Television inventions 11/08

20080291263 - Communication system: When a line for communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. The IP addresses are required for communicating image data by first and second... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080291261 - Mobile terminal and video transmission method thereof: A video communication-enabled mobile terminal and video transmission method thereof that are capable of applying various visual effects to a video image transmitted to a counterpart terminal are provided. The video transmission method of a mobile terminal includes establishing a video call according to a video call request and transmitting... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080291260 - Portable video conferencing device: A portable video conferencing device includes a mobile computing device and an audio input device, a video camera, and at least one wireless radio chipset electrically linked to the mobile computing device. The video camera provides a video output stream and can execute commands received at the portable video conferencing... Agent: Thomas E. Bejin Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080291262 - Visual communication method and appratus: A visual communication method and apparatus that maintain a reliable video quality regardless of variation of source video data amount is provided. The visual communication method includes capturing a video image; filtering video data of a predetermined part of the video image; encoding the video image including filtered video data;... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080291264 - Digital camera for tv conference: There is provided an inexpensive digital camera for a TV conference used in a TV conference held between locations remote from each other with a large number of attendees on both sides to acquire an image of all the attendees. The digital camera 1 for a TV conference used in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080291265 - Smart cropping of video images in a videoconferencing session: Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling cropping areas of video images to match the allocated area associated with the image in a video conferencing layout. The disclosed methods can protect regions of interest from being cropped. A region of interest within a video image is identified to adjust the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080291266 - Apparatus, method and system for synchronizing a common broadcast signal among multiple television units: The invention provides an apparatus, system and method for allowing multiple television (TV) sets to communicate with each other in synchronizing their audiovisual signal output (when set to the same TV channel) to allow simultaneous viewing of common programming content.... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20080291269 - 3d image display method and system thereof: A three-dimensional image display method is disclosed. The three-dimensional image display method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: displaying an object image; displaying a background image by using a three-dimensional image display method; and disposing the object image at a close distance and the background image... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080291267 - Lenticular autostereoscopic display device and method, and associated autostereoscopic image synthesising method: An autostereoscopic display device includes a matrix display screen and a lenticular array arranged in front of the display screen. The lenticular array is adapted to receive and optically process a raster image transmitted by the display screen, with the raster image being encoded in order to integrate a plurality... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080291268 - Rendering of image data for multi-view display: The invention pertains to rendering of image data for a multi-view display, such as image data for a lenticular auto-stereoscopic display. The method comprising the steps of providing view-dependent image data for an image, determining a view-dependent intensity function, or luminance function, for the image, applying a spatial filtering to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080291270 - Transport system for monitoring industrial processes: A system transports a device into a piece of industrial equipment for the purpose of collecting data inside of the industrial equipment. In an embodiment, the industrial equipment is a furnace and the device is an IR camera. The system opens a door covering an opening on the furnace, moves... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080291273 - Brush holder assembly monitoring apparatus, assembly, system and method: Methods and systems for monitoring a brush holder assembly and/or detecting wear of a brush in a brush holder assembly are disclosed. One method includes sending data from a plurality of remote monitoring locations to a central control unit, where the data may be evaluated in order to monitor states... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080291272 - Method and system for remote estimation of motion parameters: A system and method, the method including calibrating an image capturing system; capturing a video sequence with the image capturing system; detecting a subject of interest in the video sequence; tracking the subject over a period of time; and extracting data associated with a motion of the subject based on... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar, LLC General Electric Company

20080291274 - Method for operating at least one camera: The invention relates to a method for operating at least one camera (2), in which a position of the at least one camera (2) is determined and information about a scene which can be observed on the basis of the position is made available for image processing.... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080291271 - Remote viewfinding: A system receives video from a user device, the video providing an indication of user device motion, and determines movement of a camera, separate from the user device, based on the user device motion.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080291275 - Video data processor device for a motor vehicle: This device for processing video data (10) comprises at least one video image acquisition unit (14). The unit (14) includes means (32) for generating an initial video image, the video image being defined by a video data set. The device further comprises means for transmitting data between the image acquisition... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080291276 - Method for driver assistance and driver assistance device on the basis of lane information: A method for driver assistance and a driver assistance device which operates on the basis of lane information are described. The lane information is ascertained from an image recorded by an image sensor and/or estimated on the basis of objects in this image depending on the weather conditions.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080291277 - Monocular display device: A head mounted support system for a head mounted apparatus. The apparatus includes a monocular display with a wireless communications interface, a user input device, a transmitter, receiver and a controller. The controller is configured to control the transmitter for sending and receiving control signals to and from an external... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080291279 - Method and system for performing video flashlight: In an immersive surveillance system, videos or other data from a large number of cameras and other sensors is managed and displayed by a video processing system overlaying the data within a rendered 2D or 3D model of a scene. The system has a viewpoint selector configured to allow a... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20080291280 - Retinal array compound camera system having at least three imaging sensors: The present invention provides a camera system having a compound array of imaging sensors disposed in a retinal configuration. The system comprises a concave housing. A first imaging sensor is centrally disposed along the housing. A second imaging sensor is disposed along the housing, adjacent to the first imaging sensor.... Agent: Gardere Wynne-houston

20080291278 - Wide-area site-based video surveillance system: A computer-readable medium contains software that, when read by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method for wide-area site-based surveillance. The method includes receiving surveillance data, including view targets, from a plurality of sensors at a site; synchronizing the surveillance data to a single time source; maintaining a... Agent: Venable LLP

20080291281 - Method and apparatus for implementing an overlay cursor and associated scope trigger in a video test generator: A method and apparatus for implementing a video test generator having an overlay cursor and an associated scope trigger are presented. A user interface permits a user to move a cursor across a displayed image, and to select a scope trigger point in the analog video stream based on the... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20080291282 - Camera calibration: Online camera calibration methods have been proposed whereby calibration information is extracted from the images that the system captures during normal operation and is used to continually update system parameters. However, such existing methods do not cope well with structure-poor scenes having little texture and/or 3D structure such as in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080291283 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: In an image processing apparatus which generates an input signal when a mobile information terminal contacts a display surface and makes a wireless communication with the contacting mobile information terminal, it is difficult to make an appropriate display by discriminating whether a contact object is a mobile information terminal or... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080291284 - Communication device and image transmission method: The invention relates to a communication device adapted to transmit images having a resolution adapted to a desired part of a picture. In an aspect of the present invention, the user can select a part of the image to be transmitted with the message service. Only the selected part is... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080291285 - Image processing apparatus for calculating global motion vector of plurality of image frames: An imaging device performs a process for dividing each of a plurality of image frames constituting moving image information generated by an imaging unit into a plurality of blocks; a process for tracking predetermined ones of the obtained blocks in one of two image frames before and after the image... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080291287 - Dynamic range compensation by filter cascade: A local method uses a cascade of multiple nonlinear edge preserving filters, and nonlinear pixel point operations, to calculate the pixel gain. Multiple low-pass filters are used, being applied to surrounding neighborhoods of the current pixel of narrow and of wide extent. The number of filter stages may be determined... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080291289 - Image pickup device, image pickup system, image pickup method, and image processing device: An image pickup device includes: an image pickup unit which picks up a subject at first and second exposure times; a high dynamic range (HDR) image data generating unit which generates first HDR image data configured by pixel data of which pixel values are expressed by a floating-point form in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080291290 - Imaging apparatus and processing method thereof: An imaging apparatus is provided having: a pixel unit including an effective pixel region of multiple pixels accumulating charges generated according to incident light to output signals and an ineffective pixel region of multiple pixels outputting signals not dependent on incident light; a plurality of vertical signal lines provided for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080291286 - Picture taking device and picture restoration method: In a digital still camera, the amount of blur when a picture is taken is calculated from a first picture captured with a high-speed electronic shutter and a second picture captured with a normal shutter speed (5), and the blur in the picture captured with the normal shutter speed, which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080291288 - Technique of motion estimation when acquiring an image of a scene that may be illuminated with a time varying luminance: In a digital camera or other image acquisition device, motion vectors between successive image frames of an object scene are calculated from normalized values of pixel luminance in order to reduce or eliminate any effects on the motion calculation that might occur when the object scene is illuminated from a... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080291291 - Apparatus and method for detecting flicker noise and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method:

20080291292 - Image input apparatus and method: An image input apparatus. A detection section detects a change cycle of an intensity of an external light inputted to a camera. A timing control section synchronizes the change cycle of the intensity of the external light with a plurality of input timings of the camera by changing a phase... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291293 - Image pickup apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image pickup apparatus is provided which has an exposure correction function and which determines a correction measure of exposure correction based on a parameter for determining an exposure amount, and performs the exposure correction by the determined correction measure so as to provide an image in a suitable exposure... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080291294 - Mobile terminal capable of modifying a flash image and method of modifying a flash image therewith: A mobile terminal capable of modifying a flash image is provided. The mobile terminal comprises a program configured to execute the steps of displaying the flash image stored in a first memory of the mobile terminal on the display unit; activating the object of the displayed flash image in response... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080291295 - Imaging apparatus, imaging circuit and imaging method: An image by using a solid-state imaging sensor, the imaging apparatus including: a compression section configured to compress image data by dividing the image data into blocks each composed of same color component pixels adjacent to each other as a unit of compression; a memory used for temporarily storing compressed... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080291296 - Solid-state imaging device, signal processing device and signal processing method for solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which unit pixels are arranged in a matrix shape and a signal processing circuit that obtains a first video signal and performs processing for combining the first and second video signals. The signal processing circuit includes judging means that judges... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080291297 - Imaging system: The invention relates to an imaging system in which, while high image quality is maintained with the influence of diffraction minimized, the quantity of light is controlled, and which enables the length of the zoom lens to be cut down. The imaging system comprises a zoom lens comprising a plurality... Agent: John C. Altmiller, Esq. Kenyon & Kenyon

20080291301 - Analog front-end circuit and electronic instrument: An analog front-end circuit includes an analog processing circuit, an A/D converter, a calculation circuit, and a correction amount register in which a correction amount is set. The analog processing circuit includes an offset adjustment circuit that includes an offset adjustment register. The calculation circuit monitors an A/D-converted value output... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080291298 - Image noise reduction apparatus and method: Provided is an image noise reduction method and apparatus in consideration of brightness of an image in a camera using an image pickup device such as a charge-coupled device (CCD) or a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). The method includes: detecting a degree of image motion by using data from a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080291300 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An image processing method is disclosed. The image processing method uses a first still image and a second still image which are chronologically successive and outputs an image from which noise has been reduced. A motion of the second still image is compensated block by block. Reliability of addition of... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080291299 - Imaging apparatus and method for controlling the same: An imaging apparatus includes a diaphragm unit configured to adjust an amount of incident light on an image sensor, a correction unit configured to perform a correction of an image signal that corresponds to driving of the diaphragm unit, and a control unit configured to control the diaphragm unit and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080291302 - Lens shading compensation apparatus and method, and image processor using the same: Disclosed are a lens shading compensation apparatus and a lens shading compensation method in an image sensor that compensate the difference in signal amplitude according to the position of pixels to preserve the quality of a primitive image. The lens shading compensation apparatus includes a pixel value analyzing part, an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080291304 - Imaging device and driving method thereof: There is provided an imaging device which eliminates complexity in reading an image in low resolution and reading an image in high resolution and realizes prevention of decrease in frame rate. The device includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixel elements and imaging an incident light of an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080291305 - Solid state imaging device and camera: In a solid state imaging device having a wide dynamic range, a pixel includes a photodiode that generates a charge in accordance with an intensity of incident light, signal generation units that generate a first voltage level in accordance with an amount of charge generated by the photodiode in an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080291303 - Solid-state imaging device and camera: Provided is a solid-state imaging device which is able to achieve reductions in size and in thickness of the device, while being also able to have an auxiliary function of imaging lenses, an infrared cut filter, an antireflection function, a dust preventing function for downsizing of packaging, and an infrared... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080291306 - Image sensing apparatus and method of acquiring traveling characteristics of light-shielding member: A method of acquiring traveling characteristics of rear blades in a camera having an image sensing element including a plurality of pixels. The method comprising acquiring the traveling characteristics of the rear blades based on an image signal output from a preset partial area of the image sensing element, and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080291307 - Imaging apparatus having electron source array: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291308 - Imaging apparatus having electron source array: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291309 - Current/voltage mode image sensor with switchless active pixels: A voltage and current mode active pixel sensor for high resolution imaging is presented. The photo pixel is composed of a photodiode and two transistors: reset and transconductance amplifier transistor. The switch transistor is moved outside the pixel, allowing for lower pixel pitch and increased linearity of the output photocurrent.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080291313 - High dynamic range imager with a rolling shutter: A high dynamic range imager operates pixels utilizing at least a short integration period and a long integration period. The pixel reading circuits of the imager are adapted to process pixel signals corresponding to the integration periods in parallel. The pixel signals are converted into digital values in parallel. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080291311 - Image pickup device, focus detection device, image pickup apparatus, method for manufacturing image pickup device, method for manufacturing focus detection device, and method for manufacturing image pickup apparatus: An image pickup device includes a pixel unit which has first pixels and second pixels. A first photoelectric conversion unit is configured to generate charges corresponding to light incident upon each of the first pixels. A first control unit is connected to the first photoelectric conversion unit and configured to... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080291310 - Imager and system utilizing pixel with internal reset control and method of operating same: A pixel having no dedicated reset control line. By using the voltage on the column line to control the gate of the reset transistor, there is no need to provide a dedicate reset control line.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080291312 - Imaging signal processing apparatus: An image signal processing apparatus includes a sensing section which includes R, G, and B pixels and produces R, G, and B color signals, a first adding section which adds, while weighting pixels, a color signal of a center pixel of a pixel arrangement and color signals of the peripheral... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291314 - Imaging device with auto-focus: A handheld portable imaging device (100) including a first array of pixels and a second array of pixels embedded within the first array. A processor coupled to the first and second arrays processes data read from first array independently of data read from the second array. In one embodiment, data... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080291315 - Digital imaging system having gps function and method of storing information of imaging place thereof: The invention relates to a digital imaging system and a method of storing imaging place information thereof. In the digital imaging system having a GPS function, imaging place information, such as photographs and location of imaging places to be remembered, are stored together, such that a user can easily visit... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080291317 - Image sensing apparatus and control method for the same: An image sensing apparatus in which a plurality of lens units can be exchanged and attached. The image sensing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire, from an attached lens unit, lens information including at least an exit pupil distance of the lens unit, an image sensor including a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080291316 - Image sensor package structure and camera module having same: An image sensor package structure includes a base board, an image sensor and at least a passive component. The base board includes a top surface, a bottom surface and four side surfaces. At least one depression is formed in the border of the top surface and the side surface. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080291318 - Method and device for identifying and calibrating panoramic optical systems: A method for identifying a panoramic optical system enables its intrinsic characteristics to be semi-automatically or automatically determined so as to be able to subsequently apply the digital processes for appropriate corrections of the perspectives and distortions specific to the identified panoramic optical system. The panoramic optical system has a... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080291320 - Digital camera: In a digital camera, a solid state imaging device is used to catch subject light so that an image signal is created. The digital camera contributes to effectively implementing further thinness in such a manner that a part of image taking lenses is saved to a suitable position at the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080291319 - Video camera: A video camera can be configured to highly compress video data in a visually lossless manner. The camera can be configured to transform blue and red image data in a manner that enhances the compressibility of the data. The data can then be compressed and stored in this form. This... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080291321 - Imaging apparatus: In the presentation apparatus, an imaging subject is placed on the table, and the imaging subject is imaged by a video camera for presentation on the display of a computer or the like. The table includes a fastening member to which a camera support member fastens, and deploying panels which... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080291322 - Method for the optical adjustment of a camerafield of the invention: During the assembly of cameras, especially for cameras having imaging optical systems with reduced depth of field, an accurate adjustment of an optical sensor medium relative to the imaging optical system may be necessary. Therefore, a method is provided for optically adjusting a camera in which at least one plastically... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080291323 - Image processing device, data recording device, and method of controlling image processing device: The interlace/progressive conversion section of an image processing device sequentially receives image data corresponding to odd-numbered lines or sequentially receives image data corresponding to even-numbered lines. The interlace/progressive conversion section performs an even-numbered-line interpolation process that uses sequentially-received image data corresponding to first and second odd-numbered lines and generates image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080291324 - Packet generating method in wireless hdmi cec: A packet generating method in a wireless High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) environment includes generating a packet which includes either AV data or control data in a payload and a field indicative of a packet type in a header according to a HDMI environment; and transmitting the generated packet. Accordingly,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080291325 - Personality-based device: A personality-based theme may be provided. An application program may query a personality resource file for a prompt corresponding to a personality. Then the prompt may be received at a speech synthesis engine. Next, the speech synthesis engine may query a personality voice font database for a voice font corresponding... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080291326 - Apparatus for and method of displaying video signals: An apparatus for displaying video signals includes an input source to receive video signals having different frame frequencies and provide an input video signal from among the received video signals, a frame frequency detector to detect, as a first frame frequency, the frame frequency of the input video signal, a... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080291328 - Decoding apparatus for encoded video signals: The present invention is a decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video signal capable of displaying a secondary video synchronously with a primary video. The decoding apparatus includes: an auxiliary information analyzing part that analyzes auxiliary information including display auxiliary information about a display position and/or a display size of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080291329 - Decoding apparatus for encoded video signals: The present invention is a decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video signal capable of displaying a secondary video synchronously with a primary video. The decoding apparatus includes: an auxiliary information analyzing part that analyzes auxiliary information including display auxiliary information about a display position and/or a display size of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080291327 - Display apparatus and method and information processing apparatus and method for providing picture in picture function: A display apparatus and method and an information processing apparatus and method, by which a picture in picture (PIP) region is automatically and freely changed between a semi-transparent state and an opaque state according to a position of a pointing device, are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communicator... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080291330 - Advanced noise reduction in digital cameras: A noise reduction apparatus is presented that includes groups of one or more serially connected non-linear filter units. Each of the filter unit groups are driven by decimated input image data at a different level of decimation and the output of at least one of these groups serves as one... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080291331 - Television receiver: The present invention discloses a television receiver that extracts a video signal from a received television broadcast signal and displays video on a screen based on the video signal, the television receiver comprising: a snow noise detection unit that detects snow noise of the video displayed on the screen; a... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a, Inc.

20080291332 - Image upsampling technique: A upscaling (upsampling) technique for digital images and video for presentation on a display.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080291333 - Methods, systems and apparatuses for motion detection using auto-focus statistics: Methods, systems and apparatuses for the detection of motion using statistics data already available within an imager, such as sharpness scores or brightness values. The method includes obtaining at least two sets of statistics data for respective image frames which include corresponding windows; initializing a motion counter; determining, for each... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080291334 - Video apparatus having integrated terminal and control method thereof: A video apparatus having an integrated terminal and a control method thereof. The video apparatus may enable a video signal and/or an audio signal to be transmitted externally via a single terminal. In particular, a component video signal or a non-component video signal may be switched according to the type... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080291335 - Dual-mode equalizer in an atsc-dtv receiver: A decision feedback equalizer for processing a data signal provides concurrent equalizer outputs (Zok, Z1k) for hard decision directed and soft decision directed modes. The joint architecture in accordance with the present invention takes advantage of the fact, herein recognized, that for each equalizer output symbol soft decision bit representation,... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080291336 - Apparatus and method for selecting optimal signal using auxiliary equalization in diversity receiver: Provided are an apparatus and method for selecting an optimal signal using auxiliary equalization in a diversity receiver. The optimal signal selecting apparatus includes: a plurality of sync recovery units for extracting sync information from baseband signals, which are candidate signals, except a baseband signal selected as a current optimal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080291337 - Compact digital tv tuner unit: The present invention discloses a compact digital TV tuner unit mounted on an analog receiver equipped with an analog tuner, comprising: a boxy chassis; a terminal face of the chassis facing the analog receiver; an antenna input terminal that is placed on the terminal face and that is connected to... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080291338 - Television receiver: The present invention discloses that it enhances efficiency in detecting the color burst signal under low-power input and enables color display after confirming the presence of the color burst signal even under low-power input. The configuration includes firstly the electric field intensity judgment unit M1 which determines the electric field... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080291339 - Display device: A data driver circuit is divided into a low potential region, an intermediate potential region, and a high potential region, and relative withstand voltages in the respective regions are set equal to each other. Both of the transmission of a power source voltage to the high potential region from the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080291340 - Projection type video display apparatus: Disclosed is a projection type video display apparatus including: a video projection section to generate projection light of a video to output through a projection lens; an imaging section to capture through a camera lens the video projected by the video projection section; a moving section to move the projection... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080291341 - System and method for compensating for spoke light: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for compensating for spoke light in a video unit. More specifically, there is provided a method comprising measuring a first light level during a non-spoke time of a color wheel to generate a non-spoke light level; and setting a spoke light... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080291342 - Projection type video display apparatus: Disclosed is a projection type video display apparatus including: a projection section to generate projection light of a video to output through a projection lens; an imaging section to image through a camera lens in a direction in which a video is projected; an XY driving section to change a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080291343 - Illuminating apparatus and projection image display apparatus: An illuminating apparatus comprises a light source and an optical system for guiding the light from the light source to an imager such as a liquid crystal panel. The optical system has an optical element disposed for changing a traveling direction of the light traveling to the imager in accordance... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080291344 - Television receiver: A television receiver includes a liquid crystal module, a control board, a jack holder, a cabinet and a plurality of spacers. The control board has a jack. The jack holder is mounted to the control board to hold the jack. The cabinet houses the liquid crystal module, the control board... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080291345 - Picture frame antenna assemblies: According to various aspects of the present disclosure, exemplary embodiments are provided of picture frame antenna assemblies. In one exemplary embodiment, an assembly generally includes a backing defining at least one recess. A frame is removably attachable to the backing for holding a photograph therebetween. The frame has a generally... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080284840 - Method, system and apparatus for voice and data transmission over a conductive path: A system that provides video signal communication between a source of video signals and a plurality of units that include destinations of the video signals, the system including an interface coupled to the source and to conductive paths, each of which serves at least one of the units and carries... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080284841 - Methods, media, and devices for providing visual resources of video conference participants: Methods, media, and devices for providing visual resources of video conference participants are provided. In some embodiments, methods for providing a visual resource of a participant to a video conference comprise: determining that the participant is joining or departing the video conference; accessing a visual resource that identifies the participant;... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20080284842 - Stereo video shooting and viewing device: A stereo video shooting and viewing device includes: a body, having two groups of eyepieces spaced apart from each other by a certain distance corresponding to a distance between two human eyes; two micro display screens, disposed on front ends of the eyepieces; two digital camera lenses, disposed on an... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080284843 - Three-dimensional image display method and apparatus: A three-dimensional image display method, includes: displaying a three-dimensional image including a left eye image signal and a right eye image signal displayed at a display focus angle; determining whether to change a viewing focus angle with respect to the display focus angle; calculating a pixel distance between the left... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080284844 - Switchable lens: A display apparatus has a switchable birefringent lens array. The display apparatus produces a substantially linearly polarised output. The lens array comprises birefringent material arranged between a planar surface of a first substrate and a relief substrate of a second substrate defining an array of cylindrical lenses. The lens array... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080284845 - Method and apparatus to process endoscope images: The invention relates to a method improving the images in an image processing unit (5) receiving images from an electronic color video camera (3) of a medical endoscope (1) and then transmitting them to an image display unit (7), and to an endoscope operating on the basis of the said... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080284846 - Prohibited materials vehicle detection: A device for inspecting the underside of a vehicle includes a carriage supported by four swivable wheels and a forwardly extending arm with a light source and upwardly extending camera on a forward portion thereof. A second arm extends rearwardly and upwardly from a rear portion of the carriage and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080284847 - Digital microform imaging apparatus: A digital microform imaging apparatus which includes an approximately monochromatic illumination source transmitting an incident light through a diffuse window along a first optical axis of the apparatus. A microform media support is configured to support a microform media after the diffuse window and along the first optical axis. An... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080284849 - Roofing site monitoring system: The present invention discloses a monitoring system for use at roofing project sites and, in particular, roof installation, repair and replacement sites. The monitoring systems include image-capturing devices, such as cameras that are positioned at a roofing project site and associated transmitters and a transmission system to send the project... Agent: Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP

20080284848 - Security surveillance planning tool kit: A surveillance planning and analysis tool kit for planning and analysis at a region. The tool kit includes a computer system programmed with software adapted to simulate optical and imaging parameters at the region including a realistic geo-spatial map of the region, a number of surveillance cameras, camera specifications and... Agent: John R. Ross Trex

20080284850 - Camera arrangement for amotor vehicle: A camera arrangement for a vehicle includes a camera and an electrical conductor structure. The camera is separated from a pane which divides an outside region from an inside region. The camera is in the inside region and is pointed at a portion of the pane such that the camera... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080284851 - Electronic handheld audio/video receiver and listening/viewing device: A handheld device in an audio and video system including a system for receiving and processing video and/or audio signals, a system for displaying a virtual image to a user, and a system for producing sounds audible to a user. The handheld device also incorporates a shroud to block ambient... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080284852 - Video signal processing integrated circuit: A video signal processing integrated circuit comprising: a test signal generation circuit configured to generate a test signal in conformity with video additional data superimposed on a video signal; a data slicer configured to binarize the test signal through comparison with a slice level, the test signal being supplied from... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080284853 - Non-intrusive determination of an objective mean opinion score of a video sequence: According to the described method, interframe similarities s(i) are calculated for the frames of the video sequence, each interframe similarity s(i) being indicative of the similarity of two consecutive frames i—1, i. As it has been found, an analysis of the interframe similarities allows to determine various parameters that are... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080284855 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera comprises a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with a computer or a printer, and a power save mode changeover unit that changes over a power save mode to either an ON or an OFF state according to the operational state of the electronic camera, if... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080284854 - System and method of static pattern removal from movies captured using a digital ccd camera: An efficient and robust mechanism for static pattern removal from movies captured with a digital CCD camera. A correction map of malfunctioning underexposed CCD pixels is provided and applied to each image in the affected shot to correct the malfunctioning pixels. The correction map may be associated with the specific... Agent: Dts, Inc.

20080284856 - Image-pickup apparatus: An image-pickup apparatus includes a first operating member, to which a predetermined function is fixedly allocated and a second operating member capable of customizing an allocated function, in which the second operating member is arranged on the right back-face region of the image-pickup apparatus in a standard position, and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284857 - Portable electronic apparatus, image processing method, photographing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium: Even when a remaining amount of an image memory built in a digital camera is decreased, the photographing can be further continued while reserving a photographed image. An image which is obtained from an image input unit including image pickup means is accumulated into an image memory. When a remaining... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080284859 - Apparatus for digital image stabilization, method using the same and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method: An apparatus for digital image stabilization according to the present invention comprises an image signal processing module for receiving image signals generated under first and second exposure value conditions (first exposure value condition>second exposure value condition) from an image sensor, and outputting digital image signals of a first size and... Agent: Jones Day

20080284858 - Image pickup apparatus equipped with function of detecting image shaking: In an initial stage, using a global motion vector, a rough degree of image shaking is determined. After the image shaking is determined to have converged to some measure, using the difference values between frames, the finer degree of the image shaking is determined. And if it is determined to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080284860 - Image stabilization driving device: An image-stabilizing driving device is proposed, including a slidable block coupled to an image sensor, a flat surface acoustic wave actuator for contacting with and driving the slidable block to move on a surface contacted therewith, and a contactless force action unit having a first and a second contactless force... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080284861 - Image processing method and apparatus thereof: A method for obtaining a still image frame with anti-vibration clearness includes the following steps. Multiple raw image frames are captured during a capturing period according to a capturing instruction. The raw image frames are compressed respectively, according to a predetermined compression rule, into multiple compressed image frames each of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080284862 - Monitor camera device, control method for monitor camera device, and program for monitor camera device: A camera (16) and a rotary base receiver (28) are connected to each other to be capable of transmitting a video signal. In the camera (16), a web server (50) sends out a video signal to the outside and receives a camera remote control signal and a rotary base remote... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080284863 - Moving image capture apparatus and moving image capture method: A moving image capture apparatus generates a data file to record, on a recording medium, an image signal output from an imaging unit, extracts character information from the image signal to be recorded on the recording medium, sets a parameter value used for selection as a file name according to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080284867 - Image pickup apparatus with a human face detecting function, method and program product for detecting a human face: A digital camera has a human face dictionary set 151 for storing information defining peculiarities of a human face and a mode selection key 142 for selecting a first mode or a second mode, wherein the first mode is for putting priority to a speed at which the human face... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080284864 - Image processing apparatus and method: In position and orientation measurement based on natural features, erroneous detection of the natural features is prevented when an observation target object is occluded by another object, and registration stability is improved. To this end, an occluding object that can occlude the observation target object is defined, and an occluding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080284869 - Image processing apparatus, image processing program, electronic camera, and image processing method for image analysis of magnification chromatic aberration: An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit, a color shift detecting unit, a controlling unit, and a correction amount calculating unit. The image obtaining unit obtains image data. The color shift detecting unit detects color shifts of this image data. The controlling unit determines fitting reliability of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080284865 - Image signal processor and method for outputting deferred vertical synchronous signal: A method of transferring a deferred vertical synchronous signal and an image signal processor executing the method thereof are disclosed. Once the vertical synchronous signal for an mth frame is inputted from an encoding unit, the method monitors whether image data columns in the quantity of n corresponding to a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080284866 - Imaging device, method of processing captured image signal and computer program: A constant amount of new portion of image data as still images is always stored on a memory in an image taking operation. In response to a shutter release operation, the image data stored on the memory is recorded onto a recording medium. A next new portion of the image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080284868 - Imaging element: Imaging elements are provided. An imaging element has a wireless communication circuit adapted to detect a wireless communication signal and to generate a control signal; an illumination circuit having an illumination element, the illumination circuit being adapted so that the illumination element generates light at an intensity that is based... Agent: J. Lanny Tucker Patent Legal Staff

20080284870 - Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor: An image pickup apparatus capable of performing favorable focusing operation when image signals are read out from an image pickup device at a high speed while flickers are occurring. Flickers are detected from image signals outputted from the image pickup device, while the image signals outputted from the image pickup... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080284873 - Image capture apparatus and control method thereof: The image capture apparatus changes a time from the commencement of the operation of the accumulation of the electrical charge to the shuttering, by the shutter blade unit, of the pixel within the image capture element by way of the reset operation in a state of retracting the shutter blade... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080284874 - Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method: An image capturing apparatus performs photographing multiple times and composing these multiple images to obtain one image of a correct exposure. The apparatus includes an image capturing unit, an illumination unit and an image composition unit. The image capturing unit captures an optical image of an object as an electrical... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080284871 - Image pickup apparatus and processing method for result of image pickup: The present invention is applied to an image pickup apparatus for which, for example, a CMOS solid-state image pickup element is used. One screen image is divided into a plurality of blocks, and a motion is detected for each of the blocks to control the exposure time of the block.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080284872 - Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method, exposure control method, and program: An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit configured to generate a long-exposure image signal and a short-exposure image signal from incident light and output the generated signals as image pickup signals, the long-exposure image signal being generated by exposure for a relatively long period and the short-exposure image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284875 - Imaging device, method of processing captured image signal and computer program: A constant amount of new portion of image data as still images is always stored on a memory in an image taking operation. In response to a shutter release operation, the image data stored on the memory is recorded onto a recording medium. A next new portion of the image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080284876 - Image sensor, electronic apparatus, and driving method of electronic apparatus: An image sensor that supplies a control signal together with an address specifying each of a plurality of pixels arrayed in a pixel array with predetermined rows and columns to thereby perform an electronic shutter operation on a pixel corresponding to the address or perform reading of a pixel signal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080284877 - Camera color noise reduction method and circuit: Image color noise reduction circuit (20) and image processing method for processing a digital image having primary color signals (R; G; B). A determination circuit (27) determines a maximum signal value (Signaltype) from the primary color signals. A calculation circuit (29) connected to the determination circuit (27) reduces a color... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080284878 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program which compress images so as to improve contrast without losing sharpness. An adder 33 calculates an illumination-component addition/subtraction remaining amount T (L) by an adder 25 to a multiplier 32. An adder 34 adds T (L) to an... Agent: William S. Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080284879 - Methods and apparatuses for vignetting correction in image signals: Methods and apparatuses for vignetting correction of imager pixels signals. A polynomial correction surface is determined based on a pixel array center, height, and width, surface fitting parameters, and pixel coordinates. The pixel signal is then multiplied by the corresponding value from the polynomial correction surface to create a vignetting... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080284880 - Video input processor, imaging signal-processing circuit, and method of reducing noises in imaging signals: A video input processor is disclosed. The processor includes: an imaging signal-generating portion configured to image a subject and producing first imaging signals containing visible light components and a second imaging signal containing near-infrared light components; a gain adjustment portion configured to adjustably set a maximum gain value according to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080284881 - Method and system for video motion blur reduction: A video frame may be divided into plurality of sub-frames to reduce motion blur in sample-and-hold display. The plurality of sub-frames may preserve, in their totality, the luminance and coloring of the original input frames. An input frame that is Y′CrCb encoded may be converted to R′G′B′ to enable luminance... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080284882 - Solid state imaging apparatus, method for driving the same and camera using the same: A solid state imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells each including a plurality of photoelectric sections arranged in an array of at least two rows and two columns; a plurality of floating diffusion sections each being connected to each of ones of the photoelectric sections which are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080284883 - Address generator and image capturing device: An address generator that generates, in an image capturing device including a photoelectric conversion unit having arrayed therein in a matrix plural photoelectric conversion elements that convert received light into charges and accumulate the charges and a rolling shutter function, an address indicating a line position of each of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080284884 - Image sensor, electronic apparatus, and driving method of electronic apparatus: An image sensor that has a pixel array section in which pixels are arrayed in a two-dimensional manner in vertical and horizontal directions and that controls an exposure time of each pixel in a rolling shutter method is disclosed. The sensor includes control means for determining an electronic shutter occurrence... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080284885 - Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and electronic apparatus: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which unit pixels are arrayed, a complementary-signal generating unit that generates two kinds of complementary signals having complementarity with each other on the basis of analog pixel signals read out from the respective unit pixels in the pixel unit, two kinds... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080284886 - Image pickup circuit, cmos sensor, and image pickup device: Disclosed herein is an image pickup circuit including: amplifying means for amplifying a charge corresponding to an amount of light received by a photodetector, and outputting a pixel signal; ramp signal generating means for generating a ramp signal whose voltage drops with a fixed slope from a predetermined initial voltage;... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080284887 - Solid-state imaging device and camera: A solid-state imaging device comprises a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, and a readout unit operable to read out pixel signals of the pixels included in the pixel array row by row. The readout unit (i) reads out pixel signals of a row... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080284889 - Image pickup apparatus and method of correcting captured image data: An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array, a circuit necessary for the pixel structure being shared between the pixels of a predetermined number having the same arrangement pattern; correction value generating means for generating a correction value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284888 - Image pickup device and image pickup result outputting method: The present invention is applied to an image pickup device with a CMOS solid-state image pickup element, in which an analog-to-digital conversion circuit is disposed in a surface on an opposite side from an image pickup surface in a semiconductor chip 2.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080284891 - Image sensor and an electronic information device: An image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix which detects a pixel signal of each pixel based on a voltage difference between a reset voltage which is a reference voltage of each pixel and a signal voltage generated by a photoelectric... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080284890 - Solid-state image-sensing device: A solid-state image-sensing device has a MOS transistor (T1) connected to a photodiode PD (PD) and performing photoelectric conversion, and has, as an integrating circuit for amplifying and integrating the photoelectric current obtained by the photoelectric conversion, a MOS transistor T2 and a capacitor C. In the solid-state image-sensing device,... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080284892 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an image pickup device having a two-dimensionally arrayed pixel structure, an A/D converter which converts analog signals from the respective pixels into digital data signals, and a DSP 30 which performs signal processing for the data signals. The DSP 30 includes an image data storage 32... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080284893 - Solid state imaging device: A signal charge transfer channel region includes a first polysilicon gate electrode as a storage electrode for storing signal charges and a second polysilicon gate electrode as a barrier electrode for transferring the signal charges stored under the first polysilicon gate electrode to under the first polysilicon gate electrode adjacent... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284895 - Viewfinder and image pickup apparatus: A viewfinder includes a main body detachably attached to a camera body, a display unit on which an image captured at the camera body is displayed, and an eyepiece unit detachably attached to the display unit. The eyepiece unit magnifies the image. The display unit includes a support connected to... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080284894 - Device capable of image capturing and image projection: A device capable of image capturing and image projection includes a housing, an image capturing module, an image projecting module, and a control unit. The image capturing module is mounted to the housing and is operable to capture an image. The image projecting module is mounted to the housing and... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20080284896 - Joint optics and image processing adjustment of electro-optic imaging systems: Adjustments to the optical subsystem of an electro-optic imaging system take into account different subsystems within the overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, end-to-end imaging performance is predicted based on determining propagation of a source through the optical subsystem, the detector subsystem and the digital image processing subsystem. The... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080284897 - Camera module: A camera module includes a circuit board, an image sensor, a lens module, and a filter. The image sensor is mounted on the circuit board. The lens module is mounted on the circuit board and receives the image sensor therein. The lens module includes a barrel with at least one... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080284898 - Digital camera: The invention relates to a digital motion picture camera comprising at least one optoelectronic sensor device for the recording of motion pictures. The sensor device has, in an areal arrangement, a plurality of sensor elements for the generation of a respective received signal in dependence on a light exposure. The... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080284899 - Method for focusing the shooting lens of a motion picture or video camera: A method for focusing the shooting lens of a motion picture or video camera onto a moving or stationary object, which is imaged on a monitor of a display instrument is provided. The solution according to the invention uses a distance measurement instrument which is aligned or tracked in relation... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080284901 - Automatic focus adjusting apparatus and automatic focus adjusting method, and image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: In an automatic focus adjusting method for adjusting the focus based on image signals in a preset focus detection area, the face is detected from an image, and the detected face area is set as the focus detection area in a front-light scene. On the other hand, when a backlight... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080284900 - Digital camera: A digital camera includes: an imaging unit that receives and images a light from a subject transmitted a photographing optical system; a recognition unit that recognizes a feature region of the subject using an image obtained by imaging with the imaging unit; a detection unit that detects a size of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080284902 - Image processing system and camera: An image processing system which performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080284903 - Image sensor: An image sensor includes a solid-state image pickup device, an optical system, and a flash. The solid-state image pickup device has an electronic shutter function of outputting accumulated signal charges at a timing corresponding to a shutter speed. The optical system collects incident light to an image pickup area of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080284904 - Pre-processing method and system for data reduction of video sequences and bit rate reduction of compressed video sequences using spatial filtering: Methods for pre-processing video sequences prior to compression to provide data reduction of the video sequence. Also, after compression of the pre-processed video sequence, the bit rate of the pre-processed and compressed video sequence will be lower than the bit rate of the video sequence after compression but without pre-processing.... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080284906 - Devices and methods for transforming coding coefficients of video signals: Disclosed are a device and a method for transforming a first coding coefficients of video signals into a second coding coefficients of the video signals. The device includes a first storing means for storing the first coding coefficients; a second storing means for storing a transform matrix; a multiplication means... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080284905 - Schedulable multiple-formal video converting apparatus: A programmable scheduling video converting apparatus applicable for converting the stream of video transmission signals in both analog and digital formats that are generated from various types of video data sources—such as cable TVs, digital TVs, digital video data of American and Japanese specification, satellite set-top boxes, CD/DVD disc players,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080284907 - System and method of dual-screen interactive digital television: Disclosed is a system and method of dual-screen interactive digital television (IDTV), which is implemented by applying modality-independent remote console technology. The system has two ends, referred to as host IDTV and handheld device. The host IDTV includes a host IDTV content, an IDTV middleware, a host graphic user interface... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080284908 - Apparatus and method for frame rate up conversion: An apparatus for frame rate up conversion comprises a motion-compensated frame rate converter, a primitive frame rate converter and a determination circuit. The determination circuit designates either the motion-compensated frame rate converter or the primitive frame rate converter to output an interpolated frame according to an index that estimates an... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080284909 - Remote multimedia monitoring with embedded metrics: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a copy of a multimedia flow from a point along the path of the multimedia flow through a communication network of nodes, receiving metric information associated with the multimedia flow from one or more probes coupled to the flow path and combining the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080284910 - Text data for streaming video: In a system and method providing a video with closed captioning, a processor may: provide a first website user interface adapted for receiving a user request for generation of closed captioning, the request referencing a multimedia file provided by a second website; responsive to the request: transcribe audio associated with... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080284911 - Customized advertising with mhp application: A multimedia home platform (MHP) application (131) is customized for selecting, for presentation or recording during a commercial break (224), a channel or substream of a channel whose viewer category most closely matches the particular user profile (S320). The profile is built by logging channels visited, direct query and answer... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080284912 - Display and television: This display includes a detection portion detecting a signal from an external apparatus connected to an external input connection portion, a display portion selectably displaying an input mode corresponding to the external input connection portion and a control portion controlling the display portion to display an image on the basis... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080284913 - Audio-visual system, reproducing apparatus, and display device: The TV receiver as a display device has a drawing generation unit for generating display side drawing data of drawn picture according to a display format for on-screen display, and a reproducing apparatus has a drawing generation unit for generating reproduction side drawing data of drawn picture according to a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080284914 - Image adjustment device and method thereof: The present invention provides a device and an image adjustment method by simultaneously adjusting the luminance and the chrominance of an image. The device comprises a luminance analysis device, a contrast adjusting device, a luminance adjusting device, a chrominance compensation device and a luminance gain adjusting device. The method comprises... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080284915 - Method and apparatus for adjusting chroma and luma for a video signal: A system that adjusts chroma and luma values for a video signal is presented. During operation, the system receives a matrix of coefficients, which when applied to the chroma values and the luma values of a video signal produces substantially the same result as performing a sequence of discrete operations... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080284916 - Signal processing method and apparatus, and image sensing apparatus: At least two high-frequency signals are generated using luminance signals of at least two color components contained in a video signal, and a high-frequency signal for edge emphasizing processing is generated from the at least two generated high-frequency signals based upon the size relationship between the at least two high-frequency... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080284917 - Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus: A digital broadcasting receiver which updates a channel map in adequate timing, is provided with a channel storage portion which stores in advance physical number information which is numerical information to identify a receivable physical channel, and virtual major channel number information which is numerical information of a virtual channel... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080284918 - System and method for automatic cable-only tuning: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method that initializes a display device. An exemplary embodiment comprises scanning an input signal to determine the presence of a cable television signal, proceeding to normal operation of the display device if the cable television signal is present in the input signal,... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080284919 - Fully integrated tuner architecture: An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programmable attenuation and a programmable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circuitry advantageously uses LC filters integrated onto the substrate in conjunction with image reject mixers... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080284920 - Image generating apparatus: The present invention relates to an image generating apparatus (1) which comprises a plurality of image generating optical paths (P1, P2, P3) and single and common means (30) for simultaneously deflecting a received plurality of light beams (l1, l2, l3) of primary illumination light (L1) having coherence properties. Said light... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284921 - Imaging displaying apparatus and 3-d image displaying apparatus applying the same therein: An image displaying apparatus, comprising: a first light modulator unit, which is configured to modulate a light incident thereon, responding to a first video signal, thereby to form a first image; one or a plural number of second light modulator units, which is/are configured to modulate a light from a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080284922 - Vehicle-mounted display appararus: In order to enable mounting of a cabinet 1 having a display unit to a supporting base 9, axial members 121 and 131 in the shape of a regular polygonal prism are disposed in the cabinet 1 and fitting holes 91 and 92 into which the regular polygonal prisms can... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080278567 - Communication system, video signal transmission method, transmitter, transmitting method, receiver, and receiving method: A communication system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a video signal outputting unit for outputting an uncompressed video signal of a predetermined content, an identification information generating unit for generating identification information for identifying whether the predetermined content is a still picture content, and a transmitting... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080278568 - Internet video conferencing on a home television: Techniques for auto provisioning and publication of applications are described. The auto provisioning process enables automatic installation of applications having their respective file packages pre-stored in the server. Subsequently, publication of these applications is conducted automatically. By employing such an automatic process, the latency involved in provisioning and publication of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080278569 - Automatic conversion from monoscopic video to stereoscopic video: The invention is a method for converting a monoscopic video movie passively acquired using a single camera to a stereoscopic video movie. The method comprises generating stereoscopic pairs comprising, for each frame in the original sequence, a transformed original frame selected from the monoscopic video movie and a transformed alternate... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080278570 - Single-lens, single-sensor 3-d imaging device with a central aperture for obtaining camera position: A device and method for three-dimensional (3-D) imaging using a defocusing technique is disclosed. The device comprises a lens, a central aperture located along an optical axis for projecting an entire image of a target object, at least one defocusing aperture located off of the optical axis, a sensor operable... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20080278571 - Stereoscopic three dimensional visualization system and method of use: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic three dimensional visualization system, and particularly to a stereoscopic three dimensional visualization system for microdentistry, microsurgery, or industrial applications. In one exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides a plurality of cameras configured to provide a first stereoscopic image to a dentist or other... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080278572 - Aperture system with spatially-biased aperture shapes and positions (sbpsp) for static and dynamic 3-d defocusing-based imaging: A device and method for three-dimensional (3-D) imaging using a defocusing technique is disclosed. The device comprises a lens, a plurality of spatially-biased apertures obstructing the lens, a sensor operable for capturing light transmitted from an object through the lens and the plurality of spatially-biased apertures, and a processor communicatively... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20080278574 - Display of generalized anaglyphs without retinal rivalry: General anaglyphs may be rendered using multiple primary colors to display the first and second images of stereoscopic images. Retinal rivalry in the anaglyphs may be avoided by using transformations which balance the brightness contrast in the first and second images. Certain primary colors may be advantageous for rendering anaglyphs... Agent: Dr. Monte Jerome Ramstad

20080278573 - Method and arrangement for monoscopically representing at least one area of an image on an autostereoscopic display apparatus and information reproduction unit having such an arrangement: In a method for monoscopically representing at least one image area of an image on an autostereoscopic display apparatus with a resolution of M×N arranged like a matrix with M columns and N rows and a plurality of active or passive beam splitters or parallax barriers that separate the monitor... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20080278575 - Receiving apparatus: A receiving apparatus includes a receiver, a signal processor, an identifying unit, and a processing determining unit. The receiver receives serial data transmitted from a body-insertable apparatus, the serial data including a payload portion that indicates actual content of the serial data and an additional portion that is added to... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080278576 - Object detection apparatus, object detection method and object detection program: An object detection apparatus and method for accurately detecting a movable object in a region around a vehicle from a time series of images obtained through a camera mounted on the vehicle by eliminating the influence of the movement of the camera through simple processing, and a program for making... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080278577 - Image processing system and vehicle control system: An image processing system including an imaging unit mounted on a subject vehicle, and an image analysis unit that acquires images photographed by the imaging unit. The image analysis unit acquires plural images with different exposures that the imaging unit photographed, detects light spots emitted from the other vehicles from... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080278579 - Apparatus, methods, and systems for intelligent security and safety: A method and system for intelligent monitoring and intelligent alerting. One or more data inputs are received from one or more systems. A weight is attributed to each data input based on the data input, the source of the data input, and other factors. One or more video inputs are... Agent: Kd Secure Attn: Daniar Hussain

20080278580 - Device, system, and method of reduced-power imaging: Devices, systems and methods of reduced-power imaging. For example, a device includes: an imager able to acquire one or more images; a triggering sensor able to sense a triggering event; and a receiver able to receive signals, wherein while the device is in a disarm mode the receiver is operational... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080278578 - Pan/tilt tracking mount: A pan tilt tracking mount is disclosed. In a first embodiment, the pan tilt tracking mount includes an at least one housing, wherein interior dimensions of the at least one housing are precisely defined; a first assembly located within the at least one housing based upon at least one of... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080278581 - Vehicle-mounted camera system: The present invention has an object to provide a vehicle-mounted camera system capable of preventing the occurrence of only a smear in an area without a mask image on a picked up image, and substantially reducing a ghost and stray light. The vehicle-mounted camera system according to the present invention... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080278582 - Video fusion display systems: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for managing video bandwidth over a network connecting one or more cameras and one or more client video display stations. In one aspect, a system includes a data communication network, cameras coupled with the network, arranged in different locations, and operable... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080278583 - Method and device for activating and deactivating a television set: A device to automatically activate and deactivate a television set has a sensor. The sensor will monitor an area in front of the television set. A controller is coupled to the sensor. The controller will send signals to activate and deactivate the television set when the sensor monitors a presence... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080278584 - Moving object detection apparatus and method by using optical flow analysis: Disclosed is a moving object detection apparatus and method by using optical flow analysis. The apparatus includes four modules of image capturing, image aligning, pixel matching, and moving object detection. Plural images are successively inputted under a camera. Based on neighboring images, frame relationship on the neighboring images is estimated.... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080278585 - Devices, systems, and methods regarding camera imaging: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system that can comprise a digital camera. The system can comprise an input/output (I/O) circuit adapted to be communicatively coupled to the digital camera. The I/O circuit can be adapted to transmit signals to the digital camera. The I/O circuit can be adapted to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080278587 - Focus adjustment apparatus, method, and program: A focus adjustment apparatus including a face detection means for detecting a person's face included in an image obtained by photographing, an eye detection means for detecting an eye of the person included in the image, an evaluation value calculation means for calculating an evaluation value representing the depth of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080278586 - Digital camera system: The object of the present invention is to provide a digital camera capable of outputting image information suitable for using by peripherals. According to one aspect of the present invention, a digital camera includes an input section that inputs special information related to using images by peripherals, a special memory... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080278588 - Devices, systems, and methods regarding camera imaging: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method that can comprise causing a signal to be transmitted from a digital camera via an input/output (I/O) circuit. The signal can be associated with an image obtained via the digital camera. The I/O circuit can be adapted to be communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080278589 - Methods for identifying a target subject to automatically focus a digital camera and related systems, and computer program products: Methods, devices and computer program products for identifying a target subject for auto-focusing a digital camera include selecting a target subject at a first position in a first image and identifying the target subject on a display. The target subject is identified at a second position in a second image... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080278590 - Drive unit and drive module: To provide a drive unit and a drive module which include a shape memory alloy as a drive source to move a driven member and are capable of the high-precision movement of the driven member to a reference position. A drive unit and a drive module can be provided by... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080278591 - Method and apparatus for improving low-light performance for small pixel image sensors: Method and apparatuses processing pixel values from a captured image include receiving an array of digital pixel values corresponding to a captured image, and computing a rolling sum of the array of pixel values. Computing a rolling sum includes selecting successive groupings of the pixel values, each grouping comprising N×M... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080278593 - Camera apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a camera apparatus that can keep the aperture within an appropriate range, and keep, within a designated range, the luminance of images to be taken over a long period of time. The camera apparatus comprises image providing means 11 for... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080278598 - Devices, systems, and methods regarding camera imaging: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method that can comprise automatically rendering an image. The image can be transferred to a memory from a digital camera via a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. The FPGA device can be adapted to transfer image information from the digital camera to a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080278597 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes the following units. An image pickup unit captures an image and outputs an analog image signal. A conversion unit converts the analog image signal into a digital image signal. A synchronization signal generation unit generates a synchronization signal to be supplied to the image pickup... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080278596 - Image sensor and color imaging apparatus: An image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion element group, and color filters of at least two colors arranged on respective photoelectric conversion elements of the photoelectric conversion element group. The color filters are arranged on the respective photoelectric conversion elements such that a spatial frequency component of array of color... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080278592 - Imaging device: An imaging device has color signal generating means (20) for outputting first color signals (R5, G5, B5) corresponding to incident light, and matrix operation means (67) for performing a matrix calculation including multiplication of the first color signals, color signals obtained by raising the first color signals to a power... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080278594 - Photographing apparatus: A photographing apparatus comprises an operation unit and a controller. The operation unit has a direct key and an operation key. The operation key is used for setting a function regarding at least one of an image processing operation of an image data obtained by a photographing operation and a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080278599 - Undeveloped image data developing apparatus, method for developing undeveloped image data, and computer program for developing undeveloped image data: The invention provides a development processing apparatus that performs development processing on the basis of an image file that contains undeveloped image data created by a digital camera and accompanying image data that accompanies the undeveloped image data. The accompanying image data is image data that has been subjected to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080278595 - Video data capture and streaming: Embodiments of the video data capture and stream method comprise intercepting a flip function call comprising a call by the video application to flip frames between a display and a buffer, grabbing a copy of the current frame that would normally be processed by a central processing unit (CPU), placing... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080278602 - Camera: A camera includes an optical system, an image sensor, a white balance correction section, an original image processing section, a geometric setting section which sets a desired geometric transformation for the original picture signal, a geometry converter which generates a geometrically converted picture signal based on the geometric setting made... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080278600 - Camera apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a camera apparatus that can take images over a long period of time while automatically controlling, in white balance, the images. The camera apparatus comprises image providing means 11 for providing R-, G-, and B-images corresponding to three primary colors... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080278601 - Efficient determination of an illuminant of a scene: An aspect of the present invention reduces computational complexity in determining a illuminant of a scene of interest by selecting only a subset of illuminants from several more potential illuminants, and searching for a current illuminant for a present image frame in only the subset of illuminants. Computational complexity may... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080278603 - Method and apparatus for reducing flicker of image sensor: Provided is a method and apparatus for reducing flickers of an image sensor capable of reducing line flickers due to a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor. The method includes: estimating a profile of a light source per line on the basis of information on image frames which are continuously input; filtering... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080278604 - Apparatus, system and method for processing and transferring captured video data: A method of transferring video data comprises obtaining a stream of video frames from an video capture device and identifying at least one characteristic in at least one frame of the stream of video frames. Lookup data is generated which associates the at least one characteristic with its at least... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080278605 - Solid-state imaging apparatus, and video camera and digital still camera using the same: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: an image section having a plurality of pixel units arranged into a matrix, each pixel unit having at least one subunit consisting of an electric charge generation means for generating signal electric charges corresponding to the amount of incident electromagnetic wave and a signal transfer... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080278606 - Image compositing: A method and apparatus for image compositing in an apparatus a device in which available memory is at a premium are disclosed. The apparatus includes a first memory that receives a video input signal, in multiple portions. The first memory has a storage capacity less than the entire video image.... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080278607 - Scene-based non-uniformity correction method using local constant statistics: A scene-based non-uniformity correction method employing local constant statistics for eliminating fixed pattern noise in a video comprising a plurality of images is disclosed, comprising the steps of providing an initial gain image, an initial offset image, a predetermined pyramid level, and a filter of a predetermined level; setting one... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080278608 - Camera module: There is provided a camera module including dual image sensors used for different purposes, which corrects optical defects of images imaged by the dual image sensors individually to suit purposes and processes the imaged images into image signals. The camera module includes: a plurality of image sensors imaging images with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080278609 - Imaging apparatus, defective pixel correcting apparatus, processing method in the apparatuses, and program: An imaging apparatus includes a defective pixel storing unit to store positional information of a defective pixel among pixels in an imaging device and pixel defect information indicating whether a defective pixel group including defective pixels includes the defective pixel related to the positional information; an image input unit to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080278610 - Configurable pixel array system and method: Present embodiments relate to techniques for capturing images. One embodiment may include an image sensor, comprising a substrate, a first pixel cell array disposed on the substrate, a first photographic lens arranged to focus light onto the first pixel cell array, a second pixel cell array disposed on the substrate,... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (micron Technology, Inc.)

20080278611 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus and contact-type image sensor: To prevent such a situation that a signal from a pixel in a dark state is output at a level shifted from an originally set level to deteriorate an image quality, and to improve the image quality. A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to the present invention includes: a plurality of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080278612 - Solid-state image sensor and signal processing method thereof: A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel section that outputs a signal charge subjected to photoelectric conversion by each of a plurality of photoelectric transducers, a conversion circuit that converts an output signal from the pixel section into a digital signal by using a triangular wave, and a saturation signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080278613 - Methods, apparatuses and systems providing pixel value adjustment for images produced with varying focal length lenses: Methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for providing pixel value corrections in accordance with the focal length of a variable focal length lens used to capture an image. Two or more adjustment surfaces, each corresponding to a focal length of said lens, are stored. If an image is captured using... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080278615 - Solid-state image pickup device and camera system: A solid-state image pickup device, including: a pixel section including at least one pixel circuit including a mechanism for converting an optical signal into an electric signal and accumulating the electric signal in response to exposure time; a pixel driving section configured to drive the pixel section to carry out... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080278614 - Solid-state imaging device having a plurality of lines formed in at least two layers on semiconductor substrate: In a MOS-type solid-state imaging device 1, in pixels 101 to 104 in which lines in an upper layer (charge transfer lines 1018 to 1048) are formed in shifted positions located toward a center L1 of an image area, each two oppositely disposed pixels with the center L1 of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080278616 - Bi-directional image recording and reproduction system: According to the invention, rotating cylinders (1) are provided in at least two locations. Stripes (3) comprising light emitting elements and stripes (2) comprising a recording system resembling a scanner strip are mounted on the rotating cylinders (1) such that the surroundings of one cylinder can be represented on the... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080278617 - Image capturing device module, manufacturing method of the image capturing device module, and electronic information device: An image capturing device module is disclosed. The image capturing device module includes an image capturing device provided on a base circuit substrate; a translucent member adhered to the image capturing device with a first adhesive to cover an upper part of an effective pixel region in the image capturing... Agent: Edward Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080278618 - Digital camera and focus control method: A focus evaluation value representing a focusing state of a taking lens is repeatedly calculated on the basis of an image signal output from an imaging section of a digital camera, a change in the focus evaluation value generated by the movement of the taking lens is detected, when a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080278619 - Imaging device: In a present imaging device, an optical image formed through a lens group from a subject is converted into an imaging signal by an imaging element and a focused area is detected by a focused area detection portion. Optical displacement or physical movement of the lens group is detected by... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080278620 - System for facilitating ergonomic support of a camera while filming or taking pictures: A system is for supporting a camera for hands free filming includes a vest, and a camera mounting apparatus attached to the vest. In one aspect the system also includes a material overlay attached to the vest, the overlay including opposing end flaps and opposing side flaps the adjacent flap... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080278621 - Camera module: In accordance with the present invention, the camera module includes a housing provided with a cylindrical barrel coupling unit extended upward from a central part of the housing, wherein a female screw unit is formed on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical barrel coupling unit and an opening unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080278622 - Method and system for using a subset of receive operations for detecting digital and analog television signals: Aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a television system using a subset of receive operations for detecting digital and analog television signals are provided. The system and method may be deployed in, for example, cable TV set-top boxes, cable TV modems, and television receivers, which may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080278623 - Adapative de-interlacer and method thereof: An adaptive de-interlacer can convert an interlaced video signal into a progressive video signal, and comprises a motion detector, an intra-field interpolator, an inter-field interpolator, a motion aliasing artifact detector and a blending unit. The motion detector generates an alpha value for each interpolated pixel in a current field of... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080278624 - Video processing: A video processing apparatus in which at least a subset of output pixels of an output image are generated from one or more input images using motion vectors having a sub-pixel accuracy. A band filter derives lower and higher spatial frequency portions from the one or more input images. A... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080278625 - Self-calibrating timing circuits for use in a sync separator: Provided herein are self-calibrating timing circuits and methods for use in a sync separator. A comparator compares a video signal to a video reference voltage to produce a sliced sync signal that has a frequency that is equal to a scan frequency of a horizontal sync embedded in the video... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080278626 - Phase adjustment method and digital camera: A signal change differential value detector detects a signal change differential value between two digital signals obtained when the analog imaging signal is converted into the digital value for each pixel using two phase adjustment sampling pulses. An analog imaging signal waveform estimator estimates a waveform of the analog imaging... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080278627 - System and method of indicating quality of service: A method of indicating quality of service includes determining values of a plurality of video quality parameters at a set-top box device. The method also includes selecting a color from a plurality of colors based on at least one of the values. The method also includes activating a video quality... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080278628 - Content display device, content display method, content display system, content display program, and recording medium: In a television, a single screen is split into a plurality of split-screens, and content displayed is different for each of the split-screens. In the television, the content selecting section selects content assigned in advance with each of the split-screens. A display section displays the content thus selected, on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080278629 - Image quality adjustment device and image quality adjustment method: The present invention provides an image quality adjustment device capable of generating an image of a highest image quality for an input image. The image quality adjustment device which adjusts image quality of an input image by applying different image quality settings to the input image includes: pieces of order... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080278630 - Apparatus, method, and program for video signal processing, and storage medium: A video signal processing method includes the steps of processing an input video signal and outputting an output video signal, detecting a temporal feature from the input video signal, smoothing the temporal feature by filtering and outputting the smoothed temporal feature, and controlling processing performed in the processing step in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080278631 - Noise reduction device and noise reduction method of compression coded image: A noise reduction device includes a two-dimensional noise reducing unit for reducing noise by arithmetic processing within an image, a three-dimensional noise reducing unit for receiving the video signal from the two-dimensional noise reducing unit and reducing noise by arithmetic processing between images, a first noise reduction intensity setting unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080278632 - Image processing apparatus: A brightness converting unit obtains brightness of each of the pixels. The low-resolution brightness image generating unit divides an image based on the input image signal into a plurality of domains, and obtains an average brightness of each of the domains, on the basis of the brightness obtained by the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080278633 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: A corresponding point information generator computes matching between a source image frame and a destination image frame in image data comprising consecutive image frames so as to determine corresponding point information indicating pixel-by-pixel matching. A motion vector detector determines a motion vector for each pixel in the source image frame... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080278635 - Applications for remote control devices with added functionalities: A handheld wireless device for controlling an electronic device. Ambient noise is automatically detected using a microphone and user preference parameters (e.g., volume) are adjusted, compensating for the detected noise. Plurality of signals are sent and received, operable to determine the location of the remote control, thereby operable to automatically... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080278634 - Systems and methods for channel scanning: Methods for channel scanning are provided. An embodiment of a method for channel scanning comprises scan progress information stored when interrupting a channel scanning process. A carrier RF subsequent to the most recently processed carrier RF is locked onto with reference to the stored scan progress information when resuming the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080278636 - Optical unit, video display apparatus, and color switching method: A projection-type video display apparatus has a polarizing beam splitter for matching light, which is outputted by a light source unit, to one of S polarizing light and P polarizing light, an optical characteristics switching element for electrically and periodically switching a wavelength band of light outputted by the polarizing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080278637 - System and method for light source power control: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for light source power control. More specifically, there is provided a method of controlling a display device (10) light source (12) comprising intercepting a command to shut down a light source (12) and overriding the command to shut down the light... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080278638 - Liquid crystal television and display device: The present invention discloses a display device, comprising: a display with deviated directivity in an orientation angle offering good viewability, a casing that holds the display and is placed at a plurality of angles, a direction sensor detecting a direction of placement of the casing, a video processing circuit for... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080273077 - Virtual video message answering machine platform: Enabling a user of a video chat application to a virtual video message answering machine to contextually provide a video message to at least one other user of the video chat application for play back if the user is unavailable. The video message can be arranged to be played when... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080273078 - Videoconferencing audio distribution: Systems, methodologies, and media associated with videoconferencing are described. One example system includes video display devices and audio output devices to output video and related audio received from a remote videoconferencing location(s). The example system includes a distribution logic to selectively route audio data to an audio output device(s) and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080273079 - Videophone and method for a video call: A videophone. The videophone can include an imaging mechanism for taking a video picture of a scene. The videophone can include a mechanism for producing a first video stream of the scene and a second video stream of the scene from the video picture and sending the first video stream... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20080273080 - Method and apparatus for decision feedback locationing using digtital telelvision signals: A method using DTV signals for positioning is provided. The method comprises the step of calculating a transmission time of a data segment of a television signal from a transmitter to a mobile receiver.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20080273081 - Business system for two and three dimensional snapshots: A method for enabling viewing of stereoscopic images is provided. The method includes providing a two dimensional image representation to a service bureau configured to convert the two dimensional image representation into a stereoscopic image and transmitting the enhanced image from the service bureau to an entity for purposes of... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080273082 - Picture processing apparatus, picture recording apparatus, method and program thereof: The present invention realizes picture recording in simple configuration such that a user can easily and intuitively identify a minified picture of a multi-view picture from among minified pictures of pictures being taken. A 3-dimensional thumbnail picture is created by performing 3-dimensional CG processing on a multi-view picture thumbnail picture,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273083 - Stereoscopic two-dimensional display device: A stereoscopic two-dimensional image display device includes a display unit 1 including an image display plane 1a on which an image is displayed; an image transfer panel 3 arranged apart from the image display plane, for imaging light emitted from the image display plane on an imaging plane 2 in... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080273084 - Integrated video and electro-oculography system: A goggle based light-weight VOG/EOG system includes at least one digital camera connected to and powered by a laptop computer through a firewire connection. The EOG system is incorporated directly into a goggle base. The digital camera may digitally center the pupil in both the X and Y directions. A... Agent: Blynn L. Shideler The Blk Law Group

20080273085 - Machine for inspecting glass containers: A machine for distinguishing blisters from checks on the finish of a glass container. The captured objects are located in a band to define a cluster. The cluster is evaluated to determine whether it is a multiple cluster and each defined cluster is evaluated to distinguish a check from a... Agent: Emhart Glass Research, Inc.

20080273086 - Machine for inspecting glass containers: A machine for inspecting glass containers rotating at an inspection station. A camera images an area of interest on the glass container (the finish for example) and the area is imaged at angular increments. An anomalous object is analyzed in each image and the deviation of its center relative to... Agent: Emhart Glass Research, Inc.

