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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189072 | Program and information processing device allowing storage of information for identifying user When setting that a situation permits photographing is made, a CPU causes a first image obtained by photographing of a field by an image pick-up portion to be stored as an input image in association with prescribed information. In contrast, when setting that a situa... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8169505 | Image management apparatus for displaying images based on geographical environment An image management apparatus capable of managing a plurality of images captured within a geographical range included in a designated map linked with that map. The image management apparatus has a period setting unit setting a predetermined period, an imaging unit a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164655 | Systems and methods for concurrently playing multiple images from a storage medium Methods for storing on a storage or memory medium, and retrieving, and displaying of multiple images in a registered manner, the images have been recorded concurrently. The images may comprise at least 2 video programs. A camera system for recording multiple concurr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154622 | Content recording apparatus in which attribute information is suppressed according to operation mode A content recording apparatus (10) includes an image sensor (12). When a shutter operation is performed, an image imaged by the image sensor is captured in an SDRAM (26), and the captured image is recorded in a memory card (28). The recor... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8120673 | Camera A camera includes: an image obtaining unit that obtains an object image obtained by capturing an image of an object and a dust reference image obtained by capturing an image of dust that adheres on an image sensor or a protecting member protecting the image sensor; ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106964 | Image reproduction apparatus and image reproduction method An object of this invention is to simplify an operation of reproducing, on a single window, pieces of image information of different image capturing apparatuses or pieces of image information captured at different times. A display apparatus manages a camera apparatu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098298 | Digital camera recording a composite image A digital camera capable of recording a subject image so that the subject image can be drawn as it is combined with a selected default image and so that the subject image can be drawn separately from the selected default image. The digital camera includes an image p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077222 | Image processing apparatus to transmit moving image data An image processing apparatus includes a moving image generating unit configured to generate moving image data, an instructions providing unit configured to set a frame rate of the moving image data and provide instructions to change a frame rate to the set frame ra... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072509 | Method and a system for image processing, a device, and an image record The present invention relates to a method for image processing, wherein image data is stored as an image record in digital format. The image record is provided with at least a header part (201), an image data part (202) and an auxiliary data part (2... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8031239 | Image sensing apparatus for generating image data authentication data of the image data An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing unit and a key data control unit. The image sensing unit generates image data of a sensed image. The key data control unit generates key data if a user turns on a function of generating authentication data, and er... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031238 | Image-capturing apparatus, image-capturing method, and computer program product In an image-capturing apparatus, recorded position information is stored upon receiving instruction of storing the recorded position information, and real-time position information is stored upon a photograph is taken, which is stored together with a captured-image.... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009205 | Imaging device and control method of imaging device An imaging device to which a portable storage medium is attachable, includes: a portable storage medium attachment section which attaches the portable storage medium; an inside storage medium which links image data imaged to information of imaging date and time and ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009204 | Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium An image capturing apparatus for recording information on a main subject, including: an image capturing section; a pre-image acquiring section for acquiring a pre-image when a focal point provided at a predetermined position within an image capturing region of the i... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995118 | Device and method for embedding and retrieving information in digital images A digital imaging device and methods thereof that will enable the embedding and retrieving of information in digital images are provided. The digital imaging device includes a capture module for capturing an image and creating a digital image file; an input module f... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995117 | Methods and systems for associating an image with a location There is disclosed herein a method for associating a location with an image captured by an image capture device, wherein the method comprises capturing an image, determining a first location of the device in response to capturing the image, storing the first locatio... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986350 | Mobile terminal and operating method thereof A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a shot setting part, an image input part, a meta information extractor, and a meta information inserting part. The shot setting part sets shooting conditions and the image input part photographs an image us... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978232 | Photograph location stamp A camera includes a feature that associates meaningful information with a photograph to indicate where the photograph was taken. The camera includes equipment that determines a physical position associated with an image. An application uses geographic data to determ... | 07/12/2011 |
| RE42337 | Network configuration file for automatically transmitting images from an electronic still camera A network configuration file is generated at a host computer and downloaded to a digital camera. This file contains instruction information for communicating with a selected destination via a communications interface. The digital camera includes a “send” button ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7932934 | Image processing method and imaging apparatus using the same An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing method is implemented by the apparatus, which receives and stores captured image data. Addresses for the captured image data are generated and stored in a look up table i... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929028 | Method and system for facilitating creation of content There is provided a method for use by a content capturing device for facilitating creation of content. According to one embodiment, the method includes receiving a content project file in a receiver of the content capturing device. The method further includes provid... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911508 | Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing apparatus control method Disclosed are a portable recording/reproducing apparatus for recording predefined information onto a recording medium and reproducing the recorded information, and a method for controlling the apparatus. The apparatus includes a recording section to collect an exter... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7898578 | Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus that facilitates determining whether image data is representing a 2D image or a 3D image and determining a type of image data, is provided. When image data is obtained, the electronic apparatus memorizes, in addition to the image data and a f... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898579 | Method of position stamping a photo or video clip taken with a digital camera A method of appending a position stamp to an image file of a photo or video clip taken with a digital camera having a GPS antenna and a GPS RF front-end including an analogue to digital converter for receiving GPS signals and outputting GPS signal samples together w... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7884859 | Digital camera A digital camera including a layout inputting unit that inputs a layout in drawing a digital image, an internal memory stored with the inputted layout, a selection receiving unit (S400) that receives selection of the layout stored in the internal memory, an o... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7864225 | System and method for displaying image capture time A system and method for displaying together images and an image capture time of captured images comprises a storage device and a viewer for displaying an image capture time. The storage device stores image data obtained from an image capture unit and environment dat... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859579 | Recording and reproducing device and recording and reproducing method A portable type recording and reproducing device including recording means for converting sound information output from sound collecting means to files in message units and recording the files on a predetermined recording medium, and recording image information outp... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7843496 | Imaging device, method of recording location information, and computer program product A shooting-location acquiring unit acquires a current location, and stores acquired current location as a shooting location. A distance acquiring unit acquires a distance between a subject and the current location, and stores acquired distance as an imaging subject ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843495 | Face recognition in a digital imaging system accessing a database of people In a method and apparatus for building up a database of known faces, the database of known faces allows the names of the people captured in an image to be added to the meta-data of the image file. The digital imaging device will ask the user to identify unknown peop... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7787025 | Image pickup device that cuts out a face image from subject image data An image pickup device includes an image pickup unit configured to convert a subject image to image data and to output the image data and a face image recognition unit configured to recognize a face image from the image data. When the face image is recognized by the... | 08/31/2010 |
| RE41602 | Digital camera with voice recognition annotation A digital camera which allows voice annotations to be recorded for each picture, but which includes text annotations with each such picture when the picture is transmitted from the camera. The digital camera includes an image sensing apparatus operable to receive li... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782371 | Apparatus for the recording of image data and meta data The invention relates to an apparatus for the recording of image data and meta data which contain information on the image data—such as recording parameters—with a digital camera which includes at least one image sensor for the generation of the image data and w... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7742084 | Network configuration file for automatically transmitting images from an electronic still camera A network configuration file is generated at a host computer and downloaded to a digital camera. This file contains instruction information for communicating with a selected destination via a communications interface. The digital camera includes a “send” button ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7730036 | Event-based digital content record organization Various embodiments of the present invention pertain to the organizing of digital content by events, so that retrieval of such digital content in a manner meaningful and logical to users is achieved. In this regard, an event may be defined at least by event boundari... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724290 | Image metadata attachment An accessory is provided for use with an image capture device is provided. The accessory has a trigger button and an image capture system adapted to capture an image in response to actuation of the trigger button. The accessory also has a body adapted to be detachab... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7714908 | Identifying and tracking digital images with customized metadata A method of tracking digital images includes inputting data identifying a subject of an image into a camera, acquiring an image with the camera, and storing the image and the inputted data, as metadata, in an image file when the image is acquired. The method can be ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7714907 | Method for processing digital images A portable image capture device, program and method for controlling and managing data captured thereby. A device program residing on the portable image capture device generally associates data processing attributes with image files generated for image data captured ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7705894 | Data processing apparatus and control method thereof with updating of unique identification information of a changed recorded file A data recording apparatus holds device state information which is updated according to use of the apparatus and represents a use state of the apparatus, and device identification information unique to the apparatus. Upon recording data, the data recording apparatus... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7675555 | Recording method, recording apparatus, recording medium, reproduction method, reproduction apparatus and image pickup apparatus The present invention provides a recording method capable of reliably associating additional information for data of a decoding/reproduction unit with the decoding/reproduction unit for a case in which data of a read/write unit for a recording medium includes a plur... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675556 | Cameras, other imaging devices, and methods having non-uniform image remapping using a small data-set of distortion vectors A camera has a body and an electronic capture unit mounted in the body. The electronic capture unit selectively captures and stores a scene image as a representational electronic image having a first array of pixels. A control system is mounted in the body. The cont... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671904 | Apparatus and method for capturing images An apparatus for capturing images is provided. The apparatus for capturing images includes a control unit that determines whether an internal memory is available for use, and a process-driving unit that loads background processes. ... | 03/02/2010 |
