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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7414758 | Four-way calibration of a digital camera using patch information acquired from a scene A method of improving a digital image captured by a digital camera comprising: providing a digital camera having a memory for storing known values of a color chart having a plurality of color patches of different colors and a digital image processor, using the digit... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409148 | Waterproof type electronic device A waterproof type electronic device is composed of a disc lid 13 capable of opening and closing an opening portion (17) of a camera apparatus body (2), a buckle (12) capable of detachably fastening the disc lid (13) to the camera a... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7392330 | Memory access bandwidth allocation and latency control in a digital camera Memory access bandwidth within a digital camera is allocated among several requestors by assigning each requester a “tokens per snapshot” (TPS) value. Each requestor has a DMA engine and a DMA entry queue. If the requester wishes to access the memory, then a DMA... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7362961 | Recording apparatus including plural storage means having standby modes A recording apparatus for recording input information via a memory and a head onto a disc rotated by a disc driver, including a mode switch which successively provides a first mode direction for waiting for the recording and a second mode direction for performing th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359619 | Transmitting signals to cause replays to be recorded at a plurality of receivers A video stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the video stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being re... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7330644 | Recording device A camera apparatus includes a single release switch member. The single release switch member is for instructing an image capture operation, and selects one of a first operative state and a second operative state. The first operative state is selected when the single... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327382 | System and method for processing electronically captured images to emulate film tonescale and color A method for converting a sequence of electronically captured images into a sequence of modified images for providing the appearance of images captured by a film reproduction system. The film reproduction system being includes motion picture negative film printed on... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7194186 | Flexible marking of recording data by a recording unit The invention enables a recorder to mark a recording as an event is being recorded. The invention can enable the specification of a mark so that the mark is associated with recording data obtained at a time other than the time at which the mark is specified (“non-... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7177529 | Optical recording apparatus, optical recording method, and digital still camera A digital still camera includes a vibration detector for detecting vibrations. In accordance with certain conditions, a control unit controls finalization (session closing) which enables a CD-ROM drive to read data recorded on a recording medium. The control of sess... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7119930 | Apparatus and a method of recording an image of an object The invention relates to a method of recording an image of an object (103) using an electronic camera (102), one or more light sources (104), and means for light distribution (105), where light emitted from the light sources (104) ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7075683 | Dynamic image digest automatic editing system and dynamic image digest automatic editing method An image processing section 10 calculates degree of similarity among a plurality of image frames of dynamic image data, determines scene-change frames based on the calculated degree of similarity, and performs automatic editing and preparation of a digest dyn... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7053927 | System for optimizing the display and rendering of digital images for digital mastering A digital mastering system for processing digital image signals originating from scanned motion picture film includes a film scanner for scanning motion picture film and generating a stream of digital image signals corresponding to motion picture images, a color gra... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046213 | Apparatus and method for direct manipulation of electronic information A method of copying images displayed on a monitor onto a screen of a handheld electronic display unit includes electronically detecting the display unit when it is brought to the monitor, e.g., when the unit is connected to a port in the monitor's housing. After the... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042499 | Digital camera including power supply controller responsive to connection detection A digital camera comprises a camera body and an image sensing unit. The image sensing unit includes a taking lens, a driver of the taking lens and an image sensor, and is attachable to the camera body directly or by a cable. The camera body includes an image process... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034862 | System and method for processing electronically captured images to emulate film tonescale and color A sequence of electronically captured images are converted into modified images providing the appearance of images captured by a film reproduction system, where the film reproduction system is of the type that includes a motion picture negative film printed onto a m... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6978939 | Portable imaging device accessory for a personal data assistant A method and apparatus for providing a portable imaging device configured to associate information from a business card with a digital picture image. The portable imaging device includes a casing having a business card receptacle configured to receive a business car... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977673 | Portable moving picture recording device including switching control for multiple data flow configurations A portable moving picture recording device includes switching control to enable multiple data flow configurations. Two output encoders receive either composite or component digital video signals. The component video signals can come from one of three sources: decode... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6970637 | Information processing apparatus, method for the same, and storage medium An apparatus for processing information is provided, such as a digital camera having a communication function with improved performance while retaining compactness and immediate functionality. A size of data (first data) expected to be received is added to an expect... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968117 | Multi-image reproducing and recording apparatus with appended information In order to select and designate the appropriate identification information when the multi image representing picture is recorded as a multi image onto a recording medium, a reproducing circuit 20 reproduces a recorded image at a designated track, its reprodu... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6957011 | Video recording apparatus A low cost video recording apparatus for one time recording on a recording medium, comprises a casing (15) which houses a video cassette tape, a lens (1), a microphone (16), a colour CMOS sensor, a signal processing module, a write head and a dr... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6942400 | Image pickup apparatus with mechanism for stably holding image pickup apparatus This invention relates to an image pickup apparatus having a stable holding mechanism which can pivot through a predetermined amount to switch between two predetermined positions in using and repositing states, and enables stable phototaking operation. The image pic... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6938215 | Display apparatus and methods, and recording medium for controlling same In order to enable a user to obtain information about a large number of recorded images, a display apparatus includes a browser window that can be switched between two modes. In the first mode, a first screen, referred to as an Icon Browser Screen, displays a list o... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6928229 | Recording and reproducing apparatus storing data of a number of sub-frames Individual images included in a multi-frame image can be reproduced in an enlarged scale by an easy operation. Information indicating the number of split frames of a multi-frame image and information indicating the number of photographed images included in the multi... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6922725 | Method and apparatus for processing document service requests originating from a mobile computing device A document service request is processed that originates from a mobile computing device and that is directed at an output device in communication with the mobile computing device over a first communications channel of the mobile computing device. A document server co... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909456 | Electronic still camera with printer There is disclosed an electronic still camera that has a printer section in addition to a camera section. The printer section prints an image on a self-developing type instant photo film unit in accordance with digital image data picked up and memorized through the ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6904229 | Apparatus for recording signals on disk recording medium A recording apparatus of this invention detects the state of management information, which pertains to a recording address of an image signal, and which is reproduced from a disk-like recording medium having a first area for the image signal and a second area for th... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6882362 | Image processing system having an image signal generating device coupleable to an adapter An image transmission system including an image pickup device having an image pickup portion for converting a subject image into an image signal, a recording/reproducing device for recording/reproducing the image signal to and from a medium, a first interface device... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6876813 | Signal processing device for processing video signal information by using memory A signal processing device having a video signal input, a circuit for processing a video signal, a generating device for generating a character signal, and a memory for storing the video signal to be processed and for storing the character signal generated by the ge... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6870566 | Image sensing system for sensing an image and converting the image into image signals with a controlled operating rate In an image sensing apparatus using an image sensing device, such as a CCD, to be used by connecting to an external device, such as a computer, an operating rate of the CCD is changed in accordance with a rate at which the computer receives image signals from the im... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6867887 | Photograph facsimile apparatus and method Apparatus and methods are disclosed for sending and receiving data such as photographic or other color images. The apparatus includes a housing and a data entry module such as a number were keypad for dialing. It also includes a recording mechanism, for example a co... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6859226 | Camera with first and second compression units and with a digital capture unit providing an output to the first or second compression unit A camera having an image capture unit and first and second image compression units adapted to compress a digital image outputted from the image capture unit in a first compression method and a second compression method which is different from the first compression m... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6812958 | Storable digital camera associated with a computer system A digital camera may include a portion that is translatable into and out of a computer system housing. The camera portion may be mounted such that when pushed inwardly into the housing from a stored position, the camera portion automatically springs outwardly from t... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6795651 | Camera with detachable printer A print on demand camera and printer system in which the camera unit incorporating a lens, image sensor, and image processing circuitry is connected to a detachable printer unit by way of a PCMCIA interface. The printer unit may incorporate a business card sized pap... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6791604 | Electronic camera An electronic camera of the present invention includes a paper exit opening for removal of printed paper provided on the upper surface of the case of the camera main body, a protection sheet having a base end fixed to the inside of the paper exit opening, with a fre... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6765686 | Image processing apparatus, method of controlling same, and image processing system Image data is stored on a removable external card together with previous printing information relating to printing of this image data. Accordingly, when printing identical with that executed previously is carried out, the need to make printing settings again is elim... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6714718 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS COMPRISING RECORDING MEANS FOR RECORDING INPUT IMAGE SIGNAL OR WHICH AUTOMATICALLY REVIEWS AND PRODUCES RECORD IMAGES, A REPRODUCING SYSTEM FOR USE WITH A RECORDING DEVICE RECORDING AN IMAGE INPUT SIGNAL, AN APPARATUS FOR USE WITH A RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM WHICH CONTINUOUSLY RECORDS A PLURALITY OF IMAGES, AND A REPRODUCING METHOD A recording and reproducing apparatus for reproducing an immediately preceding recorded image includes recording circuitry for recording an input image signal on a recording medium. Reproducing circuitry is provided for reproducing an image signal recorded on the me... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6707490 | Digital camera, camera main body and method for processing signal A digital camera includes a camera main body, an image sensing unit which is detachably connected to the camera main body and electrically connectable to the camera main body via a cable in a state that the image sensing unit is detached from the camera main body. T... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6549643 | System and method for selecting key-frames of video data A system and method for selecting key-frames to generate a content-based visual summary of video and facilitate digital video browsing and indexing, which provides a real-time approach for key-frame selection irrespective of the available computation powe... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6546186 | Video/audio information collecting system using video camera and its editing system The present invention provides a VTR collecting system in which various data such as, for example, a representative still picture, start time, stop time, OK/NG flag, etc., of each scene is recorded as editorial base data to the memory card when collecting... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6529680 | Device for selecting and controlling a plurality of signal sources in a television system A device for selecting from one of a plurality of audio/video sources and connecting audiovisual signals from the selected source to input receiving circuitry such as the recording circuitry of a VCR or a display device. Based upon a user request such as ... | 03/04/2003 |
