| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 386117000 | Including television camera | 45 |
| 20080232778 | Method and system for media production in virtual studio - A media production system for a virtual studio includes a storage unit to store multiple lots of AV data, a shooting unit to retrieve continuous AV data of a shooting object without relying upon any straight color screen to retrieve the shooting object and the screen in straight color, an image composition unit to automatically compose those continuous AV data and a lot of target AV data to create and automatically store in the storage unit a lot of audio data and a virtual picture adapted to the lot of audio data, and an output unit to output audio data and virtual picture. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232779 | IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - In an image taking apparatus, when a sound detecting mode is selected, a sound from the object side is picked up by a microphone at the time of shooting and the volume of the sound is recorded by being associated with the shot image. At the time of reproduction, images each having a sound of not less than a certain volume are displayed. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232780 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A camera system consists of a primary digital camera and at least a secondary digital camera. When a shutter button of the primary digital camera is operated after it is set up with conditions for successive shots, the primary digital camera produces a composite sound signal by encoding data of the set conditions for successive shots and superimposing the encoded data on a sound signal, and outputs the composite sound signal through a speaker. The secondary digital camera catches the composite sound signal through a microphone, and decodes the composite sound signal to detect the data of the set conditions for successive shots. According to the set conditions for successive shots, the primary and secondary cameras execute a synchronized successive shot process. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090003801 | Method and system for optical characterization of optical crystallization - Systems and methods for optical characterization of crystallization processes, especially SLS crystallization processes, are disclosed. A substrate is illuminated with light and images are acquired by image acquisition means. The images of the processed areas are fed to a control system. The control system works color selectively by either using color selective image processing of color images or by the use of colored light and black and white image acquisition means. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090022479 | Content recording apparatus - A content recording apparatus ( | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090028527 | AUDIO/VIDEO (A/V) APPARATUS AND METHOD TO DISPLAY DEVICE INFORMATION - An audio/video (AN) apparatus to display device information and a method thereof. The AN apparatus includes a manipulator to input an output command for device information in a standby mode, and a controller to control displaying the device information including remaining memory capacity information in the standby mode when the output command is input through the manipulator. Accordingly, a user can easily check the device information regardless of a power state, unnecessary booting time can be reduced, and the device information can be easily checked using a single button. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028528 | AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SIGNALS - A camera configured to generate audio/video signals, the camera including a recording unit configured to record the audio/video signals on a recording medium, a meta data generation processor configured to generate automatically meta data identifying the content of the audio/video signals in response to the audio/video signals, a wireless communications processor configured to communicate the meta data separately from the recording medium, and a communications interface configured to communicate the automatically generated meta data to a personal data processing apparatus and to receive user generated meta data from the personal data processing apparatus. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090041431 | Imaging Apparatus and Method for Controlling the Same - In an imaging apparatus that records shot video on a first recording medium, extracts a frame image of a desired frame of the shot video recorded on the first recording medium, and records the frame image on a second recording medium and a method for controlling the imaging apparatus, a frame image of a specified frame in the shot video is reproduced and displayed from the first recording medium and, a crop outline of a size selected through an external operation is displayed on the frame image, and the image portion enclosed in the crop outline of the frame image is recorded on the second recording medium. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090060464 | HANDHELD VIDEO PLAYBACK DEVICE - A portable, handheld video playback device for blending personal photographs into a variety of types of video content, and a method of making and using such as device. Generally, a user may be able to capture a facial image using an on-board image capture device. Using an interface of the video playback device, the user may insert the facial images into a variety of types of video content. Each piece of video content may be accompanied by an audible element. A video playback device may include a camera for capturing images, video content, memory for storing the captured images and video content, a processor for combining the captured images and video content, and a video screen for playing back the combined captured images and video content. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090060465 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND AUXILIARY RECORDING MEDIUM UNIT - An imaging apparatus includes an apparatus main body and an auxiliary recording medium unit. The apparatus main body includes a main-body-side recording and reproducing unit that houses a main recording medium and a mounting section in which a first main-body-side terminal section, to which an auxiliary recording medium unit that houses an auxiliary recording medium is connected, and a second main-body-side terminal section branched from a signal line identical with that of the main-body-side terminal section are provided. The auxiliary recording medium unit includes a unit-side recording and reproducing unit that houses an auxiliary recording medium, a unit-side terminal section connected to the first main-body-side terminal section, and an operation unit for operating the unit-side recording and reproducing unit. The auxiliary recording medium unit is detachably mountable on the mounting section. When the auxiliary recording medium unit is mounted on the mounting section, the second main-body-side terminal section is closed. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090067815 | Image playback apparatus, image recording apparatus, image playback method, and image recording method - An image playback apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image content including still images and movies and photographing information involved in photographing a subject to create the image content, an image classifying unit configured to classify the image content into a plurality of image groups on the basis of the photographing information, and an image playback unit configured to organize all still images belonging to one of the image groups into a still-image slideshow and successively playing back one or a plurality of movies belonging to the one image group and the still-image slideshow. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090103898 | CONTENT SHOOTING APPARATUS - In a content shooting apparatus (Acc) for recording content data (Sav) containing video, audio, or data onto an information recording medium ( | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090110372 | CONTENT SHOOTING APPARATUS - A content shooting apparatus is provided, in which thresholds for generating metadata concerning shot images can be calibrated in accordance with shooting conditions. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090129753 | DIGITAL PRESENTATION APPARATUS AND METHODS - An apparatus and method is provided for displaying components of a performance. The apparatus includes a computer and a time code generator in communication with the computer and selectively controlled by the computer to generate a time code signal. The system further comprises a digital video recorder with at least one output channel that each have respective video and audio outputs. The digital video recorder is in operable communication with the time code generator and responsive to the time code signal to output at least a portion of a first video component and a corresponding first audio component of the performance synchronized to the time code signal to a respective first video display and first audio amplifier. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090136210 | Image Capturing Apparatus and Recording Method - When setting of marking on recording data is performed, the marking is automatically performed at a suitable position corresponding to a status during image capturing. While recording of captured images is being performed, a status of a zoom operation, a moving pattern of a camera, and a feature value of video/audio signals are monitored, and a time point at which a predetermined change has occurred regarding this monitored state is detected. A predetermined data position based on this detected time point is then set as a marking position. Setting information of the marking position is stored in a structure of management information, and is stored in a storage section together with the recording data. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090136211 | RECORDING APPARATUS, VIDEO CAMERA AND POSITION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to an embodiment of the invention, position information of a place shooting a video is embedded in an audio signal with a simple configuration. When user reproduces the video, the shooting place is readily acquired from a reproduced sound of the audio signal based on the position information of the shooting place via Internet. Therefore, an apparatus having general purpose is provided. A recording/reproducing apparatus includes a global positioning system module (hereinafter, referred to as GPS module), an orthogonal frequency modulation module (hereinafter, referred to as OFDM module) multiplexing position information from the GPS module to an audio signal from a microphone, and a recording/reproducing module recording an output audio data from the OFDM module and a video data from a camera module to a recording medium. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090136212 | SELF CONTAINED PROJECTION MODULE SUITABLE FOR RETAIL AND METHOD - A self contained projection module, combines content with projection capability for audio and video in a single compact unit. The module adapts cell phone photography equipment with small scale projection systems into a compact portable unit. The module combines a rechargeable battery, digital disc media, digital memory module, flash memory storage, pico-projection, and wireless connectivity among other components. The controls of the present invention have a convenient location and simplicity of use. The controls include an LCD screen, power button, and an antenna for communication with remote controls, generally in the infra red. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090162030 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes an input unit to which moving picture data is input, a memory, a management-information processing unit configured to generate management information related to a position of a predetermined picture in the moving picture data and to store the information in the memory, a recording unit configured to create a moving picture file and a clip information file on a recording medium, to record the moving picture data on the medium by storing the data in the moving picture file, and to record the management information on the medium by storing the information in the clip information file, and a control unit configured to control the recording unit so that, when a size of the stored information reaches a predetermined size during recording of the moving picture file, the recording unit stops recording and records the data by storing the data in a new moving picture file. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090162031 | Recording and Reproducing Apparatus - To provide a recording and reproducing apparatus capable of storing AV data reliably during recording and capable of reading the AV data reliably during reproducing even when the communication state between the video camera and a network is bad, the recording and reproducing apparatus neither failing to record nor reproduce AV data, the recording and reproducing apparatus improving the recording reliability and reproduction reliability of AV data. With a unit for determining whether the communication state is good or bad, the recording and reproducing reliability is improved by carrying out recording and reproducing of AV data to a hard disk of the recording and reproducing apparatus by utilizing a built-in hard disk when the communication state is bad. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090185792 | DIGITAL VIDEO CAMCORDER WITH WIRELESS TRANSMISSION BUILT-IN - In general, a digital video player and recorder (camcorder) is described that may include a Wi-Fi module, a soft phone client application, and an antenna. An antenna connects to the Wi-Fi module to transmit and receive a compressed digital video signal wirelessly as radio frequency waves at transmitted frequencies and data rates established by the Wi-Fi standard to and from a Wi-Fi enabled router base station and then to a server of an instant messaging communication system that uses the Internet and then to another computing device capable of displaying video files. The soft phone client application resident on the digital video player and recorder has code to facilitate making phone calls over the internet by breaking audio and video data into packets, formatting the packets into compliance with the instant messaging communication system, encoding the server's IP address into the packets, and specially marking the packets that contain video data. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090196579 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An image capture device includes a first clock generating unit that generates a first clock for sampling a video signal using a first crystal oscillator, a second clock generating unit that generates a second clock for sampling an audio signal using a second crystal oscillator, a calculating unit that calculates a correction value for adjusting a shift between the first clock and the second clock, and an adjusting unit that adjusts a driving timing of a capturing unit according to the correction value. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090232480 | ADAPTIVE VIDEO ENCODE SCALING - A mobile video terminal includes a video camera to supply video signals; processing logic to selectively encode the video signals from the video camera at different quality levels; a memory to store the video signals encoded by the processing logic; and a power supply to supply power for the mobile video terminal, where the processing logic is further configured to automatically alter the encoding of the video signals from the video camera based on a condition of at least one of the memory, the power supply, or the processing logic. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090238542 | CAPTURING EVENT INFORMATION USING A DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA - An event aware video system (EAVS) is to capture video frames during a first time period and process event portion of the video frames before transferring the processed data to a central computing system. The EAVS may establish a present no-event frame from the video frames, wherein a last frame of the video frames is marked as the present no-event frame if the difference between adjacent pair of frames of the video frames is less than a threshold value. The EVAS may establish an event frame, wherein a present frame captured after establishing the no-event frame is marked as the event frame if the difference between the present frame and a previous frame captured prior to the present frame is greater than the threshold value. The EAVS may generate the processed data by processing the event of the event frame. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090269039 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - According to the present invention, even in the case where an external recording apparatus is designed to be small and capable of being connected to various types of video equipment and is equipped with various types of operation units, an alarm display section, and so on, if the external recording apparatus is connected to a main apparatus, a menu for the external recording apparatus is provided to the main apparatus to accept a setting for the external recording apparatus with the main apparatus. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090285565 | Recording controlling device, recording controlling method, program used therein and recording device - A recording controlling device includes a display controlling unit configured to display moving image data delayed using a delay circuit on a first display unit and a recording controlling unit configured to record the moving image data delayed using the delay circuit on a recording medium in accordance with an operation instruction given on the basis of content displayed on the first display unit. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100003016 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit and a control unit. The transmitting unit transmits a video data to an external apparatus via a first transmission line. The receiving unit receives a command from the external apparatus via a second transmission line. The control unit controls the transmitting unit and the receiving unit in accordance with a command that is received by the receiving unit via the second transmission line. The control unit disables the transmitting unit before a predetermined period of time elapses, if a power off command is received by the receiving unit via the second transmission line, the power off command being used to change the communication apparatus to a power off state, and wherein the control unit disables the receiving unit after the predetermined period of time elapses. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100008649 | INFORMATION RECORD/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION RECORD/PLAYBACK METHOD - A hybrid video camera with a built-in hard drive and optical disk drive plus removable media read/write unit is disclosed. The video camera has a face detection function, which is used to split a video stream of a scene shot at the position of a frame containing no human face images, thereby realizing automatic scene-split dubbing without impairing the scene continuity. With this feature, it is possible, when watching a home video movie, to avoid sudden stop of playback of the scene otherwise occurring due to improper splitting of the scene at its run-on part during dubbing by letting the scene be dividedly recorded on a plurality of disks. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100014839 | LIGHTING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COOLING OF A LIGHT SOURCE - The present invention relates to a lighting assembly ( | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100014840 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method - An information processing apparatus includes a viewer information input unit that receives input of information about a viewer viewing reproduced program content as viewer information by watching video displayed on a monitor or listening to a voice output from a speaker, an upsurge degree acquisition unit that acquires a degree of upsurge of the viewer based on the viewer information whose input is received by the viewer information input unit, and a highlight extraction unit that extracts highlights of the program content based on the degree of upsurge acquired by the upsurge degree acquisition unit. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100014841 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS, VIDEO RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A video recording apparatus optimally records partial images made up of a partial area from an original image and containing a feature point such as person's face. An imaging unit acquires the original image by imaging at a resolution higher than the pixel count used for video recording. A feature point detector detects one or more feature points from the original image. A partial image clipper clips, from the original image, a partial image containing a feature point selected by the user. An encoder encodes the clipped partial image. A recording unit then records the encoded partial image to a recording medium. In so doing, the user is able to select a recording subject from a summary of detected feature points before or during video recording, and thus record a desired face. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100014842 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING AND PROCESING IMAGE DATA IN A VEHICLE - A recording device for capturing and processing image data in a vehicle is proposed. The recording device comprises an optical image generating sensor and an image processor for processing image data and a communication processor for bidirectional communication with the vehicle. The image data and additional vehicle data is imaged into the data structure of the vehicle bus system together as mixed data. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100034521 | IMAGING DEVICE - A imaging device ( | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100074597 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus comprising: a foreign substance information acquisition unit which acquires, from input moving image data, foreign substance information containing a position and size of a foreign substance adhering to an optical element arranged in front of an image sensor in an image capturing apparatus that captures the moving image data; a motion vector information acquisition unit which acquires, from the moving image data, a motion vector of a macroblock obtained by dividing the moving image data; a correction playback unit which corrects deterioration of image quality caused by the foreign substance, based on the foreign substance information, and plays back moving image data; and a determination unit which determines, based on a motion vector of a macroblock matching the position of the foreign substance in the moving image data to be played back, whether to perform foreign substance correction playback of the macroblock. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100135643 | STREAMING NON-CONTINUOUS VIDEO DATA - A method and apparatus for providing a plurality of sequential image data samples for display, is disclosed. A first one of the image data samples is accessed and then a second one of the image data samples is accessed. The first and second image data samples may then be provided for display, where one or more further data samples are provided in the event that the first and second image data samples are not contiguous. These further data samples indicate that image data samples are not available between the first and second image data samples. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100195987 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND POWER SUPPLY FOR OPTICAL RECORDING DEVICES - A camera system includes a video camera having a first mating mechanism defined on a bottom, planar surface of the video camera. A battery assembly contains an energy cell and a first surface of the battery assembly is releasably engageable with the mounting mechanism such that the battery assembly is suspended beneath the video camera, with the bottom, planar surface of the video camera in substantial contact with the first surface. A support apparatus having a second mating mechanism is also provided, the second mating mechanism releasably engaging a second surface of the battery assembly. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100209078 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An imaging apparatus selectively recording an image taken by itself or at least one other apparatus is disclosed. A digital video camera selects between an image taken by a camera block ( | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100215348 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - To more flexibly reproduce moving image data obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition. For example, moving image data, which has been obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition, is stored in a recording portion. When the moving image data is reproduced from the recording portion, a single frame is selected and output by a reproduced frame selecting portion for each period of a single frame of display output. If a user operation instructing to make the displayed image darker, in response to this user operation, a frame having an exposure condition of underexposure is selected and output from the moving image data to be reproduced from the recording portion for each period of a single frame of display output. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100215349 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image at predetermined intervals and outputs image data sequentially; and a file generation unit that records a plurality of pieces of moving image data with different pixel decimation factors from the image data, which are moving image data being generated from the image data as a common source, and information indicating a correspondence relation between a reproduction time of moving image data and moving image data to be reproduced and displayed. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100239234 | PERIODIC SIGNAL DELAY APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate to delay a periodic input signal in one or more delay elements of a group of delay elements to generate a periodic output signal and to vary a power supply to the delay elements. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100247081 | Karaoke Jukebox With Multiplatform Recording Video Projector and Wireless Connectivity - The invention comprises a piece of furniture ( | 09-30-2010 |
| 386118000 | Housing or mounting | 1 |
| 20090060466 | CAMCORDER WITH A DISPLAY - A camcorder has a main body, a lens, which is provided on a front surface portion of the main body, and a display unit having a display screen, which displays incoming images from the lens. A first surface of a rear surface portion of the main body faces the display unit and is concave toward the front surface portion of the main body. A second surface of the display unit faces the first surface. The second surface is convex toward the front surface portion of the main body corresponding to the first surface. The first surface slidably moves the display unit with respect to the second surface. | 03-05-2009 |
| 386119000 | Synchronizing | 1 |
| 20090136213 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING VIDEO DATA | 05-28-2009 |
| 386120000 | Selective mode (e.g., still or motion) | 3 |
| 20090103899 | DYNAMIC MEDIA PROXIES BASED ON TIME AND USAGE PATTERNS - A system obtains an item of digital media having a first quantity of data, where the item of digital media includes one of image, video or audio media. The system stores the item of digital media in a first memory and decreases the item of digital media to a second quantity of data to produce a first media proxy based on a first amount of time that has elapsed since the item of digital media was stored in the first memory, where the second quantity is less than the first quantity. The system stores the first media proxy in the first memory. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090116820 | VIDEO RECORDING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A video recording method used for a video recording apparatus which enables recording of both moving and still pictures on a recording medium, including: recording moving pictures encoded by a first encoding method, recording first still pictures encoded by a second encoding method which is different from the first encoding method, and recording second still pictures encoded by the first encoding method by which moving pictures are encoded, whereby a video reproducing apparatus enabled for decoding moving pictures encoded by the first encoding method, but which is not enabled for decoding still pictures encoded by the second encoding method, can decode the second still pictures recorded on the recording medium. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100135644 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the photographing apparatus for restricting bandwidth use of a memory in the photographing apparatus when a still image is captured during recording a motion picture. The method including outputting image data from an imaging device; interpolating the image data and storing the result as motion picture data in a memory; encoding the motion picture data in the memory; determining if a request to take a still image is received; when a request for a still image is received, substantially stopping the encoding of the motion picture data in the memory while continuing the outputting, interpolating and storing, and storing the image data in the memory as the still image; and after storing the still image is complete, restarting the encoding of the motion picture data in the memory. | 06-03-2010 |
