Television inventions 09/09

20090237488 - Information processor, information processing method, and computer readable medium: An information processor includes: a receiving unit that receives a place of a conference and a feature of a participant who is to participate in the conference; a person extracting unit that extracts persons corresponding to the feature of the participant received by the receiving unit; a cost calculating unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090237487 - Video intercom station with multimedia functions: A video intercom station (20) with multimedia functions, usable as inside video intercom position, which foresees the function of terminal for the use of remote multimedia sources (21), utilising the connection of the terminal and the remote multimedia source (21) to a multimedia non-polarised two-wire bus (23); the inside position... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090237489 - Dynamic image distribution device and method thereof: In a network system (1), in response to a user's operation on a video telephone (32) having no browser function, WEB data described in HTML is supplied from a WEB server (26) to a WEB browse server (4) by HTTP. The supplied WEB data is converted by the WEB browse... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090237490 - System and method for stereoscopic image creation and transmission: A system and method for stereoscopic image creation, transmission, and rendering includes a camera having a plurality of fixed position and orientation image capture devices in combination with a multiplexer for creating stereoscopic image data. The stereoscopic image data may be transmitted via a computer network for remote rendering and... Agent: Douglas V. Nelson Jr.

20090237492 - Enhanced stereoscopic immersive video recording and viewing: An immersive audio-visual system (and a method) for creating an enhanced interactive and immersive audio-visual environment is disclosed. The immersive audio-visual environment enables participants to enjoy true interactive, immersive audio-visual reality experience in a variety of applications. The immersive audio-visual system comprises an immersive video system, an immersive audio system... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090237491 - Object detecting system: An object detecting system includes stereo-image taking means for taking images of an object and outputting the images as a reference image and a comparative image, stereo matching means for calculating parallaxes by stereo matching, and determination means for setting regions of objects in the reference image on the basis... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090237493 - Shared color sensors for high-resolution 3-d camera: In one embodiment, an apparatus for three-dimensional (3-D) image acquisition can include: (i) first and second lenses configured to receive light from a scene; (ii) first, second, third, and fourth sensors; (iii) a first beam splitter arranged proximate to the first lens, where the first beam splitter can provide a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090237494 - Apparatus, method, and program for displaying stereoscopic images: A stereoscopic image display apparatus is constituted by: an image obtaining section for obtaining a plurality of images, which are obtained by photography of a subject from different positions; a distance measuring section, for measuring the distance to the subject; a stereoscopic image generating section, for generating a stereoscopic image... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090237495 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus, image display system and method for displaying stereoscopic image: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display device that alternately displays a left-eye image in a first time frame and a right-eye image in a second time frame, the left-eye image and the right-eye image being images to be respectively viewed by left and right eyes of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090237496 - Substrate for observation and observation system: An observation substrate for observation capable of observing an overall plasma emission distribution. An observation wafer for observing a plasma emission state in a processing space of a process module of a substrate processing system includes a base and a plurality of image pickup units disposed on a surface of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090237497 - Endoscope camera head and method for manufacturing the same: An endoscope camera head includes: an image pickup device that is configured to capture an image of an optical image and output an imaging signal containing the captured image; and a lens member that includes a lens for forming the optical image on the image pickup device, wherein the image... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090237498 - System and methods for the improvement of images generated by fiberoptic imaging bundles: A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes receiving a first optical image from an endoscope having a plurality of imaging fibers. A spatial frequency is identified that is associated with the plurality of imaging fibers. A second optical image is received from the endoscope. The spatial frequency... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090237499 - Method for observation of a person in an industrial environment: Manufacturing processes profit greatly from a close collaboration between human and machine. Whereas a human behaves flexibly and adaptively but is inclined to make mistakes during repetitive work operations, machines operate quickly and exactly but are static and not very flexible. In order to enable an improved hazard protection in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090237501 - method and an apparatus for localization of single dye molecules in the fluorescent microscopy: A method and apparatus are provided for obtaining a sub-resolution spatial information of a sample labeled with at least one type fluorescent label. The sub-resolution spatial information has localization information about the positions of fluorescent molecules of the at least one type fluorescent label in at least one spatial direction.... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090237502 - Microscope apparatus: Provided with a time-lapse imaging unit which repeatedly captures a specimen at predetermined time intervals and generates a plurality of images, and a recording unit which records at least one of an image group including one or more of the images captured during a predetermined period among a period of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090237500 - Molecular imaging apparatus and method: A nuclear imaging chain (100) includes a molecular agent (102), an acquisition system (104), a reconstruction system (106), a detection system (108), and a display system (110). The various components of the imaging chain are optimized according to desired optimization criteria. The optimized characteristics of the imaging chain (100) may... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090237503 - Estimating motion of an event captured using a digital video camera: An event aware video system (EAVS) is to capture video frames during a first time period and process events in the video frames before transferring the processed data to a central computing system. The EAVS may establish a present no-event frame from the video frames by marking the last frame... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090237505 - Processing of entertainment venue-based data utilizing wireless hand held devices: A hand held device and system for receiving venue-based data at the hand held device. A server is provided in association with one or more hand held devices that communicate with the server. The hand held device(s) receives the data at the hand held device through a wireless network. The... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090237504 - Wireless video surveillance system and method with dvr-based querying: A surveillance system and method for activating communication between at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and a corresponding digital input recorder (DIR) and/or another ICD, including the steps of providing base system; at least one user accessing the DIR via user interface either directly or remotely; the DIR... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090237507 - Apparatus for logging motor vehicle speed and time: s

20090237506 - System for communication between a video image acquisition unit and an on-board computer for a motor vehicle: The communications system (12) between the video image acquisition unit (14) and the on-board computer (16) includes means for transmitting data by carrier current comprising a data transmission line (20) forming a circuit for electrically powering members of the motor vehicle. The system (12) further comprises first means (22) for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090237508 - Method and apparatus for providing immersive surveillance: A method and apparatus for providing immersive surveillance wherein a remote security guard may monitor a scene using a variety of imagery sources that are rendered upon a model to provide a three-dimensional conceptual view of the scene. Using a view selector, the security guard may dynamically select a camera... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20090237509 - Motion activated camera system: The present invention provides a motion activated camera system having first and second housings. The first housing includes a motion detector, an illuminator, a transmitter, and a first power supply. The first power supply supplies power to the motion detector, the illuminator, and the transmitter. The motion detector provides a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090237510 - Visualizing camera feeds on a map: Feeds from cameras are better visualized by superimposing images based on the feeds onto map based on a two- or three-dimensional virtual map. For example, a traffic camera feed can be aligned with a roadway included in the map. Multiple videos can be aligned with roadways in the map and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090237511 - Multi-window/multi-target tracking (mw/mt tracking) for point source objects: A sensor is used to detect and track a plurality of objects by using a separate track window for each object. Such sensors may be electro optical or infrared. Each object of interest (potential target) in the sensor FOV has a unique track window assigned. This allows independent control of... Agent: Bae Systems

20090237513 - image saving apparatus, image transfer apparatus and image transmission apparatus: An image transfer system configured with an image transmission apparatus, an image transfer apparatus and the image saving apparatus. The image transmission apparatus transmits image data recorded in a storage medium to the image transfer apparatus. The image transfer apparatus receives the image data, records the image data into a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090237512 - Camera system and its control method: A camera system according to an embodiment includes a camera device, a control device, and an application server. The camera device, which includes a camera module and a power line communication (PLC) camera adaptation module, captures and provides audio/video information. The camera device modulates the audio/video information, and provides the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090237514 - Method of printing from digital camera system: A method of printing from a digital camera system. The method includes the steps of: retrieving a planarized linear image from a memory of the camera system; producing a dithered image in real-time from the retrieved planarized linear image; and printing the dithered image using a printhead supplied with colored... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090237515 - Digital photographing apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and recording medium having recorded thereon program for executing the method: A digital photographing apparatus is provided that reduces the number of instances in which an image including a subject having closed eyes is obtained. A method of controlling the apparatus and a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method are also provided. The apparatus includes... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090237517 - Optical module, camera, and mobile terminal device: An optical module, a camera, and a mobile terminal device are provided. The optical module includes a lens unit, a lens driving unit, a driving control unit, and a vibration sensing unit. The vibration sensing unit is configured to detect vibration/shaking of the optical module, the camera, or the mobile... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20090237516 - Method and system for intelligent and efficient camera motion estimation for video stabilization: Disclosed herein is a method for global motion estimation for video stabilization. The method enables selecting a video frame from a video stream. The method further enables downscaling the video frames by factor close to 2 in a two dimensional range, dividing the downscaled video frame into a plurality of... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090237518 - Contextual camera method and apparatus for virtual environments: A computer method and apparatus control virtual environment cameras based on context. Current context is detected in a subject virtual environment. As a function of detected context, a set of predefined camera views is provided and displayed for user selection. Upon user selection of a camera view from the provided... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090237519 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a signal processing unit that generates moving image data and still image data using image data output from an imaging unit, a moving image coding unit that encodes the moving image data, a still image coding unit that encodes the still image data, a recording unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090237521 - Image capturing apparatus and method for controlling image capturing: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing device which receives an optical image of an object subjected to light via an image capturing lens and converts the optical image into an image signal; a face detecting device which detects a plurality of human faces from the image signal; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090237520 - Image pick-up appararus and synchronization-signal-generating apparatus: An image signal generation portion 11 generates an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. A signal generation control portion 24 drives the image signal generation portion 11 and generates image pick-up setting information IF to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with a generated image signal DVd.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090237523 - Image signal processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and image signal processing method: An image signal processing apparatus is disclosed. A peaking signal generation section extracts and amplifies high frequency components contained in an input image signal to generate a peaking signal. An operation section allows a target area for which contour correction is to be performed using the peaking signal to be... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haugh LLP

20090237524 - Imaging element: An imaging element that performs a processing, which is related to readout of accumulated charges, with respect to a predetermined line of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements in plural times in a time dividing manner in each horizontal scanning period, includes: a photoelectric conversion unit having a structure in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090237522 - Method for controlling digital picture frame and digital picture frame thereof: A method for controlling a digital picture frame includes the following steps of: establishing an image data corresponding to a folder stored in the digital picture frame, connecting a storage device to the digital picture frame, capturing an image by the digital picture frame, comparing the image with the image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090237525 - Image pick-up apparatus, an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, with appropriate color space conversion: An image pick-up apparatus includes an image pick-up device, a storage media which stores an image picked up by the image pick up device, a color space converter which converts a color space of the image; a storage media reader which reads out the image from the storage media, an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090237527 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method and computer-readable recording medium storing imaging program recorded: An image data imaged consecutively is divided into three groups in time series. As for a first group imaged most newly, all imaged image data are held in buffers. The image data of a second group is divided again into subgroups at every 2N images. In the second group, the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090237526 - Method and apparatus for segmented video compression: An archival video system uses profile images as a background for an image and delta images to indicate the difference between a current image and a profile image. An image may be segmented into multiple sectors, with each sector compared to a profile sector. The resulting image may be constructed... Agent: Anderson, Levine & Lintel L.L.P.

20090237528 - Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling image pickup apparatus, signal processing apparatus, and method for processing signal: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to photoelectrically convert light into an electrical signal serving as an imaging signal and output the imaging signal at predetermined frame intervals, a memory configured to store the imaging signal output from the image pickup unit, a first signal processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090237529 - Image recording method, image recording device, and storage medium: An image recording comprising: an initialization step of generating a predetermined number of search points in a specified region of an image, a filtering step of updating coordinates of a plurality of search points, comparing a characteristic value of the specified region with a characteristic value of each of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090237530 - Methods and apparatuses for sharpening images: Methods and apparatuses for sharpening imaging pixel signals. Embodiments provide methods of sharpening that preserves the pixel's saturation and apparatuses therefor. In essence, rather than changing only the pixels' luminance, the effective exposure of the pixel is changed.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090237531 - Photographic document imaging system: An apparatus and method for processing a captured image and, more particularly, for processing a captured image comprising a document. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a camera to capture documents is described. In another embodiment, a method for processing a captured image that includes a document comprises the steps... Agent: Jones Day

20090237532 - Noise reduction device and digital camera: The first array register stores neighboring pixels of the same color as the pixel of interest, which are sorted according to the size of the pixel value. The maximum signal comparison circuit compares the value obtained by adding the threshold ThB to the pixel value maxC, which is the (b1)th... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090237533 - Method for correcting pixel defect of image pickup device: A method for correcting a pixel defect of a solid-state image pickup device includes acquiring deviation of image signals obtained by imaging respective spectral lights at specific image pickup position or at vicinities of the specific image pickup position by image pickup device; comparing the deviation with a reference value;... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090237536 - Analog-to-digital conversion in image sensors: An image sensor has a per-column ADC arrangement including first and second capacitors for correlated double sampling, and a comparator circuit. The capacitors are continuously connected to, respectively, the analog pixel signal and a ramp signal without use of a hold operation. The comparator circuit comprises a differential amplifier having... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20090237535 - Analog-to-digital converter, analog-to-digital converting method, solid-state image pickup device, and camera system: An analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog input signal into a digital signal includes a comparator configured to compare a reference signal with an input signal and, if the input signal matches the reference signal, inverts an output; a counter configured to count a comparison time of the comparator; a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090237534 - Analog-to-digital converter, solid-state image pickup device, and camera system: An analog-to-digital converter converting an analog input signal into a digital signal includes a comparator comparing a reference signal with an input signal and, if the reference signal matches the input signal, inverting an output; and a counter counting a comparison time. The counter includes flip flops that perform serial... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090237537 - Digital camera: In order to provide a digital camera which includes a heat dissipating device which can cool sufficiently a solid state image pick-up device and integrated circuits, which has a high rigidity and which affects little the design of the digital camera, there is provided a digital camera comprising a lens... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090237538 - Solid-state image pickup device: A high dynamic range solid-state image pickup device is provided with a plurality of unit cells (500), which convert light into signal charges and accumulate the signal charges, and are arranged by rows and columns for outputting a signal voltage corresponding to the signal charges; a row selecting circuit (110)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090237539 - Amplification type solid-state imaging device: Before a signal charge from a photodiode 1 is transferred to a signal charge accumulating portion 3 by a scanning circuit 20, a reset transistor 4 is turned on for a prescribed period to reset the voltage of the signal charge accumulating portion 3 in a state in which the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090237544 - Image pickup apparatus: There is provided an image pickup apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit which converts incident light into an electrical signal and accumulates the electrical signal, an amplifier transistor which amplifies and outputs the signal from the photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer transistor which transfers... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090237542 - Image sensor circuit: a pixel cell array having a plurality of pixel cells arranged along a plurality of column lines, a plurality of readout circuits connected to said column lines, each of which comprises an analog-to-digital converter and a multiplexer for selectively applying an output signal of one of said column lines to... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090237540 - Imager method and apparatus having combined gate signals: An imaging device and method for operating the device. The device comprises a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns and a plurality of readout circuits for the pixels. A reset circuit in one readout circuit is simultaneously operated with a dual conversion gain select... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090237541 - Method and apparatus providing reduced metal routing in imagers: An imaging device and method for operating the device. The imaging device comprises a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns. At least one pixel of the array comprises a photosensor and a first reset circuit responsive to a first reset control signal for resetting... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090237543 - Solid-state image pickup apparatus: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a first antireflection coating film formed on a light-receiving surface of a first photoelectric conversion element and a second antireflection coating film formed on a light-receiving surface of a second photoelectric conversion element. A total length of first photoelectric conversion element facing portions of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090237545 - Solid-state image pickup device and control method thereof: An image sensor controls the gain of a pixel signal on a pixel-by-pixel basis and extends a dynamic range while maintaining a S/N ratio at a favorable level. A column unit in an image sensor is independently detects a level of each pixel signal and independently sets a gain for... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090237547 - Imaging device and photographed image display control method: Usually, reduced images of past photographed images are displayed with a live view image. When a still image is photographed, the photographed image (post-view image) is displayed, and then an animation that allows a user to intuitively recognize that the image has been successfully photographed and the photographed image has... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090237546 - Mobile device with image recognition processing capability: An image of an object is captured using a portable electronic device. The image is displayed on a display screen of the portable electronic device. Image recognition is performed on the image to identify the object, a task associated with the identified object is identified, and information about the task... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090237548 - Camera, storage medium having stored therein camera control program, and camera control method: A graph 261, in which “aperture” is configured on the vertical axis, and “shutter speed” is configured on the horizontal axis, is displayed as superimposed on a through image. On this displayed graph 261, at a position of a parameter value corresponding to a determined photographic scene, an icon 262... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090237549 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: The present invention is an image processing apparatus for changing the resolution of image data in accordance with the distance from a reference point arbitrarily set within a screen showing the image data, including: selection means for selecting, from the image data, calculation-target pixels that are arranged in such a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090237550 - Focus adjustment apparatus and image capturing apparatus: A focus adjustment apparatus or an image capturing apparatus is provided with a system controller. The system controller calculates a correlation value between an image in a focus detection area when a focusing lens is located at a lens position apart by a predetermined distance from a lens position where... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090237551 - Focus position detection apparatus and method: A focus position detection apparatus calculates a focus position of a focus lens using an image signal obtained from an image sensing element. The apparatus comprises an acquisition unit that acquires focus states for a predetermined distance range, a control unit that controls the acquisition unit to acquire focus states... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090237553 - Digital photographing apparatuses, methods of controlling the same, and recording medium storing computer readable instructions for executing the methods: A digital photographing apparatus capable of automatically determining whether a macro mode is an appropriate mode, a methods of controlling the same, and a computer readable recording medium storing instructions for executing the method(s) is disclosed A lens position determining unit is disclosed that determines whether an auto-focusing lens position... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090237552 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an imaging device. The imaging device has an imaging surface irradiated with an optical image of an object scene that undergoes a focus lens, and outputs an object scene image produced on the imaging surface. A CPU predicts a focus direction based on a focus position... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090237554 - Autofocus system: If another registration pattern exists in an image as well as a selected tracking target in the course of tracking the selected tracking target and if the tracking target disappears from the image, said another registration pattern existing in the image is tracked. Thereafter, even if the tracking target, which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090237556 - Camera with weather cover: A camera includes a camera body, a video camera recorder, a battery compartment, and a weather cover. The camera body has a lens at front end and threads at a rear end. The video camera recorder has a forward portion located within the camera body. The battery compartment is connected... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090237555 - Pedestal: [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A pedestal (1) for mounting a TV camera (2) has a carriage section (3) having a substantially triangular plane shape and a proper height, a post portion (4) telescopably provided on the carriage section (3), an operation handle (5), and a drive section (7) fixed on... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20090237557 - Deinterlacing and film and video detection with configurable downsampling: A system having a memory and a processor is disclosed. The memory may be arranged as (i) a first pipeline to buffer a plurality of full resolution fields and (ii) a second pipeline to buffer a plurality of low resolution fields. The processor is generally configured to (i) receive a... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090237558 - Teletext receiving circuit: A band-pass filter (131), which extracts a frequency component of a teletext reference signal from a digital input signal obtained by digitizing a composite signal, is provided in a frequency characteristic enhancement circuit (130). A determination circuit (145), which determines a state of the composite signal in accordance with maximum... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090237559 - Synchronizing signal detection circuit: The present invention provides a synchronizing signal detection circuit capable of always stably detecting a synchronizing signal. The synchronizing signal detection circuit predicts detection positions of synchronizing pulses every synchronization cycle peculiar to an input video signal. The synchronizing signal detection circuit further supplies the input video signal to a... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090237560 - Networked ip video wall: In one embodiment, a method can include: receiving a synchronization signal in a digital media receiver coupled to a network and a video wall; receiving media content in the digital media receiver; receiving a configuration signal via the network in the digital media receiver; and displaying a designated portion of... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090237561 - Video and audio output device: There is a possibility that a critical problem occur, in a mobile device without a fixed service space such as a camcorder and the like on which the HDMI cable is frequently inserted/removed, when a piece of metal and the like fall in the HDMI terminal, causing the 5V terminal... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090237562 - Image processing apparatus, method and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit configured to generate image signals for displaying a plurality of screens on one display surface; an operation signal acquisition unit configured to acquire an operation signal from a user; and a control unit configured to scale a focused one of the plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090237563 - Accurate motion portrayal for display and digital projectors: A system and method for motion portrayal manipulation includes performing a motion estimation to determine objects in motion in content provided at an acquisition rate. An eye motion trajectory of a viewer is predicted based on the content to determine a region of interest. An object in the area of... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090237564 - Interactive immersive virtual reality and simulation: An immersive audio-visual system (and a method) for creating an enhanced interactive and immersive audio-visual environment is disclosed. The immersive audio-visual environment enables participants to enjoy true interactive, immersive audio-visual reality experience in a variety of applications. The immersive audio-visual system comprises an immersive video system, an immersive audio system... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090237566 - Methods for interactive video compositing: An interactive video compositing device includes a chroma-key mixer, video switcher and control circuitry. The chroma-key mixer generates a composite image by combining a real-time image, such as one captured by a video recorder, with a prerecorded video image, such as a movie. The composite image includes the modified real-time... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090237565 - Video compositing systems for providing interactive entertainment: An interactive video compositing device includes a chroma-key mixer, video switcher and control circuitry. The chroma-key mixer generates a composite image by combining a real-time image, such as one captured by a video recorder, with a prerecorded video image, such as a movie. The composite image includes the modified real-time... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090237567 - Method and apparatus for emitting ambient light corresponding to display image on display device: A method for emitting an ambient light corresponding to a display image on a display device includes the following steps. A color parameter group is extracted from overall pixels of a frame, an average color and/or an average brightness corresponding to the frame are/is obtained by calculating the color parameter... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090237568 - Decoder and method for separating luminance and chrominance information from a composite video signal: A decoder and a method for separating luminance and chrominance information from a target pixel in a composite video signal are provided. The decoder comprises a delay module, a filter module, a weighting factor generator, and a separator. The delay module is configured to delay a plurality of horizontal lines... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090237569 - Transcoder: A scene change detection part detects a scene change based on a characteristic amount of an input image. A target code amount setting part executes correction by a correction code amount on a target code amount previously set for suppressing variation of an output code amount around the time of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090237570 - Electron-emitting device, electron source, and image display apparatus, and method for manufacturing the same: A base body includes a first part and a second part, The second part has a lower thermal conductivity than the first part and is arranged adjacently to the first part. A first conductive film is formed on the first part and a second conductive film is formed on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090237571 - Video display device: This video display device includes a maker name table and a device type table. Moreover, this video display device includes a communication means which, when some external input channel is selected, receives from a device upon that external input channel the logical address and the vendor ID which are allocated... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090237572 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device and an image display method are disclosed, each of which can adjust a display luminance so as to be sufficiently suitable for human adaptability to brightness. A display device main unit includes a display section and a luminance control section for adjusting a display luminance of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090237573 - Remote control and method of using same for controlling entertainment equipment: A universal smart remote control includes intelligence software and algorithms that have been programmed into the remote control's microprocessor memory, and a large display which is used to prompt the user to take certain actions. The remote control provides guidance to the user in setting up and operating the various... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20090237574 - Album for display of digitally produced images: An image viewing apparatus comprising in combination a receptacle having the configuration of a photograph album, the receptacle having a top cover panel, a rear panel, and simulated pages between the panels, the simulated pages defining a first cavity opening towards the first cover panel, an image display device received... Agent: William W. Haefliger

20090231411 - Integrated web-based instant messaging apparatus used as a video phone: The present invention provides a method to perform real time audio and visual transmitting/receiving by using web-based instant messaging apparatus which is dedicated to visual telecommunication as a video phone. The device integrates all necessary hardware into one single portable size body, embeds all network communication software and preloads instant... Agent: Zhihua Yan

20090231412 - Telepresence display configuration: Telepresence display configuration useful for video conferencing. The telepresence display configurations include a video display and a mat. The mat is spaced apart from the video display and has an opening having an inner perimeter configured to frame a viewing surface of a video display.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090231414 - Conferencing and stage display of distributed conference participants: A system comprises a stage area and an audience area with a line of sight view of the stage area. The system also includes a first display that reproduces a first video feed of a first perspective of a remote talent. The first video feed may appear, from the perspective... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090231413 - Enhanced video telephony through augmented reality: A method for enhancing video telephony that includes initiating a video telephone call from a first device to a second device, displaying a live video view by the first device, transferring video from the second device to the first device during the video telephone call, and overlaying the transferred video... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20090231415 - Multiple video stream capability negotiation: Video send and receive capabilities of participants are determined by the respective machines determining available combinations, as well as preferences for the receivers. Receiver capabilities are forwarded to the source for computation of negotiated video capabilities through a logic intersection of the determined capabilities based on desired number of streams... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090231416 - Image pickup device: An image pickup device includes an optical system having a wide angle, wherein at least magnification chromatic aberration is large; an image sensor configured to read an image picked up through the optical system; and a magnification chromatic aberration correction unit configured to perform magnification chromatic aberration correction by performing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090231417 - Protective glasses:

20090231418 - Image processor for endoscope and image processing method for endoscope: An image processor for processing endoscopic images is provided with a first masking processor for masking a useless marginal area of each frame of the endoscopic image that is output from an endoscope, a PIP processor for resolution conversion and PIP processing of the endoscopic image frames after the masking,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090231419 - Endoscope assembly and method of performing a medical procedure: An endoscope assembly includes (1) an endoscope that includes a tubular body, a retrograde-viewing imaging device disposed at a distal end region of the tubular body, and a channel extending through the tubular body; and (2) an instrument extending through the channel of the endoscope and exits from a distal... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090231420 - Image pickup apparatus and image combining method of image pickup apparatus: In an image pickup apparatus, an original image selecting unit selects an original image from picked-up images acquired by an image pickup unit; a process image selecting unit selects a process image from the picked-up images; and an image combining instructing unit issues an instruction to combine the process image... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090231421 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a first spectrum estimating unit for reading the image information from a storage unit and estimating a spectrum of an object based on the read image information; a dye amount estimating unit for estimating dye amounts included in the object using the estimated spectrum; a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090231422 - Microscope examination apparatus: The invention provides a microscope examination apparatus including a light source; an illumination optical system configured to guide light from the light source to a specimen; an objective lens configured to collimate return light from the specimen, the objective lens being provided in such a manner as to be displaceable... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090231423 - Video recording device for a welder's helmet: A weld recording system mounted in or on a welding helmet is provided. The weld recording system includes a camera assembly unit, a power supply unit, a processor, and removable memory. The weld recording system interfaces with lens control circuitry, an optical sensor, a welding power supply, and a helmet... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20090231424 - System and method for monitoring semiconductor device manufacturing process: A hotspot searching apparatus manufactures a small number of chips or regions on a semiconductor wafer under respectively different manufacturing process conditions, compares SEM images of their external appearances to output a point having large differences as a narrow process window, that is, a process monitoring point that should be... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090231425 - Controller with an integrated camera and methods for interfacing with an interactive application: A method for determining a position of a controller in a three-dimensional space is disclosed. The method includes an operation to calibrate a computer program to identify a group of recognized fixed points from a plurality of fixed points within the three-dimensional space using a depth camera integrated with the... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090231426 - Image recording reproducing device: An image recording/reproducing device is provided which, when a removable recording unit is mounted, can continuously use the unit while keeping previously recorded images and can improve convenience. A recording device 16 is an image recording/reproducing device and an HDD is a removable recording unit. When an HDD is added,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090231427 - Method and apparatus to facilitate using a camera as pertains to a self-storage facility: Dim lighting can be provided in a given area that is monitored by a camera. Though such lighting is not bright enough to ensure capturing an image that can in turn be used with assurance to, for example, recognize the visage of a person in this given area, this dim... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090231428 - Surveillance apparatus and program: A surveillance apparatus capable of connecting via a communication network with a video recording device that records a video signal output from at least one surveillance camera and obtains surveillance camera trouble information pertaining to the surveillance camera detected by the video recording device. The surveillance apparatus comprises a timetable... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090231430 - Device for capturing an image of the external area of a vehicle by means of a camera: In a device for capturing an image of the external area of a vehicle by means of a camera (20), there is a motor with a secondary transmission (40) which moves the camera (20) between a retracted position (10.1) and an extended position (10.2) relative to an aperture (51) in... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20090231429 - Informing a driver or an owner of a vehicle of visible problems detected by outside video sources: A method, system and computer program product for informing a driver or an owner of a vehicle of visible problems detected by outside video sources. An on-board vehicle subsystem may receive a video image of a section of the vehicle (e.g., tail light of vehicle) from an outside video source... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20090231431 - Displayed view modification in a vehicle-to-vehicle network: In V2V or other networks in which multiple video cameras can share video data, a user may elect to modify a primary view by electronically “removing” obstructing objects from the primary view. The user begins by identifying the objects to be electronically removed from the simulated view, either by designating... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090231433 - Scene selection in a vehicle-to-vehicle network: In V2V or other networks in which multiple video feeds are available to a participant, a participant can select a particular video feed for display. The participant has the option of selecting or locking onto a particular camera so that the display continues to show scenes captured by that camera... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090231432 - View selection in a vehicle-to-vehicle network: In V2V or other networks in which multiple video cameras can share video data, a network participant ordinarily has the option of selecting a particular video data stream (either generated by local cameras or received from other network participants. To facilitate the process of selecting a video data stream for... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090231434 - Method and apparatus to facilitate communicating operational data as pertains to a self-storage facility: Each of a plurality of disparate facility components can be provided with a communications interface. That interface, in turn, can serve to facilitate communicating operational data between individual ones of such facility components and, for example, a central self-storage facility controller. This interface can comprise a wireless or a non-wireless... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090231435 - Protective helmet: A protective helmet includes a main body defined an opening therein, a camera unit, a memory unit, and a power unit. The recording device is mounted on the opening of the main body and configured for capturing images. The memory unit is electrically connected to the recording device and received... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090231436 - Method and apparatus for tracking with identification: Combining and fusing the tracking of people and objects with image processing and the identification of the people and objects being tracked. Also, conditions of a person, object, area or facility can be detected, evaluated and monitored.... Agent: Kris Fredrick Honeywell Inc., Law Department

20090231438 - Automatic testing of scheduled telepresence meetings: Equipment and network resources are automatically tested in advance of scheduled telepresence meetings in order to discover problems before the actual telepresence meeting. When a meeting between telepresence sites is scheduled, a test time is automatically scheduled for performing a test in advance of a scheduled time of the telepresence... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090231437 - Tv data processing method and tv data receiver utilizing which: A TV data processing method includes receiving TV data, determining a program type to which the TV data belongs, detecting a signal quality of the TV data, and determining if the signal quality is larger than a threshold standard. When the signal quality is not larger than a threshold standard,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090231439 - Method for propagating data through a video stream: A method for propagating an error between video frames of a video stream wherein data in a single macroblock is propagated from a first video frame to a second video frame via inter-frame coding. Once integrated into the second video frame, the macroblock may be utilized as the basis for... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20090231440 - Brightness automatically adjusting system and method for adjusting brightness thereof: A brightness adjustment system includes a camera, a computer, and a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a signal processor, a backlight control circuit and a backlight unit. The camera captures environmental images and sends the environmental image to the computer. The computer analyzes the environmental image to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20090231441 - Systems and methods for suggesting meta-information to a camera user: According to one embodiment of the invention, a camera captures an image. The image is transmitted to a server for image recognition processing. The camera receives information from the server, including an indication of information to suggest to a user for meta-tagging the image. The suggested information may be based,... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20090231443 - Camera having networked printer: A camera for capturing and printing images is provided having an image sensor for capturing images, a network interface for transferring the captured images to a computer system and for receiving identities uniquely assigned to each transferred image by the computer system, and a printing mechanism for printing the images... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090231442 - Portrait medium for electronic application, and apparatuses for producing, invalidating, and reissuing the same: A photo booth is provided with a digital camera for taking the face, a means for outputting certification information representing that the portrait data is of a real image, means for recording information representing a valid period of the portrait data and a recording portion which records the portrait data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090231444 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus includes a correction member movable within a plane orthogonal to an optical axis, a vibration detection unit configured to detect vibrations applied to the imaging apparatus, a filter configured to pass a frequency of a predetermined band of vibration signals from the vibration detection unit, a calculation... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090231452 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a correction unit, a vibration detection unit, a filter passing and outputting frequency of a predetermined band of vibration signals periodically entered from the vibration detection unit: the filter setting, as intermediate value, sum of a value based on a vibration signal of current period and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090231445 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus, includes: an imaging optical system; an image pickup device; and a control device which is configured to control the image pickup device, wherein the control device is configured to preliminarily decide an exposure order of a relatively short time exposure in a prescribed image size; an exposure... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090231447 - Apparatus and method for generating panorama images and apparatus and method for object-tracking using the same: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating panorama images and an apparatus and method for tracking an object using the same. The apparatus for generating panorama images estimates regional motion vectors with respect to respective lower regions set in an image frame, determines a frame motion vector by using... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090231448 - Image pick-up apparatus with a shake reducing function: When a hand shake reducing mode has been set for shooting a subject, an exposure is controlled in accordance with a program diagram (solid line) B for the shake reducing mode, which is different from a program diagram (broken line) A for a normal mode. In a state where a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090231446 - Method and apparatus for reducing motion blur in digital images: A method and apparatus for reducing motion blur in digital images. An imager captures a reference frame and a plurality of target frames. Feature blocks preferably containing strong two-dimensional features are identified in the reference frame. Corresponding features are identified in the target frames and motion vectors representing the movement... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090231449 - Image enhancement based on multiple frames and motion estimation: A system and method for capturing images is provided. In the system and method, preview images are acquired and global local and local motion are estimated based on at least a portion of the preview images. If the local motion is less than or equal to the global motion, a... Agent: Zoran Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090231450 - Imaging device: In an imaging apparatus, an erroneous shake correction is prevented from being performed due to a front curtain shock. A shutter selecting section determines a current state is a shake-correction execution mode when a shake correction switch is ON, when a tripod detection sensor tripod is not mounted, when a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090231451 - Shock and vibration isolator for a camera: A shock and vibration isolator for a movie or video camera has a vertical axis system including a base, an arm pivotably attached to the base, and at least one spring connected to the base and to the arm. One or more dampeners are connected to the base and to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090231453 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes: a determining unit configured to determine whether processing-target image data has image content matching a previously set motion pattern; and a validating unit configured to validate image data that is determined to match the motion pattern by the determining unit.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090231454 - Imaging apparatus and its control method: An imaging apparatus provided with a function of shooting a moving image and a still image, and capable of displaying an image to be captured on a display unit includes a first display control unit configured to display an confirmation image for checking an in-focus state on the display unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090231459 - Camera direct dailies: Obtaining camera direct dailies using a parallel recording scheme on a set, including; simultaneously recording camera-original video in a master recording session and a lower-resolution proxy recording session; transferring lower-resolution video from the lower-resolution proxy recording session to a stage ingest station; integrating data including sound, logging, color correction, metadata,... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090231456 - Determining the multiplication of emccd sensor: A method and device having a CCD in which charge multiplication is obtained by applying drive voltages to clocking elements and is arranged to derive the gain provided by the multiplication elements from at least first and second output signals. The CCD is operated at a first voltage or temperature... Agent: Venable LLP

20090231455 - Image sensor apparatus and method for embedding recoverable data on image sensor pixel arrays: An image sensor apparatus is disclosed. The image sensor apparatus includes an image sensor for generating image data in a pixel array corresponding to an optical image. A processor alters the image data to embed a feature-dependent code associated with a feature of the image data in a feature-dependent location... Agent: Curtis A. Vock Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090231460 - Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing program, and image signal processing method: An image signal processing apparatus including a first corrected tone processing section for performing such a corrected tone process which extends a tone width of a high luminance region or a low luminance region in an image signal, a tone processing section for performing a space-variant tone process for all... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090231457 - Method and apparatus for generating media signal by using state information: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a media signal by using state information. The method using the apparatus includes acquiring at least one type of state information selected from state information about a subject and state information about the apparatus, and generating a media signal by using the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090231458 - Target image detection device, controlling method of the same, control program and recording medium recorded with program, and electronic apparatus equipped with target image detection device: A target image detection device for detecting a target image from an original image has an acquiring section for acquiring the original image, a determining section for determining a detection condition different from a detection condition of a previous time of a plurality of detection conditions for detecting the target... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090231461 - Image capture device providing color adjustment and color adjustment method thereof: A digital still camera (DSC) includes an encoder, a display panel, and a color adjustment unit. The encoder is configured to encode an image signal in the DSC into a first preview image. The display panel is configured to display the first preview image to allow determination of the need... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090231462 - Image-pickup apparatus and white-balance control method provided therefor: The present invention allows for selecting a predetermined chromatic color for extraction from among a plurality of chromatic colors based on the result of identification of acquired photographing information. When the value of a white extraction area of the photographing information is smaller than a first threshold value, it is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090231463 - Calculation method for the correction of white balance: A calculation method for calculating a white balance correction value is disclosed. When an image capture device utilizes an auxiliary light to capture an image, the weightings of the image color impacted by the color temperature of each light source are obtained by the brightness-rate which is provided by the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090231464 - Digital camera, electronic device equipped with digital camera, imaging method for digital camera and storage medium provided with program of digital camera: Provided is a digital camera which can display an image quickly following a change in a position of an object with a small-sized, inexpensive construction at the time of picking up the image of the object in a low brightness. The digital camera is provided with an image pickup unit... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090231465 - Image pick-up apparatus, image pick-up method and recording medium: Image light from an object is dispersed by a light dispersing device. When a plurality of image sensors are used for picking up images, an image in which a moving object is stopped is picked up with a high shutter speed, and at the same time, a motion-blurred image in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090231466 - Dynamic optimization of memory use in a digital recording device: A method for dynamically optimizing the memory use in a digital recording device. The disclosed method includes recording a plurality of digital files collected by said digital recording device on a recording medium and assigning each file of said plurality of recorded digital files a priority ranking of high, medium... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090231468 - Digital imaging apparatus enabled to control flash light intensity, method of controlling the digital imaging apparatus, and recording medium having recorded thereon program for executing the method: Provided is a method of controlling a digital imaging apparatus enabled to maintain a ready-to-capture state, with a shutter opened, the method comprising (a) displaying an image of a target subject in a live-view, with the shutter opened; (b) obtaining live-view information of the image; (c) when an imaging start... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090231469 - Image processing apparatus: When an area desired to be displayed with high accuracy and an area desired to be inspected and measured with high accuracy in a measuring object are smaller than a photographing range, the entire area of a composite image is displayed and designation of an area is received, to thereby... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090231467 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method, storage medium, and integrated circuit: An imaging apparatus for capturing a moving image performs backlight correction of an image and outputs a natural image. The imaging apparatus electronically captures an image of a subject. An optical system has a light amount adjustment function. An imaging unit reads an optical image of the subject that is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090231470 - Image capturing apparatus and display control method: When various kinds of information and various frames are superimposed on a displayed image of a subject during live view shooting, an object to be preferentially displayed is switched between the various kinds of information and the various frames in accordance with an overlapping state of the various kinds of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090231471 - Correction approximating straight line group information generating method of multi-divided reading ccd, and correction processing device manufacturing method of multi-divided reading ccd: To make it possible to cope with an error in a hue or the like in the case of using such a CCD of lower quality or an analog circuit of lower quality as might otherwise raise a problem in the hue, a correction approximating straight line group information creating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090231472 - Image processing method, image processing device, and image capturing device: There is provided an image processing method configured to process an image captured by using an optical system with a wide view angle and a large magnification chromatic aberration, wherein a magnification chromatic aberration correction is conducted by conducting no coordinate transformation for an image of a particular color component... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090231473 - Imaging apparatus and pixel defect compensation method implemented therein: Pixel signals output from an imaging device having pixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions are compensated if there are pixel defects. Extracted from the pixel signals are: a first signal from a target pixel; second signals from second pixels having the same color as the target pixel; and third... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090231474 - Multifunction video communication service devices: This invention relates to a multimedia device (100) for use in multimedia collaboration apparatus and systems. Such apparatus and systems typically contain processing units (118) audio reception and transmission capabilities (140, 142), as well as video reception and transmission capabilities (146, 142). The reception and transmission capabilities allow analog audio/video... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090231475 - Method and apparatus for breaking surface tension during a recessed color filter array process: A method of making a color filter array of an imaging device comprises forming a main recess for a color filter array, forming a tension breaking feature at an edge of the main recess, and providing a color filter array material across the tension breaking feature and main recess as... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090231477 - Solid-state image pickup apparatus and method for manufacturing the same: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes: a first major surface on which a light receiving portion is formed; a second major surface opposed to the first major surface, and a hermetic seal portion formed on the first major surface, for sealing the light receiving portion, the hermetic seal portion being... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090231476 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and apparatus using the same: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: an imaging section having pixels arranged into a matrix; a conversion section for digitizing pixel signals; a block memory section formed of a first line memory corresponding to at least N lines (N being an integral number of 2 or more) for retaining the pixel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090231478 - Solid-state image pickup device: A solid-state image pickup device includes a voltage supply circuit configured to supply a voltage to load MOS transistors provided to vertical output lines and columnar signal-processing circuits. The voltage supply circuit includes a first amplifier circuit configured to amplify a predetermined voltage supplied to an input part thereof from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090231479 - Image sensor adc and cds per column: A solid state imager converts analog pixel values to digital form on an arrayed per-column basis. A counter is coupled to an N-bit DAC to produce an analog ramp that varies corresponding to the contents of the counter. A ripple counter is associated with each respective column. A clock or... Agent: Bernhard P. Molldrem Jr.

20090231480 - Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof: In an image sensing apparatus adapted to apply user-settable image processing to a sensed image, display in an electronic viewfinder of an image to which a user-set image processing is applied and an image to which such image processing is not applied is switched with each passage of a predetermined... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090231481 - Optical low pass filter and image pickup apparatus having the same: An optical low pass filter includes one portion that splits an incident light beam into plural light beams having a predetermined split width in a predetermined direction, and emits the light beams, and another portion that splits the incident light beam into plural light beams having a split width different... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090231482 - Photography device and photography method: A photography device that includes an imaging component, a focusing component, a magnification alteration component, a display component, an acquisition component and a control component is provided. The focusing component focuses a subject image on an imaging surface of the imaging component. The magnification alteration component alters a magnification of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090231484 - Image-snapping device: An image snapping device includes a body, a support rod, an image-snapping module and an outer hollow cylinder. The support rod is pivotally connected to the body. The image-snapping module is pivotally connected to the support rod and has a camera rotatable relative to the support rod. The outer hollow... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090231483 - Systems and methods for document scanning using a variable intensity display of an information handling system: Variable display lighting intensity of an information handling system, such as notebook computer, is used to achieve image lighting uniformity for document scanning with a camera that is integrated or otherwise attached or built-in to a display of the information handling system.... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20090231485 - Mobile terminal device, dongle and external display device having an enhanced video display interface: The present invention relates to the field of mobile terminal devices, dongles and display device connected with external displays for mobile terminals. A mobile terminal device comprises a processing unit having the capability to process high resolution display content, a user interface comprising at least a low resolution display, connected... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090231486 - Method and device for de-interlacing a video signal having a field of interlaced scan lines: A method and a device for de-interlacing a video signal having a field of interlaced scan lines are provided. The device comprises a direction engine and an interpolator. The direction engine is configured to calculate a de-interlacing cost with respect to a plurality of target pixels according to a first... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090231487 - Image processing apparatus and method for format conversion: A signal processing apparatus converts interlaced 4:2:2-format video signals including a luminance component and two chroma components into interlaced 4:2:0 format video signals. A downsampling low-pass filter has such a group delay that a modulo-1 remainder of the group delay at frequency ω=0 is substantially equal to 0.25. The downsampling... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090231488 - System and method for dynamically transmitting network alert system (nas) information from television network to stations using information embedded in an hdtv signal: A system for dynamically transmitting network alert system (NAS) information from a television network to an affiliate station using information embedded in an HDTV signal includes a program data server configured to provide network alert system (NAS) data, a network video programming source configured to provide network video programming, a... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc C/o Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha LLC

20090231490 - Method and system for automatically changing caption display style based on program content: A method for automatically changing caption display style based on program content is disclosed. Plural caption parameters for each program content type are pre-defined. When a TV program is switched, a program system information protocol (PSIP) is searched to confirm program content type of the TV program. Captions of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090231489 - Mobile communication terminal having broadcast reception function: The present invention provides a mobile communication terminal having broadcast reception function, capable of preventing occurrence of a situation in which sound comes out due to the activation of a television function even though the phone's silent mode is set. When the phone's silent mode is set in a television... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090231491 - Configurable filter for processing television audio signals: A television audio signal encoder includes a matrix that sums a left channel audio signal and a right channel audio signal to produce a sum signal. The matrix also subtracts one of the left and right audio signals from the other to produce a difference signal. The encoder also includes... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090231492 - Smart slate: Techniques used for movie, video, or television production, including: generating production information about recorded data of one of: (1) audio sequence; (2) video sequence; and (3) audio and video sequences; tagging the generated production information with timing information; displaying the generated production information on a display; recording the tagged production... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090231493 - Systems and methods for controlling content playback: A method for controlling playback of content is disclosed. The content may be played using a playback unit. The method may include monitoring the content. The method may also include determining whether a portion of the content being displayed on a display device contains any actionable zones that are configured... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090231496 - Display control system for spatial light modulators: A display control system, comprises: a spatial light modulator (SLM) constituted by a plurality of pixel elements placed in array; a first control unit for controlling each of the plurality of pixel elements under a state of ON or OFF; a second control unit for controlling each of the plurality... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090231494 - Image projector with internally tiled intermediate images: Disclosed are a system and method for microprojection that uses multiple imagers to produce a high resolution output image. Each of a set of imagers produces a portion of the final image. Relay lenses then tile the individual image portions together into a combined image. Because the height of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090231495 - Image projector with multiple imagers: Disclosed are a system and method for microprojection that uses multiple imagers to produce a high resolution output image. Light created for use by the microprojector is split by a polarization-sensitive element into a number of beams. Each polarized beam is then sent to an imager. Each imager modulates the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090225152 - Configuring videoconferencing systems to create video sessions with realistic presence: Methods and apparatuses for automating the interface of different videoconferencing systems are disclosed. In brief, according to one or more embodiments according to the invention, a first method comprises, upon connection of two videoconferencing systems, information containing the number and type of screens in each system is exchanged, and this... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090225153 - Apparatus for synthesizing information, apparatus for controlling information, and computer program product: A communication controller receives first ID and second ID indicative of two information synthesizers bilaterally connected to each other from each of the information synthesizers; stores therein the first ID and the second ID associated with each other; and assigns a one of the terminal devices to the first information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090225154 - 3d display system using a lenticular lens array variably spaced apart from a display screen: An image display system for displaying interlaced images to achieve three dimensional effects. The system includes a user electronic device, such as a computer or television, with a display with a faceplate. The electronic device operates the display to generate an image that includes an interlaced portion at an inner... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090225155 - Celestial body observation device: A celestial body observation device having a camera unit 21, a star-related database 33 including a star map data file 35 that stores star map data having positions of stars and display information including names of the stars, a comparison and determination unit 31 that compares a pixel group contained... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090225156 - Endoscope observation system: An endoscope observation system includes a light source section generating different types of light in at least partly different wavelength bands for observation of a polarized light-based observation image and for observation of a non polarized light-based observation image, respectively; an irradiation side polarization separation element subjecting the illumination light... Agent: Arnold International

20090225157 - Image pickup module, manufacturing and assembling methods of the same, endoscope and capsule type endoscope using the same: An image pickup module comprises a lens assembly including a lens having a flange part, and a frame component for shading a circumferential surface excluding a neighborhood of a top portion of the flange part in the lens; an image pickup element which the top portion of the flange part... Agent: Arnold International

20090225158 - In-vivo image acquiring apparatus, in-vivo image receiving apparatus, in-vivo image displaying apparatus, and noise eliminating method: An in-vivo image acquiring apparatus includes an operation control unit which controls a black image acquiring operation, in which the operation control unit controls an imaging unit and an illuminating unit in such a manner the imaging unit conducts an image acquiring operation in a state the illuminating unit does... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090225159 - Visual inspection device: A visual inspection device includes a body having a support portion and a grip portion extending from the support portion. The body defines a cavity. The device also includes a flexible cable having a first end portion coupled to the body and a second end portion, and a camera assembly... Agent: Michael, Best & Friedrich LLP

20090225160 - System, methods and apparatus for substrate carrier content verification using a material handling system: Methods and systems are provided for mapping substrates in a substrate carrier. The invention includes a substrate carrier including one or more windows; and an imaging system coupled to a substrate carrier handling robot and adapted to determine or image substrate positions in the substrate carrier via the one or... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20090225161 - Geographical data collecting device: The present invention provides a geographical data collecting device, which comprises a distance measuring unit 5 for projecting a distance measuring light and for measuring a distance to an object to be measured, an image pickup unit 3 for taking an image in a measuring direction, a display unit 6... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20090225162 - Monitoring apparatus: A monitoring apparatus including a circuit board, a light emitting diode array, and a sensor is provided. The light emitting diode array and the sensor are disposed on the circuit board and are electrically connected with the circuit board.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090225163 - System and method for mapping of text events from multiple sources with camera outputs: A system and method for mapping of text events from multiple sources with camera outputs is provided. The system includes a CCTV keyboard for assigning each surveillance camera to one or more zones containing one or more point of transaction devices; a capture section for receiving data from one of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090225164 - Wireless smart camera system and method for 3-d visualization of surveillance: Systems and methods having a 3D model of a space provides a 3D context for the inputs from the ICDs; inputs from the ICDs, including direct cross-communication information, location, settings, environment conditions, and inputs (video, audio, temperature, other sensors), being visually represented on a GUI independently and in the 3D... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090225165 - Precision optical systems with performance characterization and uses thereof: A camera for aerial photography includes a reference projector that projects collimated beams of light into the optical system entrance aperture which are imaged by an image recording device. The beams produce fiducial images present in every image captured by the imaging recording device. The fiducial images can be used... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP/goodrich Corporation

20090225166 - Security alarm system: Security alarm system for protecting a structure includes motion detectors connected to cameras. Each camera has a dormant state in which images are not obtained and an active state in which images are obtained and is activated into the active state when an associated motion detector detects motion. A processor... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20090225167 - Gauge line position measuring device, program for measuring a gauge line position, and gauge line mark: A gauge line position measuring device measures a position of a gauge line provided on a test piece by a non-contact video method. The measuring device includes a gauge line mark adapted to be provided on the test piece and has the gauge line and a first continuous harmonious color... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090225168 - Recovery of service mode data corruption: Service mode data is stored in a television chassis or set by duplicating all the data that is accessible by service mode, i.e. by storing the same data twice, in two separate areas of a single memory device or two separate memory devices. A “working memory” is always accessible by... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20090225169 - Method and system of key frame extraction: This invention proposes a method of extracting key frames from a video, said video comprising a set of video frames, said method comprising the steps of computing an error rate of each frame from said set of video frames, comparing said error rate of each frame with a predetermined threshold,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090225170 - Video quality estimation apparatus, method, and program: In estimating subjective video quality corresponding to main parameters (21) which are input as an input frame rate (21A) representing the number of frames per unit time, an input coding bit rate (21B) representing the number of coding bits per unit time, and an input packet loss rate (21C) representing... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman

20090225171 - Image capturing device with improved image quality: An image capturing device (1) is disclosed comprising an electronic image detector (17) having a detecting surface (15), an optical projection system (5) for projecting an object within a field of view onto the detecting surface (15), and, optionally, a computing unit (19) for manipulating electronic information obtained from the... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20090225172 - Information processing terminal and terminal selection system: An image capturing apparatus which performs connection setting to a desired processing apparatus among more than one processing apparatus connected to a network comprises a control unit which instructs each of the processing apparatuses so as to perform identification display for identifying the processing apparatus, and an imaging unit which... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090225173 - Image capturing method, control method therefor, and program: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject and generates a captured image; a determination-information storage unit that stores items of determination information, each item of determination information being used to determine whether the captured image includes a corresponding one of target... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090225175 - Drive device: A drive device is provided having a movable part, a first drive part, and a second drive part. The movable part is swingable relative to a fixed part. The first drive part drives the movable part in a first direction. The second drive part drives the movable part in a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090225174 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, hand shake blur area estimation device, hand shake blur area estimation method, and program: An image processing apparatus for correcting hand shake blur in a moving image includes a generation unit that generates, by setting an image among images constituting the moving image as a reference image and the remaining images as correction target images, a correction amount by which position displacement of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225177 - Image blur correction unit, lens barrel device, and camera apparatus: An image blur correcting unit allows the optical axis of a lens system to coincide with the center of an imager, thus correcting an image blur. The unit includes a stationary member and a holder member. The holder member holds either one of the elements of the lens system or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225176 - Imaging device: An imaging device ICD, which realizes an image blurring compensation function which achieves image blurring compensation during a framing period and image blurring compensation during releasing, is provided. In the imaging device (ICD), an OIS unit control section (104) compensates image blurring occurring in an optical image by moving an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090225178 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: In this invention, when images, in image files managed according to photographing dates, which match a search condition are to be displayed, the images matching the search condition are sequentially displayed such that the positions or distribution of the image files, of all image files, which match the search condition... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090225181 - Digital camera and printing method thereof: A digital camera includes a printing system including an image receiving module for receiving a first image, a selection module, a availability, a comparison module, a size module, an image forming module, and an image output module. The selection module can allow selection of a desired print size for the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090225186 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes a pre-processing block. The pre-processing block fetches four partial images outputted in a parallel manner from an image sensor in response to a clock CLK1 having a frequency equal to or less than 432 MHz, and performs four pre-processes that have responded to a clock CLK2... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090225180 - Image processing method and apparatus, digital camera, and recording medium recording image processing program: A technology for recognizing one or more quadrangles from an input image is disclosed. Edge areas are detected from the input image, lines corresponding to the edge areas are extracted, a line pair selected from the extracted lines is categorized according to a positional relationship between two lines included in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225183 - Image processing method, image processing system, and computer program: Based on a difference image of three temporally consecutive frame images, a moving object region where a moving object is displayed and a background region are extracted from a central frame image. A processing of becoming a clear image such as contrast enhancement is performed on an image of the... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20090225182 - Image shooting device and image shooting method: An image shooting device includes an image shooting component, a brightness detector, a flash component, a shift detector, a controller, and a flash amount determining component. The shift detector detects a shift amount of a subject position in a set of image data that has arisen due to shaking of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225179 - Imaging apparatus and capture assist mark usage control method: Multiple capture assist marks (markers for capture assistance) to be synthesized with video captured by a camera unit 10 is generated by an OSD unit 20 through the control of a control unit 100. These capture assist marks are synthesized with the video from the camera unit 10 by synthesis... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090225184 - Imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus body and reporting terminal: An imaging apparatus capable of assisting such shooting that a designated subject is accommodated in a predetermined reference range without user's continuing gazing at a display screen. Imaging apparatus 100 has: imaging optical system 310 that forms an optical image of a subject; solid-state image sensor 330 that converts the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090225185 - Pipeline a/d converter and digital camera: In each of a plurality of stages, an input analog signal is quantized, so that a digital signal corresponding to each part of bits is generated. A DA conversion portion generates an analog reference signal based on the digital signal, and a remainder operation portion performs addition/subtraction and amplification by... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090225187 - Image processing apparatus, image processing program, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus of the present invention can perform appropriate edge enhancement processing on any image while preventing increases in noise and chromatic aberration in the process of image processing. The image processing apparatus obtains photographic information present at generation of the image, determines, based on the photographic information,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090225188 - Imaging apparatus and method for controlling white balance: An imaging apparatus has: a white balance control circuit for detecting an achromatic portion of an image of an object and controlling gains of the chrominance; an object distance detecting circuit for detecting a distance to the object; and a zoom value detecting circuit for detecting a zoom value of... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20090225189 - System and method for independent image sensor parameter control in regions of interest: An image sensing systems supports independently setting sensor parameters in two or more different regions of interest. In one implementation resolution, exposure time, and gain are independently selectable in each region of interest. Independently setting exposure time and gain in different regions of interest improves image recognition when there are... Agent: Curtis A. Vock Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090225191 - Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program therefor: An album creating apparatus is provided to insert a title appropriate for the timing at which the image stored in the album is captured. The album creating apparatus includes: an image acquiring section for acquiring a plurality of images in association with image capturing times; a reference time acquiring section... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225190 - Camera-equipped electronic device: A camera-equipped electronic device comprises a photographic unit that stores in a storage medium (12) an image obtained by photographing a subject via an imaging unit (14, 15) a non-photographic unit that executes non-photographing processing different from photographing processing executed in the photographic unit and requires electric power greater than... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090225192 - Highspeed image selecting method and digital camera having highspeed image selecting function: In a digital camera operation method, photographic images are taken with the camera and a corresponding compressed high resolution image and also a corresponding lower resolution image is stored for each. A fast display mode of the camera sequentially displays individual lower resolution display images, using the data of one... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090225193 - Image processing apparatus: This invention provides an apparatus capable of optimal code amount control corresponding to an input source. The apparatus includes a first input unit which inputs the first moving image data, a second input unit which inputs the second moving image data, a selection unit which selects one of the first... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090225194 - Image processing apparatus and digital camera: Contour extraction circuits extract contour components YE, CbE, and CrE, respectively, from luminance signal Y, and color-difference signals Cb and Cr, respectively. The two contour components CbE and CrE of the color difference signals are inputted to the LUTs respectively, via the selectors respectively, and converted into the adjustment signals... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225195 - Method and apparatus for processing images in camera: A method and an apparatus for processing images in a camera are provided. Even lines and odd lines of a photographing device are respectively read at different points of time to obtain even line data and odd line data and motion estimation is performed on one of the even line... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225196 - Method and system for processing captured image information in an interactive video display system: A method and system for processing captured image information in an interactive video display system. In one embodiment, a special learning condition of a captured camera image is detected. The captured camera image is compared to a normal background model image and to a second background model image, wherein the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090225197 - Solid-state imaging device: The signal processing circuit of the present invention comprises a drive unit and a processing unit for picture signal. The drive unit supplies each of the shift pulses separately to the electronic shutter shift register and the readout shift register. The processing unit for picture signal designates a control start... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090225198 - Image pickup apparatus provided with zoom lens: An image pickup apparatus, which comprises, in order from the object side, an aperture member having an opening section, a zoom lens changing a magnification by properly changing distances between a plurality of lens units, and an image pickup device, is provided with a flare stop which has an opening... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090225199 - Automated extended depth of field imaging apparatus and method: An imaging apparatus and method enables an automated extended depth of field capability that automates and simplifies the process of creating extended depth of field images. An embodiment automates the acquisition of an image “stack” or sequence and stores metadata at the time of image acquisition that facilitates production of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090225201 - Image synthesizing apparatus and image pickup apparatus with a brightness adjusting processing: Disclosed is an image synthesizer including an image frames memory which memorizes a plurality of image frames which are produced by continuously taking pictures of a subject, an image synthesizer which synthesizes a plurality of image frames to a summation image, an image brightness adjuster which adjusts brightness of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090225202 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus is provided with an imager for fetching an optical image of an object so as to produce an image signal, a detector for detecting an image blurring amount based on blurring included in the image signal, an image blurring corrector for performing an image-blurring correcting process on... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090225200 - Method, apparatus, and program for processing an image: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and program for processing an image, capable of producing a sharp image. A digital camera 1 includes an imaging device 4 formed of a single-plane sensor that provides one color signal for each pixel. A plurality of images are captured at a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090225203 - Compound-eye imaging device: A compound-eye imaging device comprises an imaging device body having 9 optical lenses and a solid-state imaging element for imaging unit images formed by the optical lenses. Assuming that the combination of each of the optical lenses with a corresponding divided area of the solid-state imaging element to image each... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090225204 - Solid state imaging device and camera: A wavelength separation filter 206 is composed of λ/4 multilayer films 302 to 304 that are sequentially laminated on a multilayer interference filter 301. The multilayer interference filter 301 is composed of two λ/4 multilayer films with a dielectric layer sandwiched therebetween. Also, the multilayer interference filter 301 is composed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090225206 - Driving circuit, driving method, solid imaging device, and electronic apparatus: When a middle voltage within a withstanding voltage of a transistor from a first voltage VL as a low voltage of a source voltage and a second voltage VH as a high voltage of the source voltage is represented by VM and a third voltage within the withstanding voltage of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090225205 - Solid-state image sensors: Solid-state image sensors are disclosed that include one or more pixels formed on a semiconductor substrate. Each pixel includes a photoelectric converter to convert light to an electric signal, and a microlens above the photoelectric converter. The microlens has a plan profile in which the direct distance from a center... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090225207 - Optical pointing device and method of adjusting exposure time and comparison voltage range of the optical pointing device: An optical pointing device and a method of adjusting an exposure time and a comparison voltage range of the optical pointing device are provided. The optical pointing device obtains a high-resolution image using a low-resolution analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, and calculates a movement value using the obtained image. Thus, the optical... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090225208 - Solid-state image sensing device, amplification method, and imaging apparatus: A solid-state image sensing device includes a pixel unit that includes pixels, each of pixels outputting the pixel signal to a signal line connected thereto; and an amplifying unit that includes amplifiers connected to the corresponding signal lines. The amplifier includes a first variable capacitance element, a second variable capacitance... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090225209 - Solid-state image pickup device and method of manufacturing same: Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including: a photoelectric conversion section configured to convert incident light into a signal charge; a transfer transistor configured to read the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion section and transfer the signal charge; and an amplifying transistor configured to amplify the signal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090225210 - Imaging device: A solid-state imaging device, a line sensor and an optical sensor for enhancing a wide dynamic range while keeping high sensitivity with a high S/N ratio, and a method of operating a solid-state imaging device for enhancing a wide dynamic range while keeping high sensitivity with a high S/N ratio... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090225212 - Photoelectric conversion apparatus and image sensing system using the same: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of block lines to which signals are supplied from the pixels, transfer switches used to supply the signals from the block lines to a common signal line, and a driving circuit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090225211 - Solid-state image-pickup device, method for driving solid-state image-pickup device, and image-pickup apparatus: High-resolution AD conversion can be performed at a high speed in a CMOS image sensor in which column-parallel ADCs are mounted. In a CMOS image sensor 10 in which column-parallel ADCs are mounted, reference voltages Vref1 to Vref4 having slopes with different gradients and a reference voltage Vref5 are used.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090225213 - Luminescent display device: It is possible for a user to perceive an atmosphere of an image in response to a luminescent pattern of light emitting diodes. An attention area containing a predetermined image pattern is extracted by an attention area analyzing section 12 from an image picked up by a capturing section 11,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090225214 - Dust-proof filter unit, image pickup apparatus, and projection-type image display apparatus: The dust-proof filter unit includes: a dust-proof member including a transmission portion which can transmit a light flux for image, the dust-proof member being oppositely disposed to a solid image pickup device at a predetermined spacing therebetween; a first excitation unit for providing a vibration to the dust-proof member, the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090225215 - Diffractive imaging lens, diffractive imaging lens optical system, and imaging apparatus using the diffractive imaging lens optical system: A diffractive imaging lens 10 includes a surface on which a diffraction grating pattern is formed. The diffraction grating pattern is formed of a plurality of steps formed concentrically with an optical axis (25) at a center. The diffraction grating pattern is formed such that a first portion where amounts... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090225216 - Fl grid transmission camera device: Disclosed is an image pickup device capable of transmitting a focal length grid in which a photographing range is displayed on a real image of the subject so as to photograph the composition of the real image, without viewing a view finder or a LCD monitor. The image pickup device... Agent: Park Law Firm

20090225217 - Image pickup device and image pickup apparatus: An image pickup device includes a group of photoelectric conversion cells that output distance-measurement signals for phase difference detection. Each photoelectric conversion cell includes a photodetector and a pupil restricting unit. The photodetector generates the distance-measurement signal. The pupil restricting unit restricts a size of a pupil area, from which... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090225218 - Image pickup system, image capturing method, and computer-readbale storage medium storing program for performing image capturing method: An image pickup system causes a first illumination unit to emit light toward a subject at a first angle without causing a second illumination unit for emitting light toward the subject at a second angle different from the first angle, and causes an image pickup unit to capture the image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090225219 - Image pickup system: An endoscope system is constituted of an electronic endoscope with a CCD, a processor device and a light source device. A CPU of the processor device detects which of a progressive scan CCD and an interlace scan CCD that the electronic endoscope is equipped with. In the case of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225220 - System and method for compressing video by adjusting tile size based on detected intraframe motion or scene complexity: A system and method are described below for encoding interactive low-latency video using interframe coding. For example, one embodiment of a computer-implemented method for performing video compression comprises: detecting motion or high scene complexity within a sequence of images occurring at different regions within the sequence of images; logically subdividing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090225221 - Flexible router: A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing a video signal to anyone of a plurality of TV sets, the apparatus comprising at least one demodulation unit, each of the at least one demodulation unit for receiving one of a broadband signal and a broadcast signal and for providing a... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090225222 - Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and computer program product: There is provided a video signal processing apparatus that includes: a video signal input unit that receives an input of interlaced video signals for displaying several screens including at least two screens adjacent to each other in the vertical direction; and a converting unit that converts the input interlaced video... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225223 - System and method for accommodating submissions of invalid system time table information: There is provided a system and method for accommodating submissions of invalid system time table information. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving a first video-based time signal from a video source, determining a first CPU-based time signal, receiving a second video-based time signal from... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20090225224 - System and method for processing a television picture-out-picture: A system for processing a television (TV) picture-out-picture (POP) includes a line buffer, a first multiplexer, an image processing engine, a scaling engine and a timing generator. The line buffer receives partial pixels of a first picture and partial pixels of a second picture. The first multiplexer selects the partial... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090225225 - Video signal processing device and video signal processing method: An decomposition filter includes a top-field low-frequency decomposition filter and a bottom-field low-frequency decomposition filter whose coefficient is obtained by vertically inverting the coefficient of the top-field low-frequency decomposition filter. It also includes a top-field high- frequency decomposition filter and a bottom-field high-frequency decomposition filter whose coefficient is obtained by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225226 - White balance control apparatus, control method therefor, and image sensing apparatus: First white balance correction coefficients computed based on a detected face region, and second white balance correction coefficients for correcting, to a skin color, chromaticity obtained after applying the first white balance correction coefficients to the face region are obtained. The degree of detection reliability of the face region is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090225227 - Motion vector detecting device: In the calculation of a motion vector, a motion vector of different block with a small correlation value is considered in addition to an estimated motion vector of a target block. This different block is a block at a position where a movement similar to the target block is predicted.... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090225228 - Video selection display unit for multiple devices: Video selection display unit that is capable of routing real-time output signals having a video component from different video signal sources, e.g., different instruments or home entertainment devices, to a single output for display on a monitor or other type of video display. The video selection display unit may be... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20090225229 - Metadata transmission apparatus, metadata reception apparatus, imaging apparatus, and information management program: Disclosed herein is a metadata transmission apparatus including a storage section configured to store metadata, and a wireless transmission section configured to transmit the metadata stored in the storage section via a wireless communication network.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090225230 - Method and apparatus for power management for mobile devices: There are provided a method and apparatus for power management in a mobile device. The apparatus includes a mode detector and a power manager. The mode detector is for detecting a current operating mode of the mobile device. The power manager (120) is for managing a power consumption of the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090225231 - Software updating by means of a remote control: This invention relates to a method of updating software of target devices such as televisions with remote control software updating features, VCD/DVD players, STB, DVD and Video recorders by means of a remote control and a remote control which operates in accordance with this method... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20090225232 - Mirror arrangement for image rotation: A mirror arrangement consisting of two or more mirrors that are positioned to rotate an image in a projection system is described. The two or more mirrors can be any size to accommodate any size image that may be needed. An image beam produced by the projector or any other... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090225233 - Projection-type image display apparatus: In a projection-type image display apparatus, comprising an enlarged projection optical unit, which is configured to project the lights from the light source unit onto the display portion, enlargedly, the enlarged projection optical unit, further comprises: a projection lens for projecting the image on the image display element, enlargedly, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225234 - Serial modulation display having binary light modulation stage: A display has first and second spatial light modulators for modulating light from a light source. The first spatial light modulator has a plurality of elements switchable between ON and OFF states according to a pattern having a spatially-varying density. Transfer optics blur and carry light modulated by the first... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20090225235 - Projection-type picture display device: A projection-type picture display device for displaying an entire OSD image in a state superimposed on a picture without any part of the OSD image overhanging from the picture. An aspect ratio changing unit adjusts the size of the picture by changing an aspect ratio of the picture. An image... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090225236 - High contrast transmissive lcd imager: A projection system is described that provides improved contrast and contouring of a light signal on a pixel-by-pixel basis using a two-stage projection architecture, thus improving all video pictures. A micro-lens array is positioned between a first transmissive LCD imager and a second transmissive LCD imager in order to image... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090225237 - Spatial light modulator and mirror device: The present invention discloses a spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixel elements disposed on a substrate. Each of the pixel elements comprises a deflectable micromirror. Specifically, instead of SRAM, the spatial light modulator is implemented with a DRAM in each of the pixel elements. The DRAM in each... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090225238 - Mobile video system: A mobile video system includes a housing having a front surface and a rear surface. The housing is shaped and dimensioned for attachment to a rear surface of a back support portion of an vehicle seat, wherein the housing includes a rear surface that is provided with coupling members shaped... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20090225239 - Audio/display device: There is provided an audio/display apparatus including an audio unit (2) including speaker units (13L, 13R) that reproduce and output audio information, a display unit (3) including a display screen on which video information is displayed. It further includes a support frame (6) to support the display unit (3) fixedly,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225240 - Display apparatus for displaying an image: To provide an image display apparatus that is allowed to incorporate a panel module with excellent mechanical strength even if a screen is upsized and the apparatus is slimmed down. Strengthening units are mounted along a horizontal direction on canopies provided on an upper portion and a lower portion of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090219379 - Average calculation in color space, particularly for segmentation of video sequences: A method of image processing includes: providing a plurality of image frames and processing at least one image frame. A description of a plurality of pixels of the plurality of image frames is provided in a color space, including at least an angular coordinate. A method is disclosed for reliably... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090219380 - Methods and apparatus for displaying images using holograms: The invention relates to method, computer program code and signal processing/image display systems for displaying one or more images using holographic techniques. We describe a method of generating data for displaying an image defined by displayed image data using a plurality of holographically generated temporal subframes, the temporal subframes being... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090219382 - Process and system for encoding and playback of stereoscopic video sequences: A method for decoding a compressed image stream, the image stream having a plurality of frames, each frame consisting of a merged image including pixels from a left image and pixels from a right image. The method involves the steps of receiving each merged image; changing a clock domain from... Agent: Anglehart Et Al.

20090219381 - System and/or method for processing three dimensional images: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method and/or system for projection of images to appear to an observer as one or more three-dimensional images.... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc C/o Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20090219383 - Image depth augmentation system and method: Image depth augmentation system and method for providing three-dimensional views from a two-dimensional image. Depth information is assigned by the system to areas of a first image via a depth map. Foreground objects are enlarged to cover empty areas in the background as seen from a second viewpoint at an... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20090219384 - Endoscope system: An endoscope system comprises a light source, a light sensor, a signal processor, a video-signal generator, and a switcher. The light source emits red light including a first wavelength, green light including a second wavelength, and blue light including a third wavelength. The light sensor receives the light of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090219385 - Method for the multimodal representation of image contents on a display unit for video holograms, and multimodal display unit: The invention relates to a method for the multimodal representation of image contents on a display unit for video holograms. Said unit comprises at least one or several light sources (LS), an optical system (L), and a spatial light modulator SLM (S) with hologram contents. According to the inventive method,... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090219386 - Pupil detection device and pupil detection method: The pupil detection device according to the present invention includes a camera means C, a light source L, an optical path forming means, and a calculation means, which are disposed in a manner to retain the relation by means of the optical path forming means, such that the examinee's face... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090219389 - Detection of smoke with a video camera: A method and an apparatus for detecting smoke by way of analysis of at least one video image recorded by a video camera monitoring an area. At least one moving area of the at least one video image is tested for the probable presence of smoke by determining the direction... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090219390 - High throughput security screening system for transportation applications: A high throughput security screening system employed at access points of a transportation system includes a control portion, an ID portion and a screening portion. The screening portion includes a main housing, an input port provided in the main housing for receiving exhibits, sampling media positioned in the main housing... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20090219387 - Intelligent high resolution video system: An automated electronic video surveillance system enables a high-resolution mega-pixel camera to capture high quality, detailed, magnified images at multiple locations, simultaneously with an overview of the whole scene. A preferred embodiment requiring no moving parts provides full 360-degree continuous viewing with up to 5× all-digital zoom capability. The system... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20090219388 - Method and system for detecting an individual by means of passive infrared sensors: The invention relates to a method and a system for detecting an individual in a given observation zone by means of N passive infrared sensors (1) each consisting of an optical device (2) provided with a matrix of cells focusing the infrared energy (IR) received onto a single pyro-electric component... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20090219391 - On-camera summarisation of object relationships: Disclosed herein is a method of communicating video object relationships. The method comprises the steps of: detecting one or more objects in a first video frame (303); detecting one or more objects in a second video frame; determining a first set of temporal object relationships between said objects detected in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090219392 - Point of recordation terminal apparatus for sending high complexity image sequences over an unreliable low-bandwidth channel: A system for providing video intelligence as a service to a plurality of small and medium sized enterprises to distributed video recordation equipment, comprising an apparatus and computer-implemented method. An apparatus comprises a point of recordation terminal apparatus coupled to a public network. A method for operating a system for... Agent: Patentry

20090219393 - Traffic and security monitoring system and method: A method for monitoring a geographic area that using a plurality of unmanned mobile vehicles. Each unmanned mobile vehicle may be programmed with an operational plan to cover a specific subregion of said geographic area. Each unmanned mobile vehicle may be used to obtain visual images of its associated said... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090219394 - Accessory mounting system suitable for use in a vehicle: An accessory mounting system includes an assembly adapted for mounting or attachment at a portion of the windshield of a vehicle. A light absorbing layer at the portion of the windshield of the vehicle at least partially hides the assembly from view by a viewer external the vehicle when the... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090219395 - Measurement and display for video peak jitter with expected probability: A system and method are provided to generate a histogram of jitter peak values within histogram hardware. The histogram is then transferred to a jitter analyzer, which is implemented in either dedicated hardware or software running on a general purpose processor. The jitter analyzer calculates a cumulative distribution function (CDF)... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20090219396 - Calibration apparatus and method for imaging devices and computer program: The present invention relates to calibration of camera parameters for converting a world coordinate system, which indicates a position in the real space, to a coordinate used in an image and vice versa. The apparatus according to the invention has a detection unit, which determines corresponding pixel pairs from the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090219398 - Digital camera dock: Use of a custom insert is obviated when a digital camera is attached to a base (dock). Two movable pins are provided, in such a way that a connector is sandwiched between the movable pins, on a digital camera attachment surface of a base (dock) which provides a digital camera... Agent: Peter P. Hernandez Patent Legal Staff

20090219399 - Digital camera dock: Use of a custom insert is obviated when a digital camera is attached to a base (dock). Two movable pins are provided, in such a way that a connector is sandwiched between the movable pins, on a digital camera attachment surface of a base (dock) which provides a digital camera... Agent: Peter P. Hernandez Patent Legal Staff

20090219397 - Method for digital photo management and distribution: Digital images are captured on a digital camera, automatically formatted, and uploaded to a server for review and collaborative modifications. An on-line web gallery is automatically generated by the server whereby low resolution versions of the images are transferred to the server and appear in the gallery within seconds from... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090219400 - Imaging unit and electronic camera: An imaging unit having: an image pickup element for imaging a subject; a camera shake correction unit for correcting camera shake by moving the image pickup element, wherein the camera shake correction unit includes a stage which carries the image pickup element; and a reference bedplate supporting the camera shake... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090219401 - Processing device with jitter extraction and equipment comprising such a device: A processing device (D) is dedicated to image frame stabilization of digital video sequences in an electronic equipment (E1), such as a digital camera, for instance. This processing device (D) comprises processing means (PM) arranged, for each current image frame of a video sequence, for determining a type of motion... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090219402 - Systems and methods for image stabilization: An image capture device includes a frame buffer, a processor, a shutter, an actuator, a three-axis optical motion sensor and an image sensor. The image sensor defines an optical axis. The three-axis optical motion sensor provides information concerning rotational movement of the camera about each of a roll axis, a... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090219403 - Compact passive low-light imaging apparatus: A passive portable imaging system for generating a viewable image of a darkened or low-light environment including a sensor made of laser-treated semiconductor material that is sensitive to low-light radiation, in some cases radiation at wavelengths longer than those of traditional visible light imager ranges. The imaging system can be... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090219406 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus in which auto-selecting of an object to be prioritized from among a plurality of detected objects is capable more appropriately. A characteristic detecting unit detects a previously set characteristic portion of an object from an image signal constituting a moving image. A control unit sets a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090219404 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a time subband splitting unit configured to generate a lower-frequency subband split signal formed of low frequency components at a frame rate lower than a frame rate of an image signal and a higher-frequency subband split signal formed of high frequency components by performing a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090219405 - Information processing apparatus, eye open/closed degree determination method, computer-readable storage medium, and image sensing apparatus: An information processing apparatus inputs an image, detects the face of a person from the input image, and calculates a feature amount associated with the open/closed state of eyes of the detected face. In addition, the information processing apparatus calculates, as a feature-change amount, the difference between the calculated feature... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090219407 - Method and apparatus for enhancing a digital image: A system and method processes original digital numbers (DNs) provided by a satellite imaging system to produce a set of spectral balanced and contrast enhanced multispectral images. Spectral balancing is achieved based on physical characteristics of sensors of the imaging system as well as compensation for atmospheric effects. The DNs... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090219408 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera is provided with: a gain information calculator for calculating gain information indicating a gain of a color information signal in a predetermined aperture state based on a gain of a color information signal obtained by performing a white balance adjustment using an object image signal; a storer... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090219409 - Image processing apparatus, flicker reduction method, imaging apparatus, and flicker reduction program: An image processing apparatus includes: an integrating unit integrating an input image signal over a time interval equal to one horizontal period or longer; a normalizing unit normalizing an integrated value obtained by the integrating unit, or a difference value in the integrated value between adjacent fields or frames; an... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090219410 - Cmos imager flush reset: A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager flush reset circuit is provided. The flush reset circuit has an interface to receive first (e.g., VDD) and second (e.g., ground) reference voltages. The flush reset circuit has a solitary (flush) signal interface. There is also an interface connected to a transistor set... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc. C/o Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20090219411 - Content aware storage of video data: Video analytics and a mass storage unit are contained in a camera housing of a video camera. The video analytics analyzes video data produced by the video camera and detects whether there is an occurrence of a defined event of interest. The video data representing the field of view of... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20090219412 - Image capturing device and auto-photographing method thereof: A method of auto-photographing for an image capturing device is disclosed. A predetermined time for auto-photographing is counted down. Consecutive preview images of a scene to be photographed are acquired after the predetermined time begins to be counted. Whether a moving object bursts into the scene to be photographed is... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090219413 - Imaging apparatus: The present invention provides an imaging apparatus that enables a user to know a more accurate capacity that can be actually used for storage of image data. A control portion 7 houses image data, generated by an imaging portion 1 and processed by an image processing portion 2, in a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090219414 - Imaging apparatus and method for setting the same: An imaging apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a representative value of a luminance level in a main object area and a plurality of representative values of luminance levels in peripheral areas of the main object area in an image obtained by an imaging unit, a calculation unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090219415 - Imaging apparatus provided with panning mode for taking panned image: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section configured to acquire a plurality of images that are consecutively taken in time series by an imaging device; a reference region setting section configured to employ one of the images acquired by the imaging section as a reference image and to set a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090219417 - Image capturing system and computer readable recording medium for recording image processing program: An image capturing system includes: a first noise reduction unit which roughly removes the effects of an edge component by performing edge-preserving adaptive noise reduction processing on a target pixel within a local region including the target pixel and the neighboring pixels extracted from an image signal acquired from a... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090219416 - Image processing system and recording medium recording image processing program: An image processing system includes a frequency decomposition unit adapted to decompose an image signal into a high frequency component and a low frequency component, a high frequency separation unit adapted to separate the high frequency component into an invalid component caused by noise and other valid component, a conversion... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090219418 - Image sensor and method to reduce dark current of cmos image sensor: An image sensor includes one or more photodetectors for collecting charge in response to incident light and a storage region adjacent each photodetector. A transfer mechanism transfers charge from each photodetector to a respective storage region. A conductive layer or a polysilicon layer is situated over each storage region. A... Agent: F-p, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20090219419 - Peripheral light amount correction apparatus, peripheral light amount correction method, electronic information device, control program and readable recording medium: The present invention corrects the insufficient peripheral light amount due to the lens shading and correcting the non-uniformity of light amount at the periphery due to a distortion resulting from a precision of the lens or a poor mounting precision of the lens. A peripheral light amount correction circuit is... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090219420 - Image pickup apparatus, and image pickup system using image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus which can photograph a high-definition image and a moving image of lower resolution at high quality and an image pickup system which uses the image pickup apparatus are provided. Unit pixel groups each of which comprises plural pixels including photoelectric conversion units and transfer transistors for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090219421 - Image sensor with a capacitive storage node linked to transfer gate: A CMOS imaging system with increased charge storage capacitance of pixels yet decreased physical size, kTC noise and active area. A capacitor is linked to the transfer gate and provides a storage node for a pixel, allowing for kTC noise reduction prior to readout. The pixel may be operated with... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090219422 - Image capturing apparatus and electronic information device: A solid-state image capturing apparatus includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, where each of the pixels includes: a photodiode for obtaining a signal charge by a photoelectric conversion of an incident light; and an amplifying transistor for the signal charge obtained... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090219424 - Image sensing apparatus and imaging system: An image sensing apparatus comprising on a single semiconductor substrate: a pixel array; a vertical scanning unit; a horizontal scanning unit; a counter which starts a counting operation to count the number of the clocks before a start of the first period, and stops the counting operation before a start... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090219423 - Solid-state imaging device, electronic camera: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional array that individually output analog pixel signals corresponding to amounts of light received thereat, a vertical scanning circuit that selects a pixel row, vertical signal lines each installed in correspondence to a pixel column, through which the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090219425 - Imaging apparatus and image signal processing method: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, an imaging device deriving unit and a signal processing unit. Pixels of the imaging device include a first pixel group and a second pixel group. The imaging device driving unit exposes the first pixel group during a first exposure period, exposes the second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090219426 - Embedded cache memory in image sensors: An embodiment of an embedded cache memory in an image sensor comprises a memory cell array wherein the memory cells are substantially isolated from laterally adjacent memory. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. Each of the memory cells is formed in a standard CMOS image sensor... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20090219427 - Image sensor and image data processing method: An image sensor and a method for processing image data, can reduce a large proportion of data signals corresponding to high illumination and a small proportion of data signals corresponding to low illumination in order to generate an image just like the original, by adjusting the reset sampling period pertaining... Agent: The Rafferty Patent Law Firm

20090219428 - Solid state image capturing apparatus and camera apparatus: A solid state image capturing apparatus is disclosed. A pixel array section has unit pixels containing photoelectric conversion elements, the unit pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, and column signal wires correspondingly to columns of the matrix of the unit pixels. A line scanning section selectively controls lines of... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090219429 - Solid-state imaging apparatus, method of driving solid-state imaging apparatus, and imaging system: There is provided a solid-state imaging apparatus which, while shortening the reading time period, can prevent noise from being mixed. There are included: multiple pixels (203), wherein the pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element converting light into electric charge, and outputs, responsive to a reading out signal, a signal based... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090219430 - Digital camera having a bracketing capability: A digital camera generates a plurality of photograph image as a bracket image of an object. The digital camera comprises a setting processor that sets a plurality of steps for first and second parameters, a first bracket processor that obtains a plurality of intermediate images of the object based on... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090219431 - Image capture device: An image capture device comprises a camera body held by a user for capturing an image, a display for displaying an image while captured, and a virtual image optical system for producing a virtual image of the image displayed on the display. The display is openably/closably supported by the camera... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090219432 - Sensor with multi-perspective image capture: The invention discloses an image acquisition system with a modified image sensor that enables simultaneous capture of at least two images with different perspectives The pixels are split into two or more subsets of pixels under a series of cylindrical microlenses or linear light guides. The cylindrical microlenses or linear... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090219433 - Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus including same: A camera module 100 of the present invention is arranged such that a lens barrel 32 is provided with an internal screw thread 32a on its internal side, and that a holding section 41, which is a portion of a lens holder 4, the portion holding a lens unit 3,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090219434 - Method and device for position sensing of an optical component in an imaging system: In a camera where the lens is movable along the optical axis relative to the image sensor for auto-focus or zooming purposes, the lens is moved by a carrier having a carrier portion adjacent to a fixed body portion of the camera. A reflection surface is provided on either the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090219435 - Composite lens and lens module having same: A unitary composite lens includes a body and an optical filter. The optical filter is embedded within the body.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090219436 - Positioning accessory for camera-equipped wireless terminals: A stand for a camera-equipped wireless communications device comprises an adjustable terminal support configured to be mounted to a base. The adjustable terminal support includes a system plug at one end that connects to a system interface on the camera-equipped wireless communications device. The adjustable terminal support may include a... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090219437 - Mixing of video content: A method and apparatus for mixing first and second video content portions is described. The method may comprise overlapping at least one frame of a first content portion comprising multiple frames with at least one frame of a second content portion comprising multiple frames to produce a composite video content.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090219438 - Video signal processing apparatus and method: According to one embodiment, an embodiment of the invention is applicable to various input video signals, prevents image quality degradation in a signal conversion process, and maintains image quality. A front stage unit has a first video signal processing circuit, which reduces noise and performs IP conversion in response to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090219439 - System and method of deinterlacing interlaced video signals to produce progressive video signals: A method of deinterlacing interlaced even scanline and odd scanline video frames to form a progressive video frame comprises populating even scanlines of an even full-field frame with the scanlines of the interlaced even scanline video frame and populating odd scanlines of an odd full-field frame with the scanlines of... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090219440 - Rate control for real time transcoding of subtitles for application with limited memory: An apparatus comprising an estimation circuit, a rate control circuit, a queue circuit, and an encoder circuit. The estimation circuit may be configured to generate a size value in response to an input signal comprising (i) a plurality of frames and (ii) a plurality of embedded subtitle elements. The rate... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090219441 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a decoder configured to decode video data to generate a video signal; an adjusting unit configured to execute an adjustment processing on the video signal; an input-output terminal configured to output to an external apparatus the video signal subjected to the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090219442 - Using network server to establish tv setting: TV settings such as brightness can be established by sending from a TV signals from an ambient light sensor to a network server, with the network server establishing settings such as brightness in response for a program being played on the TV.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090219443 - Video signal processing apparatus, and digital television broadcast receiver controlling method: According to an embodiment, an apparatus has a receiving module which receives a broadcast signal and obtains a receiving signal, a demodulating and signal processing module which demodulates and processes the receiving signal, and converts the signal to a displaying signal, a program table information processing module which obtains broadcast... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090219444 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system and image processing method: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a vector processor which performs vector processing on image data, and a scalar processor which performs scalar processing on the image data having undergone the vector processing.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090219445 - Electronic apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a communication module which conducts communications with a plurality of external apparatuses, a storage module which stores an address list correlating a logical address and a physical address of each of the external apparatuses, a determination module which transmits a power-on signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090219446 - Data processing system: A data processing system is provided for processing video data on a window basis. At least one memory unit (L1) is provided for fetching and storing video data from an image memory (IM) according to a first window (R) in a first scanning order. At least one second memory unit... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090219447 - Method, apparatus, and system for deciphering media content stream: A method, apparatus and system for media content deciphering is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first content stream is received at a receiver device from a transmitter device coupled to the receiver device, wherein the first content stream having media content formatted in a particular package structure, the media content... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090219448 - Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090219451 - Broadband integrated television tuner: A broadband integrated television receiver for receiving a standard antenna or cable input and outputting an analog composite video signal and composite audio signal is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an IF signal. An IF filter between the mixers performs... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090219449 - Multi-tuner apparatus for receiving rf signals: A multi-tuner apparatus comprises a splitter (S) for received RF signals. The splitter has a splitter output (U) for connection to a plurality of tuners. To reduce signal degradation and dissipation the output impedance of the splitter output is substantially lower than the input impedance of each of the tuners.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090219450 - Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090219452 - Electronic apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus which displays image data input from an input source on a display screen, the apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with an external apparatus, a menu display processing unit which displays an operation menu to operate the electronic apparatus on the display... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090219453 - Video display apparatus: A video display apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a plurality of sequence of video signals output from a plurality of cameras, a storage unit configured to store the plurality of sequence of video signals received by the reception unit, a display unit configured to include the first... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090219454 - Video output apparatus and video output method: According to one embodiment, a video output apparatus includes a processing module which executes a process for giving a predetermined display effect to an input video signal, a projecting module which generates an optical image based on the processed video signal so as to project the optical image onto a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP