Television inventions

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

20090256901 - Pop-up pip for people not in picture: A system and method for alerting participants in a videoconference that one or more participants are improperly framed by the videoconference camera is provided. An embodiment comprises a temporary self-view picture-in-picture image appearing when the number of faces detected by the videoconference camera changes. A face detection algorithm is used... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20090256902 - Implementation of mpcp mcu technology for the h.264 video standard: A method for generating a video output signal. The method may include receiving a plurality of input video signals from each of the participants. Each of the input video signals may have a plurality of input frames. Each of the input frames may have a source slice carrying an image.... Agent: Christopher P. Maiorana, P.C.

20090256903 - System and method for processing video images: Some representative embodiments are directed to creating a “virtual world” by processing a series of two dimensional images to generate a representation of the physical world depicted in the series of images. The virtual world representation includes models of objects that specify the locations of the objects within the virtual... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090256904 - System and method for 3-dimensional display of image data: Disclosed is a system for a 3-dimensional display that includes at least one eyepiece having first and second eyepiece sockets, having a first display contained in said first eyepiece socket associated with a first eye, two eye cameras mounted such that a first eye camera tracks eye reference points of... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20090256905 - Processor for electronic endoscope, videoscope, and electronic endoscope apparatus: A processor for an electronic endoscope, which is configured to be connected with a videoscope adapted to generate a picture signal for an image of an observed object through color adjustment using color adjustment data and to transmit the generated picture signal to the processor, the processor includes a light... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090256906 - Image display apparatus and image generation apparatus: An object of the present invention is to display or generate a map image which is easy for a moving user to intuitively understand. In an image providing system, an image generation apparatus 2 is connected to an image pickup apparatus 1, which is externally provided, so as to communicate... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090256908 - Integrated image surveillance system and image synthesis method thereof: Disclosed is an integrated multi-view surveillance system which integrates multiple surveillance camera images of an area into a large-coverage image of the area in order to monitor the area. The system includes a first camera, a second camera, a third camera, an image processing device, and a display device. The... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090256907 - Video monitoring device providing parametric signal curve display features and related methods: A video monitoring device may include an input for a video input signal, a display, and a video processor coupled to the input and the display. The video processor may be for obtaining from the video input signal at least one parametric signal defining a curve, calculating derivative values for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090256909 - Systems and methods of capturing large area images in detail including cascaded cameras and/or calibration features: Systems and methods are disclosed relating to acquisition of images regarding large area objects or large areas. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of obtaining or capturing, via a first system that includes one or more first image capturing devices, overview images, wherein the overview images depict... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090256910 - Camera system to detect, monitor and report low visibility: The invention comprises of a method and a system to detect, monitor and report hazardous conditions of low visibility on roadways and waterways occurring due to fog or snow or rain or dust or smoke. A special vision camera installed on a post on the road or the waterway continuously... Agent: Ram Ganeshan

20090256911 - System and method for traffic related information display, traffic surveillance and control: The system and method for traffic surveillance, control, and traffic related information display uses display units each having display element sensors and cameras where the operation is controlled by a processor. Anticipatory sensor systems continuously measure speed and deceleration of approaching vehicles, sends signals to the processor which in turn... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090256912 - Method and a system for false alarm reduction in motion detection by scanning cameras: A method and a system for false alarm reduction in motion detection by scanning cameras. A method for reducing false alarms in scanning camera facilitated motion detection of an object, includes: setting a camera to observe a predefined area; continuously or non-continuously scanning by the camera of the said area... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20090256913 - In-ground camera: An apparatus and method is provided for a unique camera experience, wherein the camera is placed in an in-ground position permitting recording or broadcast of a camera perspective that is along the surface of or above the surface of the ground. In an exemplary embodiment, the in-ground camera is secured... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group

20090256914 - In-ground camera: An apparatus and method is provided for a unique camera experience, wherein the camera is placed in an in-ground position permitting recording or broadcast of a camera perspective that is along the surface of or above the surface of the ground. In an exemplary embodiment, the in-ground camera comprises high... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group

20090256915 - Radiation image capturing system: A radiation image capturing system includes at least one image capturing apparatus including a radiation detector, at least one image capturing apparatus including a stimulable phosphor panel for generating radiation image information, which is readable by an image reading apparatus, and at least one control device for controlling at least... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090256916 - Display device, broadcast receiving apparatus, display method, and broadcast receiving method: A storage unit stores and holds, for each location, a set of location information indicating a location which can be used by a broadcast program and color temperature information in the location. An arithmetic control unit acquires one of the pieces of location information stored and held in the storage... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256917 - Power control method for use with embedded web camera of notebook computer: A power control method is used with a video camera of a computer system. The power control method includes steps of executing a virtual web camera software to load a virtual web camera, executing a video application program such that the virtual web camera software generates a power-on message, and... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090256920 - Off center motor, ground glass on center post with ball bearing(s), x-y image position adjustment and on-the-fly back focus adjustment with lock down on 35mm spinning ground glass adapters: A video camera, having a body which supports a Depth of Field adapter and contains an image recording device comprises imaging optics having a disk shaped ground glass for rendering visible a real image; a rotatable post having a first end coupled to the ground glass at its center and... Agent: Michael Ries

