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<title><![CDATA[Surveillance camera apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616229.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Herein disclosed is a surveillance camera apparatus, comprising: a housing assembly having a slanted plate portion with an inner surface; and a camera assembly accommodated in said housing assembly, said slanted plate portion forming part of said housing assembly defining an opening therein, said opening having a central axis thereof, said opening having an imaginary inner surface flush with said inner surface of said slanted plate portion forming part of said housing assembly, and said imaginary inner surface of said opening having the shape of a circle, said camera assembly, including: a stationary member; a pan shaft having a pan axis thereof, said pan shaft being supported by said stationary member to be revolvable around said pan axis; a retaining member integrally formed with said pan shaft; a tilt shaft having a tilt axis thereof, said tilt shaft being retained by said retaining member to be revolvable around said tilt axis under the state that said tilt axis of said tilt shaft is in perpendicular relationship with said pan axis of said pan shaft; an imaging unit for taking an image of a specific object through said opening of said slanted plate portion forming part of said housing assembly, said imaging unit having a light axis thereof, said imaging unit being integrally supported by said tilt shaft under the state that said light axis of said imaging unit is in perpendicular relationship with said tilt axis of said tilt shaft; a pan motor for having said pan shaft driven around said pan axis; and a controlling unit for controlling said pan motor to have said pan motor move said imaging unit around said pan axis of said pan shaft in response to the revolution of said tilt shaft to be driven around said tilt axis.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Color image sensing device and pixel data reading method thereof]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616241.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A color image sensing device that includes an APS array, a plurality of column selectors, a plurality of analog-digital converters, and a signal processor. The APS array includes a first plurality of column arrays in which a first plurality of red pixels and a first plurality of green pixels are alternately arranged and a second plurality of column arrays in which a second plurality of green pixels and a second plurality of blue pixels are alternately arranged. The plurality of column selectors are disposed on both sides of the APS array. The plurality of analog-digital converters convert pixel data output from the column selectors into digital data. The signal processor receives pixel data output from the analog-digital converters, sums up at least one pixel data representing the same color and outputs the summed data in response to an output mode.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Solid-state imaging device with enhanced pixel thinning out configuration, method for driving same, and image apparatus incorporating same]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616246.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging unit, a charge control unit, and a horizontal transfer unit. The imaging unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged into a matrix for performing photoelectric conversion, and a plurality of vertical transfer units arranged in columns for vertically transferring signal charges of the plurality of pixels on a column-by-column basis. In a predetermined operation mode, a predetermined number of columns greater than one are used as a unit, and the charge control unit stops transferring charges from a vertical transfer unit in a predetermined column of the predetermined number of columns, and adds the signal charges transferred from the vertical transfer units in the two or more remaining columns of the predetermined number of columns to output the added signal charges. The horizontal transfer unit horizontally transfers the signal charges output from the charge control unit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Optical apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616253.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An optical apparatus is disclosed which achieves high focusing accuracy and favorable responsiveness in AF control. The apparatus includes a signal generator which extracts signals in a plurality of frequency bands from an output from an image-pickup part and generates focus signals from the extracted signals, and a controller which performs focus control such that the focus signal approaches the highest value. The controller uses a first focus signal and a second focus signal in the focus control. The second focus signal is a synthesis signal formed by synthesizing a focus signal in a relatively high or the highest frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands and a focus signal in another frequency band and contains a component of the focus signal in the relatively high or highest frequency band at a higher ratio as compared with the first focus signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video camera having hard disk drive and optical disk drive]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616259.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A video camera, building in a hard disk drive and an optical disk drive within the same housing, for dissolving a problem of increasing the temperature of hard disk drive due to heats generated within an inside of the main body thereof, comprises: an image pickup portion, which is configured to make photographing; a display portion  6 , which is configured to display an image photographed; a hard disk drive  1  which is configured to record the image photographed therein; and an optical disk drive  9 , which is configured to drive an optical disk being attached/detached, wherein the display portion  6 , the optical disk drive  1 , the hard disk  9  are disposed in that order, and the hard disk drive  1  is disposed on a cover portion to be opened when taking out the optical disk from the optical disk drive  9.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Electronic apparatus equipped with a microphone]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616260.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An electronic apparatus including: an enclosure constituting an outer case of the apparatus; a receiving recess, formed of a bottom wall and a side wall uprising from a circumference of the bottom wall, disposed on the enclosure as opened outward; a holding member, formed of a vibration relaxing material capable of relaxing vibrations, received in the receiving recess; a supporting piece for supporting the holding member within the receiving recess such that a space is secured between the holding member and the bottom wall; a recess for microphone formed on a face, facing outward, of the holding member as opened outward, in a condition of the holding member being supported by the supporting piece within the receiving recess; a microphone inserted into the recess for microphone; and a grill disposed to cover a side of the holding member facing outward, in a condition of the holding member being supported by the supporting piece within the receiving recess, the grill being provided with a plurality of through holes made in its portions facing the microphones.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for correcting smear in a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616239.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for driving a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device, wherein the charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device comprises: high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements for executing photoelectric conversion with relatively high sensitivity; low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements for executing photoelectric conversion with relatively low sensitivity; and vertical transfer channels for transferring signal charges from said high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements and said low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, the method comprising a charge transfer step of individually reading/transferring first signal charges from said high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements and second signal charges from said low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements onto said vertical transfer channels, without executing a high speed charge transfer operation for the vertical transfer channels after exposure of said solid-state image pick-up device.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cropped and scaled picture-in-picture system and method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616264.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[We describe a cropped and scaled picture-in-picture system and method. The video system includes a first video port to generate a first video signal portion from a first video signal, a second video port to generate a second video signal portion from a second video signal, and a video processor to generate a composite image from the first and second video signal portions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, and program for implementing the control method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616258.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image pickup apparatus which is capable of restraining power consumption to the maximum possible extent while improving the AF and zooming performance using distance information. A video signal from an optical image formed through the focus compensation lens is output by a camera signal processing circuit. A focus signal is detected from the video signal by an AF signal processing circuit. Two image signals are detected by an external ranging unit. Focus is adjusted based on results of detection by the AF signal processing circuit and the external ranging unit. A shooting state and an operative state of the image pickup apparatus are determined by an AF microprocessor. Power supply to the external ranging unit is controlled in response to the states determined by the AF microprocessor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Controlling ambient light as a function of a video signal]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616262.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of providing one or more aspects of an ambient environment comprises receiving a video signal, processing the video signal and controlling ambient light accordingly. A corresponding device and system of devices are described.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Information-processing apparatus and removable substrate used therein]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616263.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An information-processing apparatus is provided. For example, the information-processing apparatus has an information-processing device that processes information and a removable substrate that is detachably connected to the information-processing device. The information-processing device has a signal-processing unit that processes a received informational signal to set quality of output by the informational signal to prescribed quality, an adjusting unit that allows a user to adjust the prescribed quality in the signal-processing unit, and a setting unit that allows the user to set at least any one of a state of the received informational signal and a state of the output by the informational signal. The removable substrate has a storage unit that stores a set history of the setting unit and an adjustment history of the adjusting unit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hardware based interdigitation]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616227.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system and method for interdigitating multiple perspective views in a stereoscopic image viewing system. A lenticular sheet is affixed in intimate juxtaposition with a display area having a defined aspect ratio. The display area includes a plurality of scan lines each having a plurality of pixels, each pixel including subpixels. A map having the same resolution as the display is created to store values corresponding to each subpixel in the display area. Preferably, the map is generated beforehand and stored for later use through a lookup operation. A buffer stores a frame having n views, wherein each of the n views has the same aspect ratio as the display area. A plurality of masks is also created and stored. Each mask corresponds to a unique one of the n views and includes opaque areas and a plurality of transparent windows, each of which corresponds to a selected subpixel location. The n views are then interdigitated while applying the corresponding masks, and a value is assigned to each subpixel using the map.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hardware based interdigitation]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616228.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system and method for interdigitating multiple perspective views in a stereoscopic image viewing system. A lenticular sheet is affixed in intimate juxtaposition with a display area having a defined aspect ratio. The display area includes a plurality of scan lines each having a plurality of pixels, each pixel including subpixels. A map having the same resolution as the display is created to store values corresponding to each subpixel in the display area. Preferably, the map is generated beforehand and stored for later use through a lookup operation. A buffer stores a frame having n views, wherein each of the n views has the same aspect ratio as the display area. A plurality of masks is also created and stored. Each mask corresponds to a unique one of the n views and includes opaque areas and a plurality of transparent windows, each of which corresponds to a selected subpixel location. The n views are then interdigitated while applying the corresponding masks, and a value is assigned to each subpixel using the map.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving the same]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616244.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[To read stable image information by making small in a short time the amount of change in potential at the time the potential of signal wires or sensor bias wires drops a moment, the device is, in the refresh mode of photoelectric conversion pixels, so driven that the timing at which two drive wires are driven overlaps which are sequentially and at least consecutively driven by the control means among drive wires while keeping the signal wires at a reset potential.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image sensing device, image sensing apparatus, and image sensing position switching method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616249.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image sensing device includes a prism unit, image sensing element, fixing member, case member, support member, and a switching mechanism. The prism unit has at least two reflecting surfaces each having a free-form surface shape. The support member movably supports the prism unit within a predetermined movable range along the direction crossing light-receiving surface of the image sensing element. The switching mechanism selectively moves the prism unit to the first position at which the prism unit abuts against the fixing member or the second position at which the prism unit abuts against the case member in synchronism with the support member.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Single motor/actuator for adjusting two assemblies]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616255.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for a single motor/actuator adjustment of two assemblies (e.g., for performing zoom and auto-focus functions) for image adjustment using a clutch unit (e.g., a switch) in image adjustment modules of electronic devices. The clutch unit can be used to engage one of two lead screws having a common axis one at a time with a driving shaft (e.g., having the same common axis), so these two lead screws can operate independently in order to provide adjustments of the two assemblies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Multiple exposure methods and apparatus for electronic cameras]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616256.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for capturing multiple sets of image data with an electronic camera having a shutter and an electronic shutter for selectively allowing light to reach an image sensor comprises opening the shutter and the electronic shutter, allowing light to reach the image sensor for a first exposure time, closing the electronic shutter, reading out pixel data captured during the first exposure time, allowing light to reach the image sensor for a second exposure time, and, reading out pixel data captured during the second exposure time. The method may be used to obtain multiple differently exposed images of a scene for combination into a high dynamic range image.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for identifying an imaging device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616237.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new technique for identifying whether images are derived from a common imager, e.g., a camera, or other imaging device such as a scanner, based on the device's measured or inferred reference noise pattern, a unique stochastic characteristic of all common digital imaging sensors, including CCD, CMOS (Foveon™ X3), and JFET. The measured or inferred noise pattern of two images may be extracted and then cross correlated, with a high correlation being consistent with a common imager. Various preprocessing techniques may be used to improve tolerance to various types of image transform. It is also possible to perform the analysis without explicit separation of inferred image and inferred noise.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for improving and controlling dynamic range in an image sensor]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616243.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method and apparatus for an electronic image sensor having a base exposure, followed by a second or multiple exposures that are formed during signal readout. A timing controller controls the signal readout, such that as each line is read, the second and subsequent exposures are subsequently added to the base exposure to enrich the dynamic range. The image sensor may further include an analog-to-digital converter and noise suppression to further enhance the efficacy of the dynamic range enrichment. The system may also include additional signal processing and scaling functions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video conference system and a method for providing an individual perspective view for a participant of a video conference between multiple participants]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616226.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention relates to a video conference system (SC, SE, VI) comprising at least one visual scan means (SC), a mediating Server entity (SE) and a at least one visual presentation means (VI) for presenting a scanned perspective view connected via a network, where the visual scan means (SC) comprises change means for changing the perspective view, and the video conference system (SC, SE, VI) comprises further mediating means (SE), storage means (MO), and control means that are adapted to process individual visual perspectives for the at least one visual presentation means, where the mediating means are adapted to aggregate multiple scanned views, where the storage means buffer the aggregate multiple scanned views, where the control means are adapted to instruct the change means for selecting a scan perspective, and where retrieval means are adapted to extract a requested individual perspective view out of the aggregated multiple scanned views. The invention further relates to a mediating media server, a client device, a computer software product, and a method for providing an individual perspective view for a participant of a videoconference between multiple participants.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Remote shooting system and camera system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616232.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A remote shooting system includes an imaging unit, a main unit, and an imaging driving section. The main unit includes a position sensor that detects a vertical or horizontal position of the main unit. Based on an instruction signal transmitted from the main unit to the imaging driving section according to the position detected by the position sensor, the imaging driving section drives the imaging unit being attached to the imaging driving section about a rotation axis parallel with an optical axis of a shooting lens provided in the imaging unit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Control method used by digital image processing apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616236.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Provided is a control method used by a digital image processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a control method used by a digital image processing apparatus that records motion image data in a recording medium in a motion image photographing mode. The method includes (a) creating a motion image file in the recording medium and storing the motion image data in the motion image file in response to a first signal generated when a user presses a first button on the digital image processing apparatus; (b) temporarily stopping storing the motion image data in response to the first signal generated when the user presses a second button on the digital image processing apparatus; (c) zooming a zoom lens in response to a predetermined signal generated when the user presses a button for changing an angle of view; (d) continuing to store the motion image data input to the changed zooming position in the motion image file in response to a second signal generated when the user presses the second button; and (e) terminating storing of the motion image data and completing the motion image file in response to the second signal generated when the user presses the first button.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image processing method, image processing program, image processing apparatus, and digital still camera using the image processing apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616240.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Electronic data output from CCD is separated into a brightness component Y and color difference components Cb and Cr and an edge is extracted for each of the components. The edge amounts are calculated from the extracted edges and the component having the maximum edge amount is selected. Edge information (for example, edge gradient direction) is calculated based on the selected component having the maximum edge amount, a filter is selected based on the calculated edge information about the component having the maximum edge amount, and smoothing processing is performed for the electronic data output from the CCD based on the filter. The electronic data subjected to the smoothing processing is written into flash memory.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Linear-logarithmic pixel sensors and gain control circuits therefor]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616242.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system and method are disclosed to enlarge the sub-threshold current coefficient “α” of a reset transistor connected to a photodiode in an L-L (Linear Logarithmic) pixel sensor without modifying any semiconductor process parameters. In one embodiment, a coupling capacitor is introduced between the gate and source terminals of the reset transistor. The gate node of the reset transistor is kept floating and the change in its source voltage Vs is coupled to its gate voltage Vg by a certain rate with the help of the coupling capacitor. Thus, an effective change in (Vg-Vs) is made small, which is equivalent to enlarging the sub-threshold coefficient “α” In this manner, the signal gain in the logarithmic region of operation of the pixel sensor can be controlled by changing the coupling capacitance between the source and gate terminals of the reset transistor connected to the photodiode. The signal conversion gain in the logarithmic region is increased, but the gain in the linear region is unchanged. In one embodiment, the stray capacitance (which also affects the value of the enlarged “α”) present at the gate terminal of the reset transistor is externally controlled to achieve adaptive gain control of the output signal in the logarithmic region so as to obtain large output photo voltage swings even under varying light conditions. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be relied upon in construing the claims.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Camera having focus detection device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616251.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a camera having a focus detection device which detects a focus state of an object at a plurality of focus detection spots in an imaging area, there are provided an operation portion which selects an arbitrary focus detection spot in the imaging area, and a setting portion which sets the focus detection spot selected by the operation portion as a focus detection spot group. A signal used to set a focus state of the focus detection spot in the thus set group is output by an AF sensor, an arithmetic operation portion detects the focus state of the focus detection spot based on an output from this AF sensor, and a lens drive portion drives a focus optical system to adjust its focus based on a detection result of the focus state obtained by the arithmetic operation portion.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Detecting device and authentication device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616819.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A detecting device includes: multiple sensors composed with a plurality of sensor circuits arrayed on a plane, each of which generates at least one detected signal that corresponds to a distance from a surface of an object; a selector circuit which selects each of the sensor circuits and outputs the detected signal from each of the sensor circuits; a storage which stores digital data of a reference value; a digital-to-analog converter circuit which generates a reference signal that corresponds to a level of the reference value from the digital data stored in the storage; a generation circuit which generates, per each of the sensor circuits, in sequence, detected data according to a relationship of levels between the detected signal output from each of the sensor circuits selected by the selector circuit, and the reference signal generated by the digital-to-analog converter circuit; an arithmetic circuit which conducts a prescribed operation with a plurality of detected data sets generated by the generation circuit; a refresh circuit which refreshes the digital data stored in the storage, based on an operational value calculated by the arithmetic circuit; and an output circuit which conducts an output process, corresponding to the detected data generated by the generation circuit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Control apparatus, control method, computer program, and camera]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616252.