20080273087 - Method for gathering and storing surveillance information: The invention relates to a method where an event involving at least one object is detected. The bearing of an electronic device is determined. The electronic device is positioned to obtain its position. The identity of a user of the electronic device is determined. A number of sensor devices are... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080273088 - Intelligent surveillance system and method for integrated event based surveillance: A surveillance system and method includes a plurality of sensors configured to monitor an environment. A plurality of analytic engines is associated with each of the plurality of sensors. The plurality of analytic engines employs different technologies and is configured to analyze input from the sensors to determine whether an... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080273089 - Method and apparatus for dynamically testing video equipment: A method and apparatus are presented for dynamically testing video equipment. One or more test patterns utilize different regions of video signal characteristics. Adjustment is made to the video characteristics of a region until a perceived parameter of the region matches a second region. A performance parameter of said video... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20080273091 - Buffering technique using structrured delay skewing: A line buffering technique in which a plurality of line buffers are arranged based on a determined average number of branches and stages that are necessary to implement the buffers based on design constraints. In an exemplary embodiment, the line buffers may be arranged in any buffer topology arrangement meeting... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080273090 - Image sensing apparatus: This invention makes it difficult to analyze key data necessary to generate authentication data of image data. In this invention, when a user turns on the power supply of an image sensing apparatus 10, key data necessary to generate authentication data is generated (step S201). When the user turns off... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080273092 - Micro-optical image stabilizer: A micro-optical image stabilizer is disclosed. The optical image stabilizer includes a substrate, a carrier movably disposed on the substrate for carrying an image sensor, an anchor fixed on the substrate, a conducting pad fixed on the anchor for coupling an image processing circuit, a flexible suspension disposed between the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080273094 - Imaging apparatus and control method therefor: In response to an input instruction to start a still image capturing operation when a moving image capturing operation is being performed, an imaging apparatus controls the still image capturing operation to record a still image file on a recording medium, interrupts the moving image capturing operation, generates a moving... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080273093 - Solid-state image sensing device and image sensing system: A solid-state image sensing device comprises a first readout circuit configured to read out a signal from a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a signal holding unit configured to hold the signal read out from the first readout circuit, a second readout circuit configured to read out the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080273096 - Image pickup device: Charging of a camera 100 and backup of data are concurrently executed to enable picking up an image regardless of a remaining available memory. As the camera 100 is attached to a cradle 200, image data for the image picked up by a camera module 110 of the camera 100... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080273095 - Imaging apparatus: By connecting to or mounting a first storage medium that stores image data as a retrieval object (e.g. first memory card 121) and a second storage medium that stores a retrieve condition (e.g. non-volatile memory 111 or second memory card 122), an imaging apparatus 100 can store image data as... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080273097 - Image capturing device, image capturing method and controlling program: When a shutter button is half-pressed, image signal of a field image is read from a CCD, and is converted into image data of digital. For example three faces are detected based on the image data, and a face central coordinate of each face is extracted and a face centroid... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080273098 - Apparatus and method for recording image data, and apparatus and method for reproducing zoomed images: The sizes of images obtained by electronic zoom processing are rendered constant to a certain degree. To accomplish this, an image within a zoom area is enlarged or reduced to the size of a super-extended graphics array (SXGA), and the resulting image data is recorded on a memory card, if... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273099 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and program: An image capturing apparatus includes an image pickup unit including an image pickup element that captures a plurality of colors in ranges of visible and invisible light incoming through an image capturing lens, a pixel value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of each pixel regarding at least one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080273100 - Noise reduction apparatus, method and computer- readable recording medium: A noise-reduction apparatus includes an image-noise-reduction means having an operation means and a judgment means. The operation means shifts the level of the signal-value of a target-pixel so that an average of the signal-values of the target-pixel and pixels in a predetermined area in the vicinity of the target-pixel becomes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273101 - Image capturing system, signal processing circuit, and signal processing method: An image capturing system includes a signal correction unit which corrects a signal output from a defective pixel in an optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel. The optical black region has a plurality of pixel blocks. Each of the plurality of pixel blocks has... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080273102 - Detection device for defective pixel in photographic device: The defeat determination unit determines whether a target pixel among the pixels of the image sensor is defective on the basis of a first defect map and at least one second defect map. The first defeat map shows a first relationship between a pixel value of the target pixel and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080273103 - Techniques for modifying image field data as a function of radius across the image field: A technique for modifying data of an image, such as can be implemented in a still camera or video recorder in order to correct for defects in its optical and/or electronic systems, includes generating data to modify the image as a function of radial position across it. A variation of... Agent: Zoran Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20080273104 - Image sensor pixel with gain control: A method for reading out an image signal, the method comprising: providing at least two photosensitive regions; providing at least two transfer gates respectively associated with each photosensitive region; providing a common charge-to-voltage conversion region electrically connected to the transfer gates; providing a reset mechanism that resets the common charge-to-voltage... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080273106 - Class ab amplifier and imagers and systems using same: A class AB amplifier includes an input stage having a pair of differential input terminals, first and second differential output terminals, and a local common mode feedback circuit. The input stage includes a local common mode feedback circuit having cascode transistor to achieve relatively high gain. The amplifier also includes... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080273105 - Solid-state image sensing device and method for driving the same: A solid-state image sensing device includes: a plurality of unit pixels 21 arranged in rows and columns each of which outputs a pixel signal according to incident light; and a plurality of floating diffusion portions 22 each of which receives the pixel signals. Each of the floating diffusion portions 22... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080273107 - Data transfer circuit, solid-state imaging device and camera system: A data transfer circuit includes at least one transfer line transferring digital data, at least one data detecting circuit connecting to the transfer line, multiple holding circuits holding a digital value corresponding to the input level and transferring the digital value to the transfer line, and a scanning circuit selecting... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080273108 - Image pickup-up apparatus: Microphone mechanisms are disposed on both sides of a flash mechanism provided in a video camera's front cabinet, and the microphone mechanisms are incorporated in the front cabinet. The video camera 1 includes: a camera body 2; a front cabinet 3 provided at the front of the camera body 2;... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080273109 - Portable device with interactive display and geographical location capability: A portable device having geographical location technology includes: a camera, for capturing an image; a wireless access circuit for accessing a geographical database to generate information according to the geographical location technology of the portable device; a display screen, for displaying at least the image and the generated information, the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080273110 - Image data processing apparatus, and image data processing method: An image which has not yet undergone image data processing and an image which has undergone image data processing are displayed so that a difference between the images can be readily recognized. An image obtained by means of a lens and an imaging element is subjected to specific processing, such... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080273111 - Miniature camera module: Digital miniature cameras and methods to manufacture thereof have been achieved. Said miniature cameras having an adjustable focusing device are intended to be used as a built-in modules in hand-held consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. mobile phones and PDAs. The cameras invented have a very small size and produce... Agent: Saile Ackerman LLC

20080273112 - Portable electronic device for capturing images: A portable electronic device having a main body, the device comprising: including a camera arrangement for capturing images in a plurality of directions relative to the main body of the device; a lighting element; and a reflector, at least a portion of which is movable about the lighting element to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080273113 - Integrated graphics and kvm system: Apparatus for display processing includes a host interface, which is arranged to accept graphical information from a first computer. A first display head is arranged to produce a first digital video signal including first frames representing the graphical information at a first frame rate, for displaying the graphical information on... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080273114 - Stb channel reader: A display reader device that reads a channel displayed on a television set top box channel display consistent with certain embodiments has an array of light sensitive electronic elements receiving light signals from a television set top box's channel display and producing an output signal representative of the light pattern... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080273115 - Multimedia presentation format: A format for accessing content such as a full-length move from an optical disc uses an XML description file stored on the disc to generate one or more screens that a user employs to access the content. The decoding requirements of a hardware or software player are reduced by discarding... Agent: Patentability Associates

20080273116 - Method of receiving a multimedia signal comprising audio and video frames: The present invention relates to a method of receiving a multimedia signal in a communication apparatus, said multimedia signal comprising at least a sequence of video frames (VF) and a sequence of audio frames (AF) associated therewith. Said method comprises the steps of: processing (21) and displaying (25) the sequence... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080273117 - Digital camera device and method for controlling the operation thereof: A digital camera device, a method and/or a computer program product for controlling the digital camera device. The digital camera device comprises an imaging device for sensing the image of a subject using an image sensor and outputting image data representing the image of the subject, and an imaging lens... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080273118 - Broadcast signal receiving apparatus and control method thereof: A broadcast signal receiving apparatus including a broadcast receiving unit that receives a broadcast signal; a communicating unit that performs communication with a mobile apparatus; a signal converting unit that converts the received broadcast signal; and a controller that controls the signal converting unit to convert the broadcast signal into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080273119 - Method and apparatus for short range motion adaptive noise reduction: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for generating and storing in a lookup table a first array of next field values for use in generation of weighted pixel values and generating and storing a second array in the lookup table of previous field values for use in... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080273120 - Single supply direct drive amplifier: A driver amplifier operative from a single DC voltage supply, coupled directly to the output load without the need for DC coupling capacitors used for preventing DC reaching the output load. An onboard power supply generates a negative voltage rail that powers the output amplifiers, allowing driver amplifier operation from... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080273121 - Digital broadcasting transmission and/or reception system to improve receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission and/or reception system having an improved reception performance and a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a randomizer to input and randomize data streams including a plurality of segments having at least one segment having one or more null packets, a null packet exchanger... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080273122 - Reception system: A reception system receiving the broadcast wave of a digital broadcast to acquire the video or audio signal of the broadcast has: a tuner circuit detecting the broadcast wave at a predetermined frequency to convert it into an intermediate-frequency signal; and a receiver device having a first terminal connected to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080273123 - Laser picture formation device: In a laser picture formation device which forms a vide image by irradiating lights emitted from plural laser light sources (1a, 1b, 1c) which obtains monochromatic lights from laser lights which are outputted from the respective laser light emission parts to spatial light modulators (5a, 5b, 5c), each of the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080273124 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal television: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display apparatus and a liquid crystal television that control the lighting of the backlight to reduce the power consumption and inform the user that the lighting is controlled while no video signal is inputted, enabling to realize the energy saving without impairing the... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080273125 - Separately-excited inverter circuit and liquid crystal television: The separately-excited inverter circuit for performing the protecting operation upon the rise in the output voltage caused by the contact failure includes a switching circuit 26b which applies the AC to a primary coil of a pressure-rising transformer 26e, a control circuit C1 which starts a switch control of the... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080273126 - Digital photo frame apparatus: A digital photo frame apparatus comprises at least one memory card slot, at least one transmission interface port, a power supply device, a signal processing controller, a display device, a display driver module and an input control module. The memory card slot is for connecting to a memory card to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080273127 - Retention of a replaceable part within a device: Systems for retaining a replaceable part within an image display device are provided herein. One example includes a first retaining member with a first looped retention arm configured to apply a retaining force in an x-direction to the replaceable part and a second retaining member with a second looped retention... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP