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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180209 | Determining camera activity from a steadiness signal A method of identifying the activity of a camera used for capturing an image or video, such activity not being related to the activity of subjects of the scene being captured includes determining a steadiness signal related to movement of the camera while capturing ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8064759 | Method and apparatus for motion-state based image acquisition A method comprising receiving an indication from a user that the user wishes to take a picture. The method further comprising receiving motion data for a camera device and analyzing the motion data to determine a motion state of the camera. The method further compri... | 11/22/2011 |
| RE42923 | Piezoelectric vibration angular velocity meter and camera using the same When a power switch is turned on, first and second analog switches are turned on while a third analog switch is turned off. Accordingly, at the time of starting, a forced excitation driving circuit supplies to a vibrator an oscillation output pulse which is substant... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059949 | Gyro-sensor mounting structure in a camera having an image-stabilizing function A gyro-sensor mounting structure in a camera having an image-stabilizing function, the camera including a first gyro sensor and a second gyro sensor for detecting rotations about two axes, respectively, which are mutually orthogonal to each other and orthogonal to a... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7945149 | Method and apparatus for motion-state based image acquisition A method comprising receiving an indication from a user that the user wishes to take a picture. The method further comprising receiving motion data for a camera device and analyzing the motion data to determine a motion state of the camera. The method further compri... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7925144 | Image stabilizing apparatus and optical apparatus An image stabilizing apparatus is disclosed which is capable of sufficiently correcting shift shakes even with a small and lightweight accelerometer. The apparatus includes an angular velocity detector which detects angular velocity generated by a shake, an angular ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7848627 | Photographic apparatus A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller. The movable platform has an imager and is movable and rotatable in an xy plane. The controller performs a movement control of the movable platform for a translational movement and an inclination... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840126 | Vibration detecting device, imaging apparatus, and vibration detecting method A vibration detecting device includes: a vibration amount detecting unit including at least a vibration amount sensor which is a portion for detecting a vibration amount, and outputting a vibration detection signal which is a signal indicating the detected vibration... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7711253 | Blur correction camera system A blur correction camera system includes a blur correction lens driven based upon the vibration detection signal detected by an angular velocity sensor, that corrects an image blur, a point-image function computing unit that computes a point spread function, and an ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7689107 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a hand-shake quantity detector and a controller. The hand-shake quantity detector has a first detector having an angular velocity sensor and has a second detector having an angular displacement sensor. T... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7636517 | Lens adjusting device comprising protection arrangement A lens adjusting device includes a moveable lens supporting portion; a displacement arrangement that displaces the lens supporting portion, where the displacement arrangement generates a signal corresponding to movement, of the lens supporting portion, associated wi... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634178 | Image stabilizing apparatus and image pickup apparatus An image stabilizing apparatus and an image pickup apparatus that can detect shift shake reliably with a simple configuration and make highly accurate image blur correction possible even at very short subject distances. The apparatus has an angular velocity detector... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7609950 | Image stabilizing apparatus and optical apparatus An image stabilizing apparatus is disclosed which is capable of sufficiently correcting shift shakes even with a small and lightweight accelerometer. The apparatus includes an angular velocity detector which detects angular velocity generated by a shake, an angular ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606476 | Imaging device and imaging method A face detector detects a person's face from a through image. When the face is not found, and a shutter button is pressed fully, a correction lens is moved in the direction and at the speed to offset a camera shake detected by an angular velocity sensor and a still ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7548685 | Rotating device, barrel unit, image sensing apparatus installed with the same A rotating device 9 is for rotating a vertically long drivable element 90 about specified two axes (rotation axis A, rotation axis B) and is provided with a first and a second actuators 91A, 91B for giving torques to the drivable element ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7496286 | Devices, systems, and methods for controlling a shutter Devices, systems, and methods for controlling a shutter of a still or video camera or cellular telephone, to reduce blurring due to motion of vibrations are disclosed. The control device includes an inertial sensor for measuring acceleration, velocity and/or angular... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7486880 | Camera device capable of changing range-finding area A camera device includes a camera body having an optical system, an auto focus unit which adjusts a focus of the optical system to an object which exists in a predetermined range-finding area in an image formed by the optical system, a detector which detects a direc... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486879 | Image blur correcting device To provide an image blur correcting device in which the fluctuation of an image is little and the image blur can be properly corrected relative to the vibration of a wide range of frequency region, an image blur correcting device is provided in which angular velocit... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7430366 | Image capture device An image capture device is disclosed which is equipped with an imaging unit, a first motion detector adapted to detect the rotational component of motion, a second motion detector adapted to detect the translational component of the motion, and an image blur compens... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426340 | Stage apparatus and camera shake correction apparatus using the stage apparatus A stage apparatus in which a movable stage is guided in first and second directions orthogonal to each other on a stationary member, includes a pair of first elongated holes formed on one of the movable stage and the stationary member and are elongated in the first ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424212 | Camera shaking correcting method, camera shaking correcting device, and image pickup device Output of a gyro sensor is read at intervals of control time ts, time integration is carried out, an integrated value is computed, and an amount of change in an integrated value is determined from a difference between the calculated integrated value and an integrate... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7339612 | Vibration isolating device, method, and system for correcting image blur in a camera A vibration isolator determines a speed of a vibration applied to a camera with a vibration speed sensor, and differentiates and integrates the speed, and corrects the integrated value to zero when the differentiated value is zero, and determines the position of the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7309932 | Voice coil motor apparatus for positioning A voice coil motor apparatus for positioning is disclosed. The voice coil motor is used by the auto-focus lens control module of a miniature camera. The apparatus contains a voice coil motor, a position feedback sensor, and a positioning controller. The voice coil o... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304716 | Method for purging an optical lens By a unit for determining fractions of a substance in a gas or gas mixture, measurements are carried out on the gas or gas mixture for purging a lens in a projection apparatus for projecting patterns onto a substrate. The results of a first measurement on the gas fe... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7263884 | Vibration type gyrosensor device Disclosed is a small-sized vibration type gyrosensor device of high sensitivity provided with a cantilevered oscillator. A cantilevered oscillator 11, provided with a lower electrode, a piezoelectric film and an upper electrode, formed on a single-crystal sil... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260270 | Image creating device and image creating method An image-capturing unit generates an image signal corresponding to an image of a subject formed by a photographing optical system. A point spread function generating unit generates varying point spread functions corresponding to various distances based upon two-dime... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251014 | Exposing method, exposing apparatus and device manufacturing method utilizing them An exposing method which can effect the cleaning of an optical element so that throughput may not be substantially reduced when exposure using ultraviolet light is effected. The exposing method applies ultraviolet light emitted from a light source to an object to be... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7239342 | Image processing apparatus and method An object of the present invention is to generate an image which is prevented from being influenced by a movement while suppressing increase in noise components. When a movement is detected during exposure of an image capturing device to light, an image capturing ap... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7218341 | Apparatus capable of shake estimation A camera is provided with: a detector for detecting a shake amount of the apparatus with respect to an object at an interval; a calculator for calculating a shake speed and a shake acceleration rate based on detected shake amounts, and calculates an estimative shake... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7184606 | Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program In an image processing apparatus, the head top of a subject is detected, and the positions of a camera and a mirror are adjusted so that the coordinates of the detected head top coincide with the coordinates of a reference head top. When it is determined that the co... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180045 | System and method of electronic image shifting for image stabilization An electronic image stabilization system includes an image sensor including an array of photo sensors. Each of the photo sensors accumulates charge responsive to light incident upon the sensor. A motion sensor develops a movement signal responsive to movement of the... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7151565 | Monitor camera capable of recording operation history, and method of recording operation history A storage means (47) formed of a rewritable non-volatile memory for recording the operation history of the surveillance camera is provided within the surveillance camera apparatus. An auto panning operation time, a power supply turn-on time, a temperature wit... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149422 | Motion detector camera A motion detector camera includes a camera mechanism mounted inside a housing, a motion detector exposed on a surface of the housing, and a controller for controlling the camera mechanism in response to signals received from the motion detector. The camera can inclu... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140249 | Angular velocity sensor An angular velocity sensor having a pillar-shaped vibrator and support members. The support members clamp the vibrator from above and below, at those parts where vibration nodes are formed when the vibrator vibrates. The support members mechanically support the vibr... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139107 | Automatic static image capturing device and method A method and a device for automatic capturing of a static image. The automatic static image-capturing device is a scanner. The method includes the following steps. Any changes on a scanning platform are monitored. If a change in the static image on the scanning plat... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7111512 | Angular rate sensor An angular rate sensor includes a quadratic prism-like oscillator 1a formed by laminating a substrate 2 and a piezoelectric material 3, the piezoelectric material 3 is made of piezoelectric ceramics including PZT (Lead Zirconate Ti... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111511 | Angular rate sensor An angular rate sensor includes: a quadratic prism-like oscillator 1a formed by laminating a substrate 2 and a piezoelectric material 3; a reference electrode 3a which is formed on one main surface 3A of two opposed s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106960 | Optical device having image blur prevention function The present invention provides a camera system with an image blur prevention function, including: an interchangeable lens, a camera main body to which the interchangeable lens is detachably attached, a first switch which is disposed in the interchangeable lens and i... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7057646 | Focus adjusting system, image capture apparatus and control method thereof A focus adjusting system includes an optical unit movable to adjust a focus of an object image to an image capture unit for imaging an object to produce a signal representative of the object image, a detection unit for extracting, as a first signal, a high-frequency... | 06/06/2006 |
