52nd week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080316288 | Liquid Charging Apparatus and Liquid Charging Method - An ink charging injection apparatus for charging ink to an ink pack is disclosed. The ink injection apparatus includes a pressurizing tank for storing ink, piping, a deaeration device, and an air vent pipe. The piping connects the pressurizing tank to the ink pack such that ink stored in the pressuring tank can be supplied from the pressurizing tank to the ink pack. The deaeration device is provided in the piping. The deaeration device is operated to produce suction for deaerating ink in the piping. The air vent pipe branches from a section of the piping and communicates with the deaeration device. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316289 | Composition suitable for use in ink jet printing - A composition comprising a black dye of Formula (1) or a salt thereof and of a dye of Formula (2) or a salt thereof: | 2008-12-25 |
20080316290 | HANDHELD PRINTER CONFIGURATION - Methods and apparatus include a handheld printer manipulated by an operator to print an image on a media. An inkjet printhead and two position sensors front one another in a triangular configuration thereby providing a large printable area compared to the prior art. A frame commonly mounts the printhead and sensors and is biased to keep an acceptable paper to printer gap during use. A forward opening door accepts the printhead before printing. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316291 | PARAMETRIC PROGRAMMABLE THERMAL PRINTER - A parametric programmable thermal printer is disclosed. The printer may include a controller that performs functions such as thermal history control and common mode voltage correction. The controller may be implemented in an integrated programmable medium such as a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Functions performed by the controller may be parameterized, and parameter values may be stored in registers. The controller may be used with a different thermal printer by changing the parameter values and/or reprogramming the programmable medium, and without otherwise redesigning or remanufacturing the controller. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316292 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WHICH CORRECTS MAIN SCANNING MISREGISTRATION - An image forming apparatus includes a light source which illuminates in response to image data, and a deflector to deflect an optical beam output from the light source into a scanning beam running along a main scanning line across an image forming area in a main scanning direction. There are plurality of beam detectors to detect the scanning beam at a plurality of different positions along the main scanning line, the plurality of beam detectors including first and second beam detectors detecting the scanning beam at positions in front-end and rear-end sides, respectively, in the main scanning direction. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316293 | Camera unit - There is provided a camera unit used in a communications system having a display section and arranged to exchange sound and images via communication between at least two locations. The camera unit includes a camera section having an image sensor for photoelectrically converting a visual image to an electric signal; a transparent filter section having signal lines for supplying power to the camera section and transferring the image signal supplied thereto from the camera section; a frame section for holding the transparent filter section therein, the frame section having a power input terminal for supplying power to the camera section and a video output terminal for outputting the image signal transferred thereto from the camera section; and attaching members for attaching the frame section holding the transparent filter section therein, to a front surface of a display screen of the display section of the communications system. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316294 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LISTENING FOR INCOMING CALLS ON MULTIPLE PORT/SOCKET COMBINATIONS - In a computer system having a memory, a processor, and a network interface, a method for listening on multiple conferencing interfaces having the steps of loading a set of transport components into the memory; initializing each transport components of the set of transport components to listen on a particular conferencing interface using the network interface, each transport component of the set of transport components listening to a different conferencing interface; receiving an incoming call signal on the network interface having an incoming conferencing interface; processing the incoming call signal to detect the incoming conferencing interface; and launching an application based on the incoming conferencing interface. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316295 | Virtual decoders - In various embodiments, a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) or another video conferencing device (e.g., an endpoint) may generate a video frame that includes video images of two or more video conferencing endpoints. The video frame may then be sent to another video conferencing device that may receive the video frame and separate the two or more video images into separate video images. In some embodiments, the video frame may be separated into its separate images using, for example, metadata sent along with the video frame. The metadata may include video image identifiers and location information (e.g., coordinates in the video frame) of the video images. In some embodiments, the separated video images may be provided to a compositor that may composite the separated video images, for example, into a new layout. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316296 | Video Conferencing System which Allows Endpoints to Perform Continuous Presence Layout Selection - In various embodiments, a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) or another video conferencing device (e.g., an endpoint) may generate a video frame that includes video images of two or more video conferencing endpoints. The video frame may then be sent to another video conferencing device that may receive the video frame and separate the two or more video images into separate video images. In some embodiments, the video frame may be separated into its separate images using, for example, metadata sent along with the video frame. The metadata may include video image identifiers and location information (e.g., coordinates in the video frame) of the video images. In some embodiments, the separated video images may be provided to a compositor that may composite the separated video images, for example, into a new layout. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316297 | Video Conferencing Device which Performs Multi-way Conferencing - In various embodiments, a video conferencing device (e.g., an endpoint) may generate a video frame that includes video images of two or more video conferencing endpoints. The video frame may then be sent to a video conferencing device that may receive the video frame and separate the two or more video images into separate video images. In some embodiments, coordinate information sent along with the video frame (e.g., in metadata) may be used by the video conferencing endpoint to determine the locations of the video images in the video frame to facilitate separation of the video images. By transmitting and receiving video frames with multiple video images (from different video conferencing endpoints), multiple video conferencing endpoints can implement a multi-way video conference call without using an MCU. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316298 | Video Decoder which Processes Multiple Video Streams - In some embodiments, a spatially multiplexed output decoder may spatially multiplex video packets received in a time multiplexed video stream. A video stream with video packets from two or more sources may be received along with metadata. In some embodiments, a decoder may organize the video packets into respective buffers (e.g., each buffer including video packets for a respective video image). The spatially multiplexed output decoder may spatially multiplex the video images (which are made up of data from the respective video packets) into a video frame to be outputted (e.g., to a separate buffer). The video images in the video frame may then be demultiplexed in other parts of the system (e.g., in a virtual decoder) using information provided about the video frame (e.g., in metadata formed with the video frame). | 2008-12-25 |
20080316299 | VIRTUAL STEREOSCOPIC CAMERA - The subject matter relates to a virtual stereoscopic camera for displaying 3D images. In one implementation, left and right perspectives of a source are captured by image capturing portions. The image capturing portions include an array of image capturing elements that are interspersed with an array of display elements in a display area. The image capturing elements are confined within limited portions of the display area and are separated by an offset distance. The captured left and right perspectives are synthesized so as to generate an image that is capable of being viewed in 3D. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316300 | IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS, IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, IMAGE TAKING METHOD AND PROGRAM - To prevent information required for reproducing of a 3D/multi-viewpoint image being lost even in a case in which editing or the like of the 3D/multi-viewpoint image is performed using a device or application software that does not support 3D/multi-viewpoint images, a compound-eye digital camera can switch between a multi-viewpoint image taking mode that images a subject image viewed from a plurality of viewpoints and a single viewpoint image taking mode that takes a subject image viewed from a single viewpoint. When taking an image in the multi-viewpoint image taking mode, the compound-eye digital camera sets a protect flag for multi-viewpoint images acquired with an image pickup device and records the multi-viewpoint images. As a result, the taken multi-viewpoint images are protected, and erasure or editing of the images cannot be performed without permission. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPHERICAL STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHING - The present invention provides a novel imaging system for obtaining full stereoscopic spherical images of the visual environment surrounding a viewer, 360 degrees both horizontally and vertically. Displaying the images obtained by the present system, by means suitable for stereoscopic displaying, gives the viewers the ability to look everywhere around them, as well as up and down, while having stereoscopic depth perception of the displayed images. The system according to the present invention comprises an array of cameras, wherein the lenses of said cameras are situated on a curved surface, pointing out from common centers of said curved surface. The captured images of said system are arranged and processed to create sets of stereoscopic image pairs, wherein one image of each pair is designated for the observer's right eye and the second image for his left eye, thus creating a three dimensional perception. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316302 | Autostereoscopic Display Device - The present invention relates to an autostereoscopic display device, comprising an imaging layer ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316303 | Display Device - An enhanced liquid crystal display design is provided having relatively fast response time particularly useful in high speed or highly intense applications, such as stereoscopic or autostereoscopic image display. The liquid crystal display device is configured to display stereoscopic images, and comprises an LCD panel and control electronics configured to drive the LCD panel to a desired stereoscopic display state. The control electronics are configured to employ transient phase switching and overdrive the LCD panel to a desired state to enable relatively rapid display of stereoscopic images. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316304 | DIGITAL VIDEO CAPTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH CUSTOMIZABLE GRAPHICAL OVERLAY - A method and system for acquiring and transmitting video image data with parameter data superimposed thereon is provided. The design includes an input device configured to receive said video image data and separately receiving said parameter data, the input device configured to transmit the video image data and parameter data as separate data streams. The design further includes a computing device comprising a computer based utility configured to receive the separate data streams, store the separate data streams, edit at least one data stream, and generate combined video data. Combined video data represents combined video image data and parameter data. The design also includes a display device configured to present the combined video data. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316305 | OBTAINING CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICE STATE INFORMATION - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to obtain an image of a consumer electronic device, the image comprising at least one visual indication of a first operating state of the consumer electronic device, and to transmit one or more commands to the consumer electronic device to change to a second operating state different from the first operating state, responsive to determining the first operating state by extracting information associated with the at least one visual indication from the image. The commands may be determined by accessing a database having control instructions associated with the consumer electronic device. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316306 | Robot System Equipped with a Tool, Camera and Light Source - A robot system comprises one or more tools ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316307 | AUTOMATED METHOD FOR TEMPORAL SEGMENTATION OF A VIDEO INTO SCENES WITH TAKING DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRANSITIONS BETWEEN FRAME SEQUENCES INTO ACCOUNT - The automated detection of scene boundaries supports the user in browsing a video. Establishing the similarity between two respective frame sequences is made by choosing and comparing respective key-frames from each frame sequence, which are temporally as far apart from each other as possible but lie outside gradual transitions. Additionally or alternatively, film grammar- and probability-based taking into account of all types of transitions with respect to their separating and/or merging effect on the frame sequences surrounding the transitions and a differently weighted incorporation of the effects of the different types of transitions into uniting frame sequences k into scenes is provided. Thus, all types of transitions are incorporated in determining frame sequence boundaries as scene boundaries with a corresponding weighting, both their separating and merging effect is taken into account, and this knowledge is introduced on a probability basis into the decision in existing scene detection methods. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316308 | Method and Device for Programming an Image Acquisition System - Method and device for programming an image acquisition system including a camera having a field of vision and a processor of images taken by the camera, in order to define at least one detection area in the field of vision of the camera, in which a sending device ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316309 | Computer Network Security - The invention relates to a computer equipment security system ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316310 | Method and apparatus for monitoring a region - A method and device for monitoring a monitored area with at least one camera ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316311 | Video Retrieval System, Method and Computer Program for Surveillance of Moving Objects - Video surveillance systems are used to monitor public places, streets, buildings, cities and other premises or surroundings and comprise a multitude of cameras which are monitoring relevant points in the surroundings. One of the problems of surveillance systems is, that the multitude of cameras produce a large amount of video data to be monitored, which requires a lot of human observers resulting in high personnel costs. A video retrieval system ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316312 | SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING VIDEO OF AN ACCIDENT UPON DETECTING A POTENTIAL IMPACT EVENT - A system and method for monitoring a vehicle and obtaining video of an accident or other criminal incident are described. An embodiment of the system includes one or more cameras mounted on a vehicle, a wireless transmitter, and a contact detection system comprising a processor in electrical communication with the one or more cameras, the wireless transmitter and one or more sensors configured to detect a potential contact event, wherein the processor is configured to receive an indication in response to one or more of the sensors detecting the potential contact event, activate at least one of the cameras to capture video data subsequent to receiving the indication of the potential contact event, determine whether or not the contact event occurs and discard the captured video data in response to determining that the contact event did not occur. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316313 | Multifunction Remote Control System for Audio and Video Recording, Capture, Transmission and Playback of Full Motion and Still images - A multifunction remote controlled video recording, transmission and playback system includes a still frame generator adapted for selecting and generating still frames on the fly while a full motion video signal is being recorded, without interrupting the recording function. Audio and data signals, such as cockpit audio in an aircraft and gps and telemetry signals may also be incorporated in the recorded full motion video recording on a real time synchronized basis. The still frames are digitally enhanced, producing a full field frame from the analog video signal. Still frames can be produced in single, burst and snap modes without interrupting the full motion video recording function. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316314 | Vehicle surveillance system - A security system for monitoring activities occurring within and around a vehicle. The security system includes a video camera positioned to monitor activities occurring within said vehicle. A receiver receives video data from the video camera and stores the data in its hard drive. The receiver includes a recording means configured to record the video data to the hard drive. The receiver also monitors for defined triggering events. When a triggering event is detected, video data associated with the time of the triggering event is stored for subsequent retrieval. The system optionally includes a method for transmitting the event data to an external device. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316315 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALERTING BY WEIGHING DATA BASED ON THE SOURCE, TIME RECEIVED, AND FREQUENCY RECEIVED - Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring, alerting, and acting, including the following steps. Input data is received from one or more sensory devices. One or more data weights are determined for the input data based on a weight corresponding to a source of the input data, a weight corresponding to a time the input data was received, and a weight corresponding to a frequency that the input data was received. A set of rules is evaluated based on the input data and the data weights. One or more actions, including a hierarchy of one or more alerts, are activated based on the result of the evaluation of the rules. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316316 | Digital camera capable of transmitting image data remotely - A digital camera aims to transmit image data captured by a camera lens to an external electronic device such as a PDA, 3G handset or personal computer. Hence the digital camera does not need a large capacity storage device to store the image data. The cost is lower. And users can instantly get images captured by the digital camera at a remote site. The risk of image data sabotage or tampering can be prevented to enhance burglar alarm effect to better meet users' requirement. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316317 | OPTICAL ALIGNMENT OF CAMERAS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD - A method for calibration of an imaging device that includes a sensor and optics for forming an image on the sensor. The method includes making a first image quality measurement, based on an output of the sensor, while imaging a first target at a first distance from the device and varying an offset between the optics and the sensor. A second image quality measurement is made while imaging a second target at a second distance from the device, which is different from the first distance, and varying the offset between the optics and the sensor. A working point of the optics is set relative to the sensor responsively to the first and second image quality measurements. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316318 | Bit Weighting Alignment in a Display Device - The disclosed embodiments relate to a method and apparatus to align bit weights in a display device. There is provided a method for calibrating light output in a display device, the method comprising: displaying a first video pattern, the first video pattern comprising a first set of pixels divided into a first subset of pixels and a second subset of pixels, the first subset of pixels having a first intensity level, the second subset of pixels having an intensity level corresponding to a fully off state; measuring a first light output value associated with the first video pattern; displaying a second video pattern, the second video pattern comprising a second set of pixels, each of the second set of pixels having a second intensity level corresponding to a fraction of the first intensity level, the fractional value of second intensity level being determined so that a second light output value associated with the second video pattern is intended to equal the first light output; measuring the second light output value; and adjusting the fractional value of the LSB to converge the second light output value with the first light output value. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316319 | Digital Camera - A digital camera procures from an external device related to image-capturing upon image-capturing data on the external device and records the procured data and digital image data of the procured image in relation to each other. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316320 | Clock serizlizer/deserializer transmission method and appartus - An apparatus and method for use in transmitting data that is supplied with a high jitter input clock in a serial data stream over a single fiber cable. Video data from a camera is stored in memory using the high jitter clock. A stable clock is used to transmit the data from memory. To account for drift between the input clock and the stable clock idle words are added to or deleted from the transmitted data. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316321 | Method Of Notifying Users Regarding Motion Artifacts Based On Image Analysis - A digital image acquisition system includes a portable apparatus for capturing digital images and a digital processing component for detecting, analyzing and informing the photographer regarding motion blur, and for reducing camera motion blur in an image captured by the apparatus. The digital processing component operates by comparing the image with at least one other image, for example a preview image, of nominally the same scene taken outside the exposure period of the main image. In one embodiment the digital processing component determines the degree of artifacts and whether to inform the user that the image is blurred by identifying at least one feature in a single preview image which is relatively less blurred than the corresponding feature in the main image. In another embodiment, the digital processing component calculates a trajectory of at least one feature in a plurality of preview images, extrapolates such feature on to the main image, calculates a PSF in respect of the feature, and informs the user based on the calculated PSF. In another embodiment the digital processing unit after determining the degree of blur notifies the photographer of the existing blur or automatically invokes consecutive captures. In another embodiment, the digital processing unit determines whether the image quality is acceptable from real time analysis of the captured image and provides this information to the user. Such real time analysis may use the auto focusing mechanism to qualitatively determine the PSF. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316322 | Single motor/actuator for adjusting two assemblies - The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for a single motor/actuator adjustment of two assemblies (e.g., for performing zoom and auto-focus functions) for image adjustment using a clutch unit (e.g., a switch) in image adjustment modules of electronic devices. The clutch unit can be used to engage one of two lead screws having a common axis one at a time with a driving shaft (e.g., having the same common axis), so these two lead screws can operate independently in order to provide adjustments of the two assemblies. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316323 | Image Input Apparatus, Image Input Method, Personal Authentication Apparatus, and Electronic Apparatus - An image input apparatus that inputs an image of an object residing within a living body is disclosed. The image input apparatus includes a light source that irradiates near infrared light on the living body, a lens array arranged at a position facing the living body and including plural lenses each having a face with zero or negative power arranged at a side facing the living body and a face with positive power arranged at a side facing an image surface, an imaging unit arranged at the image surface side of the lens array that forms a compound-eye image corresponding to a collection of ommatidium images formed by the lenses of the lens array, and a reconstruction unit that reconstructs a single image from the compound-eye image using a parallax between the ommatidium images. The reconstructed single image is input as the image of the object. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316324 | POSITION DETECTION AND/OR MOVEMENT TRACKING VIA IMAGE CAPTURE AND PROCESSING - Position detection and/or movement tracking via image capture and processing. Digital cameras perform image capture of one or more objects within a particular region (e.g., a physical gaming environment). A game module or processing module processes the images captured by the digital cameras to identify a position of and/or track movement of objects (e.g., a player, a gaming object, a game controller, etc.). Various digital image processing techniques may be employed including pattern recognition of objects, color recognition/distinction, intensity recognition/distinction, relative size comparison, etc. to identify objects and/or track their movement. The coupling between the digital cameras and the game module or processing module may be wired, wireless, or a combination thereof. If wireless, any number of different signaling means may be employed including Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) signaling, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) signaling, or Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) signaling. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316325 | CAMERA HAVING AN AUTOFOCUSING SYSTEM - An autofocus camera having a face recognition function, includes a photographing optical system including a focusing lens group; an image pickup device; an autofocusing system which performs a focus search process, and further performs a focusing operation in which the focusing lens group is moved to an in-focus position that is detected by the focus search process; a switch which activates the autofocusing system; a face recognition device for recognizing a face image based on object images; and a controller which makes the autofocusing system set the focus detection area on a face recognition area at which the face image is recognized and makes the autofocusing system perform the focus search process and the focusing operation on the focus detection area regardless of whether the switch is turned ON when the face recognition device recognizes the face image. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316326 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus is provided and includes: an imaging device including a first color pixel, a second color pixel, a third color pixel, and the luminance-detecting pixels; a controlling section that generates first complementary color information by adding data of the first color pixel and data of the second color pixel adjacent to the first color pixel, generates second complementary color information by adding data of the second color pixel and data of the third color pixel adjacent to the second color pixel, and generates luminance information by adding respective data of luminance-detecting pixels adjacent to each other, when data of a reduced image having a reduced resolution as compared with a resolution for the whole pixels of the imaging device is generated, and a signal processing section that signal-processes the first complementary color information, the second complementary color information, and the luminance information to reproduce a taken image. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316327 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE WITH CONTEMPORANEOUS REFERENCE IMAGE CAPTURE MECHANISM - A hand-held or otherwise portable or spatial or temporal performance-based image capture device includes one or more lenses, an aperture and a main sensor for capturing an original main image. A secondary sensor and optical system are for capturing a reference image that has temporal and spatial overlap with the original image. The device performs an image processing method including capturing the main image with the main sensor and the reference image with the secondary sensor, and utilizing information from the reference image to enhance the main image. The main and secondary sensors are contained together within a housing. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316328 | FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND SEPARATION USING REFERENCE IMAGES - A technique involves distinguishing between foreground and background regions of a digital image of a scene. First and second images are captured of nominally a same scene. The first image is a relatively high resolution image taken with the foreground more in focus than the background, while the second image is a relatively low resolution reference image taken with the background more in focus than the foreground. Regions of the captured images are assigned as foreground or background. In accordance with the assigning, one or more processed images are rendered based on the first image or the second image, or both. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316329 | CAMERA MODULE - There is provided a camera module including: first and second image sensors having different optical characteristics and sensing images; first and second auxiliary image processors electrically connected to the first and second image sensors, respectively, and correcting optical defects of the images sensed by the first and second sensors, respectively; and an image signal processing section selecting at least one image between the images corrected by the first and second auxiliary image processors, and processing the selected image into an image signal that can be displayed, wherein at least one of the first and second image sensors may include: a center pixel array having a square shape; and first to fourth pixel arrays having one set of sides connected to sides of the center pixel array and having the same length as the sides of the center pixel array. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316330 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME, AND IMAGE SENSING SYSTEM - An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, a control unit that, during an exposure operation that generates an image in the image sensor, reads out signals of a first portion of pixels among an entire frame of pixels from the image sensor, outputs an image based on the signals of the first portion of pixels to a display unit, and, when the exposure operation is completed, reads out signals of the entire frame of pixels from the image sensor, and an image processing unit that generates an image by adding the signals of the first portion of pixels to signals of the entire frame of pixels for corresponding pixels. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316331 | Image processing apparatus and method for displaying captured image without time delay and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method - The present invention provides image processing apparatus and method for displaying a captured image without a time delay. According to the present invention, an image signal processing module outputs sequentially an image data for display and an image data for storage of a captured image to a multimedia application processing module, and the multimedia application processing module stores the image data for storage into a memory and displays the image data for display on a display means. The image data for display is already processed in conformity with format of the display means by the image signal processing module, and in particular, a separate encoding is not performed on the image data for display, and thus the multimedia application processing module can directly display the captured image on the display means without a time delay. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316332 | DUAL CAPTURE - Image acquisition device, method and computer program for digital image acquisition, where the image acquisition device comprises an actuated user interface, where the image acquisition device receives control information from a user indicative of actuation of the user interface, initiates an image acquisition process by receiving lighting data on its sensor and detecting light information. A processor in the image acquisition device analyzes then the detected light information and converts these to image data and acquires image data related to at least two different light configurations, where at least one of the light configuration comprises an image acquired by means of a flash output in the image acquisition device. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316333 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An imaging apparatus enables flicker correction with small errors even when illumination changes in the image capturing environment or when the imaging apparatus is moved. In an imaging apparatus | 2008-12-25 |
20080316334 | Apparatus and method for processing image - Provided is an apparatus and method for processing an image which can correct image distortion caused by hand shake. The apparatus includes: a reference image acquiring unit for acquiring a first and a second reference images by using different shutter times and international standard organization (ISO) values; and a color information correcting unit for correcting color information of an input image, which is obtained by using a shutter time that is shorter of the shutter times used to acquire the first and the second reference images, based on a brightness ratio and a chrominance ratio of the first and second reference images. Accordingly, image distortion caused by hand shake can be corrected. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316335 | Method and apparatus for minimizing noise pickup in image sensors - A method and apparatus for minimizing noise pickup in iSoC sensors using an improved Analog Capacitor Memory (ACM) design and optimized timing methods that together prevent direct connection of the electrical grounds between the low-speed signal processing circuit and high-speed signal processing circuit of an imaging System-on-Chip sensor. The ACM includes a two-terminal capacitor and two pairs of terminals. Each pair of terminals is connected via switches to separate circuits. The switches are controlled to isolate one side of the ACM from the other, thereby reducing the noise pickup between the circuits. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316336 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus that performs accurate correction processing for a pixel that outputs a non-reproducible high-level signal having a continuity with respect to an adjacent pixel is provided. The image pickup apparatus extracts data corresponding to a pixel of an image pickup element that generates an output value equal to or more than a predetermined value, and determines, within a predetermined area of a captured image, whether a predetermined number or more of pixels that generate an output value having the predetermined level are continuously adjacent to one another in the same direction, irrespective of the color received by the pixel. Then, if it is determined that the predetermined number or more of pixels are continuously adjacent to one another in the same direction, the pixels are indicated as targets and the outputs of the target pixels are corrected. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316337 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - To generate motion picture image data making full use of the characteristics of a photographed image such as a high resolution and a high rate fetching (high frame rate), an image pickup apparatus comprises a camera unit for photographing a subject at predetermined time intervals and generating image pickup data and an encoding unit for encoding the image pickup data as motion picture image data having an image rate which is based on the predetermined time intervals. An optimum motion picture stream is output by changing the output mode of the encoded motion picture image data output from the encoding unit according to the number of photographing pixels in the camera unit and the image rate. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316338 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, VIDEO CAMERA APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - According to this invention, if noise generated by operation of a component such as a rotary drum of a recording/playback apparatus which operates periodically enters a microphone, noise waveforms can be extracted and reduced. Data obtained from microphones ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316339 | Picture imaging apparatus and imaging control method - A picture imaging apparatus includes: an imaging means for imaging a subject picture to acquire taken picture data; a storage processing means for performing a storage process of taken picture data acquired by the imaging means; a motion detecting means for detecting motion of the picture imaging apparatus itself; a manipulating means for manipulating a shutter; and a control means for instructing the imaging means to perform a process in accordance with a shutter manipulation at a timing based on a result detected in the motion detecting means during a period during which the shutter is being manipulated by the manipulating means. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316340 | Image display and recording apparatus and a recording medium on which a category control program is recorded - An image display and recording apparatus displays at least one image which belongs to a category as a heading image which shows that category. The heading images are selected from a plurality of images recorded in memory. The display of the heading images allows the content of each category to be grasped at one glance when selecting the category. The heading images may be used when displaying the categories of the images in various types of displays. Such displays include an index screen, a cartridge list screen, a category list screen, a category index screen, a story list screen, and a story index screen. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316341 | DETECTING RED EYE FILTER AND APPARATUS USING META-DATA - A method of filtering a red-eye phenomenon from an acquired digital image including a multiplicity of pixels indicative of color, the pixels forming various shapes of the image, includes analyzing meta-data information, determining one or more regions within the digital image suspected as including red eye artifact, and determining, based at least in part on the meta-data analysis, whether the regions are actual red eye artifact. The meta-data information may include information describing conditions under which the image was acquired, captured and/or digitized, acquisition device-specific information, and/film information. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316342 | ACCURATE GAIN IMPLEMENTATION IN CMOS SENSOR - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate combining analog and digital gain for utilization with CMOS sensor imagers. The analog gain can provide coarse gain steps and the digital gain can provide finer gain steps between adjacent coarse analog gain values. Further, since analog gain can suffer from low precision, dispersion, etc., on-chip calibration can be implemented to calibrate the analog and digital gain. For example, a digital amplifier can be calibrated to compensate for differences between actual and nominal analog gains associated with one or more analog amplifiers. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316343 | Method and Apparatus For Allowing Access to Individual Memory - A method for detecting color temperature and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. According to the present invention, the apparatus for detecting color temperature converts RGB color information, generated by interpolating an image signal sequentially inputted in units of pixel from an image sensor, to a three-dimensional coordinate value of luminance, R-G color difference information, and B-G color difference information, and then renews the added value per color, if included in a filtering zone corresponding to a characteristic curve of the image sensor Then, an average value per color is generated in units of frame, and the compensation rate per color is determined such that the average value per color becomes identical to each other With the present invention, accurate colors can be displayed by detecting the color temperature of the current light source and correcting the distorted color information. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316344 | IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT MODULE, AND LENS UNIT AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT MODULES - In an image pickup element module, a heat releasing member disposed to be thermally coupled to an FPC substrate and an image pickup element is formed of a PPS resin material having good thermal conductivity. Further, this image pickup element module is configured so that a phase-changing heat storage which is insert-molded or formed into a sheet shape is disposed to be thermally coupled to the heat releasing member. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316345 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging element and an imaging device of the present invention have photoelectric conversion sections arranged two-dimensionally with respect to the surface of a semiconductor substrate; a color filter layer that is made up of a plurality of color filters for decomposing incident light into different colors and brightness filters for causing light including all color components to pass and where the plurality of color filters and the brightness filters are arranged at positions above the photoelectric conversion sections; vertical charge transfer sections linearly extended so as to transfer signal charges read from the respective photoelectric conversion sections; reading regions for reading signal charges generated by the photoelectric conversion sections to the vertical charge transfer sections; and light-shielding films that are provided so as to cover the vertical charge transfer sections and that have opening sections located above the respective photoelectric conversion sections. The opening sections of the light-shielding films of the pixels where the color filters are disposed are formed so as to become smaller than the opening sections of the pixels having the brightness filter in terms of a horizontal distance between the reading region of the adjacent pixel and an open edge of the opening section. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316346 | Color solid-state image pickup device and method for reading out pixel signals - A color solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel section having sets of a total of four adjacent pixels arrayed 2×2 in horizontal and vertical directions. Each of the sets consists of an first pixel serving as an upper left pixel and having a first spectral characteristic, a second pixel serving as an upper right pixel and having a second spectral characteristic, a third pixel serving as a lower left pixel and having a third spectral characteristic, and a fourth pixel serving as a lower right pixel and having a fourth spectral characteristic. The pixel section is formed by arraying the sets in the horizontal and vertical directions so that the sets form a matrix. The color solid-state image pickup device uses, as a unit of addition, a total of 16 pixels consisting of four adjacent sets arrayed 2×2 in the horizontal and vertical directions. The color solid-state image pickup device adds up and reads out respective pixel signals of the pixels. The color solid-state image pickup device creates a luminance signal by adding up and reading out respective pixel signals of the first, second, third, and fourth pixels constituting the set. This makes it possible to achieve both high sensitivity and high resolution by inhibiting the resolution from being reduced by adding up pixel signals. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316347 | ADAPTIVE PIXEL FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE AND DISTURBANCE DETECTION AND CORRECTION - A new adaptive pixel architecture, folded-multiple-capture (FMC), integrates synchronous self-reset and multiple capture schemes and advantageously eliminates the requirement of a high-frame-rate sensor array, which is essential for conventional image sensors with high dynamic range. The FMC comprises a per-pixel analog-front-end (AFE), a fine analog-digital convertor (ADC) stage, and a digital-signal-processor/controller (DSPC) stage. The AFE performs programmable gain control, synchronous self-reset, sample-and-hold, and enables disturbance detection. In the AFE, a comparator compares an integrator output with a threshold voltage and produces a binary sequence accordingly. The ADC utilizes the binary sequence and the folded multiple capture signals to estimate photocurrent. An image sensor embodying the present invention adapts integration time to signal level, has minimal per-pixel hardware requirement, provides a very high dynamic range, about 120 dB or more, at high speed, about 1,000 frames/s or more, detects and corrects subframe disturbances, and consumes significantly less power. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316348 | VIRTUAL WHITEBOARD - In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first camera configured to receive a first image via a first polarized filter, a second camera configured to receive a second image via a second polarized filter, a first projector coupled to the second camera via a communication link, the first projector configured to project the second image onto a first presentation screen via a third polarized filter, the third polarized filter being substantially opposite in polarization from the second polarized filter, and a second projector coupled to the first camera via the communication link, the second projector configured to project the first image onto a second presentation screen via a fourth polarized filter, the fourth polarized filter being substantially opposite in polarization from the first polarized filter. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316349 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - An image display apparatus includes a display which displays an image based on an image signal. An ambient light measuring unit measures the intensity of ambient light around the display. A brightness distribution measuring unit measures a brightness distribution in a scene when the image signal is obtained. A parameter calculator calculates a correction parameter for correcting a partial contrast of the image based on the ambient light intensity and brightness distribution in the scene. A contrast correction unit corrects a partial contrast of the image by correcting the image signal by using the calculated correction parameter. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316350 | Image Acquisition System - An image acquisition system for use in a motor vehicle, and a method for manufacturing an image acquisition system, are provided. Image acquisition system encompasses an image sensor, an optical module, a housing and a carrier for the image sensor mounted on a circuit board. For the purpose of adjusting the image sensor and optical module, the carrier is movable in multiple axes and, after an optimum adjusted position is reached, is immobilizable therein with immobilization means. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316351 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - A photographing apparatus including an in-focus position detector for detecting an in-focus position of a focusing lens to focus an image of a subject on an image pickup surface, a driving controller for controlling the driving of the focusing lens, a reflective member that opens and closes on a path of a light that is irradiated onto the image pickup surface, and an optical measuring unit measuring a brightness of the subject image that is reflected by the reflective member in a closed state when a preliminary light emission operation is performed with respect to the subject before performing a main exposure operation. In the preliminary light emission, the driving controller drives the focusing lens to a position nearer the subject or a position nearer the image pickup surface, rather than to the in-focus position of the focusing lens detected by the in-focus position detector. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316352 | Focusing apparatus and method - The invention discloses a focusing apparatus applied in an image recording system. The focusing apparatus of the invention includes an evaluating unit and a control module. The evaluating unit can generate a plurality of focus values in accordance with an image sensed by a sensor. Furthermore, the control module can calculate a weight focus value in accordance with the focus values, and selectively generates a control signal based on the weight focus value and a depth of focus table, so as to control the movement of a lens. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316353 | IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS AND LENS APPARATUS - An image taking apparatus which can perform a focusing operation quickly is described. The image taking apparatus comprises a light splitting unit which splits a light flux from the image-taking lens into a plurality of light fluxes, a view finder optical system for observing an object image formed by the light flux from the image-taking lens, an image pickup element which photoelectrically converts the object image to an electric signal and a focus detection unit for detecting the focusing state of the image-taking lens according to a phase difference detection system. Here, the light splitting unit changes between a first state in which the light flux is directed to the view finder optical system and the focus detection unit and a second state in which the light flux is directed to the image pickup element and the focus detection unit. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316354 | Method and Device for Creating High Dynamic Range Pictures from Multiple Exposures - The invention relates to a method and a device for creating pictures and more particularly a method for creating an enhanced picture by means of several consecutive exposures. The exposures are combined to create pictures with enhanced properties, especially better color and light content. Sufficient light is obtained by performing a series of first exposures together with one second exposure in rapid succession. The first exposures are combined to provide sufficient luminance and sharpness. The second exposure is made to collect color information. The first exposures are combined with the second exposure to provide an enhanced picture. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316355 | CAMERA - A camera includes an image sensor, and a plurality of metering areas are assigned to an object scene captured by the image sensor. A CPU evaluates a luminance of the object scene for each metering area, and binarizes each of the plurality of obtained luminance evaluated values. Furthermore, on the basis of the plurality of binarized luminance evaluated values, a width of a high luminance area included in the object scene is calculated while a width of an adjacent area adjacent to the high luminance area out of a low luminance area included in the object scene is calculated. Then, each of the plurality of luminance evaluated values is corrected on the basis of a ratio between the width of the calculated adjacent area and the width of the calculated high luminance area. An exposure amount to the image sensor is adjusted on the basis of the luminance evaluated values thus corrected. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316356 | DETECTION OF PROGRESSIVE PULLDOWN IN A VIDEO SEQUENCE - System and methods for the detection of progressive pulldown in a video sequence are provided. The method comprises calculating a difference between temporally adjacent frames in the video sequence, generating a pattern based upon these differences, and comparing the generated pattern against patterns understood for known progressive film modes in order to determine if the video sequence comprises a known progressive film mode. In one embodiment, the pattern may be adjusted to account for uncertainty in assigning values to the pattern, reducing the likelihood of false detections. In another advantage, confidence metrics are built into the method in order to further reduce the incidence of false detections. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316357 | SECURE DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE - A secure display device is designed to display on a screen a first set of information edited by an open operating system. A secure operating system resident in a dedicated circuit edits a second set of information. A filter allocates, independently of the open operating system, a first zone of the screen to the first set of information and a second zone of the screen to the second set of information. The zones and can have a non-zero intersection and any value. A real video memory is used for transferring the two sets of information to the screen under the sole control of the secure operating system so as to produce a secure display of the second set of information. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316358 | System and method for picture-in-picture assisted time-adaptive surfing for a content presentation system - Systems and/or methods are disclosed herein to identify a user interacting with a content presentation system, adaptively learn, in a passive manner, a user's pattern of accessing content over time, and globally store the user's identifying and use information. Specifically, disclosed are systems and/or methods for switching from a first signal provided to a second signal, including identifying a user of a first content presentation system, creating a first preferred channel list which includes channel information for each of select ones of plural signals, where the preferred channel list is created based on the identity of the user and based on channel use information for the user during a recurring first time period, presenting substantially simultaneously to the user a first signal of the select ones of plural signals in a first frame and a second signal of the select ones of plural signals in a second frame. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316359 | DETECTION AND INTERPOLATION OF STILL OBJECTS IN A VIDEO SEQUENCE - The present disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting and interpolating still pixels. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods establish a still pixel level for each still pixel, and using that still pixel level, provide an interpolation procedure for determining the pixel value of a selected pixel at a frame a distance α from frame F(t−1). Disclosed embodiments are capable of providing motion compensated interpolation results for a wide variety of circumstances, including cases where the endpoints of the motion vector of a selected pixel to be interpolated vary between substantially still and not still, as well as cases where mixtures of temporal and motion compensation interpolations are necessary. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316360 | INFORMATION SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CREATING DATABASE, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION SIGNAL, AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION SIGNAL - Disclosed is an information signal processing apparatus. The information signal processing apparatus includes an adjustment unit by which users each adjust an inputted information signal so that an output of the information signal has a predetermined quality, and a storage unit that stores operation information having a final adjustment value of a series of adjustments carried out by the adjustment unit, and history information relating to a sequence of changes to an adjustment value up to the final adjustment value in a storage medium in association with preference information of the user during the series of adjustments. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316361 | PICTURE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND PICTURE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A picture signal processing device includes an A/D conversion unit configured to convert an input analog picture signal into a digital picture signal; an automatic image correction unit configured to correct the digital picture signal from the A/D conversion unit; a narrowing-down unit configured to narrow down possible formats of the analog picture signal based on horizontal and vertical signal frequencies of the analog picture signal, horizontal and vertical synchronizing signal polarities and vertical line count; and an identification unit configured to identify the format of the input analog picture signal from among a plurality of narrowed-down candidate signal formats. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316362 | MECHANISMS TO CONCEAL REAL TIME VIDEO ARTIFACTS CAUSED BY FRAME LOSS - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate describing, communicating, utilizing, etc. a frame dependency structure in connection with real time video communication. For example, a protocol can be employed to communicate the dependency structure from a sender to a receiver. Moreover, a mechanism on a receiver side can detect frame(s) that will be rendered with artifacts if displayed due to previous frame loss; this mechanism can leverage receiver side knowledge concerning the dependency structure of the of the frames. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316363 | System and method for estimating noises in a video frame - A system and method for estimating noises in a frame is disclosed. A storage device is provided to store a previous frame prior to the frame. Multiple window noise estimators are provided to estimate noise between sub-regions of the frame and corresponding sub-regions of the previous frame for producing a noise estimation index and an adjusted noise estimation index for each sub-region. A comparator selects the minimum one among the adjusted noise estimation indexes and produces a corresponding window index. When the minimum adjusted noise estimation index is smaller than a threshold, a global motion detector outputs the noise index corresponding to the minimum adjusted noise estimation index for use as a noise estimation of the frame. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316364 | RATE DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION FOR VIDEO DENOISING - Based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimates, video denoising techniques for frames of noisy video are provided. With the assumptions that noise is similar to or satisfies Gaussian distribution and an a priori conditional density model measurable by bit rate, a MAP estimate of a denoised current frame can be expressed as a rate distortion optimization problem. A constraint minimization problem based on the rate distortion optimization problem is used to vary a lagrangian parameter to optimize the denoising process. The lagrangian parameter is determined as a function of distortion of the noise. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION ESTIMATION - An efficient method of motion estimation is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of macroblocks in a reference frame, wherein the plurality of macroblocks are used for motion estimation related to a current frame, and performing the motion estimation for a plurality of macroblocks in the current frame by using the received plurality of macroblocks in the reference frame. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316366 | Display Device, Viewing Angle Control Device, and Electronic Apparatus - A portable phone has a main LCD and a SW-LCD, provided on a path of light to be transmitted by the main LCD, which electrically switches between (i) an image to be seen in a single image display mode and (ii) an image to be seen in a multiple image display mode. In the multiple image display mode, the display switch makes it possible that (a) the image displayed by the image display is seen from a front direction and (b) an image obtained by superimposing, onto the image displayed by the image display, a switching image formed by the display switch is seen from an oblique direction. The switching image is formed by providing, with at least one of a pair of transparent electrode films for applying a voltage to a liquid crystal layer, a patterning having an area larger than 50% of an area of a display screen. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316367 | Selectable Audio Output Configuration - An audio/video apparatus such as a television apparatus includes two or more auxiliary audio inputs (AUX | 2008-12-25 |
20080316368 | Method and Device For Moving a Camera Disposed on a Pan/Tilt Head Long a Given Trajectory - The invention relates to a method for moving a camera that is disposed on a pan/tilt head along a given trajectory especially in a set or studio as well as an associated camera robot. In order to be able to move a camera with repeated accuracy along a given trajectory, an associated trajectory is determined for the spatial positions and orientations of a basic reference system of the pan/tilt head from the given trajectory for the camera, and associated control variables for shafts of a robot that can be moved in Cartesian coordinates are generated from the determined trajectory for the basic reference system of the pan/tilt head and are transmitted to the shafts, thus allowing camera movements to be made that are not possible with previously known systems. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316369 | Broadcast Reception Module and Broadcast Device Using the Same - A broadcast module includes a receiver for selecting the signal of a specific channel from the signals of a plurality of channels under control of a controller; a demodulator connected to the output of the receiver; a detector for detecting the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal selected by the receiver; and a comparator for comparing the signal-to-noise ratio detected by the detector with a predetermined level. The broadcast module can reduce the time required to specify a viewable cannel. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316370 | Broadcasting receiver, broadcasting reception method and medium having broadcasting program recorded thereon - The present invention discloses a broadcasting receiver that receives broadcasting signals in terrestrial digital broadcasting and displays terrestrial digital broadcasting on a screen of a personal computer. The broadcasting receiver includes a recording unit that records a transport stream including the broadcasting signals as recorded data, assigns an elapsed time since recording initiation of the recorded data, and then records caption information contained in the transport stream corresponding to the recorded data as caption data; a search unit that searches, from the caption data, the caption information including a text row inputted via a user interface that receives a command from a user, and displays search results on the screen of the personal computer; and a reproduction unit that, when the caption information is alternatively selected from the search results via the user interface, starts reproducing the recorded data from the elapsed time corresponding to the selected caption information. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316371 | APPLIANCE REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A remote control apparatus and method of using are disclosed for controlling an electronic appliance such as a television set, radio, computer, or other. The remote control apparatus may include a hand held housing, a wireless transmitter for sending signals to the appliance, and a manually operated rotary controller for causing operation adjusting signals to be generated and supplied to the transmitter. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316372 | VIDEO DISPLAY ENHANCEMENT BASED ON VIEWER CHARACTERISTICS - A video display with a display screen adapted to display video images according to adjustable display parameters, for example brightness, contrast, and/or sharpness, and at least one viewer sensor configured to determine at least one variable viewing characteristic and wherein the display is adapted to adjust the display parameters to adjust the displayed video image quality at least partially as a function of the variable viewing characteristic. A method of adjusting displayed image quality of a video display system, including inducing the video display system to determine at least one characteristic of a current viewing situation and adjusting one or more variable display parameters at least partially as a function of the determined characteristics. The viewing characteristics can include viewing time, viewing distance, and other. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316373 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A beam modulated by a video signal scans a projected region. A spot size of the beam in the projected region is set to be smaller than a width of one pixel in a direction vertical to a scanning direction. A group of pixels disposed in the scanning direction is scanned by the beam a plurality of times to display one screen. A scanning position of the beam with regard to the group of the pixels is shifted in the direction vertical to the scanning direction for every scanning turn to display one screen. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316374 | TEXTURE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present invention represents an object with high-quality texture. A texture image display apparatus includes: a panel display device ( | 2008-12-25 |
20080316375 | ZScreen® modulator with wire grid polarizer for stereoscopic projection - A projection design configured for use with a projector having a projector lens is provided. The device includes at least one pi-cell or pi-cell electro-optical modulator in combination with a wire grid polarizer mounted proximate the pi-cell(s). The design may include a cleanup polarizer between the pi-cell(s) and the wire grid polarizer and optionally a protective window between the wire grid projector and projection lens. The device may be oriented at an angle substantially differing from the axis of the projector lens. The resultant device includes spacing for airflow and can offer improved performance, particularly in heating, over designs previously available. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316376 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PROJECTOR - An LCD projector has LCD panels, each including polarization plates one on the light incidence side and another on the light emitting side of each LCD panel. The LCD panel is provided with a highly transparent auxiliary polarization plate between the LCD panel and the polarization plate on the light emitting side. The LCD panel is further provided with an optically anisotropic transparent substrate for supporting the highly transparent auxiliary polarization plate. The transparent substrate is arranged such that one of its anisotropic optical axes is inclined at an angle not more than 0.5 degrees with respect to the face of the auxiliary polarization plate when the face is parallel to the direction of light propagation. This arrangement ensures longer lives of the polarization plates on the light emitting sides while suppressing color irregularity on a black screen and degradation of picture contrast of the LCD projector. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316377 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PROJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid crystal projection apparatus includes an illumination system, at least a light-transforming module and a projection lens. The illumination system provides a light beam having light polarized in a first direction and in a second direction. The light-transforming module and the projection lens are both disposed on a transmission path of the light beam. The light-transforming module includes a transmissive liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a plurality of first polarizers and at least a second polarizer. The light polarized in a first direction passes through the first polarizers disposed at a side of the transmissive LCD panel, and the light polarized in a second direction is partially blocked by each of the first polarizers. The light polarized in the second direction passes through the second polarizer disposed at another side of the transmissive LCD panel, and the light polarized in the first direction is blocked by the second polarizer. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316378 | HYBRID MULTIPLEXED 3D DISPLAY AND DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A hybrid multiplexed 3D display and a displaying method thereof. The hybrid multiplexed 3D display includes an image display, a light source and an image splitter. The image display generates a view image. The light source sequentially generates light of multiple colors transmitted through the image display. The image splitter disposed above or below the image display causes image data, which is generated after the light is transmitted through the image display, to emit toward two or more than two view directions. Thus, the image viewed by a user has at least two views to achieve a stereoscopic visual effect. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316379 | Display Device - An autostereoscopic display device comprises a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display. The display pixels are arranged in orthogonal rows and columns. The device also comprises an array of parallel lenticular elements positioned over the display panel. The lenticular elements have optical focal axes that are slanted at an angle to the display pixel columns. Display areas of the display pixels have edges that are substantially parallel to the lenticular element axes so that pixels of different views are prevented to be projected to the same niewing zone, thereby preventing crosstalk between views and reducing light intensity variations (due to varying amount of the opaque black mask which is imaged. The light intensity output also varies across each pixel display area in a direction perpendicular to the lenticular element axes. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316380 | Controlling the Perceived Depth of Autostereoscopic Display Device and Method Therefor - An autostereoscopic display device comprises: a display panel having an array of display pixels for producing a display, the pixels being arranged in rows and columns; and at least two arrays of light output directing elements, the arrays being arranged in series over the display panel at different depths, each array being controllable to direct the light output from respective groups of pixels in different directions to enable a stereoscopic image to be perceived. The device is operable to selectively control any one of the arrays to provide the light output directing function, thereby providing respective first and second three dimensional display modes having different amounts of perceived depth. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316381 | Light-adjusting film - The present invention is related to a light-adjusting film including a light-adjusting film consisted of an anti-dirty layer, a curing layer, two polymer complex layers, a light-adjusting liquid crystal layer, and an attaching layer, wherein the anti-dirty layer provides an dirty-proof function, the curing layer is assembled under the anti-dirty layer, the first polymer complex layer is assembled under the curing layer, the light-adjusting liquid crystal layer is assembled under the first polymer complex layer and connected with a power source, the second polymer complex layer is assembled under the light-adjusting liquid crystal layer, and the attaching layer is assembled under the second polymer complex layer for attaching to a surface of an object. According to the structure above, the present invention is advantageous of easy installation, maintaining and renovation, UV-resisting, heat insulation, great light perviousness, uneasily being damaged and power saving. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316382 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a display device including: a display panel on which a plurality of driver chips are mounted by using a COG configuration; a signal substrate on which a timing controller for generating a differential signal inputted into each of the driver chips is formed; and a connecting substrate which connects the plurality of driver chips with the timing controller, wherein the connecting substrate includes a first connecting substrate on which a first line for inputting the differential signal into a driver chip excluding a driver chip located at a terminating area is formed and a second connecting substrate on which a second line for inputting the differential signal into the driver chip located at the terminating area, and wherein a termination resistor connects the second line for transmitting the differential signal which is formed on the second connecting substrate. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316383 | METHOD FOR DETECTING STORAGE VOLTAGE, DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE STORAGE VOLTAGE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method for detecting a storage voltage, a display apparatus using the storage voltage and a method for driving the display apparatus. The method for detecting the storage voltage includes applying a test voltage to a storage line in a display panel having an active layer disposed between the storage line and a data line while varying the test voltage, the active layer being in an active state or an inactive state according to the test voltage, and detecting the storage voltage corresponding to the test voltage in an inactive state of the active layer. Thus, the display panel is driven by using the detected storage voltage, so that an aperture ratio may be increased and current consumption may be decreased. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316384 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A display substrate includes a first metal pattern formed on a substrate and includes a data line to which a pixel voltage is applied, an insulating layer formed on the substrate on which the first metal pattern is formed, an active pattern formed on the insulating layer, a second metal pattern formed on the insulating layer and including a gate line and a storage line, the gate line crossing the data line, a scanning signal applied to the gate line, a protective layer formed on the substrate on which the second metal pattern is formed, and a pixel electrode formed on the protective layer. A method for manufacturing the display substrate, and a display apparatus including the display substrate are further provided. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316385 | Liquid crystal display device - Three layers are formed on a TFT substrate SUB | 2008-12-25 |
20080316386 | Thin Film Transistor, Thin Film Transistor Substrate, and Methods for Manufacturing the Same - A thin film transistor includes a channel layer of a specific shape, a thermal gradient inducer body, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode and an interlayer insulating film, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The channel layer is formed on a substrate. The channel layer has a nucleation region and a crystal end. The thermal gradient inducer body partially circumscribes the channel layer. The gate insulating film is formed on the substrate, and the channel layer is at least partially covered with the gate insulating film. The gate electrode is formed on the gate insulating film. The interlayer insulating film is formed on the gate insulating film, and the gate electrode is at least partially covered with the interlayer insulating film. The source electrode and the drain electrode are formed on the interlayer insulating film, passed through the gate insulating film and the interlayer insulating film, and electrically connected to the channel layer. | 2008-12-25 |
20080316387 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULE - A liquid crystal module includes a frame, a light reflecting sheet, a cold cathode tube, an optical sheet, a liquid crystal panel, a bezel and a pair of lamp frames. The frame includes a pair of opposing side plates and a bottom plate. The side plates have a plurality of engagement components. The bottom plate has a plurality of latching holes. Each of the lamp frames has a front plate part with a latching leg piece and a rear plate part with a latching component. The latching leg piece is inserted into one of the latching holes of the bottom plate of the frame to latch to the respective one of the latching hole. The latching component latches upward to respective one of the engagement components of the side plates of the frame. | 2008-12-25 |