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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7173741 | System and method for handling bad pixels in image sensors A method and apparatus for handling bad pixels in an image sensor array includes processing data values associated with the pixels of the image sensor. Processing the data values is performed by at least a first pass process and a subsequent pass process. In the fir... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173743 | Image reading apparatus and method An image reading apparatus and method are provided which precisely correct shading due to dispersion of the spectral sensitivity characteristic of a reading area of a reading device. Second correction values for correcting, for each of R, G and B, shading due to par... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171329 | System and method for device co-location discrimination A system and method for determining if a first and second device are co-located includes first and second sensors for receiving a sample signal. Each sensor is coupled to the first and second devices. The first and second devices each responsively generate a first a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167266 | Image memory apparatus An image memory apparatus includes a unit for storing input image information, a unit for designating a storing capacity of the storing unit for the input image information, and a control unit for performing storing control of the storing unit for the input image in... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161704 | Image formation apparatus The image formation apparatus satisfies a user's demand to effectively use a sheet by writing an image to the marginal sheet edge, and prevents that toner is not transferred to the sheet but adhered to a transfer roller when the sheet is slightly misregistered from ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161709 | Hand held mobile communications device with an image sensor, a printer and a receptacle for receiving an ink cartridge A handheld mobile image-sensing device comprising: a support structure; an image sensor positioned on the support structure for sensing an image; a display positioned on the support structure and o... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162292 | Beam scanning probe system for surgery With the beam scanning probe system for surgery, a pointer indicating the observation point of a beam scanning probe is superimposed upon an image of a lesion to be operated on in the head which is obtained via a TV camera or a surgery microscope, and the superimpos... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158246 | Method for controlling fax data transmission according to an outputting way of a receiving part Disclosed is a method for controlling transmission of fax data according to a data outputting way of a receiving part, the method comprising the steps of: scanning and storing a document to be transmitted from a facsimile of a transmitting part to a facsimile of the... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158258 | Handheld mobile communications device with a detachable printing mechanism and a slot for print media A handheld mobile communications device comprising: a support structure; radio signal processing circuitry positioned on the support structure and configured to receive and transmit radio signals; ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149001 | System for supporting a multiplicity of copy features A system for processing of a print ready data stream for an output device. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147158 | Systems and methods for providing multiple object planes in an optical image scanner Systems and methods for providing multiple object planes in an optical image scanner are provided. One embodiment is an optical head configured to scan an object, comprising a rod-lens array positioned to focus light reflected off the document, an optical sensor arr... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148993 | Handheld mobile communications device with a detachable printing mechanism and a dispenser interface A handheld mobile communications device comprising: a support structure; radio signal processing circuitry positioned on the support structure and configured to receive and transmit radio signals; ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145689 | Handheld mobile communications device with integral internal printer incorporating media slot and drive means A handheld mobile communications device comprising: a support structure; an antenna mounted on the support structure for transmitting and receiving radio signals; radio signal processing circuitry ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145520 | Display apparatus box using a spatial light modulator A digital display apparatus (10) using a spatial light modulator (30) projects a monochrome or multicolor image onto a display surface (40) for diagnostic imaging applications. The image can be displayed on a direct-view display surface (40 | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145093 | Method and system for image processing The invention provides a method of processing an image containing written information include the steps of (a) scanning a surface of an object to obtain an image of the surface represented by first image data, (b) creating second image data from the first image data... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145694 | Image processing apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for generating high-quality binary image are provided. An input unit inputs a binary image as a multi-valued image. A halftone dot image area map creating unit searches for a halftone dot image area that may be in the multi-valued image and... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136186 | Handheld mobile communications device with integral internal printer and an image capture device A handheld mobile communications device comprising: a support structure; an antenna mounted on the support structure for transmitting and receiving radio signals; radio signal processing circuitry ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136204 | Full-zone optical image addressing apparatus A full-zone optical image addressing apparatus, including an addressing device, an image extraction converter, a comparator, an AND gate and a counter. The addressing device is located at the enclosure of the scanner and includes a plurality of geometric patterns. E... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133165 | Image reading device, method of controlling the same, control program, storage medium and image forming apparatus provided with the image reading device An image reading device includes a memory unit for storing positional information of a sensor for moving by a drive unit to read an image of a document and a control unit for controlling the drive unit to move the sensor based on the positional information stored in... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133565 | Image processing apparatus and method This invention has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus and method which can efficiently compress an image while maintaining high image quality, and a storage medium for implementing the method. To accomplish this, an apparatus has a text area dete... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130074 | Image encoding and recording apparatus An image recording apparatus is provided. The image recording apparatus includes a generator that generates information of recordable capacity of a storage and a holder for holding in advance data to be stored in the storage. A signal generator generates a signal in... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130075 | Handheld mobile communications device with integral internal printer and drive means for business card printing A handheld mobile communications device comprising: a support structure; an antenna mounted on the support structure for transmitting and receiving radio signals; radio signal processing circuitry ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7110010 | Apparatus and method of video signal processing for matrix display apparatus A video signal is processed using dither coefficients. Dither coefficients pattern signals are generated. Each pattern signal carries positive and negative dither coefficients arranged in an (n×m) matrix where “n” and “m” being positive integers larger than... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110613 | Image processing apparatus and image pickup device Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102764 | Digital copying machine including photo features function A digital copying machine includes a function that allows a standard photo size to be selected, an original photo to be scanned and multiple copies of the photo to be printed on a sheet. The digital copying machine automatically scales the copies to the selected siz... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099020 | Image processing apparatus switchable from full color mode to monochromatic mode In an image processing apparatus for processing image data in either operation mode of a full color mode or a monochromatic mode having processing speed higher than the full color mode, at least a part of an image processing circuit comprises a rewritable device suc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099054 | Image scanning apparatus capable of positioning a scan-starting point An image scanning apparatus with scan-starting point positioning function comprising a casing, a carriage and a calibration sheet is provided. Of which, the casing comprises a scan-platform used to place documents to be scanned, while the calibration sheet, which is... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098868 | Display source divider In an implementation of a display source divider, a video generation system generates a video display source that includes display data for multiple display regions on a display device. For example, a gaming system generates a video display source that includes disp... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095755 | Data transfer apparatus and its control method In data transfer in isochronous mode using an IEEE1394 serial bus, the data transfer rate is guaranteed, but data transfer is disabled if the number of channels is insufficient. An already assigned channel is released by lowering the data transfer rate currently usi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095525 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method When reading image data stored on a detachable storage medium such as a magneto-optical disk and outputting the data using an image outputting device, data regarding modes in which the image data is to be output is stored in advance on a storage medium by an apparat... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095532 | Scanning apparatus A scanning apparatus includes a housing with a flatbed. A loading glass is installed at the scan flatbed for loading a to-be-scanned document. A photoelectric sensing device is disposed in the housing for sensing the light signals corresponding to the to-be-scanned ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085379 | Image compression device and image decompressing device, and computer-readable recorded medium on which program for allowing computer to execute image compressing method and image decompressing method An image compression apparatus capable of efficiently encoding an image without causing color deviation to the eye compresses luminance element image data and two types of chrominance element image data each consisting of a plurality of blocks. The image compression... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084911 | Black level calibration method for imager with hysteresis comparison and adaptive step size The present invention provides a method and apparatus for calibrating a black level in an imager to reduce flicker noise. A first and a second range is set. The first range corresponds to a range that is larger than a noise level at a highest PGA gain. The second ra... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081974 | Handheld mobile communications device with integral internal printer incorporating capping mechanism A handheld mobile communications device comprising: a support structure; an antenna mounted on the support structure for transmitting and receiving radio signals; radio signal processing circuitry ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079292 | Modular mobile phone with integrated printer A modular mobile phone includes a printhead and ink supply module that is received and retained into a support chassis. A battery module cradles the printhead and ink supply module from a rear side of the mobile phone. An external casing locates on a front side of t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7068392 | Apparatus and method of mapping look-up table in an imaging system The present invention provides a mapping method and apparatus of look-up table in an imaging system. The mapping method implemented by the apparatus comprises receiving a digital signal having a high-bit portion and a low-bit portion. The high-bit portion of the dig... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065259 | Image processor, image processing method and storage medium The present invention provides an image processor and an image processing method wherein a specific image such as an image of which the printing is prohibited can be recognized at high speed and in addition, with high precision. A rendering command analysis unit pas... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064785 | Apparatus and method of correcting for dark current in a solid state image sensor Apparatus and method of correcting for dark current in a solid state image sensor, include capturing an image with the image sensor to produce a digital image having pixel values; correcting the pixel values with a dark level correction value; employing a control sy... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065263 | Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external memory in tiles, the tiles written to the external memory are read, and... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061450 | Electronically scanned beam display A scanning control circuit generates a clock signal corresponding to an expected scan timing of a resonant scanner. In one approach, the control circuit uses a pair of direct digital synthesis (DDS) integrated circuits. A first DDS chip provides a system clock that ... | 06/13/2006 |
