Television inventions 08/09

20090213204 - Video capture device: A video capture device comprises an image sensor, a voice sensor, a control circuit, and a battery module all installed in a housing. The housing comprises a fixture capable of being fixed at a shoulder position of clothing. The image sensor is arranged at a proper angle to capture facial... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090213205 - Remote control of videoconference clients: Computer-readable media, having corresponding methods and apparatus, embodies instructions executable by a first computer to perform a method comprising: executing a first videoconference client application, wherein the first videoconference client application exchanges first audiovisual data with a videoconference server application during a videoconference; sending action commands to a second videoconference... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090213206 - Aggregation of video receiving capabilities: Video receiving capabilities of participants and source capabilities are compared and conference capabilities for providing different resolutions, frame rates, bit rate, and number of streams are determined by maintaining a conference receiving capability list updated as number and capability of participants' changes. Preferred receiving capabilities of participants are also taken... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090213207 - System and method for single action initiation of a video conference: A method is provided for configuring a video conference endpoint. The method comprises receiving session data that comprises endpoint connection data for remote endpoints associated with scheduled conferences, and receiving a signal from a user interface indicating a user has activated a control associated with a selected conference, identifying the... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20090213208 - Panoramic camera: An improved camera for the acquisition of panoramic images is disclosed. The camera comprises a convex photochromic reflector directed towards an image capture element. Multiple incoming light sensors around the perimeter of the camera detect strong incoming light and cause the activation of a corresponding UV light. The UV light... Agent: Michael R. Kahn

20090213209 - Monitoring system for a photography unit, monitoring method, computer program, and storage medium: A coverage area picture imaging a maximum area is displayed on a coverage area picture display. A camera is moved within a predetermined range and a plurality of frames obtained as a result form a picture. The pixels of the picture is decimated in vertical and horizontal directions and form... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090213210 - Device for displaying a three dimensional image: A digital display system is disclosed, wherein the display system generally includes a recording mechanism, such as a digital camera, a processing mechanism for processing and saving at least one image; software for interlacing the image; software for processing slides and movies comprised of multiple images; a digital display device... Agent: Jason S. Miller Moretz & Skufca, Pllc

20090213212 - Image pickup system and endoscope system: An image pickup system includes an image pickup unit having a solid-state image pickup device, for example, CMOS. A processor controls the image pickup device and receives an image signal from the image pickup unit with a signal line in serial transmission. The processor includes a clock and data recovery... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090213211 - Method and device for reducing the fixed pattern noise of a digital image: A method or a device that reduces fixed pattern noise in an image captured by a digital image device and adjusts the reduction based on the level of FPN, preferably on an area-by-area basis or on a pixel-by-pixel basis.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20090213213 - Method of monitoring a surface feature and apparatus therefor: Dimensions of a surface feature are determined by capturing an image of the surface feature and determining a scale associated with the image. Structured light may be projected onto the surface, such that the position of structured light in the captured image allows determination of scale. A non-planar surface may... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090213214 - Microscope system, image generating method, and program for practising the same: A microscope system has a VS image generation means for generating a virtual slide image of a specimen which is constructed by mutually connecting a plurality of microscope images with a first photomagnification photographed and acquired whenever an objective lens and the specimen are relatively moved in a direction perpendicular... Agent: Gibbons P.c.

20090213215 - Defect inspection apparatus and method: In a defect inspection apparatus for inspecting a wafer provided with a circuit pattern for defects, the illuminating direction of illuminating light rays is selectively determined such that an area containing a defect that scatters light of high intensity coincides with the aperture of a dark-field detecting system, and such... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090213216 - Performing a process on a workpiece: Features such as holes 10 in a component which may be an aerofoil component of a gas turbine engine are re-drilled after initial formation, for example to remove blockages created in a coating process. In order to ensure that re-drilling occurs at the precise location of the initial holes, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090213217 - Security camera capable of preventing spiders: A security camera capable of preventing spiders by generating frequencies that pest or spiders detest, includes a key input part for inputting and setting condition of temperature and humidity and controlling ON/OFF operation, an ultrasonic wave generating part for generating ultrasonic waves and outputting the same via speakers, a humidity... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090213218 - System and method for multi-resolution storage of images: A data-storage method includes capturing video data, identifying an object of which a high-resolution image is desired, the object being represented by a subset of the captured video data, compressing, to a first resolution, the subset of the captured video data, and compressing, to a second resolution, data of the... Agent: Winstead Pc

20090213219 - Visually tracking an object in real world using 2d appearance and multicue depth estimations: Estimating the dynamic states of a real-world object over time using a camera, two dimensional (2D) image information and a combination of different measurements of the distance between the object and the camera. The 2D image information is used to track a 2D position of the object as well as... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090213220 - Active monitoring system with multi-spot image display and a method thereof: An active monitoring system with multi-spot image display and a method thereof are disclosed. The active monitoring system includes at least one image-obtaining module, at least one image-receiving module, and at least one image-display module. The image-obtaining modules respectively obtain a dynamic image and generate a triggering signal according to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090213221 - Monitoring system, method for monitoring object entering room, and computer readable storage medium: An entry monitoring system to monitor an object entering a room includes a door control apparatus configured to control opening of a door, and a monitoring apparatus configured to monitor the object entering the room by an image capturing apparatus. The door control apparatus controls the door to open when... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090213222 - System for tracking a moving object, by using particle filtering: In a tracking system for tracking a moving object by using a particle filter, the particle filter is configured to arrange particles initially, in a standby state, in a given background region provided in the screen of a camera and to rearrange the particles with respect to the moving object... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090213223 - Testing system for a video card and a testing method thereof: A testing system includes a computer (10) and a signal switching adapter (30). The computer includes a test signal generating element (19) and a microprocessor (15). The test signal generating element is capable of generating an original test signal. The microprocessor (15) is capable of communicating with the test signal... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090213224 - Fast imaging system calibration: Systems and methods are disclosed for calibrating an imaging system comprising a processing unit communicatively coupled to one or more imaging devices. The imaging system may also include a display. In an embodiment, a sequence of display features are displayed on a display, and imaged by the imaging device or... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090213225 - Apparatus and method for forming and displaying high dynamic range (hdr) images: Apparatus and method of forming and displaying high dynamic range (HDR) images for various purposes including the testing of image capture devices, such as cameras. A display device has a display panel carrying a plurality of rendered images formed from image data of a scene. At least one light source... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090213226 - Low-cost and pixel-accurate test method and apparatus for testing pixel generation circuits: A method and system of testing pixels output from a pixel generation unit under test includes generating pixels from the pixel generation unit under test using a first test data pattern to generate pixel information. The method and system also generate a per pixel error value for a pixel from... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.c.

20090213227 - Digital camera for use in connection with computer systems and related methods: A computer system includes a server configured to host a website for displaying images having at least one of a plurality of image categories associated therewith, and at least one digital camera operable to capture and communicate the images to the server. The digital camera includes an image sensor, and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20090213228 - Method for specifying image handling for images on a portable device: A method and system for enabling a user to specify and automate file handling in a portable image capture device is provided, wherein the device includes at least one stored file and is capable of communicating with a computer over a network. An action list is downloaded from the computer... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20090213230 - Image capture method and system: An image capture method for capturing an image with a single lens is provided. The method includes: (a) sequentially moving an image capture unit to predetermined positions; (b) sequentially capturing a plurality of frames of images by the image capture unit at the predetermined positions, wherein at least one image... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090213229 - Surveillance system: A security system and method for operating same. The method includes; providing a surveillance system including a plurality of application specific integrated circuits that communicate with one another over a main system bus, wherein each of the plurality of application specific integrated circuits perform one or more predetermined functions within... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20090213231 - Video camera: A video camera includes an image sensor which repeatedly outputs an object scene image produced on an imaging surface by an exposure operation of a focal-plane electronic shutter system in a raster scanning manner. A post-processing circuit extracts a partial object scene image belonging to an extraction area, out of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090213236 - Micro-optical image stabilizer: The optical image stabilizer includes a substrate, a carrier movably disposed on the substrate for carrying an image sensor, an anchor fixed on the substrate, a conducting pad fixed on the anchor for coupling an image processing circuit, a flexible suspension disposed between the conducting pad and the carrier, a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090213235 - Image pickup apparatus and recording medium: An image pickup apparatus according to the present invention comprises an image pickup unit for obtaining an image, the image pickup unit including an image pickup element and an image pickup optical system which includes an aperture stop and forms the image on the image pickup element, a synthesis instruction... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090213232 - Image pickup device: An image pickup device by which the size of a device main body can be reduced and the assembly process can be easily automated. In the image pickup device, a wiring (118) and relay terminals (115, 116, 117, 119) for electrically connecting a shutter driving section (114) with a shutter... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090213233 - Imaging apparatus: Problems, such as unevenness of exposure, caused by the difference in speed between a first curtain and a second curtain and a positional shift between the curtains (the occurrence of an edge darkening phenomenon) can be prevented. In addition, power consumption is reduced. When the shutter speed is set to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090213234 - Method of full frame video stabilization: A method of full-frame video stabilization with a polyline-fitted camcorder path is disclosed. The regions was first considered of interest in the video to estimate which regions or objects the user wants to capture, and then use a polyline to estimate a new stable camcorder motion path while avoiding the... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090213237 - Image capturing apparatus and image capturing apparatus control method: The system control unit executes the following control when switching the mode from the first mode to the second one. When the first accumulation period is shorter than the first readout period, the system control unit controls the image sensor driving circuit and readout circuit so that the sum of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20090213242 - Image capture module and applications thereof: An image capture module includes a user interface module, an optical system module, and a coupling module. The user interface module is operably coupled to detect a request to capture an image and generate a capture command signal in response to detecting the request. The optical system module is operably... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090213238 - Image capturing apparatus: The present invention provides an image capturing apparatus comprising an image capturing element configured to convert an optical image into an image signal, a signal processing unit configured to apply signal processing to the image signal and to output the processed image signal, a super-resolution processing unit configured to apply,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20090213241 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images, an object recognition unit configured to recognize an object of interest existing in any one of the images acquired by the image acquisition unit, a background evaluation unit configured to evaluate an image existing... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090213239 - Imaging device and method for its image processing: An imaging device, such as a camera, may be provided with a focus-shift structure configured to shift a focal position; a solid-state image sensing element configured to convert an optical image of a photographing subject to image data; and an image processing unit including a face region detecting unit and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090213240 - Method and apparatus for processing three-dimensional (3d) images: Provided is point-based efficient three-dimensional (3D) information representation from a color image that is obtained from a general Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)/Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) camera, and a depth image that is obtained from a depth camera. A 3D image processing method includes storing a depth image associated with an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090213243 - Shading compensation device, shading compensation value calculation device and imaging device: A shading compensation device which compensates for shading which differs for respective colors. A pixel counter counts co-ordinate positions of image data which is supplied from a black level correction section. A relative position calculation section compares the image data with compensation value tables and calculates relative co-ordinate positions of... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20090213244 - Apparatus and method for correcting backlight of camera: An apparatus and method for correcting the backlight of a camera are disclosed. When the camera for photographing a moving image by a photographing device, such as a general-purpose CCD or a general-purpose CMOS, enters into a backlight shooting state for simultaneously photographing an object with a very high luminance... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090213245 - Linking captured images using short range communications: Methods and apparatus for linking captured images using short range communications or a personal area network are described. In an embodiment, an image capture device is described which detects devices in proximity to the device and stores data identifying the devices and the times when they were in proximity. In... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090213246 - Camera: A camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject created by a photographic lens, creates an image to be recorded when a release start command is issued, and creates a through image for composition confirmation before starting of the release; a body in which the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090213247 - Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method , and image pickup control program: When flash photography is performed, an exposure time at the time of the preliminary light emission of a flash is set as short as possible so that the appropriate amount of light required for the main light emission of the flash can be accurately computed regardless of the amount of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090213249 - Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which has an image sensor, a storage unit which stores foreign substance information of a foreign substance adhering to an optical element arranged in front of the image sensor, a buffer unit which temporarily stores the image signal output from the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20090213248 - Image sensor capable of reducing noises: An image sensor capable of reducing noises includes a pixel array, a control circuit and a correlation double sampling (CDS) circuit array. The CDS circuit array is coupled between the pixel array and the control circuit, and includes a plurality of CDS circuit units, of which each CDS circuit unit... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090213250 - Internal storage of camera characteristics during production: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for storing camera module characteristics of a camera module (or camera) of an electronic device provided during production (e.g., a factory testing) of the electronic device in a non-volatile memory of the camera module, such that the camera... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090213251 - Imaging apparatus and imaging device: An imaging device having five color filters. The five color filters include three color filters of a R (red) filter, a G (green) filter, and a B (blue) filter of a primary color system and two color filters of a Y (yellow) filter and a C (cyan) filter of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090213252 - Image sensor: An image sensor capable of canceling crosstalk without reduction of a signal to noise ratio (SNR) to improve a sensitivity includes a plurality of light detection units and a filter array including a plurality of filters, with each of the plurality of filters being deposited on a corresponding one of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20090213254 - Solid-state image pickup device and electronic instruments: A solid-state image pickup device which includes a circuit board provided with a hole and with a circuit layer formed thereon, a solid-state image pickup element housed in the hole and having an upper surface constituting a light-receiving face and electrodes formed on a peripheral portion of the upper surface,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090213253 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged into a matrix, each pixel containing a photoelectric conversion section for converting an incident light into signal electric charges, an accumulation section for accumulating the signal electric charges, a transfer section for transferring the signal... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090213257 - Image sensor: Provided is an image sensor that may reduce the number of external terminals for downsizing of a chip, generate a write signal (RE) of a Y address with one pulse, and employ an external circuit having the same configuration as that of the conventional example. The image sensor uses an... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/seiko Instruments Inc.

20090213256 - Solid-state imaging device and camera: Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device which includes a group of elements, the group including at least color photoelectric conversion elements configured to convert light signals in first, second, and third wavelength ranges to electric signals, respectively, a white photoelectric conversion element configured to convert light signals in the wavelength... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090213255 - Solid-state imaging device and electronic camera: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional array, a scanning circuit that selects a specific pixel among the pixels by selecting a pixel row and a pixel column and a signal output circuit that outputs a signal from the pixel selected by the scanning... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090213259 - Correlation double sampling circuit for image sensor: A correlation double sampling (CDS) circuit for sampling a reset signal and a light-sensing signal outputted from a pixel column of an image sensor includes two sampling capacitors and four transistor switches. The operation of the CDS circuit needs not change polarities of the two sampling capacitors, such that MOS... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090213258 - Imaging array with improved dynamic range: An image sensor and a method for using the same are disclosed. The image sensor includes an array of pixel sensors, a signal digitizing circuit, and a digitizing controller. The array of pixel sensors includes a plurality of pixel sensors. Each pixel sensor includes a photodetector, a charge conversion circuit,... Agent: The Law Offices Of Calvin B. Ward

20090213260 - Solid-state image pickup device and control method thereof, and camera: An object of the invention is to cause a part of charge spilling from a photoelectric conversion unit to flow into a charge holding unit and thereby extend dynamic range and at the same time improve image quality. There is provided a solid-state image pickup device having a pixel including:... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090213261 - Timing generator and image scanning apparatus: A clock output from a quartz oscillator is input to a timing generator via a spread spectrum clock generator that spreads the spectrum of the clock. The clock is multiplexed by a phase locked loop to generate pixel clocks having the same frequency as a pixel frequency. The pixel clock... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090213262 - Attachment of wafer level optics: A technique for assembling camera modules that includes attaching optical elements, such as an optics stack, directly to the upper surface of an image sensor. A housing may be provided to partially surrounded the optics stack. Alternatively, the housing can be provided by a transfer molding process. This technique can... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090213263 - Imaging system and method for detecting target object: An imaging system includes an imaging device, a recognition device, a focus detector, a correcting device, and a selecting device. The imaging device is configured to capture an image formed by an imaging optics. The recognition device is configured to recognize a target object candidate in the image captured by... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20090213264 - Mobile entertainment and communication device: A mobile communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the Internet and remotely located telephones. The device includes one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data directly from the Internet and,... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, Llc

20090213265 - Signal inputting apparatus and signal inputting method: A signal inputting apparatus that receives first and second input image signals transmitted and extracts image data is provided. The apparatus includes a first interface unit and a second interface unit. The first interface unit is configured to receive a first input image signal transmitted, extract data from the first... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090213266 - Closed loop sub-carrier synchronization system: A system and method for synchronizing sub-carriers in a signal processing system. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise method steps and structure that receive a sampled signal. Various aspects may produce a synchronization signal based on the sampled signal. Various aspects may generate and store a cropped version... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090213267 - Video synchronization system: In one embodiment, a method for synchronizing a plurality of video signals received from one or more video sources is provided. The method includes providing one or more video sources and providing a codec including an internal reference oscillator. The method also includes generating a plurality of horizontal and vertical... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20090213268 - Television set integrated with a computer: A television set integrated with a computer is disclosed. The television set includes a display, a video/audio control unit, and a computer mother unit. A portion or whole of the display, the video/audio control unit, and the computer mother unit are integrated to incorporate the power of the computer.... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090213269 - Content slider: Systems and methods include displaying information associated with various media and/or items of media content. Certain aspects include receiving input that identifies a parameter characterizing one or more media or items of content. A plurality of values for the parameter may be identified, and in some cases, the plurality may... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090213270 - Video indexing and fingerprinting for video enhancement: Metadata associated with a video is used to enhance a display of the video. A fingerprint is calculated using a particular fingerprint algorithm for one or more frames or images of the video. The fingerprint is associated with metadata for the one or more frames or images, and the fingerprint... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090213271 - Video signal processing device and video signal processing method: According to one embodiment, an extraction module that extracts a high frequency component of a luminance signal, an acquisition module that acquires band histogram data according to amplitude levels with respect to one frame from the high frequency component of the luminance signal, a control module that applies gain control... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090213272 - Video processing apparatus and method for processing video signal: A video processing apparatus includes: a video processor that detects a video type based on an inter-frame difference of a video signal; an automatic image quality adjustment unit that determines an image quality adjusting set value based on the video type detected by the video processor; and an image quality... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090213273 - Apparatus and method for managing video audio setting information and program: A setting information database associates setting information used to output a video signal or an audio signal with a corresponding viewing condition. A setting information registration unit registers setting information and a corresponding viewing condition which have been received by a setting information reception unit so as to store them... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090213274 - Digital television signal reception: Apparatus and methods to receive and display digital television signals are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus to receive digital television signals comprises an antenna assembly (300) coupled to the signal processing circuitry and comprising a first antenna (310A) positioned to maximize reception in a first direction and a second... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090213275 - Digital interface for tuner-demodulator communications: An apparatus may include analog tuner circuitry, a digital unit to process incoming data, an analog interface to receive the processed data for conversion back into analog signals, and a first pin to output the analog signals on a link. A separate digital interface may be present and can be... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20090213276 - Receiver having a gain-controllable input stage: A receiver has an input stage (LNA) that comprises, in a signal direction from an input (SI) to an output (SO), an input transistor (Q1) and an attenuator (D1, D2, R7-R12, C2-C5). The attenuator provides an attenuation that depends on a control signal (VDC). The input stage comprises a transistor-biasing... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090213277 - Advertising apparatus: An advertising apparatus 10 including a generally flat base and a broad face 14 which forms an acute angle 16 with the generally flat base 12. Further, the broad face 14 includes several display portions 20, 22, and 18 which, in one non-limiting embodiment of the invention, are programmable. In... Agent: John G. Chupa

20090213279 - Projector system, projector, and remote controller: A projector system includes a projector which has a plurality of image input sections receiving image input signals, and a remote controller which remotely operates the projector, the remote controller including an operation unit which has a plurality of selection operation sections correlated to the plurality of image input sections,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090213278 - Remote control method and remote control apparatus: A remote control method for a device under control which selects one of an information signal of the device under control and an information signal from at least one external device is disclosed. The device under control is inquired about an information signal selection state when a key in common... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090207233 - Method and system for videoconference configuration: Systems and methods for providing camera configuration for points in a multi-point videoconference system are provided. First configuration information is determined for a first point of a multi-point videoconferencing system. Second configuration information is determined for a second point of the multi-point videoconferencing system. One or more first cameras at... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090207232 - Multipoint conference system, multipoint conference method, and program: A multipoint videoconference server is made to swiftly respond to a video switching request from a terminal and a degree of computational complexity is made lower. A server 300 decodes only m (1<m≦n) video streams selected from n terminals and stores video streams that need not be decoded in buffers.... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090207234 - Telepresence system for 360 degree video conferencing: Systems and methods for image processing, comprising receiving a video frame, coding a first portion of the video frame at a different quality than a second portion of the video frame, based on an optical property, and displaying the video frame.... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090207235 - Method for determining scattered disparity fields in stereo vision: In a system for stereo vision including two cameras shooting the same scene, a method is performed for determining scattered disparity fields when the epipolar geometry is known, which includes the steps of: capturing, through the two cameras, first and second images of the scene from two different positions; selecting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207236 - Focus actuated vergence: A system is disclosed for the vergence of images from a plurality of cameras, the system having: an first camera; a second camera disposed at some distance from that first camera; a focus adjustment whereby the focus of the first camera can be adjusted by a user; the focus adjustment... Agent: Bae Systems

20090207238 - Method and apparatus for determining view of stereoscopic image for stereo synchronization: Provided is a method and apparatus for determining stereo views of a stereoscopic image. The method includes: selecting a pair of first and second images from a pair of frames of the stereoscopic image, the pair of frames including a base view image and an additional view image. The method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090207237 - Method and device for autosterioscopic display with adaptation of the optimal viewing distance: A method for autostereoscopic viewing including encoding a matrix image on a display, the matrix image integrating a set of P view points of the same scene. The matrix image consists of image pixels, and P image pixels forming a 3D image including P view points. The display includes a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090207239 - Artificial eye system with drive means inside the eye-ball: An artificial eye system, comprising at least one eye unit (2,3) having an eye-ball comprising a rotating spherical shell (7,19) and drive means for rotating said spherical shell (7,19) about its center. The drive means comprise a magnetic member (11) and electrical coils (12,13,14,15). The magnetic member (11) as well... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090207240 - Electronic endoscope and endoscope system using same: The objective of the invention is to provide a type of electronic endoscope that can reduce the noise in the image pickup signal sent from the electronic endoscope, and a type of endoscope system using said electronic endoscope. Electronic endoscope 1 has solid-state image pickup element 12, A/D converter 30... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090207242 - Signal processing system: A user system includes a log read-out section for reading out setting state log data, a log data sending section for sending the setting state log data, and a restoration operation activating section for receiving a restore command and performs a restoration operation. A remote operation system includes a log... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090207241 - Three-dimensional-image forming device, three dimensional-image forming method and program: In a three-dimensional image forming device for forming a phantom three-dimensional image in accordance with an image of an inner face of a tubular structure to be observed, luminance information of pixels corresponding to a prescribed range of each frame image of the tubular structure is obtained under prescribed lighting... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090207243 - Device for examining workpieces: The invention relates to a device for examining workpieces (6), in particular, circuit cards, comprising an examination tool, which is clamped to the measuring head (2), which can be displaced in relation to the workpiece (6) on a workpiece plane, and also comprising an optical observation device which is used... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090207244 - Method and apparatus for detecting and inspecting through-penetrating defects in foils and films: The present invention is a method and apparatus for optical detection and size evaluation of through-penetrating defects such as pinholes in moving foil or film. The invention comprises the installation of at least one image capture device at a first given distance over the moving foil surface, placement of at... Agent: Enerize Corporation Elena Shembel

20090207245 - Disk inspection apparatus and method: A disk inspection apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a disk holding device which holds a disk; an illumination device which radiates an inspection area portion having a predetermined shape on a disk surface including an edge of the disk held by the disk holding device, with illumination light... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090207246 - Interactive image acquisition device: The present invention tracks a specified target object and provides an image in real time in a way that gives a viewer a sense of reality. The present invention connects, in order to produce a spherical image Q1, the images captured by cameras 13 that can move in a space... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090207249 - Climate controlled surveillance system: A climate controlled surveillance system that includes a housing for enclosing a surveillance device. The system includes a Peltier device and a liquid coolant. The Peltier device extracts heat from the housing, which is then transferred to the liquid coolant by conduction and/or convection.... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20090207247 - Hybrid remote digital recording and acquisition system: A surveillance system includes an event module that receives an event detection signal that indicates an event external to the surveillance system. The system also includes a power control module that selectively operates a data recording device at least partially concurrent with the event based on the event detection signal.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090207248 - System and method for high-resolution storage of images: An image-creation method includes capturing an image as digital data, locating an area of interest of the captured image, extracting, from the digital data, at least some data corresponding to the located area of interest, digitally magnifying the extracted at least some data to yield digitally magnified data, and combining... Agent: Winstead PC

20090207250 - Aerial camera system: An aerial camera system including a plurality of main reels, a camera interface/safety reel and a stabilized camera head. The camera head is supported from main cables from the main reels with a safety reel cable providing power, data and video communication between the camera head and a main computer... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20090207251 - Personal authentication method and personal authentication device: A personal authentication method and device capable of creating iris information enabling personal authentication even if the iris image shows light reflection. The personal authentication device comprises an imaging section for imaging an eye of the user, an iris code generating section for generating an iris code from the captured... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090207252 - Personal multi-information recorder: A method for recording information on a device worn on a person includes capturing video information, capturing audio information and receiving a signal from a remote unit. The method further includes determining from the signal that the remote unit is a minimum distance from the device and in response commencing... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090207253 - Automatic phase adjusting apparatus: A digital imaging signal obtained by converting an image data obtained by an imaging element into a digital value for each pixel is inputted to an automatic phase adjusting apparatus, and the automatic phase adjusting apparatus adjusts phases of pulses to be used for imaging based on the inputted digital... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090207254 - System to manage digital camera images: The system also includes a user interface for a windowing application for viewing system objects which includes a first area for displaying a hierarchical tree of system objects, a second area for displaying a thumbnail image corresponding to a system object selected in the first area, a third area adjacent... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090207255 - Camera sensing device for capturing and manipulating images: A camera sensing device is provided for capturing and manipulating images. The device includes an image sensor configured to capture an image. A card reader includes a first roller assembly and is configured to read a card fed into the first roller assembly. The card has encoded thereon instructions for... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090207256 - Image capturing system, image processing method, and computer- readable recording medium having image processing program recorded thereon: The present invention aims at obtaining a high-quality video signal by reducing tone jumps. A second grayscale conversion characteristic is calculated from a video signal to which a first grayscale conversion process has been applied using a first grayscale conversion characteristic used to convert an M-bit video signal into an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090207257 - Camera egomotion estimation from an infra-red image sequence for night vision: A method for estimating egomotion of a camera mounted on a vehicle that uses infra-red images is disclosed, comprising the steps of (a) receiving a pair of frames from a plurality of frames from the camera, the first frame being assigned to a previous frame and an anchor frame and... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20090207258 - Digital photographing apparatus, method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus, and recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method: Provided are a digital photographing apparatus by which a clear image may be obtained despite shaking of the digital photographing apparatus during a photographing operation, a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus, and a recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method. The digital photographing apparatus... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090207260 - Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method: An image pickup apparatus includes: a flash photography unit that performs image pickup of one of the plurality of images by causing a flash device to emit light during the image pickup in accordance with an exposure; a region setting unit for setting a plurality of motion vector measurement regions... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090207259 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An apparatus and a method for outputting high-quality images in which both jerkiness and blur are reduced are provided. At generation of moving images to be output at a certain frame rate, movement velocities of a subject according to the frame rate of the output images are calculated in units... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207261 - Electronic device and method for operating an electronic device: An electronic device including an interface configured to receive a first digital picture and a second digital picture generated by a digital camera, a determining circuit configured to detect a movement of the digital camera in a direction perpendicular to the image plane of the first digital picture based on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090207262 - Controller, control system, and control method: A controller has a connection interface used to connect an external device, changes an operational profile of an operation unit to that according to the external device connected by the connection interface, and controls a host apparatus based on an input operation from the user at the operation unit, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090207263 - Image capturing device, image generating device, moving picture generating method and computer-readable medium: An image capturing unit outputs an image data signal. A first moving picture data generating unit generates first moving picture data based on the image signal from the image capturing unit. A trigger signal generating unit causes a trigger signal to be generated, every time a predetermined trigger condition is... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090207270 - Image acquisition system and method of authenticating image acquisition device in the image acquisition system: An image acquisition system includes an image acquisition device and a commanding device configured as a separate member from the image acquisition device to transmit an image acquisition execution command to the image acquisition device and thereby to cause the image acquisition device to perform an image acquisition operation. The... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090207269 - Image processing device, camera device, communication system, image processing method, and program: An image processing device includes a face detector configured to detect a face based on a taken image, and an output processor configured to have a function to execute privacy-mask processing for privacy protection for an image of a face detected by the face detector or an image of a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090207266 - Image processing device, camera device, image processing method, and program: Disclosed herein is an image processing device including: a face detector configured to detect a face from an image given on a basis of detection information; and a processing unit configured to set the detection information of the face detector, receive at least an input image before distortion correction of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090207264 - Image processing device, imaging device, and medium storing image processing program: An image processing device including a storing unit storing the position of a focus detecting pixel of an image-capturing sensor containing plural pixels having spectroscopic characterizations corresponding to respective plural color components with the focus detecting pixel, a pixel interpolating unit generating an interpolation pixel value of the focus detecting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090207268 - Image signal processing device, image signal processing method and imaging device: An image signal processing device for correcting color difference signals includes a first correcting unit configured to set a correction amount for input color difference signals to “0” and generating output color difference signals when a colorless area containing the original point of a color difference space in which the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090207265 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090207267 - Method for calculating shift amount of image pickup element and image pickup element: A method for calculating a shift amount of a microlens from a position of a light receiving element arranged in a pixel of an image pickup element is provided. The microlens collects incident light from an image pickup lens. The method comprises: acquiring an incident angle characteristic value indicating a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090207274 - Apparatus and method for adjusting white balance in a digital imaging device: A method and apparatus for adjusting a white balance in a digital imaging device. The method including the steps of: analyzing a histogram of an image to which a white balance algorithm is to be applied; classifying the image, to which the white balance algorithm is to be applied, according... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090207272 - Electronic device with two image sensors: An electronic device for producing an image of an object is disclosed. The electronic device may include a black-and-white camera having a first sensor area configured to receive luma data pertaining to the object. The first sensor area may correspond to a first pixel array, the luma data associated with... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090207271 - Image processor correcting color misregistration, image processing program, image processing method, and electronic camera: An image processor captures image data which include at least correction object color components and reference color components and has one kind of color component per pixel. The image processor acquires or detects information about positional shifts of the correction object color components and corrects positional shifts of correction object... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090207275 - Image sensing apparatus and image processing method therefor: An image sensing apparatus comprising: a CCD, optical system for forming an image on the CCD; A/D converter for converting an image signal outputted by the CCD to a digital signal; color interpolator for performing color interpolation on the digital signal converted by the A/D converter and generating image data... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090207273 - Imaging apparatus, waveform signal display method, storage medium, and integrated circuit: An imaging apparatus with an automatic adjustment function, such as a white balance adjustment function, enables a result of such adjustment to be checked easily using a vector display. A waveform generation unit 3 generates a vector signal from a video signal in response to an operation to push a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090207276 - Image pick up device: An image pickup device includes an optical system; an image sensor; an AGC circuit; an image processing unit configured to perform at least an MTF correction process; and a control unit configured to control the image processing unit so as not to perform the MTF correction process in the event... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090207277 - Video camera and time-lag correction method: According to one embodiment, a video camera comprises an imaging module configured to pick up a moving image of a subject and output a video signal, a microphone configured to pick up sound and output an audio signal, and a synchronization module configured to correct a time lag between the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090207280 - Electronic still camera and method of image acquisition of electronic still camera: A photography mode selecting section allows a photographer to select continuous photographing. An imaging section captures an image of a subject. An area setting section detects a photographic subject based on a photographic image captured by the imaging section for every photographing in the continuous photographing, and sets the size... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090207278 - Image pick-up apparatus, image data processing apparatus, and recording medium: In a moving image recording process, a shooting operation using a short exposure time appropriate for shooting a still image, and a shooting operation using a long exposure time appropriate for shooting a moving image are performed repeatedly in turn. Plural pieces of frame image data “B” shot by the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090207279 - Imaging device: Provided is an imaging device capable of accurately and rapidly selecting a main image from a plurality of continuously captured images and simplifying handling of image files recorded on a memory card. With one operation, it is possible to capture a plurality of continuous images at a predetermined time interval.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090207281 - Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: An image capturing apparatus includes a shutter-operation accepting unit that accepts a shutter operation; an image capturing unit that captures an image of an object and generates a captured image; a brightness-information extracting unit that extracts, from the captured image, brightness information indicating brightness of the whole captured image; a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090207282 - Image capturing device, method for image capturing, and computer readable recording medium: A control unit controls an image capture unit to perform a plurality of image captures of an object and acquires a plurality of mutually different image data based on a positional change of an image capturing device. Then, the control unit extracts a specified object image common to each of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090207283 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a decoding processor including a decoder configured to decode encoded data of image data of one frame having a plurality of pixels encoded by a variable length coding method and generating decoded data, and a data transfer unit configured to select decoded data in a... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090207284 - Method and apparatus for controlling anti-blooming timing to reduce effects of dark current: An electronic imager includes a plurality of pixels having photosensors for accumulating charge corresponding to individual pixel values of a sensed image. Each of the pixels includes an anti-blooming function which allows charge in excess of a predetermined amount to be drained from the photosensor thus reducing the charge from... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090207285 - Image capturing system, image processing method, and computer- readable recording medium having image processing program recorded thereon: The present invention aims at obtaining a high-quality video signal by reducing tone jumps. A second grayscale conversion characteristic is calculated from a video signal to which a first grayscale conversion process has been applied using a first grayscale conversion characteristic used to convert an M-bit video signal into an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090207286 - Colored photosensitive composition, and color filter array and solid image pickup device using the same: The colored photosensitive composition comprises a compound represented by the formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein in the formula (I), Z1 and Z2 represent an oxygen or sulfur atom; R1 to R4 represents a hydrogen atom, a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group (which may be substituted with a hydroxyl group),... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090207287 - Colored photosensitive composition, and color filter array and solid image pickup device using the same: The colored photosensitive composition comprises a compound represented by the formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein in the formula (I), R1 to R4 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10 saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group, or a carboxyl group; R5 to R12 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a (halogenated)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090207288 - Signal readout method of solid-state imaging device and image signal processing method: A signal readout method of solid-state imaging device that is applied to a solid-state imaging device with a color filter array (CFA) and multiple pixels, the method characterized in that a pixel mixture of a different number of pixels is performed for every readout signal in the solid-state imaging device,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090207289 - Amplifying solid-state imaging device, and method for driving the same: By providing dummy pixels separately from effective pixels, the total number of pixel rows is equalized with the number of horizontal sync signals included in one frame interval (which is called an “HD number”). A period during which a reset signal for an electronic shuttering operation is being supplied to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090207290 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels, each pixel containing an amplification section for outputting onto an output signal line, and a reset section for resetting an accumulation section; a noise suppressing section with using a first signal being an output from the pixel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090207293 - Image sensing apparatus, image sensing apparatus control method, and imaging system: An image sensing apparatus comprises: an output unit which includes an output line group, a plurality of difference circuits, a first dummy line, and a second dummy line, and wherein the output line group is interposed between the first dummy line and the second dummy line, a readout unit includes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090207294 - Method and apparatus for improving sensitivity in vertical color cmos image sensors: The invention describes in detail the structure of a CMOS image sensor pixel that senses color of impinging light without having absorbing filters placed on its surface. The color sensing is accomplished by having a vertical stack of three-charge detection nodes placed in the silicon bulk, which collect electrons depending... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20090207292 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and driving method thereof: A solid state imaging apparatus of less fixed pattern noises and less shading comprises an imaging area wherein a plurality of pixel circuits are arranged in two dimensionally, and each of the pixel circuits includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements each for generating an electric charge by a photoelectric... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090207291 - Solid-state imaging device, camera, and electronic device: Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device which includes an imaging region including pixels arranged two-dimensionally, each of the pixels including a photoelectric conversion element and a plurality of pixel transistors for reading out signals outputted from the photoelectric conversion element, and wirings formed on stacked layers for driving each of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090207295 - Imaging device and driving method thereof: An imaging device includes a vertical transfer unit to sequentially transfer the charges generated by photoelectric conversion elements in a vertical direction with the transfer registers, during a vertical transfer period, a horizontal transfer unit to horizontally transfer the charges transferred by the vertical transfer unit, during a horizontal transfer... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090207297 - Display apparatus and imaging apparatus: A display apparatus (for example, digital camera) includes a display section (for example, LCD monitor) that selectively displays one of a plurality of display patterns, and has a plurality of operation modes, an operation section (for example, operation button) that receives a short-time operation which is operated by a user... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090207296 - Image display device image display method, storage medium storing computer program, and image capture device: There are disclosed: an image display device including a storage unit in which a plurality of items of image information are stored; a display unit that performs sequential display, in a predetermined order, of a plurality images represented by the plurality of items of image information; a reception unit that... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090207298 - Focusing apparatus and method for controlling the same: A focusing apparatus is configured to execute a focusing operation without using any auto-focus evaluation value obtained from an auto-focus evaluation value detection area set for an object other than that of an intended object when a plurality of objects is detected.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090207299 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an imaging device. The imaging device has an imaging surface capturing an object scene through a focus lens and repeatedly produces an object scene image. The focus lens is moved in an optical-axis direction in parallel with a process of the imaging device. A high-frequency component... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090207300 - Lens driving device and imaging device: A contact portion 9 of a lens holding frame 1 and a contact portion 8 of a nut 10 are so formed that when the lens holding frame 1 and the nut 10 are brought into contact with each other by a coil spring 12, an urging force acts on... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090207301 - Method of capturing an image with a mobile device and mobile device: A mobile device including an image capturing unit, a flash unit and a control unit. The control unit may initiate the image capturing unit to capture an image with activating the flash unit.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090207302 - Method and apparatus to measure features in a conduit: A system and method for measuring the size and orientation of anomalies on the interior surface of a conduit. The system and method can include a camera housed in a centralizer and a means for providing measurement markers within the field of view of the camera. The system and method... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090207303 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an apparatus body, a monitor connected to the apparatus body, and a hinge mechanism including a support member. The supporting mechanism includes a mounting portion on a first end, the mounting portion being rotatably mounted on the apparatus body, and a supporting portion on a second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207304 - Method for generating distances representative of the edge orientations in a video picture, corresponding device and use of the method for deinterlacing or format conversion: The distances representative of the edge orientation at a current points of a video picture generated are particularly used for the deinterlacing or format conversion of video pictures. It can be implemented in a video coder or decoder. According to the invention, the distances representative of the edge orientation calculated... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090207305 - Caption display device: A caption display device is provided in which display settings, such as arrangement of caption/text and the like, can be changed with a consistent operation system independent of the type of a terminal, and caption/text can be viewed even during displaying of a menu or a dialogue. In the caption... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090207306 - Method, device and system for synchronizing audio/video signals: A method and device for synchronizing audio/video signals is provided. A first and a second auxiliary signal are generated, wherein the first and the second auxiliary signals are pulse-shaped, and transmitted to a first and a second rendering device via a first and a second transmission path, respectively. The first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090207308 - Electronic device, display system, transmission method and display method: An electronic device includes an HDMI output terminal connectable to one of a first HDMI input terminal and a second HDMI input terminal of an external device, the first and second HDMI input terminals having a first physical address and a second physical address assigned thereto, respectively, a detection means... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090207307 - Image display apparatus, monitor apparatus and image processing apparatus: According to our invention, linked operation between a monitor apparatus for displaying images, and a set-top box for transmitting image signals to the monitor apparatus via a required interface, can be achieved properly, even if both units are constructed in casings separate from each other. The monitor apparatus uses a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090207309 - Digital television signal-receiving device with signal strength showing function: A digital television signal-receiving device with signal strength showing function is disclosed. The digital television signal-receiving device includes a tuner, a microprocessor control unit, and a signal strength indicator. The signal of digital television is tuned with the tuner. The microprocessor control unit could read a signal decibel value of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090207310 - Video-processing apparatus, method and system: A video-processing apparatus contains a region-setting-processing unit that sets a plurality of zoom regions each enlarging a part of an input video image and displaying the enlarged part of the input video image and creates viewpoint information indicating the set zoom regions. The input video image has a higher resolution... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090207311 - Technique for tuner automatic gain control circuit for mobile television applications: A technique for providing stable tracking performance to an AGC loop circuit comprises amplifying a wideband radio frequency signal; detecting signals and blockers adjacent to the radio frequency signal; lowering a gain of the radio frequency signal; mixing a local oscillator signal with the radio frequency signal; shifting a frequency... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090207312 - Video processing apparatus and method for processing video signal: A video processing apparatus includes: a video processor configured to generate a video signal; an automatic image quality adjustment unit configured to determine a first image quality adjustment set value based on the video signal; a user image quality adjustment unit configured to determine a second image quality adjustment set... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090207313 - Distributing candidate vectors based on local motion complexity: A system and method for distributing candidate motion vectors divides a picture frame (110) into a plurality of segments (120), where each segment (120) includes a plurality of pixel blocks (130). The local motion complexity of each segment may then be measured by determining a Sum-of-Absolute Differences (SAD) between pixel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090207315 - Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing method, and program: An image signal processing apparatus detects a motion vector between two temporally successive frames, and includes a detection device, a calculation device, and an arithmetic device. The detection device is configured to detect the motion vector in pixel blocks between the two frames, and output an evaluation value, which represents... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090207314 - Method and system for motion vector estimation using a pivotal pixel search: Aspects of a method and system for motion vector estimation using a pivotal pixel search are presented. Aspects of the system may include an image interpolation system that enables selection of an interpolated picture element neighborhood within an interpolated image frame. The image interpolation system may enable selection of one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090207316 - Methods for summarizing and auditing the content of digital video: Methods of summarizing and auditing the content of digital video are disclosed. A method may include detecting scene changes within frames of a digital video by way of a scene change detection process. Thereafter, a thumbnail explosion may be provided of the scene changes within the digital video. In one... Agent: Traskbritt, P.C.

20090207317 - Moving picture storage system, moving picture storage method, and moving picture storage program: When a start recording instruction or an end recording instruction is transmitted from a terminal device, a DTMF detector (106) detects a DTMF signal and supplies the detection results to a control module (107). The control module (107) supplies the received start recording instruction or end recording instruction to an... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090207319 - Apparatus which converts remote control signal, remote controller, remote control apparatus, and remote control method: A remote-control-signal conversion apparatus is disclosed. The remote-control-signal conversion apparatus receives a radio control signal from a remote controller, converts the radio control signal into an infrared control signal, and transmits the infrared control signal to an external device. When the apparatus identifies the external device, the apparatus transmits a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090207318 - Control unit, a video device including said control unit, and a control method: The present invention discloses a control unit, a video device employing said control unit and a control method thereof, wherein the control unit includes: a recognition device which is used to recognize the target in the target image; a calculation device which is used to calculate and transform the position... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090207320 - Display panel drive circuit and display: In one embodiment of the present invention, a display panel drive circuit includes a plurality of circuit blocks each of which includes former circuits and latter circuits. In each of the circuit blocks in the display panel drive circuit, a signal is transmitted from the former circuits to the latter... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090207321 - Image transfer device, image display apparatus, and image data transfer method: An image transfer device which sequentially transfers successive image data to an image display apparatus via a network includes a memory unit which stores the image data and a control unit. The control unit transmits the image data to the image display apparatus during connection with the network, sequentially stores... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090207322 - Projector system and video projection method: A projector system is provided with at least one projector mobile in a specified space and adapted to project a video to a projection area included in the specified space in accordance with inputted video information, a plurality of position sensors each including a position detecting section for detecting a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090207323 - Projector, electronic apparatus, and method of controlling projector: A projector includes a light modulation section provided with a plurality of pixels arranged, and adapted to modulate light from a light source by the pixel, and when executing a keystone distortion correction on an image to be projected on a projection surface in response to an operation of an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090207325 - Algorithm for slm of single hinge type: The present invention provides a spatial light modulator, comprising: a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixel elements; a plurality of word lines each connected to a row of pixel elements; a plurality of plate lines; and a plurality of bit lines each connected to a column of pixel elements,... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090207324 - Circuit for slm's pixel: The present invention provides a spatial light modulator comprises a plurality of deflectable mirror controllable to deflect from a horizontal state to first and second deflecting directions; an electrode connected to a memory and disposed in the first deflecting direction underneath each of the deflectable mirrors; and an electrode connected... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090207326 - Projector: A projector includes a plurality of light modulation elements adapted to modulate a plurality of colored light beams based on image data, a combining optical system adapted to combine the modulated colored light beams to emit image light, and a projection optical system adapted to project the image light emitted... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090201359 - Mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device includes an input unit for inputting addressee information data relevant to an addressee of a videophone communication including at least a phone number, a data storage unit for storing a plurality of the addressee information data inputted by the input unit in a group, a retrieval... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090201360 - Dichroic cut filter for wide-angle imaging: An image device for wide-angle imaging may include an integrated optical system with a wide-angle dichroic cut filter. The dichroic cut filter may be an ultra-violet/infrared (UV/IR) cut filter to block UV and IR wavelengths of light and to transmit visible light. The dichroic cut filter is positioned adjacent to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090201361 - Panoramic camera with multiple image sensors using timed shutters: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090201362 - Autostereoscopic display system: An autostereoscopic display system is provided. The autostereoscopic display system includes: an image panel being divided into two or more display regions, each of which alternately displays an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye; an optical shutter which is spaced apart from the image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201363 - Autostereoscopic system: A method for the autostereoscopic representation of images on a screen, wherein image information of separate channels for a right eye and a left eye of a user is displayed in interleaved segments on the screen, and a lens array is disposed for deflecting light emitted from the screen such... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20090201364 - Endoscope device: An endoscope device including an insertion part including an observation optical system and a measuring optical system, wherein the endoscope device is provided with a characteristic value comparing circuit which compares previous characteristic values and current characteristic values to identify previous characteristic values corresponding to the current characteristic values, and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090201365 - Skin condition diagnosis system and counseling system for beauty: [Solving Means] A data collection system 1 is connected to a data analysis system 11 that carries out analysis processing based on data collected by the data collection system 1 via communication means. The data collection system 1 includes collection-side communication means 7, image capturing means 2 for capturing an... Agent: Cozen O''connor

20090201366 - Imaging apparatus and microscope: Providing an imaging apparatus and a microscope capable of taking two-dimensional images of a sample at a plurality of observation positions different in the optical axis direction at the same time. The apparatus includes an image-forming lens 15 that forms images of a sample 4 on a plurality of image-forming... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090201367 - Method, apparatus and system for providing reproducible digital imagery products from film content: The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for the transfer of motion picture film to reproducible digital imagery products such as digital dailies. In one embodiment of the present invention, a scanning device provides a log video signal representation of received film content, the log video signal including... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090201368 - Glazing inspection: A glazing inspection apparatus for detecting edge faults in a ply of glass, and a method of inspection, is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a light source for illuminating a ply of glass, image capture means for capturing images of the edge and the upper and lower surfaces, adjacent the edge,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090201369 - Weight monitoring system for scrap and recycled materials: A scrap metal recycling monitoring system, wherein a container, identified and of a known tare weight is associated with a scale while scrap metal is placed therein. The scale continuously monitors the weight of the container, and can be polled, or automatically produces an auditable data stream revealing the change... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090201371 - On-vehicle imaging device: A vehicle-mounted imaging device that is mounted in an automobile and performs color imaging has been provided with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixel cells. In each of the pixels, a color filter separates incident light by a multilayer interference filter. The multilayer interference filter is composed of two λ/4... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090201370 - Traveling lane detector: A traveling lane detector according to the present invention includes: an imaging unit mounted on a vehicle to take a road surface image; and an image processor performing image processing on the image to detect lane marks on the road surface. The image processor judges whether the vehicle is crossing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090201372 - Method and apparatus for integrated atm surveillance: A method and apparatus for integrated ATM surveillance of an area of interest, such as an automated teller machine (ATM), is presented. An embodiment includes a surveillance system for an ATM utilizing multiple cameras aimed at the user, the card slot, the cash dispenser, the surrounding areas and internally in... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20090201373 - Signal detection method and apparatus, and radiation image signal detection method and system: When storing a baseline signal in the first holding circuit 32, low-pass filtering is performed by the first low-pass filter formed of the resistor R1, on-resistances of the switches S2, S4, and capacitor C1by switching ON the switches S2, S4. When storing a signal component in the second holding circuit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201376 - Apparatus for calibrating an optical camera and/or an infrared camera: An apparatus is provided for calibrating an optical camera and/or an infrared camera, in particular an infrared tele-camera, that is/are arranged in a motor vehicle and that has a checkered appearance with first and second fields. In order to make the known apparatus suitable for a plurality of camera systems,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090201375 - Fail safe test for motion sensors: A microprocessor applies an analog test signal to an auxiliary signal input port of a motion sensor module. The motion sensor module processes the test signal and returns the signal in digital format to the microprocessor. The microprocessor compares the returned digital test signal to the original analog test signal... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090201374 - White balance calibration for digital camera device: This disclosure describes automatic self-calibration techniques for digital camera devices. In one aspect, a method for performing a calibration procedure in a digital camera device comprises initiating the calibration procedure when a camera sensor of the digital camera device is operating, accumulating data for the calibration procedure, the data comprising... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201377 - Information terminal device, information processing system, information processing program, and information processing method: An information terminal device such as a digital camera has one or more services, and is configured to connect to a communication network. The information terminal device has a UUID generation unit configured to generate and associate a unique UUID for each of the services, a connection unit configured to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090201378 - Image pickup apparatus, apparatus and method for processing information, program, and program recording medium: An image pickup apparatus, an apparatus and a method for processing information, a program, and a program recording medium that can provide a user with an image optimum for the user are provided. A recording medium 4 records a large-size image and a playback parameter thereon. The large-size image has... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090201379 - Smart camera with modular expansion capability including a function module that performs image processing: A smart camera with modular expansion capabilities, including a housing, a camera directly attached to the housing for acquiring an image of an object, a functional unit comprised in the housing and coupled to the camera, where the functional unit is configurable to implement an image processing function, a backplane... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090201381 - Shake correction module for photographing apparatus and photographing apparatus including the same: A shake correction module for a photographing apparatus is provided. The shake correction module includes: a base plate; a slider member disposed on the base plate so as to be able to move in a first axis direction and a second axis direction crossing the first axis direction, and accommodating... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090201380 - Method and apparatus for streamlined wireless data transfer: An apparatus having at least a first interface system. The at least a first interface system has a sensor interface portion for receiving an input of successive frames of a moving image from a video capture device; a processor portion that causes the input of successive frames of the moving... Agent: Emerson, Thomson & Bennett, LLC

20090201382 - Imaging apparatus for generating stroboscopic image: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section configured to output a first set of digital images; a section generating a plurality of sets of one-dimensional data from each of digital images respectively based on an object movement direction representing a movement direction of a moving object; a section configured to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090201389 - Digital image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: Provided are a digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The digital image processing apparatus includes a digital signal processing unit that recognizes a facial expression of a face from a photographed image, determines whether the eyes of the subject's face are closed, and re-photographs the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090201383 - Efficient method for reducing noise and blur in a composite still image from a rolling shutter camera: A rolling shutter digital camera. Each photographic image of a given exposure duration is captured as a multi-frame burst of frames each having a shorter exposure duration to minimize motion blur and to reduce sensor noise by averaging. Each frame is quantized into swaths, captured sequentially by the rolling shutter.... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090201387 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program storing medium: An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system that forms an image of light and a gradation processing section that converts gradation of a captured image captured through the optical system in accordance with a spatial frequency transfer characteristic of the optical system. The image capturing apparatus may further include... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201390 - Image capturing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject and generate a captured image of the subject, a feature value extracting unit configured to extract a feature value of the captured image, a scene candidate determining unit configured to determine a scene... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090201386 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image capturing apparatus, and medium storing a program: Provided is an image processing apparatus, comprising an image generating section that generates a converted image by performing a coordinate conversion on a captured image captured through an optical system, such that a spread of light from the optical system has a shape that is spatially substantially uniform; a correcting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201388 - Imaging apparatus, storage medium storing computer readable program and imaging method: An imaging apparatus, including: an imaging section for sequentially taking an image of an object and sequentially generating image data of the object; a dividing section for dividing the image data of the object into image data corresponding to each of a plurality of image areas; a first calculating section... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090201385 - Imaging device and imaging method: There is described an image capturing apparatus, which makes it possible to conduct a high-accurate range finding operation irrespective of the position of the subject. The apparatus, comprises: a plurality of imaging elements; a plurality of luminance signal generating sections, each of which generates a luminance signal by mixing the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090201384 - Method and apparatus for matching color image and depth image: transforming the obtained depth image and intensity image into a depth image and an intensity image, respectively, that could be obtained if the object were photographed by a camera at the second position; and matching the transformed depth image and intensity image and the obtained color image. In this way,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090201391 - Color processing apparatus and method: There is provided a color processing apparatus that performs color reproduction in accordance with the brightness of a subject at the time of photographing. An acquisition unit acquires image data. A setting unit sets viewing environment parameters for a plurality of luminance ranges based on a luminance histogram of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090201392 - Noise reduction apparatus and image pickup apparatus: A noise reduction apparatus, in which an occurrence of overcorrection attributed to an erroneous detection is prevented. A storage unit stores a pseudo noise signal generating characteristic. A pseudo noise generating unit sets a signal which may become a source of a noise superimposed on a video signal as a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090201393 - Black reference pixel for backside illuminated image sensor: An imaging sensor pixel array includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of active pixels and at least one black reference pixel. The plurality of active pixels are disposed in the semiconductor substrate for capturing an image. Each of the active pixels includes a first region for receiving light including a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201395 - Backside illuminated imaging sensor with reduced leakage photodiode: A backside illuminated imaging sensor includes a semiconductor having an imaging pixel that includes a photodiode region, an insulator, and a silicide reflective layer. The photodiode region is formed in the frontside of the semiconductor substrate. The insulation layer is formed on the backside of the semiconductor substrate. The transparent... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201399 - Image sensor: An image sensor includes an imaging element for imaging an object, a movable member mounted with the imaging element and movably provided, a flexible printed circuit board having a portion on a side of a first end connected to the imaging element, and including a visually recognizable positioning member provided... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090201397 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201398 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201396 - Methods for operating image sensors: A method for operating image sensors is provided. The method for operating image sensors includes maintaining a charge transmission unit which transfers charges generated in a photoelectric conversion unit by responding to incident light to a charge detection unit in an inactive state; and toggling the charge transmission unit between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090201394 - Wide dynamic range image sensor utilizing switch current source at pre-determined switch voltage per pixel: Disclosed are embodiments of a pixel imaging circuit that incorporates a standard photodiode. However, the imaging circuit is modified with a feedback loop to provide a first photo response over a first portion of the light sensing range (e.g., at higher light intensity range) and a second reduced-sensitivity photo response... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090201400 - Backside illuminated image sensor with global shutter and storage capacitor: A backside illuminated imaging sensor pixel includes a photodiode region, a pixel circuitry region, and a storage capacitor. The photodiode region is disposed within a semiconductor die for accumulating an image charge. The pixel circuitry region is disposed on the semiconductor die between a frontside of the semiconductor die and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201401 - Image processing circuit, mobile terminal and method for controlling sensor: An image processing circuit capable of shooting a desired subject is provided in which increasing the size of the digital camera has been avoided. Sensor control unit 31 includes a moving image mode and a still image shooting mode. If a shutter button is operated when sensor control unit is... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090201402 - Image sensor and digital gain compensation method thereof: The present invention relates to an image sensor and a method for compensating for a digital gain of thereof. The image sensor includes: a variable amplification means for amplifying an inputted analog image signal as a variable first gain value; an analog-to-digital conversion unit for converting the amplified analog image... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201403 - Correlated double sampling unit in image sensor with attenuation of parasitic voltage loss: A correlated double sampling unit in an image sensor includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a capacitor switch. The first capacitor is coupled between a first node and an input node of a tripping unit. The second capacitor is coupled between the first node and a second node... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20090201404 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201406 - Solid state image pickup apparatus and image pickup system: The invention is to reduce a color mixing resulting from influences of adjacent pixels. The invention provides a solid-state image pickup apparatus including plural pixels each including a PN junction area constituting a photoelectric conversion area, a floating diffusion area for holding a charge outputted from the PN junction area,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090201405 - Solid-state imaging device: An imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus generally comprises an array and storage elements. The array includes photosensitive cells that are arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows such that each column includes a set of photosensitive cell pairs that have a shared region with a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090201407 - Variable pixel clock electronic shutter control: CMOS image sensor with a rolling shutter that uses two separate clocks. One of the clocks is used during normal operation. When timing is changed, the other clock is started and used during an interim period to avoid distortion in the image. After that interim period, the new clock timing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090201408 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201410 - Focus control apparatus and method: A focus control apparatus and method capable of shortening a focus adjustment time in focus control. The method includes extracting a first high frequency component depending upon a first cutoff frequency and a second high frequency component depending upon a second cutoff frequency higher than the first cutoff frequency from... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090201411 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method and computer readable medium: An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system that focuses light from a subject, a light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving the light from the subject that is focused by the optical system, a correcting section that corrects, in accordance with an optical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201409 - Television camera system: A television camera system is provided and includes: a television camera main body; a lens device; and a monitor. Focus information obtained by an auto-focusing function of the lens device can be displayed on the monitor via the television camera main body. In a case where a controller including a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201412 - Outdoor camera cage: An outdoor camera cage having a first, second, third and fourth sides and a bottom forming a rectangular box. The cage has a top cover hinged to the top of the rear side of the rectangular box to allow a camera to be inserted therein. The top cover contains four... Agent: Joseph F. Gula, Iii

20090201413 - Surface camera system: A surface camera system includes a support housing configured to be embedded in the surface of a track and a camera housing couplable to the support housing. A camera is coupled to the camera housing and may be embodied as a high definition camera or a standard definition camera. The... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090201414 - Solid image capture device and electronic device incorporating same: A solid image capture device 100 in accordance with the present invention includes a holder 4 securing a lens barrel 8a onto a transparent lid section 3. When the holder 4 is in engagement with an external section of the transparent lid section 3, the holder 4 presses down the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090201415 - Display device and display method: A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a numbers of sub-pixels corresponding to an amount of motion of a target image between a plurality of reference original frames; an allocating unit configured to... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090201416 - Method and system for video format conversion: Described herein is a method and system for video format conversion. Aspects of the current invention may convert decoded video data from 4:2:2 format to 4:4:4 format. Aspects of the current invention may also convert decoded video data from 4:2:0 format to 4:4:4 format. Aspects of the current invention may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201417 - Progressive-to-interlace conversion method, image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus: A sum of pixel values of pixels corresponding to respective two scanning lines of 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, . . . of progressive-input image data in the order of scanning lines is output for the first frame, and a sum of pixel values of pixels... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090201418 - Video display system: A video display system includes an image processing unit receives continuously an input video signal including input frame signals for generating an output video signal including output frame signals having a higher frame rate than the input frame signals; and a display unit for displaying a video image in accordance... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090201419 - Signal processing apparatus: A signal processing apparatus includes an analog signal outputting circuit configured to output an analog signal divided into blocks in synchronization with a clock. An operation circuit is configured to operate in a clamping state to hold a reference signal and in a signal outputting state to output an effective... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090201420 - On screen television input management: A television system that provides an on screen display menu system that allows a user to select from available input source using a graphical user interface. The television system also automatically adapts to the type on input signal selected for display. The television system and on screen display menu also... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201421 - Data transmission apparatus: A data transmission apparatus includes: a communication interface including: a first communication interface receiving first signals transmitted through a communication line having a pair of first and second lines, the first signals being transmitted in opposite phase; and a second communication interface receiving second signals transmitted through the communication line,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201422 - Automatic input change based on remote control mode change: Example systems and methods for switching television inputs involve receiving a remote control input for switching a remote control mode from controlling a first device to controlling a different, second device and automatically generating, in response to the remote control mode switching input, an input switch command for switching an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090201423 - Display device, display method, supply device, supply method, storage medium, and control system: A display device includes a display section configured to perform display and provided with a display screen; communicating sections configured to perform communication to receive pieces of content data from supply devices, respectively; and a controller configured to cause the received pieces of content data to be simultaneously displayed on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201424 - Image display device, image display method and imaging apparatus: An image display device for displaying a main image and an auxiliary image that is combined with the main image in an auxiliary-image composite region of the main image, includes: a moving object detecting unit that detects a moving object which relatively moves in the main image; and a composite... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201425 - Multisampling with reduced bit samples: A relatively non-complex signal processor supporting an active pixel sensor imaging system is disclosed. The signal processor only requires the first sample from a group of samples in a multiple sample to be transmitted to the signal processor at full resolution. The subsequent samples in that group can be transmitted... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090201426 - Dynamic rf agc switch/mixer for optimal ntsc video detection: This disclosure presents an apparatus and method for automatic gain control correction for a television signal in which the Radio Frequency (RF) and Intermediate Frequency (IF) power signal levels are collected for a band of channels, identifying a channel having a strong RF power signal level and an IF gain... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090201427 - Method and system for pixel adaptive weighted median filtering for block motion vector decomposition: Aspects of a method and system for pixel adaptive weighted median filtering for block motion vector decomposition are presented. Aspects of the system may include an image interpolation system that enables decomposition of a plurality of pixel block level motion vectors into a plurality of pixel level motion vectors. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201428 - Mixer circuit, semiconductor apparatus including the same, communication device including the same, and electronic device including the same: A mixer circuit 1 is a mixer circuit including a pair of differential transistors which receives an input signal IN1-IN2; and a serial resonance circuit 2 connected between collectors of transistors Q1 and Q2 of the pair of differential transistors, the mixer circuit mixing the input signal IN1-IN2 and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201429 - Television tuner: In the television tuner, between an input part of a VHF tuning circuit 2 and the ground, inductor grounded circuits that ground via inductors are formed. Further, to the inductor grounded circuit, a switch diode D2 that operates in synchronization with a VHF high band reception operation and a switch... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090201430 - Method and apparatus for a wide field of view display: A method and apparatus for a uniform resolution display screen. In one embodiment, the uniform resolution display screen comprises a surface of the uniform resolution display screen having a curvature configured to display images with a uniform resolution across the display screen. The curvature is based on a projection distance... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090201431 - Projector, multi-screen system, projector control method, computer program product, and information storage medium: A image pickup unit picks up an image of a video projected by a projection unit and outputs the picked-up image. A control unit determines whether the picked-up image includes a projection video other than the video projected by the projection unit or not. If the control unit determines that... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090201432 - System and method for advertising in retail environments with video displays attached to shelving: This application relates to systems and methods for advertising in retail environments through the use of video displays that are disposed on retail shelving near target products. In some instances, the video display system may comprise a head-end cabinet that is located remote to the video displays. The head-end cabinet... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090201433 - Panel detaching mechanism: A panel detaching mechanism that can detach a panel from a main body while simplifying the structure in front of the panel is provided. In an car audio system, a lock unit latches an operation panel with a support unit in the state where the panel front face is opened... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090201434 - Portable screen: A portable screen includes: a frame body having a rectangular shape; and a screen sheet provided with tension within the frame body and having an image projection surface, wherein one opposing side of two sets of opposing sides forming the frame body is configured to allow the frame body to... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090201359 - Mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device includes an input unit for inputting addressee information data relevant to an addressee of a videophone communication including at least a phone number, a data storage unit for storing a plurality of the addressee information data inputted by the input unit in a group, a retrieval... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090201360 - Dichroic cut filter for wide-angle imaging: An image device for wide-angle imaging may include an integrated optical system with a wide-angle dichroic cut filter. The dichroic cut filter may be an ultra-violet/infrared (UV/IR) cut filter to block UV and IR wavelengths of light and to transmit visible light. The dichroic cut filter is positioned adjacent to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090201361 - Panoramic camera with multiple image sensors using timed shutters: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090201362 - Autostereoscopic display system: An autostereoscopic display system is provided. The autostereoscopic display system includes: an image panel being divided into two or more display regions, each of which alternately displays an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye; an optical shutter which is spaced apart from the image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201363 - Autostereoscopic system: A method for the autostereoscopic representation of images on a screen, wherein image information of separate channels for a right eye and a left eye of a user is displayed in interleaved segments on the screen, and a lens array is disposed for deflecting light emitted from the screen such... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20090201364 - Endoscope device: An endoscope device including an insertion part including an observation optical system and a measuring optical system, wherein the endoscope device is provided with a characteristic value comparing circuit which compares previous characteristic values and current characteristic values to identify previous characteristic values corresponding to the current characteristic values, and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090201365 - Skin condition diagnosis system and counseling system for beauty: [Solving Means] A data collection system 1 is connected to a data analysis system 11 that carries out analysis processing based on data collected by the data collection system 1 via communication means. The data collection system 1 includes collection-side communication means 7, image capturing means 2 for capturing an... Agent: Cozen O''connor

20090201366 - Imaging apparatus and microscope: Providing an imaging apparatus and a microscope capable of taking two-dimensional images of a sample at a plurality of observation positions different in the optical axis direction at the same time. The apparatus includes an image-forming lens 15 that forms images of a sample 4 on a plurality of image-forming... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090201367 - Method, apparatus and system for providing reproducible digital imagery products from film content: The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for the transfer of motion picture film to reproducible digital imagery products such as digital dailies. In one embodiment of the present invention, a scanning device provides a log video signal representation of received film content, the log video signal including... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090201368 - Glazing inspection: A glazing inspection apparatus for detecting edge faults in a ply of glass, and a method of inspection, is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a light source for illuminating a ply of glass, image capture means for capturing images of the edge and the upper and lower surfaces, adjacent the edge,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090201369 - Weight monitoring system for scrap and recycled materials: A scrap metal recycling monitoring system, wherein a container, identified and of a known tare weight is associated with a scale while scrap metal is placed therein. The scale continuously monitors the weight of the container, and can be polled, or automatically produces an auditable data stream revealing the change... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090201371 - On-vehicle imaging device: A vehicle-mounted imaging device that is mounted in an automobile and performs color imaging has been provided with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixel cells. In each of the pixels, a color filter separates incident light by a multilayer interference filter. The multilayer interference filter is composed of two λ/4... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090201370 - Traveling lane detector: A traveling lane detector according to the present invention includes: an imaging unit mounted on a vehicle to take a road surface image; and an image processor performing image processing on the image to detect lane marks on the road surface. The image processor judges whether the vehicle is crossing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090201372 - Method and apparatus for integrated atm surveillance: A method and apparatus for integrated ATM surveillance of an area of interest, such as an automated teller machine (ATM), is presented. An embodiment includes a surveillance system for an ATM utilizing multiple cameras aimed at the user, the card slot, the cash dispenser, the surrounding areas and internally in... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20090201373 - Signal detection method and apparatus, and radiation image signal detection method and system: When storing a baseline signal in the first holding circuit 32, low-pass filtering is performed by the first low-pass filter formed of the resistor R1, on-resistances of the switches S2, S4, and capacitor C1by switching ON the switches S2, S4. When storing a signal component in the second holding circuit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201376 - Apparatus for calibrating an optical camera and/or an infrared camera: An apparatus is provided for calibrating an optical camera and/or an infrared camera, in particular an infrared tele-camera, that is/are arranged in a motor vehicle and that has a checkered appearance with first and second fields. In order to make the known apparatus suitable for a plurality of camera systems,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090201375 - Fail safe test for motion sensors: A microprocessor applies an analog test signal to an auxiliary signal input port of a motion sensor module. The motion sensor module processes the test signal and returns the signal in digital format to the microprocessor. The microprocessor compares the returned digital test signal to the original analog test signal... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090201374 - White balance calibration for digital camera device: This disclosure describes automatic self-calibration techniques for digital camera devices. In one aspect, a method for performing a calibration procedure in a digital camera device comprises initiating the calibration procedure when a camera sensor of the digital camera device is operating, accumulating data for the calibration procedure, the data comprising... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201377 - Information terminal device, information processing system, information processing program, and information processing method: An information terminal device such as a digital camera has one or more services, and is configured to connect to a communication network. The information terminal device has a UUID generation unit configured to generate and associate a unique UUID for each of the services, a connection unit configured to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090201378 - Image pickup apparatus, apparatus and method for processing information, program, and program recording medium: An image pickup apparatus, an apparatus and a method for processing information, a program, and a program recording medium that can provide a user with an image optimum for the user are provided. A recording medium 4 records a large-size image and a playback parameter thereon. The large-size image has... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090201379 - Smart camera with modular expansion capability including a function module that performs image processing: A smart camera with modular expansion capabilities, including a housing, a camera directly attached to the housing for acquiring an image of an object, a functional unit comprised in the housing and coupled to the camera, where the functional unit is configurable to implement an image processing function, a backplane... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090201381 - Shake correction module for photographing apparatus and photographing apparatus including the same: A shake correction module for a photographing apparatus is provided. The shake correction module includes: a base plate; a slider member disposed on the base plate so as to be able to move in a first axis direction and a second axis direction crossing the first axis direction, and accommodating... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090201380 - Method and apparatus for streamlined wireless data transfer: An apparatus having at least a first interface system. The at least a first interface system has a sensor interface portion for receiving an input of successive frames of a moving image from a video capture device; a processor portion that causes the input of successive frames of the moving... Agent: Emerson, Thomson & Bennett, LLC

20090201382 - Imaging apparatus for generating stroboscopic image: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section configured to output a first set of digital images; a section generating a plurality of sets of one-dimensional data from each of digital images respectively based on an object movement direction representing a movement direction of a moving object; a section configured to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090201389 - Digital image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: Provided are a digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The digital image processing apparatus includes a digital signal processing unit that recognizes a facial expression of a face from a photographed image, determines whether the eyes of the subject's face are closed, and re-photographs the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090201383 - Efficient method for reducing noise and blur in a composite still image from a rolling shutter camera: A rolling shutter digital camera. Each photographic image of a given exposure duration is captured as a multi-frame burst of frames each having a shorter exposure duration to minimize motion blur and to reduce sensor noise by averaging. Each frame is quantized into swaths, captured sequentially by the rolling shutter.... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090201387 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program storing medium: An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system that forms an image of light and a gradation processing section that converts gradation of a captured image captured through the optical system in accordance with a spatial frequency transfer characteristic of the optical system. The image capturing apparatus may further include... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201390 - Image capturing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject and generate a captured image of the subject, a feature value extracting unit configured to extract a feature value of the captured image, a scene candidate determining unit configured to determine a scene... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090201386 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image capturing apparatus, and medium storing a program: Provided is an image processing apparatus, comprising an image generating section that generates a converted image by performing a coordinate conversion on a captured image captured through an optical system, such that a spread of light from the optical system has a shape that is spatially substantially uniform; a correcting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201388 - Imaging apparatus, storage medium storing computer readable program and imaging method: An imaging apparatus, including: an imaging section for sequentially taking an image of an object and sequentially generating image data of the object; a dividing section for dividing the image data of the object into image data corresponding to each of a plurality of image areas; a first calculating section... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090201385 - Imaging device and imaging method: There is described an image capturing apparatus, which makes it possible to conduct a high-accurate range finding operation irrespective of the position of the subject. The apparatus, comprises: a plurality of imaging elements; a plurality of luminance signal generating sections, each of which generates a luminance signal by mixing the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090201384 - Method and apparatus for matching color image and depth image: transforming the obtained depth image and intensity image into a depth image and an intensity image, respectively, that could be obtained if the object were photographed by a camera at the second position; and matching the transformed depth image and intensity image and the obtained color image. In this way,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090201391 - Color processing apparatus and method: There is provided a color processing apparatus that performs color reproduction in accordance with the brightness of a subject at the time of photographing. An acquisition unit acquires image data. A setting unit sets viewing environment parameters for a plurality of luminance ranges based on a luminance histogram of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090201392 - Noise reduction apparatus and image pickup apparatus: A noise reduction apparatus, in which an occurrence of overcorrection attributed to an erroneous detection is prevented. A storage unit stores a pseudo noise signal generating characteristic. A pseudo noise generating unit sets a signal which may become a source of a noise superimposed on a video signal as a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090201393 - Black reference pixel for backside illuminated image sensor: An imaging sensor pixel array includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of active pixels and at least one black reference pixel. The plurality of active pixels are disposed in the semiconductor substrate for capturing an image. Each of the active pixels includes a first region for receiving light including a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201395 - Backside illuminated imaging sensor with reduced leakage photodiode: A backside illuminated imaging sensor includes a semiconductor having an imaging pixel that includes a photodiode region, an insulator, and a silicide reflective layer. The photodiode region is formed in the frontside of the semiconductor substrate. The insulation layer is formed on the backside of the semiconductor substrate. The transparent... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201399 - Image sensor: An image sensor includes an imaging element for imaging an object, a movable member mounted with the imaging element and movably provided, a flexible printed circuit board having a portion on a side of a first end connected to the imaging element, and including a visually recognizable positioning member provided... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090201397 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201398 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201396 - Methods for operating image sensors: A method for operating image sensors is provided. The method for operating image sensors includes maintaining a charge transmission unit which transfers charges generated in a photoelectric conversion unit by responding to incident light to a charge detection unit in an inactive state; and toggling the charge transmission unit between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090201394 - Wide dynamic range image sensor utilizing switch current source at pre-determined switch voltage per pixel: Disclosed are embodiments of a pixel imaging circuit that incorporates a standard photodiode. However, the imaging circuit is modified with a feedback loop to provide a first photo response over a first portion of the light sensing range (e.g., at higher light intensity range) and a second reduced-sensitivity photo response... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090201400 - Backside illuminated image sensor with global shutter and storage capacitor: A backside illuminated imaging sensor pixel includes a photodiode region, a pixel circuitry region, and a storage capacitor. The photodiode region is disposed within a semiconductor die for accumulating an image charge. The pixel circuitry region is disposed on the semiconductor die between a frontside of the semiconductor die and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201401 - Image processing circuit, mobile terminal and method for controlling sensor: An image processing circuit capable of shooting a desired subject is provided in which increasing the size of the digital camera has been avoided. Sensor control unit 31 includes a moving image mode and a still image shooting mode. If a shutter button is operated when sensor control unit is... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090201402 - Image sensor and digital gain compensation method thereof: The present invention relates to an image sensor and a method for compensating for a digital gain of thereof. The image sensor includes: a variable amplification means for amplifying an inputted analog image signal as a variable first gain value; an analog-to-digital conversion unit for converting the amplified analog image... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201403 - Correlated double sampling unit in image sensor with attenuation of parasitic voltage loss: A correlated double sampling unit in an image sensor includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a capacitor switch. The first capacitor is coupled between a first node and an input node of a tripping unit. The second capacitor is coupled between the first node and a second node... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20090201404 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201406 - Solid state image pickup apparatus and image pickup system: The invention is to reduce a color mixing resulting from influences of adjacent pixels. The invention provides a solid-state image pickup apparatus including plural pixels each including a PN junction area constituting a photoelectric conversion area, a floating diffusion area for holding a charge outputted from the PN junction area,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090201405 - Solid-state imaging device: An imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus generally comprises an array and storage elements. The array includes photosensitive cells that are arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows such that each column includes a set of photosensitive cell pairs that have a shared region with a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090201407 - Variable pixel clock electronic shutter control: CMOS image sensor with a rolling shutter that uses two separate clocks. One of the clocks is used during normal operation. When timing is changed, the other clock is started and used during an interim period to avoid distortion in the image. After that interim period, the new clock timing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090201408 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090201410 - Focus control apparatus and method: A focus control apparatus and method capable of shortening a focus adjustment time in focus control. The method includes extracting a first high frequency component depending upon a first cutoff frequency and a second high frequency component depending upon a second cutoff frequency higher than the first cutoff frequency from... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090201411 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method and computer readable medium: An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system that focuses light from a subject, a light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving the light from the subject that is focused by the optical system, a correcting section that corrects, in accordance with an optical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090201409 - Television camera system: A television camera system is provided and includes: a television camera main body; a lens device; and a monitor. Focus information obtained by an auto-focusing function of the lens device can be displayed on the monitor via the television camera main body. In a case where a controller including a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201412 - Outdoor camera cage: An outdoor camera cage having a first, second, third and fourth sides and a bottom forming a rectangular box. The cage has a top cover hinged to the top of the rear side of the rectangular box to allow a camera to be inserted therein. The top cover contains four... Agent: Joseph F. Gula, Iii