20090256921 - Camera exposure optimization techniques that take camera and scene motion into account: Quantities of motion regarding an imaging device such as an electronic camera are calculated and used to adjust the exposure time and one or more other exposure parameters used to capture an image to improve the quality of the image. Motion blur caused by movement of the camera or by... Agent: Zoran Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090256918 - Image stabilizer: A method for digital video image stabilization, the method including: estimating, from at least one portion of a frame, global frame displacement between an initial reference digital video frame and a current frame in a video sequence of frames; verifying, for the entire frame, the validity of the estimated frame... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20090256919 - Imaging device, captured image recording method, and program: Disclosed herein is an imaging device, including, an imager configured to image a subject to generate a captured image thereof, a subject distance calculator configured to calculate a subject distance up to the subject, a captured image recording commander configured to give a recording instruction to record the captured image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256925 - Composition determination device, composition determination method, and program: A composition determination device includes: a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject in an image based on acquired image data; a still detection unit configured to detect a still state, with an image based on the image data, or a subject detected by the subject detection unit, as... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090256922 - Device, method and system of wireless video communication: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless video communication. Some embodiments include a wireless video transmitter to transmit a wireless video transmission representing a video image, the transmitter including a digital-input interface including a plurality of video-data inputs to receive a respective plurality of digital-video bits representing... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090256924 - Image capture device capable of combining images and print method thereof: An image capturing device includes a storage unit storing a plurality of images and a library of electronic print frames, and a selection unit providing selection of one of the electronic print frames and corresponding images. The selected images are transformed from their original format into a transition format which... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256927 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus includes a first image sensor unit, a second image sensor unit, and a spatial frequency reduction unit. The first image sensor unit is capable of subjecting an object image formed by an imaging lens to a photoelectric conversion to output a first image signal having a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090256923 - Image capturing device and brightness correcting method thereof: An image capturing device includes a capturing module, a numerical transform module, a brightness measuring module, and a processing module. The capturing module includes a lens unit and an image sensor. The lens unit forms an optical image onto the image sensor. The image sensor includes an effective pixel region... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256926 - Image capturing device, image processing device, image analysis method for the image capturing device and the image processing device, and program: An image capturing device includes: an image capturing unit that captures a subject and generates a captured image; a resolution converting unit that converts the captured image into a plurality of images with different resolutions; an image storing unit that stores the converted plurality of images with different resolutions as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256930 - Color processing apparatus and color processing method: A color processing apparatus for evaluating the gradation characteristic of a color conversion table that is used to convert signal values in input color space into signal values in output color space and has a plurality of grid points includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire signal values in the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090256929 - Color processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method therefor: A first image obtained by capturing white paper placed under an illuminant having known illuminant information using an image capturing device is input together with identification information of the illuminant, and illuminant information of the illuminant having the known illuminant information is obtained together with the identification information of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256928 - Method and device for detecting color temperature: A method for detecting color temperature and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. According to the present invention, the apparatus for detecting color temperature converts RGB color information, generated by interpolating an image signal sequentially inputted in units of pixel from an image sensor, to a three-dimensional coordinate value of luminance,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090256931 - Camera module, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic system having the same: A camera module, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic system having the same are provided. The camera module includes an image sensor chip having an active plane and a backside, a ground wiring extending from a sidewall of the image sensor chip to the backside, a lens... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090256932 - Single-lens reflex digital camera: The single-lens reflex digital camera includes a CCD for imaging an image for storage and a CCD for imaging an image for live view. A pixel signal output from the CCD is processed in an image preprocessing unit, an image general processing unit, and a JPEG processing unit and stored... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256933 - Imaging apparatus, control method thereof, and program: An imaging apparatus includes: a layout assistant image storage unit to store multiple layout assistant images representing position and size where an object is to be disposed within an imaging range; an imaging unit to perform imaging of a subject to generate an imaged image; an object detecting unit to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090256934 - Image pickup system: An SSG circuit section is composed of: a memory storing correction information for correcting a transmission characteristic of an image pickup signal in a transmission path; a readout circuit for reading out the correction information stored in the memory; and an SSG for generating a drive signal to be outputted... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090256935 - Video signal processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, video signal processing method, and computer program: A video signal processing apparatus includes a user interface unit, a gamma correction value calculating unit, and a gamma correction value storage unit. The user interface unit receives a designation of values of at least three points that form a gamma curve used during gamma correction of a video signal.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256936 - Method of driving solid-state imaging apparatus: When a horizontal skipping operation is performed in a solid-state imaging apparatus that includes an A/D converting circuit in each column and that applies an arithmetic operation process to a digitalized signal and an arithmetic operation is performed with signals held by a plurality of register circuits, A/D converters and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256937 - Solid-state image pickup device: There is provided a solid-state image pickup device comprising a plurality of pixel units, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element, a signal line which reads out signals from said plurality of pixel units, a first capacitor element which has a first electrode connected to the signal line, an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256938 - Imaging device: The present invention relates to improved imaging devices having high dynamic range and to monitoring and automatic control systems incorporating the improved imaging devices.... Agent: Brian J. Rees Gentex Corporation

20090256939 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: Solid-state imaging apparatus comprises: a plurality of A/D converters converting the analog electric signal from the pixel into a digital signal to output the digital signal from an output terminal of the A/D converter; a plurality of register circuits holding the digital signal; and a connecting unit for connecting the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256941 - Image sensor with sensing transistor having two gates and method of operating the same: Provided is an image sensor including a sensing transistor having two gates and a method of operating the image sensor. The image sensor may include a photoelectric conversion device, a sensing transistor which may have a first gate connected to a floating diffusion region in which charges generated from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090256940 - Method and apparatus providing dynamic boosted control signal for a pixel: A method and apparatus that generates boosted control signals for a transistor in a target pixel circuit. At least one modified pixel circuit is provided with a transistor layout that approximates a layout of the target pixel circuit. In the modified pixel circuit, one transistor that corresponds to a transistor... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090256942 - Simultaneous readout of cmos aps imagers: A new method of reading an imager is achieved. The method comprises providing an imager array comprising n rows and m columns where a pair of rows can be read during a single row access time. A first image field is completed by sequentially reading and storing pixel values of... Agent: Saile Ackerman LLC

20090256943 - Image pickup apparatus: An image converter tube 2c and a plurality of image sensors CCDs 1 (eight CCDs 1 here) are provided, and the respective CCDs 1 and image positions in the image converter tube 2c are in one-to-one correspondence. By carrying out at least one of a control to make a shift... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20090256944 - 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

20090256945 - Imaging device: A first video camera includes a lens barrel, a main frame, a first side panel, a second side panel, a first media insertion part, a viewfinder, a handle part, and a stay. The first media insertion part is fixed to the main frame. The viewfinder is disposed at the upper... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090256946 - Plural-view device: An exemplary plural-view device includes a plane mirror, a display panel, a support member connected to the plane mirror or the display panel, and a camera module. The camera module is mounted to the support member and electrically connected with the display panel. The support member is adjustable relative to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256947 - Method and apparatus for performing touch-based adjustments within imaging devices: A camera and method which selectively applies image content adjustments to elements contained in the image material. By way of example, the method involves registration of user touch screen input and determination of the arbitrary extent of a specific element in the captured image material at the location at which... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20090256948 - Lens module with zoom and auto-focus functions: A lens module includes a case, one and more lens units positioned in the case and having at least one lens, a carrying member, a piezoelectric driving unit, and at least a fixing member. The carrying member is connected to the lens unit such that the lens unit is movable... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256949 - Viewing apparatus: A viewing apparatus comprises one or more optical elements, which may be moved in order to redirect light entering the viewing apparatus such that a subject in any part of the field of view may be relocated to the centre of the viewed image without moving the viewing apparatus itself.... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090256951 - Imaging device: A digital camera has an optical system, an image capturing unit, an aperture adjuster, a focal point adjuster, and a body microcomputer. The aperture adjuster has an aperture included in the optical system and is capable of adjusting the state of the aperture. The focal point adjuster has a focus... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090256950 - Imaging system and camera body: An imaging system includes an interchangeable lens and a camera body. The camera body includes a second communication unit capable of communicating with a first communication unit, an imaging element operable to generate an image signal from the optical image, and a main body controller operable to transmit a reference... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20090256952 - Correlation calculation method, correlation calculation device, focus detection device and image-capturing apparatus: A focus detection device includes: a light-receiving unit that receives a pair of images and outputs a first signal string and a second signal string; a decision-making unit that determines a condition assumed as the light-receiving unit receives the pair of images; a selection unit that selects a correlation operation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090256953 - Image capturing apparatus and control method therefor: In an image capturing apparatus that carries out TV-AF type autofocus control by setting an AF frame on a predetermined object, for example a person's face, that is detected in an image, in a case in which a in-focus position search direction cannot be determined from an AF evaluation value,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090256954 - Diaphragm value recognition: A method for determining the current camera aperture (working aperture) of lenses on digital cameras having a viewfinder eyepiece and internal exposure measurement through the lens is wherein a further external exposure measurement is carried out past the lens and the value of the working aperture is determined from a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090256956 - Imaging device and sholder pad: There is provided an imaging device including a main body having a front part and a rear part; and a lens mounted to the front part of the main body. The main body includes a slope formed in the rear part, the slope being inclined upward with respect to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256955 - Portable electronic device with rotatable image-capturing module: A portable electric device with a rotatable image-capturing function includes a casing, a main circuit board and a touch pen. The main circuit board is disposed in the casing. The touch pen has a pen body and an image-capturing module disposed at one end of the pen body. The pen... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090256957 - Moving image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: A frame image is generated by combining a current field image and a preceding field image as a first candidate image. A frame image is generated by combining the current field image and a succeeding field image as a second candidate image. A frame image is generated by pixel interpolation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090256958 - Apparatus for dynamically detecting interlaced image and method thereof: An apparatus for detecting an interlaced image includes a motion detector, a mixed mode detector, a film mode detector, a buffering unit and a mixed range detector. When a film including a plurality of fields is input to the apparatus, motion values of an input field are first detected, and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090256959 - Information presentation apparatus and information presentation method: An information presentation apparatus including a video signal inputting unit, a first image generating unit, a second image generating unit, and an image combining unit is provided. A video signal is inputted to the video signal inputting unit. The first image generating unit is configured to generate an image using... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256960 - Video top-of-frame signal generator for multiple video formats: A signal generator for use in producing a video top-of-frame signal based upon an input video signal with an input video frame including one or more input video fields and having an input video frame rate for an output video signal with an output video frame having a plurality of... Agent: Vedder Price/nsc

20090256961 - Video clock generator for multiple video formats: An integrated video clock signal generator in which a master phase-locked loop (PLL) control circuit uses an off-chip voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to produce an on-chip oscillator signal in synchronization with a horizontal reference signal related to a horizontal video synchronization signal. This on-chip oscillator signal drives one or more slave... Agent: Vedder Price/nsc

20090256962 - Data transmission device, data transmission method, audio-visual environment control device, audio-visual environment control system, and audio-visual environment control method: An audio-visual environment control system is provided with a function to control illumination for optimum audio-visual environment in accordance with a scene situation of an displayed image. A data transmission device is comprised of a data multiplexing portion for multiplexing scene situation data indicating scene setting situations of each scene... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090256963 - Electronic device, communication system, method of communication, and program: An electronic device includes a Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) device unit and a connected-device determination unit. The electronic device is capable of being connected to another electronic device having Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) information regarding capability, via a communication cable that enables transmission of video and audio data and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090256964 - Method and apparatus for processing images, method and apparatus for recording and reporducing images, and television receiver utilizing the same: The moving images under reproduction are displayed in a main screen and a plurality of thumbnail images that serve as indexes by which to search for a desired scene are displayed. Moreover, the thus displayed thumbnail images are updated at a predetermined timing according as the moving images progress.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090256966 - Digital broadcast receiver: Where an instruction for a scheduled recording has been received from a remoter controller, a control unit starts the processing for display control (step S1). When the time has reached a predetermined period of time counted by a timer, for example, two minutes, before the start of the scheduled recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090256965 - Video multiviewer system permitting scrolling of multiple video windows and related methods: A video multiviewer system may include a plurality of video inputs and a multiviewer video processor coupled to the plurality of video inputs for generating video data based upon the plurality of video inputs. The system may further include a display coupled to the multiviewer video processor for displaying multiple... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090256967 - Av device: An AV device is provided that can automatically perform OSD display setting of other AV devices at a time based on local ODS display setting even when a plurality of AV devices are connected. The AV device (depicted as TV 1) includes a connection means (depicted as an HDMI connector... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090256968 - Signal processing apparatus, and method for controlling signal processing apparatus: A signal processing apparatus, comprising: an input section; a storage section; first and second signal processing sections; and a control section.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090256969 - Method and apparatus for adjusting quality of a displayed image: Specific image quality adjustment of an image is performed according to a setting made by a user, and contrast compensation is performed such that a brightness is kept unchanged at the center of a specific color region larger than a predetermined size, regardless of the setting of the image quality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256970 - Teleprompter: The teleprompter described herein allows for rapid adjustment of the camera position and height, beam splitter mirror assembly height and angle, tripod mounting, as well as additional accessories including counter weights, shoulder pads, batteries and feedback monitors. Further, these adjustments do not require the use of tools. Additionally, the invention... Agent: John Nielsen Randick O'dea & Tooliatos, LLP

20090256971 - Frequency adjusting apparatus and adjusting method thereof: A frequency adjusting method comprises steps of: generating a first adjusting signal according to a frequency of a first output signal; adjusting a frequency of an input signal by using the first adjusting signal to generate the first output signal, so as to adjust the frequency of the first output... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090256972 - Methods and apparatus to generate and use content-aware watermarks: Methods and apparatus to generate and use content-aware watermarks are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method, media composition data is received and at least one word present in an audio track of the media composition data is selected. The word is then located in a watermark.... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090256973 - Reducing power dissipation in portable lcos/lcd/dlp portable projection systems: A projection system with one or more light sources reduced power consumption and optional scanning capability is disclosed. A controller processes image data to generate light source control signals and pixel screen control signals which are coordinated to generate an image. Reductions in power consumption occur by matching the light... Agent: Weide & Miller - Mindspeed

20090256974 - Image display method and image display device: Difference values that are defined as values representing a magnitude of an influence exerted upon an illuminance of an ambient environment according to a brightness component of an input video signal and are set so as to correspond to the brightness component based on a result of measuring the magnitude... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090256975 - Cable-based mounting system: A mounting system for the display of an audio/visual product. A cable-based mounting system for an audio/visual product includes at least one hanging cable and at least one attachment mechanism. The at least one attachment mechanism is configured to operatively engage with a plurality of various mounting patterns located on... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090251526 - Method, apparatus and system for incorporating voice or video communication into a television or compatible audio capable visual display: Voice or video communication is incorporated into a television or compatible audio capable visual display by routing a television signal through a communication interface apparatus connected to a voice or video communication network and switching between a call and at least the audio portion of the television signal when a... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090251527 - System and method for processing images by visual echo cancellation: This image processing system comprises: a device (PRJ, SI1) for projecting a first light beam (FL1) to form a first image (I1) on a screen (ECR) on which a second light beam (FL2) coming from an observation area (ZO) forms a second image (I2) and a device (CAM, SI1) for... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090251528 - Video switching without instantaneous decoder refresh-frames: A system and method for reducing blurred video caused by intra-coded IDR-frames sent in response to when a destination endpoint in a multipoint videoconference switches to a new video source. An embodiment according to the invention comprises using inter-coded temporal predictive referencing a long term reference frame (LTRF) instead of... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090251529 - Network management server for managing multiple operating modes of a conferencing network with different sets of policies: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed to manage multiple operating modes in a video conferencing network under which different sets of policies can operate. The system is a network management server, designated herein as the Elastic Gatekeeper, that includes a Conference Management System, which selectively implements one... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090251530 - Omnidirectional camera for use in police car event recording: A system and method for an omnidirectional camera for use in recording events around a police vehicle is disclosed. The system and method include an omnidirectional camera and a digital processor for processing the omnidirectional images captured by the omnidirectional camera. The digital processor may be operable to locate one... Agent: Ross T. Robinson Winstead PC

20090251531 - Coding scheme for digital video signals and an image architecture using the same: Video signals in a video stream are encoded by inserting reference signals in the video stream such that the encoded video stream carry both reference signals and video signals being coded. In the decoding stage, reference images generated from the reference signals are detected and used for identifying the encoded... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090251532 - Electronic endoscope system: An electronic endoscope system, including a scope that outputs a plurality of types of color signals obtained by an imaging device and a processor for processing the signals outputted from the scope. A color conversion matrix in which each element data value is defined such that only a color involved... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090251533 - Systems and methods for coordinating collection of evidence: A method for coordinated collection of data regarding an incident. An electronic control device performs the method. The electronic control device provides a stimulus signal to a target and logs each delivery of the stimulus signal. The method includes in any practical order: (a) receiving a request to collect the... Agent: Taser International, Inc.

20090251534 - Vehicle-mounted image processing device, and method for controlling vehicle-mounted image processing device: Light reflected by glasses etc. worn by a driver picked up in a facial image of the driver is reduced. With a vehicle-mounted camera (1) equipped with a first LED illuminating device (12) and a second LED illuminating device (13), each illuminating device is lit up alternately in synchronism with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090251535 - Automatic inspection device for stents, and method of automatic inspection: A device for automatic illumination and inspection of tubular probes, in particular stents, is proposed, with rotatable means for holding the probes that are to be inspected, with an electronic camera and associated lens, with a computer-based electronic imaging system, and with means for illuminating the probe that is to... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090251536 - System and method for identifying and sorting material: An automatic sorting system is for identifying and sorting non-homogenous material. The system includes a conveyor belt and an identification unit cooperable with the conveyor belt and placed above the conveying surface thereof for identifying material traveling therealong. The identification unit includes at least one projector for projecting a beam... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090251538 - Dome camera and housing for dome camera: A dome camera (1A) includes a camera (2), a base (4A), and a dome cover (5). The base (4A) has a reference surface (P1) and a cover-support surface (P2) tilted relative to the reference surface (P1). A semispherical cover (9) having a semispherical shape and a partial spherical cover (10)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090251539 - Monitoring device: A monitoring device that is capable of setting both of the tour monitoring time and the unmoving object monitoring time without restriction. A tour monitoring unit causes an image pickup unit to perform a tour monitoring. An unmoving object monitoring unit performs an unmoving object detection process and an unmoving... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090251537 - Object content navigation: A surveillance system for monitoring a selected object that comprises a multiplicity of video cameras, a software application and at least one computerized medium. The computerized medium enables operating the application and the application is operatively associated with the cameras, which are installed in different locations in a surveillance area.... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090251540 - Transverse vertical profile display for aeronautical routes: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for presenting terrain along a route on an aircraft display. A display is presented of a top view, a side view, and a transverse vertical profile view of terrain data along the route on the aircraft display. A plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090251541 - Intelligent vehicle access control system: An apparatus for the automatic inspection of a motor vehicle has an identification and psychological profiling zone, an automatic inspection zone and a manual inspection zone. A biometric and heart rate detection station and an attached console are located in zone one. Undercarriage scanning equipment and an explosives detection portal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090251542 - Systems and methods for recording and emulating a flight: A mobile instrument that captures audio, video and motion/position data for a flight or other activities is described. A web service that processes the recorded data and allows a user to interact with the processed data emulating the flight or other activities is also described. Methods associated with capturing the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090251543 - Monitoring camera device: In a camera 12, a sound input unit inputs a monitoring sound obtained from a monitoring place, and an image generation unit generates a monitoring image obtained from the monitoring place. A sound anomaly detection unit then detects a sound anomaly in the monitoring place based on the monitoring sound,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090251544 - Video surveillance method and system: The present disclosure relates to a video surveillance method comprising steps of a video camera periodically capturing an image of a zone to be monitored, analyzing the image to detect a presence therein, and of the video camera transmitting the image only if a presence has been detected in the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090251545 - Systems and methods for incident recording: A primary subsystem communicates to a secondary subsystem a description of an incident. The primary subsystem includes a detector, a user interface, and a recorder. The detector detects data related to the incident. The user interface determines a revision related to the data. The recorder records the data and the... Agent: Taser International, Inc.

20090251546 - Digital camera with postcard printing: A digital camera is provided having an image sensor for capturing an image, an image processor for processing image data from the image sensor to produce print data, a printhead for printing the print data, and a cartridge interface for receiving a cartridge having a supply of media substrates pre-printed... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090251547 - Unintentional hand movement canceling device and imaging apparatus: Provided is an unintentional hand movement canceling device, comprising: swing detecting means detecting a swing of an image; and a correction quantity generating means generating a correction quantity to calculate a correction position based on a swing quantity detected by the swing detection means, a damping coefficient of a swing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090251549 - Digital camera: A digital camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject, and outputs the captured image; a shake amount detection unit that detects a shake amount of the digital camera; a shake correction actuation unit that is actuated for enabling a shake correction function; and a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090251550 - Imaging apparatus: The digital camera includes: a motion detecting section 34 for estimating a motion vector of an image shot; a blur compensating section for optically compensating for the blur of the image shot; a mode selecting section for selecting one of multiple control modes for the blur compensating section; and a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090251548 - Interchangeable lens, camera system, and its control method: To provide an interchangeable lens, a camera body, a camera system, and a method for controlling the same, with which a highly efficient and stable image blur correction effect can be obtained. A camera system (1) has a camera body (10) and an interchangeable lens (20) which is attachable to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090251552 - Lens barrel having camera shake corrector and photographing apparatus equipped therewith: A camera shake corrector includes: a first moving member that holds an image sensor or a prescribed lens and is capable of moving in a first direction; a first motor that moves the first moving member; a second moving member that holds the first moving member and is capable of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090251551 - Photographic apparatus: The movable platform has an imager that captures an optical image, and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The acceleration sensor detects a first gravitational component and a second gravitational component. The first gravitational component is the component of gravitational acceleration in the x direction. The second gravitational... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090251553 - Control of data processing: Data processing apparatus arranged to receive successive images from a video camera comprises means for detecting inter-image motion for selected points in an image region associated with a control function of the data processing apparatus; and means for executing the control function if inter-image motion is detected in the image... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090251558 - Fast and low-power digital camera with gps: Provided are a digital camera having a global positioning system (GPS) and a method of controlling the same. The digital camera comprises a camera body, a digital signal processor, and a GPS receiving module. In the digital camera and method, GPS information regarding a photographing location is stored so as... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090251557 - Image pickup control method and apparatus for camera: An image pickup control apparatus and method for controlling an image pickup device to capture an image of a scene in a condition set by a user are provided. The image pickup control method activates an image pickup unit, sets reference parameters to be compared with current parameters obtained from... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090251554 - Imaging device and imaging system: A plurality of exchange lenses designed for object exposure regions of different sizes can be selectively mounted on the present imaging device. The imaging device determines whether a mismatch state is present, in which the size of the object exposure region of an exchange lens mounted is smaller than the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251555 - Method and system for camera sensor fingerprinting: Some embodiments of the application provides methods and systems for providing camera fingerprinting by receiving a video frame from a camera, generating a confidence map based on an image characteristic associated with the video frame, generating a signature based on a sensor imperfection in the camera, weighting the signature based... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090251556 - Solid-state imaging device, signal processing method of solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section and a signal processing section. The pixel array section is configured to include a plurality of arranged unit pixels, each of which is a rectangular pixel having different sizes in the vertical and horizontal directions, and a plurality of adjacent ones... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090251559 - User interface system based on pointing device: The user interaction system comprises a portable pointing device (101) connected to a camera (102) and sending pictures to a digital signal processor (120), capable of recognizing an object (130) and a command given by the user (100) by moving the pointing device (101) in a specific way, and controlling... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090251560 - Video light system and method for improving facial recognition using a video camera: A video lighting system (100) for use with a personal computer or other electronic device (103) includes a display (105) that is used in connection with a microprocessor running facial recognition software that is used to prevent unauthorized access to the personal computer (103). A camera (107) is used for... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20090251562 - Image capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image capturing apparatus includes: a subject image signal generating unit that generates a subject image signal from incident light forming a subject image; a luminance signal and color difference signal generating unit that generates a luminance signal and a color difference signal from the subject image signal; a color... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090251561 - System and method for adaptive local white balance adjustment: The disclosure describes embodiments of an apparatus comprising an image sensor including a pixel array having a plurality of pixels and an automatic white balance (AWB) circuit coupled to the pixel array. The AWB circuit is used to determine a local white balance component for each pixel, determine a global... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090251563 - Exposure control apparatus and exposure control program for vehicle-mounted electronic camera: In an exposure control apparatus for a vehicle-installed camera which captures images of an external scene ahead of the vehicle as respective arrays of picture elements, highest-brightness and lowest-brightness picture elements of each image are excluded from processing for measuring the brightness of a region in the scene ahead of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090251565 - Digital camera with integrated accelerometers: A digital camera system has integrated accelerometers for determining static and dynamic accelerations of the digital cameral system. Data relating to static and dynamic accelerations are stored with recorded image data for further processing, such as for correcting image data for roll, pitch and vibrations and for displaying recorded images... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090251564 - Imaging device, display control device, display device, and image display system: An imaging device which is capable of realizing an easily viewable thumbnail display is provided. The imaging device includes: an imaging optical system for forming an optical image of an object; an imaging sensor for receiving the optical image of the object formed by the imaging optical system, for converting... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090251566 - Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling the image pickup apparatus, and storage medium: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit that picks up an image of a subject; an internal memory; a removable external memory; a compression processing unit that compresses the image picked up by the image pickup unit to generate a picked-up image; a recording processing unit that records... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251568 - Imaging device, imaging device control method and program for imaging device control method: The present invention is applicable to, for example, a camera-integrated video tape recorder, displaying a marker M so that a luminance level, converted into a specific pattern by zebra display, can be specified on a histogram 80.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090251567 - Processing method for a relative illumination phenomenon on a digital image and associated processing system: A method and an associated system, for digital image-processing, intervening for any relative illumination phenomenon, including that of a colored relative illumination. To this end, it is provided to take account of an illuminant of a photographed scene in order to provide the appropriate modifications to any digital image to... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090251569 - Imaging apparatus: In the imaging apparatus, an image signal derived from an imaging element is supplied to color signal producing means so as to be separated into a R(red) color signal, a G(green) color signal and a B(blue) color signal. These R, G, B signals are supplied to color-depending frequency component changing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090251570 - Apparatus and method for noise reduction: Apparatus and method for noise reduction are disclosed. Noise and edge of luma component of a pixel are detected, and noise of chroma component of the pixel is also detected. Subsequently, the noise is removed from the luma and the chroma components according to the detected noise and the detected... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090251571 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging device (1) including; a fluctuation correcting section (13) for correcting fluctuation of the input/output characteristics of the imaging element (4), and the linearizing section (14) for converting the signals outputted from the imaging element (4) into the state where the output signals are uniformly converted by one conversion... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090251572 - Efficient wide-range and high-resolution black level and offset calibration system: A black level calibration (BLC) system is disclosed. A readout chain receives and amplifies dark signal, and generates corresponding digital output. A level integrator performs integration of calibration levels in multiple steps according to the digital output, thereby achieving wide calibration range.... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090251573 - Solid-state imaging apparatus and manufacturing method thereof: A solid-state imaging apparatus and a manufacturing method of a solid-state imaging apparatus are provided. Metal wirings 102 and 103 are formed in an effective pixel region A and out-of effective pixel region B of a semiconductor substrate 100, and an etch stop layer 118 is formed over the metal... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090251574 - Electronic device, electronic camera, and data transfer program: An electronic device includes: a data transfer unit that transfers data between a first recording medium and a second recording medium; an indication unit that indicates a communication protocol and a data transfer rate to be used in data transfer to the transfer unit; a judgment unit that judges whether... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090251577 - Image sensing apparatus: An image sensing apparatus has an image sensing device. The image sensing device includes a photoelectric conversion element that photoelectrically converts an optical image to acquire image data, and a readout control unit that reads out, in accordance with a supplied readout rule, the image data acquired by the photoelectric... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090251575 - Imaging apparatus and method for driving the imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device, a derive section and a signal processing section. The imaging device includes plural pixels arranged on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The pixels include plural chromatic color pixels for plural colors and plural high-sensitivity pixels having a higher sensitivity to incident... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090251576 - Solid-state image capturing apparatus and electronic information equipment: A solid-state image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged; a driving circuit for driving each pixel of the pixel array; and a power supply circuit for stepping down an external source voltage supplied from an external power... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090251578 - Image pickup device and image pickup system: In an image pickup device with A/D converters at each column signal line, improvements in the A/D conversion speed and accuracy in image sensors having A/D converters are achieved. In an image pickup device wherein sensing elements are arranged in a matrix and A/D converters are arranged for each column... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090251580 - Circuit and method for reading out and resetting pixels of an image sensor: A circuit for resetting and reading out a pixel cell of a CMOS image sensor is proposed. The circuit allows for reading out the pixel cell at least two times during a main integration interval, thereby generating at least two pixel signals. The circuit further comprises means for combining the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090251579 - Image sensor circuit: An image sensor circuit includes a CMOS image sensor with light sensitive pixels arranged in rows and columns and a readout circuitry. The readout circuitry includes storage means with a CDS stage for storing signals read out from the pixels at two different time instants between two subsequent reset phases... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090251583 - Image sensor for removing horizontal noise: Disclosed herein is an image sensor for removing a horizontal noise. The image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels located at every row or column; an analog bus located at every row or column, for transferring output signals of the pixel array; and a readout... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090251582 - Solid state imaging device, driving method of the solid state imaging device, and electronic equipment: A solid state imaging device includes: multiple unit pixels including a photoelectric converter generating electrical charge in accordance with incident light quantity and accumulating the charge, a first transfer gate transferring the accumulated charge, a charge holding region holding the transferred charge, a second transfer gate transferring the held charge,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090251581 - Sub-pixels, unit pixels, image sensors and methods of operating the same: An image sensor includes a plurality of unit pixels arranged in an array. Each unit pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels configured to be irradiated by light having the same wavelength. Each sub-pixel includes a plurality of floating body transistors. Each floating body transistor includes a source region, a drain... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090251584 - Camera unit and method for controlling an image sensor in a camera unit: The invention relates to a camera unit, comprising an image sensor (10), a mechanical shutter (16), a host module (12), and connections between them, in particular a data and control connection (D1, C1) between the image sensor and the host unit. In the image sensor (10), there is a photoelectric... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20090251585 - Digital camera-projector hybrid: A camera-projector assembly for viewing captured images in a near-view mode and in a distal-view projection mode. The assembly includes a camera housing and an image capture assembly within the housing collecting image data. The camera-projector assembly includes a projection assembly mounted on the camera housing that includes a projection... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090251586 - Viewfinder and image pickup apparatus: The present invention provides a viewfinder including: a rail removably attached to an image pickup apparatus; a seat coupled to the rail so as to be movable in an extending direction of the rail; a display panel formed in a rectangle having left and right sides and upper and lower... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251587 - Digital photographing apparatus: A digital photographing apparatus may include a display unit and a controller electronically coupled to the display unit. The controller may be configured to adjust a moving picture or an image displayed on the display unit based on ambient brightness.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090251588 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus able to design lenses without regard as to a zoom position or zoom amount and able to restore an image by high precision operation and a method of same, including an optical unit 110 including a plurality of optical systems 110-1 and 110-2 forming a first order... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090251589 - Photographic lens system and image pickup apparatus: A photographic lens system including multiple lens units where at least a part of one of the multiple lens units is movable in a direction, which includes a vector component orthogonal to an optical axis, and where the photographic lens system can have a normal and image stabilizing mode.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251590 - Image capturing apparatus and control method therefor: In an image capturing apparatus for carrying out TV-AF type autofocus control, a difference is provided between an AF frame set for a particular object detected in an image, for example, for a person's face, and a normal AF frame in the band of frequency components for use in the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090251591 - Digital camera with high dynamic range mode of operation: A digital camera is provided with a high dynamic range (HDR) mode of operation wherein a nominal exposure is automatically bracketed by one or more under exposures and one or more over exposures. The images thus obtained can then be used by suitable software to process the images to produce... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090251592 - Lighting device for use with a camera: d

20090251593 - Shoulder pad, pad unit, and video camera: A pad main body of a shoulder pad includes an elastic pad part comprising two side walls provided to face each other, and a bottom wall provided between these side walls to form a U-shape along with the side walls; and a rib provided on the inside of the U... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090251597 - Content conversion device: A content conversion device includes a non-still picture data detecting unit which detects non-still picture data contained in a first electronic document that is an object to be processed, an embedded image generating unit which generates, in a data addition target image representing a frame contained in the non-still picture... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090251595 - Method for converting a video signal for flicker compensation, and associated conversion device: Method and apparatus for converting a first video signal into a second video signal, including a succession of frames wherein each includes a plurality of points having a luminance. The points of the second video signal can be displayed on corresponding pixels of a display device. The method includes calculating... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090251594 - Video retargeting: Videos are retargeted to a target display for viewing with little to no geometric distortion or video information loss. Salient regions of video frames may be determined using scale-space spatiotemporal information. Video information loss may be a result of spatial loss, due to cropping, and resolution loss, due to resizing.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090251596 - Video signal processing device and video signal processing method: A video signal processing device is a video signal processing device for converting an input first video signal to a second video signal, and inputting to a display panel, the video signal processing device including an input unit for receiving an input of a set value of the second video... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090251598 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus that has a frame buffer that stores an input video signal, that loads a video signal at an asynchronous timing with the video signal input from the frame buffer and then that I/P-converts the loaded video signal from an interlaced signal into a progressive signal includes:... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090251599 - System and method for synchronization of television signals associated with multiple broadcast networks: Embodiments include a system and method of synchronizing broadcast signals from multiple broadcast networks on televisions or other media devices. One embodiment includes a method comprising receiving signatures or other data indicative of each of a plurality of video frames from each of a plurality of video devices, each of... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090251600 - Av timing measurement for mpeg type television: An invention for measuring, maintaining and correcting synchronization between signals which suffer varying relative delays during transmission and/or storage is shown. The preferred embodiment of the invention finds particular use in measuring the relative delay between multiple audio signals and an associated video signal of a television type program which... Agent: Carl J. Cooper

