Television inventions 02/09

20090051752 - Video call management apparatus and associated methodology of controlling voice and video response: An video call management apparatus and associated methodology of controlling interactive voice and video responses is provided. A calling party is identified as an agent or a caller based on a set of agent identities. The calling party is then provided with an agent main menu, when an agent is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051754 - Methods for reducing call set up times using automatic connection negotiation: Methods and products for reducing the time required to set-up a call are provided. In particular, new functionality to H.324 is added by allowing the transmission of media to commence after a reduced number of H.245 messages have been exchanged by two calling devices. If two terminals involved in a... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20090051753 - Multimedia effect processing device for videophone and related method: The present invention discloses a videophone for displaying a first multimedia data, wherein the videophone communicates with a remote videophone. The videophone includes a database, a processing unit and an output unit. The database stores a plurality of multimedia files. The processing unit is coupled to the database, for selecting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090051755 - Communication device, communication method, communication system, program, and computer-readable storage medium: A communication device of the present invention which is realized as a video communication device (1) includes: a communication control section (2) for establishing communication connection with other communication device; a content receiving section (6) for obtaining content data from the outside; and a content transmission section (8) for specifying... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090051756 - Telepresence conference room layout, dynamic scenario manager, diagnostics and control system and method: A method, system and apparatus for conducing an audio-visual telepresence conference among a number of conference rooms distributed over various locations includes determining a priority of each room in the conference, determining an optimal number of audio-video streams between each room in the conference according to priority, assigning participant displays... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20090051757 - Video information apparatus and image processing method: A video information apparatus for displaying a ring-filed image is composed of computer system and display apparatus. The computer system is composed of the master control system and at least a controlled system. The master control system separates the ring-filed image into plural visual angle images, and the controlled system... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090051759 - Equipment and methods for the synchronization of stereoscopic projection displays: Equipment and methods for the synchronization of stereoscopic projection displays are described. One projection system described includes at least one projector for projecting alternate left and right eye stereoscopic images for viewing with stereoscopic viewing eyewear, and further includes an image data storage and retrieval device capable of outputting an... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090051760 - Fusion night vision system: A fusion night vision system having image intensification and thermal imaging capabilities includes an edge detection filter circuit to aid in acquiring and identifying targets. An outline of the thermal image is generated and combined with the image intensification image without obscuration of the image intensification image. The fusion night... Agent: Insight Technology Incorporated Attn: Peter W. Murphy

20090051758 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: The position and orientation of the viewpoint of the observer are acquired (2030), the moving amount of a movable part is acquired (2032), a movable part of a virtual object is moved based on the moving amount of the movable part of a physical object, and an image which is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090051761 - Display system, display device, display method, program and memory media: A TV (1) provided with a display device (2) for displaying information in a plurality of different display directions is controlled by an operation signal transmitted from a remote controller (12). The television (1) is provided with display device-side sensor s (8aL/R, 8bL/R) arranged to correspond to the display directions,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090051763 - Imaging systems and methods, particularly for use with medical instrument used in open surgery: An electronic imaging apparatus (and related methods of manufacture and use), comprising: a chassis, having an open cylindrical groove formed therein; an image sensor assembly mounted in the chassis, the image sensor assembly comprising an electronic image sensor; a plurality of lenses, which are fitted into the groove in respective... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20090051762 - Receiving apparatus and intra-subject information acquiring system: To acquire much accurate image information having no noise, without increasing load in the post-processing of the image information, a receiving apparatus 3 includes: a synchronization signal detector 34 that detects a horizontal synchronization signal and a vertical synchronization signal; an image processor 35 that performs an image generation process... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090051764 - Endoscope system and lens unit: An endoscope system has a light source apparatus and an endoscope including an illumination optical system and an objective optical system. At least the objective optical system of the endoscope is provided with an adjustable diaphragm, and in a light path in one of the light source apparatus, the illumination... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090051765 - Usb-enable audio-video switch: A telemedicine system (8) includes an audio-video switch (10) that receives at least two different signals and conveys at least one of the at least two different signals to an output device (18) that presents 114 it to a user. A control device (162) monitors a position of the audio-video... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090051768 - Loop recording with book marking: A surveillance apparatus continuously records imaged data from a camera into a circular buffer in a local memory. When a record signal is received, the system records the video stream that was recorded before the record signal was received, and the video stream that is recorded after the record signal... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090051766 - Monitoring system and imaging device: An imaging device has a frame selector that performs frame removal processing for removing certain image frames from the image data such that groups of successive image frames remain at predetermined intervals. A monitoring center has a high resolution processor that uses received multiple image frames to perform high resolution... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090051767 - Power-line communication based surveillance system: A surveillance system configured for communicating with video cameras and other devices connected over a power-line communication network, such as within a residence, or alternatively a commercial building. The system may be manufactured and installed at low cost without the need to route individual cables to each surveillance video camera... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20090051770 - Camera control method, camera control device, camera control program, and camera system: A camera control method includes the steps of performing at least one of a panning operation, a tilting operation, and a zoom-in operation using a first camera of at least two cameras, and performing at least one of a panning operation, a tilting operation, and a zoom-out operation using a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090051769 - Method and system for remote monitoring and surveillance: A system for remote monitoring and surveillance is disclosed in this invention. The system comprises a plurality of cameras, a router, and a server. The cameras are connected with the router separately through a wired or wireless communication protocol. The router is connected with the server through a wireless communication... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20090051771 - Data processing device and data processing method: In the present invention, there is provided a data processing device, including: a first memory configured to store identification information for identification of video data in association with a feature included in the video data; a second memory configured to store the feature included in the video data in association... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051772 - Establishing and maintaining focus in segmented-optic telescopes: A multi-aperture interferometric optical system collects light propagating from a source of light and develops overlapping diffraction patterns on an optical detector that produces output signals for processing to automatically focus the optical system and form an image corresponding to the diffraction patterns. A preferred embodiment of the invention is... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20090051774 - Camera module and mobile terminal unit: A camera module of the present invention includes a wiring substrate having a connection pad, and on which an imaging device is mounted, on an upper surface side thereof, and a lens unit provided on the wiring substrate and equipped with a lens portion arranged over the imaging device, an... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090051773 - Video capture device with attention attractive feature: A video capture device with attention attractive feature comprising: a video capture device; an attention attractive device, connecting to the video capture device; wherein the attention attractive device is used to attract the sight of eyes for video capture device to capture a better image.... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20090051776 - Autofocus assembly: A camera assembly may include an autofocus assembly that selectively imparts a first displacement between a lens assembly and an imaging sensor and a second displacement between the lens assembly and the imaging sensor. The autofocus assembly includes at least one positioner and an actuator. The actuator is configured to... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090051775 - Signal processing device: A signal processing device includes a system of system of circuit processing in essence while avoiding large sized device under restoring fluctuated signals such as deterioration and the like. The signal processing unit includes a processing unit that restores one of a signal before fluctuation, a signal which should have... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20090051777 - Apparatus and method for estimating motion due to hand trembling and image pickup device using the same: A motion estimation apparatus and method for estimating a global motion vector of an image due to hand trembling by using zoom information and focus information are provided. The motion estimation method includes: dividing a photographed image into a plurality of image blocks; determining a weight value for a motion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090051778 - Advanced dynamic stitching method for multi-lens camera system: An advanced dynamic stitching method for multi-lens camera system is disclosed. This invention aims to address the parallax phenomenon which exists in a multi-lens camera system. Stitching points vary with the object distance. In a video stitching system, a fast search engine to update the stitching points dynamically is needed.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090051780 - Digital camera with a mode selectable structure: A digital camera has a shutter release button. A mode selector sets a selected one of a regular photographing mode and a macro photographing mode adapted to image pickup at a nearer distance of close-up than the regular photographing mode. An LCD display panel as a user interface has an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090051781 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: A CCD including primary photosensitive pixels that have a narrower dynamic range and secondary photosensitive pixels that have a wider dynamic range is used to obtain first image information from the primary photosensitive pixels and second image information from the secondary photosensitive pixels at one exposure, then the first image... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090051779 - Modifying visual perception: Various embodiments directed to modifying and enhancing visual perception are disclosed. One embodiment is directed to a camera which includes a lens system for capturing images and a lighting system providing key light above the lens system and providing fill light below the lens system. A processor controls one or... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090051782 - Flicker correcting method, flicker correcting circuit, and imaging device using them: An arithmetic processing section executes an arithmetic process on a flicker correction signal output from a flicker correction signal outputting section and corresponding to the flicker component contained in a video signal of each of specific periods and the video signal of each of the specific periods to form a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051783 - Apparatus and method of capturing images having optimized quality under night scene conditions: An apparatus and method of capturing images having an optimized quality during night time conditions is provided. The apparatus for capturing images includes an image-capturing unit that captures an light from an object and generates a first digital image, a night-scene-sensing unit sensing whether the first digital image is a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090051784 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus, includes a viewfinder optical system for guiding an observation light beam to a viewfinder window, the observation light beam being output from an imaging optical system and then reflected from a main reflective surface, an imaging element for generating an image signal in response to the reception... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051785 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to perform, as an image capturing operation, a process of obtaining captured image data of a subject and save the captured image data; a position detecting unit configured to detect current position information; and a control unit configured to update activity history... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090051787 - Apparatus and method for photographing image using digital camera capable of providing preview images: Disclosed is an apparatus for photographing an image using a digital camera capable of providing a preview image, including: an image sensor for capturing an image of a subject; a first image signal processor for processing at least one captured image as a sequent image in order to display the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090051786 - Image capturing apparatus, its controlling method, and program: The present invention enables showing main objects position as position of focus measuring point even in case main object has moved after focusing by focus control unit, within the image screen due to framing alternation. It is an image capturing apparatus wherein image sensor conducts photo-electric conversion of object image... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090051788 - Image-capturing apparatus and image-capturing method: An image-capturing apparatus includes an image-capturing unit configured to capture image data of a subject and to store the captured image data in an image-capturing operation; a speed detector configured to detect speed information; and a controller configured to control the image-capturing unit so that, in an automatic image-capturing process... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090051789 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a zoom operation unit operable to perform a zoom operation, an extraction unit configured to extract a main object from an captured image plane, and a control unit configured to control a zoom speed by using the size of a region occupied by the main object... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090051790 - De-parallax methods and apparatuses for lateral sensor arrays: An object perceived by a lateral sensor array effected by parallax is shifted to correct for parallax error. A void resulting from said shift is filled by examining and interpolating image and color content from other locations.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090051791 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor having a plurality of pixels arranged in an array that captures an image of a subject and outputs pixel signals; a calculation unit that calculates a correction value for correcting an error of the pixel signals read out from the image sensor for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090051792 - Digital single-lens reflex camera: A digital single-lens reflex camera includes a lens unit, a storage medium and a camera body. The lens unit has a photographing lens and an identification data memory for storing identification data to identify the photographing lens. The storage medium stores lens data that indicates shading characteristics of the photographing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090051793 - Multi-array sensor with integrated sub-array for parallax detection and photometer functionality: Methods and systems of imaging to correct parallax. Color information is received from multi-array sensors. Luminance information is received from a sub-array sensor arranged with the multi-array sensors. Color information received from at least one of the multi-array sensors is correlated with the luminance information received from the sub-array sensor.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090051794 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing system, program and recording medium: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing system, a program, and a recording medium that are capable of obtaining a wide dynamic range image in which the luminance is compressed. Assignment of the number of luminance gradation steps of an output... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090051795 - Photometric device: A photometric device includes a storage-type photometric sensor, a first control means that performs accumulation control on the photometric sensor based upon an average value of an output of the photometric sensor, a second control means that performs accumulation control on the photometric sensor based upon a maximum value of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090051796 - Method and apparatus for an on-chip variable acuity imager array incorporating roll, pitch and yaw angle rates measurement: A variable acuity imager incorporates an array of detection elements for light energy, in the visible, infrared, ultraviolet, or light energy in another region of the electromagnetic spectrum with a means to change the spatial configuration of the array to include “superpixels” by combining energy detected by adjacent elements, thus... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20090051797 - Digital image capturing device and method for correctting image tilt errors: An digital image capturing device includes an image sensor, a tilt sensor, an image processor, and a memory device. The image sensor is configured for capturing an image of an object. The tilt sensor is configured for sensing a tilt angle of the image sensor. The image processor is configured... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090051798 - Wide dynamic range linear-and-log active pixel: A pixel circuit having an improved dynamic range is disclosed. When incoming light detected by the photodiode is strong, the accumulated (integrated) charge on a signal capacitor becomes large. To compensate, the excess signal component becomes compressed and the pixel circuit begins operating in logarithmic rather than linear mode. In... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090051801 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus for photographing an image, includes: a photoelectric converter to convert incident light an electric charge and accumulate the electric charge, a transfer element to transfer the electric charge accumulated in the photoelectric converter, a converter to convert the electric charge in the photoelectric converter transferred via... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090051799 - Image pickup device and image pickup apparatus: An image pickup device includes: a plurality of photoelectric converting portions that are arranged at predetermined intervals in horizontal and vertical directions of an imaging region, and that generate signal charges corresponding to incident light; a vertical charge transfer portion that transfers the signal charges generated in the photoelectric converting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090051800 - Solid-state image pickup device, image pickup apparatus and drive method of solid-state image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device includes R photoelectric conversion elements, G photoelectric conversion elements, and B photoelectric conversion elements. A charge read part is provided between each of the R photoelectric conversion elements, the G photoelectric conversion elements, and the B photoelectric conversion elements and a vertical charge transfer passage... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090051802 - Image capture device: An image capture device according to the present invention includes: a display section to show a dialog box that allows the user of the device to edit character information, the dialog box including an entry option field where at least one character is proposed as an entry option and a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090051803 - Camera having a dust-proofing member that is vibrated to remove dust, the dust-proofing member being pressed by a spring pressing member toward a sealing part that seals a space between the dust-proofing member and an image pickup-device: A camera includes a dust-proofing member which has a transparent portion through which a visible light component is transmitted. The transparent portion is opposed to the front of an image pick-up device at a predetermined interval. A vibration member is arranged at a peripheral portion of the dust-proofing member and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P . C . 25th Floor

20090051804 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes a housing including a first photographing aperture and a second photographing aperture which are open toward opposite directions; at least one image pickup device and an image processing circuit for processing signals output from the image pickup device, the image pickup device and the image processing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090051805 - Focusing apparatus and focusing method: A focusing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image pickup device which obtains an image signal of a subject that is captured by an image capturing device, wherein the image capturing device incorporates a focus optical system therein; a search interval calculating device which acquires... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090051806 - Device for connecting a camera lens to a movie camera: A device for connecting a camera lens to a movie camera has a camera housing with a lens mount and a device for acquiring data relating to the camera lens connected to the lens mount. Said device further comprising a miniaturized electronic system with data memory for storing data relating... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090051807 - Imaging device, and control method for imaging device: An imaging device, comprising a photographing lens having a manual focus mechanism, an imaging unit for receiving subject light flux, that has been made incident by the photographing lens, on an imaging surface, a display unit for carrying out a live view display operation using image data acquired by the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090051808 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus able to encode and decode images by a low cost, small sized circuit configuration, having a temporary storage portion for temporarily storing data, an encoding/decoding processing portion for reading and writing data successively with respect to the temporary storage portion and encoding and decoding the image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051809 - System and method for combining interlaced video frames: System and method for combining interlaced video frames. A method embodiment for displaying a de-interlaced video sequence includes receiving a video stream, decoding the video stream to produce a sequence of interlaced video fields, creating a first de-interlaced video frame by combining at least two interlaced video fields, determining a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090051810 - Systems and methods for combining deinterlacing and frame rate decimation for video format conversion: A method of converting video data to film data may include deinterlacing video data from a first field and a third field to produce first field video data, providing second field video data, and merging the first field video data and the second field video data to produce first frame... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090051811 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The method includes, receiving a broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting transmission parameter signaling information and fast-information-channel signaling information from a data group contained in the received mobile service data, parsing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090051812 - Signal adjuster: A signal adjuster is disclosed to include a first connector and a second connector respectively connected to a signal source and a video display device, a buffer for buffering a high frequency signal, a signal bandwidth detector connected to the buffer for detecting the continuation condition of the high frequency... Agent: Sure-fire Electrical Corporation

20090051813 - Image processing device: A television screen or a PC screen can be displayed on the monitor (21) of an existing PC (17) or an overlay display of the combined two screens can be carried out. Any of the displays can be easily changed at any position with any window size by an operation... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090051814 - Information processing device and information processing method: Disclosed herein is an information processing device including: a memory configured to store at least one change point interval of video data on a data-by-data basis; a calculator configured to calculate at least one change point interval from input video data; a detector configured to detect change point intervals that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051815 - Signal processing device and optical disc apparatus: A video decoder 107 decodes an inputted video signal to output video information. A microcomputer 108 reads only specific compressed font data from a ROM 104 in which compressed font data is stored, decompresses the read compressed font data sequentially and stores the decompressed font data into a RAM 105.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090051816 - Image processing apparatus, projector, image processing method, and method for controlling image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes an image signal input unit that receives an input of an image signal representing an image to be displayed, a noise reduction unit that performs noise reduction for reducing the noise contained in the image signal, and an image quality adjustment unit that performs image... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090051817 - Method and device for image sharpness adjustment: The present invention discloses a method and a device for image sharpness adjustment. The device comprises a color analyzer, a color sharpness setting unit, a computing circuit, and a luminance adjusting unit. The color analyzer is for analyzing an input color signal to generate a plurality of color flags. The... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090051818 - Video signal processing device, video signal processing method and display device: A video signal processing device includes a sample data register to hold a signal level of a video signal after correction at each sample point as a correction level, a coefficient operation circuit to output a first coefficient, a coefficient selection circuit to output a second coefficient, and an interpolation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090051819 - Video display device, interpolated image generation circuit and interpolated image generation method: A video display device displays a video distributed via broadcast. The video display device comprises a data extraction section and a frame interpolation processing section. The data extraction section extracts additional data indicating information regarding a program or regarding a video of the program from a broadcast signal. The frame... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090051820 - Electronic device: Disclosed herein is an electronic device including: a signal receiving block configured to receive a video signal transmitted from a preceding electronic device connected via a first transmission route; a signal transmitting block configured to transmit the video signal received at the signal receiving block to a succeeding electronic device... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090051822 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system utilizing mull packet and trs code 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 TRS encoder for to TRS-encode a MPEG-2 transmission stream having null data for inserting a Known data and a TRS parity at predetermined positions, randomizer to input... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090051821 - System and method for terrestrial high-definition television reception: An adaptive receiver is disclosed for optimally receiving and processing signals. The receiver utilizes one or more memory blocks to store groups of incoming symbols. The groups of symbols are processed by a channel estimation subsystem to determine channel characteristics. The receiver determines the appropriate demodulation and decoding strategy to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090051823 - Remote control apparatus and remote control method: A remote control apparatus for a remote control system using a wireless communication is disclosed. A second designation section designates a category of an electronic device as a pairing target. A transmission section broadcasts a signal which contains information representing the pairing and the category designated by the first designation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090051824 - Remote control system: A remote control system which controls plural devices connected to a bus, and which includes: a set top box (2) that is operated by a controller (4); and a DVD player (1) that transmits, to the plural devices connected to the bus, a first command indicating that the DVD player... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090051825 - Video/audio output device and external speaker control apparatus: The invention provides an external speaker control apparatus for causing only one of an internal speaker and an external speaker to output audio when a power supply of the external speaker control apparatus which controls the external speaker changes from an off state to an on state, the external speaker... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090051827 - Display device: A display device (100) of the present invention has a first switch (3) and a second switch (4) on an upper surface of its casing, and includes a control circuit (18) for controlling the first switch (3) and the second switch (4) and a light source (19) inside the casing.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090051826 - Method and related display device for displaying pictures in digital picture slide show: A method for displaying pictures during a digital picture slide show includes receiving a plurality of pictures, determining display characteristics of the plurality of pictures according to weighting values of the plurality of pictures, and displaying the plurality of pictures according to the display characteristics of the plurality of pictures.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090051828 - Electronic alignment of primary color pixels in a scanned display: An image generation apparatus provides correction for color offsets. Color offsets may be caused by misalignments in laser diodes or optics assemblies in a laser projector. The offsets may be measured during or after manufacture of the laser projector. An image buffer is responsive to the offset data to translate... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20090051829 - Projection display device: A projection display device may include a housing which can be placed on a placing face with a lower face portion thereof distanced from the placing face; a fan, disposed within the housing, to suction from a first air inlet formed in the lower face portion; a filter detachably provided... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090051830 - Mobile terminal unit, display method, display program, and recording medium: A flexible LCD (2) is a flexible display. The flexible LCD (2) is pulled out from an upper cabinet to change a display area of the flexible LCD (2). An amount-of-sliding detecting section (4) measures the pullout amount (amount of sliding) of the flexible LCD (2) when the flexible LCD... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090046138 - Internet video conferencing on a home television: A home network integrates a television to enable a user to use the television to conduct an Internet video conference by leveraging the Internet video conferencing functionality provided by a home computer connected to the Internet. The television is connected to the home network via a TV client module, and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090046139 - system and method for distributed meetings: A system and method for teleconferencing and recording of meetings. The system uses a variety of capture devices (a novel 360° camera, a whiteboard camera, a presenter view camera, a remote view camera, and a microphone array) to provide a rich experience for people who want to participate in a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090046140 - Mobile virtual reality projector: A spatially aware apparatus includes a projector. Projected display contents can change based on the position, motion, or orientation of the apparatus. The apparatus may include gyroscope(s), accelerometer(s), global positioning system (GPS) receiver(s), radio receiver(s), or any other devices or interfaces that detect, or provide information relating to, motion, orientation,... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20090046141 - Stereoscopic spectacles: To provide stereoscopic spectacles for enabling a user to stably enjoy stereoscopic viewing of a stereoscopic image shown on a display screen of a portable game machine. Stereoscopic spectacles (1) have a spectacles portion (30) for stereoscopically viewing a stereoscopic image shown on a display screen (91) of a portable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046142 - Auto stereoscopic display improving brightness: Provided is an auto stereoscopic display improving brightness, including: a left eye pixel including a plurality of first color sub pixels and a first white sub pixel; a right eye pixel including a plurality of second color sub pixels and a second white sub pixel; and a viewing field separating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046143 - Autostereoscopic dislpay device: A drive method and apparatus is provided for a 2D/3D autostereoscopic display with a switchable lens array having an electrically switchable refractive index, between an array of row electrode lines and an array of column electrode lines to control the switching of the lens elements. The drive signals comprise: a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090046144 - Method and apparatus for optimizing lens alignment for optically sensitive devices and systems with optimized lens alignment: Non-symmetrically located lenses are employed with semiconductor devices comprising optically active regions which are non-symmetrically located on a surface thereof The optical axes of the lenses are aligned with the centers of the optically active regions. Wafer-level assemblies of semiconductor devices and lenses may be fabricated, mutually secured with the... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20090046145 - Lower perspective camera for review of clothing fit and wearability and uses thereof: Methods of providing a rear perspective viewing for a consumer in a retail clothing store include: a) providing an image system; b) providing a receiver, wherein the image system collects an actual image of a person and transmits the image to the receiver, c) providing at least one monitor, wherein... Agent: Buchalter Nemer

20090046147 - Monitoring an environment: An environment is monitored by capturing image data depicting the environment and analysing the image data to identify moving foreground objects. Upon identifying an object, the movement of said object is tracked, and graphical output data is generated providing a representation of the movement superimposed upon a representation of said... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090046146 - Surgical communication and control system: Systems and methods for communication during surgical or other procedures. A system can include a mounting piece adapted to be received on a user's head, and a beam projecting device coupled to the headpiece and configured for selectively directing attention to a particular object or location. A system that can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090046149 - Camera for mounting in motor vehicle: An imaging unit 15 is provided on a substrate 19 and has an optical axis in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface. The substrate 19 is set up in parallel with respect to the windshield of the vehicle. A lens 14 is disposed on the optical axis. A mirror... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090046148 - Method for identifying soiling on a transparent screen: Camera for identifying soiling on a protective screen. The camera is focused on a scene behind the protective screen and can be used to identify soiling and for other applications, e.g. to identify driving lanes and/or to identify objects. Soiling is identified merely by evaluating frames recorded in succession, artificial... Agent: Fasse Patent Attorneys, P.A.

20090046150 - Vehicle camera system: After accommodation of the image sensor 20 in a concave portion 16 of the lens assembly 10, when (a) first and second protrusions 31a, 31b of an elastic body 30 are inserted into first and second clearances 18a, 18b, respectively, and (b) the elastic body 30 is pressed from a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090046151 - Vehicle zone monitoring apparatus: A vehicle zone monitoring apparatus that detects physical bodies present in the vicinity of the vehicle from infrared images photographed by infrared cameras provided on the vehicle includes an object extracting device that extracts object images that emit infrared radiation from the infrared image and an artificial structure identifying device... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090046152 - Optimizations for live event, real-time, 3d object tracking: A system 1000, and its alternates 1002 through 1022, for automatically tracking and videoing the movements of multiple participants and objects during an event. System 1000 and its alternates comprise a scalable area tracking matrix of overhead tracking cameras 120c, whose individual field-of-views 120v combine to form a contiguous view... Agent: James A. Aman

20090046153 - Hidden markov model for camera handoff: An integrated method for modeling the handoff between cameras for tracking a specific individual, including: creating a representation of overlaps, gaps, and allowable movement among the fields of view of the cameras, wherein the representation is modeled as states in a Hidden Markov Model (HMM); training the HMM using video... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090046154 - System and method for testing a video signal generator: An exemplary method for testing a video signal generator is provided. The method includes: setting test parameters of the video signal generator to perform a function test; generating signals based on the test parameters through the video generator; controlling a standard measuring apparatus to receive the signals and to convert... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090046157 - Combined wide-angle/zoom camera for license plate identification: A system for recognizing and identifying at least one object of interest. The system includes a computer, a first camera, electrically coupled to the computer, the first camera having a wide-angle lens, and a second camera electrically coupled to the computer, the second camera operative to focus on coordinates supplied... Agent: Winstead PC

20090046156 - Lens barrel, camera, and mobile information terminal: A lens barrel including a plurality of lens groups; a plurality of lens retaining frames; a telescopic cylinder retained by a fixed base member and configured to retain a portion of the plurality of lens retaining frames inside of the telescopic cylinder; and a lens retaining frames driving device configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090046155 - Method for processing film images extracted from a film recording beam path of a moving image camera: A method for processing film images which are extracted from a recording beam path of a moving image camera and which are converted into digital assist signals by an optoelectronic transducer arranged in an assist beam path of the moving image camera is provided. Said assist beam path being interrupted... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090046158 - Image processing system, image capturing device, image processing terminal, image processing data storage terminal, program for the device, program for the terminal, data structure of image data, method of processing image, and method of generating image: The invention provides an image processing system which is suitable to carry out image processing in excellent accuracy while removing influence due to characteristics depending on the type difference and which facilitates wide and flexible adaptation over image capturing devices. A digital camera includes an image pick-up sensor unit which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090046159 - Portable device: A portable device that sends and receives data to and from one of a plurality of external devices is provided. The portable device has connecting members, a selecting member, and a communicating member. The connecting members send and receive data to and from said external devices. The selecting member selects... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090046160 - Camera shake correcting device: Methods for realizing a video blur detecting function include methods of detecting a video blur by means of a sensor such as an angular velocity sensor and methods of detecting it by means of a sensor and motion prediction of moving picture encoding. Use of a sensor is disadvantageous in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090046161 - Method and apparatus for initiating subsequent exposures based on determination of motion blurring artifacts: A digital image acquisition system includes a portable apparatus for capturing digital images and a digital processing component for detecting, analyzing, invoking subsequent image captures and informing the photographer regarding motion blur, and for reducing camera motion blur in an image captured by the apparatus. The digital processing component operates... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090046162 - Command module for controlling the camera: Disclosed herein is a camera system and camera controller having a modularized design. Camera control functions within the controller are distributed among a number of modules, each module performing a component task of controlling a camera. Individual modules can perform tasks such as generating clock signals, digitizing an analog video... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090046163 - Volumetric imaging using \"virtual\" lenslets: A system constructs an image using virtual lenslets.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090046168 - Apparatus for providing correlated double sampling of analog video data from an image pixel array: Disclosed herein is a camera system and camera controller having a modularized design. Camera control functions within the controller are distributed among a number of modules, each module performing a component task of controlling a camera. Individual modules can perform tasks such as generating clock signals, digitizing an analog video... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090046167 - Camera system including a camera head and a camera control unit: Disclosed herein is a camera system and camera controller having a modularized design. Camera control functions within the controller are distributed among a number of modules, each module performing a component task of controlling a camera. Individual modules can perform tasks such as generating clock signals, digitizing an analog video... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090046170 - Digital video camera non-integer-ratio bayer domain scaler: An apparatus having a buffer and a circuit is disclosed. The buffer may be configured to receive a digital image. The digital image generally has (i) a Bayer color representation and (ii) two initial dimensions in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction respectively. The circuit may be configured to... Agent: Christopher P. Maiorana, P.C.

20090046166 - Image processing apparatus, image processing program, image processing method, and electronic camera for correcting texture of image: An image processing apparatus includes a brightness fluctuation extraction section, a color difference fluctuation extraction section, a conversion section, and an addition section. The brightness extraction section extracts a local fluctuation component from brightness information (hereinafter, a brightness fluctuation) in the image data. The color difference fluctuation extraction section extracts... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090046169 - Image selecting apparatus, camera, and method of selecting image: An image selecting apparatus comprises an input unit 20, an A/D converter 30, a memory 40, a control unit 50, a recording unit 90, and an output unit 92. The input unit 20 continuously photographs a subject and inputs the data of the images. The A/D converter 30 converts the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090046165 - Photographing device: A face region, that is a region of a face of a person, is detected by a face detecting circuit from a subject of photographing that is expressed by image information acquired by a CCD area sensor. Then, an operation portion is operated at a time of switching a photographing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090046164 - Structured illumination for imaging of stationary and non-stationary, fluorescent and non-fluorescent, objects: An object to be imaged is illuminated with a structured (e.g., sinusoidal) illumination at a plurality of phase shifts to allow lateral superresolution and axial sectioning in images. When an object is to be imaged in vitro or in another situation in which the phase shifts cannot be accurately determined... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090046171 - Non-linear color correction: A method for imaging includes defining a set of one or more color correction parameters having values that vary over a predefined color space. For each of the pixels in an input image, the location of the respective input color is determined in the color space, and a value of... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20090046172 - Flare monitoring: A computer assisted method identifies characteristics of a flare. A digital image of the flare is obtained, such as by a color digital video camera and a region of interest likely containing the flare is identified. Flare pixels within the region of interest are identified and color information is extracted... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090046173 - Image storing-transferring method and apparatus, image processing method, image processing system, and image processor: Disclosed herein is a method of storing or transferring an image along with an image-processing parameter for processing the image. When storing or transferring a second image for storage or transfer which has a second resolution for storage or transfer differing from a reference resolution, a reference image-processing parameter set... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC

20090046175 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and program: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus capable of performing processes of recording and playing image data at a plurality of frame rates. The image processing apparatus includes a storage section, and a control section configured to, when performing the process of recording the image data at each of the... Agent: Formmer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090046174 - Solid state imaging device and driving method therefor: A solid state imaging device includes an imaging circuit 50 and a signal processing circuit 51. The imaging circuit 50 includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and outputs signals of the pixels line by line as an imaging signal containing a discontinuous portion. The signal processing circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090046176 - Video signal processing apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a video signal processing apparatus that can be reduced in production cost, and perform an electronic zooming function. In the video signal processing apparatus, a noise reduction of and a gain adjustment of the video signal from the imaging element... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090046178 - Correction circuit, correction method and image pickup apparatus: Aspects of an embodiment include providing a correction circuit that corrects image data in a piece of a frame, the correction circuit comprising: a weight processing unit which performs weighting on position data corresponding to a relative position in response to the relative position between a position of a pixel... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090046179 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system and image processing method: An image processing apparatus, an image processing system and an image processing method can correct the distortion of an image at a low cost and can generate a high quality image in real time. An image processing apparatus is provided which is an image processing apparatus for correcting an original... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090046177 - Method and apparatus for canceling fixed pattern noise in cmos image sensor: An apparatus for canceling a fixed pattern noise in a CMOS image sensor includes a storage device, a fixed pattern noise operation circuit, and a fixed pattern noise canceling circuit. The storage device stores first reference fixed pattern noises operated in a vertical blank section of an (n−1)th frame. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090046180 - Fixed-pattern noise elimination apparatus, solid-state image sensing apparatus, electronic appliance, and fixed-pattern noise elimination program: A fixed-pattern noise elimination apparatus 4 eliminates a fixed-pattern noise component resulting from dark current out of an image signal outputted from an effective pixel of a solid-state image sensor 2 during image sensing, by using: a first dark current that is calculated based on a previously acquired signal outputted... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090046181 - Method and apparatus providing improved successive approximation analog-to-digital conversion for imagers: A method for performing successive approximation analog-to-digital conversions in an imaging device. Analog-to-digital converters connected to the columns of pixels in the imager are initially grouped. Depending on the column or group the analog-to-digital converter is associated with, a different respective portion of a digital code corresponding to the analog... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090046182 - Pixel aspect ratio correction using panchromatic pixels: A method for forming an enhanced digital full-color image having a first pixel aspect ratio includes capturing an image using an image sensor having panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses wherein color and panchromatic pixels each have a second pixel aspect ratio different from... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090046185 - Image pickup apparatus and signal processing method: An image pickup apparatus includes: a solid-state image sensing device that includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including: a photoelectric conversion film; and a photoelectric conversion element that is formed in the semiconductor substrate below the photoelectric conversion film, are made up of at least three types... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090046184 - Image sensor: An image sensor includes a base an image sensor chip, and a cooling element. The base includes an opening disposed in the base. The image sensor chip is connected electrically to the base and covers the opening. The cooling element is received in the opening and is connected thermally to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090046183 - Solid state imaging device and manufacturing method thereof: A plurality of sensor packages (4) are fixed to a circuit assembly board (47) and placed on a lower mold die (56) of a transfer molding apparatus (54). Attached inside a cavity (58a) of an upper mold die (58) is a protection sheet (65), which will make contact with the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046186 - Solid state image capturing device and electronic information device: A solid-state image capturing device having a two pixel sharing structure is provided. A reset section for resetting electric potential of the floating diffusion to a predetermined electric potential and a signal amplifying section for amplifying a signal in accordance with voltage of the floating diffusion to read out the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090046187 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array area having pixels including photoelectric transducers arranged as an array; signal lines wired for every pixel column in the pixel array area; and a plurality of noise reducers provided for the corresponding signal lines. Each of the noise reducers includes a first... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090046188 - Solid-state imaging device, pixel-signal processing method, analog-signal transferring device, and analog-signal transferring method: From a pixel array where imaging pixels are arranged, pixel signals of respective columns on a selected row are read in parallel in a horizontal blanking period of a horizontal period. The pixel signals of the respective columns are output to horizontal signal lines in an effective period of the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090046189 - Method and apparatus providing shared pixel straight gate architecture: Methods and apparatuses using four-way-shared readout circuits to increase pixel fill factor.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090046190 - Solid-state image pickup device and camera system: A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and a pixel signal read-out circuit for reading out a pixel signal from the pixel array in units of a plurality of pixels. The pixel signal read-out circuit includes a plurality of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090046192 - Automated digital image recording system for and method of digitizing slides: The present invention relates to an automated digital image recording system (1) for digitizing slides (6). The image recording system (1) comprises a slide holding means (7, 17), a mechanism for actuating it, a first digital image recording means, a second digital image recording means of high magnification and a... Agent: Hahn & Voight PLLC

20090046191 - Image pickup device: The image pickup device includes a color separation prism, solid-state image sensors, a light shielding layer and a heat radiating layer. The color separation prism, made up of a plurality of prism members, separates light incident thereon through an image pickup lens into a plurality of color components. The plurality... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090046193 - Digital camera: A digital camera includes a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit makes signal processing on the camera data read from a camera data area of an SDRAM to produce YUV data for record. A thin-out circuit makes a thin-out processing on the recording YUV data to produce YUV data... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090046194 - Piezoelectric actuator element for micromovement: An actuator element comprises at least two actuator arms. Each of the at least two actuator arms is fixed to a first mount part at a first end of the actuator arm and to a second mount part at a second end of the actuator arm. The at least two... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090046196 - User-aided auto-focus: Methods and systems for adjusting a video imaging system that includes an auto-focus mechanism wherein an input from a user of the video imaging system invokes an auto-focus procedure. Responsive to the input, the auto-focus mechanism is scanned over a range of focal distance from a first setting to a... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20090046195 - Varible focus lens: A variable focus (10) lens comprising a fluid chamber (12) containing a first fluid (14) and a second fluid (16) is disclosed. The fluids are non-miscible and in contact over a meniscus (18) and the second fluid is able to alter its shape on the influence of a magnetic field.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090046197 - Imaging apparatus, method and program: An imaging apparatus that images an image with a solid-state imaging device includes an area defining section that defines an unnecessary image detection area, which may contain an unnecessary image, at a position along an outer edge of an imaged image obtained by the solid-state imaging device, a focus evaluation... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090046199 - Image-capture apparatus and variable magnification lens: An image-capture apparatus includes a variable magnification lens, imaging means for converting an image taken by the variable magnification lens into an electrical image signal, and imaging control means. By referring to a conversion coordinate coefficient, the image control means moves a point on the image and outputs the new... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090046198 - Lens barrel, camera and mobile information terminal device having the same: At least one object of the present invention is to provide a lens barrel, including: a fixed frame (21) having a fixed cylinder (21); a telescopic cylinder (22, 23, 24, etc.) configured to be accommodated within the fixed cylinder (21); a plurality of lens groups (11, 12) configured to be... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090046200 - Image capture device with detachable expansion unit: The invention discloses an image capture device. The image capture device includes an image capture basic unit for capturing an image. The image capture basic unit includes a first power supply device for supplying an operating voltage and an expansion unit detachably coupled to the image capture basic unit. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090046201 - Holding apparatus for a camera lens: An apparatus for maintaining registration of a lens assembly in a consistent position over a sensor by positioning the sensor adjacent a sensor mount instead of a housing encompassing the lens assembly and sensor. The apparatus comprises a lens assembly having at least one predetermined focal center, and a lens... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20090046202 - De-interlace method and apparatus: A de-interlace method is performed by the following process. First, edge directions of pixels surrounding a target pixel to be interpolated in an interpolating line are received, and a search range selected from the edge directions of the surrounding pixels is determined by checking a consistency of the edge directions... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090046203 - Video data processing apparatus and method for generating a digital video data stream: The invention relates to a video data processing apparatus and a method for generating a digital video data stream. The video data processing apparatus is equipped with an input for the input of at least digital video data (vi), a processing unit for the processing of at least the input... Agent: Patrick J. O'shea O'shea Getz P.C.

20090046204 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method thereof: A video processing apparatus includes: a communication unit which receives a video content and property information of the video content from an external supply source; a video processor which processes the video content; and a controller which controls the video processor to adjust a property of the video content based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046205 - Automatic reduction of video display device power consumption: One or more components of a video display device such as a television set can be powered down in response to a determination that a video input source has been paused. The video signal provided by the video input source can be analyzed to determine whether the video source is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Amd

20090046206 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: According to one embodiment, a hue signal and an actually measured saturation value are generated based on received first and second color signals and a saturation maximum value is generated based on a hue signal and received luminance signal. The first and second color signals are subjected to a correction... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090046207 - Multi-compatible low and high dynamic range and high bit-depth texture and video encoding system: A method of processing image data includes generating image data including luminance and chrominance data representing a selected object, separating the luminance and chrominance data, storing the separated luminance and chrominance data in corresponding separate spaces in memory, and separately compressing the stored luminance and chrominance data.... Agent: Thompson & Knight, L.L.P. Patent Property Department

20090046208 - Image processing method and apparatus for generating intermediate frame image: Image processing method and apparatus for creating an image of an intermediate frame are provided. The image processing method generates a background image and a first motion image using a current frame and a previous frame, and generates a second motion image of the intermediate frame using either the current... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046209 - Multi-video/audio purpose portable electronic device: Described is a multi-video/audio purpose portable electronic device which is capable of providing both TV and broadcast functions, and even a storage function. By using the multi-video/audio purpose portable electronic device, a user can watch or listen to a TV/broadcast program received externally, store the TV/broadcast program and watch the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090046210 - Audiovisual system: An audiovisual system is provided in which the operability of selection by a user between internal speakers of a TV and external speakers connected to an audio amplifier has been improved, thus reducing the burdensomeness of operation. When an audio amplifier (100A) is powered on, a control part (106A) of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046211 - Image display device and control method thereof: An image display device (4) is connected via communication lines to an NW cameral (1) for delivering picked-up images and a recorder (3) for storing the delivered images and displays the delivered images on an image display portion (43). The image display device (4) includes a data communication portion (41)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090046212 - Liquid crystal display device and television receiver: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention combines two active matrix type liquid crystal panels (a first panel and a second panel). A data signal wiring (4) of each panel is formed by a transparent conductive film, and an island-like black matrix (24) is formed so as to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090040287 - Video communication device and video communication method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a video communication device including a first communication unit which conducts communication of management information with an external device through a cable at a first communication speed, a second communication unit which conducts communication of a video signal with the external device through... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090040288 - Video conference system and method: Various embodiments of a video conference system and method are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090040289 - Video phone system: A system allocates channel bandwidth based on the data received from a plurality of remote sources. A de-multiplexer/priority circuit separates two or more different data streams into their components parts. A stream modification driver modifies one or more characteristics of the data received from the de-multiplexer/priority circuit based on a... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090040290 - Methods and apparatus for recovering video information in a mobile communication system: Provided are an apparatus and methods for recovering video information when operating in an area that impairs an electromagnetic field of a transmit/receive signal during a video telephony of a portable terminal. A method of which includes determining a number of buffers for storing intra coded (I) frames to be... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090040293 - Camera array apparatus and method for capturing wide-angle network video: A camera array apparatus and a method for capturing wide-angle network videos are provided. An objective of the present invention is to provide the webcams used for the common computer system or the like for broadcasting the real-time and wide-angle network video stream in a limited-bandwidth network. Furthermore, software is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090040292 - Digital camera: A digital camera regards a part of a preceding photograph image as a guide image, and combines the guide image with a through image in shooting a succeeding photograph image. At this time, a transmittance of the guide image is set according to a luminance evaluation value at a time... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090040291 - Omniview motionless camera orientation system: A method and apparatus for capture of a spherical image is disclosed. The present invention includes at least one camera having a lens with at least a 180° field-of-view for capturing a hemispherical image. In a first embodiment, a second hemispherical image is created corresponding to a mirror image of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090040294 - Holographic video display system: A holographic video display comprises a monochromatic light source, a video signal generator, guided-wave acousto-optic modulators for diffracting light according to signals received from the video signal generator, a vertical scanning subsystem, and an optical path between the acousto-optic modulator and the vertical scanning subsystem. The optical path preferably comprises... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20090040295 - Method and apparatus for reproducing stereoscopic image using depth control: A method and apparatus for reproducing a stereoscopic image are provided. The method includes generating information about parallax between a left-eye image and a right-eye image of objects included in the stereoscopic image based on a stereo camera parameter of the stereoscopic image, controlling the depth of the objects in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040296 - Head mounted display assembly: A display assembly comprised of a binocular micro-display attached to a head supported structure such as goggles, helmet, eyewear, or a headband and provides the user with an optical projection in the user's upper line of sight while providing an unobstructed horizontal line of sight of the user's external environment.... Agent: Jonathan D. Moscato

20090040297 - Display apparatus and display method: The present invention is an display apparatus including: a display portion 100 that displays individual images IM1 and IM2 on the same screen; and a display control portion 10 that adjusts image quality of the individual images IM1 and IM2 as output conditions thereof to control visible ranges of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090040298 - Living body observation device: A light source unit, which is connected to a control unit and an endoscope, radiates a pre-determined light quantity of white light based on a signal from the control unit. The light source unit includes a lamp as a white light source, an infrared cut filter, a light quantity limiting... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090040299 - Laser safety system with beam steering: A laser safety system providing a system for checking the presence, focus and integrity of a laser beam focusing lens is disclosed. The laser safety system checks the focusing lens properties by capturing an image of a target by viewing the target through the focusing lens from along the laser... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090040302 - Automated surveillance system: An automated intelligent surveillance system comprises one or more fixed reference cameras to spatially map and observe a panoramic field of view, together with a movable narrow-field high resolution camera which is controlled in pan tilt & zoom, and a computing device. The computing device is capable of analysing the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090040303 - Automatic video quality monitoring for surveillance cameras: A system for automatically determining video quality receives video input from one or more surveillance cameras (16a, 16b . . . 16N), and based on the received input calculates a number of video quality metrics (40). The video quality metrics are fused together (42), and provided to decision logic (44),... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090040301 - Digital pan, tilt and zoom: Video capture systems, methods and computer program products can be provided and configured to capture video sequences of one or more subjects during an activity. The video capture system can be configured to include a communications module that is provided to receive a set of successive frames of video image... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090040304 - Optical fiber security system: An optical fiber security system is described. The optical fiber security system includes an optical fiber, an optoelectronic modulator and an optoelectronic demodulator. The optoelectronic modulator and the optoelectronic demodulator are both directly connected to the optical fiber. The optoelectronic modulator converts video signals to cable television video signals and... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090040300 - Removably mountable, portable vision system: A removably mountable, portable vision system, the portable vision system including a portable, auto-focusing camera, which is removably mountable to a surface, for capturing and transmitting video to a portable hand-held receiver where the video is displayed as an aid to the user. The system may be used in a... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20090040305 - Video with map overlay: A system and method for placing reference locators on a streaming video image taken from a camera mounted on a vehicle. Sensors monitoring the camera field of view and direction of the optical axis along with sensors monitoring the vehicle's position are use(l to generate a video overlay having various... Agent: Krajec Patent Offices, LLC

20090040306 - Vehicle mirror assembly with wide angle element: A mirror reflective element assembly for an exterior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle includes a reflective element, a back plate disposed at a rear surface of the reflective element, a wide angle reflector element received in a receiving portion of the back plate. The reflective element has a first... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090040307 - Surveillance system and method for detecting forbidden movement along a predetermined path: The present invention relates to a surveillance system for detecting forbidden movement in any direction at one or more locations along a road. The system comprises cameras that are in data communication with a control station for detecting the forbidden movement; mobile platforms that are movable along a desired path... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090040308 - Image orientation correction method and system: A system for correcting the rotational orientation of a targeting area provided by a weapon-mounted image sensor and an orientation sensor that detects the rotational orientation of the weapon. Measurements from the orientation sensor are used to transform the image data obtained from the image sensor into a desired rotational... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen

20090040309 - Monitoring device: It is provided to a monitoring apparatus in which a supervisor can monitor intuitively and operate when the supervisor monitors a trespasser or the like in a building. The monitoring apparatus includes a plurality of cameras 1 for picking up images of the inside of the building and a displaying... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090040310 - Solidstate image pickup device and radiation image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device according to the present invention has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a plurality of switching elements. The photoelectric conversion element is formed above at least one switching element, and a shielding electrode layer is disposed between the switching elements and the photoelectric conversion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090040311 - Video matching device, method, and program: A matched state detection unit (33) of a video matching device (100) detects a reference video frame, of the respective video frames of a reference video (1) and degraded video (2B), which is in a matched state in which it is spatially and temporally matched with each degraded video frame.... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zaman LLP

20090040312 - Calibration apparatus and method thereof: A device includes a monitor arranged in a field of view of a camera whose three-dimensional position in the three-dimensional reference coordination system is fixed, and a calculating unit provided in the monitor and configured to display a camera image shot by a camera on a screen of the monitor... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090040313 - Imaging device: An imaging device comprises an interface for connecting an external recording device, a control circuit for controlling data communication with the external recording device connected to the interface, and an information storage. The control circuit comprises a connection establisher for realizing a connection established status with the external recording device,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090040314 - Method for recording images in electronic device: A method for recording images in an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. A scheduled time is set, and auto-login information is written into a registry of the electronic device. The electronic device enters a sleep state or a shutdown state. The state of the electronic... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090040316 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera comprises an image processing unit that performs image processing using a plurality of adjustment parameters and a parameter setting unit that sets each of the plurality of parameters for the image processing unit according to a single change command.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090040315 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: Disclosed is a technique for allowing proper classification information to be provided to an edited image. When it is determined that the editing is cropping, a system controller cuts a decompressed image down to a desired size using an image processor and performs face detection on a crop image. The... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090040321 - Digital camera system: The present invention provides a technique capable of generating an image having a portrait effect without complicating a configuration of a digital camera system. An image capturing apparatus has an optical system including a zoom lens, a correction lens, and a focus lens; and an image sensor for converting subject... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090040317 - Camera module having image sensor: A camera module having an image sensor, which forms a low-pixel image sensor integrated with an image signal processing unit such as Image Signal Processor (ISP)/Analog Front End (AFE) includes: an image sensor unit for converting light being incident after passing through a prism into image data and applying image... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090040319 - Digital still camera and image blur correction apparatus: Prior to a photographing operation, an image blur quantity indicating the extent to which the image becomes blurred during the photographing operation is calculated based upon an image-capturing sensitivity having been set, and a decision is made as to whether or not the image-capturing sensitivity needs to be adjusted based... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090040318 - Image stabilization with user feedback: An apparatus to facilitate image stabilization with user feedback is described. An embodiment of the apparatus includes an image sensor, a movement detector, and a digital processor. The image sensor acquires an image of a scene over an exposure period. The movement detector is coupled to the image sensor. The... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090040320 - Image stabilization control circuit: An image stabilization control circuit controls an optical element driving element that moves an optical element provided in an imaging apparatus based on an output signal of a vibration detection element provided in the imaging apparatus. The image stabilization control circuit includes a high-pass filter that removes a low-frequency component... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090040322 - Enhancing digital images using secondary optical systems: Apparatuses and methods for enhancing a “primary” large format, digital, macro-image with “secondary” image data are provided. The secondary image data is collected utilizing one or more secondary optical systems having at least one electro-optical detector array (e.g., a CCD array) and a specific set of optical mirrors or optical... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090040323 - Enhancing digital images using secondary optical systems: Apparatuses and methods for enhancing a “primary” large format, digital, macro-image with “secondary” image data are provided. The secondary image data is collected utilizing one or more secondary optical systems having at least one electro-optical detector array (e.g., a CCD array) and a specific set of optical mirrors or optical... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090040324 - Imaging apparatus, imaging system, and imaging method: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging section converting an image into image data, an image classifying section classifying the image data, and a display section for displaying information regarding a recommended image as a shooting object based on a classification result by the image classifying section. Further, a server having... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090040325 - Methods for remote imaging and systems thereof: Methods and systems for remote imaging include providing in substantially real time one or more images of an object captured with an imaging system to one or more client systems at one or more locations remote from the imaging system. In substantially real time, one or more instructions to interact... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20090040331 - Communication control apparatus, communication control method, computer program, and storage medium: An adapter connected to a device and also connected to a client terminal via a network displays an operation window corresponding to the process mode of the device on the client terminal and remote-controls the operation of the device based on an operation signal for the operation window. When the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090040330 - End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems: A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging performance using a spatial model for the source and models for the optical subsystem, the detector subsystem and the digital image processing subsystem. The optical subsystem... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090040332 - Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor: An image pickup apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a setting item screen for displaying setting items regarding a photographic condition, and a setting value screen configured to display setting values regarding the setting item selected on the setting item screen; an operation unit configured to select one... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090040328 - Image-pickup apparatus: An image-pickup apparatus configured to perform vertical-dark-shading correction with increased precision independently of photographing conditions and/or a photographing environment is provided. The image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element having an effective-pixel part including plural pixel parts which are not shielded from light and a light-shielding-pixel part including plural pixel parts... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090040327 - Image-taking device: When a television set 5 as an external device is connected to an external output terminal of a video camera 1, a controller 17 generates image information to be output via the external output terminal in accordance with the type of external output terminal and outputs the image information to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090040326 - Methods and apparatuses for supplying current using a digital sequence: Methods and apparatuses for supplying current to an electronic device include incrementally changing an output current supplied to the device according to a digital sequence.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090040329 - Photographic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, an image-processing unit, and a display unit. The imaging sensor obtains image data. The image-processing unit performs an image-processing operation on the image data. The display unit displays an image-processing setting picture having a setting-status indication area and a color status indication area.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090040336 - Image pickup apparatus and method: A digital still camera has a CCD image sensor, which includes an active pixel area for image pickup of an image to produce image data. A black pixel area is disposed outside the active pixel area, and produces black pixel data. The image pickup apparatus includes an amplifier for adjusting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040334 - Image pickup apparatus, white balance control method thereof, and storage medium: An image pickup apparatus capable of, when adjusting the white balance in development processing, eliminating the need for performing integration processing and calculation processing for white balance adjustment even when white balance is set to an arbitrary mode, thereby significantly reducing the processing time. In the image pickup apparatus, a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090040333 - Medical imaging apparatus: When a safety switch is ON in step S1, and a movement lock portion and a safety lock portion are locked in step S2, a movement lock switch becomes inoperable and a detachment/attachment lock release button becomes operable. When a detachment/attachment lock portion is released in step S3, an imaging... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090040335 - White balance adjustment device, image capture device, white balance adjustment method, storage medium, and integrated circuit: A natural white balance is achieved in images that are captured while emitting a flash. A WB adjustment portion is provided with a mixture ratio calculation portion that estimates a mixture ratio of an external light component and a flashed light component that are present in an image that is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090040337 - Enhanced wide dynamic range in imaging: A method for enhancing wide dynamic range in images is disclosed. The method comprises acquiring at least two images of a scene to be imaged, the images acquired using different exposure times. For a first image an illumination mask is constructed corresponding to the illumination in the scene, comprising a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090040338 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a selecting part selecting a first mode where correction of dark area gradation is not performed or a second mode where the correction is performed, and a correcting part performing the correction of improving lightness of dark area gradation of an image data when the second... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090040339 - Digital signal processor and digital image processing apparatus adopting the same: A digital signal processor and a digital image processing apparatus adopting the same. The digital signal processor comprises a data converter, which converts digital image data in red, green, and blue form to digital image data in luminance and chrominance form, such that when photograph-image data is captured by photographing,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090040340 - Image management apparatus, image management method, and recording medium recording program: An image management apparatus includes: a narrowing-down reproduction unit for reproducing an image having particular attribute information; an attribute modification unit for modifying attribute information of the image under narrowing-down reproduction; an attribute modified image information storing unit configured to store information indicating the image which no longer contains the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090040341 - Image pickup apparatus and storage medium: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of being downsized and being power-saved, and is capable of following the focal plane and controlling the exposure during the variably-magnifying operation. There is stored information on a position of a focus lens corresponding to a position of a zoom lens, which is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090040342 - Image blurring: A method of blurring an image includes acquiring two images of nominally a same scene taken at a different light exposure levels. At least one region of one of the images includes pixels having saturated intensity values. For at least one of the saturated pixels, values are extrapolated from the... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090040343 - Methods and apparatuses for defective pixel detection and correction: An apparatus for defective pixel detection and correction is provided. The apparatus comprises a defective pixel detection unit and a defective pixel correction unit. The defective pixel detection unit acquires a detection pixel and a plurality of neighboring pixels, and determines that the detection pixel is a defective pixel when... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090040344 - Imaging apparatus and control method thereof: An imaging apparatus includes a first output unit configured to perform first gain processing on an analog signal corresponding to an electric charge stored in a photoelectric conversion element in a first region and output the processed signal, a second output unit configured to perform second gain processing on an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090040345 - Color imaging device and color imaging device manufacturing method: A color imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photoelectric transducers, and a color filter including a plurality of coloring layers provided to associate with the photoelectric transducers of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the coloring layers of the color filter including a side surface that is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090040348 - Imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system: The present invention aims to provide an imaging apparatus capable of reducing image unevenness even if a protective layer including a polarized solvent is used. The imaging apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of pixels each having a conversion element and a TFT connected to the conversion element,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090040347 - Photographic apparatus: A photographic apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, an image-processing unit, and a display unit. The imaging sensor obtains image data. The image-processing unit performs an image-processing operation on the image data. The display unit displays an image-processing setting picture having a setting-status indication area that shows a setting status of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090040346 - Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus and driving method for the same: A solid-state imaging device includes first-group pixels 41, second-group pixels 42 skipped during thinning drive, and a scanning section 13. The scanning section 13 drives each of the first-group pixels 41 to perform read operation of outputting the output signal and initializing the amount of the signal charge accumulated in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090040349 - Imager methods, apparatuses, and systems providing a skip mode with a wide dynamic range operation: Methods, apparatuses and systems provide a high dynamic range mode of operation for an image sensor when operating in a skip mode where certain pixels of an array are not readout. Multiple integration periods are employed in the skip mode with selected pixels being readout through circuits associated with pixels... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090040350 - Imaging system: An imaging system comprises an image sensing apparatus including a pixel array, a row selection unit, and a readout unit; and a supply unit including a plurality of A/D converting units, and a transfer unit. The supply unit supplies a power supply voltage to an A/D converting unit which, of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090040354 - Image-pickup apparatus and control method thereof: An image-pickup apparatus 100 includes a focus detecting part 7 that detects focus information indicating a focus state of an image-pickup optical system, a color measuring part 14a, 14b, and 15 that detects color measurement information related to a color of an object, a controlling part 6 that generates controlling... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090040353 - Imaging apparatus and method of driving solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device includes plural color detection pixels (R, G, B) and plural luminance detection pixels (W). The color detection pixels (R, G, B) and the luminance detection pixels (W) are mixed and arranged in a two-dimensional array on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The solid state imaging... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090040351 - Method and apparatus for reducing noise in a pixel array: A method and apparatus for sampling pixels from a pixel array, the pixels being sampled at different times.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090040352 - Solid-state image capture device, analog/digital conversion method for solid state image capture device, and image capture device: A solid state image capture device includes a pixel array unit having unit pixels including a photoelectric conversion element disposed in a matrix shape and analog/digital conversion means for converting an analog pixel signal read from the unit pixel of the pixel array unit into digital data. The analog/digital conversion... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090040356 - Digital photo frame and method for controlling same: An exemplary digital photo frame includes an image memory configured for storing a display image, a display device configured for reading and displaying the display image, an infrared sensor configured for detecting infrared light, generating a first detecting signal when the infrared light is detected, generating a second detecting signal... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20090040355 - Electronic mirror: An electronic mirror includes: a partially transparent display screen, an image sensor set on a surface of the partially transparent display screen to capture an image of an observer located in one side of the partially transparent display screen as a first image; and a mainbody set in another side... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090040357 - Information display device: The present invention provides an information display device including an imaging unit that executes an imaging process to image a subject to output an imaging signal; a monitor capable of displaying an image of the subject based on the imaging signal; a switching part located near the monitor; a first... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090040358 - Image-recording device and method of controlling opening and closing of lens barrier of same: An image-recording device comprises a lens; a lens barrier protecting the lens; a lens opening/closing controller for controlling the lens barrier to open and close; and a controller, wherein the controller controls the image-recording device to switch from recording-mode, in which the lens barrier is opened by the lens barrier... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090040360 - Imaging device and portable terminal device: In a camera module (20) , a flange section (1a) which protrudes to the outer circumference side is arranged on an opening end portion of a lens tube (1). The flange section (1a) is formed to be fitted in a module integrating section (8a) formed on an upper case (8),... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090040359 - Movement signal generation apparatus, optical device, optical device control apparatus, and video production system: A movement signal generation apparatus is disclosed which can convert an analog position signal of an optical adjustment unit into digital signals representing a movement amount and a movement direction of the optical adjustment unit and output the digital signals. The movement signal generation apparatus includes an analog signal output... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090040361 - Optical lens image stabilization systems: The present invention provides optical systems, devices and methods which utilize one or more electroactive polymer actuators to stabilize the image produced by the device or system.... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20090040362 - Apparatus and method for producing video signals: A method is disclosed for producing signals representative of an image of a scene including the following steps: providing an image sensor with a lenticular lens pattern thereon, and projecting the image onto the image sensor via the lenticular lens pattern, the image sensor having a pixel element pattern and... Agent: Martin Novack

20090040363 - Zoom optical system and electronic imaging apparatus having the same: An electronic imaging apparatus includes a zoom optical system having, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with positive power, a second lens unit with negative power, and an aperture stop, in which the first lens unit is composed of a single positive power unit and the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090040364 - Adaptive exposure control: A method for constructing a final image using adaptive exposure control in multiple exposure photography, comprising: (a) capturing an exposure; (b) analyzing the exposure at least to determine deficiencies in the exposure; (c) setting exposure parameters for at least one next exposure adapted to construct the final image with ameliorated... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman

20090040365 - Imaging system: The invention relates to an electronic camera or other imaging system that is less susceptible to shake, makes an optical system less susceptible to decentration by distortion of a body itself, and enables taking without locating any button on a side face. The imaging system 10 comprises an image pickup... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon

20090040367 - Method for detection and recognition of fog presence within an aircraft compartment using video images: Detecting video phenomena, such as fire in an aircraft cargo bay, includes receiving a plurality of video images from a plurality of sources, compensating the images to provide enhanced images, extracting features from the enhanced images, and combining the features from the plurality of sources to detect the video phenomena.... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090040366 - Transmitting video signals from a camera of an operating lamp system: An operation lamp system includes an adjustable mount, an operation lamp mounted to the adjustable mount, a camera mounted to the adjustable mount, a signal compression device mounted to the adjustable mount. The signal compression device is configured to provide a compressed video signal from a video signal of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090040368 - Image sensor module for camera device: An image sensor module includes a circuit board (20), an image sensor (10) and a supporting board (30). The circuit board has a plurality of circuits formed thereon. The image sensor is arranged on one side of the circuit board and is electrically connected to the circuit board. The circuit... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090040369 - Lens barrel and image pickup device therefor: A lens barrel capable of reliably housing a flexible printed circuit board without increasing the number of its component parts and its outer diameter. A guide member is inserted in a through hole of a fixing member and projects from a holding member in a direction opposite to the direction... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090040370 - Displaying image data and geographic element data: A mobile computing device includes a housing, a camera, a display, a memory, and a processing circuit. The housing is configured to be carried by a user while in use. The camera is configured to output image data. The memory is configured to store geographic element data representing one or... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090040371 - Methods, systems and apparatuses for pixel value correction using multiple vertical and/or horizontal correction curves: Methods, systems and apparatuses are disclosed for approximating vertical and horizontal correction values in a pixel value correction calculation. Multiple vertical and/or horizontal correction curves are used and may be employed for one or more color channels of the imager. The use of multiple correction curves allows for a more... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090040372 - Digital broadcasting transmitting/receiving apparatus and method: Provided are a digital broadcasting transmitting/receiving apparatus and method. By converting content of a main-program to a stream, converting content of a sub-program forming a single digital broadcasting service through synchronization with the main-program by being subordinated to the main-program to a stream, generating program configuration information containing stream conversion... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090040374 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: This invention enables, for example, reduction of motion blur in a hold-type display device and reduce flicker in an impulse-type display device by a simple process. For this purpose, an LPF filters a frame of input image data (A[i]) to generate low-frequency image data (L). A subtractor and an adder... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090040373 - Interface converting circuit: An interface converting circuit applied between a 3D de-interlace chip and a rear-end image compression chip. The interface converting circuit includes: a reducing FPS circuit, for dividing a first vertical synchronization signal to generate a second vertical synchronization signal, and converting a first horizontal synchronization signal to a second horizontal... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090040375 - Method of processing fields of images and related device for data lines similarity detection: A display controller capable of detecting data line similarity is provided. The display controller includes a buffer for temporarily storing a plurality of data lines of a target field, a data line similarity detector, coupled to the buffer, for detecting a similarity of each data line of the target field,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090040376 - Image processing apparatus and control method: This invention enables reduction of moving blurring in a hold-type display device and reduce flicker in an impulse-type display device, and also enables to suppress distortion such as ghost or tail-blurring in pursuit. A LPF generates low-frequency image data from input frame. High-frequency emphasized image data is also generated using... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090040378 - Information display apparatus, information display method and program therefor: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090040377 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: A video processing apparatus performs a subtitle detection process for each frame in a video signal, wherein a two-step edge determining unit performs primary determination of a plurality of small blocks according to a first determination standard associated with edges, and performs a secondary determination of a plurality of large... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090040379 - Method and apparatus for interdependently controlling audio/video signals: A signal control method of analyzing audio and video signals and interdependently enhancing each audio and video signal with regard to a multimedia input sequence including audio and video signal components are provided. The method of controlling audio and video signals includes: analyzing characteristics of components of the audio and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040381 - Information processing apparatus and output control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display, a speaker, a connector to output a video signal and audio signal, a display driving module to control outputting of the video signal with respect to the display and connector, a sound driving module to control outputting of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090040380 - Information processing apparatus and output switching control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display, a connector which outputs a video signal, a display driver which controls output of a video signal to the display and connector, a monitoring unit which monitors whether a partner switches an input from a video signal output from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090040382 - Camera apparatus and still image generating method of camera apparatus: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus includes an extraction device extracting a corresponding “I” picture corresponding to chapter data from “I” pictures included in moving image data while the chapter data specifying a reproduction start point in the moving image data indicating a shot video is being generated.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090040383 - Frame specifying method: To provide a technology of properly specifying a process target frame in a dynamic image in accordance with a user's instruction. A frame specifying device plays a dynamic image, receives, when a user performs an operation of instructing execution of a process about a partial scene in the dynamic image,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090040384 - Video apparatus capable of outputting osd data through unauthorized output path to provide user with warning message or interactive help dialogue: A video apparatus includes a video processor for performing video processing to generate normal video data. The video processor includes an on-screen display (OSD) module for selectively generating OSD data that is capable of being mixed into the normal video data. The video apparatus further includes a digital output path... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090040385 - Methods and systems for controlling video compositing in an interactive entertainment system: An interactive video compositing device includes a chroma-key mixer, video switcher and control circuitry. The chroma-key mixer generates a composite image by combining a real-time image, such as one captured by a video recorder, with a prerecorded video image, such as a movie. The composite image includes the modified real-time... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090040386 - Image processing method: An image processing method adopted to remove noise present in an image, includes: an image input step in which an original image constituted of a plurality of pixels is input; a multiple resolution image generation step in which a plurality of low-frequency images with resolutions decreasing in sequence and a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090040387 - Video processing circuits and methods using same buffer for video decoder and cross color suppressor: A video processing circuit capable of processing a composite signal and a non-composite signal, includes: a line buffer; a frame buffer; a video decoder for decoding the composite signal by utilizing the line buffer and the frame buffer as temporary buffers of the video decoder; a cross color suppressor for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090040388 - Signal processing apparatus and control method thereof: A signal processing apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The signal processing apparatus includes: a comb filter which divides a luminance signal and a chrominance signal from an input video signal and outputs a luminance level of the luminance signal and a color level of the chrominance signal;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040389 - Gamma correction apparatus: A gamma correction apparatus includes a load controlling unit, a non-volatile memory, a volatile memory, a checking unit and a counter. The non-volatile memory stores gamma data and a checking code. The load controlling unit controls an operation of loading the gamma data from the non-volatile memory into the volatile... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090040390 - Cut detection system, shot detection system, scene detection system and cut detection method: A cut detection system includes: an extractor configured to extract macroblock type information at least for every B frame from video compressed data including the macroblock type information; a calculator configured to calculate the number of intra-coded macroblocks for every frame from the extracted macroblock type information; and a detector... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090040392 - Method for formatting digital broadcast transport stream packet for improved receiving performance, digital broadcast transmitter, and signal processing method thereof: A method of formatting a digital broadcast transport stream packet, a digital broadcast transmitter, and a signal processing method thereof, includes constructing a transport stream packet that includes a stuffing region for an insertion of a known supplementary reference signal (SRS) data therein, randomizing the packet that includes the stuffing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090040391 - Tuner for cable, satellite and broadcast applications: A tuner includes, in part, one or mixers, one or more filters, one or more variable gain stages, one or more analog to digital converters, and a baseband processor. Each filter is responsive to an associated mixer's output signal. Each variable gain stage is responsive to an associated filter's output.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090040393 - Quadrature correction method for analog television reception using direct-conversion tuners: A direct conversion radio frequency (RF) tuner includes a mixer generating I and Q quadrature components. A phase detection circuit generates a phase error measurement between the I quadrature component and the Q quadrature component. A phase correction circuit corrects a phase of the Q component based on the phase... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090040395 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus is provided with a slim design and improved illumination efficiency and which is able to suppress degradation of contrast thereby eliminating ghosts. The image display apparatus includes: a light source; a condensing mirror which condenses light emitted from the light source and makes a virtual secondary... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090040394 - Image processing device and associated operating method: The invention relates to an image processing device (1, 48, 51) including: several image signal inputs (2-9) for receiving a respective image input signal, the signals being unsynchronized; at least one image signal output (23-26) for emitting at least one image output signal; a combiner (22) for combining the different... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090040396 - Image processing system, projector, method and computer program product: An image processing system includes a determination unit that determines a distortion state of a projected image, and a correction unit that performs distortion correction of the image according to the distortion state, wherein the correction unit performs distortion correction calculation using either an intersection point of diagonal lines of... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090040397 - Projector with image sensor: A projector includes a projecting module for projecting a projecting image on a screen panel, an image sensor for capturing an image of an object which is located outside of the projecting module and faces toward the lens module, a light director, and a controlling unit. The projecting module has... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090040398 - Apparatus and method for projection image: When it is estimated that first average brightness of image information of a projection image is under second average brightness of image information of a source image having a single spatial frequency on which a normal compensation is performed, an area having brightness above the second average brightness in the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090040399 - Display apparatus for displaying digital images: A display apparatus for displaying digital images includes a first housing, a second housing, a hinge, a digital image source and a plurality of display units. The hinge is coupled to the first housing and the second housing, and allows the first housing and the second housing to rotate with... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090033736 - Wireless video audio data remote system: A method and system for remote assistance and review of a technician or multiple technicians, in real time, working with equipment of various complexities. A technician or multiple technicians at a remote location are coupled by a wireless means to an advisor at a local station so that the advisor... Agent: Storm LLP

20090033737 - Method and system for video conferencing in a virtual environment: According to some embodiments, a method and a system are provided to receive a first video signal at a first client and to receive a second video signal at a second client. The first video signal comprises an image of a first person and the second video signal comprises an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090033738 - System and method of determining the identity of a caller in a videoconferencing system: A system and method of determining the identity of a caller in a local room from a remote room includes a local image capture device for capturing a plurality of images of a caller in the local room in real time. A remote codec receives the plurality of images of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090033739 - Dynamic management of picture quality in a video conference with diversified constraints: In one embodiment, a method dynamically configures a BL bandwidth in a conference based on bandwidth capabilities in the video conferencing network. In one embodiment, the conference may include any combination of endpoints characterized as BL endpoints and SVCL endpoints. The method includes determining one or more bandwidth capabilities for... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090033740 - Video method for generating free viewpoint video image using divided local regions: The present invention provides a method of generating a virtual viewpoint video image when the virtual viewpoint position is not located on a plane where a camera is disposed. In an environment in which a plurality of cameras having a horizontal optical axis are disposed in a real zone (for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090033741 - 2d-3d convertible display device and method having a background of full-parallax integral images: A two dimensional to three dimensional (2D-3D) convertible display device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display device includes i) a first display unit configured to selectively output one of a composite image and backlight, wherein the composite image comprises a background image and a mask image, for an object,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090033742 - Systems and methods for communicating video data between a mobile imaging system and a fixed monitor system: A system for communicating video data is described. The system includes a mobile imaging system, at least one monitor fixed to a room in a medical facility, and a video transmitter assembly coupled to the mobile imaging system to transmit a video signal. The system for communicating video data also... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20090033743 - Monitoring device: A device for monitoring objects, in particular for monitoring industrial environments, such as paper mills and manufacturing and/or finishing processes of a paper, board or other fibrous web being carried out therein, includes a monitoring camera, the camera with its objective being arranged in a rotationally symmetrical protective housing rotating... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20090033744 - Folding vehicle exterior examination and search system: A low-cost, portable and highly-mobile “speed bump” which incorporates a plurality of electronic cameras, illumination devices, and range finders, coupled with one or more similar imaging systems configured to cooperate with the speed bump device to provide imaging of the undercarriage, sides or top of a vehicle. The system can... Agent: Robert H Frantz

20090033745 - Method and apparatus for video frame sequence-based object tracking: An apparatus and method for the analysis of a sequence of captured images covering a scene for detecting and tracking of moving and static objects (86) and for matching (88) the patterns of object behavior in the captured images to object behavior in predetermined scenarios.... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090033746 - Automatic adjustment of area monitoring based on camera motion: A solution for monitoring an area while accounting for camera motion and/or monitoring tasks is provided. For example, a physical area corresponding to a new field of view can be estimated for a camera for which motion is detected. The physical area can be estimated using a set of reference... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090033747 - Method and system for monitoring quality of live video feed from multiple cameras: A method and system for monitoring the quality of video cameras automatically performs one or more tests on a current image received from each of the cameras. The cameras are connected to a network, such as the Internet, and are generally of different types and are owned and/or operated by... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090033748 - Electronic camera system, electronic camera, cradle, image accumulation device, and program: An electronic camera system has an electronic camera and a cradle. The electronic camera includes an image pickup section that photoelectrically converts a subject image to generate image data, a first recording section that records image data, a first connecting terminal used for transmission/reception of data to/from an outside of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090033749 - Camera: A camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject to acquire image data; an image storing unit that stores a plurality of image data acquired by the image-capturing unit in a storage medium; an image specifying unit that specifies image data designated by a user from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090033750 - Method and apparatus for motion stabilization: A method and apparatus for digital image stabilization. The method comprises segmenting an exposure time to have multiple partial-exposure images of a scene and manipulating the partially exposed images to produce a stable image... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090033751 - Lens barrel unit: A lens barrel unit includes gyro sensors that detect vibration. The gyro sensors are disposed around a CCD mounting portion within a range over which the lens barrel unit is projected along the optical axis of a photographic optical system. This positional arrangement allows the lens barrel unit to be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090033752 - Digital camera device and methodology for distributed processing and wireless transmission of digital images: A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i.e., digital... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090033753 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method, storage medium, and integrated circuit: An imaging apparatus estimates a distance based on a reflectance value of a subject estimated with improved precision. An illumination unit illuminates a subject with illumination light. An imaging unit captures a plurality of images each under a different condition of the illumination unit. An illumination light element obtaining unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090033754 - Signal processing circuit and image shooting apparatus: The signal processing circuit includes: a buffer memory for temporarily storing a shot image; and a moving-picture detection device for detecting whether or not the shot image is a moving picture. Whether to store the shot image in the buffer memory as a moving memory, as a still picture, or... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090033760 - Apparatus and method for processing image data: An apparatus and method for processing image data are provided. Using the method of the present invention, image data output from an image sensor can be rapidly processes and the necessary amount of buffer memory can be reduced. To this end, first image data of one frame is processed and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090033755 - Image acquisition and processing engine for computer vision: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an image processor is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the image processor comprises a CPU arranged and configured to receive an image input, the image input depicting a scene, the CPU being further arranged and configured to execute... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090033758 - Image processing apparatus and program: An image processing apparatus includes unit reading, from first objects, information items for determining program procedures used to detect the first objects by image processing, unit selecting, from the program procedures, program procedures corresponding to the information items, and to determine an order of execution of the selected program procedures,... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090033756 - Imaging preventing apparatus and imaging preventing method: An imaging preventing apparatus includes imaging means for obtaining an imaged image signal by performing imaging processing, image analyzing means for performing image analyzing processing on the imaged image signal obtained by the imaging means, imaging preventing operation performing means for performing a preventing operation against imaging by a different... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090033757 - Method and apparatus for determining the position of a moving object, by using visible light communication: An apparatus for determining the present position of a vehicle, by utilizing a visible-light communication system. The apparatus uses a visible-light communication beacon and video data representing an image photographed by one camera. The beacon emits a visible optical signal, thus transmitting position data. The visible-light communication beacon comprises a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090033759 - Reference voltage circuit and image-capture circuit: A reference voltage circuit for generating a reference voltage to be referred when a pixel signal is digitally converted, includes ramp voltage generating means for generating a ramp voltage which drops from a predetermined initial voltage at a certain gradient, a transistor for forming, together with the ramp voltage generating... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090033761 - Smart camera with an integrated lighting controller: A smart camera includes an integrated lighting current controller and can couple to one or more external light sources. The integrated lighting current controller can control and power the one or more external light sources using a current pulse. The one or more external light sources can provide illumination for... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090033762 - Color photographing apparatus: A proposition is to provide a color photographing apparatus capable of reducing the failure probability of white balance adjusting. For this purpose, the color photographing apparatus includes a discriminating unit calculating an accuracy of a shooting scene belonging to a specific group having a similar illumination color based on a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090033763 - Flicker correcting device and flicker correcting method: Provided are a flicker correcting device and a flicker correcting method which are capable of reducing the frequency of occurrence of a flicker during detection of the flicker. A nonvolatile memory stores information on a power source frequency of illumination under an image pickup environment. A control unit performs a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090033765 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus is provided which includes an image pickup device; a display unit configured to perform a control operation to display a signal output from the image pickup device on a monitor; a first photometry section configured to measure luminance of an image of an object based on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090033764 - Scene-dependent auto exposure control: A device has a processing unit to implement a set of operations to use both luma and chroma information from a scene of an image to dynamically adjust exposure time and sensor gain. The processing unit collects bright near grey pixels and high chroma pixels in the scene. Based on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090033767 - Digital camera: A digital camera includes an imager. An optical image of an object scene is irradiated onto an imaging surface of the imager. When the digital camera is rotated, a CPU starts measuring processing for repetitively measuring a rotation angle, and suppresses a change due to the rotation in a positional... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090033766 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus reads a unit of first image data corresponding to a first region, a unit of pixels at a time, from a first memory storing image data in a band area and reads second image data to be used in processing of multiple processing object pixels corresponding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090033768 - Electronic still camera and image processing apparatus: An electronic still camera includes a position calculating unit. A storage unit stores the self-position data calculated by the position calculating unit, as photography-site data, in association with the image data acquired by photographing an object. If the self-position data cannot be acquired at the time of photographing the object,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090033769 - Image shooting apparatus: According to one embodiment an image shooting apparatus comprises shooting mechanism for shooting image information, generating means for generating a moving image stream data file and a moving image information data file formed of information associated with the moving image stream data file as separate files for one title in... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090033771 - Camera head including an image pixel array and a preamplifier module: Disclosed herein is a camera system and camera controller having a modularized design. Camera control functions within the controller are distributed among a number of modules, each module performing a component task of controlling a camera. Individual modules can perform tasks such as generating clock signals, digitizing an analog video... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090033770 - Systems and methods of monitoring exercises and ranges of motion: Systems and methods are provided for remotely a monitoring an individual's ability to carry out a various exercise activities and to evaluate the individual's range of motion. The individual can stand or sit in the field of view of the camera and carry out a set of base line activities.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090033772 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a personalized, image capture and display system: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing image capture and display services are provided. The system includes an enclosure having an opening through which a subject enters, an imaging system encircling the enclosure, a computer processor device communicatively coupled to the imaging system, and an application executing on... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090033773 - Imaging apparatus, noise reduction apparatus, noise reduction method, and noise reduction program: Noise reduction is performed on the basis of characteristics of an image in a detection range. A noise reduction block 4′ performs a second-order differentiation process and a symmetry process to decide adjacent pixels with which noise reduction is preformed for an attention pixel. With the pixel level of the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090033774 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes an image pickup sensor that picks up subject light to output image pickup signals, the image pickup sensor having a boundary region generated due to the use of a divided exposure process in the manufacture of the image pickup sensor. In the imaging device, a display... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090033775 - Method for controlling display for initial setting and display device using the same: When a user uses a display device for the first time in a factory mode, whether or not there are defective pixels is examined, and a guide message for setting initial settings is provided, so the user can use the display device in an optimal environment. As a result, if... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090033776 - Image channel coding: A photo detector matrix may have a plurality of photo detectors arranged in a matrix each generating an output signal, and a plurality of wires coupled with the photo detectors, wherein a number of wires is less than a number of photo detectors and the plurality of photo detectors are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090033778 - Apparatus for sampling of analog video data from an image pixel array: Disclosed herein is a camera system and camera controller having a modularized design. Camera control functions within the controller are distributed among a number of modules, each module performing a component task of controlling a camera. Individual modules can perform tasks such as generating clock signals, digitizing an analog video... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090033777 - Image sensor with corner cuts: The invention relates to image sensors using a chip with cut corners. The sensor comprises a chip with cut corners comprising a matrix (10) of horizontal lines and vertical columns of photosensitive members, the matrix having a generally rectangular shape of horizontal width W and having four bevels, the sensor... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090033781 - Image sensing apparatus and image capturing system: An image sensing apparatus comprises a pixel and a driving unit, wherein the driving unit includes a buffer circuit including a first PMOS transistor and a first NMOS transistor, and letting V3 be a voltage supplied to a gate of the first NMOS transistor to supply a transfer signal for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090033783 - Image sensing apparatus and imaging system: An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a row direction and column direction; a selection unit configured to select a row of the pixel array; and a readout unit configured to read out signals from the pixels of the row... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090033779 - Method, apparatus, and system providing multi-column shared readout for imagers: An imager and method of operating an imager employing multi-column shared readout circuitry. Columns of a pixel array are organized into groups, each group having a respective multi-column shared readout circuit. The columns of each group are readout serially but in parallel with the columns of other groups. Each multi-column... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090033780 - Solid state imaging device: An object of the present invention is to provide a two-dimensional solid state imaging device which can realize speeding up of signal output. The two-dimensional solid state imaging device includes: a pixel region; a first capacitance element and a second capacitance element each of which is arranged for a different... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090033782 - Solid-state imaging device and driving method thereof: It is an object of the present invention to provide a solid-state imaging device capable of prevent image defects from appearing in an outputted image while suppressing increase in a layout area with a simple circuit structure and is an MOS solid-state imaging device. The MOS solid-state imaging device includes... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090033784 - Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a plurality of pairs of photoelectric conversion elements, each pair including a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element which are adjacent to each other; a charge transfer path that is disposed adjacently to the first photoelectric conversion element... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090033785 - Projection device with display monitor: A projection device with a display monitor includes: a projection section that projects an optical image for display; a display monitor that displays a reproduced image; and a display controlling unit that individually controls both the projection section and the display monitor in response to an instruction to perform both... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090033787 - Image input module adjusting device and image input module adjusting method: An image input module adjusting device includes a board moving mechanism configured to movably hold a board in directions crossing each other; a board moving restriction mechanism configured to restrict movement of the board; an engaging member moving mechanism configured to move an engaging member engaged with a position adjusting... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090033786 - Techniques to automatically focus a digital camera: Various embodiments are directed to techniques to automatically focus a digital camera. In one or more embodiments, a mobile electronics device may comprise a digital camera having a lens component and lens position component. A display may be coupled to the digital camera to reproduce an image with a first... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090033788 - Integrated optical characteristic measurements in a cmos image sensor: Methods and systems for forming a chief ray angle (CRA) profile of an imaging lens having a field of view (FOV) are provided. At least one CRA sensor is positioned between an edge of a pixel array and an edge of the FOV, at one or more predetermined lens height... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090033789 - Camera module: A camera module includes a lens holder, a lens module, an image sensor chip, and a printed circuit board. The lens module is received in the lens holder. The lens module includes a lens barrel and at least one lens received in the lens barrel. The image sensor chip has... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090033790 - Camera module: A camera module includes a lens holder, a lens module, an image sensor chip, and a PCB defining a step-shaped recess on the upper thereof. The step-shaped recess comprises a first recess formed on an upper portion thereof and a second recess, for receiving a plurality of electrical elements therein,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090033791 - Video processing systems and methods: Video processing systems and methods are disclosed. One system embodiment, among others, includes a video compression engine configured to provide reconstructed pictures corresponding to a real-time presentation of a video program and a compressed version of the real-time presentation, a display buffer of the video compression engine, the display buffer... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090033792 - Image processing apparatus and method, and electronic appliance: An image processing apparatus includes a high resolution processing portion for generating a high-resolution image from a first low-resolution image to be a datum frame and M (M is an integer of one or larger) second low-resolution images, the high-resolution image having a higher resolution than the low-resolution images, and... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090033793 - Television receiver and television display method: According to one embodiment, a television receiver comprises a reception unit configured to receive, from each of external instruments connected to a television receiver, standard information indicating whether or not the external instrument meets interdependent controllability standards and instrument type information specifying the type of the external instrument, a recording... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090033794 - Video signal processing apparatus and method, and television broadcast receiver: According to one embodiment, a video signal processing apparatus includes a signal processor. The signal processor receives a digital video signal transmitted in a format conforming to a specific digital signal transmission standard to perform signal processing for video display. The signal processor selectively switches signal processing corresponding to a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090033795 - Image signal generating apparatus, image signal generating method, and image signal generating program: Disclosed is an image signal generating apparatus that includes a video information obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of video information, a characteristic information obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of predetermined characteristic information from each of the plurality of video information obtained by the video information obtaining unit, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090033796 - Systems and methods for triggering an out of focus alert: In order to trigger an out of focus alert when the focus level of a video frame meets a focus criteria, a method is performed including the operations of: receiving a video frame, partitioning the video frame into a plurality of blocks, calculating an array of discrete cosign transformation (DCT)... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090033797 - Video display apparatus and noise removal method thereof: A video display apparatus and a noise removal method thereof are provided. The video display apparatus includes a video processor which removes noise from an input video; and a controller which divides the input video into a plurality of areas according to settings, and controls the video processor to remove... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090033798 - Automatic luminance-chrominance delay compensation: A method of automatic luminance-chrominance delay compensation is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating an intermediate signal by processing a video signal such as to enhance a plurality of edges in a picture within the video signal, the picture having a luminance component and a chrominance... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090033799 - Video processing method and video processing apparatus using the same: A video processing method and a video processing apparatus employing the same are provided. The video processing apparatus measures an amount of noise included in an incoming composite video signal, and outputs 2D comb filtered signal and 3D comb filtered signal in different proportions according to the measured amount of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090033800 - Motion vector detection device and motion vector detection method: A motion vector detection device includes: a separation section that separates a video signal into a brightness component and a color-difference component; a selection section that selects either the brightness component or the color-difference component, or both; a gain controlling section that controls, if the selected brightness or/and color-difference components... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090033801 - Flicker-free adaptive thresholding for ambient light derived from video content mapped through unrendered color space: Flicker free operation of ambient light sources that emulate video content during low luminance conditions, where the ambient light source is output thresholded so that an on/off change of state of the ambient light source can be initiated after an intensity variable passes one or two thresholds. Output thresholding is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090033802 - Hybrid coupler and uhf television channel mixer comprising such a hybrid coupler: A hybrid coupler for UHF-band television transmission has a box containing two lines, each of which is insulated from the box and from the other line, is connected to the other line in a “tandem” configuration, and has a first, a second, and a third portion separate from one another... Agent: Ronald R Santucci Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090033803 - Broadcast receiver capable of displaying broadcast-related information using data service and method of controlling the broadcast receiver: A broadcast receiver which can scale up broadcast-related information displayed on a screen using a data service and a method of controlling the broadcast receiver are provided. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast signal, extracts broadcast program data from the broadcast signal, and displays the broadcast program data on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090033804 - Method for formatting digital broadcast transport stream packet for improved receiving performance, digital broadcast transmitter, and signal processing method thereof: A method of formatting a digital broadcast transport stream packet, a digital broadcast transmitter, and a signal processing method thereof, includes constructing a transport stream packet that includes a stuffing region for an insertion of a known supplementary reference signal (SRS) data therein, randomizing the packet that includes the stuffing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090033805 - Tuner and portable device using the same: A tuner includes an input terminal operable to receive a high-frequency signal including a first high-frequency signal and a second high-frequency signal. The second high-frequency signal has a level larger than that of the first signal. The tuner further includes a first filter having an input port coupled to the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090033806 - Control device and method, program, and recording medium: According to the present invention, a plurality of apparatuses can be synchronously controlled by a simpler operation. A synchronous control information management unit 87 stores synchronous control information including synchronous operation patterns and synchronous control conditions. In each of the synchronous operation patterns, a procedure for sequentially transmitting control commands... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090033807 - Real-time dynamic tracking of bias: A bias value associated with a sensor, e.g., a time-varying, non-zero value which is output from a sensor when it is motionless, is estimated using at least two, different bias estimating techniques. A resultant combined or selected bias estimate may then be used to compensate the biased output of the... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090033808 - Synchronous control system for light source and spatial light modulator employed in projection apparatus: The present invention provides a display apparatus, comprising: an a light source for emitting illumination light for transmitting along illumination light path; a display device includes a plurality of pixels for modulating the illumination light for reflecting the illumination light along a projection light path after said illumination light is... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090033809 - Projector: A projector having a wheel module on its case is provided. The wheel module includes a wheel, an encoder, and a microswitch. When the wheel is pressed for a first time, the microswitch outputs a starting signal for turning on the projector. Then, the wheel is rotated for a first... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090033810 - Self-excited inverter and lcd television apparatus: A self-excited inverter comprises a pair of switching devices and a transformer having a primary side to which the switching devices are connected and a secondary side to which a lamp is connected. A pulse voltage is applied alternately to gates of the individual switching devices through a drive winding... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.