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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 |
| 8149317 | Display device, photographing apparatus, and display method A feature area having a visual feature is analyzed for each of at least three of similar images in a memory card, and the analyzed feature areas are displayed on a display screen while overlapped with a reference image. The visual feature is used to distinguish an i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8098318 | Video reproduction apparatus, digital camera, semiconductor integrated circuit, and method for video reproduction The decode control unit (103) has control over a video decode unit (101) so as to cause the video decode unit (101), which decoded images obtained from respective normal coded data items and high-speed coded data items, to start decoding of some... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098317 | High speed photographic device, method for controlling high speed photographic device, and computer program To provide a high speed photographic device which can display in real time a synchronous image photographed in synchronization with motion of a photographic subject. The high speed photographic device (1), which displays in real time a photography image which... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089551 | Photographic apparatus A photographic apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, an image-processing unit, and a display unit. The imaging sensor obtains image data. The image-processing unit performs an image-processing operation on the image data. The display unit displays an image-processi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081251 | Imaging device and imaging system A plurality of exchange lenses designed for object exposure regions of different sizes can be selectively mounted on the present imaging device. The imaging device determines whether a mismatch state is present, in which the size of the object exposure region of an ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068162 | System and method of processing a digital image for user assessment of an output image product A system and method of processing a digital image for user assessment of an output image product intended to be generated using the digital image. The method comprises the steps of: (a) accessing the digital image using an imaging device having a viewing member; (b)... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063972 | Image capture device and control method thereof An image capture device includes an image capture unit, a signal processing circuit a control unit, and a display. The image capture unit captures image information of the object and forms an imaging plane. The signal processing circuit receives analog image signals... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8035719 | Methods and apparatus for providing portable photographic images Methods and apparatus for providing portable photographic images are described. The present invention includes a small, portable electronic display unit that may be placed within a wallet or purse. The display unit may include an input port for downloading digital i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8009221 | Multi-magnification color image sensor A color image sensor has imaging elements each structured to form, at an image plane, an image of a subject having a respective magnification. Ones of the imaging elements forming respective ones of the images with the same magnification in light of mutually differe... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7916202 | Image reproduction using a specific color space If an image reproducing apparatus has a device-dependent color space conversion function that converts the color space of processing target image data to a device-dependent color space using a particular color space, (i) reproduction image data is generated by carry... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7830441 | Image pickup apparatus and controlling method thereof In order to display help information at the time when each of a self-timer button, an illumination button, AE lock button and the like is operated, an image pickup apparatus displays help information with understandable wording by the use of simple terms in consider... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7787042 | Image display device for displaying a calendar corresponding to a sensed image A sensed image and shooting time information corresponding to the sensed image are stored on a memory card. A display unit comprises a plurality of display areas at specific consecutive shooting times and displays the shooting time in the display area. A CPU specifi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7764318 | Photographing apparatus having a white balance adjustment function A photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, a memory, and a display unit. The imaging sensor obtains image data. The memory stores the image data. The display unit indicates a still picture based on the image data and a white balance setting picture on th... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7733406 | Image signal generation unit, digital camera, and image signal generation method An image signal generation unit comprises a horizontal pixel number conversion unit for performing the conversion of horizontal direction pixels corresponding to horizontal scanning period of NTSC system, for digital image data of the chrominance difference having t... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7733405 | Apparatus and method for resizing an image A hardware implemented method for resizing an image is provided. In this method, the image is captured and a size of the image is calculated as the image is being received by a display controller. Thereafter, a scaling ratio is calculated based on the calculated siz... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7714926 | Imaging apparatus, user interface, and associated methodology for a co-existent shooting and reproduction mode A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen ST1 that is a shooting mode. When a time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, the currently captur... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7656451 | Camera apparatus and imaging method A camera apparatus has an imaging unit, a display unit, a storage unit and a control unit. The imaging unit shoots an object and outputs image data thereof. The display unit displays an image. The storage unit stores shooting conditions. The control unit displays a ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7616248 | Revised recapture camera and method In a camera and method, a scene is captured as an archival image, with the camera set in an initial capture configuration. Then, a plurality of parameters of the scene are evaluated. The parameters are matched to one or more of a plurality of suggested capture confi... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7570296 | Photographing system A photographing interval of a digital camera that generates an intermediate image having a resolution between an original image and a thumbnail image is adjusted. Preset intermediate image generation parameters are referenced, and it is determined whether or not gen... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7548266 | Methods and apparatus for providing portable photographic images Methods and apparatus for providing portable photographic images are described. The present invention includes a small, portable electronic display unit that may be placed within a wallet or purse. The display unit may include an input port for downloading digital i... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545428 | System and method for managing digital images A method of processing a plurality of digital images arranged in a preset order in a digital imaging device in response to user input includes determining a user scrolling direction in response to user scrolling inputs, at least partially deleting a displayed image ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7505074 | Image sensing apparatus and its control method In an initial stage where an image obtained by image sensing is displayed, image data in a resolution depending on an image display area of display unit is displayed, thereby a high response can be maintained with respect to a request to display a next image or the ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7468752 | Camera output format for real time viewfinder/video image This invention describes horizontal and vertical downscaling of the real-time video image using a camera sensor and a processing block (a base band engine in camera-phone mobile devices) for a real-time viewfinder display and/or video imaging. Horizontal downscaling... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7456893 | Method of controlling digital image processing apparatus for efficient reproduction and digital image processing apparatus using the method Provided is a method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus that processes and stores an input image in a recording medium and reproduces files stored in the recording medium in a stored-image display mode. The method includes: (a) classifying the store... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450169 | Method of controlling digital photographing apparatus for efficient replay operation, and digital photographing apparatus adopting the method A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus that displays a next image file in the forward or reverse direction according to a signal received from a first or second direction button, reduces or enlarges a currently displayed image in response to a sig... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7436554 | Image processing system, image capturing device, image processing terminal, image processing data storage terminal, program for the device, program for the terminal, data structure of image data, method of processing image, and method of generating image data The invention provides an image processing system which is suitable to carry out image processing in excellent accuracy while removing influence due to characteristics depending on the type difference and which facilitates wide and flexible adaptation over image cap... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424217 | Method of evaluating image information, photographing device, and storage medium having program stored thereon An evaluation on image information is indicated before operating a shutter operating section. For example, a method of evaluating image information includes: (a) a step of converting an optical image of an object to be photographed into electrical image information;... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417680 | Digital video reproduction apparatus and method The invented apparatus includes a part of measuring the duration of activation of a select button on its control pad. When the select button is activated longer than a predetermined period, the apparatus enters a mode of continuously selecting multiple thumbnails fo... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414658 | Imaging apparatus including monitor for displaying object image based on image data, method of controlling the same, and recording medium having recorded thereon computer-readable program code for controlling imaging apparatus In an imaging apparatus in which a plurality of sample images are stored, image data acquired by an imaging unit and a sample image used during imaging are displayed simultaneously on a monitor. Thus, a user is allowed to know a directory where image data is to be s... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411626 | Image acquiring apparatus and image acquiring method An image acquiring apparatus includes a pixel shifting section which changes the relative position between luminous flux incident on an imaging element and the imaging element to a plurality of specific positions, an imaging section which photographs in at least one... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7394495 | Display changeover control in image sensing apparatus There is provided an image sensing apparatus which electrically senses an object and stores obtained image data in a storage medium, having an LCD, an EVF, a display device changeover button to, while displaying image data on one of the LCD and the EVD in each of a ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394496 | Digital camera capable of image processing In a digital camera, when a motion image reducing mode is set, a pointer is displayed on a monitor. When the operator operates on cursor key, the pointer moves, and when the operator operates a determination key at two different pointer positions, a rectangular fram... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391874 | Audio console with integral video monitor An audio mixing console that comprises at least one input connector for receiving a video signal for broadcast; at least one input connector for receiving an audio signal; a control panel that includes a plurality of user operable audio channel controls; a signal pr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379666 | Electronic appliance An electronic appliance is provided, which can be produced at a low cost, and in which there is a degree of freedom in a setting value and any one of a number of setting values can be set as an operating condition with a simple operation. A digital camera 1 i... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375755 | Image processing apparatus and method for displaying an image and posture information A camera informs a user of a posture of a camera or availability of the detection and includes an image processing apparatus having a photographing part for taking an image, a posture detecting part for detecting the posture of the photographing part in taking the i... | 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 |
| 7362967 | Digital camera and manual focus method thereof A digital camera and a method for manually focusing the digital camera are disclosed. The digital camera includes an image sensing unit, a buffer memory unit, an image processing unit, and an image display unit. The image sensing unit senses a signal and produces a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362971 | Camera unit incorporating a lidded printhead unit A camera unit includes a chassis. An image sensor is mounted to the chassis and is configured to sense an image. A display is mounted to the chassis and is configured to display the sensed image. A printhead unit is mounted to the chassis and is configured to print ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362966 | Controlling apparatus for photographing system To provide a controlling apparatus for a photographing system that enables effective use of a memory zoom function regardless of whether a zoom position is within an optical-zoom region or a digital zoom region. The present invention provides a controlling apparatus... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356254 | Image processing method, apparatus, and program An image of a region in which a blur tends to clearly appear is extracted from a digital photograph image as a blur checking regional image. Then, the extracted blur checking regional image is displayed in a size appropriate for the resolution of a display device. | 04/08/2008 |