20090251601 - Method and device for synchronizing camera systems: The invention relates to a method and to a device for synchronizing the image capture by cameras. For this purpose, a duplex-capable network is provided. Within the network, one or more hardware-supported synchronization modules with a logical channel of a first type are provided, wherein the synchronization module or modules... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090251602 - System and method for providing video and audio signals to multiple displays: A system and method for providing digital AV signal to multiple displays where the digital AV signal is displayed simultaneously and sychronized. Exemplary embodiments utilize serializers, de-serializers, and clock cleaners to transmit the data to a chain of display nodes. The display nodes convert the serial data stream into a... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090251603 - Image playback system: An image playback system (3), to which digital R, G, B video signals (R, G, B), respectively via R, G, B line pairs (7, 8, 9), and a communication signal (SDA) may be supplied by an image source (1), includes a program memory (18) in which configuration data for a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090251607 - Displaying presentations: Included are embodiments of a mobile presentation device. At least one embodiment of the device includes a memory device including at least one file; and a processing component coupled to the memory device, the processing component configured to, upon activation of the presentation device, automatically determine whether the at least... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090251604 - Method and apparatus for selecting a signal source: A method of selecting a signal input includes the steps of transmitting an audio signal to an audio input of a device that includes a plurality of audio inputs. A setting of the device is automatically advanced from a currently set audio input to another one of the audio inputs... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090251605 - System, method and devices for hdmi transmission: A High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) system is provided. The HDMI system comprises a media channel, an HDMI source device and at least two HDMI sink devices. The HDMI source device comprises a communication module and a DDC controller. The communication module connects to the HDMI sink devices directly via... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090251606 - Video control apparatus and control method thereof: Upon reception of a DDC access request from an external device connected to an HDMI port, a television receiver sets an electric potential of an HPD signal to ON level. Upon reception of an HDCP authentication initiation request from the external storage device after EDID is transmitted in response to... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090251608 - Image processing apparatus and image processing system: According to one embodiment, a communication unit communicates a control signal to/from another image processing apparatus via a communication channel and receives video/audio signals from the another image processing apparatus via the communication channel. A processing prediction unit transmits, to the another image processing apparatus, a request signal to request... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090251609 - System and method for determining a mode of viewing a display and adapting displayed elements to the mode of viewing: A method of displaying information on a video display monitor is disclosed, and comprises receiving a command to display an on-screen display (OSD) menu, determining an origin of the command to display the OSD menu, if the command originated from an actuation of a control on the video display monitor,... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20090251610 - Vertical blanking interval slicer and related method: A vertical blanking interval slicer includes: an analog-to-digital conversion unit for performing analog-to-digital conversion on original video data in the vertical blanking interval to generate a digital video data; a mode setting unit for setting a data rate according to the original video data in the vertical blanking interval; a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090251611 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a content display control section switching contents to be displayed on a display screen, and a related information display control section displaying, during a switching period when a content displayed on the display screen is switched from one content to another content, related information related... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090251612 - Motion vector field retimer: A programmable platform is provided that implements a video-processing algorithm that reduces halo artifacts. The algorithm corrects motion vectors of background motion in occlusion areas of a picture. The algorithm creates a re-timing vector from vector fields provided from a 3-frame motion estimator. The re-timing vector is produced by, first,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090251614 - Method and apparatus for automatically generating a summary of a multimedia content item: A summary of a multimedia content item input at step (101) is automatically generated. A perceived pace of the content of a multimedia content item is determined, step (105). The multimedia content item comprises a plurality of segments. At least one segment of the multimedia content item is selected, step... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090251613 - Method for detecting scene change in a video picture sequence: s

20090251615 - Active matrix substrate, display device, television apparatus, manufacturing method of an active matrix substrate, and manufacturing method of a display device: An active matrix substrate includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix pattern and each forming a pixel; a plurality of gate lines each provided between the corresponding pixel electrodes and extending in parallel with each other; a plurality of first source lines each provided between the corresponding... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090251616 - Apparatus and method for processing data in digital broadcasting receiver: Disclosed is a digital broadcasting transmitter/receiver. The digital broadcasting transmitter/receiver includes a tuner for selecting a channel of a received digital broadcasting signal through channel selection by a controller unit, a demodulator for demodulating a signal of the selected digital broadcasting channel, a demultiplexer for separating audio, video and data... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090251617 - Electronic apparatus, electronic-apparatus adjustment method and integrated circuit: An electronic apparatus is provided and includes a first IC having an internal configuration section, a nonvolatile memory, and an interface section. The electronic apparatus also includes a second IC having a signal processing section, and a correction-data supplying section.... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090251618 - Integrated wideband rf tracking filter for rf front end with parallel band switched tuned amplifiers: A wideband RF tracking filter having a set of parallel tuned resonator amplifier stages with a de-Q resistor for each subband is disclosed. The resonant amplifier contains programmable tuned LC tank impedance and an array of parallel voltage to current converters (V2I) for each subband. The de-Q resistor together with... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090251619 - Remote control device personalization: Techniques to personalize a remote control device are described. In an implementation, a remote control device includes a display device and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to determine an identity of a user and initiate one or more control functions related to control of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090251621 - Image display system and image display apparatus: An image display apparatus that displays an image in accordance with image data supplied from an image supplying apparatus, the image display apparatus including: a function module that processes input data; a plurality of disk images each including a function program which is executed by the image supplying apparatus and... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090251620 - Television automatic geometry adjustment system: In projection television (PTV) systems utilizing folded optical systems such as a rear projection CRT, DLP, LCD, or LCOS based televisions, or the like, an automatic geometric alignment (AGA) system including a first programmable logic, a second programmable logic operably coupled to the first programmable logic, and light sensors positioned... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090251622 - Electronic device: An electronic device includes: a first image reproduction unit that reproduces an image; a second image reproduction unit that reproduces an image at a resolution different from that of the first image reproduction unit; a reproduction data generation unit that generates reproduction data at a resolution according to an image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090251623 - Indication device and information projection system: An indication device includes an indication unit pointing to an indication position which is a position on an indicated surface on which first information is displayed; an information projection unit which projects second information onto the indicated surface; and a process execution unit which executes a process appropriate to an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090251624 - Display opening and closing angle detecting mechanism: A display opening and closing angle detecting mechanism includes a display 1 mounted on a ceiling of a vehicle, and rotating with a rotating shaft 3 as the fulcrum integrally with the rotating shaft in an opening or closing direction; a supporting means 4 supporting the rotating shaft 3; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch