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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169538 | Image rotation adaptor An image rotation adapter that is configured to be detachably mounted between an image capturing lens and a camera main body in a camera and includes a first prism configured to invert the object image passed through the image capt... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8077576 | Optimum gap determined recording/reproducing apparatus and method A recording/reproducing apparatus is disclosed that includes a spindle motor unit including a spindle on which a flexible recording disk is placed, a stabilizer plate disposed so as to face the recording disk, a torque detection unit configured to detect a drive tor... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8026971 | Visible and infrared light image-taking optical system The present invention provides a visible and infrared light image-taking optical system which can facilitate changing a wavelength of infrared light used to take an infrared video image with an infrared light camera and which can achieve an infrared video image not ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8000220 | Digital data transmitting apparatus and digital data receiving apparatus To provide a digital data transmitting apparatus and a digital data receiving apparatus that can realize, even when a transmission channel characteristic changes because of aged deterioration or the like of a relay, improvement of a reception performance following t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7834308 | Imaging apparatus having electron source array that emits electrons during a blanking period An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configur... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7825582 | Flexible display and manufacturing method thereof A flexible display of the present invention is an active matrix flexible display in which a TFT is provided for each pixel. In the flexible display, an adhesive layer, a protective layer, a gate electrode for the TFT, which is buried in the protective layer, a gate ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7769197 | Electronic watermark embedding method, electronic watermark detecting method, electronic watermark detecting apparatus and program An electronic image into which an electronic watermark is to be embedded is divided into a plurality of image regions spatially, and pixels each having a property of being difficult to visually recognize a variation in a pixel value are extracted as adaptive pixels ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7723664 | Imaging apparatus having electron source array An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configur... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7686455 | Optical system and projection display device Light in primary colors RGB modulated in a first modulation optical system is transmitted through a relay lens (36) and further divided into a P-polarized light and an S-polarized light by a PS separation wire grid (37). The S-polarized light is transm... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7639884 | Prefilter, compressive coding pre-processing apparatus and decompressive decoding post-processing apparatus, and compressive coding apparatus and decompressive decoding apparatus A prefilter for use in a compressive coding apparatus, the compressive coding apparatus including the prefilter for limiting a frequency band of an input image and a compressive coding unit for implementing compressive coding of an image signal of which frequency ba... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7567674 | Content transmission apparatus, content reception apparatus, content transmission program, and content reception program A content transmission method, a content reception method, an apparatus and a computer program using same, that improve the efficiency of descrambling a scrambled content, make the management of cryptography keys for descrambling easy, and protect the copyright of c... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7486804 | Method and device for detecting three-dimensional information An image of an object illuminated by illumination light having given intensity is formed as an optical image. The distance between respective points of the object is determined on the basis of a video which is obtained by acquiring the optical image with a given ima... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7433127 | Imaging device and display device Disclosed are an imaging device and a display device which both have a simple structure without any need of an image conversion. The imaging device includes a lens component group including multiple lens component systems, each of which focuses incident light from t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7380135 | Diligent control of preview of stored contents A method of transmitting contents, which are to be received at a reception side where a portion of the contents is previewed while the contents are not accessible for playing other than for a preview purpose, includes the steps of encrypting the contents by a first ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7356144 | Control of usage of contents in digital broadcasts A method of transmitting a content to a reception side includes the steps of encrypting the content by use of a scramble key that varies with time, encrypting scramble-key-associated information that includes at least the scramble key and usage-control information, ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7330599 | Contour compensation circuit, and a method and program for contour compensation, and an image signal display device A contour compensation circuit that generates a contour-compensated signal by which a signal level of a contour of the object is emphasized, from an image signal obtained by an image pickup of an object. This circuit includes a reverse gamma controller, a contour co... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7301969 | OFDM transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and transmitting system and signal structure of transmission signal for use in the same A transmitting system wherein a transmission signal composed of main data and a TMCC signal having a SYNC pattern indicating the header portion and a bit pattern indicating setting information of the main data is transmitted and received. In the transmitting apparat... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298856 | Chip microphone and method of making same A chip microphone implemented as a single silicon-based chip includes a diaphragm which includes a vibration portion that vibrates in response to sound pressures, a support block which is formed on the diaphragm, excluding at least the vibration portion to provide a... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7250226 | Phosphorescent compound, a phosphorescent composition and an organic light-emitting device An organic polymeric phosphorescent compound and an organic light-emitting device employing the organic polymeric phosphorescent compound. The phosphorescent compound is a neutral organic polymeric phosphorescent compound emitting phosphorescence and used in an orga... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248295 | Image pickup apparatus including a solid-state imager having a plurality of light receptive areas A solid-state imager 20 outputs image signals corresponding to picture elements received from light-receptive areas thereof. A sample-and-hold circuit 24 performs a sample-and-hold operation for the image signals at prescribed times. A driving circuit ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7054067 | Three-dimensional image optical system A three-dimensional image optical system including at least an elementary image optical subsystem constructed with plural afocal optical elements which include the first and the second optical components, wherein the plural afocal optical elements are aligned in a p... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050595 | Audio mixing circuit An audio mixing circuit used in an audio mixing console includes an equalizer, a fader cascaded to the equalizer, a distance filter cascaded to the fader, and a pan circuit cascaded to the distance filter. The distance filter is configured to attenuate and increase ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042537 | Image display panel An image display panel that is composed of a plurality of picture elements aligned in a form of a matrix wherein picture elements consist of red, green and blue color cells corresponding to three primary colors and a picture element wherein three color cells are pla... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7016298 | Signal transmission/reception system of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing A transmission apparatus of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for multiplexing a plurality of carriers orthogonal to one another to transmit a modulated signal. The transmission apparatus includes a first modulator for outputting a code modulated in accorda... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016519 | Method and device for detecting three-dimensional information An image of an object illuminated by illumination light having given intensity is formed as an optical image. The distance between respective points of the object is determined on the basis of a video which is obtained by acquiring the optical image with a given ima... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6975078 | Dimming-control lighting apparatus for incandescent electric lamp A dimming-control lighting apparatus for an incandescent electric lamp with less accompanying color temperature change, using a dimming power source installed in TV studios or theater stages, is disclosed. The voltage of the first filament whose rated voltage is low... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973118 | Digital broadcasting apparatus A frequency interleaving circuit frequency-interleaves main signals generated according to sound data by parameters set according to frequencies of transmission channels. A sub-signal generating circuit generates sub-signals for transmission control including pilot ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6965650 | Digital modulation type signal transmission apparatus and method of displaying received signal in the signal transmission apparatus A signal transmission apparatus for a digital modulation type, wherein each of information codes is assigned to any one of a plurality of signal points arranged on an I-Q complex plane, a pilot signal used for demodulating said information codes and an auxiliary sig... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6927623 | Amplitude-modulated signal receiving circuit To improve the quality of the demodulated signal without altering the form in which an AM radio wave is transmitted, the received amplitude-modulated signal is converted to a single-sideband signal, and the information signal demodulated from the phase term of this ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6903785 | Liquid crystal projector device In a liquid crystal projector device, a first polarization beam splitter 22 separates an entering green light into first and second green lights perpendicular to each other, and a first liquid crystal element 23 modulates the first green light via a se... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6899429 | Optical process unit, image generation system using the same and optical process method of the same An optical processing unit comprises a dichroic filter to filtrate a green-colored light off a white light, a polarizer to selects a certain linearly polarized light component from the filtrated green-color light and a dichroic mirror to resolve the light into two l... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6895124 | Image processing apparatus In this invention, for example, in order to realize conversion to “smooth skin” and “wrinkle enhancement” with a natural look while preserving the grain and texture of the skin, a specific amplitude band variation component separation type digital filter (β... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6876773 | Apparatus and method for coding binary image with improved efficiency An apparatus for coding a binary image representing an object shape includes an inferior symbol detecting unit which decides which one of binary zero and binary one is an inferior symbol that is of smaller occurrence within a given area of the binary image, a divide... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6874890 | Projection device having first and second green-light modulation means A projecting a plurality of red pixels, green pixels, and blue pixels to display a color image on a screen. First and second green pixels differing in their positions correspond to red and blue pixels projected on the screen. ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6859342 | Magnetic head device with a short auxiliary member A magnetic head device having excellent sliding contact between its slider surface and magnetic tape at the time of scanning is provided. This magnetic head device has a base member, a thin-film magnetic head formed in contact with the base member and accommodated i... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6833538 | Device for determining focused state of taking lens In a focusing state determining device for determining a focusing state of a taking lens, an object light entering the taking lens is captured by focusing state determination imaging elements provided separately from a video imaging element, and the focusing state i... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6822801 | Device for determining focused state of taking lens A beam splitter (24)for splitting light in a wavelength range of about 500 nm to about 600 nm is arranged in a relay optical system of a taking lens (12). A green light beam reflected from the beam splitter (24) is directed through a relay lens ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6788654 | Digital data receiver After receiving a time division multiplex signal including a plurality of digital data signals transmitted in accordance with different transmission schemes, the received time division multiplex signal is demodulated by a demodulation circuit, and it is judged by a ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6771823 | Coding and decoding of moving pictures based on sprite coding A method of coding and transmitting moving pictures includes the steps of coding an extended background image, coding parameters indicative of an image area within the extended background image, coding a foreground picture that is to be composed with a background pi... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6745365 | Coder with error correction, decoder with error correction and data transmission apparatus using the coder and decoder An encoder and a decoder each having an error correcting operation, and a data transmission apparatus using them for data transmission in a multilevel modulation system. In transmission data is converted into parallel data. One bit thereof is inputted to a convoluti... | 06/01/2004 |
