16th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 45 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100097389 | Image processing method - An image processing method which determines and depth-unfolds a depth folding region in an input depth image. A depth folding region of an input depth image may be determined based on a variance of the input depth image, a gradient image, and the like. A predetermined first depth value may be added to a depth value of each pixel of the determined depth folding region and depth information of the input depth image may be updated. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097390 | Methods And Devices For Processing A Raster Image - A raster image process method and device, for solving an issue existed in the current technique that it is unable to distinguish between the white color filled in a raster image when constructing the raster image and the white color in an image object of a page description filled in the raster image afterwards. The method includes: the raster image is constructed and the white color is filled in the raster image; a process of changing a color for the white color in an image object described in a page is carried out, and the image object is filled into the raster image. Thereby the white color filled in the raster image when constructing the raster image and the white color in an image object of a page description filled in the raster image afterwards can be distinguished. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097391 | TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING FLASH MODE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE APPARATUS - A touch screen display apparatus includes a panel including a light emitting device for displaying a display image and an optical sensor for generating a touch image object; a touch sensing unit on the panel for sensing a touch of a touch object; and a light emission controller for controlling the light emitting device to emit light when a touch of the touch object is sensed by the touch sensing unit. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097392 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An image display device includes an image extracting unit that extracts one or more representative images satisfying a predetermined condition from a series of images captured in time-series; and a display unit that displays the one or more representative images extracted by the image extracting unit in a list and displays information of an image not extracted by the image extracting unit. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097393 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus adapted to generate image data for controlling a first light modulation section adapted to project a first window, and image data for controlling a second light modulation section adapted to project a second window smaller than the first window and projected so as to overlap with the first window, includes: a first image conversion section adapted to convert a resolution of input image data in accordance a resolution of the first light modulation section to form the image data for controlling the first light modulation section; and a second image conversion section adapted to extract data included in a range corresponding to a resolution of the second light modulation section among the input image data to form the image data for controlling the second light modulation section. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097394 | METHOD FOR CLEARING BLUR IMAGES OF A MONITOR - A method for clearing blur images of a monitor is disclosed. An original image data is provided. The original image data is transformed from an RGB encoded format to a YUV encoded format. The transformation is compressed as the original image data with the YUV encoded format. The compressed original image data is written in a random access memory (RAM) using a predefined method. The compressed original image data is decompressed. The original image data is transformed from the YUV encoded format to the RGB encoded format. The original image data is outputted to a display device using a driving unit. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING AN AVATAR - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an avatar engine having a controller to retrieve a user profile, present a user an avatar having characteristics that correlate to the user profile, detect a change in a developmental growth of the user, adapt a portion of the characteristics of the avatar responsive to the detected change, and present the user the adapted avatar. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097396 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a first receiving unit which receives a first image data and an auxiliary information for receiving a second image data forming an improved image in cooperation with the first image data; a second receiving unit which receives the second image data; an image processing unit which generates an image; and a controller which controls the second receiving unit to receive the second image data based on the auxiliary information and controls the image processing unit to generate the improved image based on the first image data and the second image data. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097397 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PHOTOS MERGING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a method for merging photos to obtain a merged photo using an electronic device captures at least one portrait photo using a camera module of the electronic device and edits the at least one portrait photo to obtain at least one cropped photo. The electronic device and the method for merges the selected cropped photo with the captured scenic photo to obtain a merged photo. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097398 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING-IMAGE PLAYING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - To allow a viewer to easily understand the details of a moving image shot by an image capturing apparatus in the case where the moving image is browsed. A camerawork detecting unit | 2010-04-22 |
20100097399 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING OF LABELS - A method for rendering static labels in a mobile device in applications such as map applications. Panning increments are received for panning a previously rendered frame to a panned frame and a rendering region is defined based on the panning increments. Ones of the labels that overlap the region and that overlap with the panned frame by a threshold amount are determined. Geometry that overlaps the rendering region is rendered and a portion of the previously rendered frame is copied. The ones of the labels are rendered to provide the panned frame. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097400 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PAGE DISPLAY MANNER, MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A method for adjusting a page display manner, a mobile electronic device, and a storage medium thereof are provided. In the present method, a scaling signal is first received. Then, a display ratio of a page in a touch screen is adjusted according to a variation of the scaling signal. If the display ratio is smaller than or equal to a specific ratio, the page is adjusted according to the display ratio and other open pages are displayed along with the page on the screen. Thereby, a user can resize the page, inspect all the open pages, and switch between all the open pages simply through the touch screen. As a result, it is made very convenient to browse multiple pages by using the mobile electronic device. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097401 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device includes an image input section receiving the input of an image, an image converter generating a converted image by magnifying or reducing the image, the input of which is received by the image input section, based on a predetermined conversion magnification, a small moving object probe specifying a small moving object area, which is an image area including a small moving object, in the image, the input of which is received by the image input section, a small moving object area converter generating a magnified image of the small moving object by magnifying the small moving object area, which is specified by the small moving object probe, and an image generator generating a synthetic image by synthesizing the magnified image of the small moving object generated by the small moving object area converter with the converted image generated by the image converter. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097402 | MAP DATA COMPARISON DEVICE - A map data comparison device by which a plurality of map data is presented including: a first retrieval member which retrieves a first map data; a second retrieval member which retrieves a second map data; a display member which displays the first map data and the second map data in the vicinity of each other; an operation member by which a first display status of either of the first map data or the second map data is operated; and a follow-processing member which changes a second display status of the other one of the first map data or the second map data so as to follow the operation of the operation member. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097403 | INPUT SHORTCUTS FOR A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A method of inputting an electronic address into an address field on a communications device, the electronic address including a plurality of text characters and non-text symbol characters. The method includes: receiving a plurality of inputs for the address field through a user input interface of the device; adding text characters to the address field corresponding to the inputs; and detecting among the inputs repetitive successive inputs of a predetermined delimiter, selecting a non-text symbol character from a set of non-text symbol characters in dependence on a number of times the delimiter has been repetitively input without any intervening inputs, and adding the selected non-text symbol character to the address field. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097404 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - There is provided a display control method capable of reducing unnecessary processing and unnecessary power consumption caused by is. The display control method uses an update judgment unit ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100097405 | COLOR GAMUT MAPPING METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA EQUIPMENT, A TELEVISION AND A COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - A color gamut mapping method for multimedia equipment is disclosed. This method performs color gamut mapping on a video signal received by the multimedia equipment and gives an output, wherein the video signal is in a first color color gamut while display light of the multimedia equipment is in a second color gamut. The color gamut mapping method for multimedia equipment comprises the steps of: converting the received video signal into a luminance signal and a chrominance signal, and calculating a two-dimensional plane according to the luminance signal and the chrominance signal, wherein the two-dimensional plane intersects the first color gamut to obtain a first region and intersects the second color gamut to obtain a second region; calculating location of a to-be-mapped point corresponding to the video signal in the first region according to the luminance signal and the chrominance signal of the video signal, and calculating a mapping point in the second region by making calculations on the to-be-mapped point to output a mapping point signal. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097406 | Color generation using multiple illuminant types - A system for generating a colored light comprises a set of illuminant types and a processor. The set of illuminant types is associated with a chromaticity gamut, and the set of illuminant types comprises at least five illuminant types that are each associated an illuminant type hue angle. The processor is configured to determine, based at least in part on a mapping, an output level set for a received color coordinate. The mapping comprises associating each color coordinate with an output level set that uses a set of hue-adjacent illuminant types. Hue-adjacent illuminant types comprise a group of illuminant types that are determined to be adjacent in a circular ordered list of illuminant types that is circularly ordered according to the illuminant type hue angle. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097407 | Color generation change using multiple illuminant types - A system for generating a colored light comprises a set of illuminant types and a processor. The set of illuminant types is associated with a chromaticity gamut, and the set of illuminant types comprises at least five illuminant types that are each associated with an illuminant type hue angle. The processor is configured to determine, based at least in part on a mapping, a sequence of one or more output level sets that are associated with changing a first generated colored light associated with a first color coordinate to a second generated colored light associated with a second color coordinate. The mapping comprises associating each color coordinate with an output level set that uses a set of hue-adjacent illuminant types. Hue-adjacent illuminant types comprise a group of illuminant types that are determined to be adjacent in a circular ordered list of illuminant types which is circularly ordered according to the illuminant type hue angle. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097408 | AMBIENT LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE - This invention relates to an ambient lighting system for a display device including an image display region. Controllable light sources that are substantial point-like and disposed in an array are provided, each being adapted to emit a light beam of at least one wavelength onto an region visually appearing to the viewer peripherally surrounding the display. An image analyzer determines the color information from video data of the displayed image, the color information being used as a control parameter for controlling the emission color of the emitted light beams. Due to the substantial point-like property of the light sources along with their arrangement within the array the emitted light beams onto the region forms a pixelated image so as to provide at least a partial extension of the image display region. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097409 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device is provided with a display section; a drive section driving the display section; and a light shutter control section controlling a light shutter. The display section is configured to display first and second images on the display section during a specific period. The drive section is configured to allow perceiving an image only from a direction in a specific viewing angle range at least during the specific period. The light shutter control section controls the light shutter so that the light shutter is placed into a transmitting state allowing transmitting light during a period during which the first image is displayed in the specific period and placed into a shielding state shielding light during a remaining period in the specific period. The first and second images are generated so that an image generated by adding brightnesses of respective pixels of the first and second images has no correlation to the first image. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097410 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display device having a scanning line, a data line, a power supply line, and a pixel. The pixel having a first transistor supplied with a selecting pulse of a scanning signal, a holding capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode that holds an image signal from the data line and the first thin film transistor. The pixel also having a second transistor controlled by the image signal, a gate of the second transistor being electrically connected to the second electrode, and a luminescent element provided between a pixel electrode and an opposite electrode opposed to the pixel electrode driven by current that flows between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. A potential of the gate electrode of the second transistor being able to be shifted by supplying to the first electrode of the holding capacitor with a predetermined signal after the selecting pulse becomes non-selective. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097411 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device and a method for manufacturing the display device are provided. The display device includes an organic layer on an auxiliary wiring is removed with high precision by one operation and, thereby, the yield and the productivity are improved. A lower electrode is formed by patterning in each pixel on a substrate. An auxiliary wiring including a light absorption layer is formed between individual pixels. An organic layer is formed on the substrate while covering the lower electrodes. Laser irradiation is conducted from the organic layer side, the laser light is converted to heat in the light absorption layer exposed at a portion under the organic layer, and the organic layer portion above the light absorption layer is removed selectively. An upper electrode is formed on the organic layer and is connected to the light absorption layer portion of the auxiliary wiring. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097412 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT - A light source device, performing partial lighting operation and having a function of detection of illuminated light with improved precision is provided. The light source device including: a light source section having a plurality of partial lighting sections each controlled separately; a drive means for time-divisionally driving the light source section with a pulse signal so that a whole lighting time period and a partial lighting time period are mixed along time base; a photoreception device receiving light from the light source section; and a sampling means for sampling, at a timing in the partial lighting time period, a photoreception signal from the photoreception device. The drive means controls a width of the pulse signal immediately before a transition from the whole lighting time period to the partial lighting time period so that the width is equal to or less than a given threshold value. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097413 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD USED IN THE PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - [Problem] A plasma display device is provided which is capable of reducing an afterimage (burning) in a short time. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097414 | Inkjet printer - An inkjet printer with a frame and a printhead module further includes an adjusting piece and a pair of adjusting units, for adjusting a distance between the printhead module and a printing medium. An indicating portion and a scale portion are further disposed on the adjusting unit to indicate up-and-down moving amplitude of the adjusting piece. Thereby, the up-and-down moving amplitude of the printhead module is quantized, and the adjustment of the distance between the printhead module and the printing medium is precisely controlled. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097415 | PRODUCING AND DEFLECTING INK DROPLETS OF VARIABLE SIZE - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the creation, particularly also for the deflection of ink droplets of different sizes, particularly in a print image of a continuously operating ink jet printer, a continuous cohesive ink jet being projected by a nozzle of a pressure chamber, in which a sequence of sequence of sound pulses ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100097416 | ORGANIC DRY JET PRINTING HEAD, AND PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is an organic dry jet printing head and a printing device and method using the same, in which a pattern (thin film) can be formed through the repetitive injection of a high-speed jet by regularly and repeatedly opening and closing an on-off valve in a pattern (thin film) forming region using the on-off valve and a control unit. The organic dry jet printing head and the printing device and method using the same are advantageous in that processes can be performed at atmospheric pressure, a large-area organic electronic device can be manufactured and high-resolution patterns can be printed, thereby improving productivity and economic efficiency. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097417 | Ink Jet Printing - A continuous ink jet printer comprising an ink gun for forming an ink jet; an arrangement of electrodes for trapping electric charges on ink drops of the ink jet and for creating an electrostatic field for deflecting drops carrying trapped electric charges; and a gutter having an ink-receiving orifice for receiving ink drops of the ink jet which are not used for printing; a gutter flow path for flow of ink from the ink-receiving orifice of the gutter, through and away from the gutter; an air recirculation line for conveying at least some of any air that has passed with the ink along at least a part of the gutter flow path so as to re-enter the gutter flow path either through the ink-receiving orifice or through a connection into the gutter flow path downstream of the ink-receiving orifice; and a vent for venting at least some of the air that has passed with the ink along at least a part of the gutter flow path so as not to re-enter the gutter flow path. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097418 | RECORDING HEAD AND RECORDING APPARATUS USING RECORDING HEAD - A recording head having a plurality of recording elements that are grouped into a plurality of blocks and ejecting ink by driving the recording elements in a time-divisional manner includes driving units configured to drive the recording elements, an input unit configured to receive an enable signal that defines a period during which the driving of the recording elements is enabled at one ink ejection, and a control unit configured to control the time-divisional driving by the driving units on the basis of pulses detected during the period defined by the enable signal received by the input unit. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097419 | Liquid Jetting Device - A liquid jetting device includes a plurality of nozzles. A driving signal generated by a driving signal generating section is applied to a charge-discharge actuator in correspondence with each nozzle to jet liquid from the nozzle. A charging source potential preliminary adjusted wave-form signal is pulse modulated and electrically amplified using a charging source potential transistor pair connected in a push-pull configuration, and output by a ripple filter to a collector of a charge-use transistor of the driving signal generating section to make a preliminary adjustment to the charging source potential for the driving signal generating section. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097420 | Printer - When the number of sheets that have been printed has reached the number of sheets guaranteed for printing, a number representing a upper limit of the number of sheets that can be printed, an ink jet printer declines to perform printing with an ink cartridge for which the number of sheets guaranteed for printing has been set, but when the number of sheets printed has not reached the number of sheets guaranteed for printing, performs printing of an image onto a recording sheet S by using the ink cartridge, the ink jet printer determining the number of sheets remaining N on the basis of the number of sheets printed that have been printed, and displaying on a display unit | 2010-04-22 |
20100097421 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion to form an image on a sheet using an erasable ink, a sheet supply tray to load the sheet on which the image was formed using the erasable ink, a mark detecting portion to detect a mark indicating that the image formed on the sheet conveyed from the sheet supply tray includes a confidential information, and an overwriting portion to overwrite so as not to make recognizable the image of at least an area including the confidential information out of the image formed on the sheet, in case that the mark is detected by the mark detecting portion. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097422 | Print Control Apparatus, Print Control Method, and Storage Medium - A print control apparatus includes a setting section and a print controlling section. The setting section enables or disables a first function of sorting paper by performing longitudinal printing in which printing is performed in longitudinal orientation for paper ejection in the longitudinal orientation and lateral printing in which printing is performed in lateral orientation for paper ejection in the lateral orientation alternately. The setting section further enables or disables a second function of barcode printing. The print controlling section controls printing in accordance with setting of each of the first function and the second function. When one of the first function and the second function is enabled, the setting section disables the other function. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097423 | NOZZLE PLATE FOR LIQUID EJECTOR HEAD, LIQUID EJECTOR HEAD, LIQUID EJECTOR, LIQUID EJECTION METHOD, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - The present invention provides a nozzle plate for liquid ejector head and a liquid ejector head. The nozzle plate for liquid ejector head includes at least a nozzle hole for ejecting droplets composed of an ejection liquid, wherein the surface energy of an inner wall of the nozzle hole at 25° C. is lower than the surface tension of the ejection liquid at 25° C. and is substantially same as the surface energy of the ejection side surface of the nozzle plate at 25° C. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097424 | INK-JET HEAD - An ink-jet head is disclosed. The ink-jet head in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, including a reservoir, which stores ink, a chamber, which is supplied with the ink from the reservoir, a restrictor, which connects the reservoir with the chamber, a nozzle, which ejects the ink, and a damper, which is interposed between the chamber and the nozzle, can include: a body, in which the chamber, the reservoir, the restrictor and the damper are formed; and a nozzle plate, which is coupled to the body and in which the nozzle is formed on the nozzle plate, in which the nozzle plate is made of a transparent material, and an observation window is formed on the nozzle plate and apart from the nozzle for observation of a meniscus formed in the nozzle. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097425 | INKJET RECORDING HEAD AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An apparatus includes nozzles and an ink passage. Each nozzle includes a pressure chamber which houses an electrothermal transducer provided on a substrate to apply ejection energy to ink, an ink ejection orifice which faces the electrothermal transducer, and an ink passage along which the ink is supplied to the pressure chamber. The ink supply port is provided on the substrate and communicates with the ink passages. A distance between a center of gravity of the electrothermal transducer and the ink supply port differs between the nozzles which are next to each other. In at least one of the nozzles, a center of gravity of the ink ejection orifice is shifted from that of the electrothermal transducer in a direction toward the ink supply port by an amount which is increased as the distance increases. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097426 | Printhead Having Interconnected And Sealed Modules - A printhead is provided having a plurality of printing fluid ejection nozzle modules each having one or more printing fluid channels interconnected at respective complementary female and male end portions of the modules, a connector connected to the female or male end portion of one of the modules for communicating printing fluid from a fluid supply to the nozzles of all of the modules via the interconnected channels, and a sealing member connected to the female or male end portion of another one of the modules. The sealing member has female and male portions complementary to the female and male end portions of the modules and for sealing the channels of the connected module. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097427 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes: a fluid channel formation substrate in which a fluid channel is formed so as to be communicated to a nozzle opening for ejecting liquid; a pressure generating element which applies pressure on the liquid to be ejected; a first substrate of which one end is electrically connected to the pressure generating element; a second substrate which is connected to the other end of the first substrate; and a support unit which supports the first substrate. Here, the support unit includes an erecting section which is provided on the one end of the first substrate, and a substrate support section which is provided on a side of the erecting section facing the second substrate and is formed of a separate member from the erecting section. The substrate support section includes a connection support surface on a side thereof facing the second substrate. In addition, a connection portion between the first substrate and the second substrate is disposed on a position facing the connection support surface. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097428 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes: a fluid channel formation substrate in which a fluid channel is formed so as to be communicate with a nozzle opening for ejecting liquid; a pressure generating element which applies pressure on the liquid to be ejected; a first substrate of which one end is electrically connected to the pressure generating element; a second substrate which is connected to the other end of the first substrate; and a substrate support section which supports the first substrate. Here, the substrate support section includes a connection support surface on a side thereof facing the second substrate. In addition, a connection portion between the first substrate and the second substrate is disposed in a position facing the connection support surface. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097429 | INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH TITANIUM ALUMINIUM ALLOY HEATER - An inkjet printhead with a resistive heaters for vaporizing ink to eject drops through respective nozzles. The heater is formed from a TiAlX alloy where Ti contributes more than 40% by weight, Al contributes more than 40% by weight and X contributes less than 5% by weight and comprises zero or more of Ag, Cr, Mo, Nb, Si, Ta and W. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097430 | Inkjet Printhead Nozzle Assembly Having A Raised Rim To Support An Ink Meniscus - A nozzle assembly for an inkjet printhead includes a substrate defining a nozzle chamber and an ink inlet channel in fluid communication with said chamber; a nozzle defined on the substrate and located over the nozzle chamber, said nozzle having a crown portion with a skirt portion depending from the crown portion, the skirt portion forming a first part of a peripheral wall portion of the nozzle chamber, the nozzle surrounded by a raised rim for supporting a meniscus of a body of ink in the nozzle chamber; and an actuator with a connecting arm fast with the nozzle to operatively displace the nozzle towards the substrate. The nozzle is substantially hexagonally shaped. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097431 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric element includes a substrate, a lower electrode formed above the substrate, a piezoelectric layer formed above the lower electrode, an upper electrode formed above the piezoelectric layer, a protection layer formed on the lateral sides of the piezoelectric layer, and a self-organized monomolecular film formed on the side of each of the protection layer not facing the piezoelectric layer. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097432 | Ink Reservoir With Automatic Air Vent - An ink reservoir for a printer with an inkjet printhead includes a housing for storing a quantity of ink; an air inlet valve having a ball biased against an aperture of the air inlet valve for sealing an interior of the housing from atmosphere; an ink outlet valve having a circular valve seat and a ball for sealing against the valve seat; and a valve actuator having a sliding shaft extending between the ink outlet valve and the air inlet valve. The valve actuator opens the air inlet valve in response to the ink outlet valve opening to establish fluid communication with the inkjet printhead. The ball in the ink outlet valve is adapted to engage one end of the sliding shaft to slide the shaft towards the air inlet valve, whereat the other end of the shaft engages the ball of the air inlet valve against the bias applied thereon. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097433 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID SUPPLY APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, AND LIQUID SUPPLY METHOD - The present invention provides a liquid ejection head, a liquid supply apparatus, a liquid ejection apparatus, and a liquid supply method which enable the channel resistance and pressure loss of liquid in the liquid ejection head to be reduced to increase the speed at which liquid is supplied to the nozzles. To achieve this, an ink supply chamber ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100097434 | HEATED FOLDING SYSTEM FOR A PHASE CHANGE INK IMAGING DEVICE - A folding system includes a media pathway configured to transport a print substrate having phase change ink thereon. The folding system includes a folding apparatus disposed along the media pathway configured to fold the print substrate. A folding heater is configured to heat the phase change ink on the print media to a folding temperature. The folding temperature is above ambient temperature and below a melting temperature for phase change ink. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097435 | THERMAL PRINTER DEVICE FOR POINT OF SERVICE TERMINAL - The present invention provides for a compact, portable POS terminal through the use of a compact printer that utilizes a thermal printer with fan-folded paper. The POS terminal also accommodates contactless instrument readers and optionally includes features for electronic signature capture, user display interaction, multi-tasking capabilities, check reading and age and identity verification. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097436 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PLURALITY OF LASER-PRINTED LABELS FROM A MEDIUM SUPPORTED ON A DISC - A method of printing labels includes supporting a laser sensitive material on a disc and printing label images on the disc with a modulated focused beam from a diode-laser. The label images may be printed in regions of the medium having pre-cut label boundaries. Alternatively, label boundaries may be cut through the medium using the focused laser beam. The labels are peeled from the disc after printing. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097437 | Driver circuit, optical print head, and image forming apparatus - A driver circuit in an optical print head uses driving transistors to drive a row of light-emitting elements. The gate electrodes of the driving transistors are at least partly oriented so that driving current flows in the channels below the gate electrodes in a direction different from the direction of the row the light-emitting elements. This orientation reduces the temperature dependency of the driving current, so that the optical print head can produce the same high image quality at low ambient temperatures as at room temperature. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097438 | Communication Terminal and Communication Method Thereof - A communication terminal | 2010-04-22 |
20100097439 | MOBILE TELEPHONY SYSTEM COMPRISING HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY - A mobile telephony system comprising a calling party mobile telephone with an imaging system and a display. The imaging system is operable to capture an image of the calling party. The calling party mobile telephone sends an image of the calling party to a called party mobile telephone over a wireless link, and the called party mobile telephone locally generates a holographic reconstruction of the calling party using a holographic display that is encoded with a hologram. An advantage is that a mobile telephone call may be held in which one party views a holographic reconstruction of the other party. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097440 | COMMUNICATION MODE SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL - A communication mode switching method and apparatus for a mobile terminal is provided for responding, in voice call mode, to an incoming video call received for a video call rejection period set by the user. A video call establishment method between mobile terminals according to the present invention includes requesting, at a calling mobile terminal, a video call connection to a called mobile terminal; determining, at the called mobile terminal, whether the video call connection satisfies a video call rejection configuration; responding, when the video call connection satisfies the video call rejection configuration, to the calling mobile terminal in voice call mode; and establishing a video call connection in voice call mode between the calling mobile terminal operating in a video call mode and the called mobile terminal operating in voice call mode. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097441 | TELEPRESENCE CONFERENCE ROOM LAYOUT, DYNAMIC SCENARIO MANAGER, DIAGNOSTICS AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of conducting an audio-visual conference among a number of conference rooms comprising storing predetermined conference configuration data in a computer system for a plurality of room types and a plurality of combinations of configuration factors, receiving conference variable data, generating a room list of included conference rooms, generating interconnection data for each included conference room according selected by said a computer system performing a recursive process until a feasible set of configuration data is found which permits interconnection to every other included conference room, and if no applicable set of configuration data is feasible, the distribution process returns to a next higher room in said room list. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097442 | Controller in a Camera for Creating a Panoramic Image - Methods and apparatus to create and display panoramic images on a mobile device are disclosed. Such a mobile device can be a mobile phone. Apparatus is provided to control the position of a lens in relation to a reference lens. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a panoramic image. A panoramic image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A panoramic camera is applied in a computer gaming system. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097443 | Controller in a Camera for Creating a Panoramic Image - Methods and apparatus to create and display panoramic images on a mobile device are disclosed. Such a mobile device can be a mobile phone. Apparatus is provided to control the position of a lens in relation to a reference lens. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a panoramic image. A panoramic image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A panoramic camera is applied in a computer gaming system. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097444 | Camera System for Creating an Image From a Plurality of Images - Methods and apparatus to create and display stereoscopic and panoramic images are disclosed. Apparatus is provided to control the position of a lens in relation to a reference lens. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a stereoscopic or a panoramic image. An image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a stereoscopic or a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A panoramic video wall system is also disclosed. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097445 | RESTAURANT TABLES AND ELECTRONIC MENU APPARATUS - A restaurant table for which seats are arranged includes, a top plate on which a dishes is set, and a display panel provided in the top plate, and configured to display a three-dimensional image of the dish to be stereoscopically viewable. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097446 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus which displays a plurality of items includes a display panel provided with a function of displaying a three-dimensional image to be stereoscopically viewable, an item overview creation section which creates information on an item overview screen on which two-dimensional images of the respective items are arranged, an overview display control section which displays the item overview screen on the display panel, and a specific item display control section which switches an image of a specific item selected from among the items two-dimensional images of which are displayed on the item overview screen from the two-dimensional image to a three-dimensional image. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097447 | Image Display Device - It is an object to provide an image display device that does not damage a feeling of a three-dimensional shape of an object displayed as a floating image even if a contrast of a display unit is so bad that floating blacks occur. An image display device ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100097448 | Rotational Display System - The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a support such as vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus in various surfaces of rotation. A displayed image may be three dimensional. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and can have the capability of producing a clear, bright, high definition image that is equivalent to that of a modern day TV or high quality computer monitor. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097449 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An image display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The image display device includes a lenticular lens array, a first backlit display element that is positioned on the lenticular lens array and is driven at a frame frequency of N×60 Hz, where N is an integer equal to or greater than 1, and a light source module under the lenticular lens array. The first backlit display element displays a video signal of a 2D format in a 2D mode and displays a video signal of an N-view 3D format in a 3D mode. The light source module irradiates light in the form of a surface light source onto the lenticular lens array in the 2D mode and irradiates light in the form of a plurality of line light sources onto the lenticular lens array in the 3D mode. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097450 | Non-contact measurement systems for wireline and coiled tubing - A system for measuring at least one parameter of moving cable, the system including a system power source, a digital camera adjacent a moving cable for taking digital images of the cable as the cable moves past the digital camera, the digital camera producing signals corresponding to the digital images, a signal processor for receiving the signals from the digital camera and for processing the images to produce processed image data, the signal processor for calculating measurements of the at least one parameter of the cable based on the processed image data, the system power source for powering systems devices, e.g., the digital camera and/or the signal processor. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b). | 2010-04-22 |
20100097451 | Optical Inclusion Sensor - A sensor for sensing inclusions in a containerized medical fluid. In certain embodiments, the sensor may include an image capture device and an image processor communicatively interconnected to the image capture device. The image processor may include an inclusion identifier configured to detect data in an image indicative of inclusions in the medical fluid. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097452 | CHROMATIC REGISTRATION FOR BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE IMAGING - Systems and techniques for chromatic distortion reduction. Relative chromatic distortion information for an imaging system may be obtained, where the relative chromatic distortion information indicates relative displacement of a first color signal and a second color signal from a reference color signal in an image. The relative chromatic distortion information may be used to modify image data. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097453 | MONITOR DEVICE FOR USE WITH AN ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A monitor device for use with an endoscope apparatus, which has first and second display modes. In the first display mode, the monitor device displays, in real time, any image transmitted in a normal radio communication state. In the second display mode, the monitor device displays a noise-free image in real time, if a radio communication error occurs. If one-frame (or one-field) image data is not received within the frame (or field) time due to a communication error, the monitor device displays, in the second display mode, the image data received in a normal state immediately before the one-frame (or one-field) image data, and informs the operator of the communication error. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097454 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An endoscope image is obtained by imaging a subject with a scope. Then, an edge portion of the endoscope image is extracted and a complexity degree of the edge portion is detected. Thereafter, a determination is made as to whether the endoscope image is an image obtained through near view imaging or distant view imaging according to the complexity degree and an imaging condition is changed according to the determined near view imaging or distant view imaging. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097455 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING A VANISHING POINT - A method for estimating a vanishing point in a roadway using a current image generated by a camera on a vehicle includes defining an exemplary vanishing point for each of a plurality of sample images, identifying features within each of the plurality of sample images, monitoring the current image generated by the camera, identifying features within the current image, matching the current image to at least one of the sample images based upon the identified features within the current image and the identified features within the plurality of sample images, determining a vanishing point based upon the matching and the exemplary vanishing points for each of the matched sample images, and utilizing the vanishing point to navigate the vehicle. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097456 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING A HIERACHICAL APPROACH - A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle using an image generated by a camera includes monitoring the image, and utilizing a first patch-based analysis of the image including dividing the image into a plurality of patches, and analyzing each patch to determine a first clear path confidence likelihood for each of the patches of the first patch-based analysis. Each of the patches with the first clear path confidence likelihood greater than a first threshold confidence likelihood is defined as a clear path patch. A second analysis is utilized upon a portion of the patches with the first clear path confidence not greater than the first threshold confidence likelihood to determine a second clear path confidence likelihood for each of the patches of the second analysis. Each of the patches of the second analysis with the second clear path confidence likelihood greater than a second threshold confidence likelihood is defined as a clear path patch. The clear path of travel for the vehicle is identified based upon the clear path patches. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097457 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION WITH PATCH SMOOTHING APPROACH - A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle utilizing analysis of an image generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle includes monitoring the image, identifying through patch-based clear path detection analysis of the image a first patch within the image that indicates a not clear path, analyzing the first patch through patch smoothing, invalidating the first patch based upon the analyzing the first patch through patch smoothing, utilizing the invalidated first patch to define a clear path of travel for the vehicle, and utilizing the clear path of travel to navigate the vehicle. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097458 | CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING AN EXAMPLE-BASED APPROACH - A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle using a current image generated by a camera includes defining an exemplary clear path for each of a plurality of sample images, identifying features within each of the plurality of sample images, monitoring the current image generated by the camera, identifying features within the current image, matching the current image to at least one of the sample images based upon the identified features within the current image and the identified features within the plurality of sample images, determining a clear path of travel based upon the matching and the exemplary clear path for each of the matched sample images, and utilizing the clear path of travel to navigate the vehicle. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097459 | DEVICE FOR RECORDING IMAGES OF AN OBJECT SCENE - A device for recording images of an object scene has a lighting unit for illuminating the object scene with several lighting elements and an optical system for directing radiation of the lighting elements reflected from the object scene onto a detector. In order to achieve a simple and compact camera, the device includes a marking device for marking the radiation from each of the lighting elements and an evaluation device for differentiating the reflected radiation of the individual lighting elements by way of the marking. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097460 | APPARATUS FOR MEASUREMENT OF VERTICAL OBSTRUCTIONS - Accurate measurements of flight path obstructions are taken from a moving aerial platform. Platform position, including altitude, is combined with dynamic data including target distance and target elevation data to calculate obstruction height or altitude. An optical subsystem on the aerial platform images the obstructions and provides a video stream showing the obstructions. The video stream and aerial platform data are wirelessly communicated to a control terminal where an operator observes a presentation of obstructions and obstruction altitudes or heights. The operator can issue commands to the aerial platform. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097461 | COMPONENT-RECOGNIZING APPARATUS, SURFACE-MOUNTING APPARATUS, AND COMPONENT-INSPECTING APPARATUS - In an apparatus adapted to scan a lower side of an electronic component being suction-held by a suction-holding nozzle, to perform image recognition of suction-held conditions of the electronic component, this invention is intended to perform a transfer operation under a condition that the suction-holding nozzle is arranged closer to an upper surface of a base, wherein the optical path directed downwardly from the suction-holding nozzle is bended in a lateral direction by a first optical path changing member and then further bended in another direction by a second optical path changing member to allow image-sensing means to capture an image of a lower surface of the suction-holding nozzle, and the electronic component being suction-held by the suction-holding nozzle is illuminated along the lateral optical path changed by the first optical path changing member. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097462 | WEB LONGITUDINAL POSITION SENSOR - Methods and systems for determining longitudinal position of an elongated web are described. Sensors are used to detect one or more substantially continuous fiducial marks disposed longitudinally on the web. The sensors generate signals associated with the fiducial marks. A position detector receives the signals and determines a longitudinal position of the web using the sensor signals. The fiducial marks may be periodic fiducial marks, such as sine and/or cosine marks on the web and/or may be piecewise continuous marks. The coarse longitudinal position of the web can be determined based on periodically recurring features of the fiducial marks. The fine longitudinal position can be determined based on continuous portions of the fiducial marks between the periodically recurring features. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097463 | MONITORING UNIT CONTROL SYSTEM - A surveillance device control system is provided which can continue the system operation between a control terminal and a surveillance device even if an authentication server has gone down and cannot authenticate the control terminal to give it access permission. In the surveillance device control system ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100097464 | NETWORK VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND RECORDER - A video surveillance method and system controls and distributes video signals from multiple surveillance cameras to multiple video clients by receiving a single original video signal stream from a camera and simultaneously converting it a plurality of video streams, with each video stream having a different video quality parameter. The different quality parameters may be different resolutions, degrees of compression, different frame rates, presence or absence of colors, intensity of colors, different contrast levels and different brightness levels. The video clients are entitled to access specified video quality parameters, and are simultaneously sent the converted video streams with the different video quality parameter to which they are entitled to access. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097465 | AUTOMATED DRUG PREPARATION APPARATUS INCLUDING SYRINGE LOADING, PREPARATION AND FILLING - An automated medication preparation system for preparing a prescribed dosage of medication in a drug delivery device. The system includes a plurality of stations for receiving, handling and processing the drug delivery device so that the prescribed dosage of medication is delivered to the drug delivery device and a transporting device that receives and holds more than one drug delivery device and moves the drug delivery devices in a controlled manner from one station to another station. The system is configured so that two or more separate drug delivery devices can be acted upon at the same time. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097466 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - A feature extracting unit obtains sensor data from a plurality of sensors to calculate each feature. When an event determining unit determines the occurrence of an event based on each feature, a display data constructor generates remote-controller display data for displaying the event, and controls a remote-controller display device to display the remote-controller display data. When a user decision is input from a user input IF based on this display, a control unit controls the sensors to be turned ON or OFF. When an infrared sensor detects an abnormality, a microwave sensor whose power consumption is small after the infrared sensor is turned ON. When the microwave sensor detects an abnormality, a video camera and a microphone are turned ON, and the microwave sensor is turned OFF. A communication unit wirelessly transmits an image signal captured by the video camera and an audio signal processed by the microphone. Then, if the infrared sensor does not detect an abnormality, the video camera and the microphone are turned OFF. With this arrangement, power consumption can be suppressed. The present invention is applied to, for example, a security system, for example, for monitoring outside a vehicle by a video camera disposed in the vehicle when the vehicle is parked. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097467 | System for testing semiconductors - A system that includes an imaging device for effectively positioning a probe for testing a semiconductor wafer. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097468 | MICRO-DIFFRACTIVE SURVEILLANCE ILLUMINATOR - An active infra-red surveillance illuminator uses a statistically mono-directional micro-diffractive material overlaid on a bank of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to refract light from the LEDs onto a target image. This delivers energy distribution profiles out to a distance to match the aspect ratios of current wide-angle target and wide-angle camera surveillance systems. The distribution of refracted light is elliptical. This distribution can vary by using different diffractive material in conjunction with various numbers, brightness and angles of the LEDs in an LED bank. The effective range of the illuminators is greatly extended with this type of illumination. By limiting infrared (IR) radiation down to a 10 degree vertical window it renders the IR illumination much more effective for surveillance imaging by providing much more effective power on wide, ground-level scenes, and particularly enables multi-lane license plate capture. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097469 | INTERIOR MIRROR ASSEMBLY WITH DISPLAY - An interior rearview mirror system and assembly includes a variable reflectivity reflective element and a video display screen disposed behind the reflective element and operable to display images viewable through the reflective element by a person viewing the interior rearview mirror assembly when it is normally mounted in a vehicle. The video display screen may be operable to brighten or enhance the intensity of images displayed by the video display screen responsive to a dimming condition of the variable reflectivity reflective element. The mirror system may include an image sensor and a decoder that decodes an output signal of the image sensor. The decoder has a microprocessor operable to control the video display screen, such that the captured image data are processed and images are displayed via operation of a common microprocessor. A compass chip may connect to a vehicle wire harness that extends from a vehicle headliner. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097470 | MONITORING SYSTEM, CAMERA, AND VIDEO ENCODING METHOD - A monitor system is provided for making it possible to efficiently determine a coding quantity of each camera in accordance with the movement of an object. In each camera ( | 2010-04-22 |
20100097471 | AUTOMATED WAY TO EFFECTIVELY HANDLE AN ALARM EVENT IN THE SECURITY APPLICATIONS - A number of monitoring stations provide input surveillance video sequences and sensor signals to a remote facility such as a central monitoring station for further processing. A user interface at the remote facility allows a user to select a received input surveillance video sequence for summarization processing. A control at the remote facility summarizes the selected input surveillance video sequence into one or more video segments of shorter temporal duration. Video segments summarized from the selected input surveillance video sequence are displayed. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097472 | METHOD OF EFFICIENT CAMERA CONTROL AND HAND OVER IN SURVEILLANCE MANAGEMENT - A method and system for video surveillance in a system having a plurality of cameras is presented, the method comprising creating a plurality of logical camera groups, each group comprising a list of the cameras, tracking a subject using a current camera, and changing from the current camera to a next camera using a control device, wherein the control device provides the list of cameras in the logical camera group and the next camera is selected from this list. In this method, each camera can be a fixed or a PTZ camera, each PTZ can have a preset view in the logical camera group, the next camera can be a handover camera enabling hand over from a current operator to a next operator, the next operator can be selected from a list on the control device, and control of the current camera can be determine by operator priority. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097473 | DEVICE FOR CONNECTING VIDEO CAMERAS TO NETWORKS AND CLIENTS - A device for recording digital video from a plurality of cameras connected to the device includes a communication interface configured to receive compressed digital video from each of the plurality of cameras. The device further includes processing electronics including a digital video recorder module configured to store the compressed digital video. The processing electronics are further configured to identify a parameter indicative of complexity of the compressed digital video from each of the plurality of cameras. The processing electronics are yet further configured to adjust at least one of a camera parameter and a parameter of the digital video recorder module based on the parameter indicative of the complexity of the compressed digital video. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097474 | SMOKE DETECTING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A smoke detecting method and system are provided. The smoke detecting method and system capture a plurality of images; determine whether a moving object exists in the plurality of images; select the images having the moving object to be analyzed; analyze whether the moving object is moving toward a specific direction and a displacement of a base point of the moving object; and determine the moving object as a smoke when the moving object is moving toward the specific direction and the displacement is less than a threshold value. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097475 | INTER-CAMERA LINK RELATION INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS - The apparatus comprises a feature quantity extraction part for extracting a feature quantity of a subject from video captured by plural cameras, an In/Out point extraction part for extracting In/Out points indicating points in which a subject appears and disappears in each video captured, an In/Out region formation part for forming In/Out regions based on the In/Out points extracted, a correlation value calculation part for calculating a correlation value by obtaining the total sum of similarities every feature quantity of the subject in each of the plural combinations of In/Out points included in the In/Out regions, a frequency histogram creation part for creating a frequency histogram based on the correlation value, and a link relation information generation part for extracting a peak of the frequency histogram and estimating the presence or absence of a link relation between the plural cameras and generating link relation information. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097476 | Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Capture Device Settings Through Depth Information - A method for adjusting image capture settings for an image capture device is provided. The method initiates with capturing depth information of a scene at the image capture device. Depth regions are identified based on the captured depth information. Then, an image capture setting is adjusted independently for each of the depth regions. An image of the scene is captured with the image capture device, wherein the image capture setting is applied to each of the depth regions when the image of the scene is captured. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097477 | Method of detecting defects in image sensor, tester for the method, and control signal generator for the method - A method of detecting defects in an image sensor that may occur from a floating diffusion area of the image sensor, a tester using the method, and a control signal generator using the method include a photo diode generating charges corresponding to an image signal; a transmission transistor having a first terminal connected to a the photodiode and a second terminal connected to a floating diffusion area, thereby transmitting the charges generated in the photo diode to the floating diffusion area in response to a charge transmission control signal; and a reset transistor having a first terminal applied by a reset voltage and a second transistor connected to the floating diffusion area, thereby transmitting the reset voltage to the floating diffusion area in response to a reset control signal. The reset transistor is turned on during at least one sampling zone selected between reset level sampling and signal level sampling that are performed with respect to the image sensor. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097478 | Event announcing system and operating method thereof - The invention discloses an event announcing system. The event announcing system comprises a portable electrical apparatus, a network, and a server. The portable electrical apparatus comprises an image capturing module, a positioning module, a time module, and a processing module. When the image capturing module captures an image information related to an event, the positioning module receives a positioning information and the time module receives a time information. The processing module is used for generating an announcing signal according to the image information, the positioning information, and the time information. When the server receives the announcing signal via the network, the server validates the announcing signal according to a validating rule and selectively generates an event report according to the announcing signal. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097479 | Electronic camera comprising means for navigating and printing image data - An image is shot by an electronic camera using a convenient operation. Shot images are recorded into a directory corresponding to a user by shooting date and/or event. When a print-out mode is selected, a plurality of thumbnail images are displayed on the camera display, and when a single click is made by an undepicted pen on a specified thumbnail image, the display color of the thumbnail image is changed. Furthermore, when another click is subsequently made, the display color of all the thumbnail images included in the same event as that of the first designated thumbnail image is changed. Subsequently, when another click is made, the display color of all the thumbnail images of the same shooting date is changed, and when another click is subsequently made, the display color of all the thumbnail images included in the same directory is changed. Furthermore, on a specified display screen, when an execution key is pressed, the thumbnail images of which the display color is changed are printed. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097480 | Camera System For With Velocity Sensor And De-Blurring Processor - A camera system for outputting deblurred still images includes a portable handheld camera device comprising an image sensor adapted to capture a still, image comprising at least one blurred pixel; a velocity detector adapted to determine the angular velocity of the camera system relative to an external environment and to produce an angular velocity output indicative thereof; a linear image sensor for sensing data provided on at least one encoded card inserted into the camera system, the at least one encoded card containing instructions for the manipulation of the blurred images; and a processor adapted to receive said image from said image sensor and said angular velocity output from said angular velocity detector and to process said blurred image under programme control determined from data sensed by the linear image sensor from the at least one encoded card, the programme control utilising the velocity output to deblur said at least one blurred pixel of said blurred image and to output said deblurred still image. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097481 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON COMPUTER PROGRAM TO IMPLEMENT THE METHOD - A photographing apparatus is provided that is capable of minimizing an access bandwidth of memory included in the photographing apparatus and is capable of reducing power consumption, and a method of controlling the photographing apparatus. The photographing apparatus includes a distortion correction unit for performing distortion correction on a captured image by performing image processing; a digital zoom unit for performing digital zoom on the captured image by performing image processing; and a host central processing unit (CPU) for controlling the photographing apparatus to perform one of the distortion correction by the distortion correction unit and the digital zoom by the digital zoom unit. A method of controlling the photographing apparatus is also provided. In addition, a recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program to implement the method is also provided. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097482 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD,IMAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND CAMERA - An image processing apparatus includes: a gradation conversion unit that executes gradation conversion processing based upon gradation conversion features assuming a slope that changes at a predetermined brightness level, on a component representing a brightness of an image in a color space expressed with the component representing the brightness and a component representing a color depth; and a modulation unit that executes modulation processing on the component representing the color depth by multiplying the component representing the color depth by modulation features, wherein: the modulation features are set so as to assume values equal to or less than 1 over at least part of a brightness range above the predetermined brightness level. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097483 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus acquires images captured by cameras. A data processing apparatus | 2010-04-22 |
20100097484 | AUTO FOCUS SYSTEM HAVING AF FRAME AUTO-TRACKING FUNCTION - When the user sets an AF frame such that an object tracked as an AF target is in the AF frame, an auto-tracking process starts to detect a face image from the image captured by a television camera. Then, it is determined whether the face image is detected from the peripheral range of the AF frame. If it is determined that the face image is detected from the peripheral range of the AF frame, the position of the AF frame is changed on the basis of the position of the face image. On the other hand, if it is determined that the face image is not detected from the peripheral range of the AF frame, a pattern matching process is performed. The position of the AF frame is changed to the position of the object, which is a tracking target, detected by the pattern matching process. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING FACE IMAGE IN DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSOR - Provided are a method and apparatus for measuring the skin condition of a face detected from an image and improving the face image. The apparatus for improving a face image in a digital image processor comprises a digital signal processor measuring the skin condition of a face detected from an image, correcting a rough portion of the skin of the detected face according to the measured skin condition and displaying the corrected image. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097486 | IMAGE SENSING DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSING SYSTEM - An image sensing device includes a multilayer wiring structure comprising a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer, wherein the second wiring layer comprises a plurality of vertical signal lines extending in the vertical direction among a plurality of photoelectric conversion units of a pixel unit to transfer the signal output by an amplification transistor and a plurality of vertical power supply lines extending in the vertical direction between two pixel units adjacent to each other in the horizontal direction to supply a power supply voltage to the amplification transistor or the reset transistor, and the vertical power supply lines supply the power supply voltage to the reset transistor of the adjacent pixel unit on a first side in the horizontal direction and supply the power supply voltage to the amplification transistor of the adjacent pixel unit on a second side in the horizontal direction. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097487 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH AN EXTENDED DEPTH-OF-FIELD AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING AN OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM - A method for designing a mask, the method includes: choosing or receiving a desired contrast value; and determining sizes, locations and shapes of multiple rotationally symmetric regions of a mask such as to define a modulation transfer function that is characterized by a substantially uniform response over a spatial frequency range; wherein the uniform response is substantially indifferent to an orientation of features of the object and to a location of the object within a deep depth-of-field region. An optical imaging system that includes: a mask that includes multiple rotationally regions; wherein the multiple rotationally symmetric regions are shaped and positioned such as to define a modulation transfer function that is characterized by a substantially uniform response over a spatial frequency range, wherein the uniform response is substantially indifferent to an orientation of features of the object and to a location of the object within a deep depth-of-field region. | 2010-04-22 |
20100097488 | Image-taking apparatus, image-taking region displaying method, and image-taking region displaying program - An image-taking apparatus is provided which includes a first extracting unit that extracts an image corresponding to a first region having a first aspect ratio and an image corresponding to a second region having a second aspect ratio from a video image to record the images, a second extracting unit that extracts an image having an aspect ratio of a display region of a display device from the video image in a range where the first region is maximally displayed, a producing unit that produces a notification image indicating that the second region exists outside the display region when the second region exists outside the region of the image extracted by the second extracting unit, a combining unit that produces a display image by combining the notification image with the image extracted by the second extracting unit, and a control unit that displays the display image on the display device. | 2010-04-22 |