent surveillance and analysis mainly used for monitoring whether a field has an intrusion object (such as a thief), and instantly providing video or image of the suspected intruder to approved relevant individual (such as the house owner) for further confirmation of the presence of the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080252726 - Video aid system: A work device is disclosed that comprises a body and a drive portion attached with the body for working on a workpiece. At least one camera is attached with the body, and at least one video display device is operatively connected with the at least one camera. The camera is... Agent: Tti/brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080252723 - Video processing systems and methods: A system for processing video information obtained by a video camera based on a representative view from the camera. The system includes a processor a memory communicably connected to the processor. The memory includes computer code for determining a relative depth for at least two different regions of the representative... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080252728 - Airborne laser image capturing system and method: The present invention relates to an airborne laser image capturing system which comprises: (a) A laser source and laser focal plan array, both being mounted on a same gimbals platform; (b) A pulse generator for providing a series of pulses to said laser source during a scanning period, thereby activating... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080252729 - Advanced bird view visual system: A bird view visual system for a vehicle is provided. The bird view visual system for the vehicle includes a plurality of image sensors disposed around the vehicle for monitoring the environment around the vehicle and a plurality of bases for mounting the respective image sensors. Each of the bases... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080252730 - Infrared sensitive security lighting system: A motion triggered digital security system that includes a an infrared motion sensor, a light sensor, an image sensor, and an illuminator. Upon the detection of motion the system determines the level of light present, and if needed the illuminator is initiated. The image sensor then acquires digital images in... Agent: D'ambrosio & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20080252731 - Spectrographic multi-band camera: The present invention concerns a method and camera for obtaining a high-contrast image of a predetermined target present in an area under observation. The method involves obtaining an in-band image of the observation area including the target using a filter whose bands are aligned with selected characteristic wavelength bands of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080252735 - Camera having printer for printing interactive interfaces: A camera is provided having a camera module, a network interface module and printing module. The camera module receives user input and captures the image with an image sensor in response to the user input. The interface module transfers the captured image to a computer system. The printing module prints... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252733 - Camera printer operation method with media pull sensing: A method of operating a handheld camera comprises sensing an image via an image sensor, controlling the sensing of the image via a camera manager, manipulating the image via an image processing manager, and controlling printing of the manipulated image via a print manager. The step of controlling printing of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252734 - Card based image manipulation method for camera: A method of operating a handheld camera comprises causing a sensor to sense an image, supplying predetermined data to an input of the camera via a card on which the predetermined data is disposed, and causing a processing system to obtain the image from the sensor, determine a card image... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252732 - Image manipulation method for camera: A handheld camera comprises a sensor adapted to sense an image, a camera manager for controlling the sensing of the image, an image processing manager for manipulating the image, a print manager for controlling printing of the manipulated image, and a guillotine adapted to cut a print media on which... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252736 - Image stabilization method and apparatus: An image stabilization apparatus includes accelerometers, a proximity sensor and a processor. Each accelerometer determines acceleration along an axis of a plane parallel to a focal plane of an image capture device. The accelerometers output respective acceleration data to the processor. The proximity sensor obtains a measurement of the distance... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080252745 - Apparatus for detecting blinking state of eye: A state-of-eye distinguishing means calculates a feature value that represents a state of an eye, for an eye-area based on pixel data of pixels that constitute the eye-area. A threshold value setting means calculates a first threshold value representing a feature value at a first transition point from an open... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252744 - Auto-focus apparatus, image-pickup apparatus, and auto-focus method: Disclosed is an auto-focus apparatus utilized for an image pickup apparatus having a focus ring. The auto-focus apparatus includes an evaluation value calculator periodically calculating a plurality of evaluation values for a plurality of areas of a subject image based on high frequency components of image signals of the plurality... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080252739 - Digital camera: The invention relates to a digital camera and the methods for using a digital camera. The digital camera includes a programmable processor that provides for flexible operation of the digital camera. The programmable processor also provides the digital camera manufacturer the capability of economically configuring the digital camera as desired.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080252743 - Image pickup apparatus, image capturing system, method for driving image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus has a pixel array including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in column and row directions, a first output unit configured to be driven by a first driving signal and to output first signals fed from at least some of the photoelectric conversion elements in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080252740 - Image pickup device and encoded data transferring method: A method of transferring encoded data and an imaging device executing the method thereof are disclosed. The image signal processor according to an embodiment of the present invention has an encoding unit and a data output unit, which temporarily stores image data encoded by the encoding unit and delivers the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252741 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging method is provided. The method includes the steps of: amplifying an imaging signal obtained from an image sensor for converting imaging light into an imaging signal; carrying out nonlinear processing on the amplified signal; adding a predetermined plurality of frames of the imaging signal subjected to the nonlinear... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080252738 - Imaging device: An imaging device has an image sensor, and a color filter. The color filter is located on the image sensor and has at least four color elements that respectively have different spectral transmission properties. Further, the imaging device has a matrix-selection processor and a color conversion processor. The matrix-selection processor... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080252746 - Method and apparatus for a hybrid wide area tracking system: An image producing system including at least one scene camera viewing a first image within a defined space, a processor connected to the at least one scene camera, a wide area tracking sensor positioned proximate the defined space, but positioned outside a view of the scene camera, said wide area... Agent: Brown Rudnick LLP

20080252737 - Method and apparatus for providing an interactive control system: An apparatus includes an imaging device that captures a plurality of positional signals emitted from an interactive control device, which is moveable in a three-dimensional control space in the field of view of the imaging device, to form a two-dimensional image having one or more control points. Further, the apparatus... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080252742 - Solid-state imaging device, method of driving the same, signal processing method for the same, and imaging apparatus: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device, including, a pixel array unit, first driving means, second driving means, and third driving means.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080252747 - Vliw image processor: A microcontroller for an image sensing and processing apparatus is provided. The microcontroller has VLIW processor circuitry, image sensor interface circuitry connected between the VLIW processor circuitry and the image sensor, bus interface circuitry connected between the VLIW processor circuitry and a bus connectable with devices other than the image... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252748 - System and computer-readable medium for automatic white balancing: Systems and computer-readable medium are disclosed for automatic white balancing of an input image. Accordingly, the system includes a cast detector configured to receive and classify an input image based at least in part on a selection of constituent pixels of the input image. The cast detector is further configured... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080252749 - White balance correcting method and image-pickup apparatus: The present invention provides a white balance correcting method and image-pickup apparatus which are able to perform white balance correction on a main subject even if mixed light of flash light and ambient light is radiated on the main subject, as the method and the apparatus are adapted to correctly... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252750 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus can determine a correction gain factor at a high rate of speed to synthesize an image. The image processing apparatus includes a long second middle luminance image detecting unit for detecting a pixel position of a pixel having a pixel value in a first middle luminance... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080252752 - Image capture apparatus: An image capture apparatus is provided. The image capture apparatus includes an imaging-unit storing portion, a memory-card storing portion, and a lid. The imaging-unit storing portion stores an imaging unit capturing an image. The memory-card storing portion is arranged in the rear of the imaging-unit storing portion and includes a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080252753 - Image-capturing apparatus: An image-capturing apparatus includes: an image-capturing element that captures an image of a subject through a photographic lens and outputs the captured image of the subject as image data; a display device that displays the image of the subject; a recording device that records the image data at a recording... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080252751 - Optical apparatus having control unit configured to reduce noise in captured image: An optical apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control to change power consumed by a lens unit or operation state of an actuator of the lens unit during processing of an image signal obtained from an image pickup element according to a noise tolerance of a camera and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080252754 - Card based image manipulation method with card skew correction: A method of operating a handheld camera comprises sensing an image via an image sensor, controlling the sensing of the image via a camera manager, receiving predetermined data in the form of a card image, the card image read from a card by a card reader, rotating the card image... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252755 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging method is provided. The imaging method includes the steps of: carrying out a nonlinear correction on an imaging signal obtained from an image sensor where imaging light is converted into an imaging signal; adding a predetermined number of frames of the imaging signal with the nonlinear correction per... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080252756 - Circuit and method for correction of defect pixel: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a check unit which compares a value of a pixel of interest with values of neighboring pixels contained in an image signal supplied from an image sensor, and determines based on the comparison whether the pixel of interest is defective, and a defect correcting unit... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080252757 - Apparatus and method for generating wide color gamut signal in image capturing device: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a wide color gamut signal in an image capturing device, which can simplify a calculation process and minimize color distortion therein. The apparatus includes a gamma-correction unit gamma-correcting a picked-up image signal by using gamma curve information predetermined according to an output... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252758 - Image capturing device: An image capturing device including an optical unit arranged to receive an image of a scene and to convey the scene image to an area outside the image capturing device designed for the eye or eyes of a user looking into the image capturing device, a first image capturing unit... Agent: Venable LLP

20080252759 - Method, apparatus and system providing green-green imbalance compensation: Method, apparatus and system for determining a value for green-green imbalance and applying the value to green pixels to correct the imbalance are described. Average pixel values of green pixels within a kernel are calculated and an imbalance value is determined based on the averages. The imbalance value is added... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080252760 - Compact image sensor package and method of manufacturing the same: An exemplary image sensor package includes a base, an image sensor chip, a bonding layer, and an imaging lens. The image sensor chip is disposed on the base. The image sensor chip includes a photosensitive area. The bonding layer is disposed on at least one of the image sensor chip... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080252761 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric converting element; a plurality of capacitor which receive signals from the plurality of pixels at first terminals; a plurality of clamping switches for setting a second terminal of each of the plurality of capacitor into a predetermined... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080252762 - Solid-state image sensing device, method for driving solid-state image sensing device, and image sensing system incorporated with solid-state image sensing device: In a solid-state image sensing device, a method for driving the solid-state image sensing device, and an image sensing system incorporated with the solid-state image sensing device of the invention, pixel signals having two or more different photoelectric conversion characteristics to be outputted from a pixel section are amplified by... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080252765 - Image pickup device: The present invention resides in an image pickup device capable of reducing the deformation of the image of the photographed object. An image pickup element included in the image pickup device has a matrix of pixels, for which the control of the charge storage and the readout of image signal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080252764 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus and image capturing system: A photoelectric conversion apparatus is disclosed. A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel array in which pixels including photoelectric conversion units are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of first column signal lines which are electrically connected to the pixels arrayed in the pixel array... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080252763 - Spatial noise reduction in cmos imagers: The spatial, so-called: “fixed-pattern” noise of matrix image sensors is reduced via on-line normalization of each pixel's photo-transmission to its own average reset noise. Said normalization is performed per each frame anew.... Agent: Moti Shefer

20080252766 - Method for solid-state imaging device: A first transfer process for transferring signal charges in a vertical direction on vertical transfer sections, a second transfer process for transferring signal charges received from outputs of the vertical transfer sections from line memory to a horizontal transfer section, and a third transfer process for transferring signal charges in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252768 - Digital camera using a focal-plane shutter: A digital camera includes an image pickup device; a focal plane shutter including a shutter leading curtain and a shutter trailing curtain; a timer for measuring exposure time; a shutter controller which commences measurement of an exposure time when the shutter leading curtain starts traveling, and drives the shutter trailing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080252767 - Solid-state imaging device, method of driving solid-state imaging device and camera: A solid-state imaging device including: an analog-digital converter unit in column parallel arrangement, the analog-digital converter unit having a plurality of pixels arranged to convert an incident light quantity to an electric signal, in which an analog signal obtained from the pixel is converted into a digital signal, wherein the... Agent: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080252769 - Camera arrangement, mobile phone comprising a camera arrangement, method of manufacturing a camera arrangement: The present invention relates to a camera arrangement as for instance used in a mobile phone that utilizes a liquid crystal based lens for providing an adjustable depth of focus. The camera arrangement comprises a photo sensor (201) array and at least two lenses (202, 203, 204) that are arranged... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252770 - Pop up prism lens assembly: A pop up prism camera (10) having a pop up prism lens assembly (11). A first lens assembly (14), a second lens assembly (18), and a prism assembly (21) are moved in relationship to a camera housing (12) controlled by a cam tube (20). The prism assembly (21) projects outside... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080252771 - Camera module with compact packaging of image sensor chip and method of manufacturing the same: An exemplary camera module includes a lens module, a base, an image sensor chip, a bonding layer, and an imaging lens. The lens module is disposed on the base. The lens module is optically aligned with the image sensor chip. The image sensor chip is disposed on the base. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080252772 - Camera with an interrupting unit, and camera with an inhibiting unit: When at least a portion of an aperture of a lens part is covered with some object, both adjusting of the sensitivity of an image pickup part and display of “though image” are inhibited. Also, it is able to shorten a length of time for which the camera enters into... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080252773 - Image pickup apparatus, focusing control method and principal object detecting method: In a digital still camera, an image is picked up by detecting object light from a lens system having a focus lens. A region of a human face is detected within the image by image analysis thereof. An estimated distance of the facial region is determined according to a size... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252775 - Camera module and method of manufacturing the same: Provided is a camera module including a housing that is formed in a rectangular box shape and has a cylindrical barrel coupling portion extending upward from the central portion thereof; an image sensor module that is mounted in the housing; a lens barrel that has a lens insertion port provided... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080252774 - Camera module with circuit board: A camera module includes an image sensor, a lens module and a circuit board. The lens module is disposed at an object side of the image sensor and has a plurality of electrical connection points thereon. The circuit board includes a main body and a bent portion electrically connecting with... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080252776 - Camera module: A camera module (100) configured to connect to an outer circuit board includes a lens barrel (12), a holder (14) and a sensing chip (20). The holder has a first end (141), an opposite second end (142). The first end defines a cavity (143) therethrough, and the lens barrel is... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080252777 - Camera incorporating method and mobile electronic equipment with camera: In a mobile electronic equipment, a main body has a flat bottom surface and a flat side which cooperatively form a frame and having a recess with rib slots on its side. A camera unit is constructed by connecting a flexible cable to a substrate on which a camera IC... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080252778 - Combined sbi and conventional image processor: An apparatus and method for allowing multiple high and low resolution SBI and conventional FPA imaging devices to use a common high resolution monitor and archive device without increasing or significantly changing the footprint of existing devices. This system and method uses a frame grabber for digitizing video from the... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20080252779 - De-interlacing video: A video de-interlacer forms a first new-pixel value from motion compensation of a pixel of a previous field with a first motion vector and forms a second new-pixel value from motion compensation of a pixel of a next field with a second motion vector. These two new-pixel values are then... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080252780 - Captioning evaluation system: A captioning evaluation system. The system accepts captioning data and determines a number of errors in the captioning data, as well as the number of words per minute across the entirety of an event corresponding to the captioning data and time intervals of the event. The errors may be used... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080252781 - Imcorporation and extraction of a seed linked to a television signal for pseudo-random noise generation: The television signal (TS) comprising picture data (P1), in which television signal furthermore a predetermined seed is comprised (S1), usable for initiating a pseudorandom generator yielding a deterministic sequence of random values to be used for adding noise to the picture data, solves the problem of arbitrary look for different... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252782 - Signal source device: A DVD player of a signal source device generates a video signal and an audio signal, and outputs the signals to a plasma display unit of a signal sink device. The DVD player outputs the video signal and the audio signal to the plasma display unit via a transmission line... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080252783 - Device for separating synchronous signal and method thereof: In a device for separating a synchronous signal in a video signal, a capacitor receives the video signal to obtain a coupling signal, a level determining circuit receives the coupling signal and compares a voltage level of the coupling signal with a number of reference voltages. The reference voltages define... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080252784 - Systems and methods for multi-source video distribution and composite display: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a video display processing system including a video source input component, a compositing component, and a composite video output component. The video source input component is adapted to receive video data from a plurality of video sources. The compositing component is adapted to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080252785 - System and method for aiding user in making correct tv connections: A TV has a TV processor and a display presenting a map showing the topology of the home network of which the TV is a part. The TV determines whether correct connections with other components have been made and if not, indicates the incorrect connections on a map displayed on... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080252786 - Systems and methods for creating displays: Systems and a methods for providing interactive interpretation of a data stream having a temporal element. Specifically, the ability to interpret an input stream to provide a different video output whereby the input is modified by a second temporal stream so as to provide for an interpreted output which is... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20080252787 - Analog processing circuit, analog integrated circuit device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus: A first clamping unit clamps a base voltage of an input image signal to a predetermined reference voltage. A sampling-and-holding unit samples and holds the image signal after clamping or a reference signal that becomes the base voltage of the image signal. An amplifying unit amplifies the image signal sampled... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080252788 - Equalization of noise characteristics of the components of a composite image without degrading subject image quality: A visible mismatch in noise characteristics between a portion of a background scene inserted in composite image by a matte generated from a blue screen and a second portion of the same background inserted by a garbage matte is significantly reduced by adding extracted noise characteristics from the foreground image... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080252789 - Block noise reduction device and image display device: A frame correlation determination part is for determining a level of correlation of decoded image signals between frames. A flat region detection part is for detecting an image region in which a difference in brightness between neighboring pixels is small as a flat region from the decoded image signals. A... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080252790 - Delay circuit and video signal processing circuit using the same: A delay circuit is disclosed. A switched-capacitor group includes a plurality of switched-capacitor units, each of which have a switching element and a capacitive element charged/discharged by turning on/off the switching element. The switched-capacitor units are connected such that the input signal is input in common to all of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252791 - Image processing device and method, and program: An image processing device extracting a contrast component for each pixel of an input image by removing a low-frequency component of the input image and correcting the contrast component for each pixel based on a gain value, including: an input/output-property generating unit for generating an input/output-property curve, assuming an input... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080252792 - Television switch module: A television switch module for switching output lines of television high frequency signals, comprising: first and second input lines for respectively inputting television high frequency signals; first and second amplifiers for respectively amplifying input signals; first and second output lines for outputting the signals after amplified; a branching unit for... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080252793 - Media controller with anti-microbial and anti-fungal capability: A media controller with anti-microbial and anti-fungal capability is provided. The media controller not only receives and outputs an audio signal provided from an external media device such as a television or a recorded media player and controls the external media device, but also outputs the sound or audio signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252794 - Display device and color adjustment method thereof, and method for displaying video signal: A display device and a color adjustment method thereof and a method for displaying video signals are provided. The display device includes a video signal receiver, a scaling engine, a color engine, an output stage, and a panel. The video signal receiver receives the video signals. The scaling engine is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080252795 - System and method for improving image quality by synchronizing display modulation with light source pulses: A method for synchronizing a light source control signal with modulation of a display includes the steps of receiving a video signal including a synchronization signal (e.g., a Vsync signal) and using the synchronization signal to generate a light source control signals at high and low values. The light source... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080252796 - Liquid crystal television and backlight unit: A liquid crystal television 100 displays an image on a liquid crystal display by transmitting a light source from a backlight unit 10. The backlight unit 10 drives two cold-cathode tubes 13a, 13b as the backlight 13 at the high frequency voltages each with different polarity generated by a self-excited... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080252797 - Method for input-signal transformation for rgbw displays with variable w color: A method for transforming three color-input signals (R, G, B) corresponding to three gamut-defining color primaries of a display to four color-output signals (R′, G′, B′, W) corresponding to the gamut-defining color primaries and one additional primary of the display, where the additional primary has color that varies with drive... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20080252798 - Vehicle entertainment system: A vehicle entertainment system including a video system having a video monitor and a cradle secured within a vehicle. The cradle is shaped and dimensioned for selectively receiving and securely holding the video system. The cradle includes a docking port with a faceplate that is substantially flush with an upper... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20080246831 - Video communication method and video communication terminal implementing the same: A video communication method, computer program product and video communication terminal implementing the same are disclosed, by which a terminal user is assisted by identifying what kind of conversation he had with a specific correspondent user by reading a phone call list on a terminal. The present invention includes a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080246830 - Videotelephone terminal with intuitive adjustments: Intuitive adjustment of framing on a terminal is achieved by a remote party using a mobile terminal during a videotelephone call. The terminal includes a camera, framing means, video encoding means and communication and multiplexing means. The terminal includes motion sensors, formatting means, and communication and multiplexing means. In response... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080246832 - Communication method and network display apparatus using the same: A network display apparatus, which is connected to a network and has a thin client function, is used as a monitor of a host device. If audio and video data is received through the network while the network display apparatus is used as a monitor of the host device, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246833 - Video conferencing apparatus, control method, and program: A video conferencing apparatus for video conferencing includes: a light emission control means for allowing a light emitting means for emitting a light that is included in a sound collecting means for collecting a sound to emit a light in a certain light emission pattern; a light emitting position detecting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080246834 - Telepresence system, method and computer program product: A video conferencing system provides realistic presence of participants in a videoconference by way of standards-based communication. The system includes three large displays, and at least one slave codec and one camera for each display. In addition, there is an extra codec installed which is the master codec. The master... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246835 - Apparatus and method for transferring video: The present invention discloses a terminal for transferring video, comprising an audio-video splitting/assembling unit for assembling locally acquired video stream and audio stream, or splitting an audio-video assembly sent from a counter-terminal into video stream and audio stream; a device discovering unit responsible for searching for a first device with... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080246836 - System and method for processing video images for camera recreation: Embodiments use point clouds to recreate a camera. The point cloud of the object may be formed from analysis of two dimensional images taken by the camera. Once the virtual camera has been formed, the camera may be used in the process of generating stereoscopic three dimensional images of the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080246837 - Autostereoscopic liquid crystal display apparatus: A display apparatus includes an autosteroscopic liquid crystal display panel having a frame response time of less than 10 milliseconds, and a backlight positioned to provide light to the autosteroscopic liquid crystal display. The backlight includes a right eye solid state light source and a left eye solid state light... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080246838 - Universal camera control unit: An endoscopic video system that provides for multiple differing inputs from a plurality of different attached devices types including, for example, High-Definition and Standard-Definition signals, the camera control automatically sensing and configuring itself based upon the connected devices (e.g. camera and display). The system further provides for scaling of input... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080246839 - Microscope apparatus and microscope system: It is possible to check for observation success or failure and the observation history without waiting for observation to be completely finished, thus saving time and energy required for observation, and avoiding lost opportunities for observation of precious samples etc. Provided is a microscope apparatus including an image acquisition unit... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080246841 - Method and system for automatically generating personalized media collection for participants: The present systems and methods disclose a system for automatically generating personalized media collection for participants. The invention continually captures media from area of activities by using at least one camera station. Camera station sends captured media data alone with time and capture zoning information to networked computer storage. At... Agent: Taiming Chen

20080246840 - Providing photographic images of live events to spectators: A method of providing photographic images of live events to a spectator includes obtaining at least one photographic image from at least one camera at a live event; providing a version of the at least one photographic image to an electronic device being used by the spectator; and receiving a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080246842 - Surveillance camera system: A surveillance camera system using a power line communication technique is provided, which can operate in the same way as in the case where the AC power is supplied, even when the AC power is not supplied. Provided with DC power source units respectively in a camera unit and a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080246843 - Periphery monitoring system for vehicle: A periphery monitoring system for a vehicle captures an image of a mobile object in a first field of view. The system captures an image of the mobile object in a second field of view that is located on a downstream side of the first field of view in an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080246844 - Emergency and alarm lamp with a video camera: An emergency and alarm lamp with a video camera includes a lamp head, a lamp housing, and a lamp casing. The lamp head is a metal head with a general screw interface or a bayonet interface that can be fit on a lamp holder of a general filament lamp. The... Agent: Kevin J. Mcneely, Esq.

20080246847 - Imaging apparatus and pan/tilt head control method: In an imaging apparatus, when a pan/tilt head is located at a predetermined position, a photographed image acquired by an imaging unit is stored as a registered image. A photographed image, which is newly acquired by the imaging unit, is compared with the registered image when the pan/tilt head is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080246845 - Camera module with compact packaging of image sensor chip: An exemplary camera module includes a lens holder, a lens module, a lens module, an image sensor chip, and an attaching member. The lens module is received in the lens holder. The lens module comprises a barrel and at least one lens received in the barrel. The image sensor chip... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080246846 - Image manipulation camera: A handheld camera comprising a sensor adapted to sense an image, a camera manager for controlling the sensing of the image, an image processing manager for manipulating the image, a print manager for controlling printing of the manipulated image, and a guillotine adapted to cut a print media on which... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080246848 - Image stabilizing apparatus, image-pickup apparatus and image stabilizing method: An image stabilizing apparatus includes a motion vector calculating part that calculates a motion vector between a plurality of images including a displacement caused by a motion of an image-pickup apparatus, a shake-correction parameter calculating part that receives the motion vector as input to calculate a shake correction amount, and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080246849 - Optical wavefront control pattern generating apparatus and optical wavefront control pattern generating method: An optical wavefront control pattern generating apparatus (1) relating to the present invention includes: a target image detector unit (60) configured to detect spatial information of the object (B) as a target image; a reconstructed image detector unit (40) configured to detect the reconstructed image displayed on the reconstructed image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246854 - Digital camera recording a composite image: A digital camera capable of recording a subject image so that the subject image can be drawn as it is combined with a selected default image and so that the subject image can be drawn separately from the selected default image. The digital camera includes an image processor which creates... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080246852 - Image pickup device and image pickup method: An easy-to-carry image pickup device is provided to obtain images with multiple view angles in which a target subject is positioned in an appropriate size. When capturing an image of a person as a target subject, the size and position of the person's face in the image are detected as... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080246855 - Image processing device, electronic camera, and image processing program: An image processing device of the present invention includes a color-gamut determining part, a color-space determining part, and a color-space conversion part. The color-gamut determining part determines a color gamut as a range of color distribution from input image data. The color-space determining part determines a color space substantially covering... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080246850 - Multimedia device integration system: A multimedia device integration system is provided. One or more after-market audio or video devices, such as a CD player, CD changer, digital media device, satellite receiver, DAB receiver, video device, digital camera, cellular telephone, portable navigation device, or any other device or combinations thereof, is integrated for use with... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080246853 - Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels that are provided on a semiconductor substrate, and that include a plurality of photoelectric-conversion units and metal oxide semiconductor transistors that selectively read signals from the plurality of photoelectric-conversion units, an organic-photoelectric-conversion film disposed on the plurality of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080246851 - Video data display system and method for mobile terminal: A video data display system and method for a mobile terminal that enable capturing video data of a predetermined length and displaying the captured video data in multiple windows on a single display screen. The video data may be presented as a slide show. The video data display method includes... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080246856 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus includes one or a plurality of optical filters, an image sensor, an imaging signal processing part, a detecting part, and a control part. The one or the plurality of optical filters are selectively arranged in a path of an optical system for obtaining imaging light. The image... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080246857 - Electronic still camera: An electronic still camera includes: a detection unit that detects whether or not a detachable recording medium has a cache function; and a validating unit that validates the cache function when the detection unit detects that the recording medium has the cache function.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080246858 - Image pickup apparatus and control method thereof: An image pickup apparatus includes a recording-mode switching section for selecting a single-format recording mode in which recording is performed in one of recording formats or a multiple-format recording mode in which recording is simultaneously performed in a plurality of recording formats, and a recording-size setting section for setting a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080246859 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus for performing efficient signal processing depending on the operational mode. In the finder mode, a CCD interface 21a decimates horizontal components of image data supplied from an image generating unit 10 to one-third and moreover processes the decimated image data with data conversion and resolution conversion to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080246860 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: An image processing apparatus corrects a shot image which is captured by an image capturing apparatus including an image sensor having a plurality of pixels arrayed two-dimensionally and on which a shadow of a foreign substance adhering to an optical element placed in front of the image sensor is captured.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080246861 - Imaging apparatus, signal processing circuit, signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and computer program product: A signal processing method is provided. The method includes: generating an output signal containing a high-precision component at a level not determined by quantization of an input digital signal by subjecting each of pixels constituting the input digital signal to a predetermined filter operation such that a set of predetermined... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080246862 - Defect and maintenance detection for image capture device: Defect and maintenance detection for an image capture device (ICD) capable of distinguishing between a defect in the ICD and one on the imaged object. The defect detection system includes, inter alia: a value combiner that combines a brightest image video value for each sensing element of the ICD experiencing... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080246863 - Ccd solid-state imaging device, photographic apparatus and image data correction method: A CCD solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photodiodes arranged in a two-dimensional array; a plurality of vertical charge transfer paths, each reading a signal charge from the photo diodes, wherein electron multiplication of the signal charge is performed in each of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080246864 - Electronic imaging carousel: An electronic motion picture camera apparatus has more than one imaging sensor arranged around a central axis. Image sensors are exposed individually at a single optical gate by being physically rotated into position. The optical gate is covered during the arrangement's rotation by a coordinated rolling shutter. Image information is... Agent: Andrew Selin

20080246865 - Image sensing apparatus and image capturing system: An image sensing apparatus includes a pixel unit which has an array of a plurality of groups each including a plurality of pixels arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, and an adding unit configured to add, of pixel signals output from the plurality of pixels arrayed in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080246866 - Solid-state image sensing device and electronic apparatus comprising same: A camera module 100a of the present invention includes a lens unit 10a which includes a lens 11 and a lens holder 12 holding the lens 11 therein, and an image sensing unit 20a which includes a solid-state image sensor 24 and a transparent lid section 26 which is arranged... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080246867 - Solid-state image pickup apparatus and method for driving solid-state image pickup apparatus: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes rows and columns of pixels, each column or each set of a plurality of columns being provided with an analog-to-digital converter. When an operation for holding analog electric signals performed by the analog-to-digital converters is performed simultaneously with an operation for outputting data from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080246869 - Differential readout from pixels in cmos sensor: The present invention provides an improved pixel readout circuit that compensates for common mode noise during a read out operation. This is accomplished by using a differential readout of the signal and reset value from the desired pixel compared with the reset value from a reference pixel. In this manner... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080246868 - Solid-state image sensing device: In a solid-state image sensing device, a second substrate having transparency, including a via is placed on a solid-state image sensor having a pixel region and a logic region formed in a first substrate and in which a passive component electrically connected with the solid-state image sensor through the via... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246870 - Transfer pulse generator circuit and image pickup apparatus: A transfer pulse generator circuit for outputting a vertical register transfer pulse includes transfer pulse control means for controlling to set rise and fall timings of the vertical register transfer pulse to desired timings in a predetermined period.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080246871 - Image display unit with sensor device mounted to frame: An image display unit (1) with a front frame (2) and with a sensor device (6) provided with a sensor (9). The sensor (9) is provided for detecting the luminance and/or the color location of an image that displayed on a display (7) of the image display unit (1). To... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246872 - System and method for improving performance of optical systems with tilted windows: An optical system with a tilted window. The novel optical system includes a first optical element for receiving an input signal and generating an output signal; a first window adapted to transmit the output signal, the first window being tilted at an angle relative to an axis normal to an... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080246873 - Solid-state image sensing device and electronic apparatus comprising same: A camera module 100a of the present invention includes a lens unit 10a which includes a lens 11 and a lens holder 12 holding the lens 11 therein, and an image sensing unit 20a which includes a solid-state image sensor 24 and a transparent lid section 26 which is arranged... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080246874 - Method for detecting image sequences having linewise repeated data: A method for detecting a video signal that represents an image sequence and exhibits linewise repeated video data comprises selecting a plurality of line groups each having a first, a second and a third line, which originate from two consecutive fields in the case of a field sequence and from... Agent: O'shea, Getz, Kosakowski, P.C.

20080246875 - System and method for frequency translation using an image reject mixer: Frequency translation, such as frequency up conversion of a video baseband or intermediate frequency to a desired frequency division broadcast channel, is provided utilizing a single sideband or image reject mixer and filtering having relaxed selectivity requirements. According to a preferred embodiment, a first single sideband mixer accepts an input... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080246876 - Video de-interlacer using pixel trajectory: A method of de-interlacing interlaced video information including determining functional equations which estimate trajectories of corresponding pixel locations based on statistical information, updating each functional equation with sampled pixel values from the interlaced video information of corresponding pixel locations, and evaluating the functional equations at a time point of a... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20080246877 - Iterative method for interpolating video information values: The invention relates to an iterative method for determining an interpolated video information value in an image that exhibits a number of image regions arrayed for example in matrix fashion, at least one of which is an image region to be interpolated, and that is disposed temporally between a first... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20080246878 - Teletext processing circuit: The invention relates to a device that comprises a memory circuit with memory cells that use floating gate storage transistors, which are conventionally called non-volatile memory cells. A particular embodiment relates to a teletext circuit. A teletext processing circuit comprising a decoder logic circuit and a memory circuit integrated together... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080246879 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a device detecting portion which performs detection of device portions which are connected to a communication bus; a storing portion which stores kind information which shows kind of all the device portions that can be connected to the communication bus and general-purpose control program which... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080246880 - Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, computer program product, and image display apparatus: A video signal processing apparatus includes a video signal synthesis section for, when positions after and before a border position by a predetermined length are respectively set as first and second positions, taking out a first main area part corresponding to a part before the border position and a first... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080246881 - Dtv receiving system and method of processing dtv signal: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes a known data detector, and a channel impulse response (CIR) estimator, a CIR calculator, a coefficient calculator, and a multiplier. The known data detector detects positions of known data and field sync data included in a data group. The CIR estimator estimates CIRs... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080246882 - Nonlinear processing device and image display apparatus: A nonlinearly processed (gamma-corrected) video signal is subjected to three-dimensional signal level correction using three-dimensional correction values and corresponding to a position in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of a pixel on a display screen of an image display unit and the signal level of the pixel data.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080246883 - Image processing program, image processing method, and image processor: A parameter for determining a chrominance correction curve for use in correcting the chrominance component of each pixel is determined from one or more parameters for determining a luminance correction curve for use in correcting luminance applied to the entirety of one frame of motion picture data. The chrominance component... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080246885 - Image-processing method and device: The present invention relates to an image-processing method and an image-processing device. The device includes a motion estimation module, an intra-field operation module, an inter-field operation module, a weighing value generator and a blending unit. The method includes: receiving a block of an inter-frame-estimated frame and acquiring a motion vector... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080246884 - Motion estimation method: For de-interlacing a current interlaced field using a prior interlaced field and a subsequent interlaced field, a motion estimation method is performed with a group of motion-vector sets. Each motion-vector set includes at least two motion vectors. According to the two motion vectors and a specified block of the current... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080246886 - Method and apparatus for receiving digital contents through data broadcasting channel: A method and apparatus for receiving digital contents through a data broadcasting channel are provided. The method includes analyzing information related to contents which is requested by a user while receiving broadcasting; and selectively receiving the contents through an idle tuner from among a plurality of tuners, according to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246887 - Dtv receiving system and method of processing dtv signal: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes a tuner, a demodulator, a known data detector, an equalizer, a transmission detector, and a block decoder. The tuner receives a DTV signal having a data frame in which main and mobile service data are multiplexed. The demodulator demodulates the DTV signal, and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080246888 - Method and apparatus for receiving and reproducing broadcast data by means of wireless communication: A method and apparatus for receiving and reproducing broadcast data by means of wireless communication. When wireless communication is disconnected, by switching to a power saving mode and reproducing a predetermined sound source or image to a user, a sound source or image can be continuously provided to the user,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080246889 - Method and apparatus for providing help: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing help information about manipulating an apparatus. The method includes determining help information to be provided according to a state of button manipulation by a user, determining at least one notifying method for providing the help information referring to behavior pattern information of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246890 - Tv interface control system and method with automatic search: An automatic search system and method is disclosed which automatically displays a search menu on a TV in response to opening a remote control having an internal concealed keyboard. Since a text entry keyboard is known to be in use a streamlined search menu may be displayed without an on... Agent: David L. Henty

20080246891 - Pulse width modulation algorithm: In display systems employing spatial light modulators, the OFF-state light from OFF-state pixels of the spatial light modulator can be captured and directed back to the pixels of the spatial light modulator so as to recycle the OFF-state light in the display system. Bitplanes derived from the desired image to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080246893 - Internal light masking in projection systems: A system and method is provided for masking traditional grey bars which are produced by displaying wide screen images within a full screen native projector and visa versa. This method allows blocking of light for unused portions of the screen thereby producing higher contrast images. In an exemplary embodiment, a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080246892 - Projection screen: A projection screen is provided, which includes a casing having an opening disposed at the bottom thereof. The casing at least has two shafts, two screens, two stay tubes, and two driving devices disposed therein. Each of the shafts has a screen wound thereon, each screen correspondingly has a stay... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080239061 - First portable communication device: In accordance with this invention, there is provided a first portable communication device for communicating with a second portable communication device, the first portable communication device including a communication module for transmitting and receiving video and audio information; an electronic display; a first image capture device for capturing an image... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080239062 - System and method for multipoint conferencing with scalable video coding servers and multicast: A multicast scalable video communication server (MSVCS) is disposed in a multi-endpoint video conferencing system having multicast capabilities and in which audiovisual signals are scalably coded. The MVCVS additionally has unicast links to endpoints. The MSVCS caches audiovisual signal data received from endpoints over multicast communication channels, and retransmits the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080239063 - Stereoscopic observation system: A stereoscopic observation system includes a stereoscopic image pick up apparatus to pick up left and right images at an inward angle, a stereoscopic image display apparatus to transmit the left and right images picked up by the stereoscopic image pick up apparatus to an observer so that the images... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080239064 - Stereoscopic image pickup apparatus and method of adjusting optical axis: A stereoscopic camera includes first and second image pickup units, having respectively first and second optical axes, for photographing an object to form two image frames. Two angle adjusters make angle adjustment of the optical axes. An object detector detects a human face as a principal object in the two... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239065 - Three-dimensional light beam acquisition apparatus: A three-dimensional light beam acquisition apparatus includes an imaging optical system and an illumination optical system. The imaging optical system includes a first optical element that allows to pass through light from a subject; a second optical element that is arranged on the optical axis of the first optical element,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080239066 - Methods and systems for displaying three-dimensional images: Methods and systems are provided for displaying 3D images using a display system having multiple physical layers. The physical layers of the display system are controlled (or manufactured) such that the display system produces a desired 4D light field corresponding to a real or synthetic 3D object or scene to... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20080239067 - Optical concatenation for field sequential stereoscpoic displays: A device used in projecting or transmitting stereoscopic images is provided. The device includes a multi-section light emitter, such as a “color wheel or a series of light emitting diodes (LEDs) configured to emit light energy in multiple sections. Each section of light energy has an optical attribute associated therewith,... Agent: Real D - Patent Department

20080239068 - Color and polarization timeplexed stereoscopic display apparatus: A device used in projecting stereoscopic images is provided. The device includes an illumination source configured to transmit light energy in multiple sections or segments, each section or segment having an optical attribute associated therewith, such as a color (red, green, blue). The illumination source may include light emitting diodes... Agent: Real D - Patent Department

20080239069 - Encapsulated self-balancing remote video camera system: An encapsulated self-balancing remote video camera system is provided, which is capable of righting itself into an upright, balanced position. The encapsulated self-balancing remote video camera system has a video camera, wireless communication means and balancing mass disposed within an internal, self-righting, inner structure. The inner structure is disposed within... Agent: Townsend & Banta C/o Portfolio Ip

20080239070 - Imaging system with a single color image sensor for simultaneous fluorescence and color video endoscopy: An endoscopic video system and method using a camera with a single color image sensor, for example a CCD color image sensor, for fluorescence and color imaging and for simultaneously displaying the images acquired in these imaging modes at video rates in real time is disclosed. The tissue under investigation... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20080239071 - Imaging apparatus of electronic endoscope and electronic endoscope: An imaging apparatus is provided and includes: a solid-state imaging device that receives image light of an observed portion inside of a coelom to output an imaging signal of the image light; a cover glass disposed above an light receiving surface of the solid-state imaging device so that the cover... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239072 - Door monitor with a portable storage medium: A door monitor with a portable storage medium includes a host module disposed behind the door, a night-vision camera module disposed outside the door and electrically connected with the host module, a sensor disposed outside the door for detecting whether any object is approaching, and a microphone connected with the... Agent: Frenkel & Associates, P.C.

20080239075 - Method and apparatus for improving video performance in a wireless surveillance system: A method of improving video performance in video surveillance system having a wireless encoder connected to a video surveillance network by a wireless access point device comprises the steps of allocating channel bandwidth to the wireless encoder from the wireless access point device, transmitting packets of video data from the... Agent: Pelco

20080239074 - Remote display method and system for a monitor apparatus: A remote displaying method for monitor apparatus, comprises: converting step, for converting a plurality of graphic elements which constitute a displayed graphic on the monitor apparatus into a plurality of corresponding display instructions; transmitting step, for transmitting the display instructions to a remote display apparatus; receiving step, for receiving the... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20080239073 - System for detecting incorrectly functioning sensors in a visitor counting system: In a visitor counting system a plurality of sensors (107, 108, 109, 110) count the number of visitors passing by. A data-recording device (105, 106) connected to the sensors store records comprising the number of visitors counted within a predetermined time period. A remote visitor data processing unit (120) further... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20080239079 - Entry control point device, system and method: The present invention provides an entry control device, system and method which can recognize a vehicle by its undercarriage image only. The present invention compares a new vehicle undercarriage image with those stored in a reference database to facilitate the automatic search of a vehicle's undercarriage. The present invention can... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080239076 - Forward looking sensor system: Systems and methods are provided for controlling a plurality of vehicle systems. A forward looking sensor (12) is configured to obtain a two-dimensional image of a space in front of the vehicle. A region identification element (14) divides the two-dimensional image into a plurality of regions. Each region represents a... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080239080 - Head-mounted rear vision system: The rear vision system was invented to allow a bicycle, motorcycle rider, or an operator of any vehicle to safely and easily check his rear view without requiring the rider's head to be in a predetermined position. The system is comprised of a video camera which is mounted to a... Agent: Jonathan D. Moscato

20080239077 - Motor vehicle accident recording system: A motor vehicle accident recording system for portable installation in a conventional motor vehicle includes: a.) a looping video camera to record audio and video through a windshield of a motor vehicle for a period of a predetermined time, and to record over previous recordings in excess of the predetermined... Agent: Kenneth P. Glynn

20080239078 - Video image presentation system: A system for presenting video images from a vehicle environment includes taking video images of the vehicle environment, detecting sensor data of the vehicle environment or the vehicle, processing the sensor data, recognizing objects in the video images, and visualizing the processed sensor data in the displayed video images by... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20080239081 - System and method for tracking an input device using a display screen in captured frames of image data: A system and method for tracking an input device uses positional information of a display screen in frames of image data to determine the relative position of the input device with respect to the display screen.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080239082 - Hdmi format video pattern and audio frequencies generator for field test and built-in self test: A versatile video pattern and audio pattern generation module, that can be integrated onto a video integrated circuit (IC) to generate functional video test input data, in HDMI format, for gray bars, color bars and moving bar data patterns, and to further generate single-tone audio signals, is disclosed. This video... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080239083 - Electronic apparatus, electronic camera, electronic instrument, image display apparatus and image transmission system: In an electronic apparatus having a user identification function or in a user identification method, an electronic apparatus and an electronic instrument having stored therein user personal information communicate in wireless with each other so as to enable the electronic apparatus to automatically identify the electronic apparatus user. If the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239084 - Image taking apparatus: There is provided an image taking apparatus capable of preferably correcting both the camera shake and the subject shake in the still picture photography. The image taking apparatus has a system control section that determines whether a subject is a still subject or a dynamic subject. When the system control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239085 - Apparatus that supports electronic viewfinding: An apparatus with camera function supports electronic viewfinding. An image sensor (100, 102) of the apparatus is manually directed at a scene. Exploratory images obtained from the image sensor (100, 102) are electronically processed, to generate an indication signal that is indicative of whether a content of the exploratory images... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080239093 - Digital camera device providing improved methodology for rapidly taking successive pictures: An in-camera two-stage compression implementation is described that reduces the latency between snapshots to a fraction of that otherwise required by other systems that either process complete compression following each snapshot or that incorporate heavy, bulky, and expensive RAM hardware capable of maintaining several raw luminosity records (unprocessed file containing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080239086 - Digital camera, digital camera control process, and storage medium storing control program: A digital camera that includes an imaging component, a display component, a characteristic information extraction component, an assistance image determination component and a control component. The imaging component images a subject and outputs image information representing the subject. The display component implements display on the basis of the image information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239088 - Extended depth of field forming device: An extended depth of field forming device having: an image pickup element which has a plurality of pixels and performs photoelectric conversion of an optical image and generates image signals based on the optical image; an image pickup optical system which creates an optical image of a subject; and an... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080239089 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: An image pickup method of picking up images at a frame rate changeably set out of a plurality of frame rates is provided. The method includes the steps of: setting a vertical synchronization cycle in accordance with a set frame rate and adding an image pickup signal that does not... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080239091 - Image pickup apparatus and method: A digital still camera includes a lens system. A cold mirror separates object light incident on the lens system into a visible light component and an infrared component. A visible light image sensor outputs a first image signal of a visible light image by receiving the visible light component. An... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239092 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that includes a sightline detection unit that detects the line of sight of a subject directed toward an imaging device in a captured image captured by the imaging device and containing at least one subject and a sightline indicating unit that clearly... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080239087 - Image processing system and image acquisition method: An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-emission of light from the illumination unit, captures a first... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080239090 - Picture processing apparatus and method: A first filter generates a first smooth picture by smoothing an input picture. A second filter generates a second smooth picture by smoothing the input picture. The second filter has a characteristic different from the first filter. A contrast component picture calculation unit generates a contrast component picture by dividing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080239094 - Method of and apparatus for image denoising: An image denoising system and method of implementing the image denoising system is described herein. Noise is decomposed within each channel into frequency bands, and sub-band noise is propagated. Denoising is then able to occur at any node in a camera pipeline after accurately predicting noise that is signal level-dependent,... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080239095 - Camera with automatic fluorescent lighting mode: A novel method and apparatus for controlling operation of a photosensor array in a portable electronic device to reduce flicker resulting from fluorescent light having a periodic intensity. The method comprises selecting a time zone in which the device is to be operated, correlating the time zone with a corresponding... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080239096 - System and method for associating device information with digital images: A source electronic device, system and method that is configured to associate a digital image with the source electronic device that generated the digital image is described. The source electronic device comprises a camera, a source identification module, a processor and a memory module. The camera captures at least one... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080239099 - Camera: A camera according has an interchangeable lens unit removably attached to a camera body, and an image-generating processor that generates image data of a subject captured by the lens unit. A memory provided in the lens unit stores distortion data. The distortion data is associated with an approximation function, which... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080239098 - Digital camera and control method thereof: In the present invention, a second CPU is configured to include an image recognition function part, an image compression/expansion part as a reduced image generation part, a WUSB connection authentication Host image generation function as a list generation part, and a recording medium access part as an image record controlling... Agent: John C. Pokotylo Straub & Pokotylo

