Television inventions 05/09

20090135245 - Camera system with multiple pixel arrays on a chip: A camera system uses one or more image sensor IC chips each having multiple pixel arrays on the same semiconductor substrate (i.e., “multiple pixel arrays on a chip”). In one embodiment, such a camera system includes: (a) optical components that create multiple images in close physical proximity of each other... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090135244 - Method for capturing convergent-type multi-view image: Provided is a method for convergent type three-dimensional (3D) multi-viewpoint image acquisition. The method for acquiring a multi-viewpoint image in an image acquisition apparatus comprises the steps of: converting the image acquisition apparatus to a multi-viewpoint image photographing mode; if converted to the multi-viewpoint image photographing mode in the converting... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090135246 - Stereo camera: It has a right camera, a left camera, a camera stay which holds the right camera and the left camera at predetermined positions, and an attachment portion having openings for fixing the camera stay to a vehicle, in which the openings are positioned at a plurality of virtual lines parallel... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090135247 - Stereoscopic camera for recording the surroundings: A stereoscopic camera for recording the surroundings is provided with a right and a left image sensor having one lens each to display the surroundings on the image sensors, with the image sensors and the lenses being held by a carrier side-by-side and at a distance in reference to each... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090135248 - Stereoscopic display apparatus: The present invention discloses a stereoscopic display apparatus comprising a first and a second image displayer, an aspherical reflection mirror, a beamsplitter and a housing. The first and the second image displayer are used for projecting a first and a second image light respectively. The aspherical reflection mirror is used... Agent: Hudak, Shunk & Farine, Co., L.p.a.

20090135249 - Image display apparatus, image display method, and image display program: In an image display apparatus (4) that sequentially displays a plurality of images stored in a storage unit (40) in an imaging order thereof, image instruction information instructing either one of a plurality of stored images or an extracted image preliminarily extracted from the plurality of stored images under a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090135250 - System and method for displaying an image stream: A system and method may display an image stream, where an original image stream may be divided into two or more subset images streams, each subset image stream being displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously. The images may be displayed fused. The images may be collected from an ingestible capsule traversing... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090135251 - Method and apparatus for evaluating a component pick action in an electronics assembly machine: An electronics assembly apparatus with improved pick evaluation is provided. The apparatus includes a placement head having at least one nozzle for releasably picking up and holding a component. A robotic system is provided for generating relative movement between the placement head and a workpiece, such as a circuit board.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090135252 - Monitoring camera device, monitoring system using the same, and monitoring image transmission method: The invention includes an imaging unit for taking the image of a subject as the object of monitoring, a moving image extracting unit for extracting image data of each frame in every specific frame period from this image data, a motion image encoder for generating motion image data by compressing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090135253 - Camera system for a motor vehicle: In the case of a camera system for a motor vehicle, incident radiation can be guided by way of one or more deflection mirrors to a camera, at least one deflection mirror being structurally coupled with a swivelable decorative part of the motor vehicle.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090135254 - Image capturing device and method for tracking object of same: An image capturing device includes a main body with an image capturing unit received therein, a base, a pan and tilt mechanism for rotating the main body relative to the base, a viewfinder display window, and an object tracking system. The object tracking system includes an object obtaining unit, a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090135255 - Method and apparatus for detecting a noise value of a video signal: A method for detecting a noise value of a video signal comprises the steps of determining a spatial domain difference according to a plurality of pixels of a first frame of the video signal, determining a temporal domain difference according to the pixels of the first frame of the video... Agent: Overhauser Law Offices, LLC Docketing Department

20090135256 - Sata camera system: It is possible to provide a novel CCD camera capable of being connected to a PC, an HDD, or the like compatible with a host SATA by using a simple configuration. A SATA' camera system (10) includes a camera module (12) and a SATA camera interface (27) and can be... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090135257 - Image sensing apparatus and control method for same, and information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and print data generation method: In an image sensing apparatus capable of sensing a moving image, when sensing of the moving image, image data of the sensed moving image and image sensing condition data of such moving image are stored, a frame for printing is selected from among multiple frames of the image data forming... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090135258 - Projection device and electronic device: A projection device includes: a light source; a modulation element that modulates light from the light source; a projection optical system that projects light modulated by the modulation element; a drive unit that drives the projection optical system; and a control unit that drives the light source and the drive... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090135260 - Method and system for image stabilization: An optical image stabilizer for use in a camera to compensate for an unwanted movement of camera, wherein two bending actuators are used to shift a lens element or the image sensor in different directions in a plane so as to shift a projected image on the image sensor in... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090135259 - Method and apparatus to correct digital image blur due to motion of subject or imaging device: Signal processing techniques are applied to digital image data to remove the distortion caused by motion of the camera, or the movement of the subject being photographed, or defective optics, or optical distortion from other sources. When the image is captured, the effect of relative motion between the camera and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090135261 - Imaging apparatus and recording medium: When a digital camera 1 is being swung, the CPU 10 judges whether or not a block group having motion vectors which are varyingly different from the motion vectors of a peripheral area 32 in a field angle photographing area as shown in FIG. 3A exists in a center area... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090135262 - External device, electronic flash device, and camera: The external device, for example, an electronic flash device, is wirelessly connectable to an information communication device, for example, a camera. The external device includes: a synchronization data creation unit that outputs synchronization data for synchronization of timing of processing related to photography; a packet creation unit that creates a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090135263 - Method and apparatus for expanded dynamic range imaging: A method and apparatus for enabling wide intensity range in digital imaging using a small amount of memory beyond the memory required for storing the relevant image. The methods and apparatus disclose exposing few-line segments within an image using two different exposure times before continuing with other segments of the... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20090135265 - Image pickup apparatus, image pickup apparatus control method, image pickup apparatus control program, data processing apparatus, data processing method, and data processing program: An image pickup apparatus performing moving-image data processing and still-image data processing in parallel includes an image pickup unit converting a ray into an electric signal and outputting an image pickup signal, a buffer unit temporarily storing the image pickup signal, a buffer controller controlling reading from the buffer unit,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090135264 - Motion blur detection using metadata fields: A wireless communication device for motion blur detection comprising a transceiver, an optical sensor, a motion sensor, a processor and a memory. The transceiver provides wireless communication with a remote device. The optical sensor captures an image, and the motion sensor generates motion information associated with the image captured by... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090135269 - Electronic camera and image processing device: An image sensor of an electronic camera photoelectrically converts a subject image obtained by a shooting optical system to generate an image signal. A image processing section generates face registration image data and moving image data. A face detecting section detects a face area inside a shooting screen based on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090135268 - Format auto-set system used in imaging device: A format auto-set system for setting an output format of the imaging device includes a connecting module for connecting the imaging device to a display device having a screen, a processing module for outputting an image from the imaging device to the display device via the connecting module in a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090135267 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a discriminating unit that discriminates a color component originating in an image structure in an image captured through an optical system from a color component attributable to a chromatic aberration of the optical system, and a correction unit that corrects the color component attributable to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090135273 - Image sensor and image-capturing device: An image sensor includes: a plurality of first pixels that receive a light flux having passed through an optical system and output pixel signals to be used as image signals; a plurality of second pixels that receive a light flux having passed through the optical system and output pixel signals... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090135271 - Image taking apparatus and image recorder: An image taking apparatus includes: a photoelectric conversion unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a two-dimensional matrix, the photoelectric conversion elements converting received light into electric charge and accumulating the electric charge; an image sensor having a function of controlling an exposure... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090135270 - Imaging apparatus and recording medium: As shown in FIG. 2B, a photographing area is divided into a plurality of blocks. The block at the center of the photographing area is defined as an observation block 31, and the blocks at the periphery of the photographing area are defined as background blocks 32. When the number... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090135272 - Method and apparatus to correct digital image blur due to motion of subject or imaging device: Signal processing techniques are applied to digital image data to remove the distortion caused by motion of the camera, or the movement of the subject being photographed, or defective optics, or optical distortion from other sources. When the image is captured, the effect of relative motion between the camera and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090135266 - System for scribing a visible label: An image processing apparatus (1) receives a color input signal (3) and configurable user settings (7). The image processing apparatus (1) is adapted to transform the color input signal (3) into a modified color signal (9) for display on a color display (11). The image processing apparatus (1) transforms one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090135274 - System and method for inserting position information into image: A system for connecting a global positioning system (GPS) device to a digital image processing device and inserting position information into an image file created by the digital image processing device, and a method of operating the system are provided. The system comprises a digital image processing device for capturing... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090135275 - Imaging apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, and recording medium storing a program therefor: An imaging apparatus acquires and displays an image of a subject such that a target subject remains displayed on a monitor even after performing an area zoom operation. An imaging unit acquires a subject image at a variable subject acquisition magnification and acquisition angle. A controller conducts an area zoom... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090135276 - Flicker correction apparatus, flicker correction method, and image sensing apparatus: A flicker detection region in which an image signal has values relating to luminance and colors within predetermined ranges is extracted from a plurality of flicker detection regions allocated in the vertical and horizontal directions of an image. A flicker component is detected using the luminance information of the image... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090135277 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus including a chromatic aberration of magnification correction device to correct chromatic aberration of magnification of an image by converting coordinates of pixel data of multiple color components of the image using multiple first coordinate conversion memories corresponding to the multiple color components and a distortion correction... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090135278 - Image processing device and computer-readable storage medium: An image processing device that processes an image signal in which at least one of a predetermined plural number of color signals intended to constitute the image signal in each pixel is missing in accordance with a pixel position comprises: a component separation unit that separates the color signal into... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090135279 - Reducing imaging artifacts caused by defective imaging element: A method of compensating for a defective imaging element includes measuring an actual value generated by a defective element, comparing an actual value to an image value resulting in a comparison value, and adjusting neighboring image values for at least an imaging element immediately adjacent to the defective imaging element... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Xerox

20090135280 - Eliminating illumination crosstalk while imaging using multiple imaging devices: A system includes a plurality of scanning devices and light receivers, enabling a plurality of images of a site to be displayed using output signals produced in response to light from the light receivers. To avoid crosstalk caused by light receivers receiving light emitted by a plurality of scanning devices,... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090135281 - Driving method of solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus: A driving method of a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements as defined herein, includes performing first driving which mixes a first electric charge generated in the first photoelectric conversion element with a second electric charge generated in the photoelectric conversion element for luminance detection, converts... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090135282 - Visible imaging device with a colour filter: d

