Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7725023 | Electronic device, photographing control method, and recording medium An electronic device, such as mobile terminal devices, with a photographing function, and in the case where a photographing target is a person, enhances its function for protecting the photographing target from being photographed without consent by such as spy shots... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7668454 | Photography advice based on captured image attributes and camera settings A method for providing photography advice, such as in the use of a camera, is provided. The method includes storing image attributes associated with a plurality of images captured by the camera. Camera settings associated with the captured images are also stored. At... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7509044 | Electronic device, photographing control method, and photographing control program The present invention relates to an electronic device such as mobile terminal devices with a photographing function, and in the case where a photographing target is a person, enhances its function for protecting the photographing target from being photographed witho... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7460782 | Picture composition guide A method (500) of providing a picture composition guide on a display device (407) of a camera (450) is disclosed. The method (500) operates by firstly detecting (502) settings of the camera (450). Image analysis (503)... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7426344 | Electronic apparatus provided with a rotating-operation member and the rotating-operation member An electronic apparatus provided with a plurality of rotating-operation members, in which respective disk sections of the plurality of rotating-operation members are arranged to be at least partially overlapped, to thereby enable it to achieve space-saving. As the e... | 09/16/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7372498 | Image pickup apparatus having a shutter clutch In an image pickup apparatus having an openable and closable shutter mechanism to protect an image pickup lens portion of a ultra-small and light-weight video camera, the shutter mechanism is composed of a drive mechanism 34 including an output shaft rotated ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7315323 | Digital camera using an indicating device to indicate a plurality of functions Operation situations of a plurality of functions of the camera can be checked from a front of the camera without adding any new hardware. A self-timer LED which is previously provided on a front of the camera is also used as an indicating device which indicates oper... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313323 | Camera system with a photometering device and an external operating device A camera system includes a camera body including a photometering device and an external operating device, and a photographing lens which is detachably attached to the camera body, the photographing lens including an aperture setting device for selecting an auto aper... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302171 | Lens-fitted photographic film A switch is turned on when a shutter button is pressed down. An LED, provided on the front face of a unit body, is lit up to indicate a photographing moment in response to the turning of the switch on. When the shutter button is released, the switch is turned off an... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286753 | Image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device for generating image data, a line-of-sight-direction/angular velocity detecting portion for detecting biological information, such as the direction of a line of sight of a photographer or the angular ve... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272497 | Vehicle navigation system with multi-use display A vehicle navigation system (e.g., GPS) with multi-use display generator that provides for the switching of a displayed image from a navigational based image to a non-navigational image such as a favorite photo. This versatility allows for the user of a vehicle navi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7199830 | Image pickup apparatus including selective insertion of ND filter into taking lens optical path based on luminance of object to be imaged In a digital camera using an ND filter to be inserted into an optical path of an optical lens system, defocus quantity of the taking lens and imbalance of white balance due to the insertion of the ND filter are previously calculated or measured. The ND filter is ins... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7140546 | Battery pack with integrated human interface devices A power pack with human interface devices that includes a power pack housing, which is detachably interfaced to a portable device. The power pack includes a power source internal to the housing for providing power, a light source internal to the housing for producin... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133571 | Automated cropping of electronic images The present invention relates to the automated and semi-automated cropping of electronic images, and in particular to an apparatus and a method of using an electronic camera to capture and crop such electronic images. An electronic imaging processing device (1 | 11/07/2006 |
| 7106958 | Intra-oral camera and a method for using same An intra-oral camera for producing an axially aligned picture of an intra-oral item of interest permits a rapid taking of pictures, whereby burdensome usage requirements are avoided without, however, suffering any diminishment in the quality of the picture that is t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7084910 | System and method for using multiple images in a digital image capture device A digital image capture and processing system, comprising a lens coupled to a lens control element is disclosed. The image capture system includes an image sensor configured to capture images from the lens, and a memory element and a processor coupled to the lens co... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7061535 | Input unit, information recording apparatus and digital camera using the same An information recording apparatus for recording external information of the present invention including an input unit for transmitting a user's instruction to the information recording apparatus. The input unit includes a cross key and a dot matrix display arranged... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057979 | Additional information recording method on optical disk, and optical disk recording apparatus A method of recording additional information of a disk name of an optical disk, title information of a recorded program, etc., on the optical disk. Communication data containing edit data entered through a portable electronic machine capable of conducting wireless c... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7047191 | Method and system for providing automated captioning for AV signals System, method and computer-readable medium containing instructions for providing AV signals with open or closed captioning information. The system includes a speech-to-text processing system coupled to a signal separation processor and a signal combination processo... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042341 | Device including light emitting diode as light sensor and light source A battery operated controller for a door operator includes a keypad backlit by a light emitting diode operably connected to a microcontroller which also controls operation of the controller. The microcontroller periodically measures ambient light as sensed by the li... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038741 | Liquid crystal module comprising fasteners for flexible circuit board A frame structure and a grounding structure of a liquid crystal module are disclosed. The frame structure is adapted for fixedly securing a flexible printed circuit board and a control printed circuit board on the frame, wherein the flexible printed circuit board is... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035477 | Image composition evaluation A method of providing composition evaluation of an image includes analyzing a composed image in accordance with one or more predefined composition rules and providing a report or warning signal if one or more of those compositional rules have been contravened. The a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027728 | Camera with indication of measure of focus as a function of focal distance A camera includes software to compute a measure of focus at a plurality of focal distances. The camera includes an indicator of the measure of focus as a function of focal distance. The camera may also include an indication of present focal position. The camera may ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6945657 | Surveying instrument A surveying instrument includes a sighting telescope having an objective lens and an eyepiece; an erecting optical system functioning so that an image formed by said objective lens is viewed as an erect image through the eyepiece; and a light shield device, position... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6930726 | Digital camera with mode selecting device capable of displaying camera condition A mode selecting dial and an indicator are provided on a digital camera body. Plural symbols corresponding to each mode are printed on the mode selecting dial. When one of the plural symbols is set at the indicator, the digital camera is set to the mode correspondin... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6903774 | Viewfinder device including first and second prisms to reflect light from outside the viewing area A thin viewfinder device includes, in order an object side to a viewing eye side, a first prism, and a second prism disposed separately from the first prim across an air gap. The first prism, the air gap and the second prism are arranged in such a manner that an obj... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6885817 | Method and device for orienting a digital panoramic image A method for orienting a digital panoramic image obtained using at least one initial wide-angle image the image points of which are transferred into a three-dimensional coordinate system includes inserting an orientation mark into the initial image at the time of th... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6760548 | Camera having display device A disclosed photographing apparatus has a LCD display, a select member, and a controller. The display displays information about a photographic condition, in arbitrary display form using a dot-matrix. The select member selects one display mode among a plurality of d... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6714727 | Camera capable of having alternatively positioned mode indicator A camera is capable of being assembled with an alternately positioned mode indicator. The camera includes the following in order to achieve this objective. A support adapted to hold a mode indicator at any one of at least two different locations in order to enable t... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6510287 | Camera display apparatus having rotating elements to indicate information A display apparatus in a camera for displaying photographic information using rotating elements. The display apparatus includes rotating pointers which rotate about display scales to display the photographic information. The display apparatus further incl... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6490417 | Camera enabling confirmation of normal completion of film rewind within the finder With a camera, a photographing prohibition state can surely be recognized only by viewing a liquid crystal display. In the camera, an LCD with a variable transmissivity is disposed within a finder. A film is fed by a film feed section. When a film rewindi... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6480674 | Lens-fitted film unit and production method thereof A lens-fitted unit includes a photographic film loaded in advance, a shutter, a taking lens, an exposure counter plate that is provided with numerals indicating the number of exposures or the number of exposed frames, and is moved in one direction for eac... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6449437 | Light emitting and receiving circuit, camera and optical device A light emitting and receiving circuit 10 has a light emitting diode 14 with a p-n junction. The light emitting diode 14 is connected with a circuit using the light emitting diode as a light emitting element, and a circuit using the light emitting diode 1... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6442348 | Camera with a light emitter A phototaking camera having light emitters includes an electro-optic, light-emitting display assembly provided on its form surface side, which includes a light-emitting display unit that emits light to display a pattern as if the displayed pattern were ro... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6427052 | Exposure-condition setting device for camera An exposure-condition setting device for a camera includes an Xv dial for setting an exposure compensation value, having a plurality of exposure compensation value indicia, the exposure compensation value indicia representing exposure compensation values;... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6412993 | Arrangement of usage indicator in a recyclable, digital camera A recyclable, one-time use print on demand, digital camera comprises an image sensor device for sensing an image. A processor processes the image sensed by the image sensor device. The camera includes a supply of print media on to which an image processed... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6353709 | Camera capable of detecting an abnormality A camera capable of detecting an abnormality has photographing operation programs, an abnormality detection program, and a checking operation program installed therein. The photographing operation programs cause a plurality of mechanisms included in the c... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6341202 | Operation dial with an illuminator for a camera An operation device of a camera includes an indication member comprising a plurality of characters, an operation member which is movable relative to the indication member and includes an index mark for pointing at one of the plurality of characters when t... | 01/22/2002 |
