| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 396310000 | WITH DATA RECORDING | 28 |
| 20080226280 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS - An interchangeable lens which can communicate with a camera body to which the interchangeable lens is detachably attached to exchange data of the interchangeable lens, includes a logic IC serving as an interface via which the interchangeable lens communicates with the camera body; a memory which is provided independent of the logic IC, connected to the logic IC, and stores the data of the interchangeable lens; and a controller, connected to the logic IC, for controlling operations of the interchangeable lens. The logic IC selectively switches connections of terminals thereof with the memory and the controller for communication therewith upon receiving a communication signal from the camera body. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080240702 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED PHOTOGRAPH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A mobile device comprises a network communication system such as a wide area network mobile telephony system, a camera for capturing a digital photograph, and a photograph management application. The photograph management application receives the digital photograph, obtains an information record comprising information related to the digital photograph; and associates at least a portion of the information related to the digital photograph with the digital photograph. The information record may be obtained from local sources such as a contact directory or from a remote directory server. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080247744 | Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and program - An image capturing apparatus whose lens unit can be attached to and detached from a camera body section includes: an image-capturing signal processing section that generates an image signal by performing an image capturing process of subject light introduced via the lens unit; an attachment detecting section that generates a detection signal indicating whether or not the lens unit is attached to the camera body section; and a control section that determines whether or not the lens unit has been interchanged or detached and attached by using the detection signal, and performs a process of forming index data with respect to the image signal on the basis of a result of the determination. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080304818 | Method and apparatus for identifying interchangeable lenses - A description is given of a method for identifying interchangeable lenses ( | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090087176 | Data recording apparatus and camera - A data recording apparatus includes: a data recording device that records acquired data in a recording medium; a target data specifying device that specifies target data to which data processing is to be performed out of data recorded in the recording medium based on an instruction by a user; a recordable data number calculation device that calculates a number of the acquired data that will be able to be recorded in the recording medium by performing the data processing to the target data based on a remaining capacity of the recording medium and a content of processing of the data processing; a display control device that displays on a display device a result of the calculation by the recordable data number calculation device before the data processing is performed. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090175615 | LOCATION DETERMINATION METHOD - A storage medium having recorded therein a location determination program for causing a computer to execute the following steps: storing detection information including information on a detected object and the date and time on which the object was detected, and location information for that owner; determining a last detection date and time which represents the date and time on which the specified object was last detected based on the detection information; identifying an object that is owned by someone other than the owner of the object from among objects that were detected on the same date and time as the last detection date and time based on the last detection date and time as well as the detection information; and determining the location of the object based on the owner of the object. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090324211 | Method and Device for Geo-Tagging an Object Before or After Creation - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a process communicates with a location source to obtain location information. The process determines a location of an object at a time other than creation of the object based on the location information. The process associates the determined location with the object. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100080551 | Geotagging Photographs Using Annotations - Labels of elements in images may be compared to known elements to determine a region from which an image was created. Using this information, the approximate image position can be found, additional elements may be recognized, labels may be checked for accuracy and additional labels may be added. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100166409 | Electronic apparatus, image pickup apparatus, time-correcting method, and program - An electronic apparatus includes: a timer part that measures a time, a location information acquiring part that acquires location information, and a peripheral location calculating part where a location specified by the acquired location information is provided as a reference location and a location at a predetermined distance from the reference location is calculated as a peripheral location. The electronic apparatus also includes a time-difference acquiring part that acquires time differences depending on the reference location and the peripheral location. Furthermore, the electronic apparatus includes a determining part that determines whether the time correction should be performed based on the time differences depending on the reference location and the peripheral location, and a time-correcting part that corrects the time to a time based on the time difference between the reference location and the peripheral location depending on a result from the determination by the determining part. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100272426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PHOTOGRAPH LOCATION INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Descriptive location information is associated with and displayed with a photograph taken on a wireless communication device. The descriptive location information is derived from raw location data received from a global positioning system (GPS) receiver in the wireless communication device. The raw location data is cross-referenced with descriptive location information contained within, for example, look-up tables in a memory of the device. The descriptive location information describes the location where the image was taken, for example, a city, a landmark, a distance from a city or landmark, and is visible to a user on the image displayed on a screen of the wireless device or another device. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100284680 | DATA RECORDING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL CAMERA - Provided is a control section that, when created data is set to be recorded in both a first memory card and a second memory card and an amount of empty space in a writing buffer memory is less than or equal to a predetermined value, performs control to record the created data in only the first memory card and erases, from the buffer memory, data that has been recorded in the first memory card; and a transmission control section that, while a transmission path for image files from the first memory card to the second memory card is open, transmits to the second memory card, from among pieces of image data recorded in the first memory card, image files that are not recorded in the second memory card. When a memory card with a low communication speed is used, the effective recording speed is not decreased. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100316368 | CAMERA WITH SATELLITE POSITIONING SYSTEM - A camera includes a satellite positioning system. The camera comprises a camera lens ( | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110123187 | SATELLITE POSITIONING FOR CAMERAS - A method of receiving satellite signals for estimating the location of capture of a photograph by a camera. The method comprises receiving a signal relating to the timing of capture of the photograph; waiting for an interval of non-zero duration; and, after the interval, receiving the satellite signals. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110150452 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A positioning device including: a positioning unit that performs positioning of position information at each time when predetermined positioning conditions are met; a storage unit that stores position information of at least one specified position, in association with a category from among a plurality of types of categories; a position setting unit that sets a specified position from among specified positions stored in the storage unit; a region setting unit that sets a region of a size corresponding to a category to which the specified position set by the position setting unit belongs, in association with the specified position; a region determining unit that determines whether or not position information obtained by the positioning unit belongs to the region set by the region setting unit; and a positioning control unit that changes the positioning conditions of the positioning unit based on determination results determined by the region determining unit. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110249962 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a present date and time information obtaining device to obtain present date-time information at a time performing a present photographing operation, a last date-time information recording device to record last date-time information at a time performing a last photographing operation, an image number counting device to compare the present and last date-time information when performing the present photographing operation and to newly count a number of photographed subject images when the present date-time information is not within the predetermined period from the last date-time information and to continuously count the number of photographed subject images when the present date and time information is within the predetermined period from the last date-time information, and a displaying unit having an exit screen displayed when the imaging apparatus is turned off and to display the number of the photographed subject images on the exit screen. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110293260 | POSITIONAL INFORMATION RECORDER, IMAGING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND POSITIONAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - A positional information recorder includes a receiver configured to receive a wireless signal, an operation section configured to indicate a sign for recording positioning information, a positional information calculator configured to measure a geographical position based on the wireless signal and calculate positioning information according to the position, a positioning information recorder configured to record the calculated positioning information, a movement locus information calculator configured to calculate displacement information including a moving distance and a direction from a standard position, a relative positional information recorder configured to calculate relative positional information according to a relative position from the standard position by the displacement information when the positioning information is not obtained, and record the relative positional information associated with information according to the sign, and a positional information convertor configured to covert into positioning information the relative positional information already recorded in the relative positional information recorder when the positioning information is obtained. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120301127 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION FROM FILM SET DEVICES - Systems and methods are operable to acquire device information from film set devices used to film a media content event. An exemplary film production information acquisition device has at least a sensor device configured to sense an operation characteristic of a film set device, a film production information management system (IMS) communication interface configured to communicatively couple the film production information acquisition device to a film production information management system, and a processor system communicatively coupled to the film production IMS communication interface and the sensor device, and configured to process the sensed operation characteristic of the film set device into information that is communicated to the film production information management system. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130121678 | METHOD AND AUTOMATED LOCATION INFORMATION INPUT SYSTEM FOR CAMERA - A method and automated location information input system for camera comprising: a microprocessor is coupled to and receives location information from a GPS (Global Position System), or a GIS (Geographical Information System) via a network and or internet connection; the processor is also coupled to a display device and a photograph imaging device. The microprocessor is capable of displaying location information and processing information edited by a user via the display device with touch screen keyboard or a keyboard, and capable of transferring location information displayed on the display device to the photograph imaging device which is capable of adding location information to photograph images when photographs are taken and stored in a photographic storing medium. | 05-16-2013 |
| 396311000 | Data for control of subsequent processing of film | 2 |
| 20080292300 | Method, Apparatus and Software for Processing Photographic Image Data Using a Photographic Recording Medium - The present invention relates to a method, apparatus or software for processing photographic image data using a photographic recording medium arranged for capturing successive optical images in a series of discrete frames. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090190914 | Triggering Data Capture Based on Pointing Direction - Methods and apparatus for triggering directional data capture based on pointing direction are described. In an embodiment, the data captured is an image and a camera is described which includes a sensor for detecting the direction in which the image sensor of the camera is pointing. When the sensed pointing direction is one in which a worthwhile image is likely to be taken, the camera is triggered to capture a new image. The determination of when to capture a new image uses a metric based on the sensed direction and one or more specified trigger conditions. | 07-30-2009 |
| 396312000 | Sound | 4 |
| 20090304376 | Digital Camera Having Printhead And Magnetic Recorder - A digital camera is provided having a photo width printhead for printing digital images on a printing surface of magnetically sensitive print media, and a magnetic recorder for recording information associated with the digital images on a magnetic recording surface of the print media at the same time as the printhead prints the associated digital image onto the printing surface. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100202768 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a present date and time information obtaining device to obtain present date-time information at a time performing a present photographing operation, a last date-time information recording device to record last date-time information at a time performing a last photographing operation, an image number counting device to compare the present and last date-time information when performing the present photographing operation and to newly count a number of photographed subject images when the present date-time information is not within the predetermined period from the last date-time information and to continuously count the number of photographed subject images when the present date and time information is within the predetermined period from the last date-time information, and a displaying unit having an exit screen displayed when the imaging apparatus is turned off and to display the number of the photographed subject images on the exit screen. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20120308220 | CAMERA BODY AND INTERCHANGEABLE LENS MOUNTABLE TO THE CAMERA BODY - A camera body to which an interchangeable lens capable of changing zoom magnification is mountable. The camera body includes a sound pickup section that picks up sounds to generate audio data and a sound processor that changes settings relating to directionality of the sound pickup section in conjunction with the zoom magnification of the interchangeable lens. When the interchangeable lens is positioned to provide the minimum magnification of zoom, the sound processor sets the directionality of the sound pickup section to a directionality by which sounds in the widest region can be picked up based on the zoom range information. When the interchangeable lens is positioned to provide the maximum magnification of zoom, the sound processor sets the directionality of the sound pickup section to a directionality by which sounds in the narrowest region can be picked up based on the zoom range information. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130230307 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS - A control unit controls a driving unit to drive an optical system in a first driving mode and controls a sound processing unit to process a sound signal in a first noise reduction processing mode in the case where a level of the sound signal obtained by a sound obtaining unit is lower than a predetermined level. The control unit controls the driving unit to drive the optical system in a second driving mode with a longer driving time than the first driving mode and controls the sound processing unit not to process the sound signal in the first noise reduction processing mode in the case where the level of the sound signal obtained by the sound obtaining unit is equal to or higher than the predetermined level. | 09-05-2013 |
| 396315000 | Optical | 1 |
| 20180021987 | IMPRINT TEMPLATE, DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION DEVICE | 01-25-2018 |
| 396319000 | Magnetically on film or film cassette | 1 |
| 20100254694 | DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUS PRINTING AND MAGNETIC RECORDING - A digital camera system includes a print medium having a printing area and a magnetically-sensitive area, and a digital camera. The digital camera includes a photo-width printhead for printing digital images on the printing area of the print medium, and a magnetic recorder for recording information associated with the digital images on the magnetically-sensitive area of the print medium at the same time as the printhead prints the associated digital images onto the printing area. | 10-07-2010 |
| 396321000 | Removable semiconductor memory | 2 |
| 20080317456 | System and method for inputting position information in captured image - A system and method for connecting a global positioning system (GPS) device with a digital image processing device and inputting position information into an image file captured by the digital image processing device. A system and method for inputting position information into a captured image employ a digital image processing device which generates an image file by capturing an image, and stores the image file, a GPS device which receives position information from a GPS satellite at regular time intervals; when the digital image processing device is connected with the GPS device, a GPS information storage unit which receives position information from the GPS device and stores the position information, and a GPS information input control unit which inputs position information excluding a timestamp, into an image file. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090136226 | Camera with photo tracklog producing function and method for producing photo tracklog - A camera with a photo tracklog producing function includes an image recording module used to take digital images; a GPS (Global Positioning System) module used to receive order sequence of positioning data coordinating the measurements of GPS as GPS tracklogs; a processor unit which writes the positioning data in the format for digital images and combines digital images with the GPS tracklogs to produce the corresponding photo tracklog. Users can recognize the traveling track by reviewing the photo tracklogs. The photo tracklogs also show information of the digital images taken along the traveling track. Furthermore, the invention provides a method for producing photo tracklogs. | 05-28-2009 |
