Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111293 | Photographic apparatus A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller. The movable platform has an imager and is movable and rotatable on an xy plane perpendicular. The controller calculates an inclination angle of the photographic apparatus, and perf... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111292 | Method and apparatus for stably correcting handshake in camera panning situation Provided are an apparatus and method for stably correcting handshake that occurs during a camera panning situation. In the method, movement information is accumulated by a predetermined unit for a predetermined period of time. A regression model is matched to the ac... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8085305 | Image processing apparatus, image sensing apparatus, and control method of image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus comprises: a feature detection circuit adapted to detect a feature portion of an object from a sensed image; a blur amount detection circuit adapted to detect a blur amount, during image sensing, of a device adapted to obtain the sensed... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081222 | Pressing mechanism for an image shake suppressing optical device A pressing mechanism is adapted for use in an image shake suppressing optical device that includes a driving unit and an image capturing unit. The pressing mechanism is adapted to be disposed between the driving unit and the image capturing unit, and includes an arm... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072498 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An apparatus and a method for outputting high-quality images in which both jerkiness and blur are reduced are provided. At generation of moving images to be output at a certain frame rate, movement velocities of a subject according to the frame rate of the output im... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068140 | Still image stabilization suitable for compact camera environments Still image apparatus and methods that are suitable for compact camera environments are described. In another aspect, image segments are captured during corresponding exposure intervals of a frame exposure period. Respective motion sensor signals are generated durin... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063939 | Image processing device, image picking-up device, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus (1), for performing image processing on image data which is obtained by performing imaging of a subject and in which the degree of motion blurring of an image represented by the image data changes in accordance with an imaging co... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8040380 | Image-taking apparatus In response to a release button being pushed, a system control section informs a timing generation section of the number of images to be shot to carry out high-speed continuous shooting. A first image obtained by continuous shooting is stored in a frame memory of an... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035691 | Method and apparatus for compensating for movement of a video surveillance camera A method of compensating for the movement of a video surveillance camera comprising the steps of moving an interlaced camera, capturing a first video field of a frame at a first point in time, capturing a second video field of a frame at a second point in time, dete... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026949 | Image stabilization control circuit for correcting vibration-caused displacement of optical axis, and image pickup apparatus provided with the same A first equalizer generates a vibration-component signal indicating the amount of movement of an image pickup apparatus according to an output signal of a vibration detecting element for detecting the vibration of the image pickup apparatus. The second equalizer gen... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022997 | Information processing device and computer readable recording medium An information processing device that is connected to a projecting device that projects an annotation image input from an external terminal a projection area including an object and a background, and is connected to an image capture device that captures an image of ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013895 | Optical motion sensing Optical motion sensing systems and methods are described. In one aspect, light from subfields of a scene is focused onto respective capture areas of a focal plane. Successive sets of contemporaneous local images are captured from the focused light. Respective salien... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004569 | Method and apparatus for obtaining still image frame with anti-vibration clearness for image processing device A method for obtaining a still image frame with anti-vibration clearness includes the following steps. Multiple raw image frames are captured during a capturing period according to a capturing instruction. The raw image frames are compressed respectively, according ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7982773 | Imaging apparatus capable of capturing an image with reduced light falloff at edges and method for controlling the same An imaging apparatus includes a diaphragm unit configured to adjust an amount of incident light on an image sensor, a correction unit configured to perform a correction of an image signal that corresponds to driving of the diaphragm unit, and a control unit configur... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982772 | Image correction apparatus and image correction method for correcting image blur using a mobile vector An image correction apparatus which corrects blurring generated by the traveling of a vehicle in the captured image, including: a camera which captures an image of front of a vehicle continuously; mobile vector calculation means of calculating a mobile vector in an ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965317 | System and method for implementation motion-driven multi-shot image stabilization An improved system and method for capturing an image using a camera or a camera module. In the present invention, the number of image shots taken, as well as the integration time of each image shot, are controlled based upon knowledge about the existence or absence ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961220 | Camera shake correction mechanism and image capture apparatus, including heat dissipating mechanism There is provided a camera-shake correction mechanism by which camera shaking is corrected for by moving an imaging device on a plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis and in directions that are mutually orthogonal. The mechanism includes a heat dissipating mech... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961221 | Image pickup and reproducing apparatus An image pickup position information acquisition unit acquires, from a position fixing unit, position information of an image pickup location of a moving image being picked up. A preceding image pickup position information storage unit stores position information of... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956897 | Image combining device and imaging apparatus A plurality of divided exposure images (first to fourth images) are obtained by dividing a normal exposure time. By an image matching method, a motion detection circuit calculates a plurality of cumulative total correlation values between different divided exposure ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7932926 | Shooting lens having vibration reducing function and camera system for same The invention includes a vibration reduction mechanism, a vibration detecting part, a reference signal generating part, a target drive position calculating part, and a driving part. The vibration reduction mechanism reduces a vibration of a subject image. The vibrat... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924316 | Image feature identification and motion compensation apparatus, systems, and methods Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may estimate the magnitude of relative motion between a scene and an image capture device used to capture the scene. Some embodiments may utilize discrete cosine transform and/or Sobel gradient techniques to identify ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924317 | Method and apparatus for reducing motion blur in digital images A method and apparatus for reducing motion blur in digital images. An imager captures a reference frame and a plurality of target frames. Feature blocks preferably containing strong two-dimensional features are identified in the reference frame. Corresponding featur... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916177 | Image-capturing apparatus, image-capturing method and program for detecting and correcting image blur In an image-capturing apparatus and image-capturing method which can, in electronic image blur correction, correct camera motion-caused blurring occurring in one frame, an image-capturing apparatus (100) includes: a first picture feature amount transforming u... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907174 | Stabilization device for image stabilization and associated methods A stabilization device for a hand-held image capture system has (a) a controller for determining the alignment difference between an actual alignment of the image capture system and a target alignment of the image capture system, and (b) a compensation device for co... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7864213 | Apparatus and method for compensating trembling of a portable terminal A method for trembling compensation of a portable terminal includes obtaining a first image having lower brightness and a second image having higher brightness, the lower and higher brightness being different, by adjusting an iris when an image photograph event occu... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864214 | Signal processing device A signal processing device includes a system of circuit processing in essence while avoiding large sized device under restoring fluctuated signals such as deterioration and the like. The signal processing unit includes a processing unit that restores one of a signal... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852374 | Image-pickup and associated methodology of dividing an exposure-time period into a plurality of exposures An image-pickup device including an image-pickup element converting an optical image of a subject into an electrical signal is provided. The image-pickup device includes a detection unit which detects brightness of the subject, a first determination unit determining... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7847823 | Motion vector calculation method and hand-movement correction device, imaging device and moving picture generation device A motion vector calculation method includes: processing for calculating multi-resolution data up to a predetermined resolution level L from a plurality of inputted image data; and processing for estimating motion vectors per resolution executing a matching step for ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7834908 | Imaging device An imaging device is provided that predicts before still image photographing, whether alignment of a plurality of images obtained by the still image photographing mode should be performed based on the divided exposures and automatically switches photographing modes ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834907 | Image-taking apparatus and image processing method An image taking apparatus capable of taking a first image in accordance with a first projection method includes an image taking element for photoelectrically converting the first image, conversion means for converting an area in the first image acquired with the ima... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7777782 | Stabilization of an image produced by optics An electronic device is disclosed, which includes an image sensor, an optics for forming an image on the image sensor, a detector for detecting a movement effect caused by an external source aimed to the device in connection with an imaging procedure and an optical ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777781 | Method and system for determining the motion of an imaging apparatus Multiple motion sensor devices are included in an imaging apparatus. One or more of the motion sensor devices captures images and at least a portion of the sensor images are then processed to determine one or more motion vectors for the processed sensor images. At l... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773116 | Digital imaging stabilization One apparatus embodiment includes a target tracking apparatus. The apparatus includes a reference camera, a processor to receive image data from the reference camera, and memory connected to the processor. The apparatus includes instructions storable in the memory a... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7710458 | Image pick-up apparatus with a shake reducing function When a hand shake reducing mode has been set for shooting a subject, an exposure is controlled in accordance with a program diagram (solid line) B for the shake reducing mode, which is different from a program diagram (broken line) A for a normal mode. In a state wh... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7697034 | Moving image playback device with camera-shake correction function When a blurring correction is performed when shooting a moving image, a digital camera performs blurring correction on the picked up frames and successively records the frames. Then, when generating a moving image file, the digital camera records information stating... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7683935 | Imaging device The invention relates to an imaging device. An imaging device includes an image sensor for producing an image data related an object image; an optical system for forming on the image sensor the object image in which a predetermined region having as center a position... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7643062 | Method and system for deblurring an image based on motion tracking A method and system for deblurring an image based on motion tracking. light is recorded at an image sensor of an imaging device to capture an image. motion of said image sensor is recorded at a motion sensor of the imaging device during the recording of the light at... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7636106 | Image processing apparatus and method, and program used therewith An image processing apparatus includes an image capturing unit for capturing a first image by using an image capturing device, a detection unit for detecting applied vibration and outputting a vibration value representing a magnitude of the vibration, a calculation ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7633526 | Camera systems with vibration compensation and methods thereof Camera systems and methods with vibration compensation. The system comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, and a processing module. The first sensor detects an angle variation of a movement of a camera device to generate first sensed data. The second sensor detec... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7626612 | Methods and devices for video correction of still camera motion Disclosed are devices including a mobile imaging device having memory, a video camera system and a still camera system. The video camera system can be configured for video imaging, and configured to generate motion detection output. An application can be stored in m... | 12/01/2009 |
