Quotables
"That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"
President Rutherford B. Hayes ; Said in 1876, after Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to him at the White House
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127327 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING PICTURES THEREOF Digital photographing apparatus and methods of providing picture at the digital photographing apparatus are disclosed. An example digital photographing apparatus transmits a picture of an object to be captured to a server, acquires at least one pre-captured picture of t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127333 | CAMERA A camera detects a face portion of a subject from a shot image to determine whether a shot image is a good shot candidate image from the features of the face portion and a face portion-related image portion. As examples, the features include, but not be limited to, (1) ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127331 | Imaging Geometries for Scanning Optical Detectors with Overlapping Fields of Regard and Methods for Providing and Utilizing Same Imaging devices and techniques that utilize multiple optical detectors are described and, in particular, imaging geometries for imaging devices that include three or more optical detectors with overlapping fields of regard. The imaging geometries are determined and prov... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127332 | DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A digital image processing apparatus, which displays a setting item designated by a user together with a setting status of a setting value for the setting item to allow the user to efficiently set items necessary for photographing and/or other operations, and a control ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105661 | ROW AND COLUMN JUMPING FOR PIXEL READOUT USING BURST SWITCHING MODE An imaging apparatus is described for obtaining images. The imaging apparatus includes a pixel array, a row decoder, a column decoder, and a trigger circuit. The pixel array integrates electrical signals corresponding to incident light from a scene. The row decoder enab... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105578 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD Both tilt information included in an image and positional information are acquired in order to calculate a relative tilt angle between at least two images. Whether the tilt information can be used to estimate the tilt angle (whether the tilt information is fake informat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105663 | Haptic Feedback Response A device to capture an image with an image capture component, determine whether the image is acceptable in response to a device applying at least one image detection algorithm on the image, and provide a haptic feedback response to a user of the device if the image is a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105627 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus has: a first image processing unit for generating first image data by executing a dodging processing to an image signal obtained by picking up an image of an object; and a second image processing unit for generating second image data by exe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105662 | CAMERA SYSTEM PROVIDING A MEASURE OF POSE QUALITY A camera system may include an image sensor to generate real-time image data of a scene having a subject. A pose evaluator can generate a pose metric signal having a pose value that provides a variable measure of a pose quality for the subject in the scene. A pose feedb... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110626 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING MEMORY USAGE ON A COMPUTING DEVICE Systems and methods of managing memory usage on a computing device include obtaining a data file having a first quality and a first file size. A modified quality data file is automatically generated from the obtained data file responsive to obtaining the data file. The ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105665 | DIGITAL IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor configured to include a plurality of pixels in its image pickup area; a plurality of analog-to-digital converters configured to share a plurality of analog signals read out from the plurality of pixels to perform analog... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105666 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, an AD conversion unit, a clamp processing unit, and a video signal correction unit. The clamp processing unit is configured to clamp to a black level, an image signal of an effective pixel region or an optical-black region ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105667 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SMOOTHING DYNAMIC RANGE OF LUMINANCE OF AN IMAGE SIGNAL, COLOR CONVERSION PROCESS An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an object image, a smoothing unit configured to smooth a dynamic range of luminance of an image signal generated based on the object image captured by the imaging unit, and a color conversion unit confi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105680 | SOC STRUCTURE OF VIDEO CODEC-EMBEDDED IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE SENSOR USING THE SAME A system on chip (SoC) structure of a video codec-embedded image sensor and a method of driving an image sensor using the same are provided. The image sensor includes a first domain including a codec processing unit processing image data using a video codec and a core p... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105572 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING A VIDEO-CAPTURE DEVICE A video-capture device is configured to determine when it is disposed on a supporting surface and, in response, automatically adjust one or more device settings to optimize the device settings for automatic mode. In various embodiments, a sensor, such as a grip sensor, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105684 | DIGITAL CAMERA This invention includes an imaging device that photographs a subject, a display device that has a display screen displaying image data photographed by the imaging device, a zoom device that varies the display screen, an extraction device that extracts a predetermined fe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105664 | Moving Image Pickup Apparatus, Method For Observing Moving Image, Moving Image Observing Program, And Computer-Readable Recording Medium A moving image is divided with imaging timing aligned without using a synchronous input. A moving image pickup apparatus to pick up a moving image of one or more objects as an imaging target includes an image obtaining unit for obtaining an input moving image composed o... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105689 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image processor which is capable of performing correction of defective pixels without degrading image quality when synthesizing a plurality of still images. When a plurality of image data items are synthesized, a first reference value which is smaller than a second r... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105690 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND IMAGING METHOD USING MULTIPLE LENS AND APERTURE UNITS A camera system (100) comprises a plurality of imaging units (190), wherein each imaging unit (190) includes a lens unit (120) and an aperture unit (110), and wherein the apertures (115) of the aperture units (110) have d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081567 | TECHNIQUES FOR SYNCHRONIZING AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA IN AN IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM The present disclosure provides techniques for performing audio-video synchronization using an image signal processing system. In one embodiment, a time code register provides a current time stamp when sampled. The value of the time code register may be incremented at r... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081568 | STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE An information processing device, which acquires a face image of a person to be imaged that is captured by an imaging device, executes: a determination step of determining whether a distance between a face of the person to be imaged and the imaging device is within a pr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081579 | High Dynamic Range Transition In personal electronic devices including digital imaging capability, methods, devices and computer readable media are described for determining when image capture operations may benefit from using high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) operations. In general, techniques are ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081566 | FLASH SYNCHRONIZATION USING IMAGE SENSOR INTERFACE TIMING SIGNAL Certain aspects of this disclosure relate to an image signal processing system that includes a flash controller that is configured to activate a flash device prior to the start of a target image frame by using a sensor timing signal. In one embodiment, the flash control... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069208 | Methods, Systems , and Computer Program Products for Assuring Horizontal Image Capture A system comprises an accelerometer, a display, an image capture means, a controller, and an indicator capable of displaying angle from vertical or horizontal, whereby the controller uses data acquired from the accelerometer to drive the indicator.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069209 | LENSLESS CAMERA CONTROLLED VIA MEMS ARRAY A lensless camera may include an array of MEMS-based light-modulating devices. A camera controller may control the MEMS-based light-modulating devices to transmit visible light through, or substantially prevent the transmission of visible light through, predetermined ar... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069210 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS PERFORMING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup section to pick up a subject image; and a central processing section to perform processing of arbitrarily setting at least one automatic photographing condition among a plurality of kinds of automatic photographing cond... | 03/22/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120070085 | MOBILE TERMINAL, ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA USING THE SAME Provided are a mobile terminal, an electronic system, and a method of transmitting and receiving data using the same for effectively transmitting and receiving data between the mobile terminal and external electronic devices.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069211 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD OF ARRANGING IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT An image pickup apparatus is provided with: an optical system including a lens or a reflecting mirror; an image pickup device having a light-receiving surface on which light rays from the optical system are focused and a plurality of light-receiving pixels which generat... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069212 | IMAGE CAPTURE WITH ADJUSTMENT OF IMAGING PROPERTIES AT TRANSITIONS BETWEEN REGIONS Image capture by using an imaging assembly having spectral sensitivities which are tunable in accordance with a capture parameter. First and second capture parameters are applied respectively to first and second regions of a scene, and a preview image is captured and di... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050557 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE SENSOR This disclosure describes techniques for producing high dynamic range images by applying a variable weighting factor to a sample prior to combining the sample with another sample. In one example, a method includes sampling a first pixel cell signal at a first time to pr... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050558 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes: a casing; a posture detection unit detecting whether a posture of the casing is a vertical posture; an imaging unit capturing an image of a subject and outputting the captured image; an image transform unit transforming the captur... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050560 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes signal processing units that are provided in correspondence with columns of a pixel array and that have at least a plurality of analog-to-digital converters that convert signals output from pixels into digital signals, an ou... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050561 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information indicating a photographing position of an image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire photographic information on photographing of the image, a determ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050582 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NOISE CANCELLATION AND AUDIO ENHANCEMENT BASED ON CAPTURED DEPTH INFORMATION A monoscopic camera comprising one or more image sensors and a depth sensor may generate video based on two-dimensional image data captured via the one or more image sensors and corresponding depth information captured via the depth sensor. The camera may process corres... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050562 | DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM, PLENOPTIC OPTICAL DEVICE AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD A digital imaging system being configured for synthesizing an image of a plenoptic optical device, comprises a photosensor array comprising a plurality of photosensors arranged in a predetermined image plane, and a microlens array comprising a plurality of microlenses a... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050559 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image signal; a setting unit configured to set, in an image expressed by the image signal, a plurality of evaluation areas to be targets of evaluation value calculat... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044341 | OPTOFLUIDIC MICROSCOPE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP An integrated circuit may contain image sensor pixels. Channels containing a fluid with samples such as cells may be formed on top of the image sensor. Control circuitry may be formed on the integrated circuit. The image sensor pixels may form light sensors and imagers.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044364 | IMAGE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A user terminal and an image communication method and apparatus include outputting a captured image without performing left-and-right reversion when the captured image includes a symbol. Further, an image camera includes an image generate to generate a captured image, a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044372 | DUAL IMAGE SENSOR IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD Various techniques are provided for processing image data acquired using a digital image sensor. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, one such technique may relate to the processing of image data in a system that supports multiple image sensors. In one ... | 02/23/2012 |