20090201413 - Surface camera system: A surface camera system includes a support housing configured to be embedded in the surface of a track and a camera housing couplable to the support housing. A camera is coupled to the camera housing and may be embodied as a high definition camera or a standard definition camera. The... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090201414 - Solid image capture device and electronic device incorporating same: A solid image capture device 100 in accordance with the present invention includes a holder 4 securing a lens barrel 8a onto a transparent lid section 3. When the holder 4 is in engagement with an external section of the transparent lid section 3, the holder 4 presses down the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090201415 - Display device and display method: A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a numbers of sub-pixels corresponding to an amount of motion of a target image between a plurality of reference original frames; an allocating unit configured to... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090201416 - Method and system for video format conversion: Described herein is a method and system for video format conversion. Aspects of the current invention may convert decoded video data from 4:2:2 format to 4:4:4 format. Aspects of the current invention may also convert decoded video data from 4:2:0 format to 4:4:4 format. Aspects of the current invention may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201417 - Progressive-to-interlace conversion method, image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus: A sum of pixel values of pixels corresponding to respective two scanning lines of 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, . . . of progressive-input image data in the order of scanning lines is output for the first frame, and a sum of pixel values of pixels... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090201418 - Video display system: A video display system includes an image processing unit receives continuously an input video signal including input frame signals for generating an output video signal including output frame signals having a higher frame rate than the input frame signals; and a display unit for displaying a video image in accordance... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090201419 - Signal processing apparatus: A signal processing apparatus includes an analog signal outputting circuit configured to output an analog signal divided into blocks in synchronization with a clock. An operation circuit is configured to operate in a clamping state to hold a reference signal and in a signal outputting state to output an effective... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090201420 - On screen television input management: A television system that provides an on screen display menu system that allows a user to select from available input source using a graphical user interface. The television system also automatically adapts to the type on input signal selected for display. The television system and on screen display menu also... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090201421 - Data transmission apparatus: A data transmission apparatus includes: a communication interface including: a first communication interface receiving first signals transmitted through a communication line having a pair of first and second lines, the first signals being transmitted in opposite phase; and a second communication interface receiving second signals transmitted through the communication line,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090201422 - Automatic input change based on remote control mode change: Example systems and methods for switching television inputs involve receiving a remote control input for switching a remote control mode from controlling a first device to controlling a different, second device and automatically generating, in response to the remote control mode switching input, an input switch command for switching an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090201423 - Display device, display method, supply device, supply method, storage medium, and control system: A display device includes a display section configured to perform display and provided with a display screen; communicating sections configured to perform communication to receive pieces of content data from supply devices, respectively; and a controller configured to cause the received pieces of content data to be simultaneously displayed on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090201424 - Image display device, image display method and imaging apparatus: An image display device for displaying a main image and an auxiliary image that is combined with the main image in an auxiliary-image composite region of the main image, includes: a moving object detecting unit that detects a moving object which relatively moves in the main image; and a composite... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201425 - Multisampling with reduced bit samples: A relatively non-complex signal processor supporting an active pixel sensor imaging system is disclosed. The signal processor only requires the first sample from a group of samples in a multiple sample to be transmitted to the signal processor at full resolution. The subsequent samples in that group can be transmitted... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090201426 - Dynamic rf agc switch/mixer for optimal ntsc video detection: This disclosure presents an apparatus and method for automatic gain control correction for a television signal in which the Radio Frequency (RF) and Intermediate Frequency (IF) power signal levels are collected for a band of channels, identifying a channel having a strong RF power signal level and an IF gain... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090201427 - Method and system for pixel adaptive weighted median filtering for block motion vector decomposition: Aspects of a method and system for pixel adaptive weighted median filtering for block motion vector decomposition are presented. Aspects of the system may include an image interpolation system that enables decomposition of a plurality of pixel block level motion vectors into a plurality of pixel level motion vectors. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201428 - Mixer circuit, semiconductor apparatus including the same, communication device including the same, and electronic device including the same: A mixer circuit 1 is a mixer circuit including a pair of differential transistors which receives an input signal IN1-IN2; and a serial resonance circuit 2 connected between collectors of transistors Q1 and Q2 of the pair of differential transistors, the mixer circuit mixing the input signal IN1-IN2 and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090201429 - Television tuner: In the television tuner, between an input part of a VHF tuning circuit 2 and the ground, inductor grounded circuits that ground via inductors are formed. Further, to the inductor grounded circuit, a switch diode D2 that operates in synchronization with a VHF high band reception operation and a switch... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090201430 - Method and apparatus for a wide field of view display: A method and apparatus for a uniform resolution display screen. In one embodiment, the uniform resolution display screen comprises a surface of the uniform resolution display screen having a curvature configured to display images with a uniform resolution across the display screen. The curvature is based on a projection distance... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090201431 - Projector, multi-screen system, projector control method, computer program product, and information storage medium: A image pickup unit picks up an image of a video projected by a projection unit and outputs the picked-up image. A control unit determines whether the picked-up image includes a projection video other than the video projected by the projection unit or not. If the control unit determines that... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090201432 - System and method for advertising in retail environments with video displays attached to shelving: This application relates to systems and methods for advertising in retail environments through the use of video displays that are disposed on retail shelving near target products. In some instances, the video display system may comprise a head-end cabinet that is located remote to the video displays. The head-end cabinet... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090201433 - Panel detaching mechanism: A panel detaching mechanism that can detach a panel from a main body while simplifying the structure in front of the panel is provided. In an car audio system, a lock unit latches an operation panel with a support unit in the state where the panel front face is opened... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090201434 - Portable screen: A portable screen includes: a frame body having a rectangular shape; and a screen sheet provided with tension within the frame body and having an image projection surface, wherein one opposing side of two sets of opposing sides forming the frame body is configured to allow the frame body to... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090195637 - Instant video messaging system and instant video messaging method thereof: The instant video messaging system includes a display unit, an image capture unit, and a capture adjustment sub-system. The display unit is configured to display consecutive images transmitted from a remote end via a network. The image capture unit is configured to capture the consecutive images in a predetermined area.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090195638 - Method and apparatus for face recognition enhanced video mixing: A telecommunications system includes a network; a plurality of user devices coupled to the network; a multipoint control unit coupled to the network and configured to supervise multipoint conferencing among the plurality of user devices, the multipoint control unit including a presentation mixer, the presentation mixer configured to remove one... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090195639 - Panoramic imaging device: A panoramic imaging device comprises: a photodetector array; a lens array having, on one plane, a center lens for receiving light in a front range of 36° to form a central unit image on the photodetector array, and left and right side lenses for receiving lights in left and right... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090195640 - Method and apparatus for generating stereoscopic image data stream for temporally partial three-dimensional (3d) data, and method and apparatus for displaying temporally partial 3d data of stereoscopic image: Provided is a method of decoding a stereoscopic image data stream. In the method, a plurality of monoscopic image data regions are determined from among image data regions of a stereoscopic image data stream; a composition time stamp (CTS) of each of the monoscopic image data regions is extracted; and,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090195641 - Stereoscopic image generation using retinal rivalry in scene transitions: A method for generating stereoscopic images with retinal rivalry effects. The method includes retrieving primary eye images and alternate eye images from memory. These images are filmed from horizontally offset cameras but include the same content. The method continues with processing the alternate eye images to introduce retinal rivalry such... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090195644 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that can form an image composed of pixels on an image forming plane such that, by suppressing density of the pixels in each portion of the image to be formed on the image forming plane from becoming ununiformity, a natural image free from distortion or deflection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090195643 - Medial axis decomposition of 2d objects to synthesize binocular depth: A computer-based method for generating a stereoscopic image from a two dimensional (2D) image such as a 2D cell animation. An object is selected in the 2D image, such as an animated character, and is stored in memory as the base image. With an erosion engine, the selected object is... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090195642 - Three-dimensional image display device, three-dimensional image display method, and computer program product for three-dimensional image display: A three-dimensional image display device includes a two-dimensional image display screen having color filters in which each color is disposed on sub-pixels obtained by dividing one pixel in a vertical direction and same color is disposed on each column of sub-pixels; an optical plate having an exit pupil, the exit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090195645 - System of displaying and capturing images using non-planar mirrors: A system of displaying and capturing images using non-planar mirrors is disclosed. An embodiment of the invention comprises a display (402), a non-planar partially silvered mirror (404) and a camera (406). The non-planar partially silvered mirror (404) is used to build a compact system to optically combine the display (402)... Agent: Cowsy J. Wadia

20090195646 - Microscope comprising a camera connection and a camera adapter: A microscope comprising a camera connection in a image beam path is suggested. A camera adapter and a camera can be adapted to the camera connection, and the microscope can be used to reproduce the image of a sample on a sensor of the camera. Imaging of the beam path... Agent: Alexander R Schlee SchleeIPInternational P.C.

20090195647 - Downhole fish-imaging system and method: Disclosed herein is a downhole fish-imaging system. The fish-imaging system includes, a fish-imaging device positionable downhole near the fish, and a processor. The fish-imaging device has at least one shape changeable portion with a plurality of sensors therein for monitoring the shape of the at least one shape changeable portion,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090195648 - Vision system with software control for detecting dirt and other imperfections on egg surfaces: A vision system incorporated into an item of egg handling equipment, the system incorporating software control for detecting at least one of color shades and defects on both brown and white eggs. An enclosure incorporates a plurality of high resolution producing cameras, these communicating via cable with a switch to... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090195649 - System and method for monitoring quilting machine: A monitoring system for use with a sewing machine. The monitoring system includes a camera assembly mounted to a base of the sewing machine with a camera that collects images from a bottom side of the fabric. The camera assembly delivers images of the back side of the fabric to... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20090195650 - Virtual image generating apparatus, virtual image generating method, and recording medium storing virtual image generating program: A virtual image generation apparatus includes an image recording unit configured to record a plurality of images, each containing photography position data. An image selection unit selects, from the images recorded, an image from which to generate a virtual image. A map-image acquiring unit acquires an image corresponding to a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090195652 - Interactive virtual window vision system for mobile platforms: The invention is a vision and image capture system for mobile platforms. The system comprises: an imaging sensor that comprises at least one imaging sub-sensor which is integrated in the outside walls of the platform; at least one display screen on which is displayed the images captured by the imaging... Agent: Marsteller & Associates

20090195651 - Method of providing safety enforcement for school buses: A method for providing for enforcement of school bus safety laws in situations in which a driver of a vehicle near a school bus illegally passes the school bus when it is stopping or stopped and its stop-sign arm is deployed and/or emergency signals are on. The method provides a... Agent: Charles E. Frost, Jr. Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White,

20090195653 - Method and system for transmitting video images using video cameras embedded in signal/street lights: A method and system of video surveillance by using existing street light, traffic light and other household or outdoor light assemblies. A video camera is mounted in the light assembly and is powered through power lines of the light assembly. A converter is used to convert images captured by the... Agent: Lauson & Tarver LLP

20090195654 - Virtual fence: The present invention is directed to a virtual fence provided using a plurality of video cameras. A method for providing a virtual fence in accordance with an embodiment includes: positioning a plurality of video cameras about a perimeter to be monitored, the perimeter comprising a plurality of designated areas; for... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090195655 - Remote control video surveillance apparatus with wireless communication: A remote control video surveillance apparatus is disclosed that includes a video camera and other types of sensors that communicate sensed data to other computers using wireless Internet functionality. The remote unit includes a cellular telephone transceiver so that it can be used in remote areas, or can be used... Agent: Frederick H. Gribbell

20090195656 - Interactive transcription system and method: A method and system which seamlessly combines natural way of handwriting (real world) with interactive digital media and technologies (virtual world) for providing a mixed or augmented reality perception to the user is disclosed.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090195657 - Osd system and method for controlling the same: An onscreen display (OSD) system for a display device includes an OSD module including a microprocessor and a memory. The memory stores instructions about adjustment of a display characteristic and the microprocessor reads the instructions and generates an OSD menu including the instructions. An operation method for the system is... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20090195658 - Video processing system providing image pattern detection based upon image transition boundaries and related methods: A video processing system may include an input for receiving video data including video signal values for a corresponding plurality of image pixels and having an image pattern therein. The system may further include a processor coupled to the input for determining a series of video signal value differences for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090195659 - Input apparatus and imaging apparatus: An input section includes a palm rest and a hand detection sensor on the top surface of a housing. The input section also includes, for example, an analog resistive touch panel above the housing to the front. A palm rest is used as a base for placing a palm for... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090195660 - Image signal processing system, digital camera, and printer: An image signal processing system, comprising a receiver, an addition block, and a transmitting block, is provided. The image signal processing system transmits a first image signal to a print block. The print block prints the rectangular image using the whole printable area. The aspect ratio of the rectangular image... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090195661 - Interconnected camera module and printer module: A camera module for a compact printer system. The camera module includes a CMOS image sensor that captures an RGB image when a take button is actuated. The RGB image is transformed to a suitable format, such as L*a*b*, for transfer directly to a printer module. The camera module incorporates... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090195662 - Electronic camera and image transfer method adopted in electronic camera: An electronic camera includes: a communication unit engaged in communication with an external device; a selection unit that selects a transfer method of a photographic image; a transfer control unit that controls the communication unit so as to start, in response to a command transmission from the communication unit to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090195663 - Image metadata attachment: An accessory is provided for use with an image capture device is provided. The accessory has a trigger button and an image capture system adapted to capture an image in response to actuation of the trigger button. The accessory also has a body adapted to be detachably connectable to the... Agent: Raymond L. Owens Patent Legal Staff

20090195664 - System and apparatus for increasing quality and efficiency of film capture and methods of use thereof: A system, apparatus, or method is provided for imaging and for capturing visuals to provide image manipulation options for increasing resolution of subject images. A system, apparatus or method for increasing resolution of subject images using a camera to deliver unexposed photographic emulsion or a digital image and to generate... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090195665 - Vibration compensation method for image capture device: A vibration compensation method for an image capture device comprising calculating the absolute difference values or the squared difference values between each first block of pixels of a base field and a second block of pixels corresponding thereto as well as other neighboring blocks of pixels in a comparison region... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090195666 - Multi-focus camera apparatus and image processing method and program used therein: In a multi-focus camera apparatus that photographs the same region with cameras having different focal lengths, detection means for detecting a specified target in images obtained by the cameras, region acquisition means for obtaining in the images regions comprising pixels having substantially the same relationships between blurriness degrees as relationships... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090195667 - Camera system with isolator and seal for a weapon: In the preferred embodiment, the camera system for a weapon includes a camera subsystem, a mounting mechanism adapted to mount to the weapon, a bushing located between the camera subsystem and the mounting mechanism and adapted to reduce the propagation of undesirable motion and vibrations from the weapon to the... Agent: Schox PLC

20090195668 - Digital image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: A digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. When the composition of a subject displayed on a display of the apparatus is changed during application of a first shutter-release signal, a current auto-focus (AF) region moves along with the subject and displayed on the display at... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090195669 - Method and apparatus for detecting camera sensor intensity saturation: A method for detecting intensity saturation of a light sensor includes monitoring an electrical signal from a light sensor for detecting an intensity saturation condition of at least one pixel of the light sensor, converting the electrical signal to a digital signal, imposing a reserved bit combination on the digital... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090195670 - Image processing device, image processing method and program product: An image processing device that reproduces under a second observation condition an appearance of a color of a subject as perceived under a first observation condition, includes: a characteristic quantity calculation unit that calculates a characteristic quantity related to a state of visual perception adaptation under an observation condition that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090195671 - Method for integrating image sensor: Disclosed is a method for integrating an image sensor capable of removing a flicker noise without causing any burdens on a hardware due to setting up additional logics. The method for integrating an exposure time of an image sensor employing a line scan method, including the steps of: performing an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090195672 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and medium storing a program: Provided is an image processing apparatus comprising a region identifying section that identifies a partial region that fulfills a preset condition in a main image captured through an optical system in which an optical transfer function relating to light from an object point is substantially uniform regardless of a distance... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090195673 - Image processing apparatus, image playing method, image pick-up apparatus, and program and storage medium for use in displaying image data: Upon continuously displaying a plurality of image data read from a recording medium, printing setting information including trimming information is set for the image data recorded to the recording medium with a corresponding relation to the image data. The displaying of the image data is controlled based on the determination... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090195675 - Image-pickup device: The present invention relates to an image-pickup device capable of variable-frame rate image-pickup in which a frame rate is modified during image-pickup, and includes a switch 52 that an operator manipulates during image-pickup to input a modification command relating to a frame rate, and a frame rate controller 51 that... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090195674 - Indicator system, computer readable medium, and indicating device: An indicator system includes: a controller that transmits an image captured by an image capturing unit and a zoomed image captured by a zoom image capturing unit to a terminal, the image capturing unit capturing an image of an object, the zoom image capturing unit zooming in the object and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090195676 - Image distortion correcting method and device: Device and method of correcting a distortion occurring at the time of displaying a high-resolution image on a low-resolution display unit are provided. The image distortion correcting method includes the steps of: analyzing color levels of all pixels of an input original image; determining a variation of the color levels... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090195677 - Method and apparatus for storing location address of defective pixel: A method and apparatus for storing a location address of a defective pixel are disclosed. The method for storing a location address of a defective pixel includes (a) partitioning the pixel array into windows in a predetermined quantity of n, n being a natural number; (b) determining whether successively inputted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090195678 - Image capture system and method of capturing labeled image: An image capture system is provided. The image capture system for capturing an image of an object includes a light emitting module, a lens, a base unit and a filter unit. The light emitting module provides a plurality of light beams to form a reference area. The base unit includes... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090195679 - Solid-state image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device including a driver-control unit configured to control the operation timing of a pulse-driven actuator driver based on the read timing of the sensor of a solid-state image pickup element is provided.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090195680 - Low-power signal chain for image sensors: A signal chain for an image sensor is disclosed. The signal chain includes photo sensing elements, pixel readout circuits, and an amplifier. Each pixel readout circuit receives a charge-induced signal and a reset signal from one of the photo sensing elements. The readout circuit computes a difference signal between the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090195682 - Counter array and image sensor including the same: A counter array and an image sensor including the same may be provided. The counter array may include a controller and a plurality of counter units. The controller may output an operation control signal and a direction indication signal. The counter units hold previous output values or may perform a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090195683 - Drive unit for image sensor, and drive method for imaging device: A drive unit for an image sensor of the present invention comprises, for horizontal scanning, a drive section performing addition and readout of a first FD (floating diffusion) shared by two pixels of the same color that are adjacent in a diagonal direction by simultaneously transferring electrical charge of the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090195681 - Sampling and readout of an image sensor having a sparse color filter array pattern: A CMOS image sensor or other type of image sensor comprises an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns, with the columns being separated into groups each comprising two or more columns that share a common output. The image sensor further comprises sampling and readout circuitry that includes, for... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090195684 - Camcorder aiming device: The present invention relates to an aiming device for a camcorder. An open frame with an attachment means is mounted to the camcorder such that one can see what the camcorder will record through the open frame yet still view the non recorded material at the same time.... Agent: Passe' Intellectual Property, LLC

20090195685 - Camcorder aiming device: The present invention relates to an aiming device for a camcorder. An open frame with an attachment means is mounted to the camcorder such that one can see what the camcorder will record through the open frame yet still view the non recorded material at the same time.... Agent: Passe' Intellectual Property, LLC

20090195686 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus capable of readily specifying undesirable photographing parameters from auto photographing parameters. This apparatus includes: a parameter determining section that determines a plurality of photographing parameters to set when a subject is photographed; a parameter setting section that sets each value of part of the plurality of determined... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090195687 - Television camera system: A television camera system is provided and includes a television camera body and a lens device. When a power source is turned on, a lens controlling of the lens device recognizes a kind of the camera main body in accordance with a setting state of a camera code switch to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090195688 - System and method for enhanced predictive autofocusing: In an imaging device having an objective and a stage for holding a sample to be imaged, a method for autofocusing is presented. The method includes determining a measured focus value corresponding to at least a first of a plurality of logical image segments. Further, the method includes imaging the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090195689 - Digital image photographing apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and recording medium having program for executing the method: Provided are a digital image photographing apparatus which easily captures an image of a composition intended by a user, a method of controlling the apparatus, and a recording medium having a program for executing the method. The apparatus includes: an image capturing device for receiving light to generate data on... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090195690 - Intra prediction method for luma block of video: An intra prediction method for a luma block of a video is provided. The present invention provides a solution for unifying the intra prediction of the luma block of the video, which simplifies a plurality of prediction equations defined by video standard. The predication values of common terms in the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090195691 - Method and system for selecting interpolation as a means of trading off judder against interpolation artifacts: A motion judder cancellation system may convert a source frame rate to an output frame rate. A repetition pattern within a sequence of source frames may be determined. Temporal position for output frames within a sequence may be based on a source frame position and a source frame interval fraction.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090195692 - Data processor, program updating method and storage medium: A data processor capable of preventing a system from starting up improperly due to incomplete program updating. The data processor receives, by way of an external interface, a program which is sent by communicating medium such as a broadcast wave or a telephone network from an external device and stores... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090195693 - Composite tuner capable of preventing mutual interference between terrestrial broadcast and satellite broadcast: A satellite and terrestrial composite tuner includes a terrestrial broadcast tuner unit, a terrestrial broadcast demodulation unit, a satellite broadcast tuner unit, and a satellite broadcast demodulation unit. Since the satellite broadcast demodulation unit attains a power-saving mode to take an inactive state when a satellite broadcast is not received,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090195694 - Broadcast viewing system: In a broadcast viewing system including a television receiver A and a recording/reproducing device B, the television receiver A and the recording/reproducing device B are connected by an HDMI cable. By using a remote control device C on the recording/reproducing device B side, a setting data required for viewing a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090195695 - Video output apparatus, display system, and video output method for outputting video signal to display apparatus: A video output apparatus includes an attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information of a display apparatus through a communication unit, a determination unit that determines whether to superimpose additional information on a video signal based on the attribute information of the display apparatus acquired by the attribute information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090195696 - Channel system and method: Example methods and systems of finding channels related to a currently tuned channel involve receiving an input invoking a related channel function. In response to the input, a list of related channels is generated based at least in part on a currently tuned channel and the generated list of channels... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090195697 - Noise and/or flicker reduction in video sequences using spatial and temporal processing: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for reducing at least one of both flicker and noise in video sequences. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input video and performing operations to reduce one or both of noise and flicker in the input video using spatial and temporal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090195698 - Video processing apparatus and related method to determine motion vector: The invention provides a video processing method, which includes: performing motion estimation upon the target image block and a plurality of reference image blocks to calculate a plurality of block matching differences; determining a minimum block matching difference from the plurality of the block matching differences; comparing the minimum block... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090195699 - Multiple differential transmission system: In a signal transmitter for a multiple differential transmission system including a signal transmitter and a signal receiver connected via three signal lines, first and second differential drivers generate first and second output signals of bipolar four values and having a first signal voltage level, and inverted first and second... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090195700 - Laser diode / led drive circuit: The invention relates to an apparatus for controlling the output of an LD or LED. The apparatus includes a substantially static bias source and a variable source. The substantially static bias source provides a bias current to the LD/LED. The variable source is capacitively coupled to the LD/LED. The bias... Agent: Darby/national Semiconductor Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090195701 - Noise canceller as well as high-frequency receiver and portable device each using the same: A noise canceller of this invention includes a pickup antenna arranged in proximity to a noise signal generation source to extract a noise signal generated by the noise signal generation source, and a noise cancellation unit having a first input for receiving a television signal from a television signal receiving... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090195702 - Time-delayed full standby mode for consumer electronic devices: Example systems and methods for powering down a consumer electronic device such as a television provide for an ON state, a partial standby state and a full standby state. The ON state is when the television is fully powered ON, as when a user is watching television. In the partial... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090195703 - Display control apparatus including a remote control function and a storage medium having stored thereon a display control program: A display control apparatus connected to a display apparatus, which is remotely controllable through wireless communication, generates a first video/audio signal for displaying a first image on the display apparatus, and outputs the first video/audio signal to the display apparatus. Either of a first signal pattern indicative of a command... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090195705 - Information processing device and control method thereof: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes an output module which outputs video and audio information, and a processing circuit which processes the video and audio information to be output from the output module. The processing circuit includes a key-operation module which is operated to input a command,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090195704 - Power saving device: A television control device including: a housing including a motion detector and a controller; the controller having a first facility that anticipates a state of a television and a second facility that sends a wireless signal to the television, wherein the first facility changes a state of the controller between... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090195706 - Video display apparatus and control method thereof, and video output apparatus and control method thereof: When a video output apparatus (100) is connected, a video display apparatus (200) obtains information of content data stored in the video output apparatus (100). Then, based on the obtained information, the video display apparatus (200) determines whether the content data is decodable with respect to itself. If it is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090195708 - Image projection device, image projection method, computer readable recording medium recording program used in image projection device: An image projection device which can freely set access information to other devices which are connected to a communication network and exhibits excellent user-friendliness and secrecy is provided. An image projection device acquires image data via the communication network and projects an image based on the image data. The image... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090195707 - Laser picture formation device and color picture formation method: The laser picture formation device includes a two-dimensional modulation element performing video image modulation as well as four or more laser light sources having different center wavelengths. The video images which have no speckle noises at the wavelength region that has high visibility, which are realized by simultaneously emitting the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090195709 - Image projection system and method: Provided are an image projection system and method, the image projection system including: a light source for providing illumination light; an illumination optics for receiving and illuminating the illumination light; a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) having 2 rows of modulation devices formed to be offset from each other, each of... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20090195710 - Electronic picture frame: An electronic picture frame relates to an electronic picture frame which can display and edit images and more particularly pertains to an electronic picture frame with multi-functions. The electronic picture frame comprises a microprocessor module; a storage module which connects to the microprocessor module and stores the programs to be... Agent: Eric Chan

20090195711 - Tactile signal transfer arrangement: A signal transfer arrangement is provided for conveying a signal from a first location to a second location. The signal transfer arrangement includes an articulated support structure rotatably mounted on a base located on a support surface. The support structure has a mobile collection device for receiving an input signal... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20090195712 - Dvd menu representation via optical character recognition: An entertainment system for a vehicle is provided comprising a front display screen in a front seat area of the vehicle and a rear display screen in a rear seat area of the vehicle. The entertainment system further provides a DVD player for reading a DVD including video content of... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP