Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 8036516 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus includes an information recording unit that generates reproduction range information indicating the range of image signals to be reproduced as moving picture and that records it on an optical disk. When representative images rep... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7420585 | Image capture and display device A display device for capturing and displaying images along a single optical axis. The device includes a display panel having a front side and a back side, said display panel capable of being placed in a first display state which allows displaying of an image on said... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7321783 | Mobile entertainment and communication device A mobile entertainment and communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the Internet and one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7271932 | Digital image processing apparatus, digital image processing method, digital image processing program product, and digital image printing system Digital image processing apparatus is provided with a monitor for displaying an image, a moving picture reader for reading moving picture data, a memory for storing still image data obtained from the moving picture data, a display controller for displaying on the mo... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7254416 | Mobile entertainment and communication device A mobile entertainment and communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the Internet and one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250966 | Method and device for determining a displacement of images in an image sequence A device and a method for determining a displacement of images in an image sequence, which are specially used to compensate for a camera movement. A plurality of image regions of the images is available for determining the displacement, each image region being provi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7197329 | Wireless communication apparatus, cordless telephone, display operation control method, program, and storage medium There is provided a wireless communication apparatus, which is capable of suppressing a burst noise emitted due to data transfer during wireless communication, thereby enhancing communication quality. The wireless communication apparatus transmits and receives a spe... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7176956 | Video enhancement of an avatar A communication system (100) includes two or more communication devices (110, 150) for communicating video including at least one virtual image. An avatar is associated with each communicated image. Change messages are communicated between a transmitti... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7106204 | Shared attention detection system and method An attention detection system detects a condition of shared attention of plural persons. The system includes plural body language detectors each associated with a different person for detecting body language of the associated person. An analyzer receives body langua... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7071967 | Personal computer camera adapted to operate as a digital still camera and an audio reproducing apparatus The present invention provides a PC camera with various applications, which is capable of being used as a digital camera independently after separating from the PC. The PC camera includes a memory for storing digital audio data, and a digital audio decoder for repro... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7042486 | Image capture and display device An image capture and display device includes an electronic motion image camera for capturing the image of a subject located in front of the image display device and a digital projector for projecting the captured image. An optical element provides a common optical a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035468 | Methods and apparatus for archiving, indexing and accessing audio and video data Archival storage and retrieval of audio/video information is described. Audio and/or video information is digitized, compressed and stored in an intermediate archive format (IAF), which preserves the content at a high-enough quality for subsequent retrieval and conv... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7012638 | Electronic still camera having a charge storage element In an electronic still camera having a charge storage type image-capturing element, electrical charges are stored at the image-capturing element in correspondence to the subject brightness distribution and the stored charges are read out from the image-capturing ele... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6961927 | Lossless, context-free compression system and method Lossless, context-free data compression is implemented using a data aware compression scheme that is specific to the type of data being compressed. A modified delta compression scheme is used in which difference information is encoded with reference to a set of typi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6919923 | Digital still camera capable of communicating audio and image data to/from a remote site A digital still camera includes means for converting an optical image into a digital electromagnetic image signal, means for transmitting an electromagnetic to designate a remote device accessible in accordance with a wireless telephone system, means for receiving a... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6909452 | Remote video telephone system The remote video phone system comprises a base video unit, at least one remote video unit and a circuit configured to allow the base unit and one or more remote video units to communicate with one another or a standard external telephone line. The base unit comprise... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6897891 | Computer system using a digital camera that is capable of inputting moving picture or still picture data A host computer includes a device driver which is adaptive to a digital camera and has a storage driver function for writing/reading image data representative of a still picture in/out of the camera by bulk transfer, an image driver function for receiving image data... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6816192 | Motion pictures sending apparatus and motion pictures communication apparatus A motion pictures sending apparatus has a camera interface for receiving an image signal from a camera, a frame conversion unit for carrying out coordinates conversion on the received image signal and generating image data, a memory for storing the image data, an im... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6803948 | Television camera with off-line parameter adjustment An image camera (e.g. a professional or consumer camera/camcorder, an electronic still picture camera) comprises a frame memory (82) between its image sensor (2) and an electronic signal-processing circuit (3). A scene can be “frozen” in res... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6771888 | Data structure for allowing play of a video program in multiple aspect ratios A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects (“M&E”) track, or a switching master M&E track. Individua... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6359643 | Method and apparatus for signaling a still image capture during video capture A method provides for the signaling of a still image capture during video capture, the method including a step of receiving a still image frame capture command in a push model mechanism. The method also includes a step for capturing an image frame; and, m... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6313863 | Image communication apparatus and system A combined image is made up of a static image and a motion image. An area of the static image is replaced by the motion image to form the combined image. The combined image is then coded and transmitted from one communication partner to another communicat... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6188431 | Electronic still camera and method for communication between electronic still cameras The communication terminal of one electronic still camera is connected to that of the other electronic still camera by means of a specific cable or infrared rays. The image data item to be transferred is selected from the image data items stored in the fl... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6172672 | Method and system for providing snapshots from a compressed digital video stream A method and system are provided for delivering video from a client to a server over a communication medium with a limited bandwidth. An initial image quality that allows the video to be displayed in real time at the client is determined based on a predet... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6108027 | Progressive still frame mode A still image is progressively transmitted over a communications channel by computing, encoding, and outputting for transmission difference information representing the difference between the still image and a lower quality representation of the still ima... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6075554 | Progressive still frame mode A still image is progressively transmitted over a communications channel by computing, encoding, and outputting for transmission difference information representing the difference between the still image and a previously-transmitted image that has been st... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6038257 | Motion and still video picture transmission and display An imaging system and method for alleviating perceptional problems of a viewer during the transmission and display of high resolution still images on a video system is disclosed. Through modifications to an encoder and decoder within the imaging system, t... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5940049 | Remote interactive projector with image enhancement The projector of the present invention provides a means for interactively displaying and annotating a document image at two separate locations. The projector consists of an image plate having an array of picture elements for displaying the image; a projec... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5870208 | Method and apparatus for printing high quality still picture frames A method and apparatus for printing a hand motion corrected still picture frame to form a clear, high quality image. Even field and odd field data making up a still picture frame are stored in a memory. The stored frame is divided into blocks and a motion... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5867209 | Television telephone which displays image data having a first precision degree and image data having a second precision degree on a respective display region of a display screen A television telephone apparatus is coupled with a home-use large-screen TV receiver and a home-use telephone, and is connectable to another television telephone apparatus of a counter party via the home-use telephone and the public telephone network. The... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5757418 | Television conference system and method therefor An apparatus for displaying an image captured by a video camera displays a window of the captured image, buttons displayed about the window for scrolling the image, and a sizing button displayed adjacent the window for enlarging/reducing the size of the w... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5619424 | Software carrier for storing digital data representative of picture information and including pan scan data An optical disk format for representing several synchronized signals, e.g., multiple versions of motion pictures and multiple soundtracks. All signals are represented digitally, and the bits are arranged in data blocks. Each data block may contain a varia... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5568279 | Remote interactive projector The projector of the present invention provides a means for interactively displaying and annotating a document image at two separate locations. The projector consists of an image plate having an array of picture elements for displaying the image; a projec... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5550646 | Image communication system and method An image communication system and method includes an image capture device which utilizes CCD technology to "take a picture", i.e., to capture an image, and then to generate a digital representation of that image which may be applied to a fax modem and the... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5493329 | Picture transmission system A picture transmission system used in a picture remote surveillance system or a visual telephone, etc. is provided. This picture transmission system includes, on the transmitter side, an A-D converter for converting an analog video input signal into a dig... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5475421 | Video data scaling for video teleconferencing workstations communicating by digital data network A video scaling apparatus and technique for compressing and reconstructing video data sent between multimedia workstations during a video teleconference includes a video data scaling device which scale unscaled video data, having V horizontal lines of H p... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5452022 | Image signal storage device for a still video apparatus An image signal inputting and outputting apparatus has a memory device for temporarily storing image signals. In addition, the image signal inputting and outputting apparatus includes an A/D converter for converting analog image signals to digital image s... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5317455 | Recording system which can record signals from two fields for the composition of one picture A recording system comprises an image pick-up recording device to record the picture information obtained through the image pick-up on a recording medium by a recording head; and a control device to change the relative location of the head and the medium ... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5305097 | Communicating apparatus having a calling party number display device There is disclosed a communicating apparatus such as a television telephone connected to the ISDN having a calling party number display service, including a receiving unit for receiving image data sent from a calling party communicating apparatus; a memor... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5199061 | Communication method and equipment for freeze-frame video phone The present invention comprises a system bus performing control and data transmission function among modules, a system control means, connected to the system bus, performing system control and interrupt control function, a modem and DTMF signal processing... | 03/30/1993 |