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A control apparatus for controlling a driver driving an optical element of an image pickup device to adjust a focus position of the image pickup device in the capturing of an image of a subject, includes a relative angle variation calculating unit for calculating a relative angle variation, a mode change detecting unit for detecting of a change of a mode of the relative angle variation through determining whether the mode of the relative angle variation, calculated by the relative angle variation calculating unit, is a stable mode involving a small amount of change or an unstable mode involving a large amount of change, and a focus position control process startup unit for managing a startup of a focus position control process controlling the focus position through controlling the driver in response to a pattern of the change of the mode detected by the mode change detecting unit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three-dimensional display device and method using hybrid position-tracking system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616187.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A  3 D display device and method using a hybrid position-tracking system is provided, along with a method for displaying the  3 D image. The  3 D display device includes a main body, a display, a camera, a first calculation part, a gyroscope, a second calculation part, and a Kalman filter. The display provides a  3 D image and the first calculation part calculates a relative posture change of the display with respect to a viewing position on the basis of the image photographed by the camera. The gyroscope is mounted in the main body to sense a change in an angular velocity of the display. The second calculation part calculates a relative posture change of the display and the Kalman filter receives the calculation results obtained by the first and second calculation parts to calculate a corrected-posture-change amount of the display.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Revised recapture camera and method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616248.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a camera and method, a scene is captured as an archival image, with the camera set in an initial capture configuration. Then, a plurality of parameters of the scene are evaluated. The parameters are matched to one or more of a plurality of suggested capture configurations to define a suggestion set. User input designating one of the suggested capture configurations of the suggestion set is accepted and the camera is set to the corresponding capture configuration.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Security camera]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7614804.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A security camera includes a base and a cover having a clear transparent dome. A gimbal base is mounted on the base and is tiltable with respect to a first axis parallel to said base substantially through a 90° angle. The gimbal base is also rotatable through an angle of at least 360° about a second axis perpendicular to the base. A camera module holder/bracket is attached within the gimbal base, and a camera module attached to the holder/bracket. The camera module holder/bracket enables the position of the camera module to be adjusted along a third axis perpendicular to the gimbal base. A gimbal cover, having a hole for the camera lens, covers the gimbal base. Together, the gimbal cover and gimbal base completely enclose the camera module.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image sensing apparatus, printing apparatus, and direct printing system having them]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616230.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It is conventionally difficult to select which of an image sensing apparatus and printer executes image correction processing in direct printing of printing by directly connecting the image sensing apparatus and printer. To solve this problem, a processing site at which processing considered to obtain a more preferable output result can be executed is determined from information on image correction processes executable by the image sensing apparatus and printer. For example, the versions of software modules which execute image correction processing are compared, and processing is done by either the image sensing apparatus or printer that has a module of a newer version. An appropriate apparatus can be selected to execute image correction processing.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple method for calculating camera defocus from an image scene]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616254.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An imaging acquisition system that generates a picture depth from an auto focus curve generated from picture of a three dimensional spatial scene is described. The auto focus curve comprises a step edge. The system generates the depth based on the step edge and a reference auto focus normalization curve.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for calibrating sampling operations for an object detection process]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616780.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects an object in an image. During operation, the system determines a relationship between sampling parameters and a detection rate for an object detection process. The system also determines a relationship between the sampling parameters and a detection speed for the object detection process. The system uses the determined relationships to generate specific sampling parameters. Next, the system performs the object detection process, wherein the object detection process uses the sampling parameters to sample locations in the image. This sampling process is used to refine the search for the object by identifying locations that respond to an object detector and are hence likely to be proximate to an instance of the object.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Surface inspection method and apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616803.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There have been disclosed a surface inspection method and a surface inspection apparatus for inspecting the surface of an article, the surface being almost flat and continuous and having non-flat parts with convex shapes and concave shapes provided based on specifications, capable of inspecting for defective parts in the non-flat parts without detecting the non-flat parts as defective parts. The surface inspection apparatus comprises an image pickup device, a correction data calculation unit for calculating non-flat part correction data for making the image of the non-flat part into one equivalent to the image of the flat part based on the difference between the image of the non-flat part and the image of the flat part, a non-flat correction unit for correcting the image of the non-flat part based on the non-flat part correction data, and a defect detection unit for detecting defects on the article surface by processing the image of the article surface after correcting the image of the non-flat part.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Folding communication terminal apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616261.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A communication terminal apparatus ( 1 ) includes a first casing ( 41 ) and a second casing ( 42 ) which are foldably connected to each other and have a photographic lens ( 31 ) and a display device ( 18 ) which is visible in a same field of view as the lens. A user can photograph himself/herself while verifying his/her photographed image by means of the display device, and thus is able to gain an anticipated image composition easily, and therefore reduce unsuccessful photographs. The photographed image is displayed as a mirror image, so that the user can verify the image as if looking in to an ordinary mirror, without experiencing any awkwardness.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CMOS active pixel sensor with improved dynamic range and method of operation for object motion detection]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616231.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A CMOS imaging array includes a plurality of individual pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each pixel is constructed the same and includes a photodetector (e.g., photodiode) receiving incident light and generating an output. A first, relatively lower gain, wide dynamic range amplifier circuit is provided responsive to the output of the photodetector. The first circuit is optimized for a linear response to high light level input signals. A second, relatively higher gain, lower dynamic range amplifier circuit is also provided which is responsive to the output of the photodetector. The second circuit is optimized to provide a high signal to noise ratio for low light level input signals. Subtraction of output signals from the amplifier circuits, preferably after gain compensation, can be used to detect moving objects in the scene where the integration times for the two circuits are not the same, e.g., are staggered in time or have a different period.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Information management apparatus defining a replay sequence of new image data added to groups of images]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616235.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An album list file stores album information relating to album containing image data files, and an album list storing sequence information indicating a replay sequence of image data files at the time of replaying the image data files belonging to the album. Here, when an album containing a new image data file which has not been included in the album is designated, the sequence information is renewed so as to replay the new image data file first at the time of replaying image data files contained by the designated album.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method for timing control of an image sensor]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616238.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An imaging device having an in vivo CMOS image sensor, at least one illumination source and a controller. The controller controls the illumination source to illuminate for a first period and to be shut off for a subsequent period.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photographing apparatus, device and method for obtaining images to be used for creating a three-dimensional model]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616886.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This invention introduces, as one aspect, an apparatus for creating three-dimensional object model, comprising photographing means for photographing an object to be modeled for obtaining images to be used for creating the three-dimensional object model, setting means for longitudinally and latitudinally setting a relative position between the object and said photographing means, said setting means being capable of setting the object and said photographing means a plurality of different relative longitudinal and latitudinal positions, and control means for controlling said photographing means and said setting means so that a number of photographs taken from different relative longitudinal positions at a first relative latitudinal position is larger than that taken from different relative longitudinal positions at a second relative latitudinal position, the first relative latitudinal position being closer to a lateral position than the second relative latitudinal position. Accordingly, it becomes possible to minimize the number of photographs for obtaining necessary images to effectively keep a high quality three-dimensional object model, the number of user's manual operations is reduced, and the total photographing time for creating a three-dimensional object model is significantly decreased.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apparatus for controlling power source in mobile electronic unit]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616257.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An apparatus for controlling a power source in a mobile electronic unit using a variety of types of batteries that have different nominal voltages is provided. The apparatus includes a battery unit, a switch unit, which is connected to the battery unit and turns on or off the mobile electronic unit according to user's manipulation, a detection unit, which detects a turn on or off of the switch unit depending on the existence of an input voltage, a first power source unit, which is connected to the battery unit, generates n-channel voltages to then be supplied to elements of the mobile electronic unit, a control unit, which controls the first power source unit and the elements of the mobile electronic unit according to the operation of the detection unit; and a second power source unit to which one channel voltage among the n-channel voltages generated in the first power source unit is applied and which regulates the applied voltage and applies the regulated voltage as an operational voltage of the control unit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and system for enabling detection of signals in the presence of noise]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616265.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for transmitting data to a receiver comprises the steps of transmitting a pre-conditioning signal to the receiver, and beginning to transmit at least one data packet to the receiver within a given period after beginning transmission of the pre-conditioning signal. The preconditioning signal is separate from a leader of the data packet to be transmitted.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image processing method and image processing device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616827.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is disclosed an image processing method wherein there is read, from a memory, an image signal which contains a plurality of image components and in which a sampling ratio as a ratio of sampling frequencies of these image components is not matched. The sampling ratio of the read image signal is converted to match the sampling ratio of the image signal. The image signal whose sampling ratio has been converted is filtered. The sampling ratio of the filtered image signal is converted to reduce a data size of the signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Active pixel sensor with a diagonal active area]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616245.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An imaging device formed as a CMOS semiconductor integrated circuit having two adjacent pixels in a row connected to a common column line. By having adjacent pixels of a row share column lines, the CMOS imager circuit eliminates half the column lines of a traditional imager allowing the fabrication of a smaller imager. The imaging device also may be fabricated to have a diagonal active area to facilitate contact of two adjacent pixels with the single column line and allow linear row select lines, reset lines and column lines.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reproducing apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616861.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A reproducing apparatus includes a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data from a recording medium, a management unit configured to classify a plurality of content data recorded on the recording medium into a plurality of groups, and a control unit configured to, responsive to stopping reproducing content data, output to a display device inquiry information for classifying the content data into one of the groups.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Perfecting of digital image capture parameters within acquisition devices using face detection]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616233.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determined of one or more image attributes of at least some portion of the digital image. Values of one or more camera acquisition parameters are determined. Groups of pixels are identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digitally-captured image. Corresponding image attributes to the groups of pixels are determined. One or more default image attribute values are compared with one or more captured image attribute values based upon analysis of the image of the face. Camera acquisition parameters are then adjusted corresponding to adjusting the image attribute values.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pattern defect inspection method and apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616805.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The pattern defect inspection apparatus is operable to detect defects by comparing a detection image, which is obtained through scanning by an image sensor those patterns that have the identical shape and are continuously disposed on the object under tested at equal intervals in row and column directions, with a reference image obtained by scanning neighboring identical shape patterns in the row and column directions. This apparatus has a unit for generating an average reference image by statistical computation processing from the images of identical shape patterns lying next to the detection image including at least eight nearest chips on the up-and-down and right-and-left sides and at diagonal positions with the detection image being intermediately situated. The apparatus also includes a unit that detects a defect by comparing the detection image to the average reference image thus generated.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Solid state imaging device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7615732.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Light guides are formed above each light receiving element. These light guides are made of a high refractive index material, and surrounded by a material of lower refractive index. The light guides are each made up of a light introduction region leading with a constant width from a light entrance surface, and a tapered reduced region leading from the light introduction region to a light exit surface. The light introduction region totally reflects the incident light toward the reduced region. The reduced region, owing to its tapered shape, surely directs the light onto a light receiving element, and prevents the light from entering charge transfer paths around the light receiving element.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image capture device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7615734.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image capture device, which illuminates a subject and receives light reflected from the subject to capture an image of the subject, is provided to achieve a small-size configuration and easy assembly. A plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted in positions on the periphery of an image sensor, and a light-guiding member guides light from the plurality of light-emitting elements to the image capture range for illumination. And protrusions of the light-guiding member are pressed by the lower end of a hood which blocks light from outside the image capture range, and the hood upper end is pressed by a filter. Slits are provided in the hood lower end. Even in assembly where a visible light filter is installed on the hood and fixed to an outer case, the occurrence of gaps between the hood and the visible light filter can be prevented through the spring action of the slits.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Display panel having multiple display regions and corresponding backlight regions and method of controlling the same]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616172.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a 3D display having a plurality of display regions and corresponding backlight regions, the image data is sequentially sent to the display regions. The respective light source(s) of the corresponding backlight region is/are turned ON after a response time of each display region, without waiting for a response time or times in the other display regions. The light source(s) is/are then turned OFF after a predetermined time period. The process repeats for further image data.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Removing camera shake from a single photograph using statistics of a natural image]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616826.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A computer method and system for deblurring an image is provided. The invention method and system of deblurring employs statistics on distribution of intensity gradients of a known model. The known model is based on a natural image which may be unrelated to the subject image to be deblurred by the system. Given a subject image having blur, the invention method/system estimates a blur kernel and a solution image portion corresponding to a sample area of the subject image, by applying the statistics to intensity gradients of the sample area and solving for most probable solution image. The estimation process is carried out at multiple scales and results in a blur kernel. In a last step, the subject image is deconvolved image using the resulting blur kernel. The deconvolution generates a deblurred image corresponding to the subject image.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image data transfer system, method of generating image data file, and computer program]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616839.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An imaging apparatus transfers image data obtained during image capturing to a communication apparatus and also transmits image setting information used during image capturing of the image data to the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus records the image data transferred from the imaging apparatus, generates a file from the recorded image data, associates the image setting information transmitted from the imaging apparatus with the file of the image data and store the associated information and file.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Techniques for using an image for the retrieval of television program information]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616840.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for determining a video file such as a television program file is provided. The method comprises receiving information identifying an input image; comparing the input image with a plurality of video files to determine a video file that includes information that is considered to match the input image; and providing access to that video file or otherwise performing an action in response to the determination.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616841.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging performance using a spatial model for the source and models for the optical subsystem, the detector subsystem and the digital image processing subsystem. The optical subsystem and digital image processing subsystems are jointly designed taking into account the entire system. The intermediate image produced by the optical subsystem is not required to be high quality since, for example, the quality may be corrected by the digital image processing subsystem.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems with constrained digital filters]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616842.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging performance using a spatial model for the source and models for the optical subsystem, the detector subsystem and the digital image processing subsystem. The optical subsystem and digital image processing subsystems are jointly designed taking into account the entire system. The intermediate image produced by the optical subsystem is not required to be high quality since, for example, the quality may be corrected by the digital image processing subsystem.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for controlling a lens, and camera module incorporating same]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616877.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An efficient image capture system is disclosed that integrates functions to control a lens including one or more of focus or object distance, zoom, temperature compensation, and stabilization within an image signal processor (ISP) with appropriate algorithms. In particular, the integrated ISP circuitry may control the motion of the focus and zoom optics of an optical assembly, control stabilization, control the flash, provide enhanced functions and features for controlling the zoom and focus lenses to enable enhanced image capture sequences and/or tracking lens data, provide a set of algorithms within the ISP to alter the aspect ratio (both height and width of an image) of the image, for example to compensate for the addition of an anamorphic lens, and integrate an anamorphic lens into the module to alter an image's projected aspect ratio onto the focal plane array.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clamshell-type mobile phone with camera]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616976.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A mobile phone having a clamshell type housing includes a first part, a second part linked rotating to the first part through a hinge so that the mobile phone can be in a closed position or in an open position, a first display which is accessible to a user when the mobile phone is in the open position, a second display which is accessible to a user on an external side of the first part when the mobile phone is in the closed position, and a camera on the first part, wherein the camera is located on an internal side of the first part so that it is directed to a user of the mobile phone when the mobile phone is in the open position for capturing images and/or videos which are displayed on the first display, and the second part includes an opening through which the camera can capture images and/or videos when the mobile phone is in the closed position that are displayed on the second display.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, storage medium, and program]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616234.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In an image processing apparatus which can always provide an excellent processed image, an analysis unit analyzes condition information representing a condition at a time when an image is obtained and being included in image information, and determines an algorithm of an image correction process for the image based on the analyzed result.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reproducing apparatus, image data reproducing method, program, and storage medium]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616247.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A reproducing apparatus, an image data reproducing method, a program, and a storage medium each detects an attitude state of the reproducing apparatus, extracts a part of an area of image data obtained by an image pickup device, and reproduces the part of the area of the extracted image data. According to the detection result, the part of the area of the image data is changed to another part of the area and rotation processing of another part of the area is performed, thereby reproducing the another part of the area which was subjected to the rotation processing.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image capturing device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616250.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image capturing device is disclosed that includes a light receiving element having a light receiving surface, a plate-like transparent member provided on the light receiving surface of the light receiving element, and resin provided to at least the periphery of the plate-like transparent member. The plate-like transparent member includes a first principal plane positioned on the light receiving element side and a second principal plane opposite the first principal plane. The first principal plane is greater in area than the second principal plane.