Television inventions

20090278912 - Medical audio/video communications system: Two-way audiovideo communications are provided between a patient located in a room and a remotely located caregiver using a wireless handheld device, whereby the remotely located caregiver may remain accessible by patients and may remotely look-in on patients. A method includes: transmitting, to the wireless handheld device used by the... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090278913 - Gaze accurate video conferencing: A gaze accurate video conferencing system includes a screen that alternates between a light-scattering state and a substantially transparent state. A camera is positioned behind the screen and is configured to capture images of a user positioned in front of the screen when the screen is in its substantially transparent... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090278914 - Controller for photographing apparatus and photographing system: A picture photographed by a camera portion is sent to a video capturing portion of a computer. The picture is displayed in an operation area of a monitor. A panorama picture of which pictures in part or all moving range of a pan tiler are combined is displayed in a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090278915 - Gesture-based control system for vehicle interfaces: Systems and method for controlling vehicle subsystems using gestures are described. The controlling comprises receiving an image of an object via sensors in a vehicle and outputting gesture data representing a gesture made by the object. The object comprises at least one hand and/or finger of a user. The gesture... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090278916 - Image display device: A device for arranging images three-dimensionally in perspective as partially overlapping pages is disclosed so that a user can visually and intuitively manage the displayed images. The display image operating has means for manipulating a plurality of pre-stored images through buttons or a pointing device to select and display images.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090278917 - Providing a collaborative immersive environment using a spherical camera and motion capture: Embodiments of the present invention provide a collaborative visualization system, which integrates motion capture and virtual reality, along with kinematics and computer-aided design (CAD), for the purpose of, for example, validating a simulation with a real-world video. A spherical camera captures real-world video at a first location. At a second... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090278918 - Display using bidirectionally scanned linear modulator: A method for forming a stereoscopic image forms separate left-eye and right-eye images in a repeated cycle that forms the left-eye image by providing data for lines of the left-eye image, ordered in sequence from a first to a second edge of an image frame, then forms successive lines of... Agent: Amelia A. Buharin Patent Legal Staff

20090278919 - High-fidelity printed anaglyphs and viewing filters: Four primary colors provide a wide color gamut in the anaglyph images. Primary colors with narrow spectral distributions allow the first and second images in an anaglyph to be viewed using colored filter glasses. In print media, primary colors with narrow spectral distributions are provided by fluorescent inks and incident... Agent: Dardi & Associates, PLLC

20090278920 - Image apparatus for endoscopes: The invention relates to an image apparatus for endoscopes, which makes sure easier viewing especially at a peripheral portion of a screen while taking care of the observing angle of view and size of an optical system. The image apparatus comprises an optical system adapted to form an optical image... Agent: Arnold International

20090278921 - Image stabilization of video play back: Systems and methods are provided for compensating motion fluctuation and luminance in video data from a capsule camera system. The capsule camera system moves through the GI tract under the action of peristalsis and records images of the intestinal walls. The gut itself contracts and expands but exhibits little net... Agent: Blairtech Solution LLC

20090278922 - Image sensor with integrated region of interest calculation for iris capture, autofocus, and gain control: An iris recognition system and method for operating same is disclosed. The iris recognition system includes an image sensor, a buffer, a comparator, autofocus logic, and gain control logic. The image sensor is configured to obtain at least one image from a camera. The buffer communicatively connected to the image... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20090278923 - Defect review method and apparatus: A defect review apparatus comprises a storage for receiving and storing defect information concerning an inspection objective captured by a wafer inspection system, an image acquisition unit for capturing images concerning the inspection objective and a process unit for acquiring data for defect review based on the defect information by... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090278924 - Inspection arrangement: It is necessary to provide inspection arrangements in order to facilitate prototype design of assemblies such as gas turbine engines as well as insitu testing of such assemblies. Previously endoscope type arrangements have been utilised, but the flexible or rigid stems in such endoscopes can cause fouling and snagging in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278925 - System and method for imaging of curved surfaces: A system for capturing a composite image of an object with a curved surface includes a conveyor configured to transport the object to be imaged to a predetermined imaging position. A sensor is configured to produce a signal when the object to be imaged is at the predetermined position, and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090278926 - Calibration method of electronic device test apparatus: In an electronic device test apparatus using image processing technology to position an IC device relative to a socket, a calibration method of an electronic device test apparatus of calibrating a relative position of a device camera with respect to a socket, the method comprising: calculating an offset amount of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090278927 - Sensor and apparatus for vehicle height measurement: The disclosed subject matter relates to a sensor and apparatus for vehicle height and slant measurement which can include a light source, and two cameras with respective lenses. The light source can be configured to emit light towards a road, and both cameras can be configured to receive the image... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090278930 - Image surveillance system and method thereof: An image surveillance system and a method thereof are disclosed. The image surveillance system comprises an image-capturing apparatus, which connects to the Internet, and has an IP address for capturing an image of a predetermined area to produce a digital image signal. At least a display device connects to the... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090278928 - Simulating a fluttering shutter from video data: A method and system for simulating a fluttering shutter from video data. Composite images can be generated by adding a sequence of video frames, scaling each according to a weight. By selecting an appropriate sequence of weights, the effects of a fluttering shutter can be synthesized, with the additional flexibility... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090278929 - Video camera with interchangable optical sensors: A video camera 100 for remote operation or surveillance has a lens system 1 supported on a fixed base plate 26 and a pair of image sensors 14, 15, 204 mounted onto a movable plate 13. A pair of balls slides 11, 12 are attached to the fixed base plate... Agent: The H.t. Than Law Group

20090278931 - Video data transmission system for remote-monitoring and remote-monitoring equipment using the same: A video transmitter for remote monitoring includes at least one transmitter and a concentrator. The at least one transmitter is installed in the establishment to be monitored and connected to a predetermined number of surveillance cameras, receives video signals of the surveillance cameras in parallel, and transmits the video signals... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090278932 - System and method of optical sensing in an aerial vehicle: A system for optical sensing in an aerial vehicle has at least one camera, an electronically-controlled mirror configured to dynamically direct light from a region of interest into the at least one camera, and at least one electronically-controlled adaptive polymer lens disposed between the mirror and the camera.... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090278933 - Drive recorder, drive recorder system, vehicle-mounted video recording apparatus, and vehicle-mounted video recording method: An object of the present invention is to provide a drive recorder and a drive recorder system that can check the content of the image captured by an image capturing unit that outputs a video signal at a frequency not affected by LED traffic light flashing. More specifically, the invention... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090278934 - System and method for predicting patient falls: A patient fall prediction system receives video image frames from a surveillance camera positioned in a patient's room and analyses the video image frames for movement that may be a precursor to a patient fall. In set up phase, the viewpoint of the camera is directed at a risk area... Agent: Rudolph J. Buchel Jr., Law Office Of

20090278935 - Classroom monitor: A monitor for the remote observation of a child's behavior in a classroom. The classroom monitor includes a three-ring binder and a video camera that is releasably mounted upon the binder for producing a video signal. A microphone is affixed to the video camera for producing an audio signal. A... Agent: Stephen R. Greiner, Esquire Greiner Law Offices, P.C.

20090278938 - Cognitive change detection system: A method of detecting a changed condition within a geographical space from a moving vehicle. Images of that geographic space are memorialized in conjunction with GPS coordinates together with its GPS coordinates. The same geographic space is traversed from the moving vehicle while accessing the route's GPS coordinates. The memorialized... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090278936 - Method for autostereoscopically producing three-dimensional image information from scanned sub-pixel extracts and device for carrying out said method: A method for autostereoscopically producing three-dimensional image information from scanned subpixel extracts uses a multiplex track method (MTV) having a separating raster (TR) obliquely extended with respect to a matrix screen (MB) and an electronic tracking (TS) of viewing areas ibased on two separated image views (L, R), that adjacently... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090278937 - Video data processing: An embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for dynamically detecting and visualizing actions and/or events in video data streams. In one embodiment, a method involves dynamically detecting and extracting objects and attributes relating to the objects from a video data stream by using action recognition filtering... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090278939 - Quality monitoring system and method for expirable objects: A quality monitoring system for an expirable object includes an image capturing unit capable of capturing an image of the expirable object, a setting unit capable of setting an expiring date and a warning date and associating the set dates with the captured image, a storage unit configured for storing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090278940 - Method of testing a display and related apparatus: A method of testing a display is provided to save test time and cost. The method includes providing a system command set corresponding to the display and a flow control command set to select, generating a testing software application including an executing sequence according to the selected system command set,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090278941 - Multi-channel streaming device and related method: A multi-channel streaming device for transmitting audio/video signals or any data from a remote location to a server computer. The device may include an input for receiving a signal, a distribution module coupled to the input and operable to divide the signal into a plurality of packets and operable to... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20090278942 - Camera incorporating swipe printer: A digital camera comprises a housing having a front surface, a rear surface, a base surface and an inclined surface adjoining the rear and base surfaces, the base surface being the surface on which the digital camera is supported at rest; an image sensor for capturing an image, the image... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090278944 - Camera module: An image processor for a camera module having an image sensor that captures an image for transfer to a printer module of a compact printer system including a capture unit that captures the image from the image sensor and transforms it to planarized linear RGB form. The image processor also... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090278943 - Method of generating manipulated images with digital camera: A method of generating manipulated images with a digital camera is provided in which objects within a digital image produced by the digital camera utilising an autofocus unit of the digital camera are detected by processing the digital image with a processor of the digital camera utilising focusing settings of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090278945 - Method and apparatus for image stabilization using multiple image captures: A method and apparatus for image stabilization while mitigating the amplification of image noise by using a motion adaptive system employing spatial and temporal filtering of pixel signals from multiple captured frames of a scene.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090278946 - Method for deactivating an image capturing device when present in a restricted or prohibited: The invention described is a method and system for preventing image capture and... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20090278947 - Imager and imaging method for digital cinematography: The invention provides an imager and imaging method for forming, on a plurality of photo-elements, an optical image of an object lying in a viewing plane defined by horizontal and vertical viewing axes. The imager comprises at least first, second and third video image sensors. Each video image sensor comprises... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090278948 - Information presentation apparatus, information presentation method, imaging apparatus, and computer program: A method of presenting information, capable of displaying an image including one or more objects being in the vicinity of the ground, the method including the steps of: acquiring viewpoint information; acquiring visual line information; acquiring posture information; acquiring additional information related to the object position information; calculating horizon line... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090278951 - Apparatus and methods for multi-sensor synchronization: Apparatus and methods for synchronizing a plurality of image sensors in a video camera system. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a video sync signal, and resetting at least one internal clock divider in each image sensor in synchronization with the video sync signal at the beginning of each... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090278955 - Camera: A camera includes: an information creation device that creates association information for associating a plurality of image files created by the first image file creation device based on a plurality of image data acquired by the image device as a set of image data and recorded in the recording medium,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278949 - Camera system and method for providing information on subjects displayed in a camera viewfinder: An improved camera system for manipulating multiple images of similar subject matter is described. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for the analysis of subject matter depicted in the viewfinder of the camera. Subjects previously photographed may be recognized automatically. Before or after a picture is taken, for each recognized... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090278954 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a color and polarization obtaining section 101 including a single-chip color image capture device that has a color mosaic filter 201 and a patterned polarizer 202 in which a number of polarizer units, having polarization transmission planes defining mutually different... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090278950 - Lens cleaning warning system and method: Lens cleaning warning systems and methods. A system includes an image processing unit configured to analyze image data to determine whether the image data indicates lens flare and, if so, provide an indication to the user that the lens is contaminated.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090278956 - Method of determining priority attributes associated with data containers, for example in a video stream, a coding method, a computer program and associated devices: n

20090278953 - Picture enhancing increasing precision smooth profiles: The apparatus (100) for enhancing at least a region of an input picture (P_in) having input pixel values enabling inter alia the reduction of quantization banding artefacts, comprises: an estimation unit (102) arranged to estimate a quantization precision (QP) of at least the region of the input picture; a pattern... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090278952 - Video processing method and video processing system: A video processing method includes: storing a video data corresponding to a specific view angle range; selecting a plurality of target objects in the video data corresponding to the specific view angle range; generating a synthesized video data by combining each partial video data in the video data that corresponds... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090278957 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: An image processing apparatus, including a region setting unit for setting regions on a processing target image in which each pixel of the image is included according to a level of each pixel, a low frequency image generation unit for generating a low frequency image of the processing target image,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090278958 - Method and an apparatus for detecting a composition adjusted: A method for capturing a composition adjusted image. The method comprises receiving a base image, processing the base image to derive coordinates of a composition adjusted image having a composition matching with at least one predefined composition rule, and capturing the composition adjusted image according to the coordinates.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090278959 - Camera: A camera includes an imaging unit that generates image data, an inserting-image setting unit that sets an inserting image to be inserted into an image of the image data, a first detecting unit that detects a main subject area in a subject image, a second detecting unit that detects a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278960 - Method of processing digital image in a digital camera: A method of processing a digital image in a digital camera is provided in which structures within a digital image produced by the digital camera utilising an adjustable focusing technique of the digital camera are detected by processing the digital image with a processor of the digital camera utilising focusing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090278963 - Apparatus and method for column fixed pattern noise (fpn) correction: An apparatus and method for fixed pattern noise (FPN) correction in an image sensor utilizes at least one row of test pixels. An external voltage is applied to each pixel circuit in the at least one row. Thus, the output of the test pixels does not depend on the photo... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090278961 - Method for digital noise reduction in low light video: A system and method for filtering video noise is provided. Video generated under low lighting conditions is susceptible to increased noise and graininess, which increases the required storage space required for recording the noisy video. The provided system and method for filtering video noise reduces noise in low-light video by... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090278962 - Method for fixed pattern noise (fpn) correction: A method for correcting column Fixed Pattern Noise (FPN) in an image sensor offers a compromise between speed and precision for calculating column FPN offsets. The present correction technique is digital, and is applied after the pixel signal voltages have been digitized by an ADC. A first Optical Black (OB)... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090278964 - Method and apparatus for capturing high quality long exposure images with a digital camera: A digital camera captures high quality long exposure images by capturing and summing several images of the same scene. The effective ISO of the camera is reduced by scaling the summed image, thus reducing image noise and improving long exposure quality.... Agent: Peter P. Hernandez Patent Legal Staff

20090278965 - High-speed photographing apparatus using plural cameras: Disclosed herein is a high-speed photographing apparatus comprising a first camera for acquiring an image of an object, a second camera for acquiring the same image as the image acquired by the first camera, reflection means for reflecting the image of the object so that the first camera and the... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20090278966 - Image sensor and imaging apparatus: An image sensor 212 captures an image formed through an optical system and includes a plurality of types of imaging pixels 310, 311 and 312 with spectral sensitivity characteristics different from one another, two-dimensionally disposed in a predetermined array. The image sensor includes a plurality of focus detection pixel rows... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278967 - Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus: A solid-state image pickup device includes a semiconductor substrate having a light-incident surface, a plurality of pixels arranged on the light-incident surface, a photodiode arranged in each of the pixels, an insulating film arranged on the semiconductor substrate and configured to cover the photodiodes, wirings embedded in the insulating film,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090278968 - Solid state imaging apparatus, solid state imaging device driving method and camera: A solid state imaging apparatus includes a solid state imaging device and a control circuit for performing control such that a first clock signal applied to transfer signal charges for a time period from after a preceding signal charge has been read out from a light sensing unit to when... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090278969 - Solid-state image pickup device and camera system: A solid-state image pickup device and a camera system in which: (1) counters are organized into a counter group and a memory group on a column-by-column basis; (2) in each column, the individual counters are cascade-connected between individual bits; (3) switches are provided at bit output portions of the individual... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090278970 - Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor, and image processing apparatus and reduction method: An image sensing apparatus has an image sensor including two-dimensionally arranged photoelectric conversion elements, a VCCD for transferring in a vertical direction electric charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements, and a HCCD for transferring in a horizontal direction the electric charge transferred from the VCCD, the image sensor for... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090278972 - Solid-state image sensing device: When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va is clamped to a clamp level Vref over... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090278971 - System and method for draining residual charge from charge-coupled device (ccd) shift registers in image sensors having reset drains: One or more charge storage regions in a charge-coupled device (CCD) shift register can contain residual charge that did not transfer to a reset drain during a reset operation. An image sensor drains the residual charge from each charge storage region by shifting the residual charge to an adjacent charge... Agent: Pedro P. Hernandez Patent Legal Staff

20090278973 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes: a display at which a photographic image and a map image are displayed; a display control unit that controls the display so as to display identifiers each indicating a specific photographing location at which the photographic image among a plurality of photographic images was captured, over... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278974 - Hand-held imaging apparatus and storage medium storing program: A hand-held imaging apparatus 10 comprises a lower housing 11, an upper housing 21, an outer camera 25, a lower LCD 12, a touch panel 13, and change means. The upper housing 21 is foldably connected to the lower housing 11. The outer camera 25 is provided in an outer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090278976 - Drive control unit, drive control method and program thereof: A drive control unit of the present invention includes: a first external force detecting section for detecting that an external force is applied to a first moving object body movable back and forth in a single direction; and a second initialization processing section which when it is detected that the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090278975 - Method of correcting perspective deformation of a lens system: The present invention relates to a method for the correction of perspective deformation in a lens system (1) in which image data, which describe an image projected through the lens system, are corrected with correction values and the image data corrected in this way are output for the display of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090278978 - Camera module comprising three members: A camera module includes an actuator body movably supporting a lens assembly along the direction of an optical axis of a lens, a sensor board on which an image pickup device is mounted, a base member disposed between the actuator body and the sensor board. The base member consists of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090278977 - Method and apparatus providing pre-distorted solid state image sensors for lens distortion compensation: Pixels in an imaging array are configured and arranged to compensate for various geometric distortions caused by a lens with which the array is used.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090278979 - Method, apparatus, system and software product for using flash window to hide a light-emitting diode: A method, apparatus, and software are devised for providing an enable signal indicative that an illuminating element of an apparatus will be illuminated. In response to that enable signal, a light transmission property of an electrically switchable material is increased, the electrically switchable material being located at an exterior of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090278980 - Image capture apparatus: An image capture apparatus connects to a first battery unit and a second battery unit. The image capture apparatus includes a counting unit and a calculation unit. The counting unit counts the number of shots (PN). The calculation unit divides the number of shots (PN) to PN1 and PN2 based... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090278981 - Method and apparatus for robust super-resolution video scaling: A method and apparatus for scaling video images, which applies more particularly to techniques for converting video sequence formats and deinterlacing. The invention comprises a parameterized interpolation (101) which computes interpolations at each new point of the output. An insensitive interval estimation (102) computes an interval where the probability distribution... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090278982 - Color image display device and color conversion device: A color image display device is provided to reproduce colors determined by an input video signal in a color space of the display device while keeping a wide color reproducing region of the display device with natural hues. On the assumption that a color space is hypothetically considered so that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090278983 - Digital video signal transmitter and receiver and including system: A digital video signal transmitter is provided that comprises a digital video supplier, a synchronization signal generator, and a signal generator. The digital video supplier supplies a digital video signal including effective pixel signals comprised of pixel data from an effective pixels area and blanking signals comprised of data from... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090278984 - Communication system, transmission apparatus, receiving apparatus, communication method, and program: An HDMI(R) source 53 determines whether or not an HDMI(R) sink 61 can receive a sub-signal on the basis of VSDB of E-EDID. When the HDMI(R) sink 61 can receive the sub-signal, the HDMI(R) source 53 adds a sub-signal to pixel data of a main image composed of pixel data... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090278985 - Video control system, display system control device and video controlling method: The present invention generally relates to a video control system, more particularly to a video control system, a display system control device and a video controlling method thereof. The video control system comprises a display system control device for processing all signals in the system and a display device assembly,... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090278986 - Closed caption production device, closed caption production method and closed caption production program: In a closed caption production device, video recognition processing of an input video signal is performed by a video recognizer. This causes a working object in video to be recognized. In addition, a sound recognizer performs sound recognition processing of an input sound signal. This causes a position of a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090278987 - User interface for consumer electronic product: Example systems and methods of a television user interface include a channel list vertically disposed on a television screen, an input device for receiving inputs for selecting a channel on the channel list, and an information bar horizontally disposed on the television screen in correspondence with a selected channel, wherein... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090278988 - Adaptive pixel-based filtering: In an implementation, a pixel is selected from a target digital image. Multiple candidate pixels, from one or more digital images, are evaluated based on values of the multiple candidate pixels. For the selected pixel, a corresponding set of pixels is determined from the multiple candidate pixels based on the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090278989 - Sharpness enhancing apparatus and method: A sharpness enhancing apparatus include: an edge analyzing unit configured to receive image data separated into brightness signals and color signals, and analyze an edge state by using brightness signals and color signals of cells contained in a specific area; and a sharpness correcting unit configured to calculate a sharpness... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090278990 - Error detection method and circuit, and error reduction method and circuit: An error reduction apparatus includes a combing absence detector to detect absence of combing from a luminance signal, a combing presence detector to detect presence of combing from a color-difference signal, a vertical low-pass filter to receive the color-difference signal, and a selector to select one of the color-difference signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090278991 - Method for interpolating a previous and subsequent image of an input image sequence: A method for interpolating a previous and subsequent image of an input image sequence, including: determining fidelity information for at least one motion vector that is descriptive for motion between a previous and subsequent image, wherein the fidelity information is descriptive for the level and accuracy of the motion, determining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090278992 - System and method for selecting a signal input: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for selecting a signal input. More specifically, there is provided a receiver comprising an Ethernet input, a video input, and a selection device coupled to the Ethernet input and the video input and configured to select either the Ethernet input or... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090278993 - Wireless transmission system for wirelessly connecting signal source apparatus and signal sink apparatus: In an adapter apparatus, a wireless communication circuit wirelessly transmits an audio-visual signal to an adapter apparatus, and receives an HPD pulse signal from the adapter apparatus. A controller controls a DVD player to execute a predetermined initialization processing, by converting the HPD pulse signal into an HPD signal and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090278994 - Method and system for an integrated multi-standard audio/video receiver: Aspects of a method and system for an integrated multi-standard audio and/or video receiver are provided. In this regard, a single audio/video receiver chip may be enabled to receive and process signals adhering to plurality of terrestrial digital audio and/or video standards, and the chip may be configurable based on... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090278995 - Method and apparatus for an audio signal processing: An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which the audio signal can be efficiently processed. The present invention includes obtaining start position information of a sub-frame from a header of the main frame and processing an audio signal based on the start position information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090278996 - Method and system for selecting a broadcast-signal in a multi-user environment: There is disclosed a system comprising, a source-tuner having a receiver for receiving external broadcast-signals, and a transmitter for broadcasting internal broadcast-signals to a network that communicatively links the source-tuner to a number of tuners. The source-tuner is adapted to receive control-signals from the tuners and to select external broadcast-signals... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20090278997 - Image display device, image display method, and image display program: An image display device includes: a storing section configured to store associating information that associates information indicating one or more providing sources of image data with each of one or more display areas set within a display screen; an obtaining section configured to obtain image data from a providing source... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090278998 - Quantum photonic imagers and methods of fabrication thereof: Emissive quantum photonic imagers comprised of a spatial array of digitally addressable multicolor pixels. Each pixel is a vertical stack of multiple semiconductor laser diodes, each of which can generate laser light of a different color. Within each multicolor pixel, the light generated from the stack of diodes is emitted... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090279000 - Distortion correction for projector: An image processing device for a projector including an image formation section that emits light of an image, and a projection system that projects the emitted light onto a projection surface. The image processing device has a distortion correction technique for images displayed on the projection surface. The image processing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090279001 - Multi-projection display: A multi projection display includes a plurality of projector units to modulate light from an LED light source according to image information to project, a unit image information generating unit to generate unit image information to be inputted to each of the plurality of projector units, and a unit image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278999 - Video projector: A video projector includes a display device which receives an image signal and generates image light projected onto a projection surface. A scaling processor scales the input image signal. An OSD processor generates and corrects an adjustment pattern image in accordance with a correction instruction on the projection surface. An... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090279002 - Flat panel display: A flat panel display capable of being repaired more easily is disclosed. The flat panel display comprises a main display body having a display panel and a backplate; a connection box having connectors; wherein the main display body is provided with a cavity for disposing the connection box and conversion... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20090273660 - Electronic frame for a flat-screen television: A television frame for a flat-screen television has a length dimension, a width dimension and a frame depth such that the frame fitted onto the flat-screen television frames the screen of the television in a symmetric fashion, and a control module with a wireless transceiver affixed to the frame for... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090273659 - Mobile terminal and method for controlling video call thereof: A mobile terminal including an input unit configured to receive an instruction from a first user to perform a video call communication with at least a second user, a display unit, a voice recognition module configured to recognize input voice statements conducted during the video call communication between the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090273661 - Method of lighting: In one embodiment, a method of lighting is disclosed which includes apportioning a video display screen into a content portion and at least one light portion. The content portion displays video content and the light portion provides auxiliary lighting when energized to illuminate a subject adjacent the video display screen.... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20090273663 - Image file processing apparatus, image file reproduction apparatus and image file working/editing apparatus: The present invention is provided with: a stereo image data generation unit for generating stereo image data indicating multiple monocular images obtained with a predetermined parallax between the images for a same subject; a metadata generation unit for generating metadata about the stereo image data; an image characteristic information generation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090273662 - Systems and methods for calibrating a hogel 3d display: Methods and systems for calibrating a hogel display are disclosed including generating calibration hogel data corresponding to a calibration pattern; generating a hogel light field from the calibration hogel data; detecting the hogel light field; and determining calibration data by analyzing a set of hogel properties in response to detecting... Agent: Giorgos A. Georgakis Chowdhury & Georgakis, PC

20090273664 - Apparatus and method for scanning an object: A scanner has a plurality of cameras positioned around an object to be scanned. The object is illuminated by unstructured light and the object is covered by a textured surface. The cameras can be arranged as pairs and each camera pair is supported on a single support. The scanned object... Agent: Acushnet Company

20090273665 - Viewing system for the manipulation of an object: Viewing device used in the field of stereoscopy to allow a user to manipulate in his close environment a real or virtual object situated a greater or lesser distance from the user. The user can then view the manipulation spaces as well as the real and virtual spaces in the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090273666 - Imaging optical system and endoscope provided with imaging optical system: An imaging optical system includes a spherical or nearly spherical viewing port, an objective lens that includes an aspheric surface and is formed as a single lens element, and a solid-state image sensor that receives an image formed by the imaging optical system. Specified conditions are satisfied by the imaging... Agent: Arnold International

20090273667 - Electronic camera: An electronic camera includes an image pickup device that takes a subject image, a face detecting section, an inferential section, and an image processing section. The face detecting section not only detects a face area in a shooting image plane based on the output of the image pickup device but... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090273668 - Method for setting parameters of a vision detector using production line information: Disclosed are systems and methods for setting various operating parameters of a vision detector from production line information that can be supplied by a manufacturing technician who is not skilled in the art of the invention. These operating parameters include shutter time, video gain, idle time, frame count, and locator... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090273669 - Method and system for detecting critical defects: A system and method for evaluating a criticality of a defect. The method may include: obtaining information indicative of at least one spatial relationship between at least one inspected pattern of a layer of a micro-electronic device and an inspected defect; and determining a criticality of the detected defect in... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090273670 - Door cam security: A remote viewing system is disclosed for providing video surveillance of an entry or doorway of a building. A video camera is positioned to obtain video images of the entryway or doorway and to transmit them to a remote viewing station. Video data can be transmitted from the driver to... Agent: Ruth Eure

20090273671 - Method and apparatus for encapsulating digital aerial surveillance video on analog video signal: An aerial surveillance apparatus for processing an analog video signal is described. The aerial surveillance apparatus includes a first input configured to receive an analog video signal from a video camera, a processor coupled with the analog video signal and configured to filter and digitize the analog video signal to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc. (client #017018)

20090273674 - Method of producing a total image of the environment surrounding a motor vehicle: A method of producing a total image of the surrounding environment of a motor vehicle uses an image sensor device connected with the motor vehicle, which supplies image data in a first acquisition range of the vehicle environment. At least a first image part of the total image is based... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090273673 - Personal vehicle surveillance system: The present invention relates to a personal vehicle surveillance system comprising cameras and microphones positioned such that they can record the type of events that happen to individuals rather than governmental vehicles. In addition, it provides for secure recording of events such that they are tamper resistant and can then... Agent: Passe' Intellectual Property, LLC

20090273672 - Vehicle recording system and method: A vehicle recording system for providing vehicle data, including video data, of conditions surrounding road and parking events. In response to a triggering event, the system stores the vehicle data from a previous time interval and a subsequent time interval in a memory device. In some embodiments, the system may... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090273675 - Ir camera and method for use with ir camera: v

20090273678 - Method and apparatus for generation of a video quality parameter: This invention provides a parameter for use in assessing video quality based on temporal frame freezing for use in an apparatus and method for perceptual video quality measurement. The invention provides a method of generating a freeze frame parameter relating to the perceptual impact of frozen frames in a video... Agent: Burr & Brown

20090273677 - Method and apparatus for image signal normalisation: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for normalisation of an image signal, particularly for use in perceptual video and still image quality measurement when the quality measurement is achieved by making a comparison between a reference signal and a decoded signal. The invention provides a method for... Agent: Burr & Brown

20090273676 - Method and apparatus for measuring blockiness in video images: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing images, in particular for determining the degree of blockiness in coded images. The invention comprises apparatus and methods for determining a degree of blockiness in a digital image comprising blocks each block comprising a plurality of rows and a... Agent: Burr & Brown

20090273679 - Apparatus and method for calibrating image capture devices: An apparatus and method are disclosed for calibrating image capture devices, such as the type used in electronic devices. In some embodiments, the electronic device may include at least one array of pixels and a memory coupled to the at least one array of pixels. The electronic device may further... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP On Behalf Of Apple, Inc.

20090273680 - Automatic focus system calibration for image capture systems: Imaging systems and methods for calibrating imaging systems are provided. The imaging system has a body, a scene image capture system that captures images using a taking lens system that can be set to a plurality of different focus distances, and a rangefinder that is capable of determining a distance... Agent: Raymond L. Owens Patent Legal Staff

20090273681 - Automatic focus system calibration for image capture systems: Imaging systems and methods for calibrating imaging systems are provided. The imaging system has a body, a scene image capture system that captures images using a taking lens system that can be set to a plurality of different focus distances, and a rangefinder that is capable of determining a distance... Agent: Raymond L. Owens Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20090273682 - Systems and methods for a recorder user interface: An incident recorder records original and supplemental incident information using a simplified user interface.... Agent: Taser International, Inc.

20090273683 - Image processing device having blur correction function: Disclosed is an imaging device connected to an external display device. The imaging device includes a decoder that, based on an instruction to reproduce coded moving image data recorded in any one of a internal recorder, a memory card M and an external recording device, decodes the data and sequentially... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090273684 - Image shooting apparatus and control method and program thereof: An apparatus which concurrently shoots a movie and a still image, comprises an image sensing unit which generates movie data and still image data; a storage unit which stores the generated still image data in a temporary memory area at predetermined time intervals; a detection unit which detects at least... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090273685 - Foreground/background segmentation in digital images: An implementation efficient method of distinguishing between foreground and background regions of a digital image of a scene includes capturing two images of nominally the same scene and storing the captured images in DCT-coded format. The first image is taken with the foreground more in focus than the background and... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090273687 - Image processing apparatus: There is provided an image processing apparatus for performing a stable attention condition determination, regardless of the shape and surrounding environment of an object of interest and regardless that the object is unknown or known. The image processing apparatus comprises a direction detector, a displacement detector, and an attention condition... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090273689 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: It is determined whether or not there is inconsistency between image sensing mode data, which is set by an operator with respect to a scene including an object of shooting, and attribute data, e.g., focal length data or the like, that accompanies an obtained image. When it is determined that... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090273688 - Image recording and playback device, and image recording and playback method: An image processing device of the present invention comprises a storage section for storing first image data obtained by imaging in front of the imaging device body or using a telephoto lens, and second image data obtained by imaging behind the imaging device body or using a wide-angle lens; a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090273686 - Methods, computer program products and apparatus providing improved image capturing: The exemplary embodiments of the invention allow for parallel operations within a digital image capturing system. For example, raw image data can be processed while a subsequent image is being captured. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: executing at least one foreground operation within a digital... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090273690 - Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium storing control program therefor: An image processing apparatus capable of suppressing color fringing in a color image further effectively by image processing. A determination unit determines a region in which signal levels for a color plane in a color image produced by photoelectric conversion of an optical image of a subject exhibit a monotonic... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090273691 - Method and apparatus providing analog row noise correction and hot pixel filtering: An imaging device and method for operating the device. The imaging device comprises a pixel array that comprises a plurality of imaging pixels and dark reference pixels arranged in columns and rows. The dark reference pixels produce a noise signal that is subtracted from a pixel signal produced by the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090273692 - Reference data encoding in image sensors: Data is encoded on an image sensor that has a plurality of pixels including one or more bio-sensing pixels and one or more data encoding pixels. The method includes applying a covering material selectively to the data encoding pixels depending on the data to be encoded, the covering material having... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090273693 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: Provided is a solid-state imaging apparatus which is capable of radiating heat generated in the solid-state imaging element by shifting a position of the solid-state imaging element. Also, a mechanism which suppresses an image blur caused by the shaking of a user's hand is provided therein. The solid-state imaging apparatus... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090273694 - Image sensors and methods with column readout circuits: An image sensor includes a pixel array, a plurality of column readout lines, and a plurality of column readout circuits. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each of the plurality of column readout lines is connected to... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090273695 - Solid-state image pickup apparatus, drive method for the solid-state image pickup apparatus, and image pickup apparatus: In a solid-state image pickup apparatus having a pixel array unit composed by two-dimensionally arranging pixels for detecting a physical quantity in a row-column manner, pixel signals of a plurality of systems having different sensitivities are read from the pixel array unit in an analog manner, the pixel signals of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090273696 - Image sensors and methods with antiblooming channels and two side driving of control signals: An image sensor of various embodiments includes a pixel array. The pixel array includes a pixel having a photodiode and a transfer gate. The pixel array in various embodiments further includes an antiblooming channel extending from the photodiode to either (i) a pixel output area, or (ii) a drain of... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090273697 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and driving method of solid-state imaging apparatus: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes an A/D conversion circuit in each column, wherein a connecting unit is provided for connecting a register circuit in a certain column to a register circuit in another column, and an operation is performed for holding, in register circuits through the connecting unit, digital signals... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090273698 - Image-sensing chip package module for reducing its whole thickness: An image-sensing chip package module for reducing its whole thickness can fix an image-sensing unit under a substrate unit via an adhesive body disposed between the substrate unit and the image-sensing unit, so that the image-sensing unit can be firmly fixed under a bottom area (the bottom area is a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090273699 - Image processing method, electronic device thereof, and recording medium thereof: An image processing method, an electronic device thereof, and a recording medium thereof are provided, which are applicable for processing an image captured by an electronic device. In this method, a default direction is defined first, and a current usage direction of the electronic device is obtained then. If the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090273700 - Lens assembly, lens moving device and assembling method: A lens assembly in a digital still camera has a lens housing. First and second movable lenses/lens groups are contained in the lens housing, and supported in respectively first and second lens holders. A guide rod guides movement of the first and second lenses/lens groups in an optical axis direction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090273701 - Lens assembly, lens moving device and assembling method: A lens assembly in a digital still camera has a lens housing. First and second movable lenses/lens groups are contained in the lens housing, and supported in respectively first and second lens holders. A guide rod guides movement of the first and second lenses/lens groups in an optical axis direction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090273702 - Image pickup apparatus, control method for the same, and program for implementing the control method: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of optimizing the responsiveness of linear changes in focus to operations of a ring member without sacrificing the operability of the ring member, while using a small-sized, low-cost ring member for manual operations. The rotating operation state of a focus ring 600 is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090273703 - Auto-focusing device: It is intended to provide an auto-focusing device capable of attaining focus on a subject in a short time even in the case where the lens is defocused to a large extent during zooming. There are provided a camera lens having a zoom lens and a focus lens; an image... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090273704 - Method and apparatus for motion detection in auto-focus applications: A method (300) and image capture device (100) are provided for determining whether an image incident upon an image sensor (101) is sufficiently stable prior to executing an auto-focus process. An image stability mechanism (104) compares attribute data—such as luminance or frequency spectrum—from successive images to determine whether a change... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090273705 - Television broadcast display apparatus: In a television broadcast display apparatus, a mobile device is configured so that images can be displayed on a second screen when audio signals are outputted from the mobile device. A control unit switches between television output status and mobile device output status according to a user operation inputted to... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090273706 - Multi-level representation of reordered transform coefficients: Techniques and tools for encoding and decoding a block of frequency coefficients are presented. An encoder selects a scan order from multiple available scan orders and then applies the selected scan order to a two-dimensional matrix of transform coefficients, grouping non-zero values of the frequency coefficients together in a one-dimensional... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090273708 - Displaying data on lower resolution displays: Data intended to be displayed on a higher resolution display such as a non-interlaced display used as a computer monitor may be converted for display on a lower resolution display such as an interlaced display. The conversion may be done in a way that preserves the intended frame format while... Agent: Timothy N. Trop Trop, Pruner, Hu & Miles, P.C.

20090273707 - Frame rate conversion apparatus, frame rate conversion method, and computer-readable storage medium: A frame rate conversion apparatus for performing frame rate conversion upon distributing an input-frame into a plurality of sub-frames detects the degree of motion of each region including one pixel or a plurality of pixels in the input-frame, determines the amount of distribution of an output value in each region... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090273709 - Method for converting an image and image conversion unit: A method for converting an image and an image conversion unit are provided, the method comprising: determining a target pixel of pixels of the image; calculating a first value based on pixel values of a first set of pixels, wherein the first set of pixels do not include pixels in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090273710 - Image processing methods and systems for frame rate conversion: An image processing method for frame rate conversion, comprising: receiving a stream of input pictures at an input frame rate, at least some of the input pictures being new pictures, the new pictures appearing within the stream of input pictures at an underlying new picture rate; generating interpolated pictures from... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090273711 - Method and apparatus for caption production: A method for determining a location of a caption in a video signal associated with a Region Of Interest (ROI), such as a face or text, or an area of high motion activity. The video signal is processed to generate ROI location information, the ROI location information conveying the position... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090273712 - System and method for real-time synchronization of a video resource and different audio resources: An audio-visual system and method employs a dual-control interface for directly controlling the video speed of an underlying video resource for video output, and for switching among any of a plurality of audio resources at different points in time independently of the video output. The video speed control allows a... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Patent Attorney

20090273713 - Device and/or method for warning alert reception during power outage: An electrically powered device (10) is provided that is equipped to receive television transmissions. Suitably, the device (10) is operative in one of two states, including a first state in which the device (10) is powered up for normal operation and a second state in which the device (10) is... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090273714 - Digitized analog tv signal processing system: A digitized analog television signal processing system is disclosed, comprising an analog-to-digital converter, a demodulation unit, a decoding unit, and a control unit. The analog-to-digital converter samples a television signal comprising a video signal. The demodulation unit demodulates the video signal. The decoding unit decodes the demodulated video signal. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090273715 - Method and apparatus for displaying an image with a production switcher: A video production switcher comprises a number of mix effects (M/E) units and a controller. The latter comprises a control layer that controls the M/Es to provide video outputs through projection devices that give the appearance of displaying one unified pixel space canvas.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090273716 - Method to reduce contour artifacts on recursive temporal filters: A method and encoding system for reducing artifacts in a digital video sequence of image frames. The method acquires a current frame of the digital video sequence, and retrieves a previous frame of the digital video sequence from a frame delay. The method applies a recursive temporal filter to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090273717 - Noise reduction processing apparatus, noise reduction processing method, and image sensing apparatus: An image signal subjected to three-dimensional noise reduction processing in a three-dimensional noise reduction processing portion is reduced by an electronic zoom portion, and is stored as a low-resolution image in a frame memory. The image signal stored in the frame memory is enlarged by an electronic zoom portion, and... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090273718 - Remote control system for remotely controlling an electronic card connected to a television screen or monitor and associated method for transmitting control signals: A remote control system is provided for remotely controlling, by the hand of a user, an electronic card connected to a screen (monitor or television). This remote control system includes at least: a keypad, an onboard processor and a system for transmitting signals intended for the electronic card. A method... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090273719 - Image projection apparatus and projection optical system: An image projection apparatus includes an image processing device, an illuminating device, a light valve, and a projection optical system; wherein the projection optical system is formed in such a way that at least one of a first deviation corresponding to an amount of the magnification chromatic aberration of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090273720 - Display apparatus, and methods for inspecting and manufacturing the same, and methods for inspecting and manufacturing display panel: The present invention provides a display apparatus including a display panel that displays individual images to a plurality of viewing directions on a same screen; and a display control portion that causes a first inspection image to a single viewing direction and a second inspection image to another viewing direction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090273721 - Multi-view display using light pipes: A system and method for generating multiple images on a video display device is described. The method comprises associating a panel of light pipes with a video display device. The video display device is configured to display an interlaced plurality of individual video signals. The plurality of video signals are... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090273722 - Double hinge monitor mount: A monitor mounting assembly (1) has a first hinge (2) arranged in a recess (3) of a housing (4). A monitor (6) is arranged flush with the housing (4) inside the recess (3) in a first position. The monitor (6) can be arranged in a second position by rotating the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090262180 - Apparatus for generating panoramic images and method thereof: A panoramic image generating apparatus, including a plurality of sub processors; and a main processor to divide data of an image to be processed to form a panoramic image into a plurality of areas, assign the divided data to a plurality of sub processors, and process the data in parallel.... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090262181 - Real-time video signal interweaving for autostereoscopic display: A method, apparatus and system for simultaneously capturing a plurality of video signals that carry images of a changing real three-dimensional scene, taken from respective different directions, and for combining them, in real time, into an interwoven video signal, ready to be fed to an active-matrix-based autostereoscopic display device.... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090262183 - Three-dimensional image obtaining device and processing apparatus using the same: An optical flux is radiated, which is focused at a measurement point in a specimen space, and a transmitted light amount is measured. A minute light absorption amount is measured from a transmitted light signal and a reference signal. While three-dimensionally scanning, a three-dimensional map in which light absorption amounts... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090262182 - Three-dimensional imaging apparatus: A three-dimensional imaging apparatus for imaging a three-dimensional object may include a microlens array, a sensor device, and a telecentric relay system positioned between the microlens array and the sensor device. A telecentric relay system may include a field lens and a macro objective that may include a macro lens... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090262184 - Method and apparatus for displaying and editing 3d imagery: Systems and methods are provided for viewing and displaying 3D imagery. In one implementation, a method of displaying 3D imagery comprises receiving layout data comprising data representing a first camera, the first camera being non-editable; generating a first pair of a left camera and a right camera from the layout... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090262185 - Display apparatus and display method: The present invention relates to a display apparatus and a display method that enable multiple users to view high resolution moving images from various viewing points of the users. A light-control screen 25 is rotated, and projectors 211 to 21N irradiate the screen 25 from various directions with light rays... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090262186 - Endoscope control unit and endoscope unit: An endoscope control unit including an imaging device controller and a first signal-processing circuit, is provided. The endoscope control unit orders a CMOS imaging device to capture an image and to carry out signal processing for supplying an image signal to a monitor. The CMOS imaging device generates the image... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090262187 - Input device: The input device of the present invention includes a camera for taking an image of an operator, an image recognition unit for recognizing a partial portion of body of the operator as the image taken by the camera, a display-area calculation unit for calculating a display area in such a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090262188 - Image processing device for vehicle, image processing method of detecting three-dimensional object, and image processing program: An image processing device determines, cuts and extracts a processing area from an image data monitored by a camera mounted onto a driver's vehicle based on a distance between a front target object and a driver's vehicle, a horizontal position of the driver's vehicle, and a strength of a radar... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262189 - Energy savings and improved security through intelligent lighting systems: An intelligent lighting system employs energy efficient outdoor lighting and intelligent sensor technology in cooperation with video analytics processing. The lighting system selectively illuminates outdoor spaces and identifies and evaluates events in a scene monitored by a video camera, thereby to facilitate proactive and appropriate security responses to those events.... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20090262190 - Interactive display recognition devices and related methods and systems for implementation thereof: An interactive display recognition tool uses imaging devices to determine the location of a display and position an icon on the display via a computer. The tool comprises various input devices, which can be used to control the icon and interact with a computer driven multimedia platform.... Agent: Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20090262191 - Computerized information collection and training method and apparatus: A method of improving car steering performance is disclosed. The method comprises modifying the size of the flow path for supply of hydraulic fluid from a pump to a steering unit so that the flow path is of a size greater than the size prior to modification. The modification can... Agent: Hoffman Wasson & Gitler, P.c Crystal Center 2, Suite 522

20090262192 - Vehicular vision system: A vehicular vision system includes at least a first image capture sensor and a second image capture sensor disposed at a vehicle and spatially separated and having respective fields of view with respect to the direction of travel of the equipped vehicle. A control receives a first image input from... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090262194 - Interactive media and game system for simulating participation in a live or recorded event: An interactive media and game system creates a live event simulation that enables users to participate in a live event through a virtual participant controlled by the user. A game server receives user input controlling a position of a virtual participant in said live event, determines a position and orientation... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090262193 - Method and apparatus of camera control: The present invention relates to an automated camera control system (10). The automated camera control system (10) is a control management system for television broadcasting at a track based event, such as horse or motor racing. The automated camera control system (10) allows a single operator (54) to simultaneously control... Agent: Defillo & Associates, Inc.

20090262195 - Monitoring system, monitoring method and camera terminal: The monitoring system that monitors the area subject to monitoring with plural camera terminals (101, 101a), includes a camera (106) having a shooting area adjustment function, a camera controlling unit (107) that controls adjustment of the shooting area of the camera (106), a communication IF (103) that communicates with an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262196 - System and method for correlating camera views: A method for correlating views of two or more video camera systems includes obtaining a plurality of data point coordinate sets to represent relative positioning between the camera systems and data point objects in the environment. The views may be correlated through Interpolation or extrapolation using the obtained data point... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090262197 - Moving object image tracking apparatus and method: An apparatus includes a computation unit computing a moving velocity of a moving object (MO) by differentiation on a first angle of a first-rotation unit and a second angle of a second-rotation unit, a setting unit setting a first-angular velocity of the first-rotation unit and a second-angular velocity of the... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090262198 - Video quality estimation apparatus, method, and program: In estimating subjective video quality corresponding to main parameters (121/221) which are input as an input coding bit rate (121B/221B) representing the number of coding bit rates per unit time and an input frame rate (121A/221A) representing the number of frames per unit time of an audiovisual medium, an estimation... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090262201 - Image transmission apparatus and image reception apparatus: An image transmission apparatus includes: a deletion unit that deletes an image file recorded in a storage medium; an identifying unit that identifies an image file booked for transmission by an external image reception apparatus; a prohibiting unit that prohibits the deletion unit from deleting the image file recorded in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090262202 - Modular time lapse camera system: A modular system for the capture of images and associated methods are provided. The system comprises a plurality of lens modules, each comprising a lens, an image sensor, and a communication interface, and a controller unit comprising a housing, a battery, a memory, at least one communication interface, and a... Agent: Igoe Intellectual Property, LLC

20090262200 - Notebook information processor and image reading method: A notebook information processor includes an image photographing unit, a display, a keyboard, a storage unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes, a live view displaying unit that displays a live view obtained by photographing at least a portion of the keyboard within a photographing area of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090262199 - Notebook information processor and projective transformation parameter calculating method: A notebook information processor includes a lid including an image photographing unit and a display, and a main body, wherein the control unit includes a live view displaying unit that displays a live view obtained by photographing at least a portion of the main body within a photographing area of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090262204 - Notebook computer: The present invention relates to a notebook computer for capturing an image of a card. The notebook computer includes a base and an upper cover. The base includes a keyboard and a fixing recess for fixing the card. The upper cover is pivotally coupled to the base and includes an... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090262203 - Communication system, information processing apparatus, image pickup device, control method therefor, and storage medium: A communication system includes an image pickup device and an information processing apparatus. The image pickup device is connectable to a printer, and the information processing apparatus is connectable to a server device. The image pickup device includes an acquiring unit that acquires printer information indicating information on the printer... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090262205 - Voice activated headset imaging system: A voice activated headset imaging system and elements thereof enable hands-free imaging. Hands-free imaging in some embodiments of the invention comprises receiving by a headset assembly a voice command and executing by the headset assembly an imaging control instruction generated in response to the voice command. Execution of the imaging... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090262206 - Systems and methods for providing immersive displays of video camera information from a plurality of cameras: A system for providing stitched video from a first camera and a second camera to an electronic display system includes a processing circuit configured to associate a view a first camera with an approximate location. The processing circuit is further configured to build relationship data between the first camera and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090262207 - Camera system: To improve user-friendliness when checking the depth of field, in a camera system having an aperture value alteration function. A camera system (100) has an imaging optical system (L), an imaging unit (45), an aperture adjustment unit (29), a liquid crystal display monitor (16), and an AGC unit (59) of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090262211 - Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling image pickup apparatus: The image pickup apparatus includes an optical viewfinder, a rear touch panel display, a registering part which registers whether an eye of a user viewing an object image through the optical viewfinder is a right eye or a left eye, a setting part which sets a non-enterable area where touch... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090262212 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus includes a reader, a plurality of matrix modules, a selector, and a controller. The reader is configured for reading data of each pixel of a binarized image. The plurality of matrix modules is configured for performing filtering operations to the data based on a control signal,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262213 - Imaging device and subject detection method: An imaging device includes a first detection part which detects one or more subjects in an image captured by the image capturing part capturing an image continuously; a second detection part which follows the one or more subjects detected; and a system control part which includes a setting part setting... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090262208 - Method and apparatus for optimizing memory usage in image processing: A method and digital camera avoiding the use of delay lines for block processing within the camera, such as compressing images, demosaicing, or the like. Processing is done for a block comprising a single newly received line, together with previously acquired information. In one preferred embodiment, the block processing is... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20090262209 - Notebook computer and method of capturing document image using image pickup device of such notebook computer: The present invention relates to a notebook computer. The notebook computer includes a base and an upper cover. The base has a keyboard. The upper cover includes a screen, an image pickup device and a close-up lens. The upper cover is rotatable with respect to the base such that the... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090262210 - Solid-state imaging apparatus, imaging system, and method of driving solid-state imaging apparatus: If a horizontal skipping operation is performed and operations are performed on the basis of the signals severally held in a plurality of register circuits in a solid-state imaging apparatus including an AD converting circuit in each column to perform the arithmetic processing of a digitized signal, then the AD... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090262214 - Automatic lighting control apparatus: An automatic lighting control apparatus is composed of an optical lens, an image sensor, an image processing unit which is connected to the image sensor, a lighting control unit which is connected to the image processing unit. By use the optical lens and image sensor, the automatic lighting control apparatus... Agent: Wen-hsiung Hsieh

20090262215 - Imaging device, imaging method, and photographing program: An imaging device comprises: an imaging element (1) capable of reading accumulated charges of different exposure times in a predetermined frame period, the imaging element being divided into groups for long-time exposure and short-time exposure; and a timing pulse generator (2) for adjusting read timings of the imaging element (1).... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090262216 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus is disclosed. An image capturing section captures an image of light and obtains image data. An image display section displays the image data obtained by the image capturing section with a predetermined number of pixels. A storage section stores the image data obtained by the image... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090262219 - Digital camera: There are provided a framing assisting means for displaying as a moving picture object data as well as a profile of an area that is synthesized with a foreground of selected background data on an LCD 26 in a first magnification, a recording means for storing the object data selected... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090262218 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to perform an image obtaining operation to obtain a plurality of frames of image data having continuity in time, a storage unit configured to temporarily store each of the plurality of frames of image data obtained by the image obtaining... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090262217 - Method and apparatus for an automated background lighting compensation system: A system and method for removing background lighting variations from an image. The method includes capturing at least one first image including a first background and a subject wherein the at least one first image includes at least one background lighting variation, creating a virtual background model of the first... Agent: Brown Rudnick LLP

20090262221 - Compact optical zoom: A zoom lens system includes a variator lens group, a compensator lens group and a third lens group. The compensator lens group is arranged to only partially compensate for movement of the variator group. In order to provide further compensation for the zoom lens, an image enhancer implement wavefront coding... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20090262220 - Digital photographing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and recording medium storing computer program for executing the method: Provided are a digital photographing apparatus having a zoom function, which may easily obtain still images having various viewing angles, a method of controlling the same, and a recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method. The digital photographing apparatus obtains data regarding a first still image at... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090262223 - Apparatus and method for improving image quality of image sensor: Provided are an apparatus and method for improving an image quality of an image sensor, capable of adaptively removing noise occurring in a de-mosaicking that is performed for generating three-channel data of R, G and B from a single channel pixel structure based on a bayer pattern. The apparatus includes... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090262222 - Image processing device, image processing program and image processing method: An image processing device for performing color conversion processing on a VS (video signal obtained from a color CCD) includes a region defining section, which estimates an amount of noise of the VS, according to an ISO-sensitivity and a white-balance-coefficient, and, based on the estimated amount of noise, defines an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090262224 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes an imaging sensor, a switching section, and a controlling section. The imaging sensor includes a light receiving surface to which light receiving elements capable of addressing reading are arranged, and having, on the light receiving surface, an imaging area capturing a subject image and an optical... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090262225 - Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer-readable medium: An image capturing apparatus includes: a light irradiation section that irradiates a subject with a plurality of irradiation light rays resulting from combining light rays having respectively different spectrum forms in respectively different combinations, at respectively different timings; and an image capturing section that captures a plurality of images of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090262226 - Image sensor package and camera module having same: An image sensor package includes a first substrate, an image sensor chip, a processing chip and a plurality of passive elements. The first substrate has a supporting surface and a bottom surface opposite to the supporting surface. The image sensor chip is disposed on the supporting surface and electrically connected... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262227 - Photodiode array and signal readout method for the same: An easy and inexpensive signal readout method is provided for a photodiode array consisting of n pieces of photodiodes whose signals are sequentially read out from the first through nth photodiodes. The method includes a canceling process that is performed one or more times before performing a complete readout operation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090262228 - Solid-state imaging device, method of producing the same, and camera: The prevent invention is to provide a solid-state imaging device having a electrode configuration applicable to a progressive scan, and able to reduce a obstruction of incident light at the periphery of a light receiving portion, a method of producing the same, a camera including the same. A first transfer... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090262229 - Image sensor for high-speed data readout: An image sensor for high-speed data readout is provided. The image sensor includes a line memory block temporarily storing a digital signal in unit of lines which is generated based on an analog signal output from a pixel array. The line memory block includes a plurality of line memories, a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090262230 - Image pickup apparatus and method for controlling ranging area: An image pickup apparatus includes a motion amount detecting unit that detects an amount of motion of an object on the basis of an image signal of the object, a type information storage unit that stores a plurality of type information items used for detecting the type of the object,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262231 - Distortion correcting method, distortion correcting device, program recording medium and electronic camera: In a preparation operation of a distortion correcting method, actual measured lens position information obtained by an optical system at a time of shooting an image, an error range in the lens position information, and a relational expression between a distortion pattern and the lens position information, are respectively obtained.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090262232 - Lens driving unit and image photographing module comprising the same: An image photographing module is provided that includes: a lens unit and has a guide hole guiding the movement of the lens unit; a module supporting unit disposed at the back of the lens unit along the optical axis, wherein a driving axis that is movably inserted into the guide... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090262233 - Image pickup apparatus: In an image pickup apparatus, a light receiving unit produces a first signal at a first timing and a second signal at a second timing later than the first timing. First and second parameters for detecting a scene change are acquired based on the first and second signals, respectively. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262234 - Image processing apparatus, image-capturing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a characteristic parameter indicating the characteristics of a filter process; a detection unit configured to detect, on the basis of the characteristic parameter input by the input unit, a phase shift amount between the image-captured signal and an obtained... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262235 - Imaging system, camera body and interchangeable lens: An imaging system includes an interchangeable lens and a camera body. The camera body includes a main body controller operable to transmit a reference signal for providing a reference of a driving start timing of the focus lens and delay time information indicating delay time with respect to the reference... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090262236 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus incorporating the same:

