Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7720359 | Controller for photographing apparatus and photographing system A picture photographed by a camera portion is sent to a video capturing portion of a computer. The picture is displayed in an operation area of a monitor. A panorama picture of which pictures in part or all moving range of a pan tiler are combined is displayed in a ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7650061 | Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and related computer programs Pictures are successively captured, and thereby moving-picture data representing a stream of moving pictures is generated. At least one picture is captured, and thereby still-picture data representing at least one still picture is generated. The still picture corres... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650062 | Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and related computer programs Pictures are captured, and thereby moving-picture data is generated which represents a sequence of moving-picture fields. At least one picture is captured, and thereby still-picture data is generated which represents at least one still-picture frame corresponding in... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7636514 | Image pick-up device including recording and reproducing capabilities An electronic device including an image pick-up element and an image pick-up device including a recording and reproducing element are provided in which shutter sound is muted or decreased, so that the artificial electronic shutter sound is not mixed with audio signa... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7561782 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7532807 | Combined editing system and digital moving picture recording system A moving picture recording device includes a random-access, computer-readable and writable storage medium to provide non-linear access to recorded clips. The device provides digital capture of both video and audio information. Multiple data paths are provided to all... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7474838 | Signal processing apparatus, control method for signal processing apparatus, imaging apparatus and recording/reproducing apparatus An imaging system in which, if image data of variable resolutions is to be handled in keeping with the increasing resolution of the image data, the processing is executed efficiently without lowering the processing capability of the respective circuits. A memory con... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7424207 | Digital camera A digital camera includes a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit makes signal processing on the camera data read from a camera data area of an SDRAM to produce YUV data for record. A thin-out circuit makes a thin-out processing on the recording Y... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7406254 | Information signal processing apparatus An information signal processing apparatus according to the present invention is arranged to receive, as an input, an information signal to temporarily store therein the input information signal and to temporarily store therein management information prepared during... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406253 | Picked up image recording system, signal recording device, and signal recording method When a recording start executed in a variable-speed recording mode, at ST44 a signal having a variable frame rate is selected on the basis of a validity signal from among image signals having a predetermined output frame rate in which the images having the va... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7383228 | Method and system for preventing unauthorized rerecording of multimedia content A method, system and computer readable medium for the blocking of recording digital content at an end user multimedia end-user-system during the rendering of encrypted digital multimedia files. Before the process of rendering of encrypted digital multimedia can be s... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379660 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7359199 | Portable electronic apparatus In a portable electronic device having two circuit boards having a heat generating electronic device, a frame arranged at a position pinched between the circuit boards, a first heat radiating plate brought into contact with the frame and having a higher thermal cond... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358990 | Image-taking apparatus capable of saving image data files in folder on recording medium An image-taking apparatus preferable for saving image data in folders as desired by a user for each scene or date of image-taking is disclosed. The image-taking apparatus of the present invention comprises an image processing circuit which creates image data files b... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359003 | Display, input and form factor for portable instruments A compact appliance providing high resolution display capability in an ergonomically designed package. Subassemblies of the device are mechanically coupled to avoid interference between a user's hands and face while the device is used, while concurrently providing e... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359622 | Multifunction remote control system for audio and video recording, capture, transmission and playback of full motion and still images A multifunction remote controlled video recording, transmission and playback system includes a still frame generator adapted for selecting and generating still frames on the fly while a full motion video signal is being recorded, without interrupting the recording f... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346269 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346268 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343086 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339615 | Method and apparatus for capturing images and for recording data that includes image data and audio data separately prepared from the image data A method and apparatus for recording data including image data, which includes: a recording unit 220 for recording image data; a play unit 250 for playing data including audio data; a release switch 114 for giving instructions to record image da... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336286 | Method of and an apparatus for processing images In an image processing apparatus to conduct an on-screen display operation, the bus band of an image memory is minimized. The apparatus includes an image memory including a first memory area to store a first image data group of a first image for a background and a s... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327945 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 02/05/2008 |
| RE40044 | Data recording apparatus and method, data reproducing apparatus and method, data recording/reproducing apparatus and method, and transmission medium Video data and audio data inputted respectively from a camera system and a microphone are compressed and encoded in a video compressor/expander-encoder/decoder and an audio compressor/expander-encoder/decoder respectively, and then are multiplexed in a multiplexer. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327382 | System and method for processing electronically captured images to emulate film tonescale and color A method for converting a sequence of electronically captured images into a sequence of modified images for providing the appearance of images captured by a film reproduction system. The film reproduction system being includes motion picture negative film printed on... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327944 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317869 | Digital camera and printing system With a digital camera 100, a photographed image 31 is displayed on a liquid crystal display and the user selects a desired image and specifies print specifications of the number of print sheets, a print paper size, a print color mode, etc., then print ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313759 | System and method for mobile data collection The present invention relates to a system and method for mobile data collection in which a handheld device collects and integrates one or more forms of data. For example, data can include text, digital photographs, digital video, barcodes, sketches, digital signatur... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304669 | Imaging and recording apparatus An imaging apparatus which is connectable to an external device includes a recording instruction module which instructs a recording, an imaging module which generates an image signal from an optical image, a memory module which stores the image signal generated by t... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289722 | Optical disc, recording device and reproducing device Optical discs formatted to record plural audio streams of different content for reproduction with a single video stream can result in audio output of content unexpected by the user depending upon the audio stream configuration contained in the AV stream reproduced. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283719 | Video capture device An object is to provide a video recording/playing apparatus for facilitating recording/playing of motion pictures. The configuration is provided with, at least, a video input device for inputting analog motion pictures (video), a video capture device for digitizing ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283730 | Optical disc camcorder The present invention provides an optical disc camcorder unit having a base plate assembly loaded with an optical disc and a camcorder main body accommodating the base plate assembly, the base plate assembly is swingably set to the camcorder main body via a rotating... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7236690 | Event management system Cameras that are related to an alarm and a time period of an image that each camera records are defined in advance, and at a time of alarm occurrence, management data is made with reference to the definition contents. A surveillance object's transfer path is presume... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7215819 | Method and device for processing an encoded digital signal A method of processing an encoded digital signal comprising a set of data obtained by encoding a set of original data representing physical quantities, and a set of information representing the original data and parameters used during the encoding. The method includ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212731 | Recording and/or reproduction apparatus and recording and/or reproduction method A recording and/or reproduction apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data onto and/or from a storage medium is disclosed. The recording and/or reproduction apparatus includes a recording and/or reproduction section for recording and/or reproducing data onto an... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212726 | System and method of processing MPEG streams for file index insertion A method, apparatus and article of manufacture is provided for automatic insertion of a compressed GOP offset table within a previously encoded MPEG video file, for frame accurate random access of each individual video frame in play-from-offset mode. The method crea... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202900 | Method of producing frame pair signals from an image sensor and method for displaying same A method is disclosed for producing progressive scan signals representative of an image of a scene, including the following steps: providing an image sensor onto which the image is projected, the image sensor having a diagonal pixel pattern; producing frame pairs as... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190882 | In-car digital video recording with MPEG-4 compression for police cruisers and other vehicles An in-car video system with inputs for one or more analog or digital video cameras, one or more of which may be wireless, and having inputs for one or more microphones, one or more of which may be wireless. The system includes circuitry to digitize the input signals... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180540 | Method of managing data files using representative voice within portable digital apparatus A method of managing a user's data files in a portable digital apparatus which can receive and discharge a recording medium and has a display device. In the method, first, when a representative-voice request signal is received from a user, a new directory and a repr... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177529 | Optical recording apparatus, optical recording method, and digital still camera A digital still camera includes a vibration detector for detecting vibrations. In accordance with certain conditions, a control unit controls finalization (session closing) which enables a CD-ROM drive to read data recorded on a recording medium. The control of sess... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173655 | Capture of sensory data in association with digital still images Method and apparatus for capturing a variable length of sensory data in association with still image data. The sensory data are generated from a sensor signal beginning prior to capture of a still image and ending a selected period after capturing the still image. T... | 02/06/2007 |