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Methods and apparatuses for determining a color calibration for different spectral light inputs in an imaging apparatus measurement]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616314.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Methods and apparatuses for determining a color calibration for different spectral light inputs in an imaging apparatus measurement are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, for example, a method for determining a color calibration for different spectral light inputs in an imaging apparatus measurement can include creating a reference color calibration and a reference luminance scaling calibration for each of a plurality of colors. The method can also include measuring a reference gray value R, G, B for each color in an image measurement of the light source. The method can further include calculating an R, G, B gray value for a first pixel in each of three filtered image measurements. The method can then include calculating pixel ratio values from each of the three first pixel gray values and comparing the reference gray values to the pixel ratio values to determine which one or more reference gray values are closest to the pixel ratio values. The method further includes calculating X, Y, Z values for the first pixel in the image measurement, and then repeating the steps of the method beginning with calculating an R, G, B gray value for each subsequent pixel in the image measurement.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video conferencing system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616591.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method configured to continuously receive frames from a plurality of video channels and transmit to each of a plurality of participants in a video conference individual frames containing information concerning each of the video channels. The method only transmits at any given instant new picture data for one of the participants in the video conference.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for power management in an electronic device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616882.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An electronic device and method for power management in an electronic device is provided. In an embodiment, the electronic device includes the functionality of a personal digital assistant, wireless email paging and a camera with a flash that is operated via self-contained power supply in the form of a battery. The device also includes a supervisor circuit which causes the device to enter sleep mode, or disables the device, or certain features of the device, if the battery level falls below a certain threshold. A method in accordance with an embodiment performs, in response to a request to fire the flash, a pre-flash test which is selected so as to not trip the supervisor circuit. The battery level is examined after the pre-flash test. If the battery level meets certain criteria, the full flash is permitted to proceed, else the full flash is not permitted to proceed.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Single lens auto focus system for stereo image generation and method thereof]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616885.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The invention presents a single lens auto focus system of stereo image generation and a method thereof. The stereo three-dimensional (3D) image capturing method of a single lens auto focus camera, includes the steps of a) taking plural multi-focus images; b) estimating the plural multi-focus images to obtain a depth map and an all-in-focus image; c) mixing the depth map with plural background depth maps to obtain a mixed depth map; d) obtaining respectively a left image for left eye of user and a right image for right eye of user by means of depth image based rendering (DIBR); and e) outputting the left image and the right image, thereby displaying a stereo image onto a 3D display.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Remote witness testing system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7617063.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A master testing control system includes at least one remote computer with one or more communications lines for communicating over a communications network and a plurality of remote sensors, a two way real-time digital video system, a two-way real-time digital audio system. A set of instructions is on each remote computer for sending and receiving data over one or more data lines and for remote display. A set of instructions is on each remote computer for displaying data. At least one local computer is located geographically distant from the remote computer and able to monitor and control the display, storage, and transmission of data acquired by the remote computer. The remote computer collects data from the plurality of sensors and transmits this data to the local computer, under the control of the local computer, for permanent recording.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Position detecting apparatus and method of correcting data therein]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616806.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A first object and a second object arranged in an actual space with coordinates (Xn, Zn) and (Xn−D, Zn) are imaged, and respective coordinates x 1*  and x 2*  of the first object and the second object in the image are calculated. Then, a coordinate x 1  of the first object in the image and a coordinate x 2  of the second object in the image are calculated by equations:
 
<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?> x 1= F·Xn/Zn  <?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?>
 
<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?> x 2= F ·( Xn−D )/ Zn  <?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?>
 
where F is a design parameter of an imaging unit. An image distortion corrective value α to correct the design parameter F is calculated by equations:
 
<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?>α· x 1*= x 1<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?>
 
<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?>α· x 2*= x 2<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?>
 
using a difference between the coordinates x 1  and x 1*  and a difference between the coordinates x 2  and x 2*.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Optical projection apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7614754.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An optical projection apparatus including an illumination system, a reflective light valve, an imaging system, and a reflective component is provided. The illumination system is suitable for providing a light beam and the reflective light valve is disposed on a transmission path of the light beam. The reflective light valve is used for converting the light beam into an image. In addition, the imaging system is disposed on the transmission path of the image. The reflective component is disposed both between the reflective light valve and the imaging system and between the reflective light valve and the illumination system, and disposed on the transmission path of the light beam and the image. The reflective component is used for reflecting the light beam onto the reflective light valve, and then reflecting the image produced by the reflective light valve into the imaging system.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and device for reducing blocking artifacts in a compressed digital image without reducing clarity of edges]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616830.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Artifacts of an incident digital image including pixels carrying information are reduced by determining, for certain pixels being considered from the image, displaced pixels. A displaced pixel associated with a pixel being considered is situated at a location that is displaced with respect to the location of the pixel being considered. Substitution information is determined by taking into account the variations between each piece of information carried by pixels situated at locations adjacent to the pixel being considered. The pixel being considered is then selectively replaced by a substitution pixel equal to the displaced pixel or to a combination of the displaced pixel and the pixel being considered, depending on the value of the substitution information.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Edge-directed images sharpening method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616838.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An apparatus includes an edge width detection circuit which detects an edge portion of image data and outputs an edge width of the detected edge portion, a ratio control amount generation circuit which generates a ration control amount in accordance with the edge width, a ratio generation circuit which generates a conversion ratio in accordance with the ratio control amount, and a pixel number conversion circuit which performs a conversion of pixel number of the image data using the conversion ratio, thereby enhancing sharpness of the edge portion in proper quantities.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Imaging device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616876.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A lens control device, for controlling driving of a second lens unit for correcting image movement regarding movement of a variating first lens unit, comprises: a storage unit for storing data indicating the position of the second lens unit corresponding to the position of the first lens unit created for a predetermined focal distance; a control unit for generating information to control driving of the second lens unit based on the data, and for controlling driving of the second lens unit based on this information; and a distance detecting unit for detecting distance to the focus object; wherein the control unit restricts the range of the generated information based on the detection results from the distance detecting unit. Or, the control unit controls driving for the second lens unit to generate the information, and performs weighting based on detection results from the distance detecting unit relating to driving control.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Light concentrating reflective display methods and apparatus]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616368.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Improved apparatus and methods for displays are disclosed that utilize light concentration array between mechanical light modulators and the viewing surface of the display. The light concentration array includes an array of optical elements that concentrate light on respective ones of the light modulators to maximize the contrast ratio and off axis viewing of the display.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TV mute finger ring]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/RE40956.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[TV Mute Finger Ring with a hollow C shaped finger ring housing. The housing contains the standard electronics and IR transmitting LED associated with activating the mute function of a standard TV. The housing also contains a battery type electrical power source. The C shaped ring housing has a loop type fastener strip attached to one end of the C shape and a hook type fastening panel affixed to the opposite end of the C shape so that said loop type fastener can removably attach to said hook fastener thereby forming a full ring that can be worn on the user's forefinger. The C shaped housing contains a momentary on-off switch and attached outwardly accessible switch cover located in a position where the user's thumb can easily reach said switch cover. The IR transmitter is covered by a transparent plastic lens that is flush with the outer surface of said C shaped housing. The plastic lens is positioned so that said lens and said IR transmitting LED are pointed outwardly in the general direction of said TV.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reducing undesirable block based image processing artifacts by DC image filtering]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616829.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A post-processing manager provides reconstructed block based picture post-processing that is uncoupled from picture decoding by dividing a reconstructed image that was encoded using block based processing into non-overlapping blocks, creating a DC image by computing the DC value of each block, creating a zero mean image by subtracting the DC value of each block from the corresponding pixels of that block, filtering the DC image and adding the filtered DC image to the zero mean image. A weak filtering operation can be applied to reduce blocking artifacts, and a strong filtering operation can be applied to smooth luminance transitions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Viewfinder for single lens reflex camera]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616884.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a viewfinder for a single lens reflex camera, in which a focused image of an object formed on a ground glass by a photographing lens is transmitted to an ocular optical system through a pentagonal prism or a pentagonal mirror and an information image displayed on an indication surface of an indication block is transmitted to the pentagonal prism or pentagonal mirror, through an indication prism, so that the object image and the information image are indicated in the finder view field of the ocular optical system, the indication surface of the indicator is inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to an incident surface of the image-erecting optical member toward the incident surface, and an angle between the indication surface of the indicator and the incident surface of the image-erecting optical member is smaller than 90°.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dual wavelength enhanced vision system optimized for visual landing light alignment]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7617022.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An enhanced vision system for an aircraft is disclosed. The invention includes a display apparatus having a display element positioned between the pilot and a scene. The display element permits the pilot to view the scene therethrough. A first sensor is mounted adjacent to the display element. The first sensor is configured to detect light having a first radiation spectrum emanating from a first portion of the scene. A second sensor is mounted upon the aircraft away from the display element. The second sensor is configured to detect light having a second radiation spectrum emanating from a second portion of the scene. The display element is configured to visually represent the detected light with the first radiation spectrum precisely conformal with the scene as viewed by the pilot. The display element is configured to visually represent the detected light with the second radiation spectrum substantially conformal with the scene as viewed by the pilot.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Digital content creation system, program product, and storage medium]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616216.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is disclosed a digital content creation system including: a representative color obtaining section that obtains, from a digital content input, a characteristic amount of at least one representative color for the digital content input, the digital content input including a plurality of digital content sets and coloration information indicative of coloration for the plurality of digital content sets included in the digital content input; a coloration process determination section that determines coloration processing in accordance with the characteristic amount obtained by the representative color obtaining section; and a coloration processing section that changes the coloration information for the digital content sets included in the digital content input, in accordance with the coloration processing determined by the coloration process determination section.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apparatus and method for resonant lens focusing]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7615729.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method and apparatus for focusing an image on a pixel array. The method includes the steps of continuously changing the distance between a lens and a pixel array between a first distance and a second distance and obtaining an image projected onto the pixel array through the distance is changing. The apparatus includes a lens and an electromechanical structure to continuously change the distance between the lens and the pixel array between the first distance and the second distance.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for generating characteristic data of illumination around image display device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616214.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of generating illumination characteristic data around an image display device, includes: obtaining predetermined illumination characteristic data around the image display device; and making the predetermined illumination characteristic data into a data format comprising a type block and an illuminance block. The type block indicates information on a type of illumination, and the illuminance block indicates information on the illuminance of illumination.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Image observation apparatus and image observation system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7616382.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The image observation apparatus includes a first image-forming element and a second image-forming element each of which forms an original image, and an optical system configured to introduce light fluxes from the first and second image-forming elements to an exit pupil position of the optical system where an eye of an observer is placed. The optical system includes an optical surface as a single surface that reflects the light flux from the first image-forming element and transmits the light flux from the second image-forming element. The first image-forming element and the second image-forming element respectively form a first original image and a second original image that correspond to different viewing fields from the exit pupil position. The apparatus combines plural original images to enable observation of one combined image and that can suppress generation of light scattering.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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