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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184178 | Method and electronic device for adjusting compression ratio of JPEG image A method and an electronic device for adjusting a compression ratio of a JPEG image are used to adjust a size of a JPEG image file. The method includes the following steps. a raw image, a first compression parameter (SF1) and a second compression parameter (SF2) are... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8169506 | Image storage apparatus having continuous-shooting function An image storage apparatus comprises an image capture unit configured to sequentially capture images of a subject, a storage unit including storage areas to store the images of the subject captured by the image capture unit, a storage controller configured to overwr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159562 | Storage device, storage method and computer-readable storage medium for storing video data A storage device generates low frame rate video data by frame thinning high frame rate video data input. The storage device performs image synthesis on the low frame rate video data and the high frame rate video data, for which video data input has been delayed, int... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8139125 | Optical image recording device with small height and high resolution An optical image recording device comprises a housing having a comparatively small height and at least one comparatively broad optical image information entering surface, an optical path unit including a first lens array, a second lens array and an optical image rec... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8068150 | Memory access control apparatus and image pickup apparatus A memory access control apparatus includes a memory controller controlling a memory adopting a DDR format; a DDR-PHY adjusting the timing of an interface signal between the memory controller and the memory; a DDR-PHY controller controlling the DDR-PHY; and a clock c... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063953 | Image display controlling device for displaying an image belonging to a file image group, imaging device for displaying an image belonging to a file image group, and image display method for displaying an image belonging to a file image group In a digital camera, it is checked whether a stored image file belongs to an image file group including a pre-development RAW file and a JPEG file generated by developing the RAW file. When the storage image file belongs to an image file group, an image belonging to... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063954 | Image pickup apparatus and control method thereof for generating and recording a plurality of image data in different recording formats in one-time image capturing An image pickup apparatus includes a recording-mode switching section for selecting a single-format recording mode in which recording is performed in one of recording formats or a multiple-format recording mode in which recording is simultaneously performed in a plu... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054341 | Photographing apparatus for supporting overriding mode and method of controlling same A digital photographing apparatus including an imaging device configured to continuously output image data of a subject in units of frames according to a predetermined drive clock, during consecutive photographing; a buffer memory configured to store a plurality of ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045021 | Memory organizational scheme and controller architecture for image and video processing This disclosure describes an organizational scheme for memory that is useful for image processing. A memory controller architecture is also described, which takes advantage of the organizational scheme. The organizational scheme and controller architecture is partic... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035701 | Image tuning system and method using stored raw image signal An image tuning system and method using a stored image signal, in which the image tuning system includes an image processing device and an external device. The image processing device outputs a third image signal by processing a first or second image signal accordin... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023007 | Automatic file transmission system For automatically transmitting an image file, a system transmits the file automatically through specifically specifying information for file transmission such as an address of a destination. The system includes a memory for storing a data file and an automatic trans... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013913 | Image recording method, image recording device, and storage medium An image recording comprising: an initialization step of generating a predetermined number of search points in a specified region of an image, a filtering step of updating coordinates of a plurality of search points, comparing a characteristic value of the specified... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7999860 | Image file for storing digital images and ancillary data values using multiple encoding methods An image format for storing digital images within a baseline DCT compatible bitstream comprises entropy coded image data, a first application marker storing a first data value using a first encoding method to convey a first information value related to the image, an... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990436 | Solid state image pickup device, drive method thereof and camera system A solid state image pickup device which includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix shape and having a mechanism for converting an optical signal into an electrical signal and outputting the resultant signal, a column proc... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7973833 | System for and method of taking image and computer program In an image taking system such as digital camera, especially when a predetermined objective body such as a face is included, an objective body detecting portion detects a predetermined objective body from an image taken by the image taking system. A storage portion ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7956906 | Image correction device, image correction method, and computer readable medium An image correction apparatus comprises a sample image memory configured to store sample images corresponding to types of objects, a display unit configured to display the sample images stored in the sample image memory unit to make a user select one of the sample i... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7920178 | Image storage system An image storage system effectively stores image data captured by an image capture device in a plurality of image storage devices. Each of the image storage devices includes a storage unit for storing image data. An image storage device performing as a master among ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916185 | Wide dynamic range image capturing apparatus A memory control block performs in parallel a process of writing a current frame of image data captured by an image capturing device into a system shared memory, a process of reading out a previous frame of image data stored in the system shared memory, and a proces... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911511 | Imaging device, display control device, display device, printing control device, and printing device In an imaging device, a display control device, and a display device which are operable to conveniently display reduced images in accordance with a motion and an attitude at the time of shooting, a motion detection section detects the motion of the imaging device du... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911510 | Imaging apparatus using a key image in image retrieval or reading out An imaging apparatus includes an operating unit that is capable of inputting a first operation input in acquiring generic image data and a second operation input in acquiring key image data in different operation forms. In addition, the imaging apparatus stores the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903151 | Moving image recording apparatus with a stream recording function of a moving image An electronic camera apparatus includes an image pick-up unit for obtaining image data of a moving image every certain frame period, a recording unit for performing a data-writing process to successively write the image data onto a detachable recording medium, and a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903152 | Mobile entertainment and communication device A mobile communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the Internet and remotely located telephones. The device includes one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7880775 | Image sensor with interleaved image output An image sensor with a light reader circuit coupled to a pixel array. The light reader circuit retrieves a first image and a second image generated by the pixel array. The image sensor may also include a memory controller and/or data interface that transfers the fir... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880774 | Image recording apparatus and method An image recording apparatus and method that can store image information by thinning out latest image information at a low thinning-out ratio and thinning out old image information at a high thinning-out ratio. The image recording apparatus includes a recording unit... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7872676 | Methods, systems, and devices for offset compensation in CMOC imagers Methods, devices, and systems for offset compensation in an amplifier are disclosed, wherein the amplifier inputs may be exposed to large loads from an array of pixel columns coupled in parallel. During a sampling phase, an amplifier offset may be sampled by selecti... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7864226 | Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof In an image sensing apparatus, the color value of a conversion destination is acquired from a code image included in the image data captured by an image sensing unit. A frame is displayed on an electronic viewfinder screen, which is displayed based on the image data... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7855736 | Method, circuit arrangement and camera for providing electronic scan reversal Method for reversing a video signal having sequences of n elements comprises the steps of writing the n elements of a first sequence into memory locations of a memory in a non-reversed order and reading out the memory locations in a reversed order, and in a subseque... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7817193 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method to display or record images picked up at high rate in real time An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device generating image signals of picked up images; a converting unit converting the image signals generated by the image pickup device to digital image signals; a memory storing the image signals obtained by the c... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7804529 | Digital camera and time lag setting method A digital camera records, as image data for storage in storage memory, image data captured a preset time lag period before image data captured at the time of receipt of a capture instruction among a plurality of frames of image data consecutively output by an image ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7800659 | Camera and file management method used therein A recording medium has clusters assigned first cluster information pieces respectively. The clusters store a file or files of image data. When a received signal is a copying command indicative of a requested file, image data in the requested file is read from one or... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787026 | Continuous burst mode digital camera A camera has a continuous full-resolution burst mode wherein a sequence of full-resolution images is captured, is image processed by a pipeline of dedicated hardware image processing engines, is zoomed by a zoom engine, is compressed by a compression engine, and is ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787027 | Information input apparatus and method An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7768558 | Digital still camera with remaining picture count indication In one embodiment, a digital still camera includes: an image sensor for receiving light and generating output signals representative of an image of an object or a scene of interest; a processing circuit connected to the image sensor for processing the output signals... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760249 | Image recording and playing system and image recording and playing method An image recording and playing system includes: an image pickup unit that takes an image; a processing unit that performs an image processing of the image data obtained by the image pickup unit; a display unit that displays an image based on an image processing resu... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7750954 | Camera control device A camera control circuit stores an image picked up by a CCD into an internal memory. A CPU of a main processor circuit gives an instruction of reading out image data stored in the internal memory of the camera control circuit through buses and a slave access control... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7724291 | Image input apparatus and control method An image input apparatus includes (a) a connection unit capable of connecting with a detachable storage medium; (b) a storage unit that stores a program for controlling the image input apparatus; (c) a bus communicably coupled with the storage unit and the connectio... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7719579 | Digital camera architecture with improved performance A digital camera acquires a first image in a sequence of images by loading it into a unified memory space of the digital camera in a first order and processing it in a second order. Before the first image is completely processed, the digital camera starts acquiring ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7710468 | Imaging apparatus with memory for storing camera through image data An LCD driver starts reading a digital image signal of one frame from a VRAM in response to a reproduction timing signal. A driving timing signal generator generates a driving timing signal in response to a synchronizing signal, whose phase is shifted by a delay tim... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7705895 | Image taking apparatus and image-taking method An image obtained as a result of an image-taking process carried out at a screen rate higher than a standard screen rate is stored in a recording medium in the contemporary video format. To put it more concretely, the image obtained as a result of an image-taking pr... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7688361 | Image processor including memory controller which starts reading image data before writing screenful of image data is completed A pixel signal output from a solid-state imaging device is converted into image data and recorded in a memory by a writing controller. A reading controller reads the image data from the memory by blocks and performs Y/C processing on the image data that has been rea... | 03/30/2010 |
