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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8089552 | Camera control based on temperature sensor A temperature sensor is provided backward an imaging device. A temperature of the imaging device is always detected when a through image is displayed and result of measurement is output to an MPU. The MPU compares a temperature t input from the temperature sensor wi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7969498 | Digital camera A digital camera has a measuring part and a display part. The measuring part measures a certain quantity from the moment of photographing a cleaning image. The display part displays the cleaning image in the case that the certain quantity is less than a predetermine... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7738025 | Camera with a display control A camera comprises a monitor which allows a composition of a subject to be confirmed, a backlight which illuminates at least one region on the monitor, an image pickup device and a distance measuring unit for detecting an image condition of the subject, and a backli... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7573523 | Imaging apparatus including electronic viewfinder An imaging apparatus including an electronic viewfinder comprising a light source, a scanning unit for scanning light emitted from the light source. The electronic viewfinder forms a two-dimensional image on a predetermined surface by synchronously modulating the li... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7436446 | Imaging device equipped with automatic exposure control function An imaging device comprises an organic EL monitor for displaying an image from an image pick-up device. A controller sets such initial values of at least one of a diaphragm amount, an exposure time, and a gain to values for causing control that the luminance level i... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7379090 | Image capture apparatus with variable image data transfer rate based on operating status An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, an internal memory, a digital communication unit, a display unit and a control unit. The image capture unit captures an image. The internal memory stores the captured image. The digital communication unit se... | 05/27/2008 |
| RE40327 | Video signal processing circuit and computer system A video signal processing circuit, in which a horizontal synchronizing signal is separated from an input analog video signal by a synchronism separating circuit, whether a “H” period of the horizontal synchronizing signal continues for more than a prespecified p... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7355649 | Image sensing apparatus cleaning operation and control method of said cleaning operation Image sensing apparatus having an image sensing element for sensing an object of shooting is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, when a cleaning mode is designated and executed to remove a foreign substance in the neighborhood of and on the image sen... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342611 | Method for rapid power-on to first picture in a digital camera Digital cameras and methods that provide for a rapid camera power-on sequence. A warm-sleep state is defined in which the camera and nearly all of its internal components are shut down, yet just enough information is retained within high speed volatile storage and p... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334192 | System and method for enabling manipulation of graphic images to form a graphic image An instrument includes a display screen which includes a bitmap graphical user interface including an on-screen menu, and a control element which enables movement of the on-screen menu corresponding to movement of the control element, enables the user to manipulate ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324153 | Digital camera and power supply control thereof A digital camera, in which power supply to a display screen constituted by an LCD is ON/OFF-controlled, is disclosed. When drive power is supplied to the LCD, an object image is displayed on the LCD based on image data obtained by image pickup, and the LCD is used a... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312826 | Digital camera apparatus with high speed imaging and energy saving features A digital camera 10 includes a systems control section 20. When the systems control section 20 receives any of operation signals from a key operation section 18, the systems control section 20 measures the passage of time with a ti... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302280 | Mobile phone operation based upon context sensing A mobile device is provided that includes at least one sensor that provides contextual information to the device. When the mobile device receives an incoming message, or notification, the device responds thereto based at least in part upon the contextual information... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289102 | Method and apparatus using multiple sensors in a device with a display In a device having a display, at least one sensor signal is generated from a sensor in the device. One or more context values are then generated from the sensor signal. The context values indicate how the device is situated relative to one or more objects. At least ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7233360 | Stand for digital camera In order that a recording medium can be attached to or detached from a main body of a digital camera in a state in which the digital camera is mounted on a stand for digital camera, there is provided the stand in which, a portion of a wall portion of the stand, faci... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230647 | Electronic information device having a display and method and apparatus for controlling power-off of the display An electronic information device which uses a memory card to which a liquid crystal display using liquid crystal with a memory effect is attached. If a command to turn off the electric power source is issued during writing of information on the liquid crystal displa... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7215371 | Electronic camera with quick review of last captured image A camera incorporates a working memory (124) for storing a working image corresponding to the last captured image. The working image is displayed on a display screen (36) in a quick review mode of operation in response to a quick review signal entered ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206017 | Image reproduction apparatus with panoramic mode based on aspect ratio An image reproduction apparatus includes display-image discrimination unit for discriminating a display mode (normal display, at-a-glance display, panoramic display, etc.) in which selected image data is to be displayed, display-mode setting unit for setting the dis... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197189 | System and method having removable storage medium with data compression A method and related system for managing data compression activities within a removable storage device that is receivable by a host device. An exemplary embodiment of the storage device typically includes a storage medium for storing received and compressed data. Th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184086 | Camera having flexible display A camera includes a columnar camera main body portion having a photographing lens, and a flexible display for displaying an image of an object to be photographed through the photographing lens, in which one end of the flexible display is attached to the camera main ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7167203 | Digital camera having controller for reducing occurrences of blur in displayed images A digital camera comprises a camera body and an image sensing unit. The image sensing unit is provided with a taking lens and an image sensing device for taking images and with an optical viewfinder. The camera body is provided with a controller for controlling the ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167201 | Device incorporating eye-start capability Disclosed is an eye-start system that includes a light source adapted to be housed within a viewfinder of a device, and a light sensor also adapted to be housed within the device viewfinder, the light sensor being configured to sense light from the light source that... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158251 | Duplicate images files for improving image handling and transmission An image capturing device includes an electronic image sensor, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes a full-size image storage storing one or more full-size digital images and a transfer image storage storing one or more corresponding transfer images. Durin... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145600 | Image pickup apparatus having a plurality of CCDs, charge detecting circuits, and A/D conversion circuits An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup element formed on a single semiconductor chip, the solid-state image pickup element including photoelectric conversion units arranged two-dimensionally, a plurality of CCDs for transferring charges genera... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142187 | Liquid crystal display driving scaler capable of reducing electromagnetic interference An LCD driving scaler capable of reducing electromagnetic interference employs a spread spectrum phase locked loop (PLL) in which a multi-phase voltage controlled oscillator oscillates and outputs a scaler pixel clock signal and a plurality of oscillation signals of... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136528 | System and method for editing digital images A system and method for editing digital images are described. The system for editing digital images forms an image template containing a selected record of one or more image editing operations performed on a first image to obtain a first edited image. The image temp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7113216 | Electronic camera with internal temperature increase controlled A camera is made compact with its internal temperature adjusted to a more appropriate temperature. A temperature T is read from a temperature sensor disposed within the camera (S100) and it is judged whether or not the temperature T exceeds a threshold Tref1 ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102685 | Digital camera with changeable operation sequence A battery property judging circuit measures a voltage of battery before and while a zoom motor is operated respectively. A type of the battery is determined by a voltage change of the battery. A CPU selects either one of a normal operation sequence or a power-saving... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102686 | Image-capturing apparatus having multiple image capturing units An image-capturing apparatus is capable of capturing a three-dimensional image and a high quality panoramic image as the need arises, and is portable if it is used as a single lens camera that captures a normal two-dimensional image. A second image-capturing unit ha... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095442 | Method and apparatus for capturing an image A handheld computing and digital image capturing device is physically and electrically integrated. Such a device shares hardware and computing power to provide a versatile item that can be carried with a user to provide the expected computer functions and an image c... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093203 | System and method for enabling manipulation of graphic images to form a graphic image An instrument includes a display screen which includes a bitmap graphical user interface including an on-screen menu, and a control element which enables movement of the on-screen menu corresponding to movement of the control element, enables the user to manipulate ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092613 | Backup device in case of power failure in image recording apparatus A backup device in case of power failure comprises a device for continuing, when power failure is detected by a power failure detecting circuit during a recording operation, the recording operation by turning a switch on, and a device for turning the switch off when... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084902 | Image display device, display method and digital camera for reducing display power consumption When an image is played back on a liquid crystal cell, an auxiliary lamp is turned on. In this way, a displayed image can easily be confirmed. If an image frame forward switch is not turned on after the auxiliary lamp is turned on, the auxiliary lamp is turned off. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7046290 | Multi-point auto-focus digital camera including electronic zoom A camera for recording an image captured using image-capturing element in a recording medium is provided with a focal point detection device for detecting a focal point adjustment state of a photographic lens in each focal point detection region of a plurality of fo... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046287 | Portable information terminal equipped with camera The information terminal body may be designed to foldably pivot a pair of flat cases each having a display unit through a hinge which is equipped with a photographing optical system for the camera function unit of which optical axis of lens is perpendicular to an ax... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7030928 | Information display control in image sensing apparatus To display information about an image sensing apparatus on a display when the display is OFF, the display is turned ON for only a predetermined time and displays the information in the image sensing apparatus having an image sensor and the display for displaying an ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027094 | Modeless digital still camera using touch-sensitive shutter button A modeless electronic imaging apparatus, such as a digital still camera, uses a touch-sensitive shutter button to automatically display “live” images from an image sensor whenever a user touches the shutter button. When the user is not touching the shutter butto... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019778 | Customizing a digital camera A method for customizing a digital camera for at least one particular user is disclosed. The digital camera includes a reprogrammable memory for storing firmware which controls the operation of the digital camera and a camera graphical user interface responsive to t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015959 | Image pickup apparatus for picking up and recording still or moving images and a method for controlling the same When an image pickup apparatus is changed over to a mode different from a photographing mode, such as a power-off mode or a reproducing mode, priority is given to writing a temporarily-recorded image in a recording medium, so that it is possible to surely preserve t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016595 | Television set capable of controlling external device and image storage controlled by television set An image storage for storing digital still image data is connected to a television set for selectively watching a broadcast program in a first mode or a still image transmitted from the image storage in a second mode. The image storage has an input circuit for recei... | 03/21/2006 |