20080239100 - Event based picture storage: There is provided an apparatus, an integrated circuit, a digital camera, and a method for automatically recording pictures on a digital camera. The digital camera, for example, configured to receive a user-defined prerequisite for recording a picture; capture a plurality of pictures; determine whether at least one picture of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080239097 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The present invention provides an image processing technology for detecting the motion vector of an image pickup target with increased accuracy. Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that includes: an image processing buffer for storing images that are input from a plurality of image pickup devices; a distance image calculation... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080239101 - Image pickup apparatus, image signal processing apparatus, and image signal processing method: A histogram detecting unit detects a distribution of numbers of pixels by luminance level of a picked-up image signal. A maximum luminance value calculating unit calculates a maximum luminance value of the inputted image signal. A high luminance proportion calculating unit calculates a proportion of a high luminance signal out... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080239102 - Camera controller and zoom ratio control method for the camera controller: Camera control apparatus enabling a user to intuitively understand a photographing direction and zoom magnification of a camera at the time of switching over an image, and enabling camera control to be started immediately. At camera control apparatus (120), camera image switching section (121) switches over images of cameras instructed... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080239103 - Camera with multiple viewfinders: A novel method and apparatus for controlling the display of a portable electronic device having a user input device and a camera function; the portable electronic device including a photosensor chip having a sensor array of a predetermined number of rows and columns of pixels for converting radiant energy into... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080239104 - Method and apparatus for providing composition information in digital image processing device: Provided is a method and apparatus for providing composition information in a digital image processing device whereby composition information of a target object displayed in a live-view screen is provided using auditory information or visual information during photographing in order to induce a composition of the target object to be... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080239110 - Fixed pattern noise removal circuit, fixed pattern noise removal method, program, and image pickup apparatus: A fixed pattern noise removal circuit is provided for removing vertical streak fixed pattern noise from an output signal of an image sensor including an output system for every predetermined number of columns. The fixed pattern noise removal circuit includes a correction signal output unit configured to output a correction... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080239107 - Imaging apparatus: A digital camera includes a distortion correction section, which is composed of a focal length determining section, a distortion evaluation section and a correction amount calculating section. The focal length determining section evaluates a focal length at the time of image capture. Based on the focal length, the distortion evaluation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239109 - Method and apparatus for correcting image distortion: A method by means of mathematical mapping to remove distortions due to a camera lens, distortions due to image placement relative to the camera, and distortions due to affixing images on curved surfaces is disclosed. The invention provides a method for creating a mapping which, when applied to graphics or... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080239106 - Redundant-bit-added digital-analog converter, analog-digital converter, and image sensor: A redundant-bit-added digital-analog converter has a first input terminal and a second input terminal and outputs a ramp voltage obtained by quantizing a voltage difference between a first voltage+ΔV and a second voltage−ΔV with n+1/2q bits, when a voltage input to the first input terminal is the first voltage, a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080239105 - Sample and hold circuits for cmos imagers: A CMOS image sensor includes a photodiode for receiving incident light that is converted to a charge signal; a transfer mechanism for transferring the charge to a sensing node that converts the charge signal to an image voltage signal; and a sample-and-hold circuit. The sample-and-hold circuit includes a capacitor that... Agent: Frank Pincelli, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080239108 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section with a plurality of pixels arranged into two dimensions, each having a photoelectric conversion section for effecting photoelectric conversion, an accumulation section for temporarily storing a signal generated at the photoelectric conversion section, a transfer means for transferring the signal of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080239111 - Method and appratus for dark current compensation of imaging sensors: Disclosed embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for dark current compensation of imager pixels signals. A row-wise dark offset is calculated and then subtracted from the imaging pixel signals, a row-wise dark offset for at least one row being different from a row-wise dark offset for at least another row.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080239113 - Camera sensor defect correction and noise reduction: Systems and methods for camera sensor defect correction and noise reduction are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method may include comparing a pixel in a digital image to neighboring pixels to identify an anomaly. The method may also include ignoring the anomaly if the anomaly occurs in at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080239112 - Defective pixel detector, defective pixel-detection process and imaging system: An output signal of a CCD or other solid-state imaging device (101) is converted at an A/D converter (102) into a digital signal, which is in turn loaded in a latch (103). The latch (103) comprises a delay unit, a line memory, etc. to hold pixel data demanded by a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080239115 - Image processing device, method, and program storage medium: There is a provided an image processing device having: a storage section for storing defective pixel information expressing defective pixels of an image pickup element; a correction section that, on the basis of the defective pixel information, carries out correction of defective pixels on an image captured by the image... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080239114 - Method and apparatus to detect a dead pixel of an image sensor and method and apparatus to capture an image from an image sensor: A method and apparatus to detect a dead pixel in an image sensor having a pixel array to generate a plurality of image frames, and a method and apparatus to capture an image from the image sensor detect a dead pixel in the image sensor. A change of a scene... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080239116 - Method and apparatus for automatic linear shift parallax correction for multi-array image systems: A method and apparatus for correcting linear shift parallax error in multi-array image systems. Average pixel cell signal values for pixel cells within a summing window of each column or row of at least two sub-arrays are computed during read-out. The images of the sub-arrays are correlated based on the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080239118 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus and recording medium storing image processing medium: The input section acquires image data and information about subject condition at the time of photographing the image data. The adjusting section determines a brightness enhancement amount of dark area gradation of the image data, depending on the subject condition at the time of photographing. The correcting section performs image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239117 - Shading detecting method and shading detecting apparatus for camera module: An exemplary shading detecting method for a camera module is provided. In the method, a plurality of brightness values are measured from a plurality of predetermined regions of a stable rectangular image generated by the camera module. A plurality of brightness differences, each based on a comparison between a respective... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080239119 - Image capturing system and technique: An image-capturing device includes a lens, a grid of light-sensitive elements, a sampling mechanism, and an image generation module. The lens is configured to be triggerable to open for a given duration. The grid is positioned so that when the lens is open, light is cast onto the grid. Each... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080239120 - Image-sensing module and manufacturing method thereof, and image capture apparatus: An image-sensing module is provided. The image-sensing module includes a substrate, a plurality of image-sensing units, a plurality of micro lenses and a focusing unit. The image-sensing units are disposed on the substrate and the micro lenses are respectively disposed on one of the image-sensing units. The focusing unit is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080239121 - Imaging apparatus including noise suppression circuit: There is an imaging apparatus including a noise suppression circuit. The noise suppression circuit includes sorting of one signal of a central pixel and four signals of peripheral pixels having the same color which are close to the central pixel in the image signals in order of magnitude, calculating of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239122 - System and method for non-invasive conversion of film cameras into digital camera: A system and method for converting a film camera into a digital camera uses an electronic device placed in a space of the camera that normally contains film. The device includes an image sensing array arranged in optical communication with a lens of the camera when a shutter is open.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080239123 - Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device and camera system: A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging section having multiple pixels laid out in a matrix form for performing photoelectric conversion and multiple vertical transfer sections that vertically transfer signal charges of the multiple pixels in columns, a control section that controls the transfer, hold and addition of signal charges... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080239126 - Cmos solid-state image pickup apparatus: Basically, en electronic shutter function of a CMOS solid-state image pickup apparatus is implemented by a rolling shutter of which exposure timing sequentially shifts between pixel rows. The exposure period for one pixel row is from a time point when readout of the pixel row is started to a time... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080239125 - Image sensor suitable for operating in subresolution mode: “An image sensor suitable for operating in subresolution mode, including a plurality of pixels each formed of an elementary cell including a photodiode, and a reset transistor for connecting the photodiode to a reference voltage source, and a readout transistor connected to a column bus bar for acquiring the value... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080239127 - Method and apparatus for processing a pixel signal: An NchMOS transistor Q71 on the input side of a current mirror 70 is made function as a voltage operating-point setting portion so that a pixel signal line potential (voltage of a horizontal signal line 20) would be constantly stable nearly at the GND. Then, an amplification factor and linearity... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080239124 - Solid-state imaging device, signal processing method of solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device is disclosed. The device includes: a pixel array unit in which unit pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are two-dimensionally arranged and a first signal and a second signal are outputted to a signal line as a pixel signal; a signal processing unit including a variable gain... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080239130 - Drive method of ccd-type solid-state image pickup device and image pickup apparatus: A drive method of a CCD-type solid-state image pickup device, the image pickup device comprising vertical charge transfer path with vertical transfer electrodes, wherein the method transfers signal charges read from pixels of the image pickup device along the vertical charge transfer path, the method comprising a plurality of steps... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239128 - Imaging apparatus and drive control method for image pickup device: A drive control method for an image pickup device is disclosed. The image pickup device includes two-dimensionally arranged light receiving elements to photoelectrically convert incoming light, vertical transfer paths to transfer charges, which have been generated through the photoelectric conversion by the light receiving elements, in the vertical direction, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239129 - Method and device for driving solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and image synthesizing method: A method for driving a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array, each of the plurality of pixels accumulating a signal charge according to an amount of incident light, is provided. The method includes: performing electron multiplication of a first signal charge at a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239131 - Device and method for adjusting orientation of a data representation displayed on a display: An electronic device, preferably in the form of a mobile phone, comprising a support structure and a camera carried by the support structure. An orientation detector is connected to the camera. The orientation detector is configured to identify images features in an image captured by the camera, such as the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080239132 - Image display unit, image taking apparatus, and image display method: There is provided an image display unit having a main screen and one or more sub-screens, wherein two or more zoom areas are designated, and images of the designated zoom areas are displayed on the sub-screens. The image display unit includes: a first display section that displays images on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239133 - Image manipulator for a camera: A method and system for editing an image with a camera includes simultaneously displaying a first image and a second image separate from each other on a display screen of the camera and modifying the first image, via a user interface of the camera, using a portion of the second... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080239134 - Webcam with moveable zoom lens: A webcam with an optical lens that can manually be moved into a position in front of the camera lens. The lens may slide or be rotated to a position in front of the camera lens. The optical lens may be a zoom lens, such that, in combination with the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080239135 - Multi-eye image pickup device: A stereo camera comprises a camera body, a lens barrel rotatably attached to the camera body, and a converter lens barrel 14 detachably attached to the camera body. The lens barrel contains a pair of a first imaging optical system and a first CCD, and a pair of a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239136 - Focal length detecting for image capture device: A device detects focal length using image data and an optical system is driven. Image data are acquired while changing focal length to lens. For each image data, high frequency contrast component evaluated values VH, and low frequency contrast component evaluated values VL, are acquired. If there is no moire,... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080239138 - Image pickup lens, image pickup apparatus and mobile terminal: An image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side thereof: a aperture stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and having... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080239137 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus is provided and includes: an imaging optical system; an imaging device; a drive section that relatively moves the imaging optical system and the imaging device; and a control section that controls the drive section so as to repeatedly drive and stop the drive section during a period... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239139 - Mobile communication terminal and method for displaying image using focus information thereof: A portable terminal and a method for displaying an image using focus information are disclosed. An interested area of the captured subject image can be rapidly displayed on the display. The captured subject image can be displayed on the display, according to the features of an interested area image. At... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080239140 - Adaptive aperture for an imaging scanner: An apparatus and method is provided for focusing an image of a target object. The apparatus comprises imaging circuitry for analyzing an image reflected from a target object that is projected onto an imaging sensor coupled to the imaging circuitry. A fixed imaging lens having an optical axis in alignment... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080239141 - Digital camera structure: The present invention provides a digital camera structure structured from a rotating portion and a fixed portion. The rotating portion is configured with a lens used to capture desired images being filmed. Moreover, a magnetic flux device, attracted to a magnetic flux body of the fixed portion, is held within... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080239142 - Image pickup apparatus: Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus configured to include an image pickup unit housing in which an image pickup unit that picks up images is housed, and a handle that is disposed on an upper part of the image pickup unit housing at a predetermined gap from the image pickup... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080239143 - Method and apparatus for adaptively converting frame rate based on motion vector, and display device with adaptive frame rate conversion function: An interpolation image generation method and apparatus for adaptively converting a frame rate based on a motion vector, and a display device having an adaptive frame rate conversion function are provided. The interpolation image generation method includes an interpolation image generation process calculating motion vectors from a previous image unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239144 - Frame rate conversion device and image display apparatus: An interpolation frame generation unit includes a first unit that uses, with respect to each of pixel positions, which are determined to be a motionless region by a region determination unit, in an interpolation frame, any of an image at the same pixel position in the preceding frame, an image... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080239145 - Image expansion apparatus, video display apparatus and image expansion method: According to one embodiment, an image expansion apparatus includes a vertical interpolating part obtaining a pixel value of an interpolation target pixel based on pixel values of an upper pixel and a lower pixel of the interpolation target pixel, a diagonal interpolating part obtaining a pixel value of the interpolation... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080239146 - Video signal interpolation apparatus and method thereof: According to one embodiment, a video signal interpolation apparatus has: a correlation calculating unit calculating correlation calculation values by correlating each of a plurality of peripheral pixels with another plurality of peripheral pixels existing in a periphery of an object interpolation pixel; a sub-pixel estimation unit estimating a position of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080239147 - Digital display control device and method thereof: The invention discloses a display control device and method thereof. The display control device and method thereof utilize the phase deviation and the frequency deviation between the output signal and the input signal caused during channel switching to provide converting time acceptable by a display device and to achieve the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080239148 - Sharing a video display between telephony and computing devices: An apparatus and method are disclosed that enable the sharing, between a telephone and a computer, of input peripherals such as a keyboard and mouse and of output peripherals such as a video display. Historically, a telephone and a computer have possessed different interfaces with their user and with peripheral... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080239149 - Osd system having colorful and dynamic osd menu and method for controlling same: An exemplary on-screen display (OSD) system (3) includes a display device (5) and a computer (4) connected to the display device. The display device includes a micro processing unit (MPU) (532) configured for providing a plurality of instruction signals according to external instructions. The computer includes a memory (41) and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080239150 - Using a region restricted cleanup signal to bridge a signal level mismatch between a blue screen and an adjoining garbage matte: A visible luminance step in a background scene, caused by a signal level mismatch between a matte signal level and a blue backing signal level, is significantly reduced by a soft edge transition region that raises the blue backing signal level up to the signal level of a garbage matte... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080239151 - Video signal processing apparatus, video display apparatus and video signal processing method: According to one embodiment, a video signal processing apparatus has a scaling processing unit configured to perform scaling processing on a video signal, an expansion processing unit configured to perform expansion processing on a video signal, and a switching unit configured to switch whether the scaling processing unit uses a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080239152 - Sub picture reproducing device, sub picture reproducing method, and sub picture reproducing program: According to one embodiment, a sub picture reproducing device comprises an input unit configured such that a sub picture stream provided with display control information including sub picture pixel data to be displayed and color codes to specify display colors of the pixel data, a setting unit configured to set... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080239153 - Noise detection and estimation techniques for picture enhancement: A method of filtering noise from a picture may include determining a set of pixel noise metrics for a set of selected pixels in the picture, based solely on information from the set of selected pixels in the picture. The method may also designate as valid a subset of pixel... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080239154 - Noise reduction apparatus and noise reduction method: According to one embodiment, an input image signal is passed through a plurality of first high pass filters having different passing frequency band to generate level histograms. High frequency component noise reduction processing is applied to the output of one of the first high pass filters selected based on one... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080239155 - Low complexity color de-noising filter: Methods and apparatuses for color denoising are described. There is provided an image processing method. The method comprises the steps of retrieving chrominance level for a plurality of pixels in a predetermined configuration; computing a weight for each pixel; applying the weight to the chrominance level for each the pixel;... Agent: Mandy Jubang Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao LLP

