Television inventions 10/09

20090244255 - Method, system and apparatus for multi-terminal communication: A multi-terminal communication method, system and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a call request originated by a caller to a voice terminal of a callee, where the call request carries a video media identifier; and setting up a voice session between the voice terminal of the callee and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090244256 - Method and apparatus for enhancing and adding context to a video call image: A method and apparatus for enhancing a video image sent from a first terminal of a video-telephony system to a second terminal of the video-telephony system during a video telephony call. An image style is selected at the first terminal and a description of the image style is transmitted from... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090244257 - Virtual round-table videoconference: A system and method for creating a virtual round table videoconference is described. An embodiment of the system comprises a plurality of displays arranged in an arc configuration with a table to create a virtual round table. Cameras are arranged around the plurality of displays such that when a participant... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090244258 - Stereoscopic display apparatus, stereoscopic display method, and program: A stereoscopic display apparatus displays a catalog of images as planar images or stereoscopic images, and at least one of the images is selected from the displayed catalog. The stereoscopic display apparatus then converts the stereoscopic appearance of the at least one selected image.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244259 - Endoscope apparatus: An endoscope apparatus includes a polygonal camera module integrally formed at a wafer level by aligning and bonding a light collecting surface side of a lens wafer formed by laminating a plurality of optical wafers on which a plurality of optical parts are formed, and a device surface side of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090244260 - Endoscope measuring 3-d profile: An endoscope system has a scanner, a projector, and a measurement processor. The scanner is configured to scan light that passes through an optical fiber over a target by directing the light emitted from the distal end of an endoscope. The projector is configured to project a pattern on the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090244262 - Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, imaging apparatus, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus inputs stereoscopic images, detects a depth of each of the inputted stereoscopic images, lays out the stereoscopic images at least in partial overlap in such a manner that the lager the depth is, the more forward the corresponding stereoscopic image is placed, and records the stereoscopic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244261 - Method for the three-dimensional measurement of fast-moving objects: Light sectioning or fringe projection methods are used to measure the surface of objects (2). According to said methods, the object (2) is moved past a measuring system (4) and the measured data is recorded during this movement. These methods can only be used for a high-resolution, comprehensive measurement of... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

20090244264 - Compound eye photographing apparatus, control method therefor , and program: A compound eye photographing apparatus, including a plurality of photographing units for photographing a subject at a plurality of photographing positions to obtain images of the subject, a subject detection unit for detecting a predetermined subject from the images obtained by the photographing units, and a photographing control unit for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244263 - Object detecting system: An object detecting system includes stereo-image taking means for outputting a reference image and a comparative image, stereo matching means for performing stereo matching, object detecting means for detecting an object in the reference image, estimated-region setting means for setting estimated regions of the object in the current frame in... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090244265 - Method, apparatus, and program for generating stereoscopic images: A stereoscopic image generating apparatus is constituted by: an image obtaining section, for obtaining a plurality of image groups, each constituted by a plurality of images for generating stereoscopic images and obtained by photography of subjects from different viewpoints; and an image layout section, for generating a stereoscopic layout image,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244266 - Enhanced three dimensional television: The performance of autoscopic multiview displays such as glasses free three dimensional television is improved by the application of adaptive crosstalk cancelation information. Adaptive crosstalk cancelation information is created using a display profile for a three dimensional television and is applied to imagery displayed on the three dimensional television thereby... Agent: Thomas C. Brigham

20090244267 - Method and apparatus for rendering virtual see-through scenes on single or tiled displays: A system for displaying an image on a display includes a display for displaying an image thereon. A three dimensional representation of an image is obtained. The three dimensional representation is rendered as a two dimensional representation on the display. An imaging device is associated with the display. The location... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20090244269 - Method, apparatus, and program for displaying stereoscopic images: A stereoscopic image display apparatus displays stereoscopic images generated from a plurality of images obtained by photography of subjects from different viewpoints. The stereoscopic image display apparatus is constituted by: an interpolative image generating section, for generating at least one pair of interpolative images, which have smaller degrees of parallax... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244268 - Method, apparatus, and program for processing stereoscopic videos: A stereoscopic video processing apparatus is constituted by: a video input section, for receiving input of stereoscopic videos constituted by a plurality of frames, which are viewable stereoscopically; a scene detecting section, for detecting positions within the stereoscopic videos at which scene changes occur; and a perceived depth adjusting section,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244270 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a plane display device; a lens array provided in front of the display surface to distribute light rays from pixels of the display device to predetermined angles, and having a plurality of lenses arranged in a first direction; a variable polarizer provided between the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090244271 - Electronic endoscope apparatus: An electronic endoscope apparatus having a scope and a processor. The processor includes a plurality of image processing means and a first setting means. Each of the image processing means performs different image processing. ON/OFF of functions and/or parameters used for the processing are set individually with respect to each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244273 - Image pickup system and method for maintaining the same: An endoscope system, including: an endoscope for picking up an image of a subject and outputting an image pickup signal of the image; an external processor having a post-signal processing circuit which processes the image pickup signal inputted from the endoscope and generates a video signal that can be outputted... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090244272 - Methods and apparatus for imaging using a light guide bundle and a spatial light modulator: Endoscopes and other viewing devices that control the light that contacts a sample and/or that is detected emanating from a sample. The viewing devices are particularly well suited for in vivo imaging, although other uses are also included. The viewing devices, and methods related thereto, comprise a spatial light modulator... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20090244275 - Compound eye photographing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: A compound eye photographing apparatus including: a plurality of photographing units for photographing a subject at a plurality of photographing positions to obtain a plurality of images of the subject; a subject detection unit for detecting a predetermined subject from a base image which is one of the plurality of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244274 - Eyelid opening level determination device and computer readable medium storing computer program thereof: An eyelid opening level determination device includes a face image taking unit; an upper eyelid detection unit for detecting an upper eyelid in the face image; a lower eyelid area setting unit for setting an area for searching a lower eyelid based on the upper eyelid; an edge group detecting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244276 - Pipeline inspection system: An inspection system configured for “no-blow” use in a pressurized gas pipeline includes a push rod wound around a spool for convenient deployment and portability. A camera disposed on one end of the push rod is configured to relay images back to a monitor. A motor is configured for remote... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090244277 - Surveying system: The present invention provides a surveying system, which comprises a surveying device 1 having a function for tracking a target 13 and a remote control device 16 for remotely controlling the surveying device on a target side, wherein the surveying device comprises measuring units 21, 25 and 27, image pickup... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20090244280 - Detection device and method for detecting fires along a monitoring path: A detection device for detecting fires and/or fire features in a monitoring region along a monitoring path includes a camera device that is located and/or may be located in the monitoring region in order to generate image data, an evaluation device which is designed to detect fire and/or fire features... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20090244281 - Monitoring apparatus and display processing method for the monitoring apparatus: A monitoring apparatus causes a display unit to display an image of a monitor target at entering a room together with an image of the monitor target at exiting the room transmitted from an image capturing apparatus corresponding to a gate terminal apparatus.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090244278 - Software based whiteboard capture solution for conference room meetings: Whiteboard contents are captured through a combination of hardware and software components such as a webcam and a capture application executed in a PC or a video conference system components. The captured content can be stored, used in an online meeting, processed, made available or transmitted to participants and others.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090244279 - Surveillance systems: Systems and methods are disclosed for surveillance including surveillance units which, in certain aspects, include a first unit for surveillance at a site, the first unit having a first base, a first local archiver, first surveillance apparatus on the base including at least one first surveillance component, the at least... Agent: Guy L. Mcclung, Iii

20090244283 - System and method for displaying images of the surroundings of a motor vehicle: An assemblage for displaying a portion of the surroundings of a motor vehicle includes a camera with which a portion of the vehicle surroundings is imageable, and a display device with which an imaged portion of the vehicle surroundings can be displayed as a surroundings image, at least one further... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090244284 - Tire type determination method and vehicle inspection method and system using the same: In a tire type determination method, a surface image of a tread portion of a tire mounted on a vehicle is captured by a camera fixed at a predetermined position in a tilted hanger conveyor line, which is located downstream in a vehicle-carrying direction with respect to a position at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244282 - Vehicle camera system: A vehicle camera system including a receiver device which is capable of wirelessly communicating with an electronic camera arrangement. The receiver device is capable of switching a screen from its normal visual display mode to a real-time camera image display mode. The receiver device may be attached to an existing... Agent: Roberts & Roberts, LLP Attorneys At Law

20090244285 - System and method for providing creation of on-side text for video surveillance: A system and method for generating side-by-side video surveillance feed and point-of-service device text is provided. The system includes a video surveillance device, a point-of-service device such as an ATM, slot machine and point-of-sale device, and a synchronizing unit for synchronizing the video surveillance feed with point-of-service text when a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090244286 - Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling a video surveillance system: A method of controlling a method of dynamically controlling the use of a video analysis program in a video surveillance system having a plurality of video sources connected to a network comprising the steps of providing a video analysis program to the video surveillance system, allowing the video analysis program... Agent: Pelco Inc.

20090244287 - Video monitoring system: A video monitoring system for monitoring one or more video cameras. The video cameras each supply a video stream to a hub. A computer in communication with the hub obtains information from each of the video cameras and allows a user to arrange the video streams on one or more... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20090244288 - Imaging apparatus and lighting apparatus for imaging: An imaging apparatus for taking an image of a face includes an imaging element having sensitivity for a near-infrared range and a visible range, a first optical filter provided between the face and the imaging element to reduce an intensity of a visible light entering the imaging element and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244289 - Audio-visual quality estimation: A method and an apparatus for estimating a quality of an audio-video signal includes calculating audio and video quality factors from audio and video technical characteristics. An audio-video quality factors interaction is computed from an interaction between the audio and video quality factors. At least one of an audio quality,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090244290 - Systems and methods for monitoring, troubleshooting and/or controlling a digital television: A system for monitoring, troubleshooting, controlling, calibrating and/or configuring a digital television is provided. The system includes a functionality module configured to perform one or more functions of a digital television. The system includes a testing module associated with the digital television, communicatively coupled to the functionality module and being... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090244291 - Dynamic object classification: A camera system comprises an image capturing device and an object classification module connected to the image capturing device. The image capturing device has a field of view and produces image data representing an image of the field of view. The object classification module is operable to determine whether or... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20090244295 - Imaging apparatus having camera control unit and separate camera head: An imaging apparatus includes: a camera head that is provided with an image pickup device that outputs an image signal; a camera control unit that is connected to the camera head with a camera cable and outputs a video signal based on the image signal; a CDS circuit that performs... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090244292 - Digital camera: A portable camera with an inbuilt printer device is disclosed. The camera includes a digital image capture device, an inbuilt programming language interpreter internally connected to the digital image capture device for the manipulation of the digital image captured by the capture device and a script input means for inputting... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244294 - Method of processing and printing autofocussed images: A method of processing and printing an image with a processor and printer of a camera is provided, in which the processor detects structures within an image captured by a sensing device of the camera at the autofocus settings of an autofocus unit of the camera by processing the captured... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090244293 - Mobile issuance of official documents with biometric information encoded thereon: A system for automatically obtaining a printable photographic image of an object for a document, particularly adaptable to police traffic-ticket dispensing situations is described. A tablet computer with a stylus input display device has a video camera device associated with it that points at the object of the document, in... Agent: Unisys Corporation Attn: Michael B. Atlass

20090244296 - Method of making a digital camera image of a scene including the camera user: A method of making an image in a digital camera comprises capturing a digital image of a scene into which the camera user is to be inserted, and superimposing a symbol (subject locator) onto the scene image representing at least a part of a human subject. The subject locator is... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090244297 - Motion detection apparatus: A motion detection apparatus includes a CPU. The CPU detects partial motion vectors of an object scene corresponding to motion detection blocks based on raw image data. The CPU also reduces a weighted amount allocated to a motion detection block which captures a partial object scene having a contrast below... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244299 - Image processing device, computer-readable storage medium, and electronic apparatus: An image processing device for performing positioning processing between a plurality of images using a positional displacement amount between the plurality of images generates a positioning image by reducing the plurality of images, sets a motion vector measurement region with which a motion vector is measured in the positioning image,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090244298 - Imaging device and image capture device: The invention discloses a imaging device, comprising an imaging module, used for optical to electrical signal conversion, which comprises at least a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit, the first imaging unit used for capturing an image, the second imaging unit used for detecting the movement of the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20090244300 - Method and apparatus for motion invariant imaging: Object motion during camera exposure often leads to noticeable blurring artifacts. Proper elimination of this blur is challenging because the blur kernel is unknown, varies over the image as a function of object velocity, and destroys high frequencies. In the case of motions along a 1D direction (e.g. horizontal), applicants... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090244302 - Camera module with image stabilizing apparatus: A camera module includes a lens module, a box having a through hole for fixing the lens module, an image sensor module, a vibration sensor, a platform assembly, and a controller. The vibration sensor is connected to the image sensor and configured for detecting a vibrating direction and amplitude of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090244301 - Controlling multiple-image capture: According to some embodiments of the present invention, pre-capture information is acquired, and based at least upon an analysis of the pre capture information, it may be determined that a multiple-image capture is to be performed, where the multiple-image capture is configured to acquire multiple images for synthesis into a... Agent: J. Lanny Tucker Patent Legal Staff

20090244304 - Image data generating device: An image data generating device for generating image data pertaining to a target includes a transparent plate, a light radiation unit, a plurality of digital camera units, which are provided on a side close to a second surface of the transparent plate, and which are offset from each other and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244303 - Imager, imaging circuit, and image processing circuit: The number of channels is changed in accordance with an operation mode in an image pickup apparatus. An image-pickup control unit 240 determines the number of operation channels W in accordance with an operation mode. A sensor unit 210 outputs an image pickup signal corresponding to each pixel in accordance... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244306 - Image recording and reproducing apparatus: An image recording and reproducing apparatus that records and reproduces image data shot at a frame rate higher than a normal reproduction rate employed during reproduction of a moving image can generate a still image by attaching still image recording information to at least one frame image included in the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090244305 - Video recording system and imaging apparatus: A moving picture imaging apparatus simultaneously generates main image data and sub image data having a smaller image size, transmits the main image data to a server over a network, and stores the sub image data in a storage device. Editing or the like is performed on the sub image... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090244313 - Compound eye photographing apparatus, control method therefor, and program: A compound eye photographing apparatus including a plurality of photographing units for photographing a subject at a plurality of photographing positions to obtain a plurality of images of the subject, a subject detection unit for detecting a predetermined subject from the plurality of images, and a determination unit for determining... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244315 - Image capture device: An image capture device according to the present invention includes: an image capturing section for capturing a subject's image and generating image data, thereby outputting a moving picture; a first area shifting section for shifting a first area, which is associated with a first kind of feature information that represents... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090244307 - Image encoding method and device, image decoding method and device, and imaging device: An image encoding method is for obtaining, from a pixel data string containing pixel values of a plurality of pixels in a pixel array where the pixels are arrayed, a pixel data string containing a quantized representative value into which at least one of the pixel values is encoded. Encoding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090244308 - Image inclination correction device and image inclination correction method: An original image obtained by imaging and a rotated image obtained by rotating the original image are made to be evaluation images. For each of the evaluation images, an inclination of the evaluation image with respect to an axis parallel to a plumb line in the image is evaluated. According... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090244312 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus includes a face detector configured to provide a face detection process based on image data obtained from an image pickup optical system that includes a focus lens configured to provide a focus control, a focus lens position extractor configured to extract a focus lens position at... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090244314 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus is provided including an acquiring unit configured to acquire information regarding a set of frames that is associated with a condition indicating a relative relationship between a set of images to be arranged in the set of frames, an extracting unit configured to extract the set... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090244310 - Imaging device, signal processing method, and computer program: An imaging device includes a main image sensor configured to obtain an image used for recording, a sub-image sensor configured to obtain a live view image, an input switching unit, and a signal processor. The input switching unit receives a plurality of sensor outputs including an output of the main... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090244309 - Method and device for identifying and extracting images of multiple users, and for recognizing user gestures: The invention relates to a method for identifying and extracting images of one or more users in an interactive environment comprising the steps of: —obtaining a depth map (7) of a scene in the form of an array of depth values, and an image (8) of said scene in the... Agent: Fisher Technology Law

20090244311 - Mobile terminal and method of controlling the mobile terminal: A mobile terminal and a method of controlling a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a camera preview image; detecting a face area from the camera preview image; if a button for capturing an image is manipulated, correcting an image captured by a camera using the detected face... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090244316 - Automatic white balance control: A system for performing automatic white balance (AWB) control in which the limited white area (200) is clearly defined by a formula which fits exactly to the black body radiator curve (202) in at least two domains, the formula being a function of those two domains. The function is then... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090244317 - Image capture apparatus and method: An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit configured to capture an image of a subject to obtain image data, an image-capture control unit configured to allow the image capture unit to execute an image capture operation of capturing a plurality of frames of image data having continuity in... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090244318 - Image capture apparatus and method: An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit having a plurality of exposure adjustment functions including an electronic shutter function for changing an exposure time within a frame period and configured to capture an image of a subject to obtain image data, and an image-capture control unit configured to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090244319 - Image capturing apparatus and method: Provided is an image capturing apparatus and method, in which the limit of the application of blurring to an input image is determined with the use of a database of recognizable blur levels, and the input image is processed by applying filtering properties corresponding to variations in digital gain and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090244320 - Imaging device, display control device, and display device: In the case of reduced display of a shot image, the shot image is displayed in accordance with an attitude of an imaging device at the time of shooting, whereby it is possible to attain an easily viewable and convenient reduced image display regardless of a shooting attitude, and to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090244325 - Camera system, camera body, interchangeable lens unit, focus control method, and program: A camera system that can maintain a good focus state regardless of the speed of zooming during variable proportion zooming is provided. The camera system has a control portion that, based on information on the speed of the change in the focal length, determines whether to control a focus lens... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090244326 - Camera with mounting rail: A camera includes a housing, a camera lens, a video camera recorder, a display, and a mounting rail. The housing is elongated and sealed. The camera lens is located at a front end of the housing. The video camera recorder is located within the housing for recording images captured by... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090244322 - Digital video camera with projector mechanism: A digital video (DV) camera with projector mechanism includes a DV camera having a processing unit provided in an enclosure, and a shooting unit, an audio input/output unit, a storage unit, a display unit, an operating interface unit, and a power supply unit mounted to the enclosure and electrically connected... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090244324 - Imaging device: A digital camera as one example of an imaging device includes an image sensor, and by utilizing this, an optical image of an object scene is repeatedly captured. A partial object scene image belonging to a zoom area of the object scene image produced by the image sensor is subjected... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244321 - Multi-segment reading ccd correcting apparatus and method: In a case of using a CCD or analog circuit of a poor quality where an error in hue or the like causes a problem, such an error in hue or the like may not be dealt with. In correcting pixel output values of a CCD, there are prepared beforehand... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244323 - System and method for exposing video-taking heuristics at point of capture: Described is a system and methods for embedding standard video-taking heuristics into video-recording devices to help improve the quality of captured video for consumer devices. The described approach uses a combination of audio, visual, and haptic feedback that responds to video as it is recorded. This feedback can help users... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244327 - Camera system: A camera system includes a camera, a shooting field shifting mechanism, a shift amount acquiring unit, and a masking processor that masks a masking target within a captured image flame. The masking processor includes first and second position computing units, and mask area establishing unit. The first and second position... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090244329 - Digital camera and image processing computer program product: A digital camera includes: a photometering unit that measures brightness of a photographic field by dividing the field into a plurality of areas; a reference value calculation unit that calculates, a first value to be used to determine exposure conditions for a photographing operation based upon photometering results provided by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090244328 - Image pickup device and signal processing method thereof: An image pickup device is provided, capable of complete correction with data of once analog-to-digital conversion, and prevention of excess use of switches and analog devices and/or erroneous correction, including: an image sensor having a plurality of analog-to-digital converters determining conversion results from a digital signal of higher order bit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244330 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method, enabling achievement of both an effect of improvement of motion-picture response and a reduction of flicker even in a case of a low frame rate, are provided. The apparatus has a processing region detection portion 120 including a first detection portion... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090244331 - Noise eliminator: A noise eliminator is provided which can highly compress and store dark current noise components while maintaining characteristics, including many high frequency components. A noise distribution analysis section 10 determines the magnitude distribution of dark current noise components of at least some pixels, and then computes the threshold and typical... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090244332 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and driving method for solid-state imaging apparatus: When a solid-state imaging apparatus which has A/D conversion circuits in every column and subjects a digitized signal to arithmetic processing carries out a horizontal skipping operation and calculates respective signals held in a plurality of register circuits, an A/D converter and a register circuit in a column which is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244333 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for attaining image processing: The image processing procedure of the invention receives mosaic image data and calculates a vertical-direction color difference component with regard to each of pixel columns in the mosaic image data in a vertical direction and a horizontal-direction color difference component with regard to each of pixel rows in the mosaic... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090244341 - Active pixel sensor (aps) readout structure with amplification: An active pixel sensor (APS) includes an array of individually addressable APS cells ad a pixel readout structure that includes an amplifier. The amplifier may have a two-branched structure and provide a gain of one or higher. Additional switches may be provided in the pixels to provide protection for pixel... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090244335 - Correlated double sampling circuit and cmos image sensor unit: Embodiments of the present invention provide a correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit and a CMOS image sensor unit using the CDS circuit. The CDS circuit shifts levels of sampled sensing signal and reset signal with equal amounts. Thus a voltage difference of the sampled sensing signal and the reset signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090244339 - Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method: Provided is an image capturing apparatus comprising a plurality of first light receiving elements that are arranged on substantially the same plane and that each receive light of a first color component from a subject; a plurality of second light receiving elements that are arranged on substantially the same plane... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244340 - Image pickup device and image pickup system: There is provided an image pickup device, including a photoelectric conversion element converting light into charges, a transfer gate for transferring the converted charges to a floating node, a source follower transistor for outputting a signal based on a voltage of the floating node to a signal line, and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244336 - Image sensing device of a camera: An image acquisition device of a camera that has an electronic sensor chip electrically connected to a circuit board, includes an objective situated in an objective carrier, and oriented in regard to situation and inclination in relation to an imager surface of the sensor chip. The situation and inclination of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090244338 - Solid state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a first pixel shielded from light and a second pixel provided in a region over which an object image is formed; a delay circuit having delay devices connected into a multiple of stages for giving to a running pulse a delay... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244337 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section where a plurality of pixels each containing a photoelectric conversion device are formed into an array; a retaining circuit for retaining one or the other of a reset signal and a light signal of the signals from the pixel; and an AD... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244334 - Systems and methods to perform digital correlated double sampling using successive approximation analog to digital conversion techniques: An imager includes a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SA-ADC) and an arithmetic memory. The successive approximation analog-to-digital converter converts analog representations of pixel reset and image signals for a pixel to digital representations of the pixel reset and image signals. The arithmetic memory generates a difference signal that represents the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090244343 - Electromagnetic wave detecting element: The present invention is to provide an electromagnetic wave detecting element that can suppress the trapping of charges in a semiconductor layer. Plural lower electrodes, which collect charges generated in the semiconductor layer, are each provided to cover at least a portion in a length direction and the entire region... Agent: Moss & Burke, PLLC

20090244342 - Random access decoder: A random access decoder comprising a plurality of decoder circuit elements, each decoder circuit element having a unique electronic address and a binary data output, means for applying an input signal to each of the decoder circuit element and where each decoder circuit element places data on its binary data... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090244345 - Cmos image sensor and driving method thereof: A CMOS image sensor is provided. The CMOS image sensor includes a photodiode receiving light and generating photocharges, a transfer transistor connected to the photodiode and transferring the photocharges, a floating diffusion accumulating the photocharges transferred from the transfer transistor, a reset transistor discharging the photocharges accumulated in the floating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090244346 - Image sensor and driving method therefor: This disclosure concerns an image sensor including: an imaging area; row selection lines; and column signal lines, wherein a pixel includes: a photodiode; a capacitor connected to the photodiode at a first node; a reset transistor connected between the first node and a first power supply; a comparator comparing the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244347 - Image sensor with an improved sensitivity: An image sensor having a surface intended to be illuminated and pixels, each pixel including a photosensitive area formed in an active area of the substrate, at least one first pixel including a first microlens located on the surface, the sensor including at least one second pixel including a transparent... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090244348 - Method and apparatus providing pixel array having automatic light control pixels and image capture pixels: A pixel array uses two sets of pixels to provide accurate exposure control. One set of pixels provide continuous output signals for automatic light control (ALC) as the other set integrates and captures an image. ALC pixels allow monitoring of multiple pixels of an array to obtain sample data indicating... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090244344 - Systems, methods, and devices for preventing shoot-through current within and between signal line drivers of semiconductor devices: An imaging device driver for transmitting a signal onto a signal line for controlling transistors of a pixel row. The device includes a controller and associated circuitry for reducing shoot-through current within and between row driver circuits for driving the signal line. The controller reduces shoot-through current by preventing concurrent... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090244350 - Imaging apparatus and signal processing method: An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device. The solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units having plural first photoelectric conversion units and plural second photoelectric conversion units, a drive section and a signal processing section. The drive section controls the solid-state imaging device to read first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244349 - Solid state image pickup device: A solid state image pickup device includes a plurality of light receiving sections formed in a regular pattern, transfer channels, a plurality of first transfer electrodes and a plurality of second transfer electrodes formed on the transfer channels, a plurality of first wires each applying a potential to the corresponding... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090244351 - Image capture device: An image capture device includes a viewfinder for viewing a subject. The viewfinder either forms an integral part of the device or is an external member that is attachable to, and removable from, the device. The device includes: an optical system; a generating section for capturing an image of the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090244353 - Image display device, image taking device, and image display method and image display program: An image display device (1) comprises a display (12) and an image recorder (8) for storing an a file (100) including a plurality of image data indicative of a subject X taken from a like number of directions, one of the plurality of image data including an management area (1012)... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090244352 - Radiation image capturing system: A radiation image capturing system includes a plurality of image capturing apparatus for acquiring radiation image information of a subject by controlling radiation sources according to predetermined image capturing conditions, a controller for controlling the image capturing apparatus according to the image capturing conditions set therein, and a plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244354 - Imaging apparatus and method for controlling the imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an image generation unit configured to photoelectrically convert an object image formed by an imaging optical system to generate an image, a control unit configured to perform focusing control of the imaging optical system, an object detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of object regions... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090244355 - Filter switching device, photographing lens, camera, and image pickup system: A filter switching device includes: an optical filter unit that is disposed on an optical path of an object light that passes through an image pickup lens of a camera, and can be switched to any one of a plurality of spectral transmission characteristics; a spectral transmission characteristic switching unit... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090244356 - Camera module: A camera module includes a circuit board of a grounding pad, a lens module, and a voice-coil motor. The voice-coil motor for receiving and driving the lens module automatically focus comprises a main body, a metallic casing and a grounding structure. The metallic casing covers the main body. After electrically... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090244358 - Electronic apparatus having autofocus camera function: An electronic apparatus including a drive mechanism, a signal processing section, an image pickup lens, an image pickup device and a focus control section is described. The drive mechanism changes a position of the image pickup lens relative to the image pickup device. The image pickup device outputs an electric... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090244357 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method and program: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit to pick up an image of a subject, a focusing unit to perform focusing on the subject included in an autofocus area in an imaging range of the imaging unit, a display unit to display an image obtained by picking up an image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244359 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus is disclosed which achieves high focusing accuracy and favorable responsiveness in AF control. The apparatus includes a signal generator which extracts signals in a plurality of frequency bands from an output from an image-pickup part and generates focus signals from the extracted signals, and a controller which... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090244360 - Camera system and camera body composing the same: A camera system includes a controller operable to control operations of a camera body and an interchangeable lens. When supply of power from a power supply of the camera body is requested to be stopped, the controller performs control to adjust an aperture of the diaphragm such that an amount... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090244361 - Camera module for vehicle vision system: A camera module (10) for a vision system of a vehicle includes a circuit element (12), a lens mounting element (14b, 14c), a lens assembly (14) and an outer shell or cover portion (16). The circuit element includes an imaging sensor and associated circuitry (12a). The lens assembly includes at... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090244362 - System for mounting camera on bow: A system for mounting includes a video camera, a mounting element, and a rail and clamp connector. The video camera has a camera body. The elongated mounting element has a first end for coupling with the camera body and a threaded second end for engaging a threaded aperture on a... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090244363 - Video camera: In a video camera, air outlet holes and air inlet holes are disposed in a panel-facing surface of a camera body. A duct is disposed inside the camera body and guides the air taken in through the air inlet holes to the air outlet holes. A first heat sink is... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090244364 - Moving image separating apparatus, moving image uniting apparatus, and moving image separating-uniting system: A moving image separating apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is provided with a privacy image region detection unit and a moving image separating unit. The privacy image region detection unit detects privacy image region data indicating a position and a range of a privacy image region from the original moving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244366 - Pixel conversion device and pixel conversion method: According to one embodiment, an embodiment of a pixel conversion device of the invention improves outlines of edge peripheries of characters, etc., of a color digital image signal. The device includes a histogram extraction module, a picture characteristic extraction module which detects a luminance boundary in a luminance signal block... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090244365 - Systems and methods for increasing the temporal resolution of video data: A method for multi-scale spatio-temporal steering kernel regression may include repeatedly spatially downsampling input video data, thereby obtaining spatially downsampled video data at a coarsest spatial resolution scale. The spatially downsampled video data at the coarsest spatial resolution scale may be temporally upscaled to generate an estimate of temporally upscaled... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090244367 - Choosing video deinterlacing interpolant based on cost: Deinterlacing of video involves converting interlaced video to progressive video by interpolating a missing pixel in the interlaced video from other pixels in the video. A plurality of interpolants are provided, each of which interpolates a pixel value from other pixels that are nearby in space and/or time. The data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090244368 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: Disclosed herein is a video processing apparatus for performing video processing compatible with a dual link progressive scheme, said video processing apparatus including: two video processing circuits; and a control section.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090244370 - Adaptive windowing in motion detector for deinterlacer: According to aspects of embodiments, a method of determining an aperture window in a video deinterlacer includes: computing a first mean absolute difference (MAD) value for a pixel based on a 1×5 window; computing a second MAD value for the pixel using a 3×5 window; and selectively blending the first... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP Z2002

20090244369 - Recursive motion for motion detection deinterlacer: A recursive motion detector, comprises: a first frame motion detector receiving a next field and a first previous field; a second frame motion detector receiving a current field and a second previous field; and a third frame motion detector receiving a next field and a third previous field; wherein motion... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP Z2002

20090244371 - Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090244373 - Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090244374 - Identifying ancillary information associated with an audio/video program: A system communicates video information including television content associated with a plurality of channels and ancillary information. Information may be transmitted with the ancillary information that is indicative of the type of content included in the ancillary information. This provides the user, in one embodiment of the present invention, with... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090244372 - Method and system for closed caption processing: Methods and systems for closed caption processing are described. In an embodiment, a source signal may be accessed. The source signal may include a video signal and closed caption information embedded within the video signal. The closed caption information may be extracted from the source signal. A content request may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090244375 - Circuit arrangement and method for locking onto and/or processing data, in particular audio, t[ele]v[ision] and/or video data: In order to further develop a circuit arrangement (100; 102; 104; 106) and a method of locking onto and/or processing data, in particular audio, T[ele]V[ision] and/or video data, by means of at least one phase locked loop (40), wherein phase information is detected by means of at least one phase... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090244376 - Projector device and projector system using the same: A projector that displays a projection frame includes an operation unit to select a projection mode designating the number of split screens in the projection frame and the location, size, and orientation of each split screen. An input unit processes graphical signal data provided from an external graphical signal generator... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090244377 - Display controller for screens with user-defined frames: The present invention discloses a display controller for screens with user-defined frames, comprising: a first image source to provide first image data; a second image source to provide second image data; an information converter unit in connection with said first and second image sources, to convert said first and second... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090244378 - Record and replay television device and method: In certain embodiments, a method of controlling operation of a television receiver device involves determining that there remote control commands for “record” and “play” are directed to the television receiver device; checking a remote control receiver for receipt of either “record” or “play” command; when a record command is received... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090244379 - Display having unshielded osd and method for implementing unshielded osd: A displayer having an unshielded on screen displayer (OSD) and a method for implementing the unshielded OSD are described. A microprocessor of the displayer having the unshielded OSD generates a plurality of first opaque items without a background color and a first background layer having a size the same as... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090244380 - Television broadcast receiving apparatus and television setting method: According to one embodiment, a television broadcast receiving apparatus has a recording module that records setting information set in regard to a plurality of setting items, a display that displays a setting screen required to set setting values of the plurality of setting items, a setting input module that input... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090244381 - Television and method for providing auxiliary information: A method for outputting alert information. The method includes selecting broadcasting signals by a tuner of the television in response to channel selection signals from a microprocessor of the television; determining whether digital baseband signals being received from the tuner by the microprocessor; retrieving auxiliary data from memory of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090244382 - Video image quality control apparatus and method: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a video image quality control apparatus including: a video processing module configured to adjust image quality based on a control signal; a data table holder configured to hold a data table representing information of a start time and an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090244384 - Analog tv broadcast signal receiving apparatus and analog tv broadcast signal demodulating apparatus: Disclosed herein is an analog television broadcast signal receiving apparatus including: a tuner section configured to convert an analog television broadcast signal into a predetermined intermediate frequency band signal; a demodulation circuit section configured to obtain a picture output signal and a sound intermediate frequency signal from the predetermined intermediate... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090244383 - Video receiving apparatus: A video receiving apparatus comprises a switch, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a video processing circuit and a decoder is provided. The ADC receives a first analog channel data from the switch within a plurality of first periods and receives a second analog channel data from the switch within a plurality... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090244385 - Information display apparatus and information display method: An information display apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of information items through a network in accordance with an acquisition script in a scenario, the scenario including a conversion script and a motion addition script, an information conversion unit configured to extract one or more... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090244386 - Histogram and chrominance processing: The present invention relates to a method and corresponding system for improving the perceived visual quality of images for instance displayed on a colour television screen. According to the invention, there is provided a means for carrying out histogram processing (13) for scaling an input video signal (6) such that... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090244387 - Display device and driving method thereof with improved luminance: A display device and a driving method thereof in which if an input 2D/3D video signal is a 2D video signal, an image data signal is generated by applying a first gamma correction curved line. If the input 2D/3D video signal is a 3D video signal, an image data signal... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090244389 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for generating interpolated images: An interpolated image generating apparatus calculates a motion vector reliability level indicating reliability of a motion vector used for inserting an interpolated image, the value of the motion vector reliability level being determined in such a manner that the stronger the correlation is between a source image area and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090244388 - Motion estimation method and related apparatus for determining target motion vector according to motion of neighboring image blocks: A motion estimation method for determining a target motion vector includes calculating a plurality of block matching differences associated with a plurality of candidate motion vectors, determining a plurality of candidate block matching differences according to the block matching differences and motion of a plurality of neighboring image blocks associated... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090244390 - Real time processing of video frames for triggering an alert: A method for real time processing of a sequence of video frames. The video frames are received in synchronization with a recording of the video frames in real time for triggering an alert. The method is implemented by execution of program code on a processor of a computer system. Each... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090244391 - Electronic apparatus and control method of electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a plurality of ports configured to be inserted a one end of a cable having a first signal line for performing first data communication and a second signal line, respectively, a communication module configured to perform the second data communication via the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090244393 - Signal switching apparatus and control method of signal switching apparatus: A signal switching apparatus includes: a video reference input block; a plurality of synchronous signal generating blocks; a plurality of video signal input blocks; a signal processing block; a video signal output processing block; a switching block; and a control block.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090244392 - Video-signal switching apparatus: A first buffer analyzer receives attribute information (a) of a video signal (A) from a stream buffer (A) to determine an encoded picture type after correction and a generated encoding amount after correction for a switch terminating measure. A second buffer analyzer receives attribute information (b) of a video signal... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090244394 - Image processor: An image processor is connectable with a storing medium storing still image data corresponding to a still image and moving image data corresponding to a moving image, the moving image data including a plurality of sets of frame image data corresponding to a plurality of frame images respectively. The image... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090244395 - N dimensional non-linear, static, adaptive digital filter design using d scale non-uniform sampling: The present invention is a filter design that extracts information from a signal by employing D scale nonuniform sampling. In one embodiment a D scale multiresolution sampler, filter bank router, filter bank sampler controller, phase shifter, and consolidator constitute a maximal arrangement for a D scale FIR/IIR filter design.... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20090244396 - Electrical discharge tube, illumination apparatus for display device, liquid crystal display device, and liquid crystal display television: A backlight device includes a hot cathode fluorescent tube having a pair of electrodes, a power source arranged to apply voltage having an alternating component to at least one of the pair of electrodes, and an electrode heating circuit arranged to supply heating current to the electrodes. The backlight device... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090244398 - Electron-emitting device, electron-emitting apparatus, electron source, image display device and information display/reproduction apparatus: By applying a drive voltage Vf [V] between first and second conductive films, when electrons are emitted by the first conductive film, an equipotential line of 0.5 Vf [V] is inclined toward the first conductive film, rather than toward the second conductive film, in the vicinity of the electron emitting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090244397 - Electronic apparatus, dispersion adjustment method of ic internal component section of electronic apparatus and ic: An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section capable of being adjusted with adjustment data, a nonvolatile memory in which beforehand acquired adjustment data of a result of adjustment carried out in advance for the internal component section are stored, and an interface section having... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244399 - Unified single and multiple carrier receiver architecture: A device and method for receiving and processing single carrier and multiple carrier signals through substantially common elements within a receiver that uses a radix 2 FFT on the signal, equalizes both types of signals in the frequency domain and then, for the multiple carrier signal performs a polynomial interpolation... Agent: Zoran Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090244400 - Electronic apparatus, dispersion adjustment method of ic internal component section of electronic apparatus and ic: An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section capable of being adjusted with adjustment data, a nonvolatile memory in which beforehand acquired adjustment data of a result of adjustment carried out in advance for the internal component section are stored, and an interface section having... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244401 - Electronic apparatus, dispersion adjustment method of ic internal component section of electronic apparatus and ic: An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section, a nonvolatile memory, and an interface section; a test signal generation section configured to generate a test signal to be supplied to the first integrated circuit; a second integrated circuit including a processing section configured to process... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244402 - Favorite channel remote: A remote control and method of using the remote control are provided. The remote control includes a microprocessor, a memory accessible by the microprocessor that includes a database of a plurality of favorite channels, a user interface in signal communication with the microprocessor that allows selection of successive next or... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090244403 - Remote control device programming: A method and apparatus for assisting a user in programming a universal remote control. More specifically, a method and apparatus for helping the user reestablish system configurations, providing feedback, instructing the user, and supplying system information.... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090244404 - Digital video recorder-integrated display device with picture-in-picture function: A digital video recorder (DVR)-integrated display device with a picture-in-picture function is provided. The digital video recorder (DVR)-integrated display device includes an image multiplexing unit outputting an image frame generated by multiplexing an image signal from each of a plurality of cameras or an image frame selected from images from... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090244405 - Laser projection device and liquid crystal display television: Disclosed herein is a laser projection device which can keep the colors of red, blue, and green laser beams constant even in high ambient temperature. The laser projection device includes a red laser light source which emits a red laser beam, a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090244406 - Projection display device and driving method of the same: A projection display device includes first to third display panels configured to realize first to third color images and a fourth display panel configured to realize a white image. The first to third color images and the white image may be combined and projected.... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20090244407 - Image display device: An image display device includes an optical scanning part, a drive control part which supplies an electric current to lasers, and a light detecting part. The drive control part supplies an electric current to the lasers while changing a current value at two points or more when a scanning position... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090244408 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display apparatus including a backlight with reduced power consumption is disclosed. The liquid crystal display apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight, and a backlight adjusting portion. To the liquid crystal display panel, an image signal of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244409 - Apparatus for audio, video and/or data recording and/or reproducing: An apparatus (1) for audio, video and/or data recording and/or reproducing comprises a cabinet (3). The cabinet (3) is provided with a front (5) and a side (7). In order to get the impression of a slim device the side is provided with an optically reflecting surface (15).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards