Television inventions 03/09

20090079812 - System and method of videotelephony with detection of a visual token in the videotelephony image for electronic control of the field of view: A videotelephony system has an electronically controllable camera with a field of view, a visual token disposed within the field of view, and a camera controller. The camera controller is configured to detect the visual token and reconfigure the field of view relative to a detected position of the visual... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090079813 - Enhanced interface for voice and video communications: An enhanced interface for voice and video communications, in which a gesture of a user is recognized from a sequence of camera images, and a user interface is provided include a control and a representation of the user. The process also includes causing the representation to interact with the control... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090079815 - Audio directionality control for a multi-display switched video conferencing system: In one embodiment, a method includes setting a target value for each audio source received from a plurality of remote participants to a telepresence conference, the gain coefficient array feeding a mixer associated with a loudspeaker associated with a display. A gain increment value is then set for each audio... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20090079814 - Video conference video signal switching: A video conference video signal switching system is disclosed to include a local signal-transmitting side comprised of a video signal transmitter receiver unit and a selection control and power converter unit for allowing the user to switch 8 different input video signals for output, a remote signal-receiving side comprised of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090079811 - Videoconferencing system discovery: System and method for discovering videoconferencing systems. A first videoconferencing system may contact a known second videoconferencing system. The first videoconferencing system may receive contact information of one or more other videoconferencing systems from the second videoconferencing system. The first videoconferencing system may send a request signal to a third... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20090079816 - Method and system for modifying non-verbal behavior for social appropriateness in video conferencing and other computer mediated communications: A method is described for modifying behavior for social appropriateness in computer mediated communications. Data can be obtained representing the natural non-verbal behavior of a video conference participant. The cultural appropriateness of the behavior is calculated based on a cultural model and previous behavior of the session. Upon detecting that... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090079817 - Stereo image device: A stereo image device includes a first pick-up module for capturing a first image, a second pick-up module for capturing a second image, a controlling unit for dividing the first image into first segments, and the second image into second segments, and choosing odd segments of the first segments as... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090079818 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus and stereoscopic image display method: It is made possible to provide a stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of preventing a luminance difference from being caused between left and right eyes irrespective of the observation position even if the viewing zone is wide and the number of parallaxes is large. A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes:... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090079820 - Electronic endoscope: An electronic endoscope apparatus comprises a processor unit so as to allow an A type scope not having a timing generator and a B type scope having a timing generator to be connector-connected to the processor unit. The electronic endoscope comprises: an in-client-circuit timing generator and a first image signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090079819 - Electronic endoscope and endoscope system: An electronic endoscope 10 is provided with an FM circuit 41 and an SSB modulation circuit 42. Electric power is supplied to the electronic endoscope 10 from a battery 32. The battery 32 is connected to a voltage detection circuit 35. The voltage detector 35 detects a voltage of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090079821 - Steerable structure of catheter or endoscope type: A steerable structure (21, 27) of the catheter or endoscope type, the structure comprising an elastically or deformable longitudinal body (22, 28) including at least one actuator (16, 38) of material of the shape memory type incorporated longitudinally with the body (22, 28) together with Joule-effect heater means enabling the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090079822 - Apparatus and method for automatically controlling power of video appliance: Provided is an apparatus and method for automatically controlling power of a video appliance. The apparatus for automatically controlling power of a video appliance includes an image input unit for capturing a viewer's posture, a posture detection unit for detecting posture information from the image captured by the image input... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090079826 - Assembly module having a video transmission element: This invention is to provide an assembly module comprising a board, a frame disposed on a surface of the board, and a circuit board disposed on another surface of the board, wherein the circuit board includes a power line and an image transmission line for directly connecting to a camera... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090079823 - Methods and systems for operating a video surveillance system: Methods and systems for a video surveillance system are provided. The system includes a plurality of network buses, a plurality of surveillance sensors, control devices, and sensor data storage devices and a keypad controller communicatively coupled to the at least one network bus. The keypad controller includes a plurality of... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090079825 - Pseudo-color covert night vision security digital camera system: A digital security camera system and method for pseudo-color covert night vision is provided. The system includes one or more light sources adapted for providing selective illumination at a plurality of infrared wavelengths, such as 730 nm, 830 nm and 940 nm. A monochrome digital image capture device records multiple... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090079824 - Security camera system and method of steering beams to alter a field of view: A security camera system according to present invention embodiments includes a telephoto type lens with one or more factors of optical zoom. A set of prisms that steer incoming beams from the surrounding environment (to adjust the field of view) is disposed in front of the lens. The security camera... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090079827 - Sensor for imaging inside equipment: A system for monitoring performance of a machine for detection of visible signs of failure, the system including: a machine enclosure housing a plurality of machine parts; a visual conduit for providing a view of an interior of the machine; an interface to the machine configured to receive images from... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090079828 - Camera system for a vehicle and method for controlling a camera system: A camera system for a vehicle includes a camera unit mounted on the vehicle for viewing an area outside the vehicle. A image processing unit receives image data from the camera unit. A control unit receives vehicle operation data including vehicle speed data. A display unit is configured to transition... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.A.

20090079829 - Multi-functional side rear view mirror for vehicles: A side rearview mirror with one-way mirror, video display monitor and camera for the driver to easily and safely view the traffic that is going straight from the other direction at an intersection while trying to make a left turn, while at the same time not losing the function of... Agent: Tianyi (albert) Hu

20090079830 - Robust framework for enhancing navigation, surveillance, tele-presence and interactivity: The present invention discloses a robust framework for enhancing navigation, surveillance, tele-presence and interactivity via media streams. A primary media stream acquisition unit is disposed to capture an input media stream (for example video stream) representing the environment and transmit captured media stream live or archived to a transform unit... Agent: Frank Edughom Ekpar

20090079831 - Dynamic tracking of intruders across a plurality of associated video screens: Tracking an intruder throughout regions in an area under surveillance by locating video cameras to provide an image for each region. For each camera a subset of the cameras are associated as auxiliary cameras to that camera; these associations are stored in a table. One camera is the initial primary... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090079832 - System and method for monitoring a printing system using a camera: A monitoring system and method for monitoring a printing system includes a printing system module and a camera. The printing system module is configured to interface with a primary printing-medium path of the printing system and includes a housing with at least one printing-medium path disposed therein. The at least... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20090079834 - Camera: A camera of the present invention is provided with a gapless prism which obtains wavelength spectrum of an optical image of a targeting object, an IR-cut filter which is inserted to and retreated from an optical path, and a Bch image sensor, a Gch image sensor, and an Rch+IR image... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090079833 - Technique for allowing the modification of the audio characteristics of items appearing in an interactive video using rfid tags: The present solution can include a method for allowing the selective modification of audio characteristics of items appearing in a video. In this method, a RFID tag can be loaded with audio characteristics specific to a sound-producing element. The RFID tag can then be attached to an item that corresponds... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Cha

20090079835 - Digital video camera with retractable data connector and resident software application: A digital video camera may include a digital video image sensor for capturing digital video footage to be stored on an internal memory. The digital video image sensor and internal memory may be housed in a camera body. A retractable arm having a data connector may be attached to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090079836 - Image processing apparatus, method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a correction-amount calculating unit that calculates a motion-blur correction amount, which takes a larger value as the reproduction speed becomes lower, based on an input reproduction speed; a motion-blur correcting unit that performs scale transformation on a motion vector based on the motion-blur correction amount,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090079837 - Image stabilization for image based navigation system: Methods and apparatus of stabilizing images used to track an object wherein the images are subject to slurs due to vibrations that are oscillatory in nature is provided. The methods include determining the center of intensity in the images taken of the object and using the center of the intensity... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090079838 - Portable device: A torch casing 10 with a reflector 46 and a bulb 44 incorporates camera 48 50 52 taking pictures through front face 64 and employs flash tube 58 behind the camera chip 50 reflecting off reflector 46 and reflected onto reflector 46 by mirrored surface 60 on the back of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090079839 - Vehicle diagnostics based on information communicated between vehicles: A system and method for controlling a convoy of vehicles. The convoy of vehicles including a leader vehicle in communication with a plurality of autonomous follower vehicles. The leader vehicle is configured to receive a first autonomous follower vehicle data and compare the first autonomous follower vehicle data to at... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090079841 - Apparatus and methods for use of infra-red light in camera applications: Apparatus and methods for using infra-red light provide for enhanced operation in camera applications. In an embodiment, a safety camera includes an optical filter that provides an input to an imager from received light having wavelengths in the infra-red spectrum. Output from the imager can be analyzed to determine safety... Agent: Attention: Susan M. Donahue Rockwell Automation, Inc.

20090079845 - Digital camera system: A digital camera system includes a digital camera unit, and an authenticating unit in which unique setup control data of the digital camera unit is stored. The digital camera unit includes an imaging module that picks up an object image to generate image data, a first human body communication module... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090079844 - Image pickup apparatus for performing a desireble self-timer shooting and an automatic shooting method using the same: An image pickup apparatus includes a system controller and a face detector, and can register face data of a photographer for a self-timer shooting mode in advance. In the self-timer shooting mode, the face detector extracts face data of people in a subject field from an image signal. When the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090079843 - Image pickup device and encoded data transferring method: A method of transferring encoded data and an imaging device executing the method thereof are disclosed. The image signal processor according to an embodiment of the present invention has an encoding unit, which generates encoded image data by encoding, in accordance with a predetermined encoding method, image data corresponding to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090079840 - Method for intelligently creating, consuming, and sharing video content on mobile devices: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for processing video data are disclosed. A video capture mechanism 202 may capture the video data. A key frame extractor 204 may extract a key frame from the video data automatically based on a set of criteria. A video encoder 206 may encode the... Agent: Prass LLP

20090079842 - System and method for image processing: An image processing system and method for recording the adjustment of the image during image stabilization. The system comprises an image capturing device for capturing an image and generating image data of the image, an image adjusting device for adjusting the image by processing the image data, and an image... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090079846 - Auto white balance system for image sensor and auto white balance method: An exemplary auto white balance system for an image sensor includes a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, a memory, a setting determining unit, and a white balance unit. The GPS receiver is configured for receiving signals from a satellite, and calculating its position and local time using signals received from... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090079847 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer readable medium: There is provided an image capturing apparatus that automatically registers a taken object. The image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes an object extracting section that extracts an object included in a captured image, a characteristic amount computing section that computes an amount of characteristic of the object... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090079848 - Image data processing device: An image data processing device includes: a basic image data acquisition device that acquires basic image data; a simplified image data generation device that generates simplified image data corresponding to the basic image data which has been acquired, a size of the simplified image data being smaller than that of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090079849 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section where a plurality of pixel cells are two-dimensionally arranged with each having a photoelectric conversion section for generating signal electric charges corresponding to an object image, a memory means for temporarily retaining the signal electric charges, an electric charge transfer means for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090079850 - Time-lapse photographing device: By comparing an image of an observation object (S) acquired at each photographing timing with a previous image acquired at a photographing timing that immediately precedes the photographing timing at which each image has been acquired, the determination as to whether or not there is a change from the previous... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090079852 - Image processing device, image processing method and image processing: An image processing device capable of executing adjustment of image quality of image data includes a feature amount obtainment unit which obtains an amount of feature indicative of a feature of image quality of the image data, a correction amount obtainment unit which obtains an amount of correction for adjusting... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090079851 - Video signal compensation circuit assembly: A video signal compensation circuit assembly is disclosed to include a video signal compensator electrically connected to a computer through a standard VGA cable to compensate for the video signal outputted from the computer, a video signal amplifier electrically connected in series between the video signal compensator and a display... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090079853 - Image processing system and image processing program: An image processing system can realize a more accurate and high-quality correction of defective pixels by including an image pickup device, an obtaining unit obtaining information showing positions of defective pixels occurred at the image pickup device, a creating unit creating discrimination information showing the positions of the defective pixels... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090079854 - Non-uniformity correction of images generated by focal plane arrays of photodetectors: Methods and apparatus for effecting a non-uniformity correction of images of a scene obtained with an array of detector elements are disclosed. A first image of the scene having a first integration period is acquired using the array of detector elements. A second image of the scene having a different... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090079855 - Imaging apparatus and method of processing video signal: Calculation is made about standard deviations of portions of high-frequency components GH, RH, and BH along respective predetermined directions. The portions of the high-frequency components GH, RH, and BH represent a prescribed number of pixels including an interpolation pixel located at a position corresponding to none of photosensor pixels in... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090079858 - Image display device: Disclosed is a scanning image display device for displaying an image on a plurality of display screens. The image display device includes a light source, a scanner for two-dimensionally scanning with light from the light source, and a controller which is electrically connected with the light source and the scanner.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090079856 - Solid-state imaging device and driving method therefor: A solid-state imaging device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array, vertical signal lines, a constant current source, a signal processing circuit. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. The vertical signal lines are disposed for each... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090079857 - Solid-state imaging device, received-light intensity measuring device, and received-light intensity measuring method: The received-light intensity measuring device includes: a pixel circuit 1 including a photodiode (PD) that accumulates an amount of electric charges according to the intensity of received light, a floating diffusion (FD) that generates a signal voltage VCL according to an amount of retained electric charges, and a transfer switch... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090079859 - Image signal processing circuit, image pickup apparatus and image signal processing method as well as computer program: An image signal processing circuit for executing signal processing for an output of an image pickup device, includes an image signal correction section; the image signal correction section including a calculation section, and a correction section.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090079860 - Digital camera having a specified portion preview section: A digital camera has an image capturing unit, a display unit, a face portion detecting unit, face portion selecting device and a control unit. The image capturing unit photoelectrically captures an image of a subject including a face portion of the subject and obtains image data of the subject. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090079861 - Digital camera with interchangeable lens and an electronic viewfinder: This invention provides an alternative to a digital single lens reflex camera, by not providing a through-the-lens optical image for the viewer to preview, while providing a high resolution through-the-lens electronic image that has a resolution equivalent to at least 200 dpi when seen by the viewer through the eyepiece,... Agent: EagleIPLimited

20090079862 - Method and apparatus providing imaging auto-focus utilizing absolute blur value: A method and apparatus for determining the need for and performing a refocusing of an imaging device using a blur value, which determines absolute sharpness. The blur detection is itself based on reading one or more edges. New lens positioning is controlled based on the blur value.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090079863 - Camera module, manufacturing method of imaging apparatus and hot melt molding method: The invention provides a camera module which can make a work for filling up a clearance between a pedestal mount and a circuit board in a post process unnecessary. The invention provides a camera module including a lens unit, an imaging element converting an incoming light formed by the lens... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090079865 - Method for recomposing large format media: The present invention relates to a process for shooting an entire scene on a single large format film camera and recomposing the filmed scene into a video stream suitable for transfer to conventional formats.... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20090079864 - Non-linear, digital dailies: A method includes storing at least a partial parallelization of at least two of an audio data processing, a video data processing, a synchronized processing of audio and video data from the audio data processing and video data processing, and output processing of the audio and video data from the... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090079866 - Video signal oblique interpolating apparatus and method: A data interpolation apparatus at intermediate pixels between upper and lower pixels. An upper oblique correlation is calculated between data of an immediate upper pixel and a corresponding lower pixel positioned downward in a maximum correlation direction with respect to the immediate upper pixel. A lower oblique correlation is similarly... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090079867 - Chroma upsampling method and apparatus therefor: A unique method for chroma vertical upsampling used, for example, for conversion of the “4:2:0” format chroma information used in many applications of digital video, to the “4:2:2” or “4:4:4” format, is presented. This conversion is required so that video encoders can effect the display of this chroma information with... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - San Francisco

20090079868 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a video signal: An apparatus for transmitting a video signal includes a signal detector, a multiplexer and a transmitter. The signal detector detects the video signal from the source to determine whether the horizontal sync signal and the vertical sync signal of the video signal are independent or composite. The multiplexer generates a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090079869 - Image apparatuses capable of intercommunicating and control method thereof: Image apparatuses capable of communicating with each other and a method of controlling the image apparatuses include the image apparatuses that communicate with each other using a high definition multimedia interface-consumer electronic control (HDMI-CEC) method. The keys provided to a remote controller to control a first image apparatus are mapped... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090079870 - Signal processing device: A first candidate selection portion 130 selects format candidates based on the horizontal synchronizing cycle and the vertical synchronizing cycle of an input video signal. A second candidate selection portion 140 selects formats having the tolerance ranges for the horizontal synchronizing cycles within which the horizontal synchronizing cycle of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090079871 - Advertisement insertion points detection for online video advertising: Systems and methods for determining insertion points in a first video stream are described. The insertions points being configured for inserting at least one second video into the first video. In accordance with one embodiment, a method for determining the insertion points includes parsing the first video into a plurality... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090079872 - Apparatus and method of simultaneously playing multiple channel images: An apparatus and method of simultaneously playing multiple channel images are provided. The apparatus for simultaneously playing multiple channel images includes a frequency changeover tuner successively selecting multiple channels, a demodulation unit demodulating data of the selected channels, a storage unit storing the demodulated data, a playback unit playing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090079873 - Apparatus for and method of processing image signal and display apparatus: Provided are an apparatus for and a method of processing an image signal, a program, and a display apparatus. The apparatus includes: a sub frame generating unit outputting an input signal a plurality of times in one frame period and generating a plurality of sub frames in the one frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090079874 - Display device with time-multiplexed led light source: A method and system for performing motion estimation on a video image in successive image processing steps in an image processing system is disclosed. According to an embodiment a first motion estimation scan is performed using a first motion estimator at a first image processing step in a first direction... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090079876 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of frames of an image containing pixel values, a first setting unit configured to set one of the frames as a reference frame, a second setting unit configured to set, of the frames received by the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090079875 - Motion prediction apparatus and motion prediction method: According to one embodiment, a motion prediction apparatus includes: a similarity detector that detects block similarities indicating degree of similarities between a pixel block in a current frame and pixel blocks in a next frame; a smoothness detector that detects smoothness level of the pixel block in the current frame,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090079877 - Reception apparatus and method of controlling image output by reception apparatus: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a signal reception section configured to receive a video signal transmitted via a transmission path; an image display section configured to process the video signal to display an image; a timing information acquisition section configured to acquire timing information in connection with reception... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090079878 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiver receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data. A known data detector detects known data from the broadcast signal. An equalizer performs channel equalization on the mobile service data received by means of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090079879 - Broadcast reception device and antenna connection detection method for broadcast reception device: The present invention discloses a broadcast reception device including a connection section for connecting to a smart antenna that switches directivity or a unidirectional antenna with fixed directivity connected; a first channel search section for executing channel search in the smart antenna; a second channel search section for executing channel... Agent: Yokoi & Company U.s.a., Inc.

20090079881 - Apparatus and method for signal level control: A set top box is described including multiple tuners and an apparatus and method for controlling signal level. The apparatus includes a signal splitter for splitting signal power of a signal between an input and at least two outputs, a controller coupled to an output, and a circuit controlled by... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090079880 - Television tuner: A correction circuit comprised of a capacitor and a switch is attached to a resonator such that a single resonance circuit is used to cover the television signals of a plurality of bands. Furthermore, the number of the components in the tuner circuit is reduced. A television tuner functions to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090079882 - Analog tv signal decoding using digital tuner with i and q output: A dual use TV receiver for both analog TV and DTV using a digital tuner for processing analog signals and converting same to its respective I and Q components is provided. A method for producing a television receiver comprising the step of providing a digital tuner for processing analog signals... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090079883 - Audio video system with embedded wireless host and wireless speakers: An audio video system is described that includes an AV receiver with a wireless audio module (WAM) host and without audio amplifier functionality. The system further includes a plurality of wireless speakers each having a WAM device to enable unidirectional or bidirectional communications with the WAM host. Each wireless speaker... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090079884 - Wireless display system: An exemplary interactive wireless display system includes a remote sub-system, and a local sub-system. The remote sub-system includes an encoder, a wireless transmitter, and a user interface. The local sub-system includes a wireless receiver, a decoder, a display controller, and a display device. The encoder is configured to encode an... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090079885 - Stereo projection optical system: A stereo projection optical system includes an image engine configured for providing light superimposed spatial information, a color selector positioned to receive a light output of the image engine, a transmission-type light modulator positioned to receive an emergent light of the color selector. The color selector is configured for selectively... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090073253 - Video communication apparatus and method of using the same: Disclosed herein is a video communication apparatus. A LAN connection unit connected to a LAN so as to connect to the Internet. A modem provides access to a PSTN. A DSP processes digital signals received from the LAN connection unit and the modem, and converts internal signals into digital signals.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090073256 - Digital 3d/360 degree camera system: The digital 3D/360° camera system is an omnidirectional stereoscopic device for capturing image data that may be used to create a 3-dimensional model for presenting a 3D image, a 3D movie, or 3D animation. The device uses multiple digital cameras, arranged with overlapping fields of view, to capture image data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090073254 - Omnidirectional imaging system with concurrent zoom: An optical system configured to simultaneously image an omnidirectional field-of-view and a concurrent narrow field on a single focal plane.... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090073255 - Video transmitting apparatus, video display apparatus, video transmitting method and video display method: During reproduction of received wide-field video data by use of a receiving side apparatus, whatever may be the type, size, resolution and orientation of a receiving side display apparatus, the video information is converted, based on information transmitted together with the video information, such that the video information is suitable... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090073257 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes: a surface model generation section for performing processing for generating a three-dimensional surface model from a two-dimensional medical image; and an area reliability calculation section for dividing the surface model into multiple areas and calculating the reliability of data in each of the multiple areas.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090073258 - Device intended to support the driving of a motor vehicle comprising a system capable of capturing stereoscopic images: A system and method to support the driving of a motor vehicle comprising in particular a system capable of capturing images, wherein the system for capturing images comprises a stereoscopic image capturing system having at least a first camera and a second camera, with the first camera presenting a field... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

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20090073260 - In-vivo image acquiring apparatus, in-vivo image receiving apparatus, and in-vivo image acquiring system: An in-vivo image acquiring apparatus includes an imaging unit which is introduced inside a subject and picks up image information inside the subject, an illuminating unit which illuminates an imaging portion imaged by the imaging unit, a transmission processing unit which performs a process to wirelessly transmit the image information... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090073261 - Image processing apparatus, endoscope apparatus and color balance adjusting method: There are provided an image processing apparatus, an endoscope apparatus, and a color balance adjusting method capable of obtaining a good observation image. An image processing apparatus of the invention includes: an image signal input unit for inputting an image signal of a subject image picked up by an image... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090073262 - Method for infrared image correction and enhancement: A method for correcting defects in one or more frames of motion picture film, the method includes the steps of generating an image that includes an infrared channel and one or more color channels; providing an infrared unbuilding model that includes at least one non-linear component that accounts for cross-talk... Agent: Franklin Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090073264 - Image signal transmission apparatus and image signal transmission system: An image signal transmission system for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes: a display apparatus configured to display an image in accordance with an image signal; and an image signal transmission apparatus configured to transmit the image signal to the display apparatus. The image signal transmission apparatus... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090073263 - Vehicle periphery monitoring system: A vehicle periphery monitoring system takes a view image of a vehicle rear periphery, which is in a predetermined area from the vehicle. This view image is converted into a bird's-eye view image and the bird's-eye view image is displayed in a vehicle compartment to assist rearward movement of a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090073265 - Virtual observer: This invention concerns wide-area video surveillance systems. In a first aspect the invention is a surveillance network, in another aspect the invention is a virtual observer, and in a further aspect the invention is a method for operating a virtual observer. Each segments or frame of video, from each camera... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090073266 - Method and system for capturing an image from video: A method including presenting a video sequence on a display where the video sequence includes video frames, calculating a quality indicator with respect to the video frames and automatically indicating which video frames meet or exceed a predetermined image quality threshold depending on the quality indicator.... Agent: Perman & Green

20090073267 - Advanced input controller for multimedia processing: The system and method enables people to use their webcam as a virtual flashlight over their screen as a picture or video clip is playing. The position, tilt and rotation of the flashlight over the screen is recorded and smoothed to generate a compelling movie. Users move the webcam closer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090073269 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus and an imaging method supply an optimum amount of image data to another apparatus. When a PDA has a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps, a mobile phone determines that the maximum speed of communication with the PDA is low, reduces the amount of moving image data... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090073268 - Shared image devices: A device comprising a first shared image device that captures at least one image representation. The first shared image device receives a request to share the at least one image representation to an at least one other shared image device. The first shared image device and the at least one... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090073270 - System and method for efficiently transferring data from an electronic camera device: A system and method for efficiently transferring data from an electronic camera device includes a camera device that is configured to capture image data and temporarily store the image data into an economical limited local buffer memory. A transfer manager from the camera device may then periodically arbitrate for access... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Simon & Koerner LLP

20090073271 - Extended look instrument: The present invention is a camera package with a viewing screen, a long flexible arm that will stay in a fixed position once adjusted for remote viewing of areas of automobiles and appliances not otherwise visible by a repairperson or mechanic servicing the device. The camera package includes additional lighting... Agent: Charles J Rupnick

20090073272 - Digital image capturing system and control method thereof: A control method of a digital still camera (DSC) is disclosed. User input is first required. The user input is then compared to user access information stored in the DSC to find a match. If the match is found, the user is allowed to operate the DSC based upon access... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090073273 - Data communication between capsulated camera and its external environments: A method for transmitting data to a camera without requiring in the camera a conventional wireless transmission capability includes (a) in the camera's field of view, providing an object which forms an image on which the data is encoded; (b) capturing an image of the object using optics of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090073280 - Digital line scan camera: Disclosed is a digital line scan camera, having at least at least one focal plane, on which at least one linear photosensitive sensor is arranged, an objective lens, and a location measurement system. The location measurement system is used to determine six external location parameters, where the location system measurement... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090073275 - Image capturing apparatus with flash device: A digital camera (10) includes a face detecting section (74), a color temperature detecting section (76) and a flash device (86) having an LED array in which RGB LEDs are regularly arranged as a light source. When a shutter button (18) is pressed halfway, the face detecting section (74) reads... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090073277 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image pickup apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided wherein a plurality of reference blocks of a size equal to that of a target block which has a predetermined size and includes a plurality of pixels set to a predetermined position in a target screen are set in a search range set on... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090073278 - Image processing device and digital camera: A visual processing section 120 is provided which performs visual processing on a pixel-by-pixel basis according to a predetermined function defining a relation between a pixel value of a target pixel which is a pixel under visual processing and a pixel value of the target pixel after subjected to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090073276 - Image processing system, method thereof and image capturing device with image processing system: An image capturing device includes an image capturing unit, and an image processing system. The image capturing unit is configured for capturing images, including a first image of an object plus a background and a second image of the background only. The image processing system includes a color value measuring... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090073274 - Image sensor apparatus and method for improved dynamic range with multiple readout circuit paths: An image sensor apparatus comprises an image sensor for generating digital images having a high dynamic range. The image sensor apparatus includes an image sensor for generating a first and a second set of digital image samples at a first bit depth, with each set of digital image samples generated... Agent: Curtis A. Vock Attorney At Law

20090073279 - Solid-state imaging device and camera system: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array including pixel circuits arranged in a matrix; and a pixel drive unit configured to drive the pixel array to perform a reset of the pixel array, a signal storage, and an output operation. The pixel drive unit includes a pixel reset control... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090073281 - Image sensor: An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels having a plurality of color sensitivity characteristics and a mixing portion for mixing charges stored in a plurality of the pixels having the same color sensitivity characteristic provided adjacent to a plurality of the pixels having the same color sensitivity characteristic.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090073282 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: First YUV data produced from a pixel output in which one RAW-RGB data is read out from an SDRAM and is compensated in a dynamic range expansion compensating section of a YUV converting section and second YUV data produced from a pixel output which is equal to or more than... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090073285 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing apparatus includes: an image capture mode storing section that stores image capture modes each associated with a feature value related to a subject as a selection condition for selecting an image capture mode candidate according to the subject; a feature value extracting section that extracts a feature... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090073286 - Image-pickup apparatus and image-pickup-control method: An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup section that picks up images to obtain picked-up-image-data items, a temporarily retaining section that temporarily retains the picked-up-image-data items, a storage-process section that performs a storage process on the picked-up-image-data items, a movement-detecting section that detects a movement of the image-pickup apparatus, an operation... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090073284 - Imaging apparatus and method: An image sensor has a plurality of photo detectors each having a spectral sensitivity. An image data input unit inputs image data having a position, a spectral sensitivity, and a measured signal value of each photo detector in an area of the image sensor. A parameter estimation unit estimates each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090073283 - Method and apparatus for capturing images: In a production system including a plurality of imaging devices associated with a respective production tool, an image capture unit, a controller, and an image storage unit, an image capturing method and apparatus is disclosed. The imaging device records the image and transmits the image to the image capture unit.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20090073287 - Image capturing device: An image having the image quality desired by a photographer is provided by minimizing overexposure or underexposure, making the dynamic range wide, and specifying an optimum brightness level for a main subject. An image capturing device includes a subject detecting unit which detects a main subject in an image obtained... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090073288 - Imaging system and reproducing system: An image pickup system according to the present invention includes an extracting unit for extracting a block area with a predetermined size from a signal of an image pickup device, a transforming unit for transforming the signal in the extracted block area into a signal in a frequency space, an... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090073289 - Method and apparatus for providing a rolling double reset timing for global storage in image sensors: An apparatus for and a method of operating an array of pixels of an image sensor, where each pixel includes at least a photosensor, an associated storage device and a floating diffusion region and the array of pixels is configured in a plurality of rows and columns. The photosensors associated... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090073290 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes: an image sensor having a charge transfer unit that transfers an electric charge for each pixel column; a correction unit that corrects an electric charge signal outputted from the charge transfer unit using a correction coefficient; and a control unit that controls the correction unit so... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090073291 - Solid-state imaging device: To control the potential distribution generated in a well at the time of amplification and reduce a shading in a solid-state imaging device of amplification type, the amplification type solid-state imaging device of the present invention comprises a plurality of picture elements each including photoelectric conversion elements formed in a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090073292 - Method for acquiring a digital image with a large dynamic range with a sensor of lesser dynamic range: A method is provided for obtaining an image with a large dynamic range. An image is acquired such that each image pixel is represented by a plurality of values obtained at the same time but for different integration levels (effective exposures). For each pixel, a representative value is selected among... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090073293 - Cmos image sensors with increased dynamic range and methods of operating the same: A method of operating an image sensor apparatus is provided. In this method, first digital image data is generated based on a first exposure data signal, wherein the first exposure data signal is indicative of an exposure level of the image sensor during a first exposure period. The first digital... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090073294 - Solid-state image capturing apparatus and electronic information device: A solid-state image capturing apparatus comprises a pixel array in which pixel sections for outputting a pixel signal in accordance with incident light are arranged in two dimensions, and a readout signal line arranged for each pixel section column on the pixel array, for reading out a pixel signal from... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090073296 - Imaging device and imaging apparatus: An imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; a plurality of vertical electric charge transfer paths; a horizontal transfer path that transfers; and a plurality of transfer connecting parts, wherein each of the transfer connecting parts includes an electric charge transfer channel that transfers a signal electric charges... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090073295 - Solid state imaging device: A solid-state image pickup device 1 includes an imaging photodetecting section 10, a triggering photodetecting section 20, a row selecting section 30, a column selecting section 40, a voltage holding section 50, an output section 60, and a controlling section 70. The imaging photodetecting section 10 is for taking an... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090073298 - Image sensing apparatus and imaging system: An image sensing apparatus comprises a pixel including, a column signal line, a readout circuit, an output line, and an output unit. The readout circuit includes a first accumulation unit, a first opening/closing unit, a second accumulation unit, a transmission unit, and a second opening/closing unit. A capacitance of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090073297 - Twisted input pair of first gain stage for high signal integrity in cmos image sensor: Methods for forming conductors and global bus configurations for reducing an interference signal from electromagnetic interference (EMI) source are provided. First and second conductor lines are formed on an integrated circuit in a twisted pair configuration. A differential amplifier is formed on the integrated circuit and coupled to each of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090073299 - Methods and apparatus for variable mode drivers: In one aspect, a method of transferring charge from a photosensitive array using a plurality of vertical shift registers each having a plurality of vertical elements including a first vertical element and a last vertical element, each of the plurality of vertical elements capable of storing charge, the plurality of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090073300 - Clock management of bus during viewfinder mode in digital camera device: This disclosure describes techniques for managing the clock speed of a bus during viewfinder mode in a digital camera device. The techniques involve determining a frame rate of frames displayed on a viewfinder, determining whether to adjust a clock speed of a bus based at least in part on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090073301 - Image processing device and method compatible with a television receiver: A method for processing digital images and displaying them on a television receiver is provided. Initially, an image processing device receives digital image data from a digital camera or other digital device. Next, the digital image is stored on a storage device associated with the image processing device. This digital... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090073303 - Image pickup device: The image pickup device includes a color separation prism which is composed of a plurality of prism members and which separates light into a plurality of color components, a plurality of solid-state image sensors fixed to the plurality of prism members, respectively, a plurality of image sensor boards on which... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090073302 - Optical unit and image pickup apparatus: An optical unit is provided which is characterized by compact configuration, high performance and minimized noise, and which has a drive element to drive a lens cone holding an image pickup optical system, and has the same outside diameter as the lens cone, wherein the optical unit drives the image... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090073305 - Automatic focusing device: An automatic focusing device in accordance with the present invention comprises an image sensor being subjected to exposure performed in a rolling shutter system, a focusing system including a focus lens for focusing on the image sensor, an AF evaluation value calculating unit calculating an AF evaluation value based on... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090073304 - Imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus control method, and computer program: A data processing device includes: a face-detecting unit to detect a face region from an input image input from an imaging unit which images a subject including a face; a setting unit to calculate subject distance based on the face size of the face detected by the face-detecting unit, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090073306 - Method, medium, and apparatus for setting exposure time: A method, medium, and apparatus for setting an exposure time is provided. The apparatus includes a section setting module which sets one or more luminance sections based on a luminance distribution of an input image, an image division module which divides the input image into two or more regions, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090073307 - Digital image capture device and method: A device for illuminating and capturing an image of an object can include a first light source mounted to structure; a second light source mounted to the structure; and an image sensor disposed adjacent to the first and second light sources and mounted to the structure. The image sensor may... Agent: Haverstock & Owens- Cypress

