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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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| 8032017 | Methods for providing diffuse light Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method comprising: from an angled first end region of a substantially cylindrical beam splitter, reflecting incident light striking from any of a first set of predefined directions and to substantially transparently convey... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009977 | On-vehicle lighting apparatus An image display system generates an image including an intended lighting area surrounding a vehicle to input it on a display. An auxiliary lighting unit can selectively light multiple divided areas into which the intended lighting area is divided. One or more divid... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995911 | Matching led flash to camera's ambient light compensation algorithm A white light LED flash for a digital camera is described that uses a blue light LED die in conjunction with red and green phosphor or quantum dot material over the LED die. The phosphor or quantum dot characteristics are selected so that the white light substantial... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983552 | Camera flash lens and portable device including the same A camera flash lens for a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on a board and serving as a light source of a camera flash, includes a plurality of annular lenses corresponding to the plurality of LEDs, respectively. The plurality of annular lenses each ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978970 | Systems and/or devices for providing diffuse light Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method comprising: from an angled first end region of a substantially cylindrical beam splitter, reflecting incident light striking from any of a first set of predefined directions and to substantially transparently convey... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7957636 | Illumination apparatus and appearance inspection apparatus including the same An illumination apparatus which illuminates a surface of an object having a three-dimensional shape includes a light source, a guide configured to guide light from the light source to a surface of the object, and a diffuser which has a diffusion-reflection surface t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949245 | Reading machine with camera polarizer layers A reading machine includes an image input device including a lens and a polarizer disposed over the lens, a flash and a second polarizer disposed over the flash. The image input device also includes a computing device coupled to the image input device for capturing ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949246 | Control circuit for the synchronized or alternate triggering of at least two flash devices A control circuit responsive to a flash activating signal of a camera for the synchronous or alternate activation of at least two flash devices is disclosed. Each flash device includes a flash generator including a voltage source and at least one flash unit. An inpu... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7920784 | Electronic device, electronic camera, light source device, illumination device, and projector device An electronic device includes a heat generating member arranged in a body, and a heat transmission member of a shape of a three-dimensional body having at least a first surface that is joined to the heat generating member and a second surface that is joined to an in... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7903962 | Image capturing apparatus with an adjustable illumination system An image capturing apparatus (10) for capturing an image (214) of a scene (12) includes an apparatus frame (222), a capturing system (226), and an illumination system (230). The capturing system (226) captures the ima... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7817913 | Flash lamp assembly and portable electronic device using same A flash lamp assembly used in a portable electronic device (100) is described including a supporting member (3) and a flash lamp (4). The portable electronic device includes a printed circuit board (2). The supporting member is mounted on... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813635 | Photographing apparatus, method for controlling photographing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium containing program A photographing apparatus includes: a photographing unit for obtaining an image representing a subject through photographing; a face detecting unit for detecting a face from the image obtained by the photographing unit; and a reflectance calculating unit for calcula... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796880 | Flash device and image capturing device having same A flash device includes a flash module and a color wheel. The flash module includes a flash lamp and a trigger circuit for triggering the flash lamp. The color wheel includes a color filter disk. The color filter disk includes a number of filter segments, wherein ea... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7783187 | Illumination controller, illumination control method, and imaging apparatus An illumination controller for controlling an illumination device that irradiates an object to be photographed with illumination light. The illumination controller includes an introducing unit that introduces ambient light emitted to the object from a light source o... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778540 | Verification apparatus and verification method for recording media On a recording medium serving as a verification object, a picture whose state changes in accordance with optical conditions is formed. A verification apparatus images a plurality of pictures of the recording medium while changing an optical relationship among a ligh... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769288 | Image taking apparatus and method of light emission A relatively small current is supplied to an LED arranged on a center portion, of two or more LED's, and a relatively large current is supplied to an LED arranged on a peripheral portion, of the two or more LED's. This feature makes it possible to substantially equa... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769289 | Camera and strobe device A camera which continuously performs shooting at predetermined time intervals in conjunction with one shutter release operation, comprises: a strobe light source which emits strobe light whose color temperature is adjustable; a light emission control device which co... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756411 | Photographing apparatus and method A photographing apparatus and method that can combine a plurality of images photographed by time division exposure. The photographing apparatus and method employ a photographing device having an entire reset mode in which entire pixels are exposed simultaneously rig... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756410 | Camera accessory and camera A side face of an external flash device is provided with an illumination operation button, and side and lower faces thereof are provided with illumination light emitters. Each of the illumination light emitters has a built-in LED and turns on by pressing the illumin... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7729607 | Camera glare reduction system and method Various image-capturing systems are disclosed that use polarized filters to reduce or control glare effects on captured images. In one embodiment, the system includes a light source, a first polarized filter adapted to polarize light emanating from the light source;... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7702234 | Image-taking apparatus An image-taking apparatus includes: an A/D conversion circuit having an amplifier that is capable of amplifying image signals per shooting frame; and a gain changer that changes the gain of the amplifier. The apparatus causes the gain changer to increase the gain of... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7689113 | Photographing apparatus and method A photographing apparatus and method employ an imaging device arranged including a matrix of pixels each which accumulates accumulation charges according to an amount of light incident thereon, an accumulation charge read device for reading the accumulation charges ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7664386 | Electronic device having light source and heat transmission member An electronic device includes a heat generating member arranged in a body, and a heat transmission member of a shape of a three-dimensional body having at least a first surface that is joined to the heat generating member and a second surface that is joined to an in... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7646973 | Combination flashlight and camera system An improved method and apparatus for hand-held portable illumination, sensing and evidence collection is described. A uniquely configured multi-functional device selectively provides multi-purpose lighting and sensing in a hand-held portable device which is usable a... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7639940 | Photography apparatus, photography method, and photography program using lighting condition parameters An auxiliary light source such as a flash is controlled for highly accurately reflecting a lighting condition with less effect of a factor other than the lighting condition such as contrasting density caused by shadow or black compression or white compression. For t... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634191 | Portable communication device equipped with an electronic flash having a LED ignition device A portable communication device includes an image capture device, a light source unit operable to provide a flash of light and a flash ignition device. The flash ignition device includes a light emitting diode (LED) that provides optical output of an appropriate wav... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634192 | Power connection device for a flash tube and a camera module A power connection device for connecting a flash tube and a camera module includes a wire, a first electrical connector, and a second electrical connector. One end of the wire is connected with the flash tube, and the first electrical connector is electrically conne... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627241 | Image pick-up inspection equipment and method An objective lens system opposing an imaged surface of semiconductor device, and imaging lens system arranged between this objective lens system and image sensor is used to inspect a lower component of the semiconductor device without being influence by an upper com... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623780 | Image capturing apparatus with color compensation An image capturing apparatus (10) for providing an adjusted image (214) of a scene (12) includes an apparatus frame (222), a flash system (230), a capturing system (226), and a control system (232). The flash system (... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7590345 | Optoelectronic protection device An optoelectronic protective device for providing switching signals when an unauthorized object is present in a passageway or an opening through a wall. A light source illuminates the opening, and a camera forms a picture of at least one of the wall surfaces definin... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7590344 | Adaptive processing for images captured with flash An adaptive fill-flash technique for digital photography that employs flash and no-flash image pairs. A flash image, captured using a flash of known characteristics and ambient light, and an ambient light image, which is taken with only ambient light, of the same im... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7577353 | Device and method for optically inspecting a surface The invention generally relates to a compact, inexpensive-to-manufacture, device of few components for optically inspecting a surface and a method for same employing the device. The section of the surface to be investigated is illuminated by a semitransparent mirror... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7561791 | Photographed body authenticating device, face authenticating device, portable telephone, photographed body authenticating unit, photographed body authenticating method and photographed body authenticating program A photographed body authenticating unit includes a control unit for executing solid judgment processing for judging whether a photographed body is solid or not based on an entire brightness changing amount of an entirety of a photographed body and a partial brightne... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7519287 | Electronic flash, imaging device and method for producing a flash of light having a rectangular radiation pattern An electronic flash, imaging device and method for producing flashes of light uses a diffractive optical element to produce a flash of light having a rectangular radiation pattern. The diffractive optical element is configured to diffract light emitted from a light ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7509042 | Digital camera, image capture method, and image capture control program The present invention provides a digital camera that is capable of capturing a picture in which the brightness between a main subject and a nighttime background are well balanced. When an image capture instruction is received while a night scene portrait mode is set... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505680 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an image sensor, an image signal processing section and a light-amount characteristic giving section. The imaging optical system has a distortion in such a way as to form an image whose center part is str... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502558 | Illuminating system for camera An illuminating system for a camera that can illuminate an area according to an angle of view of the camera for stroboscopy is provided. The illuminating system includes: a light source emitting light; and an illuminating lens arranged in an optical path of the ligh... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7486884 | Imaging device and imaging method An imaging device comprising an imaging element for focusing incident light to a light receiving element by the shutter opening to generate image data; a flash for emitting a flash toward an imaging direction of the imaging unit; a controller for controlling the ima... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7457535 | Flash bracket A bracket suitable for supporting a flash. ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454136 | Method and apparatus for acquiring HDR flash images A method generates a high dynamic range image by first acquiring a set of images of a scene illuminated by different lighting conditions. The set of images are then combined to generate a high dynamic range image. ... | 11/18/2008 |
