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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120081561 | DIGITAL CAMERA A digital camera of the present invention has: an optical housing having a bending optical system for reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis to form an image on ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081562 | DIGITAL CAMERA A digital camera of the present invention has: an optical housing having a bending optical system for reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis to form an image on ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069205 | Image Based Systems For Detecting Information On Moving Objects Systems and methods for generating images of an object having a known object velocity include imaging electromagnetic radiation from the object onto a sensor array of an imaging system, adjusting at least one of a shutter rate and a shutter direction of the imaging syst... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120026347 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD A digital photographing apparatus includes an optical system, an optical image stabilization (OIS) unit adapted to move the optical system, and a digital signal processor in communication with the OIS unit. The digital signal processor sets an operating ratio of the OIS... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026312 | Image Stabilization and Capture Device for an Image Capture System of a Surgical Microscope The present invention relates to an image stabilization device which is particularly space-efficient and has a quick response time, and which is integrated into an image capture device for an image capture system of a surgical microscope, including a carrier substrate (... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019677 | IMAGE STABILIZATION IN A DIGITAL CAMERA Disclosed is a method for processing a digital image, the method comprising: selecting a set of frames from a plurality of frames captured by a digital imaging device: identifying a set of pixel blocks from the set of frames; and integrating the set of pixel blocks to p... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019680 | IMAGING DEVICE, CONTROLLING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE CONTROLLING METHOD An imaging device includes an image capturing element which photoelectrically converts a subject image into electrical charge information, a driving device which drives a driving part related to image capturing, and a controlling unit which changes a driving frequency o... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013754 | Optical image stabilizer and method of manufacturing the same The present invention provides an optical image stabilizer including: a substrate; a table which faces the substrate and has an image sensor mounted on its upper surface to be horizontally actuated on the substrate; supporting members for supporting the table on the sub... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002062 | MODULAR AND INTEGRATED EQUIPMENT STABILIZING SUPPORT APPARATUSES An image-capture device stabilizer comprising a plurality of frictionally engaged components. The components are, or are configurable into, parts such as an image-capture device platform, a gimbal apparatus, and one or more balancing arms. The image-capture device stabi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110279649 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An apparatus, computer readable medium, and a method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus comprising a plurality of optical systems, the method including deriving shake information from the plurality of optical systems; and determining a base optical system ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110249130 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA An electronic camera includes an imager. An imager repeatedly outputs an image representing a scene captured by an imaging surface. An adjuster adjusts an imaging condition by referring to any one of a plurality of adjustment references including a specific adjustment r... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110157385 | IMAGING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH IMAGE ENLARGING DISPLAY FUNCTION, RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING CONTROL PROGRAM OF THE IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus includes a display section to sequentially display each of the images generated by the imaging section and an enlargement display control section to sequentially display parts of the images generated by the imaging section on the display section whi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157384 | Stabilizing rod for a video camera stabilizer The present invention relates to a photographic apparatus and more particularly pertains to a stabilizing rod for a video camera stabilizer which comprises a data processing circuit, wherein it further comprises memory units which are connected to the data processing ci... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110141298 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD Image data captured by a capturing unit is inputted. Exposure information of the captured image data is inputted. Rotary-vibration information, which indicates rotary vibration of the capturing unit at the time of image capture, is inputted. A blur, which is caused by t... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110122269 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR VIBRATION AND IMAGING APPARATUS USING THE SAME A method of compensating for vibration and an imaging apparatus are provided. The method of compensating for vibration includes determining whether a vibration compensation starting condition is satisfied, and starting compensating for vibration prior to operating a shu... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110109757 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which provides an appropriate inclination guide display in accordance with an aspect ratio of a picked-up image and the like. The image pickup apparatus includes an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image pic... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110109756 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which provides an appropriate inclination guide display in accordance with an aspect ratio of a picked-up image and the like. The image pickup apparatus includes an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image pic... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110050922 | IMAGE STABILIZER AND RELATED IMAGING MODULE AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE An exemplary image stabilizer includes a stationary supporting frame, a moveable frame, a driving assembly and a resilient assembly. The moveable frame is moveably received in the stationary supporting frame and spaced from the stationary supporting frame. The driving a... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110050923 | IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit operable to capture a subject image to generate image data, a controller operable to calculate a target exposure value based on the image data and control exposure based on a first shooting parameter set by a user to obtain ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110037863 | IMAGING DEVICE Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a first substrate having a first communication device; a second substrate having a solid-state imaging device and second communication device to exchange signals with the first substrate; a shake correction section adapte... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110018990 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DIRECTION OF IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND MOVING BODY COMPRISING SAME A polarization camera that can capture polarization images and a color image at the same time is used. Specifically, a clear sky polarization image, which provides information about the polarization of a part of the sky, is captured by a clear sky polarization image cap... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110013031 | BLUR CORRECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS Upon detecting the start of a panning operation, an adder-subtracter applies an offset from an offset change circuit to the output of an HPF (High-Pass Filter) representing the shake amount of an image capturing apparatus to decrease the shake amount. The offset value i... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110001837 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image sensing apparatus having a camera shake correction function of moving an optical axis of an image sensing device, the apparatus comprises an optical axis moving amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a moving amount of the optical axis at the time of sho... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001836 | ACTUATOR AND ANTI-VIBRATION CAMERA MODULE USING SAME An actuator includes a stationary member defining a first receiving room and a center axis, a moveable member received in the first receiving room and being apart from the stationary member, a driving member, and a resilient spring assembly. The moveable member is coaxi... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100245585 | Headset-Based Telecommunications Platform A hands-free wireless wearable GPS enabled video camera and audio-video communications headset, mobile phone and personal media player, capable of real-time two-way and multi-feed wireless voice, data and audio-video streaming, telecommunications, and teleconferencing, ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245605 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND ACTIVATION METHOD THEREFOR An image capturing device includes a first controller operable to control image capturing; an operation section including a switch; a detector operable to detect a change to an image capturing mode and to send a signal representing the change; a second controller operab... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100245604 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, REPRODUCING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD To provide an image processing device that calculates a parameter used for correcting large video jitter with high accuracy even when the accuracy of a sensor for measuring a movement of a photographing device is low. The image processing device includes: a constraint c... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238309 | Handheld Article with Movement Discrimination A digital camera 10 has a pair of angular rate-sensing gyroscopic sensors 130 with mutually perpendicular axes and an electronic circuit 120 responsive to the sensor output signals to discriminate between voluntary and involuntary movements of the a... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100238308 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH IMAGE STABILIZATION MECHANISM An exemplary electronic device includes a housing, a lens module, a light source, an image sensor module, and an image processor. The lens module is received in the housing and used to receive light from an object. The light source is configured for projecting a light b... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100214426 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE, IMAGE STABILIZING UNIT, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS A lens driving device having a simplified structure in which a holding member is moved relative to a stationary member with appropriate viscous damping is provided. The lens driving device includes the holding member configured to hold a compensation lens for image stab... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100214425 | METHOD OF IMPROVING THE VIDEO IMAGES FROM A VIDEO CAMERA A method of improving a video image by removing the effects of camera vibration comprising the steps of, obtaining a reference frame, receiving an incoming frame, determining the frame translation vector for the incoming frame, translating the incoming frame to generate... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100149354 | IMAGE STABILIZER AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT THEREWITH A CCD support mechanism includes a CCD holder for holding a CCD, a first printed circuit board having a first printed coil, a second printed circuit board having a second printed coil, a pair of horizontal leaf springs, and a pair of vertical leaf springs. When a camera... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100118157 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAMERA MODULE A measuring device includes an actuator which holds a lens unit and moves the lens unit in the direction of the optical axis thereof. A test chart is photographed, with the lens unit being opposed to a reference image pickup device, and the lens unit is positioned at a ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100053347 | Content-Aware Video Stabilization In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a source video sequence; determining a stabilized camera path to which the source video sequence is to be stabilized; and generating a stabilized video sequence, wherein each frame of the stabilized video sequence is gener... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100026821 | OPTICAL APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM The optical apparatus includes an image pickup optical system including a focus lens, a controller controlling movement of the focus lens in an optical axis direction of the image pickup optical system, a shake detector detecting a shake amount of the optical apparatus ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100002089 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING HAND SHAKE CORRECTION AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS Provided are a digital photographing apparatuses and methods of controlling the same. The method includes: inputting previous preview image data; inputting current preview image data; comparing and determining a pixel value of the previous preview image data and a pixel... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090309986 | Modular portable motion control system A modular portable motion control camera system includes one or more motion control blocks that are connected together directly to each other, connected together with connecting hardware, or connected to other equipment to be moved by the motion control block to create ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090295930 | Method and apparatus providing motion smoothing in a video stabilization system A method and apparatus for smoothing an image in a plurality of video frames consisting of a current frame and at least one previous frame. The position of at least one pixel in each of the plurality of frames is determined to provide respective determined positions. An... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090284610 | Image Processing Device, Image Shooting Device, And Image Processing Method A merged image is generated by merging together a first image obtained by shooting with a reduced exposure time, a second image obtained by shooting with an increased exposure time, and a third image obtained by filtering out a high-frequency component from the first im... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090244301 | CONTROLLING MULTIPLE-IMAGE CAPTURE According to some embodiments of the present invention, pre-capture information is acquired, and based at least upon an analysis of the pre capture information, it may be determined that a multiple-image capture is to be performed, where the multiple-image capture is co... | 10/01/2009 |
