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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965311 | Apparatus and recording medium for patching divisional images to form a re-synthesized image An image display system includes a dividing apparatus which signals N divisional images formed by dividing a source image and having no overlap with each other, N transmission lines which transmit the N divisional images, N dummy pixel insertion sections which produ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7429997 | System and method for spherical stereoscopic photographing The present invention provides a novel imaging system for obtaining full stereoscopic spherical images of the visual environment surrounding a viewer, 360 degree both horizontally and vertically. Displaying the images obtained by the present system, by means suitabl... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428006 | Digital camera, mobile terminal, and method of displaying images for user controlled image connection The digital camera includes a photographing unit which picks-up image data, a storage control unit which stores the image data, a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the stored image data, an image data processing unit which combines the picked-up image d... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7352415 | Electronic image display systems An electronic image display system that provides a wall-mounted television/electronic display. Dual display screens are oriented back-to-back such that one display screen is visible in a first room and one display screen is visible in an adjacent room. The invention... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349606 | Three color digital gobo system A system of digitally controlling light output by producing separate control signals for different colors of light. The light is contained in an optical waveguide, either prior to shaping or after shaping. Each of the control signals is coupled to a digitally contro... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7312820 | Method and apparatus for providing virtual processing effects for wide-angle video images A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing special effects for wide-angle video images. The special effects include replacing a selected portion of a wide-angle video image with a predetermined image or an associated portion of a video image captured in a sub... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7277118 | Method and system for compensating for parallax in multiple camera systems A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped to a common coordinate system and the disparity between overlapping ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262789 | Method of creating a virtual window The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and mapping the pixels of those outputs to the pixels of a display screen by ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259760 | Polygonal curvature mapping to increase texture efficiency A texture projection is generated from a plurality of initial polygonal curved surfaces. Specifically, each of the initial polygonal curved surfaces are divided to form a plurality of second-generation polygonal curved surfaces. Each second-generation polygonal curv... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253969 | Spherical and nearly spherical view imaging assembly The present invention describes several embodiments of electro-optical assemblies, which are capable of capturing full or nearly full spherical field of view. The present invention presents improvements of the prior art methods by unifying several methods to achieve... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245275 | Image display controller An image display controlling system of the present invention has an image combining splitting means (2) for splitting a picked-up image input from an imaging means (1), which picks up surrounding images of a vehicle, into a plurality of images, an imag... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7221505 | Panoramic field of view acquiring and displaying system A panoramic field of view acquiring system comprises three telescopes, which acquire three separate images, each typically covering a little over one third of the total required scene and a multiplexer, which is used to transmit the three images, one at a time, to a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7197192 | System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software pr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7181112 | Three color digital gobo system A system of digitally controlling light output by producing separate control signals for different colors of light. The light is contained in an optical waveguide, either prior to shaping or after shaping. Each of the control signals is coupled to a digitally contro... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171088 | Image input device A number of optical fiber cords 11 are bundled together to constitute an image fiber. A first end of the image fiber 12a is incorporated within and covered by a cylindrical member to constitute an imaging section, which in turn forms one of a pl... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7161616 | Image processing device and monitoring system A synthetic image viewed from a virtual point of view above a vehicle is generated, using images captured by a plurality of cameras shooting surroundings of the vehicle. In the synthetic image, an illustration image or an actual image of the vehicle is displayed in ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7142725 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus, in which an object image focused by a lens is split into a plurality of images by means of a light splitting section. These images are converted into image data items by a plurality of imaging devices which are arranged with their imag... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139981 | Media management system A process of configuring a media facility is provided. A source icon representing at least one media source is generated. Then, characteristics of the media source is encrypted in the source icon including settings and recalls for all devices in the signal path. Fur... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136096 | Image processing method and apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium This invention has as its object to provide a convenient image processing apparatus which does not limit image sensing purposes. To achieve this object, an image processing apparatus has a recording medium for recording and playing back an image sensed by an image s... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133068 | System and method for creating still images by utilizing a video camera device A system and method for creating still images by utilizing a video camera comprises a cradle device that transports the video camera across a target object during a scanning procedure that captures and stores video data. During the scanning procedure, a motion detec... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7118228 | Image display system A display system includes a single image-projection device, and a reflective surface optically coupled to the image-projection device, wherein the reflective surface is configured to reflect a plurality of images projected by the image-projection device onto a plura... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103232 | Storing and processing partial images obtained from a panoramic image Each of the panoramic images corresponding to a plurality of positions of a viewpoint is compressed and stored as partial images obtained by dividing each panoramic image by a predetermined field of view. The panoramic image has a field of view wider than a display ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102637 | Method of seamless processing for merging 3D color images A method of seamless processing for merging 3D color images is disclosed. By transferring the images to a different color space, it separates the brightness from the color information. The seams are smoothed according to the brightness, and the result is transferred... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7086318 | Anti-tank guided missile weapon An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) weapon system with an overhead mounted, electrically driven, remote controlled weapon station that supports a tube-launched optically-tracked wire-guided (TOW) missile launcher and a machine gun, typically the caliber .50 M2, on a ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079173 | Displaying a wide field of view video image A system for displaying a wide field of view video image of a location. A series of location cameras disposed at the location captures the wide filed of view video image as a series of individual video images covering the desired field of view. A distance sensor uni... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7071968 | System and method for a software steerable web camera with multiple image subset capture An apparatus for controlling the capture of an image of an object, includes: a lens capable to capture a scene within a wide field of vision of the lens; an image collection array communicatively coupled to the lens and capable to store data of the scene within the ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7048384 | Multiple scene projection system A projection system for presenting infrared scenes having biological and chemical agents, simulants and objects such as battlefield items. The generated scenes are primarily for the evaluation of infrared sensors, cameras and stand-off detectors. The system may have... | 05/23/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7015954 | Automatic video system using multiple cameras A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene from which “panning” and “zooming” within the scene are performed. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are w... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012637 | Capture structure for alignment of multi-camera capture systems A multi-camera capture system is aligned using a capture system so that a subject remains in the field of view of a camera. In one embodiment of the present invention, the multi-camera system capture system is mounted on a camera platform. The camera platform is con... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6978051 | System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software pr... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6947059 | Stereoscopic panoramic image capture device An imaging system comprising a plurality of first image capture devices. Overlapping rectilinear images are captured and halved, with the left halves being stitched and transformed into a first equirectangular image and the right halves being stitched and transforme... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943829 | Imaging apparatus controller and control method thereof, image processing apparatus and method thereof, and program code and storage medium Settings (sample settings) are obtained from each CCD camera. A PC calculates an average of the settings sent from all CCD cameras via a distributor. The calculated average is used as new settings for setting up all the CCD cameras again. And the obtained average is... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6943846 | Multi-picture in picture system A multi-picture in picture system in which each camera is coupled in a daisy chain adds its part of the complete picture on a CVBS-line. The television/monitor doesn't have to prepare the complete picture because each camera does it. Furthermore, no problems with lo... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937383 | Emissive image display apparatus A large screen emissive display operating at atmospheric pressure includes pixels, the red, green, and blue subpixels of which are excited by UV laser light scanned onto the subpixels by a pixel activation mechanism. The pixel activation mechanism includes three gra... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933966 | System for producing time-independent virtual camera movement in motion pictures and other media A system for producing virtual camera motion in a motion picture medium in which an array of cameras is deployed along a preselected path with each camera focused on a common scene. Each camera is triggered simultaneously to record a still image of the common scene,... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928130 | Dodecahedron neutron spectrometer with tantalum proton absorber for aircraft A neutron spectrometer for aircraft is provided by a series of substrates covered by a solid-state detector stacked on an absorbing layer. As many as 12 substrates that convert neutrons to protons are covered by a layer of absorbing material, acting as a proton abso... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6917693 | Vehicle data acquisition and display assembly A vehicle data acquisition and display assembly 10 which includes several cameras 75 which selectively and cooperatively receive images 77 from the environment or the ambient environment 83 in which a vehicle 60 resides. The acquir... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6834965 | Self-configurable ad-hoc projector cluster A system projects multiple output images on a display surface. The system includes multiple projectors. Each projector includes a processing unit. The processing unit includes a microprocessor, a memory and an I/O interface connected by busses. A projector sub-syste... | 12/28/2004 |
