Quotables
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM ; 1943
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7956900 | Video delivery device, video delivery method, video delivery program and recording medium A video distributing apparatus that distributes video data of a program to an external viewer includes an editing-data calculating unit that calculates, based on scenario data describing contents of the program and reservation data describing a reservation for a vid... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7791646 | Image pickup device and control method therefor A monitoring camera which can realize a tracing function that allows simple tracing of an object. An image shooting unit repeatedly executes a cycle of processing including a shooting processing, an image analyzing processing and a motor driving processing. An image... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7724285 | Methods and systems for managing bragbook images A device, system, method and software product for storing, maintaining, sharing and displaying of digital images in a common designated collection on at least one portable storage and display device. The device has a first memory section designated for storing image... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7701488 | System for camera positioning and methods thereof A system is used to remotely control camera positioning. A transformation model is used. By in putting image coordinates of the monitored position form camera, the object coordinates is obtained and displayed on a digital map. By inputting object coordinates on a di... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7643064 | Predictive video device system A predictive device system includes a first device motion control input, determines a desired first device motion using the first device motion control input, and provides actual first device motion using the first device motion control input. The predictive system ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7593041 | System and method for a software steerable web camera with multiple image subset capture A method of capturing a scene within a field of view of a wide-angle lens coupled to a camera comprising storing image data of the scene in an image collection array, digitizing the scene image data into digitized scene image data for storage in a memory, receiving ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7567274 | Method and apparatus for creating interactive virtual tours The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for creating interactive virtual tours. In one embodiment, panoramic imaging systems characterized by a 360-degree lateral field of view and a vertical field of view that is usually less than 180 degrees are uti... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7483057 | Camera control Method and apparatus for controlling the field of view of a camera are described. The method includes processing at least one collected image so as to calculate at least two positions of at least one body part of a user, and to determine an area defined by said posi... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7477292 | Cellular phone provided with camera and reception informing method A cellular phone provided with a camera that comprises an imaging optical system, a lens barrel, a drive mechanism, and a reception informing processor, is provided. The lens barrel holds the imaging optical system. The drive mechanism drives the lens barrel in orde... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7414649 | Camera apparatus that is controllable by an optical signal picked up in an image by the camera apparatus, and a method for operating the same An image pickup device such as CCD of a camera is substituted for a photo detector of infrared light emitted from an infrared remote control unit. When infrared light is detected based on an image signal output from the image pickup device, a transmitting position o... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406548 | Systems and methods for responding to a data transfer Systems and methods for responding to a data transfer are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a method that includes the following steps: determining a sustainable data transfer rate for data transfers to/from an external memory medium, acquiring a data stream, tran... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7379095 | Camera system for communicating information related to user authorization and image data over a radio communication system An information processing system, such as a camera system, includes a radio communication system and an information appliance (such as a camera) communicable with the radio communication system within a predetermined distance. The information appliance includes an i... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372486 | Photographing apparatus and method of adjusting an image of a photographing object A photographing object image adjusting apparatus including a plurality of adjusting operation devices corresponding to a plurality of object image adjusting modes, respectively, and an object image adjusting device. Each of the plurality of adjusting operation devic... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366995 | Combination tool that zooms in, zooms out, pans, rotates, draws, or manipulates during a drag After positioning the cursor and pressing-and-holding a mouse button to begin a drag, a user continues to drag the cursor out of and into plural popped up regions. While the cursor is within a region, an associated function effects the displayed graphical informatio... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362352 | Image capturing apparatus with variable communication forms In an image capturing apparatus which can be remotely operated from an operation terminal, to carry out image transmission control in accordance a communication form between the image capturing apparatus and the operation terminal. An image capturing apparatus 2 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355634 | Moving image pickup apparatus carrying out automatic focus adjustment and still image recording method therefor A moving image pickup apparatus which is capable of attaining both enhanced focusing accuracy and increased chances of snapshooting. A predetermined time period is determined according to a designated image pickup period. Responsive to designation of still image rec... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340766 | System and method for controlling a digital camera provided with a WWW server function A control system for digital camera makes it possible to control a digital camera from a personal computer and to operate the digital camera simultaneously from both of the digital camera side and the personal computer side by means of performing a communication bet... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7321453 | Image input system This invention provides an image input system capable of setting an arbitrary imaging inhibited area. This system displays a map showing the positions of cameras arranged in an office and the directions in which these cameras can be aimed, or displays the view angle... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312872 | System and method for automated positioning of camera A system and related method are provided for automated positioning of camera. The system includes a remote control configured to generate a spot signal in response to input from a user. The camera generates image data of the camera's field of view. The camera is cap... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295243 | Autofocus apparatus having a flash synchronized to an autofocus sampling time The autofocus apparatus determines a focus position according to a result of sampling an AF evaluated value and drives a lens system to the focus position. This autofocus apparatus further performs a flash in synchronism with a sampling timing of an AF evaluated val... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295242 | Electronic camera having a mode setting device In a divisional process for determining which of a camera mode, an OFF mode, and an audio mode is set by a mode setting switch, a process to close a lens cover of a taking lens is performed when the audio mode is set for achieving an audio play function that is unre... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289143 | Image sensing system and control method of controlling to adjust a parameter of a camera apparatus In an image sensing system where a camera apparatus and a client device are connected for controlling the camera apparatus by the client device, the client device displays and arbitrarily shifts a predetermined size of detection area in an object image sensed by the... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283161 | Image-taking apparatus capable of distributing taken images over network An image-taking apparatus and an image-taking system are disclosed which can protect the privacy of a person whose image is taken, and which can avoid the distribution of images of unnecessarily large data volumes. The image-taking apparatus includes an image-taking... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272306 | Bionic automatic vision and line of sight control system and method The present invention presents a bionic automatic vision and line of sight control system and method, wherein the system comprises multiple camera sets, wherein each camera set comprises one or more parallel camera with different shooting range, wherein each camera ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7249317 | Information processing apparatus, its control method, and storage medium This invention allows easy update of an image to be included in a document which is submitted on the network. For this purpose, data that set the image sensing times and image sensing states of a camera (111) the pan angle, tilt angle, and zoom ratio of which... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242423 | Linking zones for object tracking and camera handoff Linked zones define the temporal and spatial relationships among multiple zones of a surveillance area, and are used to model an object's disappearance from one zone, for potential reappearance at another zone. One or more zones are defined within each camera's fiel... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239343 | Image distribution method employing both a first network whose bandwidth is not assured and second network whose bandwidth is assured for control and image transmission An image distribution method for distributing an image acquired by a camera on a network includes the steps of receiving control information for the camera from an image reception apparatus via a packet-switched network; and sending an image acquired by the camera t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231603 | Communication apparatus, communication system, video image display control method, storage medium and program A communication apparatus of the present invention has a function of displaying a plurality of video images on a same screen. The communication apparatus includes a first synthesizing unit with synthesizing video data transmitted from a remote communication terminal... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222356 | Communication apparatus, storage medium, camera and processing method In a system wherein one or more controllable camera(s) and one or more monitor(s) for displaying video information received from the camera(s) are connected to each other through a communication device, the states of all the cameras can be always understood at any m... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218342 | Pan/tilt/zoom surveillance system and method for dynamically adjusting a user defined image picture mask A surveillance camera apparatus includes a first storage unit for storing a size of pixels configuring a image-sensor, a computation unit for performing a computation using first information, second information, third information, and fourth information to calculate... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7199817 | Methods and systems for networked camera control Methods and systems for providing fluid real-time camera control of at least one camera to at least one network user via a network including the internet. A control pad or area can be provided to camera users via an application or applet that can be calibrated to pr... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187402 | Communication apparatus, image processing apparatus, communication method, and image processing method In order to freely select, locate and display an image from a remote place on a monitor to facilitate observer's use, disclosed are apparatus and methods arranged to perform operation of drag and drop of a symbol to a specific position on a map showing the symbol in... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7161623 | Camera control system, camera server, camera client, control method, and storage medium An arrangement is provided in which previously sensed image information is stored, so that information with an angle desired by the user can be searched for and displayed. Image data sensed by a camera device (100) is captured by an image information capture ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151558 | Monitor camera system and auto-tracing implementation method using the same In a monitor camera system comprising a monitor camera rotatable through 360 degrees in panning directions and through 90 degrees or more in tilting directions and a control unit for controlling the monitor camera, the monitor camera holds an auto-tracing record inc... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7138963 | Method for automatically tracking objects in augmented reality The invention is a method for displaying otherwise unseen objects and other data using augmented reality (the mixing of real view with computer generated imagery). The method uses a motorized camera mount that can report the position of a camera on that mount back t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133062 | Graphical user interface for video feed on videoconference terminal The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a videoconference terminal is provided with user-selectable icons which are associated by the user with various video signals. Textual labels for the various video signals may also be provided. This information may be exchanged ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7092027 | TV lens system and apparatus and method for zoom control A CPU of a lens system obtains contents of a speed control and a position control as a controller signal from a zoom controller. The speed control is based on an operation of a thumb ring which is instructed in a zoom controller, and the position control is based on... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079182 | Optical apparatus, optical apparatus driving unit and camera system The invention provides an optical apparatus comprising an optical member, a memory unit for memorizing preset speed information, and preset position information or preset direction information a memory instructing operation unit to be operated for causing the memory... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079177 | Remote control system and access control method for information input apparatus with limitation by user for image access and camemremote control When an access request (a request for transfer of video and audio information or a request for a camera operation) to a camera apparatus connected to a network via a terminal is issued via the network, a camera management server processes the access request on the b... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7071968 | System and method for a software steerable web camera with multiple image subset capture An apparatus for controlling the capture of an image of an object, includes: a lens capable to capture a scene within a wide field of vision of the lens; an image collection array communicatively coupled to the lens and capable to store data of the scene within the ... | 07/04/2006 |
