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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077209 | Imaging preventing apparatus and imaging preventing method An imaging preventing apparatus includes imaging means for obtaining an imaged image signal by performing imaging processing, image analyzing means for performing image analyzing processing on the imaged image signal obtained by the imaging means, imaging preventing... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8018494 | Color correction device, color correction method, dynamic camera color correction device, and video search device using the same A color correction device (1) including: color set information storage portions (11) which store color set information inclusive of source colors and reference colors; region selection portions (6) which select specific source regions from sourc... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7973819 | Method and apparatus for determining the position of a moving object, by using visible light communication An apparatus for determining the present position of a vehicle, by utilizing a visible-light communication system. The apparatus uses a visible-light communication beacon and video data representing an image photographed by one camera. The beacon emits a visible opt... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969470 | Moving object detection apparatus, method and program A moving object detection device accurately detects moving objects. The device includes a motion vector calculation section calculating motion vectors from an input image; a motion vector removal section removing a motion vector having high randomness from the calcu... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7876359 | Cooperative nesting of mechanical and electronic stabilization for an airborne camera system A method and system for stabilizing images being taken by a video camera using electromechanical stabilization. The stabilization system performs inter-frame stabilization based on the velocity of a vehicle on which the video camera is mounted and the pan rate of a ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7868917 | Imaging device with moving object prediction notification The present invention provides an imaging device comprising: an image pickup device which picks up an object, an image acquisition device which continuously acquires image signals indicating the object via the image pickup device, a face recognition device which con... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7808528 | Method and apparatus for an on-chip variable acuity imager array incorporating roll, pitch and yaw angle rates measurement A variable acuity imager incorporates an array of detection elements for light energy, in the visible, infrared, ultraviolet, or light energy in another region of the electromagnetic spectrum with a means to change the spatial configuration of the array to include â... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7787017 | Digital camera and method for identification of objects The invention concerns a method for identification of stationary or moving objects such as images, texts or physical items on the basis of a digital representation (308), to be learned, of the object or of a part of the object. Within the representation (3... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7710457 | Motion detector camera having a flash A motion detector camera includes a housing, a camera mechanism located within the housing, a motion detector exposed on a surface of the housing. The camera can include a solar panel coupled to the housing to provide power to the camera mechanism. The camera can in... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7656429 | Digital camera and method for in creating still panoramas and composite photographs Digital cameras and methods that help a user accurately align sequential photographs to create large panoramas and composite photographs derived from a sequence of smaller photographs. This effectively creates a higher resolution, or larger, photograph from a zigzag... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656430 | Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method, and program An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a detailed image of a moving body can be picked up accurately. A tracking object pan tilt zoom module reads out moving body information stored in a moving body tracking rank management database at p... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7511736 | Augmented reality navigation system A navigation system utilizing augmented reality is provided which utilizes captured images to generate orientation information, wherein the pitch, yaw and roll are periodically derived from an inexpensive sensor, and in-between the periodical update, the pitch, roll... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7428375 | Correlated auto-focus stabilization method and digital camera Auto-focus in a digital camera is improved by stabilizing successive images. Each auto-focus image is correlated to previous images so that scene movement or motion can be tracked. The area in the scene where focus figure-of-merit is computed is adjusted according t... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423669 | Monitoring system and setting method for the same In order to facilitate a setting of multiple parameters of a tracking function of a camera, in a setting window, an image display window is displayed in which a picked-up image sent from a camera server and an indicator indicating a change detection maximum area as ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408572 | Method and apparatus for an on-chip variable acuity imager array incorporating roll, pitch and yaw angle rates measurement A variable acuity imager incorporates an array of detection elements for light energy, in the visible, infrared, ultraviolet, or light energy in another region of the electromagnetic spectrum with a means to change the spatial configuration of the array to include â... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7388603 | Method and imaging system with intelligent frame integration An imaging system disables pixel integration for images within frames that are identified as moving while enables pixel integration for images that are not moving. The system may implement a frame-averaging type of integration or recursive types of frame integration... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7365779 | Image processing apparatus for selectively storing specific regions of an image The invention provides an image processing apparatus that can reduce the memory capacity of a memory forming part of the image processing apparatus and can correct the optical axis misalignment of a video camera in a simple manner. The image processing apparatus ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7346191 | Moving obstacle detecting device An aspect of the present invention provides a moving obstacle detecting device installed in or on a moving body for detecting moving obstacles in the vicinity of the moving body, the moving obstacle detecting device that includes an image capturing unit configured a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340077 | Gesture recognition system using depth perceptive sensors Three-dimensional position information is used to identify the gesture created by a body part of interest. At one or more instances of an interval, the posture of a body part is recognized, based on the shape of the body part and its position and orientation. The po... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7295228 | Security camera systems A security camera system is provided. Several video cameras operate in conjunction with an image display monitor, a user control and camera selector means whereby a target of interest may be followed. Each two cameras providing adjacent areas of coverage are operabl... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7272305 | Photography system that detects the position of a remote control and frames photographs accordingly A photography system includes a digital camera and a remote control whose location can be detected by the camera. The remote control includes a control for causing the camera to take a photograph. The camera selects a region to photograph from its field of view, bas... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268802 | Photography system with remote control subject designation and digital framing A photography system includes a digital camera and a remote control. The remote control emits a light that the photographer can use to designate a subject to be photographed by pointing the remote control at the subject, casting a light spot on the subject. In a pre... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7253834 | Image pickup apparatus having image pickup optical system An image pickup apparatus comprising a first lens unit which comprises at least a negative lens element and at least a positive lens element and has negative refractive power, a second lens unit which has positive refractive power, and an optical path bending reflec... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253835 | Method and apparatus for estimating a camera reference horizon A method, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for estimating a camera reference horizon Ŷ0. Operations include receiving images including projections of objects including horizontal edges. Vertical motion is estimated for the images and... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248286 | Apparatus and method for controlling a camera using a video compression algorithm A method for controlling a camera using an image compression algorithm. A motion region and a motionless region are determined with respect to an input image based on a motion vector of a macro block which is for the generation of compressed data from the input imag... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245317 | Imaging device having a luminous profile detecting element A photosensitive region includes a semiconductor substrate 40 made of a P-type semiconductor, and N-type semiconductor regions 41, 42 and 43 formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 40. Accordingly, the first photosensitive po... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7199611 | System to temporarily modify an output waveform Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a temporarily modified output. A waveform control provides a control output that temporarily adjusts to an intermediate level between normal high and low levels during a first operating mode. The waveform control provi... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7162101 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method, which can appropriately extract an object even when the focus of a camera having an automatic focus adjustment function shifts from the background to the object. To this end, frame images which are sensed by an image sensing... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151561 | Method for detecting movement of image sensors A method to detect the movement of an image sensor according to captured images. An image region is captured from a first image. Then, a first corresponding region matching the first region is captured from a second image. A second image region is captured from the ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7120875 | Method and apparatus for augmented reality hybrid tracking system with fiducial-based heading correction An apparatus and method is disclosed for enabling accurate registration of virtual information upon real objects in selected environments from the perspective of a moveable observation platform having a position and an orientation within an observation space positio... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110023 | Method and apparatus for target object extraction from an image Geometrical structures of a human image and a background image picked up by a camera are extracted as difference in pixel value distributions, a statistical model of the appearance of the human image is first constructed to find a discrimination axis, the model is c... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7098956 | Process and device for the video recording of an illuminated field For the video recording of a field illuminated by a lamp, especially a surgical lamp, where at least one light beam for illuminating the field emerges from a light exit area of a lamp housing in the direction of a predetermined housing axis, the optical axis of a vi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7071970 | Video augmented orientation sensor An orientation sensor utilizing an inexpensive but relatively slow base orientation sensor, augmented by capture of a video images, identifying reference objects or regions therein, and calculating displacement of those objects to derive supplementary orientation in... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064776 | Object tracking apparatus, object tracking method and recording medium An object movement tracking apparatus and its method tracks an object with an unknown initial position and which object is continually moving, the apparatus for recovering a tracking process even when the tracking has failed and includes an observing device such as ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057643 | Image capturing system, image capturing apparatus, and manual operating apparatus A portable phone which is a manual operating apparatus of an image capturing system has an image processing section 340, an operation control section 341 and a communication section 342. The image processing section 340 acquires informati... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050102 | Spatial referenced photographic system with navigation arrangement An image system which captures, along with the images, information defining both the position and the orientation of the camera along with the distance to the subject. A video camera is attached to three accelerometers, two gyroscopes, and a rangefinder. Data gather... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042507 | Digital camera, pixel data read-out control apparatus and method, blur-detection apparatus and method A digital camera includes an image pick-up element that can read out pixel data in a nondestructive manner, specifying means for specifying addresses of a plurality of pixels thinned out among all pixels of the image pick-up element, and data read-out means for read... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038709 | System and method for tracking a subject An image tracking system for generating digitized image frames of a moving object using an image capture device and a position control device. The image capture device and determining a location value for an object image within each of the digitized image frames. Th... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038715 | Digital still camera with high-quality portrait mode A digital still camera (10) receives and digitizes visible radiation (17) and sound waves (32) from a scene (12). When an operator actuates a shutter release (46), the camera detects and evaluates digitized information (22, 38 | 05/02/2006 |
| 7015952 | Image processing apparatus and a method to compensate for shaking during image capture An image processing apparatus comprises an image capture device which generates a video image containing an image shake caused by a shake of the image capture device, a region selector which selects a given image region used for detecting the image shake, a shake de... | 03/21/2006 |