20090073308 - Apparatuses and methods for a camera head enclosure device for facilitating improved imaging: A camera head enclosure apparatus configured to allow the interchangeability of photo-electric pixel arrays used in various applications is provided. A personality plate configured to receive and secure a photo-electric pixel array of a particular configuration provided on a chip is provided. The exemplary embodiments allow a user to interchange... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090073309 - Digital camera having printhead and ink supply: A digital camera is provided having a printhead for printing images digitally captured by the camera, an ink supply for supplying ink to the printhead, and a casing surrounding and encasing the printhead and ink supply so that the ink supply is unable to be accessed without destruction of the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090073310 - Shutter arrangement for covering a camera lens: A shutter arrangement for covering a camera lens includes a camera lens cover that is movable in a plane along a first direction between a first closed position and a second opened position. In the first closed position, the camera lens cover substantially covers the camera lens and in the... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090073311 - Frame rate conversion device and video display device: A frame rate conversion device includes a signal input unit to which a video signal is inputted and a frame rate conversion unit for converting the frame number by inserting an interpolated frame into the video signal inputted to the signal input unit. The frame rate conversion unit performs block... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090073312 - Method for video conversion of video stream and apparatus thereof: A method for video conversion of a video stream includes: interpolating a first interpolated frame according a first frame and a second frame of the video stream; and interpolating a second interpolated frame according to the first frame and the first interpolated frame. In addition, the method further includes interpolating... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090073313 - Method for controlling a television: A method for controlling a television equipped with a camera sensor is performed as follows. A background image is captured by the camera sensor. After entering a control mode, functional blocks are displayed on the television, and a user image is captured by the camera sensor and shown on the... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090073314 - Summary content generation device and computer program: When generating animation content as summary content for a digital broadcast program, the timing for switching of animation images for display is controlled appropriately. Subtitle character string extraction means for extracting a subtitle character string from subtitle data contained in digital broadcast signals, still image extraction means for extracting one... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090073315 - Method and system for identifying addressing data within a television presentation: Characters represented within a frame of a television presentation are identified. A pattern formed by a subset of the characters is identified if the pattern is indicative of an addressing datum. A provision is made for a selection of characters that form the pattern indicative of the addressing datum. In... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090073316 - Lip-sync correcting device and lip-sync correcting method: A video signal and an audio signal are transmitted from a source device (400) to a sink device (410) in conformity with respective predetermined interfaces through respective transmission channels. The respective interfaces include bidirectional interface such as an HDMI and an IEEE1394. A controller (420) acquires delay information (TLv) representing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090073317 - Secam-l detector and video broadcast system having the same: A method for detecting SECAM-L signals is disclosed. First, a SECAM-L signal is received and demodulated into a demodulation signal. Then high frequency components of the demodulation signal are filtered out and a low frequency signal, including many sync pulses and many data pulses, is obtained. Next, the low frequency... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090073318 - Mosaic channel video stream with interactive services: An interactive mosaic channel video stream with indicators as to the action on a given video stream. The interactive mosaic channel is displayed on a video monitor, with a plurality of individual video feeds being presented at a given time, comprising a plurality of video cells presenting at least video... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090073319 - Method and system for processing chroma signals: Methods and systems for processing chroma signals are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include compensating a modulated chroma signal for distortions due to audio trap filtering. The compensated chroma signal may be demodulated to generate U and V chroma signals. The U and V chroma signals may be low... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090073320 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus causing a larger number of video signals than at least one video port possessed by a processor to be input to the processor through the video port, the information processing apparatus including: a multiplexed video frame creation section creating multiplexed video frames in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090073321 - System and method of displaying a video stream: The present disclosure is generally directed to a video stream processing system and to a system and method of displaying a video stream. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a video stream to be displayed on a display device. During a first time period, a low resolution version... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090073322 - Digital broadcast receiver: A data separating section separates stream data demodulated by a signal demodulating section, into video data and other data. A pattern comparison processing section performs pattern comparison between a specific object included as an image in the video data decoded by a decoding section, on a screen, and comparison source... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090073323 - Projection apparatus and optical ranging method: Disclosed is a projection apparatus including: a video display control section 53 to project and display a video according to input video data; and a projection distance obtainment section 14 to irradiate to a projection plane where the video is projected with a laser and displayed by the video display... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090073324 - View projection for dynamic configurations: A method and system for compensating for a moving object placed between a projector and a projection scene is shown. The method/system dividing a movement pattern of the moving object into N discrete position states, and for each of said N position states determining a corresponding view projection matrix. While... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090073325 - Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same, and electric device: It is an object of the present invention to simplify steps needed to process a wiring in forming a multilayer wiring. In addition, when a droplet discharging technique or a nanoimprint technique is used to form a wiring in a contact hole having a comparatively long diameter, the wiring in... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090073326 - Rotatable built-in system of image-sound isntallation: Disclosed is a rotatable built-in system for rotatably installing an image-sound installation, such as a TV or a home theater, through a wall so that viewers at both sides of the wall can watch the image-sound installation. The rotatable built-in system includes the image-sound installation comprising a TV; a support... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090073327 - On-vehicle display apparatus: A display apparatus for a vehicle includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight unit, and a control circuit. The liquid crystal panel has a screen constructed with pixels. A first portion of the pixels displays a speed image indicating a vehicle speed. A second portion of the pixels displays a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090066781 - System for managing video voicemail: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller adapted to establish communications with a voicemail system over a Public Switched Telephone Network port of the communication device, receive from the voicemail system by way of a broadband port of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090066782 - Spatial-temporal multi-resolution image sensor with adaptive frame rates for tracking movement in a region of interest: A sensor includes an array of pixels to capture an image, the array of pixels arranged as a plurality of pixel groups, each of the pixel groups having a two or more pixels coupled to a shared floating diffusion node for outputting merged image signals from the pixel groups, at... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090066783 - Method and apparatus for generating stereoscopic file: A method and apparatus for generating a stereoscopic file defined based on a conventional International Standardization Organization (ISO) based media file format. The apparatus includes an encoder encoding first video data and second video data that are included in three-dimensional (3D) video data; and a file generating unit arranging the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090066784 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus and method generate a three dimensional representation of a scene which includes a plurality of objects disposed on a plane. The three dimensional representation is generated from one or more video images of the scene, which include the objects on the plane produced from a view... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090066785 - System and method for generating and reproducing 3d stereoscopic image file including 2d image: A method for controlling moving picture encoding using channel information of wireless networks is provided. By the method, it is possible to use a pre-verified standard technology in the prescription of a stereoscopic image file format, thereby simplifying a verification procedure for a new standard. Also, it is possible to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090066786 - Depth illusion digital imaging: A method of generating a visual display of a scene having a desired illusion of depth comprising: generating a sequence of display images of the scene; setting velocities of features in the scene to generate non-perspective distortions of the scene in the display images; and sequentially displaying the display images.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi

20090066787 - Image processing device for endoscope and endoscope apparatus: An image processing device for an endoscope includes an image processing section which performs signal processing for generating an image signal to be observed as an endoscope image, for a signal picked up with an image pickup device equipped in the endoscope, a tone correcting circuit section which corrects a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090066789 - Device for data routing in networks: An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network having remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090066791 - Monitoring system: Disclosed herein is a monitoring system, including an infrared camera; an image pickup direction control section configured to vary the image pickup direction of the infrared camera; a correction section configured to correct irregularity in brightness of a screen image of image data picked up in each of the image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090066790 - Smart network camera system-on-a-chip: Aspects of a method and system for processing video data are disclosed and may include detecting, within a single chip in a programmable surveillance video camera, one or more moving objects in a raw video signal generated by the programmable surveillance video camera. One or more characteristics of the detected... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090066788 - System for data routing in networks: An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network having remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090066792 - Automotive, cargo, and homeland security camera system: The automotive and/or vehicular camera system provides visual sensing devices for data generation and storage of visual information. On a vehicle or cargo container, cameras or other visual sensing devices may be placed strategically in order to provide a wide field of view. Data generated by the cameras may be... Agent: Cislo & Thomas LLP

20090066793 - Solid-state imaging device, camera, automobile and monitoring device: A solid-state imaging device according to the present invention includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units each of which generates a signal corresponding to the quantity of incident light; a plurality of readout units which read out the signals generated by the photoelectric conversion units; transfer paths which transfer the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090066794 - Security system: A security system includes at least first and second monitoring units, each having a motion sensor for detecting motion, a camera for obtaining visual data, a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor in data communication with the motion sensor, camera, transmitter, and receiver. The security system includes means for outputting... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20090066795 - Community internet protocol camera system: An apparatus comprises a server in communication with a camera located on a customer premises. The server is adapted to transmit Internet Protocol formatted video, containing a surveillance portion from the camera and an advertisement portion, to a customer premises device. A method for sending the Internet Protocol formatted video... Agent: At&t Legal Department, Attn: Patent Docketing

20090066796 - Methods and apparatus for correcting banding of imaged regular patterns: A multi-channel imaging head is calibrated in accordance with a pre-determined regular pattern to minimize swath-to-swath and inter-swath variations during the imaging of the regular pattern. The imaging parameters of the imaging head are optimized in accordance with the pre-determined regular pattern.... Agent: Harris Beach PLLC

20090066797 - Flexible imaging device with a plurality of imaging elements mounted thereon: A flexible imaging device comprises: a flexible substrate; and a plurality of imaging elements mounted on the flexible substrate.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090066798 - Sound corrector, sound recording device, sound reproducing device, and sound correcting method: Sound correction processing is performed for a sound signal obtained from a sound collecting portion. In particular, sound correction processing is performed after determining what is performed as the sound correction processing based on an image signal paired with a sound signal, the image signal obtained from an imaging portion,... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090066799 - Image sensor apparatus and method for embedding image stabilization data into image data: An image sensor apparatus comprises an image sensor for generating image data corresponding to an optical image. A movement sensor coupled to the image sensor generates movement data corresponding to movement of the image sensor apparatus. A processor coupled to the image sensor receives embedded image data from the image... Agent: Omnivision C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20090066800 - Method and apparatus for image or video stabilization: A stabilization method and apparatus for at least one of an image or a video. The stabilization method comprising estimating inter-frame translation, inter-frame rotation and intentional motion, utilizing the estimation for determining motion compensation, and performing the motion compensation utilizing the determined motion compensation.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090066804 - Data-processing circuit and video camera: A data-processing circuit includes a distributor. Raw image data of horizontal 3840 pixels×vertical 2160 pixels that is periodically outputted from a CMOS-type imaging device is divided by the distributor into four blocks of partial image data. The divided four blocks of partial image data are subjected to a pre-process in... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090066803 - Image pickup apparatus performing automatic photographing processing, image pickup method and computer-readable recording medium recorded with program thereof: Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject image; and a central processing section to perform processing of arbitrarily setting at least one automatic photographing condition among a plurality of kinds of automatic photographing conditions, judging whether “the set automatic photographing condition”... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090066802 - Image processing device and method: An image processing device according to the present invention comprises an image input unit, a statistical information updater and a background image generator, and generates a background image from an input image. The image input unit sequentially inputs continuous input images. The statistical information updater generates statistical information, which indicates... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090066801 - Photographing device: An image with a bright image plane can be photographed without deteriorating the yield. An object is photographed by a CCD (18) through each of plural filters (141-14N) that have optical films vacuum deposited thereon so that spectral transmission characteristics vary between the filters periodically. Image data obtained by photographing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090066806 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: A CPU 200 acquires image data of a photographed image, determines a specific subject area containing a specific subject in the photographed image, and calculates a specific subject characteristic value for representing a characteristic of image data corresponding to the determined specific subject area. CPU200 calculates a correction value for... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090066805 - Video camera: An image sensor has an imaging surface irradiated with an optical image of an object scene, and repeatedly generates an object scene image. A CPU repeatedly determines whether or not a specific variation exceeding a reference is generated in the object scene captured by the image sensor, in parallel with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090066809 - Image inputting apparatus, image inputting program product, camera, and image processing system: An image inputting apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs an original image file including at least an image data region in which image data is stored and an appended information region; a decision unit that decides whether or not falsification of the original image file is prohibited, based upon... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090066807 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus having a plurality of setting items related to an image pickup condition, the image pickup apparatus including: a setting unit adapted to set respective setting information of the plurality of setting items; a storage unit; a specification mean adapted to specify a registration target item to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090066808 - Image-data processing apparatus and data-processing circuit: An image-data processing apparatus includes a pre-processing circuit for repeatedly fetching image data representing an object scene. A post-processing circuit, a video display circuit, and an H264 encoder perform a moving-image process according to a designated mode, on the image data fetched by the pre-processing circuit. The post-processing circuit and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090066810 - Photography system: A photographic processing system is disclosed in which subject and other data is stored in a database and such data is automatically linked to photographs taken using either a film or digital camera.... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20090066811 - Image processing method and imaging apparatus using the same: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing method is implemented by the apparatus, which receives and stores captured image data. Addresses for the captured image data are generated and stored in a look up table in memory along with color signal data that... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090066814 - Digital camera: A digital camera capable of setting a special shooting mode for shooting a plurality of images to be synthesized to form one image and comprises an imaging device, a strobe device, a storage unit temporarily storing at least one image shot by the imaging device, a shooting control circuit, an... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090066815 - Digital camera system: A digital camera system capable of operating by detecting a feature point, which has not been accomplished, in addition to ordinary functions of a conventional camera is provided. According to an aspect of the present invention, a digital camera system includes a detecting means that detects a given feature point... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090066812 - Frame data creation method and apparatus, frame data creation program, and plotting method and apparatus: A method for creating frame data used when forming an image by moving a spatial light modulation device including a plurality of plotting element arrays in a scanning direction which forms an inclination angle θ with an arrangement direction of the plotting element arrays, and sequentially inputting the frame data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090066813 - Photographing apparatus of which image pickup area is divided, and image pickup device thereof: A photographing apparatus and an image pickup device thereof include an image pickup device of which an image pickup area includes a plurality of pixels and is divided into a plurality of sub-image pickup areas, and at least one pixel included in each of the sub-image pickup areas outputs image... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090066816 - Image signal processing device and image signal processing method: By using the fact that the margin until the amount of saturation electric charge is reached becomes large as a result of the amount of exposure being set to be low in a high sensitivity mode, an RGB signal having a wide dynamic range containing signal components of a subject... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090066817 - Image capture apparatus, image capture method, and storage medium: An image capture apparatus comprises an image capture unit, a storage unit configured to store a pattern and an associated synthesizing-object image corresponding to a shape of the pattern, a display unit configured to display a capture image captured by the image capture unit and to superpose the pattern on... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090066818 - Apparatus and method for restoring image: An apparatus and method for restoring an image are provided. The apparatus includes an edge-strength-detection module which detects an R-channel edge strength, a G-channel edge strength and a B-channel edge strength from an input image and generates an R-channel edge map, a G-channel edge map and a B-channel edge map... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090066819 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method, 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 which are capable of obtaining an image of a wide dynamic range subjected to brightness compression. The allocation of the number of brightness grayscale steps of an... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090066820 - Filtering optimization via implicit bayer grid subsampling: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for filtering captured image data are provided. An array of pixel data values corresponding to a captured image is received. The pixel data values in the received array are pixel data values of a first color of the captured image. A filter function is performed on... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20090066821 - Method and apparatus for interpolating missing colors in a color filter array: A method, of interpolating missing colors in a color filter array comprising red, green and blue photosites comprises determining and interpolation direction for each red and each blue photosite based on local edge information and interpolating a green color for each red and each blue photosite in the determined interpolation... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090066822 - Image sensor and method for manufacturing the same: Provided is an image sensor. The image sensor comprises a first substrate, and an image sensing device on the first substrate. The first substrate includes an interconnection and a readout circuitry. The image sensing device is formed on the interconnection. A top electrode is provided on the image sensing device... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090066823 - Solid-state image pickup device and clamp control method therefor: In an analog front end (FE) IC chip having a CDS (Correlated Double Sampling) function and an AGC (Automatic Gain Control) function, a clamp circuit for clamping an output signal during a black reference signal period is equipped with a mechanism for suppressing the effect of noises contaminated from a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090066824 - Optical sensor and method of selection of pixel of optical sensor: An optical sensor able to make a pixel area small without degrading an increase of the speed of detection of the change of light intensity and reduction of the power consumption, therefore able reduce the size of a chip at the time of an increase of pixels and a method... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090066826 - Image sensor having a ramp generator and method for calibrating a ramp slope value of a ramp signal: An apparatus and method for calibrating a ramp slope value of a ramp signal to increase the accuracy of the slope of the ramp signal used within CMOS image sensors. An image sensor includes an active pixel sensor (APS) array, a ramp signal generator and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090066825 - Solid-state imaging device and its driving method: A driving method is used in a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixel circuits which are arranged in rows and columns, and each of which has a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge accumulation unit and receives a common power source. The driving method includes steps of: reading... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090066827 - Method for driving solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus: A plurality of charge accumulation packets each of which is configured to accumulate signal charges from photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to (2n−1) rows where n denotes an integer equal to or larger than 2 are formed in to vertical charge transfer sections. The signal charges of the same color component... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090066828 - Solid imaging device: In a solid imaging device, a photoelectric converting section is configured to generate electric charges through photoelectric conversion, and a first charge transfer section is connected with the photoelectric converting section. A first read gate section is provided between the photoelectric converting section and the first charge transfer section, and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090066829 - Lens barrel, camera and mobile information terminal: A lens barrel includes: a lens frame retaining at least one portion of the plurality of lens groups; a first lens cylinder supporting the lens frame inside thereof and including a plurality of cam followers on an outer circumferential section thereof; and a second lens cylinder including a mutually parallel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090066830 - Focus control device and imaging device: An auto focus (AF) circuit includes a high-pass filter and band-pass filter having mutually different frequency characteristics. During contrast AF control prior to an actual shooting, AF evaluation values acquired by using the high-pass filter are used most preferentially in detecting the lens focusing position of a focus lens. In... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090066831 - Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and program: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit which causes an image sensor to photoelectrically convert an object image to generate an image signal, a display unit which displays the image signal generated by the image capturing unit, a storage unit which stores foreign substance information that is information... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090066832 - Video camera apparatus including automatic focusing: A video camera includes a gate circuit for extracting a sharpness signal relative to an area which is set in a portion of a picture, a focus adjusting device for performing focus adjustment on the basis of the sharpness signal relative to the area, and an area selecting circuit for... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090066833 - Method for generating images and optical device: A method for generating a series of images at different zoom angles is disclosed. The method comprises providing an optical device (1) having a liquid-based zoom lens (10) and image recording means (20), recording a first image of an object at a first zoom angle responsive to a user input;... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090066834 - Iris diaphragm device: There is provided an iris diaphragm device comprising: two blade members supported on two rotary shafts; a lamp optical path between the two blade members; a motor driving directly one of the rotary shafts; and a means of transmitting power from the one rotary shaft to the other, wherein the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090066835 - Imaging system and imaging method thereof: An imaging system includes an attention-getting unit. The attention-getting unit is configured for attracting the attention of a human subject to the imaging system.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090066836 - Front-viewing side mirror camera: A multi-reflective vehicular mirror is provided. A mirror housing is primarily attached to a passenger side of the vehicle and has a shell facing the front of the vehicle and a cavity facing the rear of the vehicle. The shell has a proximal side mounted on the vehicle and a... Agent: Law Offices Of Clement Cheng

20090066837 - Video apparatus, video system and method for upgrading software thereof: A video apparatus, a video system, and a method for upgrading software thereof are provided. The video apparatus included in the video system is a set-top box and a display apparatus which receives a video signal from the set-top box. If a memory card storing upgrading software is mounted on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090066838 - Representative image or representative image group display system, representative image or representative image group display method, and program therefor: Video selection means 21 selects a video satisfying an input search condition. Representative image combination extraction means 22 extracts an image representing the selected video. Evaluation value calculation means 23 calculates an evaluation value of the extracted image. Representative image combination selection means 24 selects a combination of images to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090066839 - Method and apparatus for reproducing multi-stream: A method and apparatus for simultaneously reproducing multiple audio/video streams, the apparatus including: a mixer to mix and to output main audio data and sub-audio data; and an audio controller to control the mixer such that when a sub-video data is expanded to a full screen, the sub-audio data is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090066840 - System and method for low bandwidth display information transport: To conserve communication channel bandwidth, video information must often be compressed in low bandwidth environments. To significantly reduce bandwidth usage, a first disclosed embodiment proposes transmits a reduced color depth image initially and then later transmitting additional color depth information when the image becomes static. In this manner, a reduced... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090066841 - Image processing method and computer readable medium: An image processing method includes the following steps. Firstly, foreground image data and background image data are received, wherein the foreground and the background image data corresponds to the same pixel in a display panel. Then, a foreground ratio and a background ratio are determined in response to an operational... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090066842 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus executes distortion compensation based on distortion compensation information associated with desired distortion compensation and an angle of view of an image currently being displayed on a display device. Distortion compensation can be performed stepwise without use of any other distortion compensation information until a distortion compensated... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090066843 - Color mixer: A color mixer for producing a colored beam of light in combination with a light source. The color mixer includes a plurality of color media configured to pass a light beam such that the color media may be repositioned relative to one another to produce a color mixing effect resulting... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090066844 - Predictive tv adjustment of parameter such as white balance: Two measurements spaced a shorter time apart than a stabilization period are made of a TV display and used to access a predicted white balance adjustment database to return white balance offsets for entry into the TV.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090066845 - Content processing apparatus, method of processing content, and computer program: First a scene-change point where the scene changes significantly is detected in the video content on the basis of the switching of images. Then, an average image of frames one second before and after the scene-change point is produced. The average image is used to detect, in a highly accurate... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090066846 - Event production kit: According to various embodiments, an event production kit is provided that includes storage cases for storing production equipment, such as cameras, monitors, and microphones, and an electronic production equipment case for storing an audio mixer, a video switcher, and computers for encoding and distributing the production. In addition, in one... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090066847 - Broadband integrated tuner: A broadband integrated receiver for receiving input signals and outputting composite video and audio signals is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an intermediate signal. An intermediate filter between the mixers performs coarse channel selection. The down-conversion mixer may be an... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090066851 - Broadcast signal receiving apparatus: In a broadcast signal receiving apparatus, a remote controller has, as one of a plurality of buttons thereof, a state changing button for instructing to change a source to be reproduced by a main body. The main body or the remote controller has a memory storing a first state changing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090066849 - Display apparatus and tv tuner mounted thereof: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a front cover, a rear cover, and a TV tuner. The front cover and the rear cover are packaged together to form an accommodating space. The display panel and the TV tuner are accommodated in the accommodating space. The TV tuner includes a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090066848 - Method and system for controlling a back-up receiver and encoder in a local collection facility from a remote facility: A system and method suitable for processing television signals includes a local collection facility that has a primary receiver and a primary encoder forming a broadcast signal in response to a first channel signal received at the receiver. The system also includes a remote facility having a monitoring system monitoring... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090066852 - Methods for reducing channel change times in a digital video apparatus: A digital video apparatus provides reduced channel change times. According to an exemplary embodiment, the digital video apparatus includes at least one receiver for receiving first and second video streams representing the same program, wherein the first video stream has at least one characteristic different from the second video stream;... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090066850 - Smart channel scan method and associated apparatus: A smart channel scan method and associated apparatus, for searching center frequencies and symbol rates of the video signal channels. The smart channel scan method performs spectrum analysis for the video signal to generate a power spectrum density signal and obtain a plurality of center frequencies and coarse bandwidth. Symbol... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090066853 - Remote control with recessed keypad: A TV remote control has a recessed keypad so that if the remote is laid face down the keys will not be activated by the weight of the remote.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090066855 - Television broadcast receiving system: A television broadcast receiving system has a receiving apparatus receiving a broadcast of a television station that carries out datacasting as well as broadcasting and displaying an image of a television program, and a remote control remotely controlling the receiving apparatus by using wireless communication. The receiving apparatus is provided... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090066854 - Universal remote control unit: A universal remote control having universal inputs for controlling a plurality of devices, such as a TV, DVD player, etc. In addition, the unit has a clock and a radio, preferably both AM and FM, and other features such as a flashlight, alarm, LCD indicator, etc., all in one compact... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090066856 - Digital broadcast receiver unit: A video processing apparatus including: an input device which inputs an encoded video signal; a decoder which decodes the encoded video signal having a video format which is one of a plurality of video formats to produce a decoded video signal; a processor which processes the decoded video signal by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090066857 - Cellular terminals and other electronic devices and methods that adjust projected video images to compensate for color, brightness, and/or pattern of a display surface: Some electronic devices project video images onto a display surface that is external to the electronic device, and adjust the projected images to compensate for brightness and/or color of the display surface. An electronic device can include a video generator, a video projector, a camera, a calibration controller. The video... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090066858 - Display system for high-definition projectors: A display system is provided to surround a user with an out-the window scene. The system includes a screen structure that is a facetted back-projection dome made up of a polygonal polar top facet surrounded by trapezoidal facets angulated downward from it in an upper facet row. A middle row... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20090066859 - Mood generating device: The present invention relates to electronic mood generating devices. The present invention is particularly adaptable for providing rapidly induced moods, states-of-mind, emotional conditions or overall physiological and behavioral orientations toward relaxation, creativity, inspiration, motivation, or meditation by embedding a series of themed acoustics and images on a standalone device. The... Agent: T. D. Foster

20090058983 - Network-enabled peer-to-peer video calling systems, methods, and storage medium: Systems, methods, and a storage medium for peer-to-peer video calling between first and second devices is provided. The method includes determining a predetermined data communication rate by querying a communication network operably associated with the first and second devices. The method further includes transmitting video calling data from the first... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090058984 - Mobile communication terminal and method for converting mode of multiparty video call thereof: A mobile communication terminal having a multiparty video call function and a method for converting a mode of a multiparty video call are disclosed. The terminal includes an input unit that receives a command for selecting one of phone call modes and a controller that displays a menu for selecting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090058986 - Measuring latency in a video conference system: A method of measuring video latency between a sender and a receiver in a video conference system is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes initiating an electrical signal from a first location in a video conference system, transmitting the electrical signal through the video components of the video conference... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090058985 - System and method of automating access to a videoconferencing room: A videoconferencing system and method of automating access to a videoconferencing room is provided. The videoconferencing system includes a reservation controller for comparing remote identifying information and local identifying information and for receiving a deposit. A payment collector is in communication with the reservation controller for receiving the deposit from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090058987 - Video camera calibration system and method: A video camera calibration system includes a video camera, having a fixed location and a variable viewing orientation with respect to a fixed object, and a video calibration target, integral with the fixed object and having a known position. The viewing orientation of the video camera can be adjusted by... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090058989 - Method and apparatus for obtaining improved panoramic images: A digital photographing apparatus capable of more precisely obtaining a panoramic image than conventional cameras, a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus, and a recording medium storing a program for executing the method. The method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus includes: obtaining a first image according to a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090058990 - Method for photographing panoramic picture: A method for photographing a panoramic picture includes the steps of checking motion of a corresponding photographing apparatus compares currently input images and previous images in real time through a motion estimation technique employing exposure compensation. Respective images constituting a panoramic picture are photographed, and image photography information is checked... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090058988 - System for panoramic image processing: A system for low-latency, high-resolution, continuous motion panoramic video imaging includes a plurality of high-resolution video cameras, each video camera generating about at least 500 kilopixel near-real time video. The cameras can be supported for positioning the plurality of cameras at predetermined angular locations to generate a full 360 degree... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090058991 - Method for photographing panoramic picture: A panoramic picture photographing method permits more accurate photographing of an image, particularly a panoramic image of a subject, without additional equipment, or separate devices and hardware. The method includes projecting an image, which is successively inputted in every predetermined unit of time, to an imaginary surface having a same... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090058992 - Three dimensional photographic lens system: Provided is a three-dimensional image capturing lens system having a structure in which left and right image sensing lenses are provided, and light is synthesized to form an image on a single CCD (charge-coupled device) in order to prevent loss of light intensity.... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20090058993 - Cmos stereo camera for obtaining three-dimensional image: A CMOS stereo camera for obtaining a three-dimensional image, in which two CMOS image sensors having the same characteristics are disposed on a single semiconductor substrate, is provided. The CMOS image sensors have image planes which are located on the same plane by disposing the two CMOS image sensors on... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090058994 - Stereo projection optical system: A stereo projection optical system, includes a first polarizing beam splitter configured for separating a light input into a first polarized light component and a second polarized light component; a first transmission-type spatial light modulator configured for receiving the first polarized light component; a second transmission-type spatial light modulator configured... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090058995 - Data recording system, program, semiconductor device, and drive recorder: A data recording system includes: a trigger generation section that generates a plurality of triggers each of which is generated when the trigger generation section has detected an event that is to be recorded, a data acquisition section that performs a data acquisition process that acquires and stores the input... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090058997 - Endoscope system and signal transmitting method: An endoscope system comprises: an endoscope comprising an image pickup portion which performs image pickup; a signal processing apparatus which performs signal processing for an output signal from the image pickup portion; a signal transmitting portion which sends a video signal based on the output signal from the image pickup... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090058996 - In-vivo image acquiring system, in-vivo image processing method, and body-insertable apparatus: The present invention has an object to provide an in-vivo image acquiring system, an in-vivo image processing method, and a body-insertable apparatus which can decrease a number of wasted images. According to the in-vivo image acquiring system of the present invention, the body-insertable apparatus attaches type information corresponding to optical... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090058998 - Image taking apparatus: The image taking apparatus includes: a CCD which takes an image of a subject to obtain a shot image; a processor-side CPU which has three or more photometric modes having different analysis schemes to measure brightness of the shot image by analyzing the shot image taken by the CCD; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090058999 - Signal processing device for biological observation apparatus: Tissue information of a desired deep portion of a biological tissue based on a spectral image obtained from signal processing is adjusted to image information in a color tone suitable for observation. Outputs of a matrix computing section 436 are respectively connected to integrating sections 438a to 438c, and after... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090059000 - System and method for capturing debug information using a peripheral device: A system and method for capturing debug information are disclosed. In one aspect, a method comprises connecting a portable test device having a memory and no processor to a television, the test device having stored therein a debug program configured to be executed by a control unit of the television... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090059002 - Method and apparatus for processing video frame: A surveillance video processing method including selecting at least one target object from a surveillance area, capturing image information of the surveillance area, detecting motion has occurred in the surveillance area using the captured image information, extracting feature data of an object causing the detected motion, comparing the extracted feature... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059003 - Monitoring camera: A monitoring camera capable of preventing light interference from occurring in a capturing unit due to light diffusely reflected from a covering member. The monitoring camera can include an image capturing unit; a lighting unit to emit light in a capturing direction of the capturing unit and to illuminate a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090059001 - Remote-control door viewer surveillance system: A remote-control door viewer surveillance system includes a door viewer holding a lens assembly in the door panel of a house, an image sensor for picking up image signals through the lens assembly, an image processing circuit for processing image signals received from the image sensor into digital image signals,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090059006 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus permits a user to readily recognize a current state of an angle of view. When an angle of view is switched from a wide-angle to a narrow-angle, range display is performed for a predetermined time prior to the switching. Range display includes a narrow-angle image frame... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090059005 - Image processor and camera: An image processor outputs an image containing relatively much information of a central area in the horizontal direction. A mask composed of an upper mask and a lower mask is superimposed on the image. The upper mask is concave on the lower side thereof and disposed along the upper side... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090059004 - System and method for monitoring the handling of a shipment of freight: The invention provides a system and method in which a lift truck that is equipped with a weighing device; a remote computer, an input device, and a display screen. The display screen is located on the lift truck in a position that permits the operator to see information displayed thereon.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090059007 - Apparatus and method of object tracking: A method of tracking objects on a plane within video images of the objects captured by a video camera. The method includes processing the captured video images so as to extract one or more image features from each object, detecting each of the objects from a relative position of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059008 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and data processing program: A data processing apparatus includes: a detection section detecting an image of an object from moving image data; a table creation section recording position information indicating a position on the moving image data in a table on the basis of a detection result by the detection section; a dubbing processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059009 - Object trackability via parametric camera tuning: A method and apparatus are described for improving object trackability via parametric camera tuning. In one embodiment, a determination is made as to whether the camera settings loaded cause saturation of a video image and hue differences between objects and between the objects and a background of the video image.... Agent: Michael A. Desanctis Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090059010 - Method and apparatus for evaluating performance for a video broadcast and/or multicast: There are provided methods and apparatus for measuring a received quality of at least one of a video multicast and a video broadcast for a plurality of users. A method includes receiving (225) data from the plurality of users regarding the received quality, and increasing (235) a weight of the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090059011 - Calibration method for structure parameters of structured-light vision sensor: This disclosure provides a calibration method for structure parameters of a structured-light vision sensor, which includes setting up the coordinate frames of a camera, image plane and target for calibration. The calculation of coordinates in the camera coordinate frame of stripes, projected by structured-light, on the planar target and a... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090059012 - Programmable digital black level calibration with feedback control: A programmable digital black level calibration circuit comprises a combining circuit, a digital programmable gain amplifier (PGA), and a black level feedback circuit. The combining circuit combines a digital image signal for optical black (OB) pixels and a feedback signal and outputs a digital PGA input signal. The PGA amplifies... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20090059014 - Device and method for embedding and retrieving information in digital images: A digital imaging device and methods thereof that will enable the embedding and retrieving of information in digital images are provided. The digital imaging device includes a capture module for capturing an image and creating a digital image file; an input module for inputting information regarding the captured image; and... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090059013 - Method for interactively transferring video by the network cameras or network video servers: The present invention relates to a method for interactively transferring video on the network video cameras or network video servers, which contains the following steps: providing a network camera or network video server; transferring a first video signal from the network camera or network video server to a first computer... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20090059015 - Information processing device and remote communicating system: An information processing device is connected to an overview image capturing device that captures an overview image of an object and an enlarged image capturing device that captures an enlarged image of the object, and is connected to a remote control device that remote-controls at least the enlarged image capturing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059016 - Image stabilization apparatus for camera: An image stabilization apparatus being mounted on a lens device of a television camera includes an angular velocity sensor, a HPF, a LPF, an A/D converter, a CPU, a D/A converter, a motor driving circuit, a motor, and an anti-vibration lens. The CPU acquires a sensor signal output from the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059017 - Imaging device and image processing apparatus: An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a first feature point between... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090059018 - Navigation assisted mosaic photography: An imaging apparatus for producing a mosaic image of a scene, including: an imager operable to capture a plurality of images of the scene; a motion sensor coupled to the imager; a transformation processor electrically coupled to the imager and the motion sensor and a mosaic processor electrically coupled to... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090059019 - Audio/video apparatus and control method of the same: An audio/video apparatus includes a sensor for sensing vital signs of a human body and outputting a signal corresponding to the vital signs, a physiological parameter detector for generating a physiological parameter according to the signal outputted by the sensor, an analyzing unit for analyzing whether the physiological parameter generated... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090059020 - Data processing circuit, semiconductor device, camera device and method for controlling data processor: A storing part stores contents data to be reproduced in switching an operational mode. A reproducing part reproduces data to be reproduced in each of a plurality of operational modes and the contents data stored in the storing part. A controlling part allows, in detecting operational mode switching, the reproducing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090059027 - Apparatus including function to specify image region of main subject from obtained image, method to specify image region of main subject from obtained image and computer readable storage medium storing program to specify image region of main subject from: Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus 100 including a sound obtaining section 6 to obtain a sound emitted from the main subject and a central control section 71 to specify an image region of the main subject based on the sound obtained by the sound obtaining section 6 in order... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090059021 - Digital photography method and apparatus: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for use in photography are disclosed. A first electronic image analysis is performed on a potential image to determine whether any suitable subjects are within a frame of the potential image. If any suitable subjects are found in the frame, a second electronic... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090059025 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an image sensor. The image sensor has an imaging surface irradiated with an optical image of an object scene through a focus lens and repeatedly generates an object scene image. A CPU executes an AF process for adjusting a distance from the focus lens to the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090059022 - Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method, and program: An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit adapted to shoot an object; an image processing unit adapted to execute image processing to an image data obtained from the image pickup unit to obtain an processed image data; a recording unit adapted to record both the image data obtained... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090059023 - Image pickup apparatus, lens unit and face detection method: An image pickup apparatus includes a face detection unit configured to detect a face portion of an object in image data obtained by moving the focus lens to a plurality of movement positions, and a changing unit configured to change a movement position where the focus lens is located when... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090059024 - Image pickup circuit: An image pickup circuit includes a plurality of circuit blocks. Each of the plurality of circuit blocks includes a plurality of comparing elements, a single counter, and a plurality of storage units. Each of the comparing elements compares a pixel signal supplied through a vertical signal line connected to vertically... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090059030 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system: An image processing apparatus includes a face detecting unit that detects a face included in image data generated by a photographing operation, a face transforming and correcting unit that performs a face correcting process for shrinking a width of a detected face in a case where the face is detected... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090059026 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image pickup apparatus: In an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image pickup apparatus according to an aspect of the invention, a compression characteristic is generated based on one of multiple smoothed images to be generated based on an input image, and a compressed base component image having a smaller... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090059029 - Image processing device, image processing program, image processing system, and image processing method: There is provided a configuration including a subject detection section adapted to detect an image of a specific subject in a target image, a ratio information acquisition section adapted to acquire ratio information representing a ratio between a size of the subject captured via a monocular lens used for taking... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090059032 - Image processing method in a camera module for converting non-linear rgb image data to l*a*b* image data: A method of image processing an image in a camera module, said method comprising the steps of capturing an image as a Color Filter Array image having non-linear RGB pixel data from an image sensor of said camera module; linearizing said image from said image sensor to generate a linearized... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090059031 - Image-capturing apparatus and method, recording apparatus and method, and reproducing apparatus and method: The present invention is applied to, for example, an image-capturing apparatus to generate an image signal by all-angle-of-view thinning-out read processing for every set field or frame and an image signal by all-pixel partially read processing on remaining fields or frames.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090059028 - Imaging standard apparatus and method: A standard used to test imaging systems is imaged by a digital camera which expresses the image of the standard as a plurality of pixels having associated intensities. A computer automatically finds the image of the standard in the image and quantitatively compares intensities of pixels of a subsequent image... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20090059033 - Camera exposure controller: In an exposure controller of a camera mounted on a robot for taking an image utilizing incident light from external world in which an object such as a human being is present, a brightness histogram of the image is generated and exposure parameters are set based on the generated histogram.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090059034 - Device and method for embedding and retrieving information in digital images: A digital imaging device and method for embedding and retrieving of information in digital images are provided. The digital imaging device includes a capture module for capturing an image and creating a digital image file; a locational information module for determining a location of the device when capturing the image;... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090059035 - Picture production system, and picture production apparatus and method: A user carries a user medium in a facility, for example, in a theme park. Position data and time data are written into the user medium according to user's actions. Photographic devices installed at predetermined places constantly take pictures, and the pictures are stored in a picture production apparatus. When... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090059036 - Memory emulation in an image capture device: An image capture device using a memory array that is directly addressed and non-volatile is disclosed. The memory array can be used to replace and emulate multiple memory types such as DRAM, SRAM, non-volatile RAM, a non-volatile memory card, and FLASH memory, for example. The memory array may be randomly... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20090059037 - Using a display associated with an imaging device to provide instructions to the subjects being recorded: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for displaying an image device subject command on an imaging device. The imaging device receives an image device subject command from a user. The image device subject command instructs an action to be performed by a subject being recorded by the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090059038 - Image magnifier for the visually impaired: A image magnifier for the vision impaired which magnifies the image of face up source material (13) placed in the visual field of the camera (15) and displays the magnified image on a display (20). One embodiment includes a static high-resolution image mode and a second live video mode. The... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090059040 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image pickup apparatus: An image processing device includes a corrector for performing an optical correction of correcting a distortion of an image by interpolating image data of the distorted picked-up image resulting from an optical characteristic of an image pickup section, and locally changing a resolution of the image; and a compressor for... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090059039 - Method and apparatus for combining multi-exposure image data: A method and apparatus of combining multiple exposure images by applying a transfer function to pixel output signals from pixels in a pixel array, the pixel output signals from each pixel including at least a first pixel output signal generated in response to a first exposure time and a second... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090059041 - Method of correcting image distortion and apparatus for processing image using the method: A method of correcting image distortion and an apparatus for processing an image using the method are provided, where the method can overcome the disadvantages of the conventional methods of correcting lens distortion and can minimize image quality degradation at outer portions,. The method includes: receiving an image from a... Agent: Jones Day

20090059042 - Signal processing method and signal processing circuit: A common high frequency component common to signals adjusted based on a local similarity of signal amplitudes thereof before sampling so that folding components therein are cancelled is generated, and the generated common high frequency component is adjusted to a ratio corresponding to the balance of the original signal. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090059043 - Portable electronic device having high-resolution camera with auto focus lens: An improved system for incorporating a high-resolution digital camera function into a multifunction portable electronic device is provided. In exemplary embodiments, a clamshell portable electronic device, such as a mobile telephone, is provided with a digital camera function. The lens of the camera function is located in one portion of... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090059044 - Wide dynamic range cmos image sensor: An image sensor with a pixel array that includes at least one pixel. The sensor may also include a circuit that is connected to the pixel and provides a final image pixel value that is a function of a sampled reset output signal generated from the pixel. The final image... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20090059046 - Field sequential color camera system: The color camera system comprises a color camera (1) comprising a separation optical system adapted to separate an optical image of a subject incident from a lens (8) in two directions; two solid-state imaging devices (CCDs) (3a, 3b) adapted to convert into electric signals the respective optical images separated in... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090059045 - Imaging apparatus and method for driving solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device 5 includes photoelectric conversion elements 51R, 51G, 51B; and photoelectric conversion elements 51r, 51g, 51b. An exposure period for the photoelectric conversion elements 51r, 51g, 51b is controlled shorter than that for the photoelectric conversion elements 51R, 51G, 51B. During the exposure period for the photoelectric... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059047 - Solid-state imaging device: Provided is a solid-state imaging device having pixel units that are two-dimensionally arranged, and including: a photodiode that generates an optical signal charge corresponding to an intensity and an exposure time of light; a MOS transistor that transfers the optical signal charge; an accumulating unit that generates a voltage corresponding... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090059048 - Image sensor with high dynamic range in down-sampling mode: An image sensor has an array of photo-sensitive pixels and supports a line-by-line read out of rows. In a normal resolution each row has the same nominal gain and exposure time. In a down-sampling mode the exposure times of the rows are varied according to an alternating sequence having at... Agent: Omnivision C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20090059049 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of pixels and increasing portions increasing charges stored in the pixels, wherein the frequency of increasing the charges is controlled every group of at least one pixel in response to luminance of light incident upon the pixels by the increasing portions.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090059051 - Imaging apparatus and driving method for ccd type solid-state imaging device: A driving method for driving a CCD type solid-state imaging device, includes: controlling, when taking dynamic images without a mechanical shutter, exposure time of a first pixel group and exposure time of a second pixel group separately by an electronic shutter function and by timings of reading pulses applied to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059050 - Imaging apparatus and driving method of ccd type solid-state imaging device: There is provided a driving method of a CCD solid-state imaging device that includes: a first pixel group including pixels arranged in a square lattice; a second pixel group including pixels shifted in a row direction and a column direction of the square lattice by 2/1 of a pixel pitch... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059052 - Digital photo frame with photographing function: A digital photo frame with photographing function includes a digital frame, a lens module, a bracket, and a copy stand. The digital frame may further include a display module, a frame, a memory module, a control module, an input module, a power supply module, and a sense module. The display... Agent: Raymond Sun

20090059054 - Apparatus, method, and recording medium containing program for photographing: A photographing apparatus, such as a digital camera, provided with a scene recognition function is disclosed, in which images photographed according to a photographing mode or color candidate corresponding to a recognized scene are played back according to a predetermined classification. Live view data and actually-photographed image data representing a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090059053 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090059055 - Optical device and method for fabricating the same: An optical device includes: an optical element including an imaging region, a peripheral circuit region formed at the rim of the imaging region and including a plurality of electrode portions, and a plurality of microlenses formed on the imaging region; a plurality of through-hole electrodes connected to the respective electrode... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090059056 - Video camera: A video camera includes an image sensor. The image sensor has an imaging surface irradiated with an optical image of an object scene through a focus lens and repeatedly generates an object scene image. A position of the focus lens is repeatedly changed among three points by a driver, in... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090059057 - Method and apparatus for providing a video image having multiple focal lengths: A method and apparatus for providing a video image having multiple focal lengths includes a multi-focal lens system and a drive mechanism capable of moving the multi-focal lens system through a cyclic path. A plurality of optical images are formed as the multi-focal lens system moves through the cyclic path.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090059058 - Image pickup apparatus and focusing condition displaying method: In an image pickup apparatus of the present invention, an image of an object is picked up and an image signal representing the object is continuously captured so that a through-the-lens image is displayed based on the captured image signal, and then a display area for displaying focusing information is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059061 - Digital photographing apparatus and method using face recognition function: A digital photographing apparatus and method using a face recognition function for obtaining an image in which a plurality of faces are focused by setting AF areas in the plurality of recognized faces and photographing the faces in a bracket mode based on the set AF areas. The digital photographing... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090059059 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an image sensor having an imaging surface for capturing an object scene through a focus lens. When the object scene captured by the imaging surface includes a face portion of a human, a CPU designates, as a focal-point search area a first imaging area for covering... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090059060 - Lens barrel rotation detection apparatus and lens barrel rotation type image pickup apparatus: A lens barrel rotation detection apparatus for detecting a rotational state of a lens barrel to which a lens for image pickup is attached and which is rotated in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction by driving force of a driving section, includes: a single rotatable member rotatable together... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090059062 - Imaging device and autofocusing method: In a digital video camera according to one aspect of the invention, a black level of a video signal is specified during an initialization process. An autofocusing process obtains an AF evaluation value and a brightness evaluation value at each current position of a compensator lens and updates a maximum... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090059063 - Camera mount bracket for mounting a thermal imaging camera to a protective helmet: A camera mount bracket (20) is provided for a thermal imaging camera (12) to be mounted to a protective helmet (14) having an identification shield (18) by removing the shield (18) from the helmet (14), placing the camera mount bracket (20) against the helmet (14) in the location normally occupied... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20090059064 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an apparatus main body including a recording and reproducing unit that houses a main recording medium and records an information signal in and reproduces the information signal from the main recording medium and an auxiliary recording medium unit that is detachably mounted on a mounting section... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090059065 - Interpolative frame generating apparatus and method: According to one embodiment, there is disclosed an interpolative frame generating apparatus includes a first operation unit performing block matching processing with respect to a fixed-length first block, and based on the processing result, calculating a size of a second block, a second operation unit performing block matching processing using... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090059066 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A double rate processing part generates, at a double rate, a non-interlaced image signal every frame to twice generate a double-rate non-interlaced signal which has identical information duplicately. An interlace part, after a predetermined process is carried out on the double-rate non-interlaced signal twice generated by the double rate processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090059067 - Motion vector detection apparatus, method of detecting motion vectors, and image display device: A motion vector detection apparatus is disclosed capable of detecting accurate motion vectors from between a previous frame of image and the presently displayed frame of image even in edge regions of the frames where inaccurate motion vectors would normally tend to be detected. A motion vector-detecting portion reads in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090059068 - Image display device and method: In an image display device having a frame rate converting (FRC) portion, it is possible to prevent image degradation of a combined image display portion such as an OSD and PinP attributed to the FRC process. The image display device includes: an FRC portion 10 for converting the number of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090059069 - Btsc pilot signal lock: An integrated digital BTSC encoder with an improved pilot signal generator substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit. By digitally generating a sinusoid that is frequency locked to a two-state input reference signal using a high rate internal clock, a hardware-efficient BTSC pilot signal generator is provided with good... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090059070 - Horizontal synchronization detection device: Pulse detection portion detects pulses in a horizontal synchronization signal and acquires the occurrence period and the pulse width of the detected pulses. Synchronization pulse decision portion determines pulses, for which the differences between the occurrence period and the reference period and between the pulse width and the reference pulse... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090059071 - Separating device for sequential interlaced video screens: The present invention relates to a separating device of sequential interlaced video scenes, which comprises the following components: one separating unit of interlaced video scenes; one input unit of interlaced scene video signals, which electrically connects with the separating unit of interlaced video scenes, and provides one interlaced scene video... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20090059072 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes: a structure computation unit that obtains a connection structure of HDMI compliant equipments connected with one another by HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) from physical addresses of the HDMI compliant equipments; and a video output unit that outputs video signal for displaying... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090059073 - Display control method, and display apparatus and display system using the same: A display control method, and a display apparatus and display system using the method are provided. The display control method includes detecting a command to change to multi-screen display mode, and displaying a video corresponding to a video signal having a resolution changed according to the size of a split... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059074 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus including an image processing unit for performing a frame rate conversion process of converting a frame rate using an interpolating image generated based on a motion vector between adjacent frames with respect to a picture signal which is a collection of image signals of a plurality of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090059075 - Tv signal determining system, tv signal processing system utilizing which and method thereof: A TV signal determining system utilized for determining a type of a TV signal includes: a detection unit, for utilizing a predetermined profile to detect if the TV signal has a signal segment corresponding to the predetermined profile to generate a detection result signal; and a determining unit, coupled to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090059076 - Generating device for sequential interlaced scenes: The present invention relates to a generating device for sequential interlaced scenes comprising: an interlaced scene generating unit; a video signal input unit, which electrically connects with the interlaced scene generating unit, for receiving a first scene video signal and a second scene video signal, and transferring the first scene... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20090059077 - Signal processing apparatus and control method thereof: There are provided a signal processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The signal processing apparatus includes: a noise detecting unit which detects a signal-to-noise ratio of an input video signal; a coring unit which performs coring to remove a component of the video signal having a level within a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059078 - System and method for enhancing saturation of rgbw image signal: A system and method for improving the saturation of a red-green-blue-white (RGBW) image signal, the system including: an image signal classification unit to classify a frame of an image signal into an image classification unit using an image classification parameter based on a luminance and a saturation of the frame;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090059079 - Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing device corrects a color of a specific area in a target image into an appropriate color. A representative brightness value represents the specific area in a first color space that has a brightness index value. Representative color component values represent the specific area in a second color... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090059080 - Device and method for color adjustment: Device and method for color adjustment for adjusting white color of an image including a weight generating unit, a color shift value generating unit, and an adjustment unit. The weight generating unit receives a first color value of the image and generates a weight according to the first color value.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090059081 - Histogram detector for contrast ratio enhancement system: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for processing a video signal, comprising assigning pixels from a set of pixels to at least one of a plurality of bins based on a brightness level associated with each pixel of the set of pixels, each of the plurality of... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20090059082 - Methods and systems to transmit, view, and manipulate medical images in a general purpose viewing agent: An apparatus may include a processor configured to determine a first value for a center of brightness and a second value for a window width for contrast. The processor may further be configured to process a first image to generate a second image having a reduced bit-depth based at least... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090059083 - Image displaying method, image displaying device, and contrast-adjusting circuit for use therewith: A system provides an image displaying technique that provides stable high contrast even in an area having high brightness. Based on information about an average brightness level of a digital luminance signal, black-correction processing which decreases a brightness level by offsetting the brightness level to the minus side, and increase... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090059084 - Image processing apparatus, method thereof, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to calculate a sum of absolute differences between pixel values of pixels in a block of interest and pixel values of pixels in a reference block, a unit configured to compare sums of absolute differences calculated and to determine a minimum sum... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090059086 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090059085 - Video system: A video system comprises a video receiving unit for obtaining a video signal, and a video signal processing device for having a display device display the obtained video signal, in which the video receiving unit is operative to determine that a transmission path having the video signal transmitted to the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090059087 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system utilizing srs 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 an MPEG-2 transmission stream having null data for inserting an SRS data and a TRS parity at predetermined positions, randomizer to input... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090059088 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and program reference chart displaying method: According to one embodiment, a broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a tuner selecting and receiving a broadcast signal of digital broadcast; a recording control module making video data obtained by the tuner receiving the broadcast signal recorded in a recording medium; a video reproducing module reproducing a video signal by using... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090059089 - Method for station sorting and storage in a television or radio set: In a method for sorting and storing stations in a television or radio broadcasting set, the received stations are firstly represented in an arbitrary order in a matrixlike list or table on a display device. An input field into which a user inputs a program location number is represented for... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090059091 - Bi-modal switching for controlling digital tv applications on video devices: A portable digital television (DTV) comprises a processor, a channel and volume changing button arrangement, and a navigational button arrangement. Either or both button arrangements can be used in at least a bi-modal operation. In a first mode of operation, the button arrangements provide their normal functions, and in the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090059092 - Electronic device: An electronic device is electrically connected to an external electronic device. The electronic device includes an assignment component, a memory component and a control component. The assignment component is configured to assign control codes that control operations of the external electronic device to a plurality of control keys of a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090059090 - Remote control with content management: A remote control unit includes stored user profiles to facilitate and possibly limit access to media content. In some embodiments, a biometric sensor or smart card reader provides user authentication to access stored user profiles. User profiles are associated with content sets that include content selected for potential viewing by... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090059093 - Image display device and method for displaying images and additional information: An exemplary image display device (1) includes a display unit (2) including a large primary display region (21) and a small secondary display region (22); a storage (5) storing image files; a display control unit (41) including an image display control unit (42) for displaying an image defined by one... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090059094 - Apparatus and method for overlaying image in video presentation system having embedded operating system: A video presentation system is provided for outputting a document and/or multimedia image file as well as a live image on one display unit. The system integrates an embedded system for controlling devices with a video presentation device, which is an optical image electronic device. The video presentation system integrating... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090059095 - Projection lens system and method: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for medium wide angle projection system. An exemplary embodiment of the present technique comprises an imaging system configured to create an image, at least one lens configured to produce a medium wide-angle representation of the image, and an aperture stop positioned... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20090059096 - Image signal processing apparatus and virtual reality creating system: A virtual reality creating system including: a screen 1 including a projection plane of arbitrary shape; a distortion correction unit 3 which performs distortion correction for projecting image light onto the projection plane of arbitrary shape for a two-dimensional image signal to project image light onto a two-dimensional projection plane... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090059097 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation element modulating light from the light source based on a video signal; light quantity adjustment section adjusting the light quantity of light from the light source based on luminance information in the video signal; image correction section correcting... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090059098 - Image display apparatus and image processing apparatus: An image display apparatus includes: rate multiplication section multiplying frame rate of input image by 2n (n is a natural number), the input image being generated through a process including a frame rate conversion from cinema image to television image, the frame rate conversion being performed so that two consecutive... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090059099 - Illumination device and projection system having the same: The illumination device includes a plurality of light source units and a plurality of optical concentrators facing the plurality of light source units and each having an entry surface, lateral surfaces, and an output surface. A color synthesizing unit synthesizes light emitted by the plurality of optical concentrators and includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090059100 - Process and device for playing back multimedia data in a motor vehicle: A process and device are disclosed for playing back multimedia data in a motor vehicle. A digital multiplexed audio-video data stream from a multimedia data carrier, in particular a DVD, is read and separated into an audio data stream, a video data stream and a menu data stream. The audio... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP