Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7684693 | Imaging apparatus and imaging system An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to convert an object image formed by an imaging optical system into an electrical signal, a power supply unit capable of being supplied with power from first and second power supply systems, and a control unit... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7636521 | Camera system of detachable lens unit When an UNREG voltage is equal to or less than a PREEND voltage, a notification for informing this state is sent from a lens-side CPU of a lens unit to a body-side CPU of a camera body by UART communication. At this time, the body-side CPU displays a warning, which ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7519289 | Image capturing device and activation method with power saving state and power supplying state An image capturing device includes a first controller operable to control image capturing; an operation section including a switch; a detector operable to detect a change to an image capturing mode and to send a signal representing the change; a second controller op... | 04/14/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7333054 | Information processing device, power supply control method, and computer program An information processing device includes a global positioning system (GPS) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite; a power supply controller configured to control power supply to the GPS device; and a de... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7302175 | Lens barrel for camera Flexible printed boards are introduced to a camera body respectively through a plurality of slit holes formed in a rotating barrel at different positions in the direction of an optical axis. The outer dimension of the lens barrel is kept from increasing. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286163 | Image taking device with bent optical system A digital camera having an image shake correction apparatus and a method of preventing the image shake of an image taken by the digital camera. The digital camera includes optical elements arranged along a bent line for focusing an object image upon a light receivin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283738 | Digital camera and power supply apparatus used therefor A power supply apparatus, including a power supply configured to supply power to a plurality of devices or circuits to operate said plurality of devices or circuits; and a moderation mechanism configured to control the power supplied to the plurality of devices or c... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278032 | Circuit and operating method for integrated interface of PDA and wireless communication system A circuit and operating method for an integrated interface of a PDA and a wireless communication system are disclosed. The circuit includes a PDA-turn-on-wireless-communication-system signal line, a PDA-reset-wireless-communication-system signal line, a PDA-state si... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7218297 | Light emitting device A light emitting device is provided, in which a change of luminance of an OLED is suppressed and a desired color display can be stably performed even if an organic light emitting layer is somewhat deteriorated or an environmental temperature is varied. Separately fr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7187858 | Camera and method for operating a camera based upon available power in a supply In one aspect of the invention, a camera for use with a power supply is provided. The camera has a voltage detecting circuit adapted to detect a voltage level at the power source and to generate a voltage level signal. An image capture system is also provided and pe... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7154553 | Composite system capable of switching between separate power sources A composite system includes first and second devices, each operated using its own power source device as a driving source. The system comprises a signal line connecting loads of the first and second devices so that the first and second devices operate in cooperation... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145597 | Method and apparatus for image processing The image processing method and apparatus capture image data of a photographing scene in which a subject is photographed with a camera, as well as, capture camera information acquired or input in the camera when the subject is photographed, further optionally obtain... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139488 | Optical communication unit An optical communication unit has a pair of cable-side communication units provided for a full duplex communication system connected to each other with a pair of optical fiber cables, has apparatus-side communication units provided for full duplex communication syst... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7119917 | Facsimile server device A facsimile server device that can append TTI information to facsimile data in various manners. The facsimile server device is connected to a plurality of data processing devices such as client PCs over LAN, and is adapted to send facsimile data to a designated remo... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7102686 | Image-capturing apparatus having multiple image capturing units An image-capturing apparatus is capable of capturing a three-dimensional image and a high quality panoramic image as the need arises, and is portable if it is used as a single lens camera that captures a normal two-dimensional image. A second image-capturing unit ha... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102685 | Digital camera with changeable operation sequence A battery property judging circuit measures a voltage of battery before and while a zoom motor is operated respectively. A type of the battery is determined by a voltage change of the battery. A CPU selects either one of a normal operation sequence or a power-saving... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095442 | Method and apparatus for capturing an image A handheld computing and digital image capturing device is physically and electrically integrated. Such a device shares hardware and computing power to provide a versatile item that can be carried with a user to provide the expected computer functions and an image c... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092627 | Shooting system and silver-salt camera A shooting system of the present invention comprises a silver-salt camera unit shooting on a silver-salt photosensitized material, an electronic image pickup unit which is detachably combined with the silver-salt camera unit and in which a solid image pickup element... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084921 | Image processing apparatus with another display unit its control method, and recording medium There is disclosed an image processing apparatus in which a system control circuit (50) monitors the power source voltage when data write access to a recording medium (200) occurs, and cuts off power supply to an image display unit (28) when the... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084902 | Image display device, display method and digital camera for reducing display power consumption When an image is played back on a liquid crystal cell, an auxiliary lamp is turned on. In this way, a displayed image can easily be confirmed. If an image frame forward switch is not turned on after the auxiliary lamp is turned on, the auxiliary lamp is turned off. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7071973 | Digital camera having multiple image taking modes A rotatable semitransparent mirror is arranged at an inclination above the optical path from the taking lens to the image sensing element, and the light reflected by the semitransparent mirror is directed to an optical finder provided above the mirror. The image sen... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7050105 | Electronic camera and battery voltage controlling method employed therein for successively, rather than simultaneously, operating camera portions during conditions of low battery voltage An electronic camera free from failures of an internal circuit, such as a signal processing portion, caused by a drop in battery voltage when there remains a small amount of electric charge in the battery, includes a signal processing portion for signal-processing a... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046286 | Video camera In disposing a display part, such as an LCD panel, on a side face of the body of a compact video camera of a rectangular parallelepiped shape extending longer in the direction of height for use as a viewfinder as well as for a reproduction display, an attempt to min... | 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 |
| 7036034 | System, method and computer program product for power-saving task processing A system for power-saving task processing includes a remaining power detector detecting a remaining power of a battery, and a motion information table defining a relationship between the remaining power of the battery on execution of a task and a plurality of proces... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035021 | Lens apparatus A selection device which permits or prohibits serial communication is provided in a lens apparatus capable of performing serial communication to suppress the serial communication although a camera body can perform the serial communication. Thus, a safe operation of ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7015959 | Image pickup apparatus for picking up and recording still or moving images and a method for controlling the same When an image pickup apparatus is changed over to a mode different from a photographing mode, such as a power-off mode or a reproducing mode, priority is given to writing a temporarily-recorded image in a recording medium, so that it is possible to surely preserve t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015958 | Cameras having film unit dependent demonstration mode image deletion and methods In a camera and method, a first electronic image is captured and stored in memory. A second electronic image is then captured. The second electronic image replaces the first electronic image in memory when the camera does not have a film unit loaded and the memory h... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006764 | User interface for controlling cropping in electronic camera A camera adjusts the aspect ratio of a viewfinder image. The camera has a body and a capture unit mounted in the body. The capture unit has an imager and storage media operatively connected to the imager. The capture unit selectively captures an electronic image of ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6995792 | Camera with positioning capability A positioning operation is performed to acquire a positioning result immediately before or immediately after a photographing instruction is given. GPS positioning is performed in response to a positioning start instruction (half depression of the shutter), after whi... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980309 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image producing section produces a character or pattern image indicative of the input conditions of a color scanner section. The input conditions include data on the resolution, the sampling rate, etc. An image synthesis section synthesizes the produced image wit... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978052 | Alignment of images for stitching The complexity of image stitching into a panoramic image is simplified with the use of one or more projectable fiducial marks that ease the establishment of a relationship between adjacent scenes of an image without leaving undesirable fiducial vestiges in the final... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6954280 | Image communication method, apparatus, and system Proposed is a method of displaying a transmission log such that it can be easily recognized. Images are transmitted to an external device. A list holding information representing the transmitted images and information representing the transmission order of the image... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6907194 | Camera having continuously cropping viewfinder A camera and method provide image cropping. The camera has a body and a capture unit mounted in the body. The capture unit has an imager and storage media operatively connected to the imager. The capture unit selectively captures an electronic image of a scene. A vi... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6876393 | Electronic camera with battery capability consideration An electronic camera according to the present invention includes: a recording device that records image data output by an image-capturing element, which captures an image of a subject, into a recording medium; a battery voltage detection device that detects a batter... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6795649 | Camera, lens apparatus, and camera system There is disclosed a camera system capable of reducing a time after a lens drive command is output until a lens is driven. A camera system according to the present invention comprises a lens apparatus having a booster circuit for boosting a supply voltage and an act... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6741808 | Camera system having a communication system between a camera body and a photographing lens A camera system includes a photographing lens having a lens memory and/or a lens controller, and a camera body including a body controller which can communicate with the lens memory and/or the lens controller; a first power and a second power which can be supplied t... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6731871 | Photocoupler driving system and camera using system A camera includes a first power supply output circuit which outputs a first stabilized power supply voltage, a second power supply output circuit which outputs a second stabilized power supply voltage lower than the first power supply voltage, a photocoupler which h... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727952 | Electronic device having common connector A digital camera settable in a sleep mode including an ASIC for conducting data communication with a host computer connected to a USB connector, a microcomputer, a pull-up resistor connected to one of a pair of data lines, and a power source circuit. The camera furt... | 04/27/2004 |