20090135283 - Pixel array structure for cmos image sensor and method of the same: Accordingly, in a pixel array implemented in a diagonal pattern, a distance between optical sensing elements can be larger, so that optical sensing elements with larger regions can be obtained. In addition, pixel transistor circuit units constructed with MOS transistors can be arranged between the optical sensing elements, so that... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090135284 - Image sensor with a gated storage node linked to transfer gate: A CMOS imaging system with increased charge storage of pixels yet decreased physical size, kTC noise and active area. A storage node is connected to the transfer gate and provides a storage node for a pixel, allowing for kTC noise reduction prior to readout. The pixel may be operated with... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090135285 - Solid-state image pickup device and drive method thereof: A solid-state image pickup device relating to the present invention comprises a pixel area where multiple pixels used for photoelectric conversion of incident light are two-dimensionally arranged. Vertical signal input lines to which vertical transfer signals for transferring signal charges generated at the pixels vertically in the pixel area are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090135287 - Converter lens attachment with built-in light source for compact digital camera: A converter lens attachment with a built-in light source for macrophotography by a compact camera is disclosed. The converter lens attachment includes a mounting seat, a printed circuit board (PCB) with light emitting diodes (LEDs) parallelly mounted on the mounting seat, an adapter ring accommodating the mounting seat and the... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090135286 - Digital camera: A digital camera of the present invention has: a lens group reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis and forming an image of light flux thereof on an image pickup device located on the second... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090135288 - Optical scanning module with linear cmos image: An optical scanning module with linear CMOS image sensor (linear CMOSM) applied to scanners or multi-function printers is disclosed. The optical scanning module includes a light source for emitting light, a reflection mirror group, a focus lens group, and a linear CMOS image sensor having at least one linear CMOS... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090135289 - Image sensor and imaging apparatus: An image sensor includes: a plurality of imaging pixels disposed two-dimensionally in rows and columns to capture an image; a plurality of first focus detection pixels for focus detection and a plurality of second focus detection pixels for focus detection being disposed in a row in place of the imaging... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090135290 - Imaging apparatus: The invention relates to an imaging apparatus wherein, even when there is a periodic streak produced on a molded optical element, images of good enough image quality can be obtained without being affected by the diffraction phenomenon yet without recourse to any polishing. The imaging apparatus is adapted to form... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090135291 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method used for the same: An aspect of the present invention provides an image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup optical system which forms an image of a subject; an imaging device which obtains an image by picking up the image of the subject via the image pickup optical system; a target detection device which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090135292 - Image recognition device, focus adjustment device, image-capturing device, and image recognition method: An image recognition device includes; an image sensor that captures an image via an image forming optical system and outputs image information repeatedly; a detector that detects differences between reference image information related to a reference image and a plurality of sets of partial information included in the image information;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090135293 - Imaging apparatus and lens unit: An imaging apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a focus position of a lens by causing a communication unit to acquire a plurality of lens position information stored in a first storage unit without any synchronization with acquisition of an evaluation value by a contrast detection unit and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090135294 - Focus control apparatus and focus control method: A focus control apparatus conducts a focus control with respect to an imaging apparatus configured to vary the focal point using a deformable mirror. An imaging unit first obtains image data via imaging elements and imaging optics provided in the imaging apparatus. A controller controls the driving of the deformable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090135295 - Imaging device and control method for imaging device: An imaging device of the present invention comprises an imaging section, including an image sensor for imaging a subject, for generating image data based on output signals of the image sensor; a control section for casing repeated operation of the imaging section in accordance with a single release operation; an... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090135296 - Imaging module package: An exemplary imaging module package includes a housing, an imaging sensor module, and a lens module. The housing includes a first chamber and a second chamber coaxially aligned with the first chamber. The imaging sensor module is positioned within the first chamber and includes a substrate, an imaging sensor, a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090135297 - Camera module: An exemplary camera module includes a substrate, a printed circuit board, an imaging sensor chip, and a lens module. The substrate defines a top surface and a recessed portion in the top surface. The printed circuit board defines a bottom surface soldered to the top surface of the substrate. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090135298 - Digital camera: A digital camera of the present invention has: an optical housing having a bending optical system for reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis to form an image on an image pickup device; a camera... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090135299 - Method for processing a digital video stream and corresponding device: According to this method for processing a digital video stream of colour images intended to be displayed on a matrix screen formed of macropixels having at least four subpixels each, the colour components of each image are transformed into an RGB format based on a polygonal representation of the colour... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090135300 - Audio processing apparatus, video processing apparatus, and method for controlling the same: A video audio system includes an audio processing apparatus capable of processing audio signals input from a plurality of input sources and a video processing apparatus capable of displaying a video image based on a video signal input from a selected input source. The video processing apparatus executes image processing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090135301 - Multi-slicing horizontal synchronization signal generating apparatus and method: A multi-slicing horizontal synchronization signal generating apparatus and method is provided. The apparatus includes a slicer, a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO), a first phase detector, a second phase detector and a calibration circuit. The slicer performs edge detection on a video signal having a first horizontal synchronization, and generates a... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090135302 - Chroma killer detection circuit: In the chroma killer detection for detecting the abnormality of the burst signal, in addition to the circuits (1004, 1005, 1006) for detecting the states of the components of the burst signal, which circuits are for selecting the cos θ data of the burst signal, circuits (1050, 1051, 1052) for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090135303 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: A general moving image includes a plurality of objects in a frame image. At the time of playback, the temporal visual characteristic is taken into consideration uniformly in the overall frame image. It is therefore impossible to perform playback while particularly considering an object of interest. In this invention, when... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090135304 - Display device, image signal processing method, and program: There is provided a display device equipped with a display unit, the display device including a receiving part for receiving a difference signal of a plurality of channels including an image signal and content identification information inserted in a blanking period and outputting the image signal and the content identification... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090135305 - Video system for a splicing device and method for operating a video system for a splicing device: A video system for a splicing device comprises a processor with a camera interface integrated on chip, a first and a second camera and also a selection device. The selection device has an interface output, which is coupled to the camera interface, and also a first interface input, which is... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20090135307 - Display apparatus and video processing apparatus: While presenting on a display apparatus videos of high picture quality obtained from portable video processing apparatuses such as a camera and a cellular, it is possible to communicate with the Internet and/or a home network. A display apparatus includes a first radio communication unit capable of receiving video information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090135306 - Receiver having a tuning capacitance: A receiver has a tuning capacitance that comprises two capacitive branches (V1-C1, C2-V2) coupled in parallel between a pair of capacitance nodes (N1, N2). One capacitive branch (V1-C1) comprises a varicap diode (V1) having an anode that is coupled to one capacitance node (N1) and a cathode that is coupled... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090135308 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and remote controller and method for scanning channels thereof: A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for scanning channels thereof are disclosed. The broadcast receiving apparatus receives a user command transmitted from a remote controller having a scan key, sets an interval between channels according to a time period in which a scan key is depressed, and scans the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090135309 - Method and apparatus for speeding up atsc channel searching: A method of reducing channel scan time is achieved by knowing important location information such a zip code. This allows a locally stored database of available broadcast channels to be used to skip unused frequencies and to allow finding the direction of the most likely broadcast station. Once one active... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090135310 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus and a control method of the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel which is partitioned into a plurality of panel areas, a video dividing unit which divides a video frame into a plurality of video areas, wherein each of the plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090135311 - Display apparatus and image processing device: A display apparatus includes a first communication unit connectable with an external image processing device via a predetermined wired interface for receiving image information from the external image processing device, a second communication unit connectable with the external image processing device via a predetermined wireless interface for receiving the image... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090135312 - Apparatus for and method of forming images with oscillation mirror: An image forming method which generates a video signal corresponding to an image forming command based on a video clock signal, modulates a light beam according to the video signal, and scans the modulated light beam along a main scanning direction by means of an oscillation mirror which resonates based... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090135313 - Method for projecting colored video image and system thereof: The present invention provides a method for projecting a colored video image, characterized in that a color-light generation device for generating and projecting at least two light fluxes having at least two different colors wherein the different colors are controlled to change in a time division manner; at least two... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090135315 - Diplay apparatus using pulsed light source: The present invention provides a display apparatus, comprising: a light source; at least one spatial light modulator for modulating a luminous flux emitted from the light source; and a controller for processing inputted video image information and for controlling the light source and spatial light modulator, wherein the controller controls... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090135314 - Method and system for controlling deformable micromirror devices: A method and system for controlling deformable micromirror devices are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a display system includes multiple deformable micromirror devices, a buffer, and a controller. Each deformable micromirror device includes a plurality of micromirrors. The buffer is communicatively coupled, at a first... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090128617 - Method and apparatus for obtaining acoustic source location information and a multimedia communication system: A method and an apparatus for obtaining the acoustic source location information and a multimedia communication system are provided. In the method, the acoustic source location information corresponding to the original location of lens and the lens controlling information are obtained, and the current acoustic source location information is obtained... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090128618 - System and method for object selection in a handheld image capture device: A system and method for automatically selecting an object from a field of view of a handheld image capture device. The system includes sensors configured to sense features of one or more objects in the field of view and a decision unit configured to automatically select one or more objects... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090128619 - Signal processing system for synthesizing holograms: This invention relates to hardware acceleration of signal processing systems for displaying an image using holographic techniques. A hardware accelerator for a holographic image display system, the image display system being configured to generate a displayed image using a plurality of holographically generated temporal subframes, said temporal subframes being displayed... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090128620 - Demultiplexing for stereoplexed film and video applications: A method for demultiplexing frames of compressed image data is provided. The image data includes a series of left compressed images and a series of right compressed images, the right compressed images and left compressed images compressed using a compression function. The method includes receiving the frames of compressed image... Agent: Real D - Patent Department

20090128621 - System and/or method for automated stereoscopic alignment of images: A system and/or a method provide automated stereoscopic alignment of images. The system and/or the method provide automated stereoscopic alignment of images, such as, for example, two or more video streams. A camera array and/or a target capture and/or scale the images. A computer is programmed to automatically align the... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20090128622 - Image processing device: In 3D information creation means 102, 3D information including information on an image identifier and arrangement position of the image identifier is input from control means 101. According to the 3D information, which has been input, an identification mark is created and output together with the arrangement position information to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090128623 - Hull-mounted underwater camera remote monitoring system for vessel running gear: A top shell attaches to a bottom of a hull of a boat. A bottom shell attaches to the top shell with a waterproof camera housed between the shells. A cable runs from the camera to a monitoring screen in the pilot area.... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20090128624 - Monitoring system, a method for monitoring, a computer system and a computer program product: The invention relates to a monitoring system for use in a teleoperation system. The monitoring system comprises a camera which is arranged to capture an image of at least a part of a space which is suitable for displacing therein an object from a first position to a second position.... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090128625 - Device for evaluating images of weld spots on a carrier material: The invention relates to a device (22) for evaluating an image (20) produced on a carrier material (8) by spot welding of a weld spot (19) using an optical image-detecting unit (23), comprising a camera (24) which consists of at least one detection means (25) and one lens (26). In... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090128626 - Vehicle-mounted imaging device: Color signals that have passed through a multilayer film filter and been photoelectrically converted are inputted into an image processing LSI. A color signal processing section of the image processing LSI corrects the color signals on a color matrix. The color matrix is divided into a plurality of regions corresponding... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090128627 - Test support system and image processing controller: There is provided a test support system having facilitated association of an execution log with processing of each unit in a case of creating a control program by blocking a series of processing procedure into a plurality of units, the system being configured such that a program creation apparatus generates... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20090128628 - Surveillance system and method: A system for surveillance of a region of interest. The system includes a number of monitors, each monitor operative to acquire and to transmit periodically a description of a respective portion of the region of interest. The monitors are operative to transmit the descriptions in a first communication channel with... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090128629 - Optical module for an assistance system: The invention concerns an optical module for an assistance system covering an ambient region of a vehicle, having a camera arranged in the region of an inner side of a pane of glass, in particular a windscreen, of the vehicle and directed into the ambient region of the vehicle, with... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090128630 - Vehicle image display system and image display method: When an image processing device subjects images photographed by on-vehicle cameras to viewpoint changing, and joints the images to form a top view image, and superposes boundary indicators at joints of the top view image to display it as an image with boundary regions to be monitored in a display,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090128631 - Displaying broadcasts of multiple camera perspective recordings from live activities at entertainment venues on remote video monitors: Broadcast methods and systems for simultaneously transmitting, processing and selectively displaying more than one video camera perspectives recorded at live entertainment venues on remote video monitors. Video recording can be from more than one entertainment venue or can be more than on synchronized video camera perspective of an activity at... Agent: Ortiz And Lopez, PLLC Patent Attorneys

