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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7444068 | System and method of manual indexing of image data The invention relates to a method of indexing image data comprising the steps of acquiring image data representing a series of images, acquiring manually provided user cues for designating ones of the images, and indexing the image data in association with the manua... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440025 | Defogging device for a surveillance camera A defogging device for a surveillance camera has a heating element, a circuit board and a power cord. The heating element is mounted over the lens of the surveillance camera. The circuit board compares ambient temperature to a preset temperature, activates the heati... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7391467 | Signal delivery apparatus, hinge apparatus and image photographing apparatus A hinge apparatus for an image photographing apparatus wherein the hinge apparatus rotatably connects a housing with respect to a main body so that the housing can rotate in a predetermined rotation range. The hinge apparatus includes a fixing bracket secured to the... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7362352 | Image capturing apparatus with variable communication forms In an image capturing apparatus which can be remotely operated from an operation terminal, to carry out image transmission control in accordance a communication form between the image capturing apparatus and the operation terminal. An image capturing apparatus 2 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363405 | Communication control apparatus and method An initiator has logical devices A, B and C. In the directory structure of the config ROM showing the unit structure, instance directories A, B and C are made; initiator unit directories 1, 2, and 3 are made under the respective instance directories A,... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7339624 | Camera-equipped recording/reproducing apparatus A camera-equipped recording/reproducing apparatus is equipped with a lens assembly having a lens group and a body having a first side face and a second side face opposite to the first side face when viewed from an object to be photographed. The body is provided in s... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330644 | Recording device A camera apparatus includes a single release switch member. The single release switch member is for instructing an image capture operation, and selects one of a first operative state and a second operative state. The first operative state is selected when the single... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327394 | Attachment system for a video camera housing A video camera recorder that includes a main camera body, a camera mount member, a first mount member and a second mount member. The camera mount member is coupled to the main camera body. The camera mount member has a camera mount track portion. The first mount mem... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7280151 | Video camera with a rotatable grip unit A video camera is disclosed which can make photographing without any compulsion. A rotary grip is provided on a side face of a camera body so as to be rotatable relative to the camera body, the camera body having an image pickup device, a camera lens and a circuit b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272667 | Portable and dedicated compact disk read-write unit A portable CR-RW drive has a CD drive and spindle platform, a chargeable battery power source, at least one docking bay for docking a removable storage medium and a processor supporting firmware for enabling functions of the drive. In a preferred embodiment the driv... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255035 | Weaponry camera sight The weaponry camera sight has a digital electronic display of the sight picture for the shooter. The display may be magnified as desired, thereby eliminating need for a scope sight. The device may also include a range finding device, with range information being pro... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242431 | Viewfinder of photographing apparatus and camcorder having the same A viewfinder to be used with a photographing apparatus or a camcorder to monitor an image being photographed. The viewfinder has a viewfinder body disposed to be drawn inside of the photographing apparatus body and to be drawn out of the photographing apparatus body... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7209648 | Multimedia recording system and method The present invention is a novel fully interactive multimedia recording system that organizes and catalogues different multimedia data easily and expeditiously using uniform arrays of data packets, thereby achieving improved efficiency of transfer to a memory and st... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206024 | Electronic camera having rotatably coupled first and second body sections The invention provides improved operability for portable electronic devices. A portable electronic device includes a display component and a device aperture component which are mounted on separate segments of the electronic device. Each segment can be rotated with r... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205987 | Image display apparatus and method of driving image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes row wiring, a plurality of column wirings, a modulator, and a plurality of display devices. The plurality of display devices are commonly connected to the row wiring, each of the plurality of column wirings is connected to a corre... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202890 | Electronic still camera having an image sensor in which reading and clearing is performed sequentially An electronic still camera comprises an image sensor which allows each of its horizontal lines to be individually specified so that a video signal contained in each specified horizontal line can be read, a storage circuit for storing the video signal read from the i... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194204 | Photographic firearm apparatus and method A telescopic firearm scope/sight which is fully integrated with a compact digital camera, and which has size, shape and weight characteristics that are substantially the same as those of a conventional, camera-less telescopic scope, is used to photograph a target pr... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184078 | Image-processing apparatus and image-quality control method A digital camera is provided with a plurality of image-pickup modes to carry out an optimal controlling process in accordance with an image-pickup scene. With respect to mode selection settings, a switching can be made between a manual selection setting in which the... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171114 | Mirror-mimicking video system A system for allowing a person to observe herself or himself from different vantage points while carrying out operations such as grooming. A swivel seat is employed. A video monitor is mounted to swivel in unison with the swivel seat. Adjustment means are provided t... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162806 | Video sighting system A sighting system is integrated with video gathering and recording capabilities. A video camera unit may be coupled in front of or behind a weapon's sights. In another embodiment, the weapon's sights are electronically generated by the video camera. Where a zoom len... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158167 | Video recording device for a targetable weapon A compact video image recording device which is mountable to a gun and useful for recording video images before and after the firing of the gun. The recording device includes a camera comprising a lens and a video image sensor. The video recording device is mounted ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140788 | Camera body A camera which includes a camera body includes a main body and a mirror box fixed to the main body. The mirror box and the main body are made of a first material having a first thermal expansion coefficient and a second material having a second thermal expansion coe... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120809 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119835 | Camera docking solution provides a user interface for printers, CD writers and other devices A camera mount includes a hosting device including a flat surface for mounting a camera including a user interface. A first connector is located on the flat surface such that the first connector mates to a complementary connector located on the camera. The user inte... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110032 | Setting control of bracketing image sensing operation in image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus capable of performing bracketing image sensing operations for a plurality of different types of parameters is provided. The image sensing apparatus comprises a selection unit adapted to select a parameter for performing a bracketing image ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7092030 | Image pickup apparatus with prism optical system An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup apparatus body, an image recording/reproducing section placed on the right-hand side within the image pickup apparatus body when viewed in a photographing direction, an image-displaying monitor disposed on the left-... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092620 | Converting analog video data into digital form The inventive stand alone mechanism converts video data from an original format such as VHS or digital video to an optical media such as a CD-RW or DVD-RW and prepare it for use in non-linear computer applications such as video editing and production in a single ste... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079108 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7057651 | Digital camera having an electronic zoom function A determination is made as to whether or not the magnification set for image sensing is greater than the upper limit of the optical finder. When the set magnification is greater, the original image is subjected to a thinness process, the LCD is automatically turned ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058282 | Data recording/reproduction apparatus with built-in camera and data recording/reproduction method The present invention provides index information that can be handled with ease. Microcomputer 7 reads out the video data recorded in video cassette 100 on the basis of the recording information on-the video data and generates index-related images on th... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7047863 | Remote aiming system with video display The present invention provides a powered aiming platform for pointing devices such as firearms, illumination devices, or sensing instruments, remotely controlled by a hand-controller device, with video feedback of the aiming position and audio feedback of the exact ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046286 | Video camera In disposing a display part, such as an LCD panel, on a side face of the body of a compact video camera of a rectangular parallelepiped shape extending longer in the direction of height for use as a viewfinder as well as for a reproduction display, an attempt to min... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042499 | Digital camera including power supply controller responsive to connection detection A digital camera comprises a camera body and an image sensing unit. The image sensing unit includes a taking lens, a driver of the taking lens and an image sensor, and is attachable to the camera body directly or by a cable. The camera body includes an image process... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040815 | Modularized electronic device operating status display architecture A modularized electronic device operating status display architecture is proposed, which is designed for use with a modularized electronic device mounted on the inside of a chassis of an electronic system, and which is capable of detecting whether the modularized el... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035534 | Photographic lightmeter-remote, system, and method A lightmeter-remote is usable in a system with a remotely settable camera and a plurality of remotely settable photolamps. The lightmeter-remote has a body, and a lightmeter, exposure controller, and transmitter disposed in the body. The exposure controller can be s... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024572 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display ... | 04/04/2006 |
| RE39039 | Audio and video signal recording and reproduction apparatus and method An audio and video recording and reproduction apparatus and method is described, which uses a movable storage memory such as a memory card, so that audio and video signals are easily accessed without separate editing devices. The apparatus uses a separable memory so... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012590 | Motionless-image display with auto-adjusting light system and the method for forming the same An auto-adjusting light system includes an inputting sub-circuit, a photosensitive sub-circuit, a controlling sub-circuit, a starting sub-circuit, and a display. The inputting sub-circuit is used to input a setting value. The photosensitive sub-circuit is used to ca... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6975806 | Mobile video entertainment system A mobile video system comprising a video player having a hinge and a display pivotally attached on the hinge. The video player and the display are contained by a bag which is preferably suspended from and fastened to seats with adjustable straps for viewing by a use... | 12/13/2005 |
