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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8049792 | Image capture apparatus An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a writing unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The image capture unit captures an image. The writing unit writes the captured image in a recording medium. The calculation unit calculates a num... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8035699 | Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and program An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which has an image sensor, a storage unit which stores foreign substance information of a foreign substance adhering to an optical element arranged in front of the image sensor, a buffer unit which tempo... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026957 | Image-capturing apparatus An image-capturing apparatus is provided having a storage control device, a writing speed measuring device, and a selecting device. The storage control device writes image data into memory devices. The writing speed measuring device measures the writing speed of the... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7940312 | Image pickup device for connection to an external record device Charging of a camera 100 and backup of data are concurrently executed to enable picking up an image regardless of a remaining available memory. As the camera 100 is attached to a cradle 200, image data for the image picked up by a camera module ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7872675 | Saved-image management Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a device includes a user-accessible digital storage medium, and a storage medium manager module. The storage manager module includes a storage manager module op... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869697 | Portable image pickup device From a time point at which a storage capacity reaches a certain remaining capacity with respect to a limit value of 4 GB per one file depending on a file system, a subtraction time-managing portion (100A) changes photographing elapsed time display (174... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859578 | Recording apparatus and control method thereof A recording apparatus is able to suppress instances in which the user misses shutter opportunities or has to abort shooting due to insufficient remaining capacity on a recording medium. When the remaining capacity of the recording medium falls below a threshold, the... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7821548 | Temporal image buffer for image processor using compressed raw image A system and method for capturing and storing digital images. Instead of processing images on the fly or storing images in a raw format, the present invention involves the compression of captured images before the images are stored. When it is desirable to display a... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817191 | Clock serializer/deserializer transmission method and appartus An apparatus and method for use in transmitting data that is supplied with a high jitter input clock in a serial data stream over a single fiber cable. Video data from a camera is stored in memory using the high jitter clock. A stable clock is used to transmit the d... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7791650 | Image data recording apparatus and method Information regarding free space on a recording medium is acquired. The free space is classified into a plurality of classes according to a writing speed. Then, image data is recorded at predetermined position on the recording medium determined on the basis of a bit... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787024 | Portable electronic apparatus, image processing method, photographing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium Even when a remaining amount of an image memory built in a digital camera is decreased, the photographing can be further continued while reserving a photographed image. An image which is obtained from an image input unit including image pickup means is accumulated i... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7768557 | Image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus is provided having an image capturing device, an image compressing device, a recording device, a definition calculating device, and a residual recordable number calculating device. The image capturing device outputs a captured image. The... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7755673 | Audio file deleting method, apparatus and program and camera with audio reproducing function In the method of properly deleting music data in a music player or other equipment with audio reproduction function, and a camera with audio reproduction function, unnecessary audio file can be exactly deleted to keep a recording area of image data during image-capt... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7692695 | Imaging apparatus and control method therefor An imaging apparatus includes an image creating section for imaging a predetermined surveillance range and creating image data, and a storage processing section converting the image data to a predetermined storage format and creating storage data. A data storage sec... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688360 | Imaging apparatus control unit and digital camera An imaging apparatus control unit, comprising a calculation block, a first control block, an output block, and a second control block, is provided. The calculation block calculates the number of possible photographs. The number of possible photographs is set as the ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7667741 | Device and method for taking picture while recording moving picture Provided is a device and method for taking a still picture and recording a moving picture. The device includes a user interface unit for generating a user input instruction to record the moving picture, and a user input instruction to take the still picture while re... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7656438 | Target use video limit enforcement on wireless communication device Method and system for receiving an advance decision from a wireless communication device user to terminate a video sequence captured by the user at a limit length of a target use for the video sequence and enforcing the advance decision upon reaching the limit lengt... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7646408 | Image data reproducing apparatus, method of controlling same and control program therefor It is so arranged that the user of a device such as a digital still camera can ascertain the transfer history of an image file that has been transferred to the camera. An image file is obtained by “Mr. A” shooting a subject using a digital still camera, whereupo... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7630004 | Electronic apparatus An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7619662 | Method of position stamping a photo or video clip taken with a digital camera A method of appending a position stamp to an image file of a photo or video clip taken with a digital camera having a GPS antenna and a GPS RF front-end including an analogue to digital converter for receiving GPS signals and outputting GPS signal samples together w... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7612807 | Image capture device An image capture device has a first image transfer method for storing a captured digital image on a storage medium and transferring the digital image to a communication device, and a second image transfer method for storing the digital image on the storage medium, r... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7612806 | Digital camera A digital camera comprises an internal memory, an insertion port into which a storage medium is inserted; an imaging device; a storage control device that stores an image taken by the imaging device in one of the internal memory and the storage medium inserted into ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7518639 | Electronic still camera that provides a storable continuous frame count and a continuous shooting rate of frames The electronic still camera includes an internal memory, a calculating part, a storage medium, and a display part. With a storing rate of the storage medium equal to or higher than an internal processing rate of the camera, the calculating part calculates a storable... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7479992 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes an image sensor. Image data of an object imaged by the image sensor is recorded on a recording medium to which an FAT system is adopted. A recording area of the recording medium is divided into a plurality of clusters, and avail... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7474340 | Image data storage method and system An image data storage method and system for editing image date transmitted from an image producing apparatus through a network and storing it in a removable recording medium includes a network, an image producing apparatus for transmitting image data through the net... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463289 | Digital camera producing image embedded with diagnostic characteristic A digital camera including a user input device for adjusting at least one visual error diagnostic characteristic, an image processor configured to create a digital image, a watermark engine configured to organize watermark data, and an image buffer configured to emb... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463288 | Camera capable of generating a plurality of images while changing image processing A camera which can accurately inform a photographer of the number of times image taking is possible is disclosed. The camera comprises an image-pickup device which photoelectrically converts an object image to an electric signal, an image processing circuit which ap... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7432963 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus including an image pickup unit, a memory which stores moving image data output from the image pickup unit, a detection circuit which detects that free space of a storage capacity of the memory becomes not more than a predetermined amount, a comm... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433592 | Digital camera A digital camera allowing a user to easily check shooting conditions with low power consumption is to be provided. The digital camera includes a display unit having a display panel on which a plurality of shooting conditions are displayed and an indicator needle, a ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7414650 | System and method for capturing image data A digital camera has an image sensor, a capture trigger, a processing system, and a capture buffer having multiple buffer locations. When the capture trigger is activated, a corresponding image frame is received by the processing system from the image sensor and sto... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408574 | Image pickup apparatus for producing a desired frame of image signals An image pickup apparatus capable of outputting one of successive pictures that is picked up at a desired timing. When the operator of the apparatus selects a continuous shoot mode, sets a mode dial at a “Pre (prior)/Post (posterior)” position, and then presses ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385634 | Image pickup apparatus adapted to carry out parallel operations and control method For achieving high-speed continuous shooting and increasing the number of shots that can be picked-up continuously, within a limited buffer memory size, an image pickup apparatus is provided with a function of carrying out a first process of storing output data from... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379202 | Image recording apparatus and method An image recording apparatus records image files on a recording medium. The image recording apparatus automatically selects disused files and automatically deletes them at the appropriate timing. A storage device acquires an image file from, e.g., an imaging compone... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379102 | Imaging apparatus with control unit that switches recording medium from internal recording medium to an external recording medium An imaging apparatus includes a recording unit, a first detecting unit, a second detecting unit, and a control unit. The recording unit records taken images on a first recording medium. The first detecting unit detects the remaining available recording space of the ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375742 | Digital information input apparatus If a request of handle information to identify data existing in a recording medium is made to a digital camera by a PC, the digital camera collects the data existing in the recording medium by accessing a file system, generates unique handle information independent ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369164 | Using favorite digital images to organize and identify electronic albums A method for capturing images using a digital camera and organizing the captured images for storage into electronic albums, comprising the steps of capturing and storing first and second groups of digital images using a digital camera; identifying favorite images fo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365782 | Image pickup device and method for enabling switching between a first recording medium and a second recording medium When a key for directly transferring from the screen of a “video mode” of tape reproduction to the screen of memory stick reproduction is separately arranged, the ratio of an occupation area of the key on the screen is increased. Therefore, a setting operation i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362360 | Digital camera and method for saving digital image A digital camera is provided that includes an imaging device that takes a picture of a subject's image and generates an image signal, an image signal processor that performs predetermined conversion and compression processes on the image signal and generates digital... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356255 | Electronic camera, information device and portable information apparatus An electronic camera comprising an LCD panel for image reproduction and an imaging device is disclosed, in which private information attaching a predetermined attribute to a designated photographed image can be input, and in accordance with the private information, ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356250 | Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating an interest point from one or more digital video titles. Systems inc... | 04/08/2008 |
