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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7668455 | Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, reproducing apparatus, reproducing method and program An image capturing apparatus or reproducing apparatus which allows a user to easily obtain a desirable sound and image is provided. The image capturing apparatus or reproducing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image of a subject; a rec... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7660522 | Camera with display panel A camera with a display panel comprises a camera body and an LCD panel unit. The LCD panel unit is swingably attached to the camera body by a hinge portion. The LCD panel unit is provided with the display panel. A speaker portion is located on one surface (on the sa... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7590347 | Photographic prints having magnetically recordable media A camera provides a photo 7 printed on print media via printer device 6 under the control of a central processor 4. The photo 7 is a print of an image 5 provided by a CCD sensor 3. The photo 7 includes print media hav... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587136 | Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, output apparatus, output method and program An output apparatus for outputting sounds associated with the captured images without boring sound repetitions with image repetitions. The image output apparatus has an image storage section storing a plurality of captured images, an image output control section con... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580627 | Camera with display panel A camera with a display panel comprises a camera body and an LCD panel unit. The LCD panel unit is swingably attached to the camera body by a hinge portion. The LCD panel unit is provided with the display panel. A speaker portion is located on one surface (on the sa... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7522833 | Image-taking apparatus equipped with sound processing function An image-taking apparatus is disclosed, which has an effective arrangement of sound input or output portion. The image-taking apparatus comprises a main body, a lens barrel provided on a front face side of the main body, an illumination unit which illuminates an obj... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7403706 | Camera The present invention provides a camera in which a flash emission section is aligned with a self-timer light-emitting indicator section and the amount of slide of a slide door is minimized. The camera includes; a housing with an opening for an image-taking optical s... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7382973 | Data processing apparatus, information processing system and computer-readable recording medium recording selecting program The present invention provides a data processing apparatus comprising a first additional information acquisition unit for acquiring the first additional information with regard to a first processing target data; a second additional information acquisition unit acqui... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7268801 | Digital-camera-provided binoculars Binoculars having a digital camera are provided. The digital camera is able to capture an image of an object which is observed through the optical systems of the binoculars. The digital-camera-provide binoculars further comprise a microphone. The microphone is provi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7248934 | Method of transmitting a one-dimensional signal using a two-dimensional analog medium A method and apparatus for printing a one-dimensional, continuous signal, such as a sound wave, as a printed pattern and for recovering the sound wave from the printed pattern. The method decomposes the one dimensional signal two-dimensional function that is continu... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239348 | Digital camera with a music playback function A digital camera, which includes: an image playback module; and a music playback module, wherein a plurality of images are played back accompanied by music, an image playback time for the plurality of images substantially coincides with a music playback time for the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239806 | Sliding cover A sliding cover for protecting camera lens and switching the power of the camera, comprising a cover plate and a permanent magnet. The cover plate is slideably connected with the front shell of the camera, a magnetic induction switch is installed at the inner side o... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7232072 | Combined code reader and digital camera An image capture system having an image capture module and a terminal unit captures both photo images and coded images. An alterable optical path of the system operates in a first configuration when capturing coded images and in a second configuration when capturing... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7209571 | Authenticating metadata and embedding metadata in watermarks of media signals A steganographic embedder associates data with a media signal by encoding the data, a link to the data, or a combination of both into the media signal. The embedder may be located in an media signal capture device or an external process or device. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7158174 | Method for automatic white balance of digital images A method of adjusting the color characteristics of a digital image includes receiving a digital image including a plurality of pixels, receiving non-pixel data relating to camera capture parameters including an aperture value, an exposure time value, and a speed val... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145464 | Data collection device In one aspect of the invention a data collection device is provided for use with a medium said medium being usable when exposed to electromagnetic radiation that is characteristic of such use. The data collection device has a sensor capable of sensing when the mediu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136102 | Digital still camera and method of controlling operation of same If a telop-character recording mode is selected, then, in response to depression of a shutter-release button, the image of a subject is sensed and voice enters from a microphone for a fixed period of time so that data representing voice is obtained. Character data f... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7121462 | User programmable smart card interface system A user programmable smart card interface system is disclosed having a smart card (10) and a reader/writer (1) which is able to read data from, and write data into, an electronic memory (19) carried by the card. A user terminal (100) havin... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118039 | Bar code addressing audio playing device A bar code addressing audio playing device mainly has a microprocessor, a bar code scanner and an audio playing unit. The memory store information is generated by a bar code addressing method and the information has many bar code data of bar codes and multiple secti... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7099920 | Method and system for creating an e-mail by automatically constituting a text and an attached file of the e-mail basing on at least one words or sentences and picture stored in a single picture file A picture-information transmission apparatus including a file select means for selecting a predetermined file saved in a state of associating picture information with word information upon detection of execution of a predetermined operation, and a transmission-infor... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092627 | Shooting system and silver-salt camera A shooting system of the present invention comprises a silver-salt camera unit shooting on a silver-salt photosensitized material, an electronic image pickup unit which is detachably combined with the silver-salt camera unit and in which a solid image pickup element... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088859 | Apparatus for processing machine-readable code printed on print medium together with human-readable information An information processing system which processes machine-readable code information which is printed, together with human-readable information, on a print medium. The apparatus includes a reading unit which reads the machine-readable code information, a decoding unit... | 08/08/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7024109 | Information processing apparatus Sound information related to an image is inputted together with the image taken by a camera, and is printing outputted as a two-dimensional bar code data with the image by a printer provided in the camera as one body. Specifically, a printed matter is formed by prin... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7007417 | Audio-visual display device for pictorial artwork An audio-visual display device for pictorial artwork is disclosed. The preferred embodiment has a universal backbox which contains a lightboard capable of lighting up any and/or all sections of a pictorial artwork placed above it, a hidden electric eye for detecting... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6942312 | Method and apparatus related to informative data associated with graphical image data Methods and apparatus for packing, including single pixel data strings, and playback tracking of informative data, e.g., audio signals, associated with graphics. To maximize the signal-to-noise ratio during data recovery, a Read sensor is kept substantially on-cente... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6930713 | Method and system for providing a printed image with a related sound A passage of sound is attached to a printed image 11 by means of an electronic storage medium 12. The electronic storage medium 12 comprises a die 16 containing a non-volatile memory and a flexible substrate 14 with connectors 1... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6910014 | System for playing pre-recorded audio encoded in infra-red ink on a card A device is disclosed for playing prerecorded audio encoded in a fault tolerant manner as a series of infra-red ink dots printed on a card, in substantially the same area as an image printed on the card, using a page-width ink-jet printhead, the device comprising an... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6816679 | Play and record audio system embedded inside a photograph An audio photograph or picture 2 made of a photograph or picture material 6 having an image area 12 for providing at least one photographic or picture image and further having an audio system 4 embedded within the photograph or picture ma... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6774939 | Audio-attached image recording and playback device The inability to attach more than one audio file to a single image file is an example of a problem encountered in image recording devices that include an audio recording function whereby audio information can be recorded and played back along with previously capture... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6704506 | Illuminant-equipped camera A movable power switch member mounted on the front face of a camera body is provided with a luminous display unit comprising any number (preferably a plurality) of illuminants, and light emission is so controlled as to realize different forms of displayin... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6684130 | Robot apparatus and its control method A robot apparatus is provided with a photographing device for photographing subjects and a notifying device for making an advance notice of photographing with the photographing device. In addition, in a control method for the robot apparatus, an advance n... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6647369 | Reader to decode sound and play sound encoded in infra-red ink on photographs A system is disclosed for playing prerecorded audio encoded in a fault tolerant manner as a series of infra-red ink dots printed along with a photographic image using an ink jet printing system, the system comprising an infra-red scanner for scanning the ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6639649 | Synchronization of music and images in a camera with audio capabilities A portable electronic image displayer and audio player, including: a digital memory for storing digital images; a digital memory for storing an audio recording; a display for displaying stored digital images; a music analyzer for analyzing the stored audi... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6608972 | Play and record audio system embedded inside a photograph An audio photograph or picture 2 made of a photograph or picture material 6 having an image area 12 for providing at least one photographic or picture image and further having an audio system 4 embedded within the photograph or picture material 6. The aud... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6574441 | System for adding sound to pictures A sound recording system is used in conjunction with a conventional camera (C) that by itself cannot record sounds. A sound recorder (100) has a mounting device (120, 190), a microphone (110), and a sound record switch (130) that is placed adjacent the sh... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6563563 | Printing of image with related sound A printer 802 is adapted to produce a printed image with an associated sound passage stored on an electronic storage device. The printer 802 comprises an information input for receiving information to define a visual image and also information defining a ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6558050 | Human body-mounted camera The camera, which is put on a user, shoots and processes image into image data and records the same. The camera has two or more operation modes and is provided with a detector for detecting either the motion state or the physiological state of the user or... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6496656 | Camera with variable sound capture file size based on expected print characteristics A camera, adapted for recording individual sound files to be re-recorded onto associated photographic prints, includes an operator interface for pre-selecting photographic print characteristics which would affect the amount of recording time available on ... | 12/17/2002 |