20090262237 - High deflection angle crt display: A display has a panel (3) connected to a funnel (5). An electron gun assembly (13) positioned in a neck (4) at a narrow end of the funnel is provided for directing electron beams toward a screen (12) on the panel. The display includes a yoke (14) to scan the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090262238 - Generation and delivery of stepped-frame content via mpeg transport streams: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing a video data streams having an input adapted for receiving and processing the video signal and rendering an output signal in a digital format, detecting a particular code within an individual frame of the processed signal that identifies the type of frame that... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090262239 - System and method for formatting and displaying video data: There is provided a system (200) and method (400) of displaying video content. In a method (400) in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a native aspect ratio of the video content is determined (404) and an optimized viewing format is selected (406) from a plurality of... Agent: Panasonic Automotive System Company Of America

20090262240 - System and method for providing graphics using graphical engine: Systems and methods that provide graphics using a graphical engine are provided. In one example, a system may provide layered graphics in a video environment. The system may include a bus, a graphical engine and a graphical pipeline. The graphical engine may be coupled to the bus and may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090262241 - Image signal generation unit, digital camera, and image signal generation method: An image signal generation unit comprises a horizontal pixel number conversion unit for performing the conversion of horizontal direction pixels corresponding to horizontal scanning period of NTSC system, for digital image data of the chrominance difference having the picture element number configuration based on the VGA standard, and a liquid... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090262242 - System and method for display device operation synchronization: A system and method for controlling an audio/video display device. The method includes receiving a data signal which is a portion of a content signal received by the audio/video display device and extracting encoded information from the data signal. The method further includes interpreting the encoded information to determine a... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090262243 - Image processing apparatus and method and a recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate image signals for displaying content on each of a plurality of screens; and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize a plurality of sound signals corresponding to the plurality of image signals to cause positions where sounds based on the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090262244 - Phase determination for resampling video: A method, and apparatus, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable media to carry out a method. The method is to sample analog video at a sample clock rate and at a phase selected from a set of phases based on a quality measure determined from the sampled video.... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090262245 - Contrast adjusting circuitry and video display apparatus using same: m

20090262246 - Method and apparatus for determining sound standard for input sound signal: A method for determining a sound standard for an input sound signal includes the following steps. Firstly, the input sound signal is filtered to obtain a first filtered signal corresponding to a first frequency and a second filtered signal corresponding to a second frequency. Next, the first filtered signal is... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090262247 - System and process for image rescaling with edge adaptive phase control in interpolation process: A video image processing system is described that generates the interpolated video images with sharp and jaggedness-free edges. A method of video image processing is also described that interpolates video images to generate the video images with sharp and jaggedness-free edges. The video image processing system receives and makes input... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090262248 - Control apparatus and method for image display: A detection unit which includes an image display panel, brightness averaging unit, scene changeover detection unit, and brightness suppression unit in order to provide an image display apparatus having an ABL that does not give the observer any visual sense of incompatibility without increasing the circuit scale determines the presence/absence... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090262249 - Interpolated frame generating method: An interpolated frame generating method is provided. The interpolated frame generating method comprises the steps of: providing a first frame and a second frame; calculating a first motion vector having a first x-component with a first x-length along the x-axis and a y-component with a first y-length along the y-axis;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090262250 - Digital broadcasting receiver: A television receiver includes a TS decoder, an editor, a receiving intensity detector, a determiner, and a service list storage. The TS decoder separates electronic program guide data, service list data, and so on from a transport stream. The receiving intensity detector detects the receiving intensity of a physical channel... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090262251 - Method for driving a display device,a display device, and a television receiver: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed for driving a display device by which display of a moving image with natural movement is achieved while occurrence of flicker is minimized or prevented. The method for driving a display device includes a display screen where pixels are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262252 - Method and system for fast channel change: Aspects of a method and system for fast channel change are provided. Initial pictures of a program may be decoded earlier and displayed longer than what indicated by corresponding clock references. Additional pictures of the program may be decoded and displayed at time indicated by the clock references. Within the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090262253 - Digital broadcast receiver: [Means for Solution] The digital broadcast receiver is designed for installation in an automobile for example, and identifies a current location using a GPS function. The receiver has a channel list per region containing physical channel information of broadcast stations which potentially exist in each region, and performs a channel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090262255 - Method and apparatus for remote control of audio visual systems: The invention provides a method for improving the functionality of the jump button associated with television, cable/satellite receiver, or any other multi-channel device controlling remote control. The apparatus provides a jump button with the ability to access a wide variety of channels in an intelligent manner. At present, the jump... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20090262254 - Systems, methods and apparatus for adjusting a low battery detection threshold of a remote control: Various embodiments of systems, methods and apparatus are provided for adjusting a low battery detection threshold in a remote control. An embodiment of a method includes determining a type of a battery powering a remote control of an entertainment device and determining a first low battery threshold for the battery... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.L.C. Legal Department

20090262256 - Video/sound output device and external speaker control device: A television set includes: an internal speaker which outputs sound; a memory which holds information; a remote controller receiver which receives an instruction from the outside of the television set; a microcomputer which causes, based on a mode specifying instruction for specifying a sound output mode received by the remote... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262257 - Background tv: An ambient, beautiful, entertaining visual experience that can be displayed on a TV requiring little or no user interaction beyond initiation. One theme is a mosaic of panes of; e.g., video from the last-watched channel, with the mosaic covering the screen. Another theme is a clock image with a single... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090262259 - Contrast adjusting circuitry and video display apparatus using same:

20090262258 - Display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus has a pixel array section including: pixel circuits which are each provided with a driving transistor and an electro-optical device and are laid out to form a matrix; and a draw wire provided in each of the pixel circuits to serve as a wire... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090262260 - Multiple-display systems and methods of generating multiple-display images: A display system includes a first and second display source configured to generate first and second images that overlap to form a multiple-display image. Each illuminated point within an overlap region includes a first image pixel contribution generated by the first display source and a second image pixel contribution generated... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20090262261 - Projection display: The present invention provides a projection display capable of realizing high contrast in a display image plane. The projection display includes a light source; a first light modulator modulating light from the light source on the basis of an input image signal, and generating a first image light; a second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090262262 - Projection type display apparatus: A projection type display apparatus is provided that is safe even when a person looks directly into a laser beam. A laser operation control unit sets the output power of at least one laser source so that intensity A (mW/mm2) of the laser beam on at least one spatial light... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262263 - Multi-standard vertical scan crt system: A transposed or vertical scan CRT that is compatible with multiple different input video signals so as to allow the same to operate according to different video signal transmission standards. A frame rate converter is positioned to receive incoming HDTV signals from any source. The incoming signals can be at... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090262264 - Display device providing optional independent display: A display device providing optional independent display includes a chassis and a display screen located on the chassis. The chassis has an image processing device to provide first image information to the display screen and an image receiving device. The image receiving device is connected to an image output device... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090262265 - Display that can be assembled in a force-saving manner and method for assembling the display: A display that can be assembled in a force-saving manner includes a display body and a base. The display body includes a housing, a display module disposed within the housing, and at least one engaging portion. The housing has a bottom wall. The first engaging portion is provided on the... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department