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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7389034 | Data entry via on-screen display A recording playback device having a database of recordings with titles, automatically enters a title input mode upon receiving character input from a user while a recording is being played if the there is not title in the database for the recording. Playback of the... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7372999 | Image coder and image decoder capable of power-saving control in image compression and decompression An image decoder comprises a code decompression/decoding unit that decodes code data produced through compression and encoding of image data, a power supply state detection unit that detects a current state of a power supply of the image decoder, and a controller th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369161 | Digital camera device providing improved methodology for rapidly taking successive pictures An in-camera two-stage compression implementation is described that reduces the latency between snapshots to a fraction of that otherwise required by other systems that either process complete compression following each snapshot or that incorporate heavy, bulky, and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7336307 | Camera having accumulation operation in the period between the time of fully opening a leading shutter and the time of starting of a trailing shutter Disclosed is a camera including: an image-taking device; a shutter unit having a first shutter member that travels from a position where a shutter opening is closed to a position which is retreated from the opening, and a second shutter member that travels from the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7317451 | Apparatus and method for displaying out-of-range mode An apparatus and method for displaying an out-of-range mode which has a resolution higher than a mode supported by a monitor is provided. The method for displaying an out-of-range mode in monitor displaying includes the steps of (a) sensing received horizontal and v... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316026 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method, and storage medium A signal receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes receiving unit for receiving a television broadcast, instruction unit for instructing change of a receiving channel of the receiving unit, and control unit for, in response to the instruction o... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7268827 | Circuit for transferring a timing signal between circuits having different clock frequencies A timing signal transferring circuit (10) that may be arranged to stably transfer a timing signal (S1) between two video signal processing circuits that may operate at different clock frequencies has been disclosed. A first timing signal (S1) ma... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7190398 | Image sensor with high dynamic range linear output Designs and operational methods to increase the dynamic range of image sensors and APS devices in particular by achieving more than one integration times for each pixel thereof. An APS system with more than one column-parallel signal chains for readout are described... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7163148 | Magnetic stripe reader A magnetic stripe card reader for reading a magnetic stripe on a card having at least one track of magnetically stored information stored thereon as a stream of encoded discrete data bits separated by bit times is disclosed. Aa magnetic head is provided for reading ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7123294 | Image file apparatus and method for storing display image data corresponding to a display size In an apparatus and method according to the present invention, image data is read and stored in a recording medium. If the size of the original image data is determined as being different from the display size of a monitor apparatus, the original image data is conve... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7095947 | System for synchronizing the playback of two or more connected playback devices using closed captioning The present invention is directed to a method and system for synchronizing the replay of a pre-recorded program between a plurality of playback devices utilizing closed-caption data. The internal block of the playback devices are synchronized. Upon receiving program... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7064778 | Multi-camera system for implementing digital slow shutter video processing using shared video memory A technique, specifically a method and apparatus that implements the method, that allows a memory to be located remotely from a video source. Specifically, the method provides a write control signal between a video source and a remote memory that allows the remote m... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053938 | Speech-to-text captioning for digital cameras and associated methods A digital camera includes a processor and a microphone. The camera captures audio speech and converts the speech to text. The text can be combined with a captured image to provide a composite file. The processor executes an instruction set which performs the audio t... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047305 | Personal broadcasting system for audio and video data using a wide area network A system for transferring real time video information from a source device to one of a plurality of output devices includes an image capturing device for acquiring video information, the image capturing device comprising a processor, a graphics module coupled to the... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7034862 | System and method for processing electronically captured images to emulate film tonescale and color A sequence of electronically captured images are converted into modified images providing the appearance of images captured by a film reproduction system, where the film reproduction system is of the type that includes a motion picture negative film printed onto a m... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034886 | Video production switcher with integrated aspect ratio converter A video production switcher converts an aspect ratio through the use of an integrated aspect ratio converter. Additionally, by having both converted and native format signals input to a switcher processor, the effective number of inputs can be doubled. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6992711 | Digital camera with a plurality of media for recording captured images A digital camera reduces the possibility that a user's release operation is disabled and performs photographing operations at the appropriate times. The digital camera (1) can load a memory card (40a) and a magnetic disk card (40b)... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6978086 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus, such as a video camera, is arranged to record a first image signal and a second image signal on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, respectively. While recording on the first recording medium the first image signal subjected... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977683 | Digital camera A digital camera employs an image sensor with color filters that correspond to individual pixels of the sensor. Image data detected by the sensor is recorded, together with data regarding the alignment of the color filters. The image data and the recorded alignment ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6970637 | Information processing apparatus, method for the same, and storage medium An apparatus for processing information is provided, such as a digital camera having a communication function with improved performance while retaining compactness and immediate functionality. A size of data (first data) expected to be received is added to an expect... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6957011 | Video recording apparatus A low cost video recording apparatus for one time recording on a recording medium, comprises a casing (15) which houses a video cassette tape, a lens (1), a microphone (16), a colour CMOS sensor, a signal processing module, a write head and a dr... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6927794 | Digital camera provided with a plurality of mounting portions to each of which a recording medium is mounted The CPU 17 accesses multiple slots 41a and 41b in a digital camera 1 at regular intervals to detect whether or not memory cards 40a and 40b are mounted in the slots 41a and 41... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928234 | Picture recording apparatus and method thereof A picture recording apparatus for compression-encoding a moving picture sequence and recording the resultant data to a record medium is disclosed, that comprises an encoding unit for compression-encoding an input moving picture sequence, a recording unit for recordi... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6904229 | Apparatus for recording signals on disk recording medium A recording apparatus of this invention detects the state of management information, which pertains to a recording address of an image signal, and which is reproduced from a disk-like recording medium having a first area for the image signal and a second area for th... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6882362 | Image processing system having an image signal generating device coupleable to an adapter An image transmission system including an image pickup device having an image pickup portion for converting a subject image into an image signal, a recording/reproducing device for recording/reproducing the image signal to and from a medium, a first interface device... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879769 | Device for processing recorded information and storage medium storing program for same An information preparation device, such as a personal computer, detects non-consecutive position information, such as times and dates, based on parameters (S11), such as preinputted non-consecutive point detection margins, and prepares (S12) an informa... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876813 | Signal processing device for processing video signal information by using memory A signal processing device having a video signal input, a circuit for processing a video signal, a generating device for generating a character signal, and a memory for storing the video signal to be processed and for storing the character signal generated by the ge... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6871010 | Video recorder for recording moving and still picture information When a still picture information is recorded on the recording medium 7 while a moving picture information is recorded by the VTR 6, a still picture information to be recorded can be confirmed and recorded by displaying the still picture information to ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6871004 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program Disclosed is an information processing method comprising the steps of: storing measured position information in association with first time information representing times of day at which the measured position information is obtained; storing video information in ass... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6864917 | Hybrid film-electronic camera having a dynamic number of stored electronic images protected from overwriting and method In a hybrid camera and method, the number of stored electronic images protected from overwriting is not fixed, but instead changes depending upon the film unit used in the camera. In the method, a first film unit is loaded in the camera. The first film unit has a fi... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6834157 | 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... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6807360 | Digital image recording system The digital image recording system of the present invention comprises event storage unit for storing, on occurrence of an event, the order of such occurrence, importance level storage unit for storing the importance level of the event, and image acquisition unit for... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6807359 | DVD sub-picture decoder with minimal buffering A memory efficient method for translating and displaying sub-picture images for DVD data. The method uses less memory than prior systems. Rather than storing the sub-picture image in a memory, the method decodes and displays the sub-picture images on-the-fly. Subseq... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6618553 | 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 ima... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6445870 | Image compression and expansion device The image compression and expansion device handles pixel data (R, G, B) which are generated according to the 256-color mode. The pixel data are compressed and recorded in a recording medium. Palette information, composed of color data of the 256-color mod... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6426771 | Image processing apparatus and method and computer readable memory storing the method A color image signal input from a CCD or the like is processed to generate a color image signal containing a color subimage portion or a monochrome image signal containing a monochrome subimage portion and to record the image signals directly or after the... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6424787 | Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus and the same equipped with an image sensor A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus equipped with an image sensor, has a camera portion having an A/D converter for converting a signal from an image sensor into a digital signal and a first digital processor for receiving an output of the A/D conv... | 07/23/2002 |
