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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8035702 | Pixel defect correction device for line crawl To enhance accuracy in correction of a defective pixel. An image of an object is captured using a digital camera, and stored in an image memory 14. A processor 16 detects a defect, using pixels located in the vertical and horizontal directions relative... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7952616 | Transmitting digital images to a plurality of selected receivers over a radio frequency link An electronic camera system includes a programmable transmission capability for selectively transmitting electronic image data to a plurality of remote base units. In one embodiment, a camera module is detachably coupled to a portable computer including a display sc... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7830419 | Digital camera, gain-computing device and method To determine a more appropriate WB gain. A first image data, which is obtained by way of photographing essentially the same subject as that of a main image intended by a user without firing a strobe light for preliminary illumination, and a second image data, which ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7804529 | Digital camera and time lag setting method A digital camera records, as image data for storage in storage memory, image data captured a preset time lag period before image data captured at the time of receipt of a capture instruction among a plurality of frames of image data consecutively output by an image ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7738016 | Digital camera with dual optical systems A digital camera has a first optical system having a wide zoom lens and a second optical system for a telephotography zoom lens. In an initial state where power is active, a controller and timing-generator controls the wide zoom lens so as to be situated at a wide p... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7705892 | Auto white balance apparatus and white balance adjusting method To provide an auto white balance apparatus and a white balance adjusting method capable of performing more stable white balance adjustment. For every block, a characteristic pixel determination circuit 106 determines a characteristic pixel from among a pixel ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702230 | Digital camera and exposure condition determining method To provide a digital camera capable of causing a focus sensor to detect a focus while outputting to an image sensor image data for providing appropriate exposure after having adjusted an aperture ratio of an aperture in an image capture optical system such that appr... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701490 | Automatically transmitting images from an electronic camera to a service provider using a network configuration file A network configuration file is generated at a host computer and downloaded to a digital camera. This file contains instruction information for communicating with a selected destination via a communications interface. The digital camera includes a “send” button ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7653299 | Imaging apparatus An image of appropriate exposure is obtained in a short period of time. A controller and timing generator performs photometric measurement by use of an image signal acquired from a CCD, and determines appropriate light exposure. The CCD is divided into a plurality o... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7636109 | Digital camera A digital camera capable of accurately detecting flicker even while a video image is displayed on a display device is provided. In a digital camera, a video image is displayed on a display device 40 serving as a viewfinder for photographing based on a display... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7623177 | Image capturing device having multiple optical systems In a digital camera having multiple optical systems, multiple image capturing elements are effectively driven to reduce power consumption. A digital camera has a first image capturing optical system having a lens and a first image sensor and a second image capturing... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7602438 | Method and apparatus for capturing high quality long exposure images with a digital camera A digital camera captures high quality long exposure images by capturing and summing several images of the same scene. The effective ISO of the camera is reduced by scaling the summed image, thus reducing image noise and improving long exposure quality. ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7593569 | Pixel defect correction device A point defect and a line defect in a captured image resulting due to an imaging element defect in a digital camera are interpolated. A defect correction circuit of a digital camera simultaneously corrects a point flaw, a vertical line flaw, and a horizontal line fl... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593043 | Image processing device and white balance adjustment device The present invention provides a white balance adjustment device that is capable of adjusting white balance by estimating a color of a light source with a high degree of accuracy, even for a scene in which an object such as a leaf is present. The white balance adjus... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590335 | Digital camera, composition correction device, and composition correction method When composition of a first captured image having a tilted subject image is corrected, the first image is rotated such that the subject image stands in an erect position, according to the attitude of the camera achieved during capture of the first image. Images corr... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587337 | Leasing configured camera system A method for a customer leasing a configured camera system including a camera and services for using such configured camera system and paying for the lease of such configured camera system, includes the steps of providing an electronic database of information descri... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7586535 | Camera having a detection circuit for detecting operational interval T between the half-press operation and full-press operation The present invention relates to an image capturing device for applying auto-focus processing triggered in response to an operation of half-pressing a shutter button, and initiating image capturing triggered in response to an operation of full-pressing the shutter b... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583308 | Image capturing apparatus The present invention provides a digital camera which has a plurality of image capturing optical systems and quickly performs automatic focusing. A digital camera includes a first image capturing optical system formed from a lens 2 and a first image sensor, a... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7583301 | Imaging device having chromatic aberration suppression Accurately suppress chromatic aberration arising in a subject image is described. An image signal, which is obtained by a lens and a CCD and pertains to a subject image, is subjected to white balance adjustment performed by a white balance adjustment circuit. The si... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7583294 | Face detecting camera and method A method for determining the presence of a face from image data utilizes at least first and second algorithms. The first algorithm prescreens the image data, by determining a plurality of face candidates utilizing a pattern matching technique that identifies image w... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7570269 | Font management system A time for displaying bitmap data is shortened, and the volume of a font table is reduced. A table having all records from start 0000h to end FFFFh is used as a pointer table which imparts a start address of bitmap data. A start address of bitmap data is stored in e... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561794 | Digital camera and image-sharing method Image data captured by digital cameras are shared among the digital cameras. Image data captured by digital cameras constituting members of an image-sharing group are shared, by way of a network, within the image-sharing group. Every time captured image data are out... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561788 | Image-capturing device having multiple optical systems In an image-capturing device having multiple optical systems, power consumption is reduced and operativity by the user is improved. The image-capturing device has an optical system having a relatively wide angle of view, and an optical system having a relatively nar... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561191 | Camera phone using multiple lenses and image sensors to provide an extended zoom range A camera phone includes a phone stage for generating voice signals, a first image sensor for generating a first sensor output, a first fixed focal length wide angle lens for forming a first image of the scene on the first image sensor, a second image sensor for gene... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7512733 | Semiconductor memory and memory controller therefor The present invention relates to AG-AND-type flash memory which reads management information about a plurality of clusters in a short time, wherein a plurality of clusters are arranged as rows of a matrix, and a plurality of banks are arranged as columns. Single man... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509042 | Digital camera, image capture method, and image capture control program The present invention provides a digital camera that is capable of capturing a picture in which the brightness between a main subject and a nighttime background are well balanced. When an image capture instruction is received while a night scene portrait mode is set... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509041 | Image-capturing device having multiple optical systems By providing different switching points between two optical systems for the case where an image capture device such as a camera is zoomed in, when the angle of view for the captured image is transitioned from wide to tele, and for the case where the camera is zoomed... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7495697 | Network configuration file for automatically transmitting images from an electronic still camera A network configuration file is generated at a host computer and downloaded to a digital camera. This file contains instruction information for communicating with a selected destination via a communications interface. The digital camera includes a “send” button ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492389 | Electronic camera having an interface for selecting users permitted to view transferred images An electronic camera for capturing images that can be transferred to a service provider includes an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of scenes and for producing image signals representative of the corresponding scenes; an analog-to-digital converter ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7480450 | Camera system and cameras connectable to radio network, which are used in the camera system Coordinated image capturing is appropriately performed even if an error occurs in the synchronization between cameras that are connected via a network. Camera A for image capturing and camera B for providing strobe light are connected via a radio network, and camera... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7465081 | Lighting system A compact or thin lighting system is provided. Light fluxes emitted from an arc tube 22 are made to enter from a light reception face c1 of an optical member 24 from a reflector 24 and to emit from a light emission face c3 orthogon... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7465516 | Battery housing structure A lid of a battery case is supported on a shaft fixed on a battery box. The lid comprises a cover portion and a support arm for attaching the cover portion to the shaft. A hook formed on the cover portion engages with a hook receiver provided on the battery box, so ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466912 | Storage apparatus A storage compartment for loading and unloading batteries of varying sizes efficiently. The storage compartment is internally equipped with a position regulating plate part on a ceiling part, an ejection urging part, a thickness judging part, and a contact point par... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7453605 | Capturing digital images to be transferred to an e-mail address An electronic still camera for capturing images to be transferred to at least one e-mail address is disclosed. The electronic still camera includes an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of scenes and for producing image signals representative of the co... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453498 | Electronic image capture device and image file format providing raw and processed image data An electronic image capture device for capturing a color image, comprising an image sensor comprised of discrete light sensitive picture elements overlaid with a color filter array (CFA) pattern to produce sensor color image data corresponding to the CFA pattern; an... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450160 | Auto white balance apparatus and white balance adjusting method To provide an auto white balance apparatus capable of performing stable white balance adjustment. A parent block is divided into child blocks by a block-dividing circuit 110, and a typical value is calculated every child block by a typical-value calculating c... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7443418 | Method for producing electronic job pages A method for producing a plurality of electronic job pages using a digital camera and a computer comprises the steps of capturing and storing a first group of digital images using the digital camera; designating, in response to a user input, that subsequent captured... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7408582 | Methods for configuring a digital camera and for display digital images A method for customizing a digital camera for at least one particular user is disclosed. The digital camera includes a reprogrammable memory for storing firmware which controls the operation of the digital camera and a camera graphical user interface responsive to t... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404029 | Accessing device To provide an accessing device which allows reliable protection of important data. A memory accessing device has a file system device which manages a logical memory space and a driver device which maintains a correlation information between the logical memory space ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7342609 | Exposure adjustment in an imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus for performing exposure adjustment based on the luminance of screen images through photoelectric conversion includes a structure for providing a signal to be applied to a screen for viewing images, a structure defining a region satisfying a pred... | 03/11/2008 |
