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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6836286 | Method and apparatus for producing images in a virtual space, and image pickup system for use therein According to the method and apparatus, light beams directed toward virtual visual points are detected from among light beams emitted from or reflected on the surface of an object. The detection is effected by an image pickup device in a plurality of positions lying ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 7107705 | Insole with improved cushioning and anatomical centering device An insole having a molded base and a top sheet. The insole includes directional air ports for facilitating airflow above and below the insole. In addition, the insole has a shock absorbing pad positioned on the bottom of the base to provide cushioning to the area of... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7079685 | Method and apparatus for image processing, including processing for reproducing black character areas of color and monochromatic images In an image processor which converts color image data to image data of cyan, magenta, yellow and black necessary for forming an image, a black character edge is discriminated in R, G, B image data. The edge component in a black character area is deleted by narrowing... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075615 | Light separation device, blazed grating device, diffraction grating device, and illumination optical system A thin and light optical device satisfactorily separates light components having different properties. A blazed grating is formed on a surface of a flat-plate-shaped transparent substrate, and a separation coating that reflects or transmits incident light according ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7042650 | Zoom lens device A zoom lens device has a zoom lens system having a plurality of lens units; and an image sensor converting an optical image formed by the zoom lens system, into electric image data. The zoom lens system has, from the object side, a first lens unit disposed on the mo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042652 | Image-taking apparatus A zoom lens system for forming an optical image of a subject on the image-sensing surface of an image sensor has three lens units, namely, from the object side thereof, a first lens unit having a negative optical power, a second lens unit having a positive optical p... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7021770 | Rear projection optical system An oblique projection optical system for leading rays of light from a display surface on which an image is displayed to a projection surface in such a way that the ray of light from the center of the display surface is obliquely incident on the projection surface in... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024466 | Network configured for delivery of content for download to a recipient Network systems and processes for delivery of electronic content to recipient processors may be configured to facilitate the delivery of relatively large content items and/or a relatively large number of content items. In one example, a movie rental system and proce... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023592 | Band-pass filter and image display apparatus A band-pass filter has a reflecting optical element having a fixed reflection angle selection region for wavelengths of a given region, and has an optical path such that reflection is performed at least once and transmission is performed at least once at the reflect... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019852 | Image forming apparatus capable of image formation in a plurality of modes A user-friendly, image forming apparatus capable of reducing operation errors by users provides a permission to change a print mode to the staple print mode when the device is placed in the original mixed mode and the image data of originals all have a same length i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017467 | Guided missile defense method and apparatus A method of defense against optically guided missiles, said method comprising the steps of: mounting a single-ended laser adjacent the area to be protected emitting electromagnetic radiation at a frequency within the sensitive freq... | 03/28/2006 |
| D517833 | Lap desk | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012758 | Projection optical system and projecting apparatus provided with same A projection optical system includes from the enlargement side a first lens unit, a mirror which is an optical path bending member, a second lens unit, and a third lens unit. The projection optical system is designed so that a condition (1), 5.5 | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013110 | Radio receiver apparatus for concurrent reception of voice and related information A radio receiving apparatus is used at a sporting event to provide a spectator with additional information and contact with the participants in the event. In an automobile racing event, each of the automobiles can be equipped with a two-way radio for communication b... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006105 | Color correction method and color correction program to obtain desired output image The gray axis of an input apparatus is shifted so as to match the gray axis of an output apparatus. Each data on a plane of equal lightness located in the Gamut of the input apparatus is shifted in the same direction in accordance with the shift of the gray axis by ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006940 | Set up for a first integrated circuit chip to allow for testing of a co-packaged second integrated circuit chip A method and system are provided for testing a first integrated circuit chip which is packaged along with at least a second integrated circuit chip in a semiconductor device, wherein at least some external terminals for the semiconductor device are shared by the fir... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002751 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus forms illumination light from a light source into image light by using a reflective display device, and directs the image light through an eyepiece optical system to an eye to present a virtual image of the image carried by the image light... | 02/21/2006 |
| D515292 | Insole bottom design | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999122 | Solid-state logarithmic image sensing device In a solid-state image-sensing device, after completion of image sensing by individual pixels, in each pixel, a signal φVRB fed to a capacitor C1 connected to the gate of a first MOS transistor T1 is turned to a high level to make it easy for a negati... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996652 | High-speed segmented data bus architecture A system is provided for driving data signals in an integrated circuit device. The system includes a plurality of functional blocks, each having at least one input/output connection along one side of the integrated circuit device. A data bus comprises a plurality of... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6995995 | Digital loop for regulating DC/DC converter with segmented switching A power control circuit is provided containing a switch array, which includes segmented switches, a flying capacitor, an output voltage terminal, a feedback loop, and a digital voltage regulator block. The digital voltage regulator block includes an A/D converter, a... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992672 | Driving device and information processing device for a data storage medium A driving device for a memory card with a liquid crystal display which uses a material with a memory effect. A digital camera is an example of such a driving device. When the driving device receives data of a photographed image from a camera body, the image data are... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992711 | Digital camera with a plurality of media for recording captured images A digital camera reduces the possibility that a user's release operation is disabled and performs photographing operations at the appropriate times. The digital camera (1) can load a memory card (40a) and a magnetic disk card (40b)... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993600 | Write control sequencer for optical read/write and DVD combination integrated circuit A controller for a writable optical media is presented. The controller includes a write control sequencer that monitors the transmission of data from a host device to the writable optical media without continuous supervision from a microcomputer. The write control s... | 01/31/2006 |
| D513706 | Tactical hand-held metal detector | 01/24/2006 |
| 6982756 | Digital camera, image signal processing method and recording medium for the same An image captured with a CCD is divided into blocks. Light amount correction data each set for each one of the blocks are read out from a correction value table 211g, a correction value generator 211h weights the light amount correction d... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6979875 | Reduced surface field technique for semiconductor devices A power device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The power device comprises a first conductive semiconductor substrate; a second conductive buried layer formed to a certain depth within the semiconductor substrate; a second conductive epitaxial l... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977778 | Image-taking apparatus A zoom lens system for forming an optical image of a subject on the image-sensing surface of an image sensor has three lens units, namely, from the object side thereof, a first lens unit having a negative optical power, a second lens unit having a positive optical p... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975101 | Band-gap reference circuit with high power supply ripple rejection ratio A band-gap reference circuit includes a core reference circuit with a core output terminal, a voltage amplifier, coupled to the core output terminal and having a voltage amplifier terminal, a transconductance amplifier, coupled to the voltage amplifier terminal, and... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975362 | Video signal converter for converting non-interlaced to composite video A VGA to analog video converter is useful e.g. for displaying video and/or graphics data from a computer onto a large screen television or television monitor. The RGB video signals output from the personal computer are first converted to digital form. The analog-to-... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973220 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image processing program An image processing method includes the steps of obtaining an image in which a first area including a first image and a second area including a second image are discriminated with each other, and a control step for performing a blur control to a second image using a... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970174 | Texture mapping method and apparatus A texture mapping apparatus for jointing a plurality of texture images where mapping positions are partially overlapped so as to map the texture images on a surface of a three-dimensional model. The texture mapping apparatus has a texture cutting out section which e... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967682 | Photoelectric converting device In a photoelectric converting device, a photoelectric current (electric signal) generated by light entering a photodiode PD causes the gate voltage of MOS transistors T1 and T2 to rise, and thus a current corresponding to this gate voltage flows throug... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963374 | Method for live view display and digital camera using same Digital camera techniques improve the convenience of a live view display and the like. Image processing in a digital camera includes image processing (i.e., live view processing) for real-time display of a subject on a liquid crystal monitor and image processing per... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963376 | Distance measuring device and a camera provided with the distance measuring device In the distance measuring device, even if there are unmeasurable distance measuring regions, suitable estimate is set as the distance data of the unmeasurable region in accordance with distance data of the measurable distance measuring regions and the space on the o... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961091 | Digital camera with light adjusting control of flash A digital camera capable of photography using a flash exposure to illuminate a photographic subject is provided with an image sensor having a plurality of photoreceptor elements and capable of independently reading the electrical load of a specific photoreceptor ele... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961089 | Digital camera that displays a previously captured image on an LCD when a half-mirror is in motion When an instruction to record an image is provided while a live view is being displayed, the image shot immediately before the provision of the instruction is displayed while a half mirror is moving to retract from the optical path, and the image to be recorded shot... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958779 | Digital camera A digital camera has a half mirror that splits the optical path from a taking lens to the image-sensing device and an optical viewfinder that offers the light reflected from the half mirror as a visible image. Inside the optical viewfinder, a photometric device is d... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956429 | Low dropout regulator using gate modulated diode A voltage regulator includes an input terminal at which an input voltage is applied and an output terminal at which an output voltage is provided to a load. The load defines a load current. A gate modulated diode is connected between the input terminal and the outpu... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956595 | Light shutter device and a driving method thereof While light of R, G and B is switched from one to another and directed to a plurality of light shutter elements made of PLZT, a voltage is applied in accordance with image data between individual electrodes for the respective light shutter elements and a common elec... | 10/18/2005 |