20090128632 - Camera and image processor: A video signal produced through a shooting operation of a camera is sent to a motion detecting unit which detects a motion included in the video signal to set an area of the motion as a space motion area and inputs information of the area to a distance determination circuit... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090128633 - System for detecting sequences of frozen frame in baseband digital video: An apparatus and method of evaluating whether an image under test is similar to a reference image, the method comprising performing a test on pairs of blocks in turn, each pair of blocks comprising a block of the image under test and a corresponding block of the reference image, the... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20090128634 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera comprises an interface unit for cable connection with the computer, an information acquisition unit that acquires network information related to setting of the wireless network from the computer that has been connected to the electronic camera by a cable with using the interface unit, a profile creation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090128635 - Apparatus and method for running dual cameras in a portable terminal: An apparatus and method for separating and connecting a main camera and a sub camera in a portable terminal are provided. The portable terminal includes a main camera for receiving a main clock signal from a main chip and transmitting a main camera pixel clock signal to the main chip... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090128637 - Image blur correction device and imaging device furnished therewith: Provides an image blur correction device capable of accurately moving an imaging element, and an imaging device equipped therewith. The image blur correction device of the present invention includes a fixed plate (12); a moving base (14) to which an imaging element (16) is attached; support means (18) supporting a... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090128636 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup optical system having an optical axis and configured to form a subject image, an image pickup element configured to pick up the subject image and output the picked-up subject image as an image, an optical axis controller configured to displace an optical... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090128642 - Apparatus for processing digital image and method of controlling the apparatus: An apparatus and appertaining method for controlling the apparatus are provided for processing a digital image, which can capture an image with reduced hand shake effect without using a hand shake sensor. The apparatus includes: an image input unit receiving a plurality of input images from the outside; and a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090128638 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device for subjecting an optical subject image to photoelectric conversion to generate an image signal; an angular velocity sensor for detecting angular velocity with the imaging apparatus; a first shaking amount calculation unit for integrating detection values from the angular velocity sensor to calculate... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090128639 - Method and apparatus to correct digital image blur due to motion of subject or imaging device: Signal processing techniques are applied to digital image data to remove the distortion caused by motion of the camera, or the movement of the subject being photographed, or defective optics, or optical distortion from other sources. When the image is captured, the effect of relative motion between the camera and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090128640 - Image device and lens barrel: Provided is an imaging device capable of reducing image degradation due to a shake of a hand or an object and easily capturing an image of preferable image quality. The imaging device (1) includes: an imaging optical system (L) for forming an optical image of an object; an imaging sensor... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090128641 - Method and apparatus to correct digital image blur due to motion of subject or imaging device: Signal processing techniques are applied to digital image data to remove the distortion caused by motion of the camera, or the movement of the subject being photographed, or defective optics, or optical distortion from other sources. When the image is captured, the effect of relative motion between the camera and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090128643 - Image pickup apparatus, method for capturing image, and method for designing image pickup apparatus: The present invention relates to an image pickup apparatus, a method for capturing an image, and a method for designing the image pickup apparatus capable of realising a fixed focal length image pickup apparatus of high resolution and fine resolution at a low cost by disposing a plurality of image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090128644 - System and method for generating a photograph: Generating a photograph with a digital camera may include capturing a first image of a scene with a first zoom setting and capturing a second image of the scene with a second zoom setting, where the second zoom setting corresponds to higher magnification than the first zoom setting. The second... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090128645 - Imaging data processing device, imaging data processing method, and imaging element: A device is provided for taking high resolution still pictures while recording video without pausing video recording. Plural channels are provided for reaching pixel values from a CMOS sensor, and the output of each channel is input to a corresponding A/D conversion circuit. The channels are configured so that the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090128646 - Video reproducing device, video recorder, video reproducing method, video recording method, and semiconductor integrated circuit: When displaying an image taken as portrait-oriented image in a landscape-oriented display area, a cutout image including a partial area of the portrait-oriented image to be displayed is displayed. At that time, a whole image of the port-oriented image which is rotated based on rotation information thereof may be displayed... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090128647 - System and method for automatic image capture in a handheld camera with a multiple-axis actuating mechanism: A system and method for automatically and optically capturing an image in a handheld image capture device. The system includes an imager and an actuated mounting mechanism attached to the imager. The imager has one or more degrees of freedom (DOF) and includes at least one of a pan DOF,... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090128658 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup lens having an aperture diaphragm, an image-pickup element that has a color filter which is periodically allocated colors in units of a predetermined unit array and that generates picked-up image data including pixel data of colors using received light, the color filter being... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090128659 - Image pickup apparatus: This invention provides an image pickup device comprising a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, a semiconductor area to which a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit is transferred, a transfer switch for transferring the signal from the photoelectric conversion unit to the semiconductor area, and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090128652 - Image processing apparatus: In an image processing apparatus, minimum width and height and maximum width and height of an object to be detected are calculated on the basis of photographing conditions, an object detection range and a size of the object to be detected and an image reduction coefficient is set on the... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090128648 - Image processing device and image processing method for performing three dimensional measurements: An image processing device for the user to easily perform the setting for specifying the location to be performed with three dimensional measurement on the image where the photographed is shown, the device including an imaging section (1) with a first camera (C0), arranged with the optical axis directed in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090128650 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes: an imaging element which comprises a plurality of pixels capable of switching between a linear conversion operation for linearly converting incident light into an electric signal and a logarithmic conversion operation for logarithmically converting the incident light into an electric signal, according to an incident light... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090128654 - Imaging system, imaging apparatus, portable terminal apparatus, onboard apparatus and medical apparatus: An imaging system is provided and includes an imaging lens and an imaging device such that the maximum diameter of an effective region of a point image becomes a size covering three or more pixels of light receiving pixels, the point image being projected onto a light receiving surface through... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090128655 - Imaging system, imaging apparatus, portable terminal apparatus, onboard apparatus, and medical apparatus, and method of manufacturing the imaging system: An imaging system is provided and includes: an imaging lens; an imaging device; a coefficient storage section; and a signal processing section. When a maximum diameter of an effective region of a point image projected onto a light receiving surface of the imaging device through the imaging lens is a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090128657 - Method and apparatus to correct digital image blur due to motion of subject or imaging device: Signal processing techniques are applied to digital image data to remove the distortion caused by motion of the camera, or the movement of the subject being photographed, or defective optics, or optical distortion from other sources. When the image is captured, the effect of relative motion between the camera and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090128656 - No-drive photographing device and method: The invention provides a no-drive photographing device and method, wherein the no-drive photographing device comprises a lens for obtaining the optical image of the object. Further, the device comprises: an image sensor for converting the optical image of the object obtained by the lens into a digital image signal, and... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090128651 - Program creation apparatus for image processing controller: There is provided a program creation apparatus with improved operability in checking an operation of a created control program, including: a program generating section for acquiring a camera image from a camera based upon an image pick-up trigger signal, to extract a measurement result from the acquired camera image as... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20090128649 - Reflectance spectra estimation and colour space conversion using reference reflectance spectra: A Personal Computer (PC) adjusts a colour of an image received from a digital camera to produce an estimated reflectance spectrum and/or to convert the colour to a new colour space. First, an input compensation transform is generated, e.g. based on a Macbeth colour chart in the image, to compensate... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090128653 - Solid-state imaging device and camera system: A solid-state imaging device and a camera system are provided. The solid-state imaging device capable of performing an intermittent operation includes a pixel unit and a pixel signal readout unit for reading out a pixel signal from the pixel unit in units of a plurality of pixels for each column.... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090128660 - Light source frequency detection circuit using bipolar transistor: An apparatus for measuring the power frequency of a light source includes a photo-sensitive transistor, a modulators and a logic unit. The photo-sensitive transistor generates an electrical signal that is responsive to light incident thereon from the light source. The modulator generates a modulated signal based on the electrical signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090128661 - System and method for sorting images in a mobile electronic device: A method for sorting images in a mobile electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring a longitude and a latitude of the mobile electronic device determined by a Global Position System (GPS) when an image has been captured by a camera of the mobile electronic device. The method further... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090128662 - Apparatus and method for processing image: Provided are an image signal processing apparatus and method. According to the image signal processing method, by simultaneously performing in an integrated manner image denoising and interpolation using 4-directional image gradient information which defines differences in color brightness between adjacent pixels on the basis of edge direction information obtained from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090128663 - Image sensing apparatus and method for controlling the same: When a chart is used as a subject, whether or not the chart can be captured for storage is determined based on the result obtained through distance measurement at a plurality of locations in a field captured for temporary display on a viewfinder. For example, a maximum difference of distances... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090128664 - Compact stationary lens optical zoom image capture system: An electronic optical zoom system (100) includes a first lens assembly (101) and a second lens assembly (102). The first lens assembly (101) and the second lens assembly (102) may be adjacently disposed or concentrically disposed. The first lens assembly (101) and second lens assembly (102), in one embodiment, have... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090128665 - Imaging system, imaging apparatus, portable terminal apparatus, onboard apparatus, medical apparatus and method of manufacturing the imaging system: An imaging system is provided and includes: an imaging lens; an imaging device; a coefficient storage section; and a signal processing section. When a maximum diameter of an effective region of a point image projected onto a light receiving surface of the imaging device through the imaging lens 10 is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090128670 - Apparatus and method for compensating color, and image processor, digital processing apparatus, recording medium using it: An aspect of the present invention features an apparatus for compensating color deviation of an image that has uneven color deviation. The apparatus can comprises: a color deviation analyzing module that analyzes luminance of each color component of each pixel composing the image and determines a color component having the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090128669 - Correction of optical aberrations: Digital images are computed using an approach for correcting lens aberration. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a digital imaging arrangement implements microlenses to direct light to photosensors that detect the light and generate data corresponding to the detected light. The generated data is used to compute... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090128666 - Image enhancement using hardware-based deconvolution: An image enhancement circuit (26, 60, 190, 260) includes an input interface (64, 262), which is operative to accept a stream of input pixel values belonging to pixels (32) of an input image. The input image includes a plurality of different input sub-images including respective subsets of the pixels, such... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090128668 - Imaging system, imaging apparatus, portable terminal apparatus, onboard apparatus, and medical apparatus: There is provided an imaging system configured to include an imaging lens and an imaging device such that the maximum diameter of an effective region of a point image is a size covering three or more pixels of light receiving pixels, the point image being projected onto a light receiving... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090128667 - Line removal and object detection in an image: In one aspect, lines in image data of an event are automatically found and repaired. For example, the event may be a sporting event which is played on a field, and the line segment is a field line on the field which may be obscured by a player, game ball... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090128671 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor with imaging pixels and focus detection pixels arrayed on a plane, which captures an image via an optical system; and a correction unit that corrects image data output from an imaging pixel based upon output data from a focus detection pixel present near... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090128672 - Color solid-state image capturing apparatus and electronic information device: A color solid-state image capturing apparatus is provided, where a plurality of light receiving sections are arranged on a light receiving surface of an image capturing area, a plurality of color filters are positioned in a constant period above the plurality of light receiving sections, and a plurality of microlenses... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090128673 - Image sensor: In this image sensor, a first spring member is so arranged that the urging direction of the first spring member is inclined with respect to the axis of a first rotating shaft of a first driving source thereby inclining a transmission member urged by the first spring member with respect... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090128675 - Physical information acquisition method, a physical information acquisition apparatus, and a semiconductor device: In particular for a solid-state image sensor with high resolution, a control line is not driven at any of two end points of the control line, but the control line is driven at two arbitrary dividing points on the control line. Preferably, two points on control line whose distance from... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090128674 - Solid-state image capturing apparatus, driving method of the solid-state image capturing apparatus, and electronic information device: A solid-state image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of pixel sections, a vertical transfer section, and a horizontal transfer section, wherein the horizontal transfer section includes a plurality of transfer gates consecutively arranged in a horizontal direction and a signal wiring for supplying a driving signal to the transfer gates,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090128676 - Solid-state imaging device and camera system: A solid-state imaging device and a camera system are disclosed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit and a pixel signal readout circuit. The pixel signal readout circuit includes a plurality of comparators disposed to correspond to a pixel column array, and a plurality of counters. Each counter includes... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090128677 - Dual sensitivity image sensor: A dual sensitivity image sensor provides a standard mode and a high-sensitivity mode of operation via iSoC integration. In addition to boosting sensitivity, the high sensitivity mode also reduces temporal noise thereby optimally boosting the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the image sensor. The circuit does not significantly increase pixel complexity... Agent: Doyle B. Johnson Reed Smith LLP

20090128679 - Solid state image pickup device: This invention improves linearity of a solid-state image pickup device beyond that of the prior art source follower to improve image quality. The image pickup device has plural pixels disposed in an array. Each pixel includes: a photodiode (PD); a transfer transistor (Tr1); a floating diffusion (FD); and an amplification... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090128678 - Solid-state imaging device, driving control method, and imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging device and an imaging apparatus are provided. The solid-state imaging device performs an AD conversion in a column parallel for an analog pixel signal outputted from each of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional matrix shape. The solid-state imaging device includes: an AD conversion unit including a plurality... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090128680 - Image capturing apparatus and method of controlling same: An image capturing apparatus for capturing a chart having color patches of a plurality of colors using a taking lens and obtaining a color-patch signal for creating a color profile. In the apparatus, the type of chart is identified, after which the focal length of the taking lens is acquired.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090128681 - Camera module: Provided are a camera modules. The camera module includes a lens unit including a lens unit; a holder coupled to the lens unit; an image sensor for converting a light through the lens into an electric signal; and a ceramic board coupled to the holder, the ceramic board having a... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090128682 - Image capture device with electronic focus: An image capture system is configured to automatically focus upon an object (113) electronically, without moving mechanical parts. In one embodiment, a focal length alteration device (104), examples of which include an electronically switchable mirror (3041,3042) or an interference layer (204), is disposed between a lens assembly (102) and a... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090128683 - Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor: In a case in which flickers are detected from a live-view image, at least one of a start timing and an end timing of charge accumulation at an image sensor is fixed by setting the image-sensing frame rate during execution of image-sensing plane AF to a value synchronized with the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090128684 - Method for assembling a camera module, and camera module: A method for manufacturing a camera module is provided, the camera module including a lens and an image sensor chip, the image sensor chip being electrically contacted to a circuit board. After a first fitting part that surrounds the image sensor chip is positioned and secured on the circuit board,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090128685 - Camera chip, camera and method for image recording: The invention relates to a camera chip (C) for image acquisition. It is characterized in that pixel groups (P1, P2, . . . ) may be exposed at different times with the aid of shutter signals (S1, S2, . . . ).... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090128686 - Imaging apparatus: Disclosed is an imaging apparatus capable of enlarging a portion of an image captured by an imaging device of a fisheye camera and displaying the enlarged image on a display screen with little distortion. The imaging apparatus enlarges a section, which is a portion of an image captured by a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090128688 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an accessory shoe that includes an engagement member configured to be engaged with and hold an accessory unit that slides in an attachment direction relative to the accessory shoe, and an imaging apparatus side connector electrically connected to an accessory side connector of the accessory unit.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090128687 - License plate frame with camera: A license plate frame and camera combination comprises a license plate frame and a camera assembly, the camera assembly comprising a housing and a camera lens. A pair of brackets positioned on the rim supports the camera assembly for rotational movement to change the field of view of the camera.... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20090128689 - Method of selecting a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes determining reference picture index numbers in a reference picture list. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having a decreasing display order with respect to a picture including the macroblock. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having an increasing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090128690 - Systems and methods for use in transforming electronic information into a format: A method for transforming electronic information in to a format, the method comprising the steps of: accessing a first electronic file that comprises control data; accessing metadata based on the control data; identifying input data based on the metadata and the control data; and creating output data that is based... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090128693 - Image processing device, image processing method, program, recording medium and integrated circuit: Flicker occurs in a flicker-noticeable area consisting of pixels with no pixel value variations. An image processing device (100) includes a variance calculation unit (101) that obtains a variance of an area consisting of a target pixel and neighboring pixels included in a first frame, and changes, according to the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090128691 - Signal processing device, and image output device: In a case of changing the resolution of the synthesized image signal obtained by synthesizing the first image signal and a second image signal, identification information for identifying whether or not the character signal is contained is added to the synthesized image signal based on presence/absence of the character signal,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090128692 - Video signal processing device: Provided is a video signal processing device capable of judging the viability of phase locking at a PLL circuit and, in accordance with the judgment, automatically switching between the PLL circuit and a DLL circuit to use to generate a sampling clock of an input analog video signal, the device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090128694 - Apparatus and method of converting image signal for four- color display device, and display device including the same: A method of converting image signals for a display device including six-color subpixels is provided, which includes: classifying three-color input image signals into maximum, middle, and minimum; decomposing the classified signals into six-color components; determining a maximum among the six-color components; calculating a scaling factor; and extracting six-color output signals.... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090128695 - Devices and methods for extracting a synchronization signal from a video signal: A device for extracting a synchronization signal from a video signal has a first comparator and an adjustment circuit. The first comparator receives the video signal, compares the video signal with a first threshold, and generates the synchronization signal according to the compared result. The adjustment circuit receives the video... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090128696 - Signal transmission system and control method therefore: A signal transmission system includes a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device includes a superimposition portion that superimposes at least one synchronizing signal on at least one video signal among a plurality of video signals, and outputs the synchronizing signal and the video signal as a superimposition... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090128697 - Data rate management system and method for a/v decoder: Devices and methods are disclosed for managing an output of an output stream. One embodiment relates to a method of tracking an output of an A/V decoder. In this embodiment, indication of an output stream time reference and a location of at least one output sample are received. The received... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090128698 - Audio synchronizer for digital television broadcast: An audio synchronizer for a digital television broadcast has a clock generation section that generates a fundamental clock pulse by demultiplying a clock pulse of a given frequency, which is generated by multiplying an input clock pulse, by a predetermined demultiplication ratio; a comparison section that compares reference time information... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090128699 - Integrated circuit to process data in multiple color spaces: An integrated circuit includes display processing components to process pixel data of digital video. The integrated circuit also includes mask-programmable logic integrated with one or more of the display processing components to receive the pixel data in a first color space and at least a second color space, where the... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090128700 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a geometric converter configured to perform a geometric conversion process to a first frame image among frame images that are sequentially generated through imaging, based on motion information obtained by using a motion detector sensor, a motion vector detector configured to detect a motion vector... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090128701 - System and method for selecting clearly defined picture elements of a display: A system and method is provided for selecting clearly defined picture elements of a picture displayed in a video screen display by use of an operating element. The operating element can be rotated about its longitudinal axis. The operating element can be rotated with stop positions and controls a search... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090128702 - Display control apparatus, method, and storage medium: A display control apparatus for superimposing an object on a moving image composed of a plurality of frames and outputting the moving image with the object superimposed to a monitor, comprises: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of candidate regions as candidates for superimposing the object on each... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090128703 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus configured to perform a process to reduce a color blur in a color motion picture image utilizing a first frame image and a second frame image that has been obtained after the first frame image includes a memory configured to store a first color blur reduction... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090128704 - Color sequential illumination for spatial light modulator: The present invention provides a display apparatus, comprising: a light source or light sources for emitting a luminous flux or luminous fluxes having a plurality of colors; a spatial light modulator for modulating the luminous flux(es) having a plurality of colors incoming from the light sources; and controller for processing... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090128705 - Video processing apparatus and gamma correction method thereof: Provided is a video processing apparatus comprising a storage unit and a gamma correction unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of representative values of brightness to perform a gamma correction to a video signal. The gamma correction unit calculates a difference value between two adjacent representative values among the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090128706 - Video signal output circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit including the same: A video output circuit that is operated at a low power supply voltage and capable of achieving reduced power consumption with a simple circuit configuration and a semiconductor integrated circuit incorporating the same are provided. The video signal output circuit includes a video signal input terminal 1, a clamp circuit... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090128707 - Image display apparatus and method: It is possible to better correct dynamic false contours in gradation display made by dividing each field into plural subfields. A motion vector detection section detects a motion vector extending between pixels mutually corresponding between two mutually neighboring fields. A pixel position changing section calculates a pixel position vector indicating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090128709 - Method of and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications. Preferably, the apparatus implementing the present invention includes a processor, a secondary memory and a system memory. In providing a smooth transition between two applications, the apparatus and method provides synchronization of... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090128708 - Monitoring unit for use in a system for multimedia content distribution: A disclosed multimedia signal monitoring unit includes a chassis and, within the chassis, a processor, a multimedia signal receiver for receiving an encoded multimedia stream, and a plurality of decoders. Each of the decoders can decode an encoded multimedia signal, where at least two of the plurality of decoders is... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090128710 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system utilizing mull packet and trs code to improve receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission and/or reception system having an improved reception performance and a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a TRS encoder for to TRS-encode a MPEG-2 transmission stream having null data for inserting a Known data and a TRS parity at predetermined positions, randomizer to input... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090128711 - 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

20090128712 - 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

20090128713 - Digital broadcast receiver and channel switching method thereof: A digital broadcast receiver and channel switching method are provided for minimizing channel switching latency by skipping an unnecessary PMT update and PIDs reset processes. A channel switching method for a digital broadcast receiver detects a channel-switching command for switching to a service channel, checks a first version of information... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090128714 - Electronic device, remote control device, and remote control system: An electronic device includes a wireless receiving circuit for receiving signals transmitted from a remote control unit, a core circuit having a digital signal processing circuit for processing input signals and configured to perform at least one of display processing and record processing based on signals processed in the digital... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090128715 - Projection device for image projection with document camera device connected thereto, projection method, and storage medium: A projection device comprises an input section for inputting an image signal, a storage section for storing the image signal input by the input section after adding identification information thereto, a projection section for forming and projecting an optical image corresponding to the image signal, and a projection control section... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090128717 - Image display apparatus: A laser projector includes a green laser, a two-wavelength laser, a PBS, a collimator lens, a two-axis galvanometer mirror, a group of lenses, and a screen. The green laser emits a green laser beam. The two-wavelength laser emits red and blue laser beams. The PBS is provided at the position... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090128716 - Projector and method for projecting image: A projector includes: a laser beam generator configured to emit a laser beam according to an image signal; a beam splitter configured to split the laser beam into a first laser beam toward the first projection plane and a second laser beam toward the second projection plane; a scanning unit,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090122130 - Video communication system, terminal, and image converter: Image input device (57) of a mobile phone captures an image of the face of the speaker and stores the captured image data in image memory (53). Communication image generator (52) reads the image data stored in image memory (53) and converts the image data into illustration image data representing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090122131 - Method and apparatus for enabling the display of a text service upon audio muting: A method for controlling two devices, separated from each other, during an audio muting mode operation. A control device causes an audio device to become muted during the audio muting mode. The control device also causes a video device to output a text service during the duration of the audio... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090122132 - Video display calibration system and method: A video display system includes a video display environment having a video display, a display sensor, oriented to view the display, and a display control system. The control system is controllable from outside the video display environment, and is interconnected with the video display and the display sensor. The control... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090122134 - Method of recording three-dimensional image data: A method of storing 3D image data in a recording medium includes: loading, in a predetermined file type field, image type information indicating either one of a single stereoscopic image or a compound image including a monoscopic image and a stereoscopic image; loading, in a predetermined image configuration information container... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090122133 - Stereo camera having 360 degree field of view: A stereo camera comprises at least one image sensor; a first surface configured to direct a first view of an area to the at least one image sensor, the first view comprising an approximately 360 degree view of the area; and a second surface configured to direct a second view... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090122135 - Endoscope processor and endoscope system: An endoscope processor including a light source controller, an imaging device driver, and a gamma-correction block, is provided. The light source controller can order first and second light sources to alternately emit first and second lights, respectively. The imaging device driver orders an imaging device to generate first and second... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090122136 - Object detection device: An in-vehicle object detecting apparatus for detecting a distance equivalent (a distance itself, a disparity with stereo cameras, or the like) to an object, which includes first detecting devices for detecting a distance equivalent to an object; a second detecting device for detecting a distance equivalent to an object by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090122137 - Surveillance systems, methods and products thereby: A surveillance system and a computer readable medium is provided. The surveillance system includes a video capture device and a processor. The processor configured to write video from the video capture device to a first memory card, configured to determine when a capacity of the first memory card is reached,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (onspec/tpl)

20090122141 - Camera mounting structure, camera mounting method and exterior panel component of a vehicle: A camera mounting structure for mounting an on-vehicle camera on a vehicle, in which the on-vehicle camera includes an imaging module having a lens and an imaging element, and in an exterior panel component making up an exterior of the vehicle, a bracket part for attaching the imaging module is... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090122139 - Display system for a motor vehicle: In a display system for a motor vehicle (11), an image detecting device captures an image of the surroundings of the motor vehicle (11), the image is converted into image data by an image generating device (2), and the image data can be represented as a virtual image in the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090122142 - Distributed mobile surveillance system and method: A method of gathering evidence of a crime or terrorist incident comprises surveilling an area with one or more cameras and, optionally, one or more audio pick-ups (e.g., microphones) installed in or on a large number of automobiles, trucks, buses, and other vehicles. Evidence of an incident may be collected... Agent: T/bd Associates, Inc.

20090122140 - Method and apparatus for generating a bird's-eye view image: An obstacle detecting unit detects whether an obstacle exists in an area surrounding a vehicle in the direction a camera installed on the vehicle is pointed. If the obstacle is determined to have a portion at a predetermined height above a road surface with which the vehicle may make initial... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090122138 - Scattered light diaphragm for reducing the scattered light incident into a camera: A camera module having a scattered light diaphragm installed in front of a lens of the camera module. The scattered light diaphragm is in contact with the inside of a windshield, the scattered light diaphragm having a structure on its inside for reducing the incident light. The structure for reducing... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090122144 - Method for detecting events at a secured location: A method for detecting events/activities at a secured location in which the security method may include an operator and/or determination application for supervising the location, and a transmission network for transceiving data indicative of determined activities of the secured location, wherein the determination application and the operator can initiate a... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090122143 - Security system and network: A security system and network used to detect and deter adverse events in an area to be secured. The security system may include an operator for supervising the area, and a wireless communication system for transceiving data indicative of detection events received from the secured area, wherein the operator can... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090122145 - Information terminal, and method and program for restricting executable processing: In order to eliminate an unauthorized action trying to find out authentication information, a mobile phone 1ncludes a processing execution portion (65) which executes processing corresponding to an operation when the operation is accepted via operation keys, an identification information requesting portion (51) which requests an input of identification information... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090122146 - Method and apparatus for tracking three-dimensional movements of an object using a depth sensing camera: A controller (110) includes a body (111), one or more buttons disposed on the body, and one or more detectable elements (e.g. 122, 124, 126, and/or 128) disposed on the body that are arranged in a pattern. A tracking device for use in obtaining information for controlling an execution of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20090122147 - Information-processing apparatus and method: An information-processing apparatus processes information obtained by shooting an image of a subject and by collecting ambient sound of the subject. The apparatus contains an image-and-sound-recording unit that shoots the image of the subject to output image information on the image and collects the ambient sound of the subject to... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090122148 - Disjoint light sensing arrangements and methods therefor: Imaging is carried out using multiple views (e.g., from a single monolithic device) to generate an image. According to an example embodiment, a scene is imaged using disjoint sensors beyond a designated focal plane to obtain multiple views of common points in the focal plane. For the common points, the... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090122149 - Digital camera security: An image capture device, includes a body; an image sensor in the body; a lens configured to focus a scene onto the image sensor; a communications interface in the body; an image processor coupled to receive device information from an external device; a controller coupled to the communications interface and... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090122152 - Image capturing system, image capturing method, and computer readable medium: Provided is an image capturing system including an image capturing section that includes a plurality of first light receiving elements for receiving light of a first wavelength region and a plurality of second light receiving elements for receiving light of a second wavelength region, a control section that causes to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090122153 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus comprises image processing units adapted to process image data obtained from an image input unit, a first memory that stores image data that has been processed by the image processing units, a first bus that transfers the image data between the image processing units and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090122154 - Image signal processing apparatus and method thereof in mobile communications terminal: An image signal processing apparatus and a method thereof which can simplify design of a circuit for controlling each of camera modules when a terminal has two camera modules therein, the image signal processing apparatus includes: first and second camera modules for capturing a subject; a digital signal processor for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090122150 - Imaging system with improved image quality and associated methods: An imaging system includes an optical system for projecting an object onto a detector, and a phase element between an entrance pupil of the optical system and the detector, the phase element adapted to provide a more uniform modulation transfer function over a range of focus than the optical system... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20090122151 - Program creation apparatus for image processing controller: There is provided a program creation apparatus capable of displaying a camera image showing a measurement result in accordance with a position of an object to be tested, the apparatus including: a flow chart generating section for arranging processing units on an execution flow, to generate a flowchart; a program... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20090122155 - Image pickup apparatus and flicker detection method therefor: An image pickup apparatus capable of accurately detecting a flicker in a short time period without regard to a state of object and a photography scene. A signal processing circuit reads out an n-th line of an image subjected to collective reset/collective transfer readout, reads out an n-th line of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090122156 - Methods and systems for managing bragbook images: A device, system, method and software product for storing, maintaining, sharing and displaying of digital images in a common designated collection on at least one portable storage and display device. The device has a first memory section designated for storing images and a second memory section for storing digital images... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090122157 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An information processing apparatus configured to attach sound information to image data while relating the sound information to the image data includes a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image represented by the image data, an acquisition unit configured to acquire sound information while... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090122160 - High density row ram for column parallel cmos image sensors: A readout circuit of an imager that enables analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to be shared between columns of the imager is provided. Groups of ADCs share a single block of memory for storing signals processed by the ADCs. The ADCs process signals received from one group of columns of pixels and,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090122158 - Image capturing device and method: An image capturing device includes a taking lens, a plurality of focus modes for capturing object with different distances, and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a receiving module, a focusing module, a determining module, a selecting module, and an image capturing module. The receiving module is configured for... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090122159 - Image file reproduction device and image file reproduction method: A method of reproducing an image file from a recording medium that stores an image file of a first type and/or an image file of a second type includes reproducing the first type of image file or second type of image file, detecting whether each of a predetermined number of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090122161 - Image to sound conversion device: A device for creating a sound map of a three dimensional view area is provided. The device comprises a first camera configured to capture and transmit a first image and a second camera positioned a predetermined distance from the first camera configured to capture and transmit a second image. An... Agent: Dovas Law P.C.

20090122162 - Imaging system with multi-state zoom and associated methods: An image capturing device may include a detector including a plurality of sensing pixels, and an optical system adapted to project a distorted image of an object within a field of view onto the sensing pixels, wherein the optical system expands the image in a center of the field of... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20090122163 - Electronic camera: an electronic camera includes: an image-capturing unit that creates an image by capturing an image of a subject; an enlarged image generating unit that creates an enlarged image by enlarging a portion of the image created by the image-capturing unit; an optical viewfinder that enables verification of a subject range... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090122164 - Roi setting method and apparatus, electronic camera apparatus, program, and recording medium: An ROI setting apparatus including an ROI recognition unit and an ROI control unit is provided. In one embodiment, the ROI recognition unit contains multiple ROI recognition modules for recognizing an ROI of image data according to various methods to obtain a recognition result. The ROI control unit selects one... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090122165 - Image pickup apparatus, method of correcting captured image data, and program: An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup device sharing a circuit necessary for a pixel structure between multiple pixels composing each set including a certain number of pixels having the same arrangement pattern; a pixel mixture correcting unit correcting leakage of light that should be incident on each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090122166 - Imaging device performing color image data processing: A color image sensor has a first, second, and third color component pixels. The third color component pixel includes more intensity information than the first and second color component pixels. A difference estimating section estimates difference in a signal level exerted on a pixel signal of the third color component... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090122167 - Method and apparatus for removing noise by dark current of image sensor: The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for removing noise in an image sensor, more specifically to a method and an apparatus for removing noise caused by a dark current. Through the method for removing noise caused by a dark current that comprises initializing a frame... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090122168 - Method for resetting image sensing and image sensing device using the same: A method for resetting image sensing and an image sensing device using the same are provided. The method for resetting image sensing includes generating a plurality of reset signals and a plurality of control signals, and using the reset signals and the control signals to control a pixel array to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090122169 - Highly miniaturized, battery operated, digital wireless camera using programmable single chip active pixel sensor (aps) digital camera chip: A miniaturized camera which is programmable and provides low power consumption. An active pixel image sensor used in the highly miniaturized camera provides improved imaging functionality as well as reduced power consumption, extending the possible life time of the camera system. The spread spectrum nature of transmission and reception improves... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090122170 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided in the semiconductor substrate and a spectral element which is provided over the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are consecutive in a straight-line manner, in which a trapezoidal opening longitudinal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090122171 - Solid-state image sensor and image-capturing device: A solid-state image sensor includes: a plurality of image-capturing pixels, each equipped with a first micro-lens used to condense light; and a plurality of focus detection pixels engaged in focus detection, each equipped with a second micro-lens used to condense light; the plurality of image-capturing pixels and the plurality of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090122172 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel region including a plurality of pixels, each including a photoelectric conversion element, arranged in matrix, and a reset switch for discharging electric charge of the photoelectric conversion element; and a first scanning circuit for supplying a reset control signal for controlling an operation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090122173 - Low noise readout apparatus and method for cmos image sensors: A low noise readout apparatus and method for CMOS image sensors having a complementary metal oxide semiconductor with a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a charge-generating unit configured to release a charge, a potential well for receiving the released charge from the charge-generating unit, a first gate, a second... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090122174 - Solid-state imaging device and method of driving the same: A solid-state imaging device includes: an effective pixel area in which a plurality of pixels having photodiodes (PD) are provided in row and column directions, the effective pixel area being capable of allowing light from outside to be incident in each PD and generating electric signals by photoelectric conversion; and... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090122175 - Imaging device and lens array used therein: An object of the present invention is to provide: a thin imaging device in which a high image resolution is obtained and in which the resolution does not uniformly vary even when the shooting distance is changed; and a lens array used therein. The present invention relates to an imaging... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090122178 - Camera module and electronic apparatus having the same: A camera module includes an image sensor chip, a lens structure, a transparent substrate, an adhesive portion, and a light blocking layer. The image sensor chip includes a light receiving area and a circuit area. The lens structure is positioned on the image sensor chip and configured to allow light... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090122177 - Imaging device: In the present imaging device, a cassette cover 2 is extended not only to a grip surface of a camcorder 1 but also to a side surface on a viewfinder side. Thus, a variety of switches to be mounted on the surface on the viewfinder side can be mounted on... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090122179 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes a housing including first and second photographing apertures which are open toward opposite directions; an image pickup device provided in the housing; a main optical system forming incident light from the first photographing aperture onto an imaging surface of the image pickup device; and an insertable... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090122176 - Imaging module package: An exemplary imaging module package includes a lens module and an imaging sensor module. The lens module includes a housing having a hollow top portion and a hollow bottom portion coaxially aligned with the hollow top portion. The imaging sensor module is received in the hollow bottom portion. The imaging... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090122180 - Imaging system with relaxed assembly tolerances and associated methods: An imaging system includes an extended depth of field (EDOF) optical system, a sensor on a sensor substrate, and a securing mechanism adapted to secure the EDOF optical system directly to the sensor substrate.... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20090122181 - Photographic illumination device, image-capturing system, camera system and camera: An image-capturing system includes: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject; and an illumination device that illuminates the subject. The image-capturing device includes a control unit that calculates a light quantity needed to illuminate the subject based upon at least, either an exposure time or an aperture... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090122182 - Signal processing device: A signal processing device (1) includes: a generation unit (32) which generates a second signal from a first signal that is obtained by downmixing two signals; a mixing coefficient determination unit (40) which determines, based on a value L and a value θ, a mixing degree for mixing the first... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090122186 - Adaptive processing of programs with multiple video streams: Methods and systems for the efficient and non-redundant transmission of a single video program in multiple frame rates, optionally employing a combination of video coding standards, in a way that is backwards-compatible with legacy receivers only supportive of some subsection of frame rates or of some subsection of video coding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090122184 - Providing identifiable video streams of different picture formats: Methods and systems for the efficient and non-redundant transmission of a single video program in multiple frame rates, optionally employing a combination of video coding standards, in a way that is backwards-compatible with legacy receivers only supportive of some subsection of frame rates or of some subsection of video coding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090122183 - Providing video programs with identifiable and manageable video streams: Methods and systems for the efficient and non-redundant transmission of a single video program in multiple frame rates, optionally employing a combination of video coding standards, in a way that is backwards-compatible with legacy receivers only supportive of some subsection of frame rates or of some subsection of video coding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090122185 - Providing video streams of a program with different stream type values coded according to the same video coding specification: Methods and systems for the efficient and non-redundant transmission of a single video program in multiple frame rates, optionally employing a combination of video coding standards, in a way that is backwards-compatible with legacy receivers only supportive of some subsection of frame rates or of some subsection of video coding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090122187 - Image processing device: A field pair correlation acquisition part obtains a correlation for six or more fields which are continuous in time series for each field pair formed of two adjacent fields having the same attribute. A first determination part determines an input image as a 2:2 pull-down image based on a determination... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090122188 - Image display device and method: An image display device comprising a frame rate converting (FRC) portion can prevent image degradation at a screen boundary part attributed to the FRC processing when displaying an image obtained by combining a plurality of screens. The image display device comprises an FRC portion 10 for converting the number of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090122189 - Method of identifying target synchronization point pair through scan-line image matching scheme: A method of identifying a target synchronization point pair including a source synchronization point corresponding to a source end and a destination synchronization point corresponding to a destination end is provided. The method includes receiving a source scan-line image corresponding to a first video source from the source end; selecting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090122190 - Providing complementary streams of a program coded according to different compression methods: Methods and systems for the efficient and non-redundant transmission of a single video program in multiple frame rates, optionally employing a combination of video coding standards, in a way that is backwards-compatible with legacy receivers only supportive of some subsection of frame rates or of some subsection of video coding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090122191 - Method and apparatus for replaying a video signal and one or more audio signals related to audio/video data that are based on a 24hz frame frequency video signal: Movies are produced in 24 Hz frame frequency and progressive scanning format (denoted 24p) for projection in film theatres, adhering to a worldwide standard for 35 mm film. However, the major TV systems in the world use interlaced scanning and either 50 Hz field frequency (denoted 50i) or 60 Hz... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090122192 - Methods and systems for independently controlling the presentation speed of digital video frames and digital audio samples: A digital receiver contains a local video clock that controls the video presentation speed and a local audio clock that controls the audio presentation speed separately and independently of the video presentation speed. To control the video presentation speed, a comparator compares a program clock reference in a video packet... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090122193 - Video processing apparatus and control method thereof: A video processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The video processing apparatus includes a plurality of connectors to connect to a video signal source, a decoding part which decodes a video signal provided from the video signal source, a switching part which selectively connects any one of the plurality... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090122194 - Method and apparatus for reducing picture: Provided are a method and apparatus for reducing picture, which can obtain a reduced picture by previously creating a picture reduction map that stores effective-pixel locations selected according to a picture reduction scale and a picture reduction algorithm, and then matching an input picture with the picture reduction map. The... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090122195 - System and method for combining image sequences: A system and method combines videos for display in real-time. A set of narrow-angle videos and a wide-angle video are acquired of the scene, in which a field of view in the wide-angle video substantially overlaps the fields of view in the narrow-angle videos. Homographies are determined among the narrow-angle... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090122196 - Systems and methods for associating metadata with scenes in a video: In accordance with some embodiments, the system further comprises an insertion module for reading a second video and inserting the special effects specified for the first video into the second video, where the insertion module is further configured to read the stored metadata and identify a matching key frame within... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090122197 - Method and apparatus for auto-generation of horizontal synchronization of an analog signal to a digital display: A method, apparatus, and system for determining a horizontal resolution and a phase of an analog video signal arranged to display a number of scan lines each formed of a number of pixels is described. A number of initialization values are set where at least one of the initialization values... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090122198 - Automatic identifying: A method includes storing a picture or video that includes a first person. The method also includes automatically identifying the first person using speaker recognition or image recognition and tagging the picture or video with information indicating that the first person is in the picture or video.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090122199 - Multiple differential transmission system: In a signal transmitter for a multiple differential transmission system including the signal transmitter, a signal receiver, and a signal transmission path including first to third signal lines, first to third differential driver transmit first to third output signals and inverted first to third output signals from the first to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090122200 - Apparatus for modifying part of broadcast ts: An apparatus comprises means (31) for receiving a broadcast TS (transport stream) and detecting layer information in each broadcast TS packet, means (32) for delaying the broadcast TS, means (37) for inputting an MPEG-TS for rewriting, means (33) for generating a signal for selecting a delayed broadcast TS packet when... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090122201 - Device, system and method of switching communication between wireless video modules: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of switching between frequency channels in wireless communication. An apparatus may include, for example, a wireless video source module capable of automatically switching from performing wireless video communication with a first wireless video destination module to performing wireless video communication with a... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090122202 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system utilizing mull packet and trs code to improve receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission and/or reception system having an improved reception performance and a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a TRS encoder for to TRS-encode a MPEG-2 transmission stream having null data for inserting a Known data and a TRS parity at predetermined positions, randomizer to input... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090122203 - Demodulator, method and receiver for demodulation: Demodulator for demodulating an input signal, comprising a complex-valued equalizer configured to equalize complex valued echoes within said input signal, wherein said complex-valued equalizer outputs a complex valued equalized signal; and a PLL circuit (209) including a PLL sub-unit (340), wherein said complex valued equalized signal (336) or a derivative... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090122204 - Receiving devices: A network includes a service provider, a plurality of transmitters and a receiving device. The receiving device identifies the frequencies at which broadcast services are provided by a transmitter local to the receiving device. A search is carried out until a signal is received by the receiving device (S4.1). Then,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090122205 - Method and apparatus for performing a channel search: A receiver, such as an HDTV receiver or a Personal Video Recorder (PVR), includes a plurality of tuners. Each tuner is adapted to receive television signals (RF1,RF2) comprising a plurality of channels and communicate the received television signals to a processor. A channel search or autoprogramming routine is disclosed for... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090122206 - Remote controller for setting mode according to state of broadcast receiving apparatus: A remote control apparatus for setting a mode according to a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus is provided. The remote control apparatus sets operation modes based on information regarding a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus received from the broadcast receiving apparatus. The operation mode of the remote control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090122208 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes: a main information receiver which receives main information; a video processor which processes a main video corresponding to the received main information; a display unit which displays the main video thereon; a sub information communicator which receives sub information comprising at least one of a video,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090122207 - Image display apparatus, image display monitor, and television receiver: In the first display mode, a first tone converting circuit and a second tone converting circuit of a control LSI divide one frame period of an input image signal into a plurality of sub-frame periods to perform output to a display panel, thus realizing image display performed by time-division driving... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090115836 - Real-time mobile conferencing solution: A method of conferencing communication devices in a system having (i) a conference server, (ii) a voice interface unit (VIU), and (iii) at least one conference bridge, the method including, at a first communication device: (a) establishing a first connection between the VIU and the first communication device via the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090115838 - System and method for high resolution videoconferencing: A system and method for high resolution video conferencing is shown and described. A transmitting station and a receiving station including video cameras or sensors, a plurality of microphones and speakers, video, audio and communication processing engines are disclosed. Video is processed and transferred through the system allowing for multiple... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090115837 - Systems and methods for implementing internet video conferencing using standard phone calls: A video conferencing system (100) includes a switch (125), a server (140), a telephony device (152), and a node (102) in a packet-switched network (135). The switch (125) establishes a circuit-switched connection between a calling party number and a called party number. The server (140) associates first and second network... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090115835 - Visually enhancing a conference: A method for visually enhancing a conference includes receiving a first request to enhance a first object. The method also includes establishing a visual conference between at least a local participant and a remote participant. The method additionally includes receiving a visual communication and detecting a reference to the first... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090115839 - Ip telecommunication system, method for controlling communication in ip network, client terminal and client server: A network communication system when a call is issued from one of said input/output terminal and said communication terminal, said call control means provided on the side of said server establishes the call connection between said input/output terminal and said communication terminal; and when the call connection between said input/output... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090115841 - Controller for photographing apparatus and photographing system: A picture photographed by a camera portion is sent to a video capturing portion of a computer. The picture is displayed in an operation area of a monitor. A panorama picture of which pictures in part or all moving range of a pan tiler are combined is displayed in a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090115840 - Mobile terminal and panoramic photographing method for the same: A mobile terminal and panoramic photographing method for the same are provided. The panoramic photographing method includes displaying a preview image upon selection of a panoramic mode, successively capturing a first partial image and second partial image in response to input of a shooting start signal, setting a photographing direction... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090115842 - Image display apparatus: The image display apparatus includes first and second display elements displaying partial images of a single image, and first and second optical elements each having first, second, and third surfaces. The first and second optical elements respectively allow light fluxes from the first and second display elements to enter the... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090115843 - Interactive television system and method: A system and method for simulating a user's participation at an event. The system and method including providing a virtual queue or line for meeting and obtaining an autograph of a celebrity, attending a live event and/or for purchasing an item. The system and method include providing video and audio... Agent: Ungaretti & Harris LLP Intellectual Property Group - Patents

20090115844 - Underwater digital camera: An underwater digital camera includes an image capturing unit, an underwater conditions sensing unit, a memory, and a processor. The image capturing unit is used for capturing images. The underwater condition sensing unit is used for sensing underwater conditions. The processor is used for writing the underwater conditions into the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090115845 - Method and system for inverse telecine and scene change detection of progressive video: Certain aspects of a method and system for inverse telecine and scene change detection of progressive video may include determining a cadence, for example, 3:2 or 2:2 pulldown, and phase of received progressive input pictures. A difference between two or more consecutive received progressive input pictures may be determined. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090115847 - Electronic automobile proximity viewer: An electronic automobile proximity viewer for with a viewscreen mounted on a dashboard of an automobile, and one or more digital camera units mounted at peripheral locations of an automobile. From the view screen the use can select which image from which camera unit to view, and can direct the... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20090115846 - Mounting construction for a facial image photographic camera: A facial image photographic device for vehicle mounting includes a facial image photographic camera which photographs the face of a driver of a vehicle while the vehicle is running, and a changeover device. The changeover device changes over a utilization environment of the facial image photographic camera between a position... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090115848 - Multidirectional traffic image capturing method and electronic police system: This invention relates to a multidirectional traffic image capturing method and an electronic police system. This method adopts forward direction camera and side direction camera to capture images of the traffic condition and can obtain qualified images through regularly adjusting the direction of side direction camera with main control unit.... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090115849 - Controlling a point of sale ('pos') terminal using surveillance video: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for controlling a Point Of Sale (‘POS’) terminal using surveillance video that include: receiving, by a surveillance module, a digital surveillance video of a region adjacent to a POS terminal, the digital surveillance video captured by a digital surveillance camera; identifying, by the surveillance... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090115850 - Mobile object image tracking apparatus and method: A mobile object image tracking apparatus includes at least one unit rotating about at least one axis, a camera sensor photographing a mobile object to acquire image data, a unit detecting a tracking error as a tracking error detection value, a unit detecting an angle of the rotary unit, a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090115851 - Method for estimating the motion in image processing: m

20090115853 - Image processing system and electronic camera: The image processing system is an image processing system including an electronic camera and an image output device, in which the electronic camera includes an image pickup unit capturing an object image by an image sensor and outputting raw data of a digital format, a recording unit recording the raw... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090115854 - Information display apparatus, information display method, imaging apparatus, and image data sending method for use with imaging apparatus: Disclosed herein is an information display apparatus including a wireless reception section configured to receive image data and position information acquired and sent by a plurality of imaging apparatuses constituting a wireless network; an image display section configured to display images; and a display control section configured to display on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090115852 - 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

20090115855 - Photography apparatus, control method, program, and information processing device: A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090115856 - Camera and method: A camera which can obtain an image without image blur is disclosed. The camera which obtains a synthesized image whose exposure has been corrected by synthesizing a plurality of images obtained through successive image-taking, comprising: a detection unit which detects, with respect to a reference image, amounts of displacement on... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090115857 - Image capturing apparatus providing image blur information and method thereof: A method for providing image blur information is applied to a photographing mode of image capturing apparatus of which a shooting shutter speed is greater than a safe shutter speed, the method comprising the steps of: capturing a long exposure image in the shooting shutter speed and a short exposure... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090115858 - Apparatus and method for digital image stabilization using object tracking: Apparatus for digital image stabilization using object tracking can produce a digital still image free of an image blurring phenomenon caused by shaky hands without separate hardware and can produce an image that is bright, clear, and noise free. The apparatus includes an image signal processing unit that outputs a... Agent: Jones Day

20090115859 - Apparatus for digital image stabilization using object tracking and method thereof: Apparatus for digital image stabilization using object tracking includes an image signal processing unit that outputs a first digital image obtained under a first exposure value condition and a plurality of second digital images obtained under a second exposure value condition. The apparatus also includes a shaky hand compensating unit... Agent: Jones Day

20090115860 - Image pickup device: The image pickup device 1 comprises an image sensor 12 having an acceptance surface to pick up an image focused on the acceptance surface via a lens 11, an image stabilization section 13 for stabilizing the image by compensating a blur occurring in the image on the basis of at... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090115861 - Recording apparatus: Still image data generated in response to an instruction for starting the recording of movie data is recorded in such a manner as to be associated with the movie data, and information indicating that the still image data associated with the movie data has been recorded is displayed in response... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090115865 - Automatic image-capturing apparatus, automatic image-capturing control method, image display system, image display method, display control apparatus, and display control method: An automatic image-capturing apparatus including an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject so as to obtain captured image data; an automatic captured-image obtaining unit configured to automatically obtain the captured image data obtained by the image-capturing unit without being based on an operation of a user;... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090115862 - Geo-tagging of moving pictures: A method for acquiring moving images according to the present invention is also described, where the method may be implemented by the image acquisition equipment for moving images as well as computer program which may execute the method steps. Also, the present invention describes a method for storing supplementary data... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090115866 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a moving image generating unit configured to generate moving image data, an instructions providing unit configured to set a frame rate of the moving image data and provide instructions to change a frame rate to the set frame rate, a control unit configured to control... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090115867 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and program recording medium: An image processing apparatus generating a thin line binary image and extracting vectors includes: a vector extracting unit configured to raster-scan the thin line binary image by using a pixel matrix including a plurality of pixels to extract a vector to which contour point information is added in accordance with... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090115864 - Imaging apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program: An imaging apparatus includes the following elements. An operation acceptance unit accepts an operation input to specify an attribute associated with a predetermined object. An imaging unit converts incoming light from a subject into a captured image. An object detection unit detects one or more objects included in the captured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090115868 - Photographing device and method of controlling the same: A photographing device for photographing a subject is provided. The photographing device includes a face recognition unit recognizing a face included in an image of the subject; a distance calculation unit calculating a distance between each of a plurality of faces when the plurality of faces are recognized by the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090115863 - Portable terminal having touch screen and method for processing image therein: A portable terminal having a touch screen and a method for processing an image therein are provided. The portable terminal includes a camera unit for photographing an image, a touch screen for displaying the photographed image, a controller for generating, if a substantially continuous drawing motion is detected on the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090115870 - Image processing apparatus, computer-readable recording medium recording image processing program, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes: interpolation G calculating units that calculate a plurality of types of G interpolation candidates Gt for an X (X is R or B) pixel of a G pixel missing position in an RGB Bayer array image; subtracting units that calculate a plurality of types of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090115869 - Photographing apparatus and photographing method: Disclosed is a photographing apparatus of interlace transferring type comprising a photographing device which carries out transfer of electrification of all pixels stored in the photographing device by dividing into a plurality of fields when transferring the electrification, which has a plurality of color filters and which includes a color... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090115871 - Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device: A camera device comprises an optical system driven to a predetermined position upon initialization when a photographing mode has been set, a memory including an area for storing lens information inherent to the optical system, an area for storing a file management program, and a management area which is managed... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090115873 - Method of controlling digital camera for testing pictures, and digital camera using the method: A method of controlling a digital camera, and a digital camera using the method, the method being capable of ensuring that an appropriate storage space of a memory is provided so as to store images taken in a predetermined mode at all times. The method includes: (a) setting a mode... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090115872 - System and method for processing images captured using camera-equipped mobile devices: A system and method for processing images on a camera-equipped mobile device. Upon direction from the user that a picture is to be taken with the camera of the mobile device, an image is initially captured and temporarily stored at a first resolution (e.g. a maximum resolution). This may be,... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090115874 - Image sensors, color filter arrays included in the image sensors, and image pickup apparatuses including the image sensors: A color filter array may include two or more yellow filter pixels, one or more green filter pixels, and one or more cyan filter pixels. The two or more yellow filter pixels may be disposed in a first row or rows in a first direction. The one or more green... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090115875 - Image sensor module and fabrication method thereof: An image sensor module having a sensor chip closely adhered on a concave surface and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The image sensor module includes at least one sensor chip, at least one sensor chip-mounting structure comprising a substrate and a polymer layer formed on the substrate, the polymer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090115876 - Solid-state imaging apparatus, driving method thereof, camera, and copier: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of unit cells, each including a plurality of pixels having mutually different color components and a first selecting unit outputting one of the signals from the plurality of pixels selectively. The unit cells are classified into groups. The solid-state imaging apparatus further includes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090115877 - Method for reading a two-dimensional matrix of pixels and device for implementing such a method: s

20090115878 - Method, system and apparatus to boost pixel floating diffusion node voltage: A method, apparatus and system providing a pixel within an imaging device in which a separate power source is used for resetting a floating diffusion node from a power source used for pixel operating power.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090115880 - Image pickup apparatus and display controlling method therefor: An image pickup apparatus capable of improving operability in the video light mode. The image pickup apparatus images an object and comprises a first display unit adapted to display a video of the imaged object or solid white, a second display unit adapted to display a video of the imaged... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090115879 - Information management method and digital camera: An information management method and digital camera which can reduce the burden on a user in terms of information management, while ensuring security, are provided. The invention provides a digital camera including an image-acquisition unit for acquiring image information; an ID reading unit for reading identification information of a wireless... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon

20090115881 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal, comprises: a terminal body provided with a display unit to output visual information relating to a capturing mode, and having wireless communication functions; a touch input unit provided at the display unit, and configured to input information when at least one of the visual information is touched;... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090115882 - Image-pickup apparatus and control method for image-pickup apparatus: The image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element including first type pixels photoelectrically converting an object image formed by a light flux from an optical system and second type pixels photoelectrically converting plural images formed by plural light fluxes divided from the light flux from the optical system, a controller performing... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090115883 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system which forms an image of a subject. An image sensor converts the image formed by the optical system into a video signal. A focus operating unit changes the focusing status produced by the optical system according to a manual operation. An autofocus... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090115885 - Imaging system with improved image quality and associated methods: An image capturing device may include a detector including a plurality of sensing pixels, and an optical system adapted to project a distorted image of an object within a field of view onto the sensing pixels, wherein the optical system expands the image in a center of the field of... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20090115884 - Variable power optical system, imaging lens device and digital apparatus:

20090115886 - Auto-focus method and digital camera: An auto-focus method for camera is provided. First, a digital signal processor sets a first parameter p and a second parameter q. An image capture unit captures an only image. Then, the digital signal processor utilizes the only image, the first parameter p and the second parameter q to compute... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090115887 - Imaging apparatus and method: If an aperture of the objective-imaging is the same as an aperture when a state has turned into a focused state with autofocus before the objective-imaging or if an F value of the objective-imaging is equal to or greater than an F value when a state has turned into a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090115888 - Exposure apparatus and method of manufacturing device: An exposure apparatus according to this invention comprises a detector configured to obliquely project detection light to a surface of a substrate and to detect a position of the surface based on the detection by the detector, and exposes the substrate to radiant energy based on the calculated position of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090115889 - Multi-angle mirror: Multi-angle mirror methods and related systems.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090115890 - Protection case for cameras which are capable of transmitting a video signal: A protection case (10) for cameras (22), which are capable of transmitting a digital video signal, wherein the case (10) is equipped with fittings that require an appropriate supply voltage for their operation; the case (10) has internally at least one splitter (17), which is connected to the supply mains... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090115891 - Camera module: Provided is a camera module providing EMS shielding, so that electromagnetic waves generated in the camera module are prevented from radiating to the outside and external electromagnetic waves or noise are prevented from flowing into the camera module. The camera module includes: a lens unit comprising at least one lens;... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20090115892 - Imaging system and method: An imaging system includes: an imaging section adapted to capture an image; a setup information storage section adapted to store setup information relating to the operational setup of the imaging section; a selection condition detection section adapted to detect a selection condition for selecting given setup information from the setup... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090115893 - Transitioning between two high resolution video sources: A method of transitioning between two high resolution video signals includes replacing a first image which is a frame of a first video signal with a lower resolution copy of the first image; and fading out the lower resolution copy of the first image to reveal a second image from... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090115894 - Video playback control method and black bar elimination module used in a video playback device: A video playback control method adapted for a video playback device including the following steps. First, at least one source frame is fetched, with the source frame being corresponding to the video content that is to be displayed on the video playback device. Next, a first aspect ratio of the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090115895 - Display data generating apparatus: The present invention aims at providing a display data generating apparatus capable of generating subtitle display data suitable for respective videos. A display data generating apparatus of the present invention has a subject determination section that determines a subject appearing on a screen on the basis of viewpoint information and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090115896 - Method and apparatus for automatic audio standard detection in terrestrial broadcast signals: A method and apparatus for automatic audio standard detection in terrestrial broadcast signals is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of detecting automatic audio standard for terrestrial broadcast includes scanning for each known audio frequency standard of interest in a current band energy spectrum in an incoming broadcast signal using... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090115897 - Transmission device: The identification information processing unit receives identification information identifying the reception device from a reception device, and generates decoded identification information indicating the decoded value of the received identification information. The parameter value selection unit selects the first parameter value when the decoded identification information includes an information representing a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090115898 - Method and system for selectively viewing broadcast channel in particular place: A method and system for selectively viewing a broadcast channel in a particular place is provided. A method of selectively viewing a broadcast channel in a particular place includes: receiving image information associated with different locations of the particular place from a plurality of imaging devices; receiving sound information associated... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090115899 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: There is provided an image processing apparatus for temporarily stopping reproduction of an accumulation image automatically when a display mode for displaying a broadcast image (image obtained from a broadcast wave) and the accumulation image (image obtained from a storage medium) is switched to a display mode for displaying only... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090115900 - Television and method for adding datafiles therein: A television includes a device memory for storing a plurality of data files; an interface for connecting an external device to the television; and a detector used for detecting whether the external device is connected to the television and detecting whether the external device has files, and generating a file... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090115902 - Display apparatus with counterprogram checking function: A display apparatus makes it possible to check video contents of another video source while continuing to watch a presently watched program. A first region for displaying first video contents, and a second region for displaying selection icons to select second video contents different from the first video contents are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090115901 - Method and device for handling multiple video streams using metadata: A method and device for dynamically overlaying two or more video streams uses specialized metadata that are attached to at least one of the video streams.... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090115903 - Audio/video separator: An audio/video separator provides a high-performance and cost-effective solution to analog TV reception with only one A/D converter and a minimum of analog IF components. The apparatus may operate on a digitized TV signal and, when integrated with a digital video processor, process video signals while separating audio signals. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090115904 - System and method of displaying a video stream: The present disclosure is generally directed to a video stream processing system and to a method of displaying a video stream. In a particular embodiment, the method includes, during a first time period, displaying a first version of a received video stream while recovering a second version of the received... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090115905 - High definition media content processing: High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite output using an optimum set of graphics processing instructions. In another... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090115906 - Blue stretch using restricted color range and soft transition boundary: System and method for increasing the blue component of white and near white pixels while avoiding hard transitions and without affecting flesh-tone colors. Pixels that are bright enough and fall within a detection area in the UV-plane have their blue components increased and their red components decreased. The detection area... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090115907 - Image display apparatus and image display method: An image display apparatus includes an image displaying unit that includes a light source unit and a light modulation device, a histogram generating unit, a light source luminance calculator, a function storing unit, a first evaluation value calculator, a second evaluation value calculator, a third evaluation value calculator, a function... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090115908 - Method and system for automatically turning off motion compensation when motion vectors are inaccurate: Certain aspects of a method and system for automatically turning off motion compensation when motion vectors are inaccurate may include determining quality of a plurality of generated motion vectors. The interpolation of a plurality of output pictures may be controlled based on the determined quality. A plurality of original input... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090115909 - Method and system for motion estimation around a fixed reference vector using a pivot-pixel approach: Certain aspects of a method and system for motion estimation around a fixed reference vector using a pivot pixel approach may include pivoting each of the plurality of pixels in an output picture to perform a sub-pixel search in a plurality of directions around a reference vector. A plurality of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090115910 - Video signal processing method, video signal processing apparatus, and display apparatus: In one embodiment of the present invention, a video signal processing method is disclosed wherein video correction data is read from a ROM and written into an LUT, and the video correction data written in the LUT is used to perform data correction of an externally inputted video signal. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090115911 - Methods for transmitting digital multimedia and data over the same wires: A method of transmitting a data stream over a communication channel, the method comprising: providing symbol sets having different numbers of symbols; modulating data in the data stream that warrant different degrees of protection against noise onto symbols from symbol sets having different numbers of symbols, wherein which symbol set... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090115912 - Television signal receiver capable of cancelling linear and non-linear distortion: A television signal receiver comprises: a tuner, an optional IF conditioner, an IF distortion canceller, and an IF demodulator. The tuner selects one channel from a radio frequency television signal to generate an intermediate frequency signal. The IF conditioner outputs an IF conditioned signal. The IF distortion canceller cancels a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090115913 - Digital television receiving device and a method for adjusting digital television signals: The present invention relates to a digital television receiving device and a method for adjusting digital television signals thereof. The method comprises: receiving a GPS signal; obtaining a moving velocity of the digital television receiving device according to the GPS signal; looking up a parameter table to obtain one frequency... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090115914 - Method for estimating frequency offsets and frequency offset estimation circuit thereof: A method for estimating frequency offsets is disclosed. The method includes shifting a target signal from a first specific frequency band to a second specific frequency band to generate a pre-offset signal according to a frequency shifting direction, performing a specific filtering operation upon the pre-offset signal to generate a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090115915 - Camera based feedback loop calibration of a projection device: A system is provided for projecting a calibrated image. The system includes a projector to project an uncalibrated image. A processor-based digital image acquisition device is in communication with the projector and is disposed to acquire the projected, uncalibrated image. The device is also programmed to compensate for one or... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090115916 - Projector and projection method: A projector includes: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a projection target image (an original image or a corrected image) projected by the projector on a projection surface; a shape model hold unit that holds shape models; a model selection unit that selects a projection surface shape... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090115917 - Speckle reduction method: A projection apparatus comprising a light source for projecting an illumination light through an illumination optical system to a spatial light modulator (SLM) for modulating the illumination light for generating and transmitting an image projection light to an image projection surface through a projection optical system to display an image.... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090115918 - Oscillating element, manufacturing method of oscillating element, optical scanning device, image forming device and image display device: An oscillating element which can improve the adhesiveness thereof with an actuator is disclosed. In an oscillating element which includes a substrate which is configured to support an oscillation portion in an oscillating manner, and a driving layer which is configured to oscillate the oscillation portion, the driving layer including... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090115919 - Flat panel display: Space is decreased in the direction of thickness on a side of a substrates mounted on a back of a flat panel display to adapt requirement for increasing and thinning its size, and most flat panel displays forcibly radiate heat with a fan provided thereon. The present invention provides a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP