41st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100259558 | Underline removal apparatus - To remove an underline even if a business document includes a chart or even if the underline touches a character string, provided is an underline removal apparatus that removes an underline area from binary image data including the underline area touching a character string, the underline removal apparatus including: an underline search processing unit that executes a line template matching process by setting a point on the binary image data as a starting point to set a rectangular line template, tracing pixels included in the line template, and extracting a polyline indicating underline position coordinates; and an underline removal processing unit that uses the polyline to execute a process of obtaining background borderline coordinates between the underline area and a background area and character borderline coordinates between the underline area and the character string obtained by applying an interpolation process to a part in the underline area touching the character string and to execute a process of replacing an area surrounded by the background borderline coordinates and the character borderline coordinates by a color of pixels of the background area. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A DYNAMIC MEDIA LINK - The disclosed system and method provide a facility for a dynamic media overlay. An end user can provide data for the dynamic media overlay that is activated upon selection to permit end users to share information while receiving or sending video data. The overlay may be in the form of a link, such as a hyperlink, that can be selected by an end user to take action indicated by information provided in the link. The link may be represented by audio or image information in the form of instructions or clickable “targets.” A content of information represented by the link can be dynamic, so that selection of the link can result in different actions, depending upon the informational content of the link. One or more flags may be provided to indicate that a new link or new informational content for a link is requested. The link may be provided in an overlay represented as a media layer provided in addition to the video media, or it may be embedded in the video media itself. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259560 | Enhancing privacy by affecting the screen of a computing device - A method and apparatus for allowing the user of an electronic device to enhance privacy over a display with the use of software, are disclosed. A security window including a translucent graphical effects region may be displayed on the electronic device such that it overlays content the user may choose to protect. The security window allows the protected content to remain discernable for the user of the device yet substantially indiscernible to a person at a further distance and/or greater viewing angle from the screen of the device. The user may control the size, shape, texture, translucency level and any other graphical or behavioral properties of the security window and graphical effects region. The user may invoke or terminate a security window with the single click of a button. Security windows may automatically attach to applications in focus, or be attached in response to a user command, and allow uninterrupted usability of those applications. Security windows may be associated with application types and may automatically be invoked in response to running processes associated with the application types. Security windows may be associated with email (e.g. displayed by a productivity application such as Microsoft Outlook®, or via any browser-based service such as GMail®, etc.) causing security windows to be automatically displayed in response to displaying emails that meet various criteria (e.g. from a specific sender, containing specific words, containing tags associated with security windows, etc.) | 2010-10-14 |
20100259561 | VIRTUAL KEYPAD GENERATOR WITH LEARNING CAPABILITIES - Methods and systems enable defining customized virtual keyboards on a touch sensitive surface, such as a touchscreen. Using learning algorithms, a computing device may learn the typing patterns of a user and “morph” the keys of a virtual keyboard into locations, sizes, and orientations that are comfortable for the user and which may reduce typing errors. A user may create a custom keypad layout by performing a series of key strokes on a touch sensitive surface. The computing device may correlate the touch locations to particular keys and generate keypad layout data that can be used to display the virtual keyboard and interpret touches on the touch sensitive surface. The computing device may monitor user typing activity and refine the keypad layout data based on detected or corrected typing errors. Keypad layout data may be exported to other devices to enable users to take their virtual keyboards with them. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259562 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A display control apparatus is provided which includes a detection unit for detecting proximity of an operation tool to, or contact of the operation tool with, a display unit including a first display area on which an object list in which a plurality of objects are arranged is displayed and a second display area on which the content of the object is displayed, a movement determination unit for determining a movement of the operation tool based on the detection result by the detection unit, a list display control unit for controlling a display of the object list displayed in the first display area based on the determination result by the movement determination unit, and a detailed display control unit for controlling a display of the second display area based on the determination result by the movement determination unit. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259563 | Organic electroluminescent display device - An inexpensive organic electroluminescent display device is realized by using a data driver IC for liquid crystal that is used in a liquid crystal display device, as a driver of the organic electroluminescent display device. In an active-matrix organic electroluminescent display device that has a pixel circuit capable of controlling light emitting luminance per time in accordance with magnitude of a grey scale voltage, a control signal is supplied from a timing control IC to the data driver so that the polarity is reversed twice consecutively, or a control signal is supplied from the timing control IC to the data driver so that a mode of not reversing the polarity is selected. This control signal need not necessarily be provided in the timing control IC and may be formed in a circuit on a substrate that is not an IC. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259564 | DISPLAY DRIVING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DRIVING SYSTEM - Provided is a high-resolution display driving system without a new design of interfaces between a timing controller and DDIs, particularly, without an entire change of a DAC unit having a role of determining gradation representation of DDIs and offsets between channels. The high-resolution display driving system includes a timing controller and a DDI unit. The timing controller generates a differential clock signal and differential data. The DDI unit generates a plurality of converted signals corresponding to the differential data in response to an operation instructing signal, a reset/enable signal, and the differential clock signal. A scheme of data transmission from the timing controller to the DDI unit is at least one of a multi-drop scheme and an m-LVDS (mini low voltage differential signaling) scheme. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259565 | MONOLITHIC DRIVER-TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention aims to provide a monolithic driver-type display device capable of reducing circuit scale of a sampling circuit, and keeping low power consumption by directly driving a source driver with an externally provided video signal. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259566 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A direct-viewing type display device according to the present invention includes: at least one display panel having a display region and a frame region formed outside of the display region; and at least one Fresnel lens plate disposed on a viewer side of the at least one display panel with a predetermined interval therefrom. The Fresnel lens plate includes a Fresnel lens region at a position overlapping a region that contains a portion of the frame region of the display panel and a portion of a peripheral display region within the display region that adjoins the portion of the frame region along a first axis. A portion of display light exiting the portion of the peripheral display region is emitted from a region of the Fresnel lens region that overlaps a portion of the frame region, or a region outside the region, toward the viewer side. According to the present invention, there is provided a direct-viewing type display device in which a frame region of a display panel, or a joint in the case of tiling, is made unlikely to be seen, with a structure which is more simple and light-weighted than conventionally. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259567 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING DYNAMIC FALSE CONTOUR IN THE IMAGE OF AN ALTERNATING CURRENT PLASMA DISPLAY - The present invention discloses a method for and a system for reducing the dynamic false contour in the image of an alternating current plasma display. The method includes the following steps: dividing each frame image into multiple subfields; accounting the number and the probability of the dynamic false contour appeared in each frame image; based on the result of the accounting, carrying out an optimized coding for the pixel data of each frame image, and if there is an error generated by the optimized coding, diffusing the error generated by the optimized coding into neighboring pixels. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259568 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electro-optic device is provides, which includes: a plurality of unit circuits disposed corresponding to intersection of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines; control lines extended corresponding to the plurality of each of the scan lines; a scan line driving circuit that sequentially selects one of the scan lines for each drive period within each unit period, and selects all or a portion of the plurality of control lines; and a data line driving circuit that outputs a data potential, in response to grayscale data of the unit circuit corresponding to the scan line selected in the drive period within the unit period, to each of the data lines, for each period within the unit period which is a writing period before the drive period is started. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259569 | DISPLAY SIGNAL CONVERSION APPARATUS - A display signal conversion apparatus converts a first signal having a first color type and color arrangement into a second signal having a second color type and color arrangement. The display signal conversion apparatus includes a color conversion unit configured to convert the first color type into the second color type, a pattern determination unit configured to determine a signal pattern of the first signal, a unit configured to determine a color arrangement of a pixel position of the second signal corresponding to a pixel position of the first signal, and a sub pixel signal generation unit configured to generate a sub pixel signal having the second color type and color arrangement based on a result of the signal pattern determination and a result of the color arrangement determination. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259570 | OPTICAL DETECTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a photodetection device which is small in size and has excellent sensitivity. A photodetection device puts cathode terminals of photodiodes having different spectral characteristics into an open end state, and detects light intensity of a desired wavelength region according to a difference in electric charges that have been stored in those photodiodes in a given period of time. The photodiodes employ a system of storing electric charges, and hence even if a photocurrent is small, the photocurrent may be stored to obtain the electric charges required for detection, and the downsizing and high detection performance of a semiconductor device that forms the photodiodes may be achieved. Further, a wide dynamic range may be realized with an electric charge storage time being variable according to the light intensity, to intermittently drive an element required for difference detection at the time of difference detection so as to suppress electric power consumption, or to average the output so as to reduce flicker. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259571 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electro-optical apparatus includes a plurality of unit circuits arranged to correspond to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, a plurality of control lines, a scanning line driving circuit which sequentially selects one scanning line in every driving period included in a unit period, and selects the plurality of control lines, and a data line driving circuit which outputs, data electric potentials corresponding to gradation data of the unit circuits corresponding to the scanning line selected in the driving period in the unit period, in every writing period included in each unit period before the driving period begins, wherein each plurality of unit circuits includes an electro-optical element, and a capacitor element which has a first electrode connected to a capacitor line through a first switching element and a second electrode connected to the electro-optical element through a second switching element. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259572 | Driving Apparatus and Driving Method of Backlight Module - A driving apparatus and a driving method of a backlight module are provided. The backlight module includes multiple LEDs. The driving apparatus includes at least one thermal sensor, an optical sensor, and a processor. The thermal sensor is for detecting a working temperature of the LEDs. The optical sensor is for detecting brightness and color of the backlight module after a calibration function is enabled, to obtain difference values of the detected brightness and color with respect to predetermined brightness and color. The processor is for providing at least one initial thermal compensation table, to determine working currents of the LEDs associated with the working temperature. The processor further is for calibrating a content of the initial thermal compensation table corresponding with a current working temperature of the LEDs and storing the calibrated thermal compensation table as the initial thermal compensation table after the calibration function is enabled. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259573 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING MARKING ON CONTINUOUS WEB PRINT MEDIA - The present disclosure describes a system and method for controlling the post-marking heaters and ink spreading nip rollers employed for spreading the ink dots on the media web to provide the desired image quality. The technique employs a sensor for sensing single pixel linewidth and showthru sensor to sense showthru of the ink. The sensor outputs are combined with the temperature and pressure values of the ink spreading nips to provide an error signal to a PID controller for controlling the nip pressure and heater temperature. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259574 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND ACTUATOR - A liquid ejecting head includes a flow path forming substrate in which pressure generation chambers are formed. The pressure generation chambers communicate with nozzles that eject liquid droplets. Piezoelectric elements are positioned on the flow path forming substrate to generate pressure changes in the pressure generation chambers. Each piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body layer, a first electrode on one side of the piezoelectric body layer, and a second electrode on the opposite side of the piezoelectric body layer. The piezoelectric element is driven in a condition that the relationship between minimum voltage V | 2010-10-14 |
20100259575 | METHOD FOR PRINTING - A method of printing including providing an ink delivery system including a print head in fluid communication between a first tank and a second tank; and providing a pressure differential across the print head to cause ink to flow from the print head. With embodiments of the method, ink can be controllably dispensed from the print head at substantially the same velocity irrespective of the orientation of the print head with respect to the direction of the force of gravity. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259576 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID CHANGING-OVER METHOD - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a discharging section which discharges liquid, a plurality of supply sections which each supply a plurality of different kinds of liquid to the discharging section, a changing-over section which changes over the plurality of supply sections, thereby connecting one of the plurality of supply sections to the discharging section, and a control section which receives instructions for liquid changing-over operation which changes over the connection to the discharging section from a first supply section among the plurality of supply sections to a second different supply section, thereby selecting one of first and second methods for the liquid changing-over operation on the basis of the remaining amount of first liquid acquired by a remaining amount acquisition section which obtains the remaining amount of the first liquid in the first supply section, and controls the execution of the liquid changing-over operation by the selected method. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259577 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a driving unit that drives the transporting unit; a phase detecting unit that detects a phase origin of the transport roller rotating in accordance with the driving of the driving unit and a rotational phase indicating an amount of rotation from the phase origin; a recording unit that performs recording on the sheet transported with the transporting unit; and a control unit that controls the driving unit such that the transport roller rotates within a certain transport range based on a preliminarily set reference phase, forms a first pattern by controlling the recording unit at a first rotation phase at a control start point of the driving unit, forms a second pattern by controlling the recording unit at a second rotation phase at a control end point of the driving unit, and then forms a correction pattern including the first and second patterns. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259578 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method is disclosed, in which the method includes: recording an image, on a recording medium, using two or more ink compositions each comprising at least a pigment, by applying the two or more ink compositions to an acidic surface of the recording medium at a dotting interval of 500 msec or less; wherein the recording includes forming at least a first color sub-image by applying at least one of the two or more ink compositions and the at least one of the two or more ink compositions includes a self-dispersing polymer having an acid value of from 70 to 120 mgKOH/g and a water-soluble organic solvent. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259579 | PROTECTOR FOR PRINT HEAD CHIP AND INK CARTRIDGE USED BY THE SAME - A protector for a print head chip and an ink cartridge used by the same are provided. The protector ( | 2010-10-14 |
20100259580 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus may include a recording head that extends in a direction perpendicular to a recording-medium-conveying direction. In some embodiments, the recording head may eject ink to a recording medium. An embodiment may include a recovery device that performs recovery processing of the recording head, the recovery device having a cap portion that covers an ink ejection surface of the recording head, and a wiping portion that wipes the ink ejection surface. In some embodiments, the recovery device may move along the recording-medium-conveying direction. When the recovery device moves along the recording-medium-conveying direction, the wiping portion wipes the ink ejection surface while moving along the recording-medium-conveying direction. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259581 | METHOD FOR ARRANGING LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION HEADS, HEAD UNIT, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS, ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for arranging liquid droplet ejection heads includes: arranging and fixing a plurality of inkjet liquid droplet ejection heads, ejecting a common functional liquid, on a common carriage plate, based on the amount of liquid droplets ejected from a number of ejecting nozzles in a nozzle row that each of the liquid droplet ejection heads has, with the heads shifted in a direction of the nozzle row, the heads being so arranged and fixed that in the heads closely aligned in the direction of the nozzle row, a difference between the amounts of liquid droplets ejected from two ejection nozzles located at each innermost end of the heads is within a predetermined range of tolerance, and the amounts of liquid droplets ejected from two ejection nozzles located at the outermost ends in the direction of the nozzle row are within a predetermined range of a reference amount. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259582 | INKJET HEAD AND ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTION TYPE INKJET HEAD - The inkjet head has a first silicon substrate | 2010-10-14 |
20100259583 | METHOD FOR FORMING A FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A method of forming a fluid ejection device includes forming a pair of first glass layers and forming a second glass layer. Each first glass layer includes a first side and a second side with the second side defining a first fluid flow structure. The second glass layer includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side, with each respective first side and second side defining a second fluid flow structure. The second glass layer is bonded in a sandwiched position between the respective first glass layers with each respective second fluid flow structure of the second glass layer in fluid communication with the respective first fluid flow structure of the respective first glass layers to define a fluid flow pathway for ejecting a fluid. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259584 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DIRECTION OF FLUID - A device and a method of controlling fluid flow are provided. The method includes providing a moving fluid including a fluid flow characteristic; providing a fluid control device including a fluid control surface, the fluid control surface including a pattern that guides the fluid; causing the fluid to contact the fluid control surface of the fluid control device; and causing the fluid to interact with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device by guiding the fluid using the pattern of the fluid control surface while the fluid is in contact with the pattern of the fluid control device such that the fluid flow characteristic of the fluid after interacting with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device is different from the fluid flow characteristic of the fluid before interaction with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259585 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING FLUID VELOCITY - A device and a method of controlling fluid flow are provided. The method includes providing a moving fluid including a fluid flow velocity characteristic; providing a fluid control device including a fluid control surface, the fluid control surface including a pattern that changes the velocity of the fluid; and causing the fluid to interact with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device using the pattern of the fluid control surface while the fluid is in contact with the pattern of the fluid control device such that the fluid flow velocity characteristic of the fluid after interacting with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device is different from the fluid flow velocity characteristic of the fluid before interaction with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259586 | DEVICE FOR MERGING FLUID DROPS OR JETS - A device and method of controlling fluid flow are provided. The method includes providing a moving fluid including a fluid flow characteristic; providing a fluid control device including a fluid control surface, the fluid control surface including a pattern; causing the fluid to contact the fluid control surface of the fluid control device; and causing the fluid to interact with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device using the pattern of the fluid control surface that, when activated, causes adjacent fluid drops to merge or coalesce while the fluid is in contact with the pattern of the fluid control device such that the fluid flow characteristic of the fluid after interacting with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device is different from the fluid flow characteristic of the fluid before interaction with the fluid control surface of the fluid control device. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259587 | INK DELIVERY SYSTEM - An ink delivery system includes a first tank including a fill sensor; a second tank including a fill sensor; a pump configured to pump ink from the first tank to the second tank; a third tank including a fill sensor; a print head in fluid communication with the second tank and the third tank. In an embodiment, the third tank is in fluid communication with the first tank and may be configured to provide a closed loop system, the second tank is in fluid communication with the third tank, and a pressure differential across the print head causes ink to flow through the print head. For some embodiments, pumps may be provided to control pressure differentials and print heads may print at one or more angles. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259588 | DUAL CONDENSOR - The present invention relates to ink jet printing. More particularly, the invention relates to a condenser assembly for an ink jet printer. The condenser assembly comprises a first condenser adapted to separate first solvent vapour from a first fluid by condensation of said first solvent onto a first coolable surface and a second condenser adapted to separate second solvent vapour from a second fluid by condensation of said second solvent onto a second coolable surface. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259589 | INERT UV INKJET PRINTING - Enhanced printing solutions are enabled by providing ultraviolet curing conditions without requiring complete evacuation of atmospheric oxygen. Increased ink coverage and adjusted surface appearance are also provided. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259590 | ROTATIONAL AIR VALVE FOR MEDIA HOLD-DOWN SYSTEM - A printable media hold-down system including a vacuum transport belt, an air removal device configured to create a vacuum pressure, a plurality of air ducts, wherein each air duct is configured to direct the vacuum pressure to the vacuum transport belt and at least one rotational air valve positioned between the air removal device and the plurality of air ducts, wherein the at least one rotational air valve is configured to selectively direct the vacuum pressure into one or more of the plurality of air ducts. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259591 | IMAGE RECORDING MEDIUM TRANSFER APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image recording medium transfer apparatus includes: a capstan that transfers a recording medium for an image; a pinch roller provided opposite the capstan to pass the recording medium between the pinch roller and the capstan; and a pressing force application unit configured to exert a pressing force to press the capstan and the pinch roller against each other via the recording medium. The capstan includes a plurality of projections on a pressing surface of the capstan that presses the recording medium. When a height of each of the projections from the pressing surface is defined as H, the height H is in a range of 20 mm2010-10-14 | |
20100259592 | EXPOSURE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an exposure device including: a light-emitting element array having an elongated support and plural light-emitting elements, the light-emitting elements being arranged in at least one row along a length direction of the support such that a spacing between two adjacent light-emitting elements is a pre-specified first spacing; and a hologram element array having a hologram recording layer disposed on the support and plural hologram elements formed, the plural hologram elements corresponding with each of the light-emitting elements and being formed such that a spacing along the support length direction between two adjacent hologram elements is the first spacing, and a diameter in the support length direction of each of the plural hologram elements being larger than the first spacing, such that a respective light emitted from each of the light-emitting elements is diffracted and focused toward a pre-specified image-forming plane by the corresponding hologram element. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259593 | Endpoints associated with a Session - A machine and method to connect endpoints associated with a session. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259594 | Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Scenes and Objects - A radio transceiver included in or attached to an imaging camera is used to facilitate the automatic determination of a scale factor in a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. The radio transceiver transmits a radio signal from each of one or more camera positions and measures a reflection profile for the transmitted signal. The measured reflection profile is compared to a simulated reflection profile, generated from a 3D model of the subject/scene of interest, to determine an estimate of an unknown scale for the 3D model. In various embodiments, the radio transceiver may be adapted from a radio device that already exists in or on the imaging camera (e.g., a cellular radio, Bluetooth® radio, or the like) or may be added to an imaging camera. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259595 | Methods and Apparatuses for Efficient Streaming of Free View Point Video - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to receive information related to available camera views of a three dimensional scene, request a synthetic view which is different from any available camera view and determined by the processing unit and receive media data comprising video data associated with the synthetic view. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259596 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DATA - A method and apparatus transmitting stereoscopic image data according to a variable channel environment are provided. The method includes granting a priority to each of a plurality of frames constituting one image group; determining a number of transmittable frames based on a variable channel environment; and selecting transmittable frames from among the plurality of frames based on the determined number of transmittable frames and the granted priories | 2010-10-14 |
20100259597 | FACE DETECTION APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME - Provided are a face detection apparatus and a distance measurement method using the same. The face detection apparatus detects a face using left and right images which are acquired from a stereo camera. The face detection apparatus measures distance from the stereo camera to the face using an image frame which is provided from the stereo camera without a stereo matching process. Accordingly, the face detection apparatus simultaneously performs face detection and distance measurement even in a low-performance system. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259598 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTANCE - A three-dimensional distance detecting apparatus includes a stereo vision camera configured to detect a parallax of a selected point to be detected; and a pattern generating device configured to generate a pattern and project the pattern on the selected point when the selected point is a subject which does not induce a parallax. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259599 | Display system and camera system - A display apparatus and an imaging apparatus constructed such that a high-resolution clear three-dimensional video image can be viewed from any direction. The display apparatus projects frame images, projected from a projector such as an electronic projector, to a video image projection surface of a three-dimensional screen through a polygonal mirror provided around the three-dimensional screen, thereby providing a polyhedral video image such as a three-dimensional image to a person viewing from around the video image projection surface. The three-dimensional screen has a view field angle limiting filter and a directional reflection screen. The view field angle filter limits the angle of a view field in the left/right direction, the angle being the angle of the projection on the video image projection surface ( | 2010-10-14 |
20100259600 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING APPARATUS - A three-dimensional imaging apparatus includes: a front-side optical member formed of a non-afocal optical system, the front-side optical member forming an image of a subject; a plurality of rear-side optical members not only disposed downstream of the plane where the front-side optical member forms an image of the subject but also positioned in such a way that the optical axes of the plurality of rear-side optical members are substantially parallel to the optical axis of the front-side optical member but do not coincide therewith, the plurality of rear-side optical members refocusing a real image formed by the front-side optical member; and an imaging device that receives the light rays focused by the rear-side optical members to produce an imaged signal. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259601 | Liquid crystal shutter and image display observation system - A liquid crystal shutter includes a plurality of liquid crystal layers arranged in a light-incident direction; and a plurality of polarizers attached to each of the plurality of liquid crystal layers, polarization axes of 2 adjacent polarizers that have a liquid crystal layer therebetween being crossed at an angle of 90°, the accumulated value of degrees of polarization of polarizers that have polarization axes in a first direction being identical to that of degrees of polarizations of polarizers that have polarization axes in a second direction that crosses the first direction at an angle of 90°. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259602 | HYBRID SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PROJECTOR GEOMETRY CALIBRATION - A method of calibrating a multi-projector image display system is provided. According to the method, non-parametric calibration data for the display system is recovered and used to generate a non-parametric model of the display system. Local parametric models relating to the display surface of the projection screen are generated and are compared with data points defined by the non-parametric calibration data to identify one or more local errors in the non-parametric calibration data. The local errors in the non-parametric calibration data are converted to data points defined at least in part by the local parametric models and the projectors are operated to project an image on the image projection screen by utilizing a hybrid calibration model comprising data points taken from the non-parametric model and data points taken from one or more local parametric models. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259603 | Video display apparatus, video viewing glasses, and system comprising the display apparatus and the glasses - Provided is a video system equipped with a video display apparatus, and video viewing glasses for use in viewing a video displayed on the video display apparatus. The video display apparatus includes: a display section for displaying a video; a synchronizing signal generator for generating an external synchronizing signal for notifying an end of displaying a frame constituting the video in synchronism with the video; and a synchronizing signal transmitter for transmitting the external synchronizing signal to the video viewing glasses. The video viewing glasses include: a synchronizing signal receiver for receiving the external synchronizing signal; an optical filter section having a pair of optical filters for adjusting amounts of light to be transmitted to a left eye and a right eye of a viewer, respectively; and an optical filter controller for controlling the optical filter section based on the external synchronizing signal. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259604 | MULTI-USER AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A display apparatus for projecting images towards eyes of at least one viewer selectively when said eyes are spaced horizontally within a viewing field, said apparatus comprising: transmitting means for transmitting light; image generation means for generating different images, the image generation means being capable of generating image parts in a plurality of different vertical image areas; and light configuration means for configuring said transmitted light to provide a plurality of sets of vertical light configurations, the different configurations in each set being selectable to provide different emergent light characteristics for a vertical image area which is common to each configuration in a set and which is different for each set, whereby said different images are projected by said apparatus to coincide with one or more eyes selected from the eyes of each of the one or more viewers, and not one or more other eyes of the viewers. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOLUMETRIC TISSUE SCANNING MICROSCOPY - In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention, a method for imaging tissue, for example, includes the steps of mounting the tissue on a computer controlled stage of a microscope, determining volumetric imaging parameters, directing at least two photons into a region of interest, scanning the region of interest across a portion of the tissue, imaging a plurality of layers of the tissue in a plurality of volumes of the tissue in the region of interest, sectioning the portion of the tissue and imaging a second plurality of layers of the tissue in a second plurality of volumes of the tissue in the region of interest, detecting a fluorescence image of the tissue due to said excitation light; and processing three-dimensional data that is collected to create a three-dimensional image of the region of interest. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259606 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject and obtain image data, a setting unit configured to set at least two shooting modes including an underwater shooting mode and a normal shooting mode, and a control unit configured to set a different initial value of a control amount of white balance according to whether a shooting mode set by the setting unit is the underwater shooting mode or the normal shooting mode, calculate the control amount of white balance based on the set initial value and the image data obtained by the imaging unit, and perform white balance control on the image data obtained by the imaging unit based on the calculated control amount. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259607 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGING - Methods and apparatus for imaging according to various aspects of the present invention may generate an enhanced image of a target in an environment using image data from a sensor. The methods and apparatus may scale the image data to a higher resolution and register the image represented by the image data with other images of the same target. The enhanced image of the target is generated according to the registered images. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259608 | RECORDING MACHINE VISION SYSTEM - A method and a system for the quality control of objects after they have been supplied. After manufacturing, the object is checked by means of a measuring machine vision system. The measurement results of the machine vision system are recorded in a data system together with the corresponding calibration data. When the calibration data is known, new measurements can be conducted later from the recorded images at a time when the actual object has already been supplied and possibly placed in an end product. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259609 | PAVEMENT MARKER RECOGNITION DEVICE, PAVEMENT MARKER RECOGNITION METHOD AND PAVEMENT MARKER RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A pavement marker recognition device for recognizing a pavement marker accurately is provided, the device being capable of recognizing an object even when it is difficult to be recognized only from tones or color information. A pavement marker candidate extraction unit extracts an image area having a feature similar to that of a pavement marker from an image captured by a car-mounted camera as a pavement marker candidate area, a road shape analysis unit analyzes the road shape from the image captured by the car-mounted camera, and a pavement marker verification unit determines whether the road shape analyzed by the road shape analysis unit and the pavement marker candidate area extracted by the pavement marker candidate extraction unit are in a correspondence relationship indicated by a road shape and pavement marker correspondence table, and based on the determination result, recognizes the pavement marker candidate area as a true pavement marker. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259610 | Two-Dimensional Display Synced with Real World Object Movement - Embodiments of the disclosed technology comprise devices and methods of displaying images on a display (e.g., viewing screen) and changing the image based on a position of an object. This may be done on an advertising display, such as on a vending machine, or to enable a viewer to “look around” an object on a two-dimensional screen by moving his head. The image displayed may appear to move with the person. A first image is exhibited on the display and a position of an object, such as a person within the view of a camera is detected. When the object moves, the display changes (e.g., a second image is displayed) corresponding to the second position of the object in the viewing plane. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259611 | System, method, and device for controlled user tracking - In a system and method for controlled user tracking, a mobile device is provided for transmitting an identification signal, and a reader unit, which is statically located at a location, is provided for receiving the identification signal and transmitting to a surveillance control unit, in response to receipt of the identification signal, either the received identification signal or another signal that identifies the mobile device, for logging by the surveillance control unit of a presence of the mobile device at the location, where the mobile device and/or the reader unit is configured to transmit at least one surveillance control message for control of surveillance at the location. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259612 | Control Module For Video Surveillance Device - A control module for a video surveillance device comprises a sensor detecting the movement of the video surveillance device and generating detection data; and a microprocessor receiving the detection data via an analog/digital conversion circuit, analyzing the detection data, controlling the output of an alert signal according to an analysis result of the detection data, and calculating picture-adjusting data according to the analysis result of the detection data, and using the picture-adjusting data to correct the definition of the picture. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259613 | WATCHING CAMERA - According to the present invention, there is provided a watching camera, comprising: a housing main body that is fixedly installed at a wall surface or a ceiling of a building; a camera module that is installed at the housing main body to acquire image information on a watching region; an angle control bracket that is installed at the bottom of the housing main body and is mounted to allow the camera module to have a multi-shaft freedom in up, down, left and right directions; and a horizontal display device that is installed at the camera module and light-emits a lamp in response to a slope in a left and right direction of the camera module. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259614 | Delay Compensated Feature Target System - Apparatus and methods are provided for acquiring a target. A vehicle generates video frames that are sent to a control. The vehicle stores a subset of the frames. The vehicle may receive a lock message from the control that identifies a feature. Based on the information in the lock message, the vehicle may find a stored “fast-forward” frame with the feature, locate the feature on the fast-forward frame, determine a trajectory of the feature, and then determine a current location of the feature in a current frame. Once the vehicle has determined the current location of the feature, the vehicle may send a target acquired message to the control. An estimate of communication latency between the control and the vehicle may be determined. Then, the fast-forward frame may be determined based on a time of arrival of the lock message and the latency. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259615 | Display system for shooting and displaying image around vehicle - An display system of an image around a vehicle includes: a shooting element; a controller including a processor and a memory; and a display device. The shooting element includes a bracket fixed to the vehicle, a camera in the bracket, a protrusion of the camera and a contact position sensor of the protrusion. The memory stores retrieved region information about a retrieved region defined by a display coordinate system and retrieved from the image. The display device displays the retrieved region. When the contact position of the protrusion is changed, the processor modifies the retrieved region information based on the contact positions before changing and after changing such that a region defined by a local coordinate system corresponding to the retrieved region after changing is equal to the region defined by the local coordinate system before changing. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259616 | Image Pickup Apparatus, On-Vehicle Image Pickup Apparatus, Method And Apparatus For Manufacturing Image Pickup Apparatus - A disclosed image pickup apparatus includes a first member holding a lens, and a second member holding an image pickup element converting an image formed via the lens into an electric signal, the second member having an approximately rectangular shape and two approximately arc-shaped location cutout portions at respective diagonal corners of the approximately rectangular shape. In the image pickup apparatus, the first and the second members are bonded via an indirect bonding structure portion where the first and second members are bonded via a fixing member with an ultraviolet curable adhesive and a filler bonding structure portion where the first and second members are bonded by supplying a thermosetting adhesive therebetween. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259617 | Boundary line recognition apparatus - In a boundary line recognition apparatus, a boundary line candidate extracting part extracts boundary line candidates from image data obtained by an on-vehicle camera based on known image processing such as pattern matching and Hough transform. One or more kinds of boundary line feature calculating parts calculate one or more likelihoods of each boundary line candidate. The likelihood indicates a degree of probability to be the boundary line. A boundary line feature combining means multiplies the likelihoods of each boundary line candidate and outputs a combined likelihood. A boundary line candidate selecting part selects the boundary line candidate having a maximum likelihood as the boundary line. The boundary line feature calculating part further calculates the likelihood of the boundary line candidate using a dispersion of brightness and an internal edge amount, and changes the likelihood based on an additional likelihood obtained by a driving lane surface feature extracting part. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259618 | Digital Peephole Viewer Device - The present invention discloses a digital peephole viewer device, which integrates with a door lens assembly on a door board to acquire optical images captured by the door lens assembly, converts the optical images into digital images, and then presents the digital images. The digital peephole viewer device of the present invention comprises a housing, an image capture unit, a signal processing unit, a display unit and a connection means. The image capture unit has a first lens to receive the optical images captured by the door lens assembly. The signal processing unit converts the optical images into continuous dynamic digital images. The display unit presents the continuous dynamic digital images. The connection means integrates the housing with the door lens assembly. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259619 | HMD WITH ELEVATED CAMERA - A viewing system displaying images to a viewer from a camera capable of being elevated. Specifically, a head mounted display for displaying images from a camera that can be elevated. The viewing system can be mounted to the viewer's head so that the rotation of the viewer's head will rotate the camera and the image displayed. The head mount can also position the display in front of the viewer's eyes to allow for hands free viewing. An extendable shaft is also attached to the head mount and supports the camera affixed a top the shaft that elevates the camera to the desired elevation. The camera can communicate images captured by the camera to the head mounted display via a wired or wireless connection. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259620 | CCTV INCIDENT LOCATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a system for detecting incidents within an area covered by CCTV network. Specifically, the present invention relates to utilising detections of gunshots to autonomously direct CCTV cameras to cover an area in which a gunshot was detected. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259621 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method and Storage Medium - An image processing apparatus includes a discontinuity detecting unit configured to detect a discontinuity between frames in stream data and, when detecting a discontinuity, add predetermined discontinuity information and output the image data and header information, a FIFO configured to store the image data and the header information in association with each frame, and a frame-to-be-processed determining unit configured to determine, for continuous frames, elapsed time from the start of the stream on the basis of the PTSs of two continuous frames, determine, for a discontinuous frame, elapsed time based on the PTS and frame rate of a frame preceding or succeeding the point at which a discontinuity exists, and determine a frame to which image processing is to be applied based on the determined elapsed time and time intervals f set for specifying a frame to which the image processing is to be applied. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259622 | Determination of need to service a camera based on detection of blemishes in digital images - A method of automatically determining a need to service a digital image acquisition system including a digital camera with a lens assembly includes analyzing pixels within one or more acquired digital images according to probability determinations that such pixels correspond to blemish artifacts. It is automatically determined whether a threshold distribution of blemish artifacts is present within one or more of the digital images. A need for service is indicated when at least the threshold distribution is determined to be present. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259623 | Intelligent light source with synchronization with a digital camera - An intelligent light source for use with the test of a digital camera module provides a plurality of shapes of light. A fast light pulse is created with turn-on and turn-off transitions less than or equal to one microsecond. Other waveform shapes comprise a ramp and a sinusoid, and all shapes can be made to occur once or repetitively. The magnitude of the light has a range from 0.01 LUX to 1000 LUX, and the ramp has a ramp time that has a range from microseconds to 100 ms. The light comprises of a plurality of colors created by serial connected strings of LED devices, where the LED devices in a string emit the same color. The light emanating from the light source is calibrated using a photo diode and the control of a tester by adjusting offset voltages of a DAC controlling a current through the LED strings. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259624 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING VIDEO CAMERA - A method for calibrating the video camera includes: obtaining the internal and external parameters of the video camera according to a reference template; recording data of a reference object in the scene; obtaining images of the reference object from at least two perspectives; and obtaining the internal and external parameters of the video camera according to the recorded data of the reference object. An apparatus for calibrating the video camera includes: a preliminary calibration unit, configured to obtain the internal and external parameters of the video camera according to a reference template, and record the data of a reference object in the scene; a recalibration unit, configured to obtain images of the reference object from at least two perspectives, and obtain the internal and external parameters of the video camera according to the recorded data of the reference object. The invention is applicable to various scenes and features simple operations. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259625 | IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM USED FOR THE EVALUATION SYSTEM - Provided is an image quality evaluation system for evaluating quality of an image. The image quality evaluation system includes bit extraction means and image quality evaluation means. For predetermined data expressing an image frame of a first image, the bit extraction means extracts a predetermined number of bits which is smaller than the number of bits required for expressing one data piece. By using a value expressed by the bit string extracted by the bit extraction means and a value of data equivalent to the data to be extracted from the bit string in a second image, the image quality evaluation means estimates a difference between the first image and the second image and evaluates the image quality of the first to image or the second image. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION ARTIFACT REMOVAL IN MULTIPLE-EXPOSURE HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING - Methods and apparatuses for correcting image artifacts in a high dynamic range image formed by combining a plurality of exposures taken at different integration periods. A determination is made as to whether there is motion between the exposures. If motion is detected, pixel signal values chosen are replaced with pixel signal values from another exposure. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259627 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHOTOGRAPHING AND PROJECTING MOVING IMAGES - A digital cinematographic and projection process that automatically adjusts for object motion within motion pictures in order to eliminate blur while increasing perceived impact of fast motion. The process includes, capturing an image having static and moving elements at a first frame rate, analyzing the image for motion/velocity components to detect the fast moving elements, reducing the static elements to a second frame rate, the second frame rate being slower than the first frame rate and retaining the fast moving element at the first frame rate. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259628 | CAMERA - An image sensor having light-sensitive elements situated in rows and columns, a camera, and a camera system are provided. The image sensor has a repeating pattern including two adjacent rows, the first row having alternating light-sensitive elements having a blue filter and light-sensitive elements having a red filter, and the second row having light-sensitive elements having no blue filters and no red filters, i.e., no color filter. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259629 | CAMERA DEVICE FOR CAPTURING HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE BY USING LOW-PIXEL-NUMBER PHOTO SENSING ELEMENT - A camera device includes a lens module, a photo sensing element and a micro-electro-mechanical system mirror. The lens module is used for receiving an external light beam. The photo sensing element includes at least one pixel sensor with a first pixel number. The micro-electro-mechanical system mirror is used for reflecting the external light beam to the photo sensing element, thereby obtaining a digital image with a second pixel number. The micro-electro-mechanical system mirror is swung at different angles to receive the external light beam with different incidence angles, so that the second pixel number is higher than the first pixel number. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259630 | DEVICE FOR HELPING THE CAPTURE OF IMAGES - A device for helping the capture of images is disclosed that comprises:
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20100259631 | DATA COMPRESSION APPARATUS, DATA COMPRESSION PROGRAM AND IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS - In order to provide a data compression apparatus, a data compression program and an image-taking apparatus estimating the compression ratio and being adequate for reducing an operation time, a differential generation section that determines, for a series of numerical values of to-be-compressed data of a series of numerical values, a difference between numerical values adjacent to each other directly or with a given space therebetween, to generate new compressed data of a series of numerical values each representing the difference, a compression section that subjects the compressed data generated to compression processing, and an estimation section that determines a concentration degree indicating concentration of respective numerical values of the to-be-compressed data generated on a numerical value representing a difference “0”, and estimates a compression degree used when the compressed data is compressed by the compression section, such that the higher the concentration degree is, the higher the compression degree is. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259632 | WIDE ANGLE OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGING LENS DEVICE, MONITOR CAMERA, AND DIGITAL APPARATUS - Provided are a wide angle optical system having better optical performance, low in cost, and compact in size, an imaging lens device having the wide angle optical system, a monitor camera, and a digital apparatus. The wide angle optical system ( | 2010-10-14 |
20100259633 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a projector, a camera, a first storage, and a controller. The projector projects a projection image containing a first operation image onto a predetermined area. The camera shoots an image of a subject within the predetermined area. The controller detects an operation to the first operation image based on the shot image shot by the camera and controls the first storage to store at least the image of the subject out of the shot image when the operation is detected. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259634 | DIGITAL IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON THE METHOD - Provided are a digital image signal processing method including determining a saturation condition by comparing a delta between a plurality of pieces of image data of an input image exhibiting different color components with a standard for white scene recognition, determining a bright condition by using a distribution of grey levels of the input image, and determining that the input image is a white scene when the input image satisfies the saturation condition and the bright condition, and a digital image signal apparatus for executing the method, and a medium having recorded thereon the method. Thus, a white scene is quickly and accurately determined. And settings of the digital image signal processing apparatus can be properly set for capturing the white scene. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259635 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus according to the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input image, a conversion unit configured to convert the acquired input image to an output image, a detection unit configured to detect in the input image a pixel having a predetermined luminance, a calculation unit configured to calculate a position of an output image corresponding to a position of the detected pixel, and a display unit configured to display the output image on a screen. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259636 | EXPOSURE CONTROL FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE CAPTURE - A device and methods are provided for producing a high dynamic range (HDR) image of a scene are disclosed and claimed. In one embodiment, method includes setting an exposure period of an image sensor of the digital camera and capturing image data based on the exposure period. The method may further include checking the image data to determine whether the number of saturated pixels exceeds a saturation threshold and checking the image data to determine whether the number of cutoff pixels exceeds a cutoff threshold. The method may further include generating a high dynamic range image based on image data captured by the digital camera, wherein the high dynamic range image is generated based on a minimum number of images to capture a full dynamic range of the scene. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259637 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - A drive mode is switched after readout for one frame is completed, and the reset operation for the following frame is started. In this manner, the reset operation for the following frame will not be performed during the readout period for the preceding frame. Therefore, the accumulation period for the following frame can be made consistent in that frame. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259638 | IMAGING TERMINAL HAVING COLOR CORRECTION - There is provided an imaging terminal comprising a hybrid monochrome and color image sensor pixel array having a first subset of pixels provided by color pixels having color filter elements and a second subset of pixels provided by monochrome pixels without color filter elements. The terminal can be operative to capture a frame of image data including monochrome image data representative of light incident on the monochrome pixels and color image data representative of light incident on the color pixels. The terminal can be operative to activate a color correction processing module that utilizes the monochrome color image data. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259639 | AUTOMATIC BACKLIGHT DETECTION - In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving image data at an auto white balance module and generating auto white balance data. The method further includes detecting a backlight condition based on the auto white balance data. An apparatus to automatically detect a backlight condition is also disclosed. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259640 | DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An image capture device includes an image capture unit, a switching unit, a calculation unit, a comparison unit, and a display unit. The image capture unit captures consecutive images. The switching unit switches to a playback mode. The calculation unit calculates each of gradient values between adjacent pixels within each the image and cumulates a total value composed of the gradient values of the image. The comparison unit compares different total values corresponding to different images to determine the image having a maximum total value. The display unit displays the acquired image. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259641 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an imaging unit photographing images, a photographing location acquiring unit acquiring photographing locations corresponding to the images when the images are photographed by the imaging unit, a storage controlling unit storing the images sequentially photographed by the imaging unit into predetermined storage unit, a photographing location mark generating unit generating predetermined photographing location marks for showing the corresponding photographing locations in a map, and a controlling unit switching between a latitudinally-ordered display mode and a longitudinally-ordered display mode, the latitudinally-ordered display mode allowing the images to be read out of the storage unit and displayed in latitudinal order and the corresponding photographing location marks to be displayed in the map, the longitudinally-ordered display mode allowing the images to be read out of the storage unit and displayed in longitudinal order and the corresponding photographing location marks to be displayed in the map. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259642 | AUDIO-BASED ATTENTION GRABBER FOR IMAGING DEVICES - A digital imaging device such as a digital camera or a video camera may include the capability to store audio files. These audio files may be generated under user control when the user wishes to take a picture or capture video. The audio files may be played back as attention grabbers to attract the attention of the imaging subjects. After attracting the attention of the subjects by playing back a recorded audio sound, an image may be automatically captured. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259643 | AUDIO-BASED ATTENTION GRABBER FOR IMAGING DEVICES - A digital imaging device such as a digital camera or a video camera may include the capability to store audio files. These audio files may be generated under user control when the user wishes to take a picture or capture video. The audio files may be played back as attention grabbers to attract the attention of the imaging subjects. After attracting the attention of the subjects by playing back a recorded audio sound, an image may be automatically captured. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259644 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE INFORMATION - An apparatus and a method for processing image information are provided. The apparatus for processing image information includes an image capturing device and an image information server for receiving and storing an image captured by the image capturing device and adds information on the image capturing device and signature information to image data obtained by the image capturing device. Accordingly, the device information and the signature information can be added to the image data obtained by the image capturing device to maintain security of the image data and use the image data as digital proof when a specific event is generated. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259645 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STILL IMAGE CAPTURE FROM VIDEO FOOTAGE - A method of providing one or more snapshots extracted from video footage includes displaying a first image in a first display area. The first image is associated with a first capture time. The method also includes displaying a first plurality of preview images in a second display area. The first plurality of preview images are associated with times prior to the first capture time. The method further includes displaying a second plurality of preview images in a third display area. The second plurality of preview images are associated with times subsequent to the first capture time. Moreover, the method includes selecting at least one of the first image, one of the first plurality of preview images, or one of the second plurality of preview images and saving the selected image to a memory. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259646 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE AND CAMERA - A data transfer device transfers a data signal being digital in synchronization with a clock signal and includes a delay section, a measurement section, and a control section. The delay section controls a delay amount given to the data signal. The measurement section acquires an acquisition timing of the data signal output from the delay section using test data transmitted at least once prior to data communication and the clock signal. The control section determines the delay amount for the data signal during a period of data communication based on the acquisition timing or a stored timing. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259647 | PHOTOGRAPHIC EFFECT FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS - Systems and methods are disclosed for applying a photographic effect to a displayed image. An exemplary method may include detecting the presence of at least one face in the displayed image. The method may also include determining the region within which the at least one face is located in the displayed image. The method may also include applying a photographic effect based on the region within which the at least one face is located. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259648 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT ELEMENT - An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes: a lens array having a plurality of lenses; a plurality of image pickup regions ( | 2010-10-14 |
20100259649 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A photographing apparatus is provided, which includes: a correction data acquiring section that acquires correction data for image correction; a recording section that records the correction data acquired by the correction data acquiring section; a photographing condition acquiring section that acquires image photographing conditions; a retrieving section that retrieves the correction data, corresponding to the photographing conditions acquired by the photographing condition acquiring section, from the correction data recorded in the recording section; and a photographing section that photographs an image on the basis of the correction data retrieved by the retrieving section. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259650 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes an image data input unit that receives image data; a pixel extracting unit that extracts a pixel area including a pixel of interest to be processed and peripheral pixels located around the pixel of interest from the image data; a pixel group generator that generates a plurality of pixel groups by dividing pixels in the pixel area in accordance with a pixel value distribution in the pixel area; a pixel group similarity calculator that calculates a similarity between a pixel group and a pixel group including the pixel of interest for each pixel group as a pixel group similarity to be defined for pixels belonging to the pixel group in the pixel area; a pixel value similarity calculator that calculates a pixel value similarity of each pixel in the pixel area on the basis of a pixel value of the pixel of interest; a filter coefficient calculator that calculates filter coefficients to be applied to pixels in the pixel area on the basis of the pixel group similarity and the pixel value similarity; and a smoothing processing unit that performs a smoothing process on the pixel value of the pixel of interest on the basis of pixel values in the pixel area and the filter coefficients. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259651 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SINGLE IMAGE DE-HAZING - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for recovering a haze-free image given a single input image. The method may include receiving a single input image I, wherein the input image is made up of a plurality of pixels. A surface radiance vector J of the input image I may be modeled as a product of a surface albedo coefficient R and a shading factor l. The method may further include determining, for each of the plurality of pixels, a value of a transmission t of the pixel, such that a covariance C | 2010-10-14 |
20100259652 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - Edge components in a predetermined direction of a captured image are extracted to generate a waveform image representing the levels of the extracted edge components and the extracted positions. The waveform image is displayed with the captured image. For example, the operability and visibility for focusing in manual focusing can be improved. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259653 | METHOD FOR DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The resolution of a low-resolution image is made high and a stereoscopic image is displayed. Resolution is made high by super-resolution processing. In this case, the super-resolution processing is performed after edge enhancement processing is performed. Accordingly, a stereoscopic image with high resolution and high quality can be displayed. Alternatively, after image analysis processing is performed, edge enhancement processing and super-resolution processing are concurrently performed. Accordingly, processing time can be shortened. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259654 | IMAGE-DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image-data processing apparatus includes an operation unit; a correcting unit multiplying image data generated by an image pickup device by a correction gain; a totalizing unit sequentially calculating a total pixel level for every frame from the image data; a history holding unit holding the total pixel levels of a certain number; an in-phase averaging unit detecting the total pixel levels in phase with a flicker phase corresponding to the image data that is being supplied to the correcting unit from the held total pixel levels to calculate a first average of the detected total pixel levels; an average calculating unit calculating a second average of the held total pixel levels; and a correction gain calculating unit calculating the correction gain by dividing the first average by the second average to set the correction gain in the correcting unit. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259655 | IMAGING DEVICE - A high-precision imaging device implemented by minimizing the number of members interposed between imaging surfaces of imaging elements and minimizing the cumulative error between the imaging surfaces of the imaging elements. The imaging device comprises imaging elements each including pixels having a photoelectric conversion function and a support in which the imaging elements are mounted. The imaging elements are positioned in respective optical axis directions by abutting on the support. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259656 | Apparatus For Fluorescence Diagnosis - An apparatus for fluorescence diagnosis comprises an illumination system for illuminating a target area. The observation system has an observation instrument and a camera. The illumination system can be switched between at least two illumination modes. The observation system has an optical arrangement having at least one optical element that selectively can be introduced into the observation beam path or can be removed therefrom in order to switch the optical properties of the observation system between at least two observation modes. The optical arrangement of the observation system has a motor drive for introducing the at least one optical element into the observation beam path and for removing said element therefrom, and there is a control unit which is connected to the illumination system and to the observation system and which controls the motor drive as a function of the set illumination mode of the illumination system. | 2010-10-14 |
20100259657 | IMAGE SENSOR MODULE - An image sensor module is presented which includes a semiconductor chip, a holder and a coupling member. The semiconductor chip has a semiconductor chip body; an image sensing section over the semiconductor chip body; and bonding pads on the semiconductor chip body. The holder is mounted over the semiconductor chip and has an insulation section over the semiconductor chip body; connection patterns on the insulation section which are electrically coupled to the bonding pads; and a transparent cover over the image sensing section which is connected to the insulation section. The coupling member is interposed between the holder and the semiconductor chip for coupling together the holder to the semiconductor chip. | 2010-10-14 |