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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179446 | Video stabilization and reduction of rolling shutter distortion A method of processing a digital video sequence is provided that includes estimating compensated motion parameters and compensated distortion parameters (compensated M/D parameters) of a compensated motion/distortion (M/D) affine transformation for a block of pixels... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169490 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes a motion prediction processor configured to detect a motion vector that indicates inter-image motion between a current image and a reference image; a motion compensation processor configured to perform a motion compensation pro... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8149285 | Video camera which executes a first process and a second process on image data A data-processing circuit includes a distributor. Raw image data of horizontal 3840 pixels×vertical 2160 pixels that is periodically outputted from a CMOS-type imaging device is divided by the distributor into four blocks of partial image data. The divided four blo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134604 | Camera shake correction device, camera shake correction method and imaging device Movement of an imaging device is detected using a camera shake detection sensor or a motion vector obtained from an image signal, and camera shake correction is performed by shifting an extraction frame (valid photographing region) within a photographable maximum re... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130278 | Method for forming an improved image using images with different resolutions Multiple images of a scene are acquired over a contemporaneous period of time. Most of the multiple images are lower resolution images acquired with a lower resolution than the other of the multiple images. A corrected set of images is formed at least by correcting ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125527 | Motion detection apparatus A motion detection apparatus includes a CPU. The CPU detects partial motion vectors of an object scene corresponding to motion detection blocks based on raw image data. The CPU also reduces a weighted amount allocated to a motion detection block which captures a par... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120661 | Image stabilizer A method for digital video image stabilization, the method including: estimating, from at least one portion of a frame, global frame displacement between an initial reference digital video frame and a current frame in a video sequence of frames; verifying, for the e... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106951 | Method for adjusting shooting condition of digital camera through motion detection A method for adjusting a shooting condition of a digital camera through motion detection is applied to determine a shooting parameter of the digital camera. The adjusting method includes the following steps. At least two consecutive images, namely a first pre-captur... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102430 | Interchangeable lens and lens-data communication method An interchangeable lens which can communicate with an associated camera body, the interchangeable lens including an interface logic IC; and a memory connected to the interface logic IC, and stores the data of the interchangeable lens. Fixed data of the interchangeab... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098288 | Imaging apparatus and method of controlling imaging In an imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, three images are picked up by a CCD having a color filter, and thirteen images are picked up by a CMOS having no color filter. Three of thirteen images are picked up at the same timing as by th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077210 | Image capturing apparatus to prevent image blurring and control method therefor An image capturing apparatus includes a motion vector detection unit which detects a motion vector on the basis of the correlation between image signals continuously captured by an image capturing unit, a reliability evaluation value calculation unit which calculate... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072499 | Image capture device and method An image capture device, including: a motion vector detection unit that detects a motion vector of a plurality of successive images; a determination unit that determines whether the motion vector detected by the motion vector detection unit is of a predetermined amo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072500 | Vibration compensation method for image capture device A vibration compensation method for an image capture device comprising calculating the absolute difference values or the squared difference values between each first block of pixels of a base field and a second block of pixels corresponding thereto as well as other ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059157 | Method and system for digital image stabilization A method and a system for digital image stabilization are provided for a digital image sequence. The present method calculates local motion vectors between two adjacent images by an interlaced Gray-coded bit-plane matching. An appropriate global motion vector is obt... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049783 | Blur correction device, blur correction method, electronic apparatus including blur correction device, image file and image file creating apparatus Image files are rearranged according to the blurring amount obtained from each of blurring information pieces of the image files and displayed as thumbnail images. After several image files are selected from the displayed image files, the image information pieces of... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8035692 | Image taking apparatus which forms an image of a subject on an imaging device to create image data representative of the subject There is provided an image taking apparatus capable of preferably correcting both the camera shake and the subject shake in the still picture photography. The image taking apparatus has a system control section that determines whether a subject is a still subject or... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018495 | Image capturing apparatus with movement compensation function and method for movement compensation thereof A method for compensating movement of an image capturing apparatus is applied in a photographing mode whose exposure time is greater than the safe shutter time. The method includes the steps of: capturing a long exposure image under the desired exposure time and a s... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7999856 | Digital image stabilization method for correcting horizontal inclination distortion and vertical scaling distortion Provided is a digital image stabilization method. The method includes: extracting characterizing points from a current frame; matching the characterizing points of the current frame with characterizing points of a previous frame; detecting an outlier from the matche... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982774 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present invention provides an image processing apparatus detects only an object to be detected by removing a disturbance, such as the shaking of trees by using a very simple process and parameter. The image processing apparatus includes a reference image storing... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982775 | Method and apparatus for motion stabilization A method and apparatus for digital image stabilization. The method comprises segmenting an exposure time to have multiple partial-exposure images of a scene and manipulating the partially exposed images to produce a stable image. ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7961222 | Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method To provide an image capturing apparatus that detects a camera movement accurately and corrects image blurring appropriately. An image capturing apparatus (200) includes: an image sensor unit (103) that captures and outputs an input image (105); ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956898 | Digital image stabilization method A digital image stabilization method that integrates a digital stabilization device and a digital video encoder is disclosed. The digital stabilization device comprises a determining module for determining background regions, a comparison module for calculating moti... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956899 | Imaging device and image processing apparatus An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a firs... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952612 | Method and system for image construction using multiple exposures A motion sensor is used to sense the movement of the camera during an exposure period. The camera has an image sensor to form one or more exposures. When the movement is within a certain range, the exposures are used to provide one or more frames so that an image ca... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7903144 | Electric hand-vibration correction method, electric hand-vibration correction device, electric hand-vibration correction program, and imaging apparatus In an electric hand-vibration correction method of dividing each of frame images output from an effective pixel region of an imaging element in frame order into a plurality of segment images, calculating a movement vector of each segment image between the frame imag... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7893963 | Digital camera which estimates and corrects small camera rotations A method of detecting and correcting camera rotation in a digital camera, that includes the steps of: capturing a digital image to provide a captured digital image; and analyzing the captured digital image to detect a set of lines. The set of lines are used to deter... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893964 | Image correction apparatus, method thereof and electronics device In an imaging device that generates a correction image by performing, on the basis of shake information on a target image, shake correction processing on the target image when a correction instruction is issued by a user while the target image is displayed on a disp... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7872671 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method An image pickup apparatus to pick up images by using a solid-state image pickup device includes an image signal reading unit configured to read image signals of a rectangular effective area in an image picked up by the solid-state image pickup device; an effective a... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7859568 | Image capturing processing method and system for performing roll correction A roll correction section (21) performs correction to an image captured by a camera (11). A region limiting section (15) limits image data of an image in an upper region of the image and outputs the image data and a roll amount detection section... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855731 | Image vibration-compensating apparatus and method thereof An image vibration-compensating apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus and the method are applied in an image-capturing apparatus, such as a digital still camera (DSC) or digital video recorder (DVR), for compensating image vibration when capturi... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7839433 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus which can correct a shaking of the hand whether a moving picture is taken or a still picture is taken. Exposure is carried out within a shorter time than a predetermined exposure time to output a charge. Exposure and delivery of charge is carrie... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7821540 | Imager-created image signal-distortion compensation method, imager-created image signal-distortion compensation apparatus, image taking method and image taking apparatus Disclosed herein is a method of compensating an imager-created image for a distortion. The method includes: a movement-vector detection process of receiving data of the imager-created image and detecting a movement vector; an optical-zoom portion vector computation ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7800652 | Reducing video shaking Included are embodiments for reducing undesirable motion in a video. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a plurality of video frames that comprise at least one segment of a video, the plurality of video frames being captured by a capture device an... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796159 | Image correction device and image correction method An image correction method can perform adaptive correction processing to a taken image by a simple construction in a short time, and includes the steps of: computing window region local difference values for a plurality of neighboring pixels, each of the window regi... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782362 | Image pickup device for changing a resolution of frames and generating a static image based on information indicating the frames The image pickup apparatus of the present invention is for taking a static image during a predetermined exposure period. The image pickup apparatus includes: a shaking motion detecting section for detecting an amount of shaking motion between a plurality of frames r... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7755667 | Image sequence stabilization method and camera having dual path image sequence stabilization In an image sequence stabilization method and a camera, a sequence of input digital images are captured. The sequence of input digital images is replicated to provide a corresponding sequence of archival images and a corresponding sequence of display images. The arc... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7675547 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus which is capable of enhancing the accuracy of shake correction. A shake-detecting sensor detects a shake of an apparatus body. A microcomputer computes a shake amount based on an output from the shake-detecting sensor. A camera signal proce... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671892 | Image sensing apparatus, and control method, program, and storage medium of image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an image sensing unit configured to sense an object image and output image signals; a shift amount detecting unit configured to detect a shift amount between two image signals, from the image si... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7649549 | Motion stabilization in video frames using motion vectors and reliability blocks Stabilization for devices such as hand-held camcorders segments a low-resolution frame into a region of reliable estimation, finds a global motion vector for the region at high resolution, and uses the global motion vector to compensate for jitter. ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7636107 | Imaging device, signal processing method, recording medium, and program An image-capturing apparatus, a method for processing signals, a recording medium, and a program that can improve the accuracy of an autofocus function with respect to a subject at the time of fill-light projection. A microcomputer monitors a fill-light controller a... | 12/22/2009 |
