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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189059 | Digital camera and digital camera system In a collaborating work, it is to provide a digital camera in which camera information about each camera is displayed on a monitor of a master camera and a memory status of each memory card in use is also displayed and further, when monitoring a video from a slave c... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8159546 | Image capture and distribution system and method Images captured at a venue and relating to one or more patrons of the venue are incorporated into one or more products in accordance with image selections and/or product selections made by the patron(s). The images may be captured at venues with a variety of image c... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154610 | Image sensor with built-in ISP and dual camera system A dual camera system includes a first bayer sensor block for outputting an external bayer image data constituted with photosensitive values of respective photosensitive cells which are sensitive to an incident light and a data processing unit, including a second bay... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8134605 | Apparatus for transmitting an HTML file with a captured or stored image to an electronic device over a network In order that a digital video (DV) camera function as a WWW server in a network, an image capturing section captures an image of a subject. A DV encoder encodes an image signal input from the image capturing section. A recording and playback section plays back DV da... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8085310 | Image capturing apparatus and power supply control method therefor An image capturing apparatus is separably connected to a display device. The display device has a remote power supply control function of activating or deactivating the image capturing apparatus via a circuit. The image capturing apparatus activates the image captur... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081227 | Image quality visual indicator An image for which a quality indicator is to be displayed is obtained. The image is processed to obtain a quality value associated with the quality of the image. The quality indicator based at least in part on the quality value is displayed, wherein the quality indi... | 12/20/2011 |
| RE42973 | Camera network communication device A communication device for interconnecting a digital camera to a communication network for downloading data to a remote computer. The device has a network communication port for establishing communication with a network via a pre-defined protocol and communication m... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8040384 | Image transmission apparatus An image transmission apparatus (adaptor apparatus) is configured to transmit image data captured by an image pickup apparatus to an output apparatus. The adaptor apparatus is configured to obtain identification information of the image pickup apparatus and type inf... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035694 | Data processing apparatus, control method for the data processing apparatus, and computer program causing computer to execute the control method A data processing apparatus detects attribute information of image data, and sets a wireless communication parameter based on the detected attribute information. The wireless communication parameter used for performing wireless communication can be easily set. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031230 | Recorded content display program and recorded content display apparatus Provided are a recorded content display program and a recorded content display apparatus which effectively display the recorded contents of video image recording apparatuses connected in plural. To display the recorded contents of the images when the image recording... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7986344 | Image sample downloading camera, method and apparatus A digital camera is provided, comprising a body containing an image sensor, a lens attached to the camera body and configured to focus a scene onto the image sensor. The digital camera also includes a wireless communication unit for communicating with a service host... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982778 | Imaging apparatus usable as either a master apparatus or a slave apparatus and a method usable therewith An imaging apparatus contains a signal-producing unit that produces an image signal on an image of an imaged subject, a data-superimposing unit that superimposes ancillary data over the image signal produced in the signal-producing unit, and a control unit that cont... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7969473 | Image-pickup apparatus Image-pickup sections and an image-communicating/processing section 138 are connected by a single bus. Following the output of the image data, an output-controlling section in one of the image-pickup sections outputs an image-data-ending pattern, which indica... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7859571 | System and method for digital video management A digital video management system which provides live digital video signals from a number of cameras to a number of client terminals, via a computer communications network, in real time. The system stores live video signals in response to a video recording trigger w... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7764308 | Image transmission system, image relay apparatus, and electronic image device An electronic camera 100 automatically transmits captured image data and user identification information to a gateway server 160 over a wireless portable telephone link 130. The gateway server 160 manages image albums created on a per-use... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760238 | Vision system with deterministic low-latency communication Vision system and method. The system includes a vision system, including: a camera, a processor and memory, coupled to the camera, and an EtherCAT interface, coupled to the processor and memory, possibly contained in a chassis, and operable to couple to an EtherCAT ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7714896 | Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method An image processing apparatus that provides multiple services for users who issue various requests on a network, while maintaining the real-time nature of the apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a developing unit for developing image data to time-vary... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7683938 | Image taking system and a telephone, a mobile telephone and a telephone holder used by said system This image-taking system includes: at least one controllable motor (30, 32, 34) suitable for moving an image-taking point of a first mobile telephone in response to movement instructions received by the first mobile telephon... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679649 | Methods for deploying video monitoring applications and services across heterogenous networks Methods for the deployment of an image servicing platform over a mobile wireless network are described. A mobile multimedia service controller (MMSC) includes a video gateway that is capable of transcoding among different video formats supported by an imaging servic... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675549 | Imaging architecture for region and time of interest collection and dissemination A server fulfills region and time of interest (RTI) requests for images from multiple users. The server includes a receiver for receiving a RTI request from a user, a processor for assembling a compressed image based on the RTI request, and a transmitter for transmi... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671893 | System and method for interactive multi-view video Interactive multi-view video presents a new type of video capture system. Many video cameras are allocated to capture an event from various related locations and directions. The captured videos are compressed in control PCs and are sent to a server in real-time. The... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7649551 | Electronic camera system, photographing ordering device and photographing system An electronic camera system includes a photographing ordering system and a photographing system. The photographing system includes an image sensor which photographs a subject and generates an image signal; a camera-side communication unit which communicates with the... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7639279 | Image management system A user can easily preview image data obtained by photography in a facility such as a theme park and an entertainment facility and can place an order on the image data during the stay in the facility. A service server stores the image data obtained by photography of ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7623157 | Polarity correction circuit and system incorporating same A video system including a circuit for automatically correcting reversed polarity in a polarity sensitive system. The system includes a video camera, a camera controller for controlling the video camera, a transmission medium for communicating a polarity sensitive s... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7602421 | Image capture apparatus and method and method with a remote signaling device Image capture apparatus whereby a narrow beam infra-red transmitter (10) and a short range radio receiver (12) are mounted within a personal digital camera (14). A push-button mechanism (16) is provided on the outer cover of the camera ( | 10/13/2009 |
| 7573503 | Image communication apparatus and method When a plurality of image communication apparatuses, especially digital cameras, communicate images, each of the users of the receiving digital cameras can pull desired images from an image transmitting camera. In an image communicating method in which an image can ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561187 | Image distributing apparatus To provide a technology for easily distributing an image in a requested photograph direction. Photograph images, which are photographed by turning a photographing apparatus and continuously photographing the periphery of the photographing apparatus, are stored in a ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7554576 | Information capture and recording system for controlling capture devices Techniques for capturing and receiving digital information. The digital information may comprise information of one or more types including video information, audio information, images, documents, whiteboard information, notes information, and the like. Various acti... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7535493 | Method, apparatus, and system for controlling a camera, and a storage medium storing a program used with the method, apparatus and/or system In a camera control system for remote-controlling a video camera, a range within which the viewing direction of the video camera can be changed and the current viewing direction are displayed on a screen. A desired viewing direction to which the camera should be til... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7511737 | Synchronized multi-perspective pictures In a method for synchronized multi-perspective image capture, an ad hoc network is formed between a plurality of image capture devices. A leader is then selected from the plurality of image capture devices. The leader sends the other image capture devices (termed â€... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508419 | Image exchange with image annotation A system and method for providing a peer-to-peer photo-sharing environment. The system includes: manual and automatic photo annotation at the client; periodic client-server synchronization; an index of client photos on a central server or a photo database that is re... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7479987 | Image providing service system To take a ceremonial photograph including a user himself/herself in a theme park or the like, the user must hand to a third person a camera to ask the photographing. There is a system which can take a picture of a user when the user is in a predetermined position, b... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7450156 | Communication device, communication system, communication method and communication terminal apparatus There are provided: a communicating unit (transmitting and receiving unit) that is capable of transmitting and receiving information wirelessly to and from a plurality of electronic cameras and receives identification information peculiar to a device from the electr... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444664 | Multi-view video format Interactive multi-view video presents new types of video capture systems, video formats, video compression algorithms, and services. Many video cameras are allocated to capture an event from various related locations and directions. The captured videos and any assoc... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7428004 | Standalone device connectible to CCTV network A standalone device, connectible to a CCTV network, includes an analog video input connector that collects input image signals corresponding to views from outside the standalone device, and digital image signal data corresponding to the collected signals are output.... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428005 | Integrated Internet/intranet camera An integrated Internet camera includes, as embedded components contained within the camera body and controlled by a microcontroller, at least a network interface device for connecting to the Internet, a transport control device for packetizing according to Internet ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425987 | Method of transmitting image data from standalone device A method of transmitting digital image signal data from a standalone device includes input image signals corresponding to views from outside the standalone device. Digital image signal data, corresponding to the input image signals, are output. The standalone device... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426743 | Secure and private ISCSI camera network A peer-to-peer camera sensor network is defined using intelligent cameras that employ iSCSI initiators and iSCSI targets to read and write data and to send control commands directly across the network as iSCSI blocks. Because data transfer rides on top of the intern... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425986 | Conversion apparatus for image data delivery A conversion apparatus is connected to a camera server delivering image information obtained by image sensing to a display operation terminal. When image information is received from the camera server, the conversion apparatus converts the received image information... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423670 | Remote control of image pickup apparatus There is provided a method for controlling an image pickup apparatus in an image delivery system delivering an image acquired from the image pickup apparatus to at least one of multiple external devices, the image pickup apparatus being remotely controllable by the ... | 09/09/2008 |
