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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| 20120129574 | Detecting Encoded Signals Under Adverse Lighting Conditions Using Adaptive Signal Detection The present disclosure relates generally to signal detection adaptable to accommodate various lighting conditions, and to embedding signals according to anticipated lighting conditions likely to be present during image capture. One claim recites a method comprising: obt... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108292 | Camera Mobile Phone with Anti-Shaking Function and Anti-Shaking Method for Use by The Camera Mobile Phone in Image Capturing A camera mobile phone with an anti-shaking function and an anti-shaking method for use by the camera mobile phone in image capturing are disclosed. The anti-shaking method comprises the following steps of: using a gravity sensor module of the mobile phone to detect a sh... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108290 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND RECORDING MEDIUM A mobile electronic apparatus includes a storage unit which stores an image shot by an image shooting unit, a region information obtaining unit which obtains region information indicating in which one of a plurality of regions the mobile electronic apparatus is located,... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108291 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND MOBILE PHONE EQUIPPED THEREWITH An image pickup apparatus includes light-emitting means for emitting light to a person as a subject when the subject is photographed, and light emission control means for controlling the amount of light emitted by the light-emitting means. The light emission control mea... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083313 | REMOTE VIEW AND CONTROLLER FOR A CAMERA A device operable with a camera is disclosed which includes a display screen, remote from the camera, and a processor for receiving an image signal of the field of view of the camera and for displaying an image of the field of view of the camera on the display screen. T... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083312 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal and an operation control method thereof are provided. The operation control method includes displaying a stereoscopic 3D image, which is created based on the disparity between left- and right-eye images, on a display module; determining a position of a... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071204 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND SENSOR MODULE A mobile terminal device includes a face panel provided on an exterior of a housing, a sensor module that detects that the face panel is touched, where the sensor module is provided on a more inward side of the housing than the face panel, a light-emitting unit provided... | 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 |
| 20120052907 | Hands-Free, Eyes-Free Mobile Device for In-Car Use In one embodiment, a method determines an event at a mobile device and a movement value for a speed of movement of the mobile device based on the event. The movement value is compared to a threshold. If the movement value has passed the threshold, the method enables a m... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046073 | Remote Monitoring Device & Process A remote monitoring device is integrated as part of a cell phone or personal digital assistant. By sharing computing resources of a communications transceiver, the cost of a monitoring device can be significantly reduced, while still permitting sufficient functionality ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046071 | SMARTPHONE-BASED USER INTERFACES, SUCH AS FOR BROWSING PRINT MEDIA Certain aspects of the present technology concern counterparts to smartphone gestural user interface operations that can be used with printed documents and other tangible objects. Other aspects involve mapping mouse-based user interface techniques for use with camera-eq... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044070 | System and Method for Remote Patient Monitoring and Assessment to Facilitate Patient Treatment A system and method for remote patient monitoring and assessment to facilitate patient treatment are provided. The system includes at least one portable computing device (such as a smart cellular telephone) operated by a caregiver, which generates a plurality of user in... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046072 | USER TERMINAL, REMOTE TERMINAL, AND METHOD FOR SHARING AUGMENTED REALITY SERVICE Provided are a user terminal, a remote terminal, and a method for sharing an augmented reality (AR) service. The method for sharing an AR service by a user terminal includes displaying an image received from a remote terminal; recognizing an object included in the displ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040716 | DEVICE-ADJACENT AMBIENTLY DISPLAYED IMAGE Telecommunication devices each having projection apparatuses capable of projecting ambiently displayed images at locations proximate to the telecommunication devices on surfaces that are substantially parallel to planes formed by the telecommunication devices are descri... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040717 | Mobile Data Gathering System and Method A system and method are provided for gathering various types of data using a mobile device and organizing such data. Images of text documents can be collected on a mobile device and conveyed to an analysis module for optical character recognition and parsing to categori... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VEHICLE EXPENDABLES USING AUGMENTED REALITY A vehicle expendable management system is adapted to manage expendables within a vehicle using an augmented reality technique. The vehicle expendable management system includes: an expendable information storage for storing checking and changing period information for e... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040655 | Cell Phone Based Tampon Monitoring System A cell phone based tampon monitoring system features a tampon with a sensor in it, a sensor hub in a wired signal connection with the sensor and in a wireless signal connection with a cell phone. Software installed on the cell phone initially identifies the sensor hub u... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040718 | Pocket DJ The Pocket DJ is a mobile device combining the functionality of a cell phone and a DJ mixer. The invention has a top piece and bottom piece which house all of the vital components. The two pieces are attached along one edge, allowing them to flip open and closed, provid... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTING WITH A SET-TOP BOX BASED ON SENSOR EVENTS FROM A USER DEVICE An approach is provided for controlling a set-top box based on sensor triggered events on a user device. A set-top box receives a control message from a user device, wherein the control message specifies an event corresponding to one or more sensors of the user device. ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034951 | CRADLE FOR EXTENDING DATA CAPABILITIES TO A WIRELESS DEVICE The invention is directed to a cradle that extends a wireless device's ability to communicate data through a wireless communications network. The cradle includes a frame having back, side, and bottom portions that define an open space for receiving a wireless device tha... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028679 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A mobile electronic device includes: a housing that includes an opening part; a display part that includes a display area and that is disposed inside the housing, wherein the display area is visible from the outer section of the housing through the opening part; a touch... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028680 | SMARTPHONE-BASED VEHICULAR INTERFACE Method for enabling interaction with a vehicle including coupling a smartphone to the vehicle via a coupling element whereby the smartphone is removable from the coupling element and thus removable from the vehicle, and transferring data between the smartphone and the v... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028678 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE THEREIN A mobile terminal includes a display including a touchscreen, a plurality of cameras including a first camera and a second camera capturing a left eye image and a right eye image, respectively, to generate a three-dimensional (3D) image, and a controller for generating ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028577 | MOBILE DEVICES AND METHODS EMPLOYING HAPTICS A variety of haptic improvements useful in mobile devices are detailed. In one, a smartphone captures image data from a physical object, and discerns an object identifier from the imagery (e.g., using watermark, barcode, or fingerprint techniques). This identifier is se... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029994 | COUPON ORGANIZATION USING A BAR CODE READER A consumer can use his or her cell phone to scan barcodes from newspaper circulars at home, on a computer screen at home and/or to scan coupon barcodes positioned on the edge of shelves in a store or displayed on a kiosk in a store. The data from all these coupons is be... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021786 | METHOD OF SENDING A MESSAGE USING A MOBILE PHONE Presented is a method and system for sending a message using a mobile phone. The method includes composing a message for sending to a recipient, generating a contact-label having contact information of the recipient, combining the message and the contact-label, capturin... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021802 | IMAGE PICKUP LENS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND MOBILE TERMINAL Provided is a small-sized five-element image pickup lens which ensures a sufficient lens speed of about F2 and exhibits various aberrations being excellently corrected. The image pickup lens is composed of, in order from the object side, a first lens with a positive ref... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023171 | MOBILE MULTI-NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE A method of operating a Smartphone or other mobile handheld wireless computerized communications device outside of a normal cellular network. The method can be useful for either reducing cellular phone costs, or alternatively when the cellular phone infrastructure is de... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120015692 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM PRODUCT A cellular phone includes, for the sake of privacy protection, a camera for outputting a pick up image in which an operator is photographed, a touch panel to accept designation of at least a partial region of the pick up image, and a control portion to determine a maske... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015690 | DETECTION OF MOBILE PHONE USAGE Systems, methods and apparatuses for detecting the use of a mobile communications device while driving a vehicle. Data from a vehicle is correlated with data on the use of a mobile communications device to determine if the mobile communications device was used at the sa... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015691 | Combined Rear View Mirror and Telephone A mobile telephone or cellular telephone unit and a rear view mirror housing of an automobile are combined to provide an improved telephone apparatus that enables a hands-free use by a driver while operating the vehicle, the improved telephone apparatus includes a rear ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120009978 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING HYPERLINKED INFORMATION VIA HANDHELD DISPLAY DEVICE A method of displaying hyperlinked information using a handheld display device. The method includes the steps of: imaging an area of a printed substrate and generating image data using an image sensor; determining interaction data using the image data; retrieving displa... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110319130 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF OPERATION A method of operation of a mobile terminal includes displaying, on a display module, a preview image generated by a camera module, obtaining object information for at least one object shown in the preview image or at least one object within a predetermined distance of a... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110319131 | MOBILE TERMINAL CAPABLE OF PROVIDING MULTIPLAYER GAME AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal and an operating method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes displaying a preview image provided by a camera module on a display module; searching for object information of an object within a predetermined distance of the mobile terminal;... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110312377 | PRINT MEDIUM HAVING LINEAR DATA TRACK AND CONTIGUOUSLY TILED POSITION-CODING TAGS A print medium configured to be printed on by a pagewidth printhead in a print direction. The print medium includes: a laminar substrate defining first and second opposite faces; a data track containing first information encoded in accordance with a linear encoding sche... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312375 | METHOD FOR REPRODUCING MOVING PICTURE AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THIS METHOD According to an embodiment of the present invention a moving picture reproduction method includes reproducing, via a display on the mobile terminal, a moving picture, extracting, via a controller on the mobile terminal, a still picture at an interrupted timing if the mo... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312349 | LAYOUT DESIGN OF PROXIMITY SENSORS TO ENABLE SHORTCUTS A mobile platform includes a plurality of proximity sensors coupled to a housing including on the sides, front and back of the housing. Signals from the proximity sensors are analyzed to determine configuration of the proximity sensors that are activated. The configurat... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312378 | TELEPHONE HAVING PRINTER AND SENSOR A telephone is provided having an input at which a print medium is loaded, a sensor for sensing an identifier of the loaded print medium, and a printer for determining whether or not the loaded print medium is a valid print medium on which printing can be performed. If ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312376 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND GROUP GENERATING METHOD THEREIN A mobile terminal and group generating method therein are disclosed, by which a group can be generated using at least one character object included in an image currently displayed. The present invention includes displaying at least one image including at least one chara... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312374 | MOBILE AND SERVER-SIDE COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY Automated photographic capture assistance and analysis is effectuated to assist users in capturing sufficient and optimal images of a desired image scene for use in a photographic end product. Photographic capture assistance is implemented on the device that includes a ... | 12/22/2011 |
