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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184165 | Apparatus and method for running dual cameras in a portable terminal An apparatus and method for separating and connecting a main camera and a sub camera in a portable terminal are provided. The portable terminal includes a main camera for receiving a main clock signal from a main chip and transmitting a main camera pixel clock signa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8168338 | Mobile terminal equipment using fuel battery and fuel battery system for mobile terminal equipment Mobile terminal equipment is provided with a battery receiving chamber for using a fuel battery cell unit including a hydrogen storage alloy container, a pressure adjusting valve, and a fuel battery cell. A fuel battery system for mobile terminal equipment is furthe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169484 | Photography-specific digital camera apparatus and methods useful in conjunction therewith A multi-mode digital photography method including generating an output image of a location L at a specific time t which is identified as a function of a user-selected photography task. the method including generating an output image of a particular scene which is bu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164634 | Vibrating device and image equipment having the same A vibrating device includes a drive unit configured to drive a vibrating member to produce vibration Z(x,y) at a dust-screening member, the vibration being expressed as follows: Z(x,y)=Wmn(x,y)·cos(γ)+Wn... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149281 | Electronic device and method for operating a presentation application file An electronic device and method for operating a presentation application file includes acquiring a histogram of each of a plurality of designated objects, and defining an operation corresponding to each of the plurality of designated objects. The electronic device a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144202 | Apparatus, system, and method of use of imaging assembly on mobile terminal A system for collecting data comprising a mobile terminal for capturing a plurality of frames of image data, the mobile terminal having a first imaging assembly and a second imaging assembly, the first imaging assembly for capturing a first frame of image data repre... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130276 | Photography system to organize digital photographs and information regarding the subjects therein A photographic processing system to organize one or more digital photographs and information regarding the subjects being photographed. The system includes a camera to capture digital images of one or more subjects, a user input to receive data related to the one or... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115816 | Image capturing method, control method therefor, and program An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject and generates a captured image; a determination-information storage unit that stores items of determination information, each item of determination information being us... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115815 | Image pickup apparatus and time correction method An image pickup apparatus that records a picked-up image and time information indicating when the picked-up image was picked up includes a unit that obtains location information and UTC and generates positioning information indicating the obtained result, a unit tha... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102426 | 3D vision on a chip A 3D camera for determining distances to regions in a scene comprising: a photosurface having a plurality of pixels each of which comprises a circuit having a light sensitive element that provides a current responsive to light incident thereon, wherein the circuit c... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089516 | Event management for camera systems Systems and methods of event management for camera systems are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method may comprise publishing a plurality of event notifications identifying available frame data. The method may also comprise subscribing a program code mo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085304 | Photographic silver emulsion-based digital archival storage A photographic digital data archival apparatus includes an article of media that includes a substrate and one or more layers of silver-emulsion based light-sensitive material, the article of media being configured to store digital data in the one or more layers and ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082257 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A data processing apparatus includes a management file creating portion for creating a first management file for managing reading of an information data file recorded on a recording medium and a second management file for managing a predetermined function related to... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077208 | Method, apparatus, software and arrangement for modifying image data This invention relates to programmable modification of image data of a small compact digital camera. In the method according to the embodiments of the invention sensor data is processed before transferring it to an image processing component. The sensor data is read... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8063937 | Digital camera with overscan sensor An electronic motion picture camera for recording a sequence of images includes a sensor device having a two-dimensional arrangement of sensor elements that generate electrical signals in dependence on an exposure to light. A first group of the sensor elements forms... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054334 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus and an imaging method supply an optimum amount of image data to another apparatus. When a PDA has a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps, a mobile phone determines that the maximum speed of communication with the PDA is low, reduces the amount of m... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8004568 | Image pick-up apparatus In an image pick-up apparatus of the invention, when capturing is started, a chapter formation-commanding portion transfers a chapter table to a memory. When a user depresses a chapter formation button, a chapter is formed in an empty table of the chapter table. Aft... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999854 | Digital camera for outputting image data according to application program, and peripheral for carrying out application program The object of the present invention is to provide a digital camera system capable of transmitting image information suitable for the purpose of image usage in a peripheral. Special information in connection with an application program used in the peripheral is outpu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990419 | Image processing apparatus, method, and program storing a correction or modification log An image processing apparatus includes a modification processing unit which modifies input image data, a storage unit which stores a modification log with respect to the same image data modified by the modification processing unit, a selection unit which selects an ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986342 | Multi-purpose imaging apparatus and adaptors therefor Provided is a multi-purpose imaging apparatus (10) comprising a body (14) and imaging means (36) housed within the body (14). The body (14) is adapted to releasably engage an adaptor (12). The adaptor (12) has an aper... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978220 | Optical apparatus having device for removing foreign substance An optical apparatus includes a rectangular optical member provided on an optical axis, a supporting member configured to support the optical member, and a rectangular vibrating device stuck to the optical member close to and in parallel with one of four sides of th... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969468 | Imaging apparatus and wireless communication partner searching method An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device for photographing a subject image to output as image data, a recording device for recording the image data as an image file, a wireless communication device, a partner device searching device for searching for a partne... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969469 | Multiple image sensor system with shared processing A primary integrated image sensor is operatively connected to one or more secondary image sensors. The primary integrated image sensor includes a pixel array integrated on a semiconductor substrate along with one or more of an image signal processing circuit, readou... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7948520 | Image sensor interface A device for capturing image data includes a first image sensor. A first interface receives the image data from the first image sensor based on a first synchronization signal. The first interface has a first mode that is associated with receiving the first synchroni... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945535 | Automatic publishing of digital content In one embodiment, there is provided a method for a media storage device to manage digital content. The method comprises determining if there is digital content to be categorized into one or more galleries; automatically categorizing said digital content into the on... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940305 | Motor vehicle camera display apparatus and method Arrangement for a motor vehicle with a camera and a display device for capturing and displaying an image of the surroundings of the motor vehicle and for displaying graphically representable information, such as for example guide lines, reference texts or the like, ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7929020 | Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device A camera device comprises a movable optical system, a driving unit which drives the optical system, and a control unit which makes the driving unit start driving of the optical system to a predetermined state by an initialization of the optical system by using an in... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924315 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image processing program, and image file format In a learning process, first, images having different resolutions are obtained from a target region of the subject (S101). Further, the subject characteristic of the target region is obtained (S102). Then, the resolution conversion rules are learned fr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924314 | Bulk image gathering system and method A system and method for gathering bulk images are provided herein. ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920168 | Systems and methods of customizing a color palette on a digital camera Systems and methods are disclosed for customizing a color palette on a digital camera. An exemplary method of customizing a color palette on a digital camera may comprise identifying for a user a color from a scene the digital camera is focused on. The method may al... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920167 | Method and apparatus for the creation of image capture device parameter curves A user provides a graphical representation of a desired image capture device control parameter curve with respect to time. A digital image of the graphical representation of a desired image capture device control parameter curve is captured. The digital image is ana... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916175 | Digital camera including an electronic tag reader which wirelessly writes image data into an electronic tag, system including the digital camera, electronic tag reading apparatus which reads data including image data from an electronic tag, electronic tag read/write method for a digital camera and electronic tag reading method for an electronic tag reader An image pickup apparatus includes an image capture device which captures an image of an article, an electronic tag reader which reads electronic tag information from an electronic tag, and a writing device. When the image of the article is captured by the image cap... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911500 | Image processing device, computer readable recording medium, and image processing method An image processing device includes: a connecting unit that connects a projecting device and an image capture device, at least one of the projecting device and the image capture device having an adjustable position; an acquiring unit that acquires an image captured ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903143 | Systems and methods for document scanning using a variable intensity display of an information handling system Variable display lighting intensity of an information handling system, such as notebook computer, is used to achieve image lighting uniformity for document scanning with a camera that is integrated or otherwise attached or built-in to a display of the information ha... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898571 | Versatile video data acquisition and analysis system An adaptable system (10) for automatically characterizing a sensor array (12) in software in response to commands from a user. The system (10) includes a first mechanism (12, 16, 18, 20) for acquiring and analyzing image data from the sen... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894707 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus of the present invention, in accordance with a data write speed of an external storage device, switches a writing mode between a first mode in which the apparatus suspends reading out moving image data from a memory until a predetermined amount... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7884851 | Audio and visual system and method for providing audio and visual information using such system Apparatus and methods of processing audio files used by the apparatus are provided. The apparatus includes a camera arrangement, a storage arrangement, and a user input arrangement. The storage arrangement can store one or more audio files. A user may prepare the ca... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7855730 | Printed photograph with high capacity encoded audio A data structure is printed on a photograph using infra-red ink. The data structure includes a two dimensional array of data blocks. Each adjacent pair of data blocks is separated by a gap and each of the data blocks has a data region holding encoded data. Each data... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7830413 | 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... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830412 | Method and apparatus for shielding correction pixels from spurious charges in an imager A barrier for isolating the dark correction pixels from spurious charges within an image sensor. The barrier comprises a charge absorbing region in a substrate electrically connected to a voltage source terminal. The charge absorbing region completely surrounds the ... | 11/09/2010 |