20080239156 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus is equipped with an image pickup device in which pixels coated with different color filters are arranged. Further, the image pickup apparatus includes a separation unit that separates a video signal outputted from the pixels coated with the different color filters into three color image signals;... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080239157 - Memory efficient gamma correction for multiple display devices: One embodiment is directed to a gamma correction unit. The gamma correction unit includes a first and at least one second lookup table. In addition, the gamma correction unit includes a first and at least one second selecting circuits, and at least one combining circuit. The first lookup table may... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080239158 - Adaptive gamma voltage switching method and device using the same: An adaptive Gamma voltage switching method and a device using the same is presented. An equalization unit utilizes a video data to obtain an equalized luminance data. An adaptive Gamma voltage switching core dynamically adjusts a Gamma voltage and outputs the adjusted Gamma voltage to a panel according to the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080239159 - Video content identification using scene change signatures from downscaled images: Apparatus for identifying video content includes a scene detector to detect a plurality of consecutive scenes in the video content. The video content may include a video program and an advertisement contained within the video program. A signature generator determines a scene change signature for each of the plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080239160 - System and method for presenting multiple pictures on a television: Provided is a method and system for displaying video from a plurality of video streams on a display. It includes an input interface for receiving video data from a plurality of video streams and transferring the video data to a frame controller in communication with a television display. The frame... Agent: Perry M. Fonseca & Associates, P.C.

20080239161 - Dtv receiving system and method of processing dtv signal: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes an information detector, a resampler, a timing recovery unit, and a carrier recovery unit. The information detector detects a known data sequence which is periodically inserted in a digital television (DTV) signal received from a DTV transmitting system. The resampler resamples the DTV... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080239164 - Ez home cinema: A projector assembly includes a projector for projecting images and a plurality of speakers for reproducing sound. The projector assembly further includes a mounting bracket connected to a surface. The projector assembly includes a support assembly connected to the mounting bracket, wherein the projector and the plurality of speakers are... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080239163 - Method and system for inserting digital video effects into a video stream after bypass routing and before encoding: A system and apparatus for generating an output signal includes a receiving system 160 generating a plurality of signals having a first format, a digital video effects module 240 inserting a digital video effect into at least a first signal of the plurality of signals, an encoder 182 encoding the... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080239162 - Method and system for inserting digital video effects into a video stream at a multiplexing device after routing: A system and apparatus for generating an output signal includes a receiving system 160 generating a plurality of signals having a first format, an encoder 182 encodes the plurality of signals into a plurality of transport streams and a multiplexer 210. A local area network 130 routes the plurality of... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080239165 - Broadcast receiving device: A broadcast receiving device includes a receiving component, a comparison component and a drive signal generating component. The receiving component is configured to receive broadcast waves and extract a video signal from the broadcast waves. The comparison component is configured to compare quality of the video signal with a first... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080239166 - Driving circuit of display element, image display apparatus, and television apparatus: A driving circuit for display elements, comprises a modulation circuit that outputs a modulating signal to be applied to wiring to which display elements are connected; and an output circuit that serializes modulation data including height value data for determining a height value of at least part of waveform of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239168 - Ergonomic lay flat folding remote control with keyboard: An ergonomic folding remote control with keyboard is disclosed. The folding remote control with keyboard has an ergonomic angled typing surface and thicker forward section along with a lay flat design. The remote controller may be conveniently held in one hand of a user when in the folded or closed... Agent: David L. Henty

20080239167 - Remote control of interactive television by telephone: A method and system for managing television programs are provided. Accordingly, a viewer initiates a call connection to a remote server using a telephone unit, and the server interactively issues a command signal indicative of the program desired by the viewer. The command signal is transmitted to a receiver or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080239169 - Method and system for providing a transition between linear content and non-linear content: A method and system may include sending a non-linear content signal to cause display of non-linear content at a display device, identifying a termination identifier associated with display of the non-linear content, and sending a graphical user interface signal to cause display of a graphical user interface that includes a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080239171 - Image displaying apparatus and display controlling device: An image displaying apparatus includes laser light sources corresponding to a plurality of colors, while at least one of the laser light sources corresponding to one of the colors includes a plurality of wavelength conversion laser light sources corresponding to a mutually same color and has a plurality of outputs.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239170 - Low profile, high efficiency projector for handheld electronic devices: A low profile projector (102) for handheld devices (100) comprise a spatial light modulator (400) that has an aspect ratio that is increased relative to a standard video format and relative to an image projected by the low profile projector. The reduced height of the spatial light modulator (400) allows... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080239172 - Table type bi-directional imaging apparatus: Disclosed is a table type bi-directional imaging apparatus, in which left and right viewers located at left and right sides simultaneously view the same picture or different pictures. The table type bi-directional imaging apparatus includes a table case having a table shape; a transparent window formed through the center of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC