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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8446509 | Methods of creating a virtual window The systems and methods for real time transmission of an image from an image sensor having a field of view to a processor for selectively adjusting a resolution of the image as a function of a viewer's focus point. ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8421900 | Image capturing apparatus, an image capturing method and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program for capturing an image of a range wider than an image capture designation range It is an object to provide an image of a desired composition in case the user is unsatisfied with the composition of an image already captured. An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image is provided, wherein the apparatus includes an image capturing ... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8345140 | Image capturing apparatus and method of controlling same An image capturing apparatus for capturing a chart having color patches of a plurality of colors using a taking lens and obtaining a color-patch signal for creating a color profile. In the apparatus, the type of chart is identified, after which the focal length of t... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8334919 | Apparatus and method for digital photographing to correct subject area distortion caused by a lens A digital photographing apparatus is provided that includes: a lens unit through which image light is transmitted; an image capturing unit for converting the image light transmitted through the lens unit into an image signal; a subject detection unit for detecting a... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8149314 | Image capturing apparatus having display control of information and frames on displayed images and display control method When various kinds of information and various frames are superimposed on a displayed image of a subject during live view shooting, an object to be preferentially displayed is switched between the various kinds of information and the various frames in accordance with... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8089550 | Image sensing apparatus, control method thereof, and program An image sensing apparatus includes a display control unit which controls an image display unit to display an image sensed by an image input unit. The image sensing apparatus also includes a signal strength detection unit which detects, from a sensed image, a lumina... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8023030 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes a display that displays photographing information. When the display is turned off in response to an operation performed by a user, the photographing information is prevented from being changed even if a button or a dial for changin... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013924 | Electronic motion picture camera The invention relates to an electronic motion picture camera having an optical receiving system and a beam splitter which splits the receiving beam path into a taking beam path leading to an optoelectronic taking sensor and a viewfinder beam path leading to an optic... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7929039 | Image reproducing apparatus and method of controlling the image reproducing apparatus An image reproducing apparatus includes a selector which selects output of the MPEG decoder in a reproducing mode. A connection detection unit detects whether a video monitor is connected to an output terminal and a result of the detection is sent to a CPU. When a v... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907204 | Image reproducing apparatus and method An image reproducing arrangement reproduces plural segments of moving image data showing a series of moving images from a recording medium and arbitrarily designates a reproduction start position in selected moving image data of the plural moving image data segments... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903164 | Image capturing apparatus, an image capturing method and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program for capturing an image of a range wider than an image capture designation range It is an object to provide an image of a desired composition in case the user is unsatisfied with the composition of an image already captured. An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image is provided, wherein the apparatus includes an image capturing designa... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7817202 | Image processing method, imaging apparatus, and storage medium storing control program of image processing method executable by computer An image processing method is provided for detecting the position of a specific subject from a movie and combining a display of detection result indicating the detected position with the movie. The image processing method includes a step of determining, depending on... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7738024 | Image processing method, imaging apparatus, and storage medium storing control program of image processing method executable by computer An image processing method is provided for detecting the position of a specific subject from a movie and combining a display of detection result indicating the detected position with the movie. The image processing method includes a step of determining, depending on... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7643080 | Image pick-up apparatus and computer program for such apparatus A second-frame is displayed while a through image is displayed for a reviewing purpose immediately after the photographing operation is performed. The user is allowed to combine an object image of ID photograph with the second-frame. The user obtains plural ID photo... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7528879 | Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and conversation partner display method while presenting a picture An image processing apparatus comprises an image display unit for displaying a desired image in accordance with an image signal, and image pickup units disposed respectively on the left and right sides of the image display unit. An image picked up from the left side... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7440693 | Camera device In order to grasp an image capturing range, an image monitor is used for recognizing the range. A camera device of the present invention has a configuration that, depending on the shape and position of a shield unit that limits a range where a display lamp is visibl... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439940 | Passive virtual reality A method and apparatus for providing, in response to image signals originating in an object space, mixed image signals for providing nonuniform resolution images for stimulating simulated active percepts for passive perception by a viewer in an image space. The imag... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432973 | Digital camera for capturing an image with a predetermined composition A digital camera has a CCD acquiring image information expressing a subject image. Reference pattern information expressing a composition for which photographing is desired is stored in advance in a first memory. A CPU compares the reference pattern information and ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424217 | Method of evaluating image information, photographing device, and storage medium having program stored thereon An evaluation on image information is indicated before operating a shutter operating section. For example, a method of evaluating image information includes: (a) a step of converting an optical image of an object to be photographed into electrical image information;... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7388605 | Still image capturing of user-selected portions of image frames Image capture systems and methods are described. In one aspect, an image capture system includes an image sensor, an image frame generator, and an image region selector. The image sensor is operable to generate raw image data from a viewed scene. The image frame gen... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7369759 | Eye image pickup apparatus, iris authentication apparatus and portable terminal device having iris authentication function An iris authentication apparatus includes a camera for obtaining the image of an eye; a display panel arranged on the same plane as where the lens of the camera is arranged; and guide character generation means, wherein a guide character is displayed on a display pa... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365793 | Image capture system and method An image viewed by a person is recorded in response to the pointing direction of the eyes of the person by using an optical sensor arrangement that simultaneously derives image segments corresponding with images seen by the person looking forward of his head and to ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362367 | Digital camera having composition determining operation for temporarily storing freeze image data representative of a composition It is an object of the present invention to provide a digital camera that forms, on a solid state imaging device, an object image resulting from object light transmitted via a photographing optical system, to obtain image data representative of the object image, the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355649 | Image sensing apparatus cleaning operation and control method of said cleaning operation Image sensing apparatus having an image sensing element for sensing an object of shooting is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, when a cleaning mode is designated and executed to remove a foreign substance in the neighborhood of and on the image sen... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349020 | System and method for displaying an image composition template A system and method for displaying image composition templates with preview images is described. One embodiment comprises analyzing at least one characteristic of a preview image, determining a nature of the preview image based upon the analyzed characteristic, sele... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7331929 | Method and apparatus for surgical operating room information display gaze detection and user prioritization for control Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for using gaze detection to improve information display in a healthcare environment. Certain embodiments of a system include an eyewear headset for detecting a location of a user's gaze and a d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321393 | Method of controlling operation of a digital camera to take an identification photograph Provided is a method of controlling the operation of a digital camera to order to take an identification photograph in a natural setting by displaying a frame and a reference outline of the identification photograph, performing photographing according to a photograp... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312766 | Method and system for time/motion compensation for head mounted displays A method and system for time-motion compensation for use with head mounted displays is disclosed. According to the method, a remote camera captures an image for display on a head-mounted display (HMD) including a viewing window. The image and camera position data is... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308194 | Information reception device, information transmission system, and information reception method An information reception device comprising an imaging portion; a light reception portion for light reception of optional information subjected to optical modulation; a specification portion for specifying an optical modulation region contained in a capture angle of ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298412 | Image pickup device, automatic focusing method, automatic exposure method, electronic flash control method and computer program There are provided an image memory which stores one image of a subject, an image fetch section which takes in an image from the image memory to another memory or register in a predetermined unit, a control section which takes charge of the overall control, a face ch... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7274400 | Digital camera and composition assist frame selecting method for digital camera A digital camera has a plurality of shooting modes such as a day scenic shooting mode, a night scenic shooting mode and a person shooting mode and displays a composition assist frame selected from a plurality of composition assist frames on a liquid crystal monitor ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271839 | Display device of focal angle and focal distance in iris recognition system The present invention relates to a display device of a focal angle and distance in an iris recognition system, in which the device includes: a distance measurer for measuring a distance between a user and an iris recognition camera, and an indicator for quantitative... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262803 | Camera with adjustable auto-focus detection area An optical apparatus which can be focused on an object included at an arbitrary position in an image-taking area with simple operations, is disclosed. The optical apparatus according to the present invention comprises a focusing state calculating circuit which deriv... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259785 | Digital imaging method and apparatus using eye-tracking control A digital imaging device detects or tracks a user's direction of gaze. The detected direction of gaze may be used to set one or more functions in the digital imaging device, and the history of the user's direction of gaze may be stored with a captured digital image ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248300 | Camera and method of photographing good image A camera includes a release button, an input unit, an A/D converter, a memory, a control unit, an alarm, a recording unit and an output unit. The memory stores data for the image converted by the A/D converter. The control unit judges whether or not the image stored... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239350 | Image pick-up device and system that provide image taking guidance The objective of the present invention is to achieve an image-pickup device which, when the user picks up an image of a subject using the image-pickup device, makes it possible to reduce a failure relating to framing techniques and image-pickup techniques. Guide inf... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224393 | Image pickup device, method, program product, and recording medium An image pickup device, method, computer program product, and information recording medium for recording image information corresponding only to a predetermined area at a given position in an image display device. An image pickup device, method, computer program pro... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215881 | Mobile communications equipment with built-in camera A portable communication apparatus having a camera module with a camera lens. The apparatus comprises a correction lens arranged to facilitate for said camera module to register a sharp image of an object which is in an immediate vicinity of said correction lens. Th... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206022 | Camera system with eye monitoring In one aspect of the invention a camera system is provided having an image capture system adapted to capture an image of a scene during an image capture sequence and an eye monitoring system adapted to determine eye information including a direction of the gaze of a... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7187798 | Region-based karhunen-loeve transformation A region-based Karhunen-Loeve transformational method for compressing a color image. The method includes the steps of converting color image information for the color image into partitioned intrinsic color information, transforming the partitioned intrinsic color in... | 03/06/2007 |
