Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7042507 | Digital camera, pixel data read-out control apparatus and method, blur-detection apparatus and method A digital camera includes an image pick-up element that can read out pixel data in a nondestructive manner, specifying means for specifying addresses of a plurality of pixels thinned out among all pixels of the image pick-up element, and data read-out means for read... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038715 | Digital still camera with high-quality portrait mode A digital still camera (10) receives and digitizes visible radiation (17) and sound waves (32) from a scene (12). When an operator actuates a shutter release (46), the camera detects and evaluates digitized information (22, 38 | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038709 | System and method for tracking a subject An image tracking system for generating digitized image frames of a moving object using an image capture device and a position control device. The image capture device and determining a location value for an object image within each of the digitized image frames. Th... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7015952 | Image processing apparatus and a method to compensate for shaking during image capture An image processing apparatus comprises an image capture device which generates a video image containing an image shake caused by a shake of the image capture device, a region selector which selects a given image region used for detecting the image shake, a shake de... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7002617 | Coordinated audio and visual omnidirectional recording A surveillance system featuring a camera that is directed to focus on a location where a noise has been generated and display an image of the location. The system includes an omnidirectional camera having a lens for viewing a 360° field of view, a visual memory for... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993157 | Dynamic image processing method and device and medium A motion image processing method and device for authenticating a user using a specific device, using motion information of an object. Time series monochrome images, obtained by photographing an object, using a camera, are input. An object is detected from an initial... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6967678 | Moving imager camera for track and range capture A precision motion platform carrying an imaging device under a large-field-coverage lens enables capture of high resolution imagery over the full field in an instantaneous telephoto mode and wide-angle coverage through temporal integration. The device permits automa... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6850265 | Method and apparatus for tracking moving objects using combined video and audio information in video conferencing and other applications A video processing system tracks a moving person or other object of interest using a combined audio-video tracking system. The audio-video tracking system comprises an audio locator, a video locator, and a set of rules for determining the manner in which settings of... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6801249 | Device for emitting a time varying signal in the field of vision of a picture taking device A device for emitting digital video images may include a picture-taking unit for producing the images and a unit for forming at least one signal in the field of vision of the picture-taking unit so that the signal appears in at least some of the images produced by t... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6785469 | Distance measuring device installed in camera The present invention provides a distance-measuring device has an AF area sensor that includes an image pick up element formed on a semiconductor substrate for receiving two images having a parallax therebetween, and a photo reception signal processing circuit forme... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6693666 | Moving imager camera for track and range capture A precision motion platform carrying an imaging device under a large-field-coverage lens enables capture of high resolution imagery over the full field in an instantaneous telephoto mode and wide-angle coverage through temporal integration. The device per... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6667741 | Image generating device and image generating method The brightness of the image of a character displayed on a screen is consistently kept optimum even if the view point of a camera is changed, and the image of the character is appropriately shaded and three-dimensional since such shading is characteristic ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6667764 | Video camera apparatus and video monitor system A video camera apparatus effects one of predetermined operations regarding a video camera, generates historic data indicative of one of predetermined operations and stores tie historic data in a non-volatile memory, and reads the historic data from the no... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6592465 | Method and apparatus for monitoring objects in flight The present invention relates to a methods and apparatus for monitoring objects, such as golf balls, in flight. The methods include providing a plurality of cameras with different orientations with respect to the object's flight path. For example, two cam... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6100927 | Photographing apparatus having a blurring correcting apparatus There is provided a photographing apparatus, in which image information in a range wider than an ordinary range is converted into an electric signal by an image pickup and stored into an image memory, a blurring is corrected by moving a reading-out area f... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5734933 | Image shake detecting device An image shake detecting device for detecting a shake of an image on an image sensing plane on the basis of a video signal output from an image sensor includes detection circuits arranged to detect image displacement in a plurality of areas set on the ima... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5627586 | Moving body detection device of camera In a moving body detection device of a camera in this invention, in order to correctly detect an area in which a target moving body is present even when the camera moves, an area in which the moving body is present is detected from a plurality of divided ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5561498 | Automatic image stabilization device An automatic image stabilization device which is arranged to detect image movement information from a sensed image signal produced from an image sensor and to reduce the image movement comprises a movement detecting circuit which obtains movement vector i... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5559551 | Subject tracking apparatus A subject tracking apparatus in which the target is tracked further stably by effectively eliminating the erroneous judgment due to the effects from the object which resembles the target, the luminance change, and objects having different shapes. Each of ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5467127 | Automatic objects tracing device of camcorder The present invention relates to a camcorder, and more particularly, to an automatic objects tracing device of a camcorder. When the camcorder operates with a self-timer function, motion vectors are detected on the image, and it is determined whether ther... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5412421 | Motion compensated sensor A sensor produces signals corresponding to positions of objects within a field of view over time. A motion detector is provided for determining movement of the sensor. Signals from the sensor and the detector go to a processing unit which causes an approp... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5355326 | Method of effecting a motion filtering for slow targets, and an apparatus for executing the method A method of producing a motion filter for detecting point targets moving slowing within a sequence of readjusted binary images, these images corresponding to a history at the instant n-1, denoted Hist n-1 (1), including target trajectories and alarms. Thi... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5355163 | Video camera that automatically maintains size and location of an image within a frame A video camera system can track or follow the moving object without influence by other objects outside the desired image. Detection feature patterns are formed after brightness and hue frequency feature data is obtained on the basis of image information o... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5053876 | Image stabilization A method of and apparatus for electronically stabilizing incoming video data against unwanted or undesirable sensor movement. By digitizing each or selected pixels of a frame, and comparing them against stored values of the pixels, image movement and sens... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4476494 | Apparatus for centering and stabilizing the size of a target image A stabilized image of a scene is provided by scanning the scene with a camera to provide pixels representative of the scene, providing individual representations of the pixels during each scan of the camera as digital words identifying an elevation addres... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4303945 | Image motion compensation for a TV sensor system An image motion compensation arrangement for a TV sensor system having an image intensifier section and a camera tube section, and which moves at a velocity V over a target area at an altitude H. An electron image of the viewed scene is accelerated betwee... | 12/01/1981 |
