06th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120033056 | Stereoscopic Video Display Apparatus and Display Method - In one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus includes: a plane display unit including a display screen in which first to third subpixels having respectively different color components are arranged in a matrix form; and an optical plate disposed to be opposed to the plane display unit and having a plurality of optical aperture parts. The plane display unit includes a configuration obtained by arranging the first subpixels on a first subpixel row, arranging the third subpixels on a second subpixel row adjacent to the first subpixel row, arranging the second subpixels on a third subpixel row adjacent to the second subpixel row, arranging the third subpixels on a fourth subpixel row adjacent to the third subpixel row, and arranging a set of the first to fourth subpixel rows in the column direction of subpixels on the display screen repeatedly. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033057 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC VISION DISPLAY APPARATUS - An electro-optic device includes: an electro-optic panel displaying a display image with illumination light emitted from an illumination device; a display control circuit controlling the electro-optic panel to display a right-eye image during a right display period and display a left-eye image during a left display period; a glasses control circuit controlling a right-eye shutter of stereoscopic vision glasses so as to maintain an open state during the right display period, controlling a left-eye shutter of stereoscopic vision glasses so as to maintain an open state during the left display period, and controlling both the right-eye shutter and the left-eye shutter so as to maintain a close state during a blocking period; and an illumination control circuit controlling the illumination device to vary an intensity of the illumination light in a pulsed shape during the blocking period. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033058 | Stereoscopic Video Display Apparatus and Display Method - In one embodiment, a stereoscopic video display apparatus is configured to divide each of frames displaying a stereoscopic video into two subframes; assign one pixel from among the plurality of parallax images to each row in each subframe; display parallax images of a first group from among the plurality of parallax images in odd-numbered rows and displaying parallax images of a remaining second group from among the plurality of parallax images in even-numbered rows, when displaying one of the first and second subframes; and display parallax images of the second group in odd-numbered rows and displaying parallax images of the first group in even-numbered rows when displaying the other of the first and second subframes. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033059 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS, VIDEO VIEWING GLASSES, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING THE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THE GLASSES - Provided is a video system equipped with a video display apparatus and video viewing glasses used for viewing a video displayed on the video display apparatus. The video display apparatus includes: a display section for displaying the video; a synchronizing signal generator for generating an external synchronizing signal in synchronism with the video to notify a display end of a frame constituting the video in synchronism with the video; and a synchronizing signal transmitter for transmitting the external synchronizing signal to the video viewing glasses. The video viewing glasses include: a synchronizing signal receiver for receiving the external synchronizing signal; an optical filter section having a pair of optical filters for adjusting light amounts to be transmitted to left and right eyes of a viewer, respectively; and an optical filter controller for controlling the optical filter section in response to the external synchronizing signal. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033060 | SHUTTER GLASSES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PAIR OF SHUTTER GLASSES - A method for controlling shutter glasses includes controlling each of a first shutter lens and a second shutter lens to be switched between an on-state and an off-state, wherein the first shutter lens stays in the on-state within an image output period corresponding to a secondary first image, and stays in the off-state with an image output period corresponding to a following primary second image, and the second shutter lens stays in the off-state within the image output period corresponding to the primary second image, and stays in the on-state within an image output period corresponding to a following secondary second image. The first shutter lens and the second shutter lens simultaneously stay in the off-state only within a single continuous time period of the image output period corresponding to the primary second image. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033061 | SHUTTER GLASSES CAPABLE OF CHANGING POLARIZATION DIRECTION THEREOF, AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND TRANSMITTER - Shutter glasses include a frame, two lenses disposed on the frame and a control chip. The control chip is utilized for selecting one of a plurality of operation modes to set the glasses according to a type of the display apparatus, wherein the operation modes are respectively corresponding to a plurality of type of the display apparatuses. In addition, the present invention further provides a shutter glasses system, a method for controlling shutter glasses and a transmitter thereof. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033062 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EXAMINING OR IMAGING AN INTERIOR SURFACE OF A CAVITY - A method for examining an interior surface of a cavity includes the steps of capturing partial images of an interior surface of a cavity; joining the captured partial images to form a complete image of said interior surface of the cavity; and providing an warning if the joined partial images does not form a complete image of said interior surface of the cavity. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033063 | Method and device for recognition of natural skin during contact-free biometric identification of a person - A contact-free biometric identification apparatus includes a housing, a first light-emitting diode (LED) positioned in the housing having a first predetermined wavelength to illuminate a portion of skin, a second LED positioned in the housing having a second predetermined wavelength to illuminate the portion of skin, an irradiation location outside of the housing and defined by illumination from the first and second LED on the portion of skin, a detector at a predetermined position in the housing for detecting a fraction of the first and second LED light scattered from the irradiation. location and a processing unit that employs a scatter function to determine the presence of live skin based on a correspondence of the detected light to stored data of optical properties of skin. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033064 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, SPECIMEN OBSERVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A microscope system includes a pigment amount calculating unit, a cell component identification processing unit, a target molecule expression portion extraction unit, a cell variant setting unit, a cell variant classification determining unit, and a display image generating unit. The pigment amount calculating unit calculates a pigment amount of a molecule target pigment for each pixel of a VS image. The cell component identification processing unit identifies a cell component based on the pigment amount. The target molecule expression portion extraction unit extracts expression portions of target molecules in the area of the cell component. The cell variant setting unit sets a cell variant including a combination of presence/absence of expressions of target molecules. The cell variant classification determining unit classifies a cell area in the VS image into a cell variant based on the combination of the expression portions of the target molecules included in the cell area. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033065 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - The invention relates to a sensor arrangement for a construction machine with a sensor which is set up for gathering measurement data from a sampling region or from a sampling point. The invention is characterised in that an illumination device for illuminating the sampling region or the sampling point is integrated into the sensor arrangement. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033066 | Method and device for optically measuring the surface of a product - The present invention relates to a device ( | 2012-02-09 |
20120033067 | Method and System for Inspecting Indirect Bandgap Semiconductor Structure | 2012-02-09 |
20120033068 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD FOR THE SAME - Image pickup is executed at an image pickup timing based on reference pulses by using, as a trigger, workpiece pulses which are output at an interval synchronized with a shape portion (projecting or recess portion) which is periodically and repetitively formed on a workpiece being rotated, and the image pickup is executed at the image pickup timing based on the reference pulses PA every time only reference pulses PA whose number corresponds to a pulse number between workpiece pulses are output from the image pickup timing concerned. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033069 | SCANNER DISPLAY - Measuring a volume of space including providing a laser scanner having a transmitter, a receiver, a beam steering mechanism, and a display unit integral to the laser scanner. A plurality of distances to measuring points are determined based at least in part on propagation times of measuring beams sent from the beam steering mechanism and reflected beams. Gray-scale values representative of the measuring points are determined and assigned to elements of a measuring point array, and the measuring point array is transformed into a display point array that corresponds to a first number of display points. The measuring point array corresponds to a second number of measuring points greater than the first number. The transforming includes assigning display gray-scale values to elements of the display point array. For each display point, a pixel of the display unit is illuminated, with the level of illumination depending on the display gray-scale value. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033070 | LOCAL SEARCH DEVICE AND LOCAL SEARCH METHOD - A Local search device includes a camera module for taking a photo an image and acquired image information; a positioning module, a directional measurement module and an view field angle information acquisition module for acquiring location information of its own, direction information of photo and field angle of view information at a time when said camera module photographs an image, respectively; an information processing module for storing and processing information including said image information, said location information of its own, said direction information of photo and said field angle of view information; and an image display module for indicating said stored image information, wherein said information processing module determines, from said location information of its own, said direction information of photo and said field angle of view information acquired and stored when said camera module has photographed an image, a direction range fitting into a photographed image-plane of said photographed image, and extracts a target object existing within said direction range and data associated with said target object from a database, and wherein, in an image indicated when said stored image information is displayed on said image display module, data associated with said extracted target object is indicated corresponding to a place where said target object is located. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033071 | POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A position and orientation measurement apparatus comprises: a distance information obtaining unit adapted to obtain distance information of a target object captured by a capturing unit; a grayscale image obtaining unit adapted to obtain a grayscale image of the target object; a first position and orientation estimation unit adapted to estimate a position and orientation of the target object based on the information of a three-dimensional shape model and the distance information; a second position and orientation estimation unit adapted to estimate a position and orientation of the target object based on a geometric feature of the grayscale image and projection information obtained by projecting, on the grayscale image, the information of the three-dimensional shape model; and a determination unit adapted to determine whether a parameter of the capturing unit is needed to be calibrated or not, based on both a first and second estimated values. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033072 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD FOR RECORDING MOTIONED IMAGE, AND MACHINE READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A method for recording a monitored image is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. First, a monitored image is captured. A foreground image and a background image are obtained according to the monitored image and a previously monitored image. Brightness information and a threshold value are generated according to the foreground image and the background image respectively. It is determined that whether a moving object has displayed on the monitored image based on the brightness information and the threshold value. If so, the recording of the monitored image starts. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033073 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING FOREGROUND FROM BACKGROUND - Provided are apparatuses and methods for separating an image into a foreground and a background. The apparatus includes: an edge image generating unit which generates an edge image for an original image, wherein the original image includes the background and the foreground; a background edge model renewing unit which renews a background edge model based on the generated edge image; and a foreground edge extracting unit which generates a foreground edge image based on the generated edge image and the renewed background edge model. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033074 | Method and device for determining a valid lane marking - The invention relates to a method and a device for determining a valid lane marking ( | 2012-02-09 |
20120033075 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND VEHICLE - A vehicle has a display device which widens the field of view (visible area) reflected by a side mirror or a back mirror mounted on the vehicle. To enable a driver driving the vehicle to confirm safety even when it is difficult for the driver to visually recognize some of objects surrounding the vehicle, a liquid crystal display device or an EL display device is provided in the side mirror (door mirror), the back mirror (room mirror) or in an interior portion of the vehicle. A camera is mounted on the vehicle and an image from the camera is displayed on the display device. Further, information read from a sensor (distance measuring sensor) having the function of measuring the distance to another vehicle, and a sensor (impact sensor) having the function of sensing an externally applied impact force larger than a predetermined value is displayed on the display device. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033076 | VIBRATION APPLYING STRUCTURE DETECTING DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - A vibration applying structure detecting device for a wheeled vehicle traveling on a roadway having a vibration applying structure on a road surface in or adjacent to the roadway includes a lane departure judgment device that determines whether there is a lane departure tendency, a vibration detecting device that determines the frequency and the amplitude of input vibration from a road surface to the vehicle, and a contact judgment device that determines that at least one of the wheels of the vehicle is contacting the vibration applying structure when the input vibration with an amplitude equal to or greater than a prescribed amplitude threshold value has a frequency that is equal to or greater than a prescribed frequency threshold value. The device may also include a threshold value setting device that sets one or both of the amplitude threshold value and the frequency threshold value. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033077 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A device has a unit acquires photograph images taken by a first and a second camera; a unit sets correspondences between positions in a first photograph image, in a first display image, in a second photograph image, and in a second display image on the basis of a first photographic line-of-sight from the first camera, a line-of-sight in the first display image based on the first photograph image, a second photographic line-of-sight from the second camera, and a line-of-sight in the second display image based on the second photograph image; and a unit generates the first display image based on correspondence with the first photograph image, generates a third display image by interpolating between the first display image and the second display image based on correspondence with the first photograph image or the second photograph image, and generates the second display image based on correspondence with the second photograph image. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033078 | HANDLING ASSISTANT APPARATUS FOR TWO-BODY CONNECTED VEHICLE - A handling assistant apparatus for two-body connected vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus is applied to a two-body connected vehicle including a tractor and a trailer, the tractor and the trailer having different turn radius. A static signal acquisition means acquires static signals of the tractor and the trailer. A moving orientation signal acquisition means acquires moving orientation signals of the tractor and the trailer. A video signal acquisition means acquires original video signals. An angle acquisition means is mounted at the joint point of the tractor and the trailer and acquires an angle signal between the moving orientations of the tractor and the trailer. A dynamic signal generation means generates dynamic signals of the tractor and the trailer based on the original video signals, the static signals, the moving orientation signals and the angle signal. The dynamic signal reflects a prediction of the moving orientation and a position of the tractor and the trailer. A dynamic signal presentation means presents the dynamic signal. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033079 | CAMERA FOR A VEHICLE - A camera for a vehicle, in particular for monitoring the exterior environment. The camera having: an imager having a plurality of pixels, having different imager regions for different object distances, and an objective situated before the imager. Between the objective and the imager there is provided an additional optical unit that has in particular optical microelements, e.g., microlenses, the additional optical unit having different imaging properties for the imager regions of the imager, in particular for the compensation of different object distances and/or image distances. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033080 | MONITORING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a monitoring technique for displaying a low-luminance image of e.g. a dark area in an easily visible manner. The inventive apparatus includes an image capturing unit 10 for capturing an image of an object to be monitored, an inversion condition determining unit 11 for determining whether an inversion condition is satisfied or not based on the visibility of the image captured by the image capturing unit 10, and a display image generating unit 12 for generating a negative/positive inverted image from the captured image when it is determined by the inversion condition determining unit 11 that the inversion condition is satisfied. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033081 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR INTELLIGENCE GATHERING AND POSITION TRACKING - A mobile communication device that may be used by an investigator to secretly record a suspect and track the investigator's location includes a microphone for detecting sounds, a communication component for transmitting signals or data representative of the sounds to one of the portable computers via the wireless communication network, a display for displaying information related to operation of the device, a computing device, and a computer program implemented by the computing device. The computer program is operable to place the device in a stealth mode in which the display is turned off or otherwise deactivated to make the entire device appear to be turned off while the microphone continues to detect sounds and the communication component continues to transmit signals or data representative of the sounds to a surveillance or support team operating one of the portable computers. The mobile communication device may also include a location-determining component for determining geographic locations of the device and for transmitting location data to the portable computer. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033082 | System and Method for Spatial Division Multiplexing Detection - A system and method for detecting and monitoring one or more targets uses surveillance monitors that are selectively aligned in pre-determined directions to form an integrated field of view (IFOV). The IFOV or portions thereof may be illuminated using a scanning laser beam. Information provided by the surveillance monitors is selectively processed in an order determined based on a pre-determined target search and monitoring algorithm. Embodiments are directed to increasing efficiency of detecting or monitoring targets and, in particular, multiple moving targets. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033083 | VERFAHREN ZUR VIDEOANALYSE - In a method for locating patterns of movement in a first digital video signal, wherein the first digital video signal comprising at least indirectly succeeding individual digital images is analyzed in real time, it is proposed for the locating of patterns of movement in a first digital video signal, during the occurrence of larger moving object volumes in real time, to assign at least a first location-changing foreground region in a first individual image in a predefined manner with a predefinable number of first markings, to subsequently determine the relative movement of the first markings between the first individual image and a subsequent second individual image, to subsequently associate each of the first markings with a predefinable first environment, to assign the first and/or at least one second location-changing foreground region in a predefined manner with a predefinable number of second markings, to remove the second markings disposed inside intersecting regions of a predefinable number of intersecting first environments, to subsequently determine the relative movement of the first and second markings between the second individual image and a subsequent third individual image, and to output the relative movements of the first and/or second markings as a first pattern of movement. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033084 | Method For Centroiding And Tracking A Distorted Optical Image - A centroiding method is provided for an optical tracking system including a laser used for countermeasuring purposes in which a pencil thin laser beam is accurately positioned onto a target through the use of centroiding techniques for ascertaining the position not only of the target but also the laser beam, with the centroiding techniques resulting in a sub-pixel level resolution. The sub-pixel resolution permits utilization of smaller cost-effective focal plane arrays by giving the small focal plane array a resolution associated with much larger focal plane arrays. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033085 | Color Uniformity Correction System and Method of Correcting Color Uniformity - The present invention discloses a color uniformity correction system for correcting color uniformity problems that exist within today's display devices. The color uniformity correction system includes a capture unit for detecting a video signal applied to a display unit and generate corresponding first color values; a storage for storing the color calibration values of a plurality of pixel locations on the display unit; a converter unit for adding the color calibration values to the first color values to generate a plurality of second color values of the video signal and a driver unit for receiving and sending the second color values to the display unit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033086 | SENSOR SYSTEM DETECTION DEVICE AND DETECTION METHOD USING SAME - A sensor system detection device for detecting quality of a sensor system includes a first connector electrically connected to the sensor system, a second connector; a display unit, a controller and an encoder. A first terminal of the encoder is connected to the first connector to receive first image data from the sensor system. A second terminal of the encoder is connected to the display unit via the second connector. A third terminal of the encoder is connected to the controller. The controller controls the encoder to transform the first image into second image data matching with the display unit. The second image data is transferred to the display unit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033087 | CALIBRATION TARGET DETECTION APPARATUS, CALIBRATION TARGET DETECTING METHOD FOR DETECTING CALIBRATION TARGET, AND PROGRAM FOR CALIBRATION TARGET DETECTION APPARATUS - There is disclosed a calibration target detection apparatus that can be obtained at a low cost and without increasing storage capacity, is the apparatus being provided with: a light measurement region setting unit for setting a long light measurement region; a light-measuring unit for detecting light measurement information of the light measurement region; a profile generation unit for generating a first profile, wherein the long light measurement region taking a predetermined one direction as a long direction is scanned along the other direction orthogonal to the one direction, and the change in the light measurement information in the other direction is shown; and a second profile, wherein the long light measurement region taking the other direction as the long direction is scanned along the one direction, and the change in the light measurement information in the one direction is shown; and a position calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of a characteristic point of the first and second profiles, a position of a calibration target or a position of a predetermined location of the calibration target, the calibration target being used for calibrating an onboard camera, and the calibration target being included in a captured image acquired by the onboard camera. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033088 | METHOD FOR MONITORING VIDEO SIGNAL TRANSMISSION AND THE DEVICE THEREOF - A method and device for monitoring video signal transmission includes a signal encoding and transmitting module and the signal receiving module. The signal encoding and transmitting module receives a composite video signal from a video signal source to cut off a horizontal video data series following a predetermined horizontal synchronization signal following a predetermined vertical synchronization signal and add an identification code. The signal receiving module receives the composite video signal carrying the identification code and compares the identification code to transmit the composite video signal out when the identification code is correct. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033089 | AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - There is provided an audio and/or video transmission system. That audio and/or video transmission system has a microphone unit for detecting an audio signal. The microphone unit has a first wireless transmitting unit for wirelessly transmitting an audio signal by way of a first transmission path and a second wireless transmitting unit for wirelessly transmitting the audio signal by way of a second transmission path. The second wireless transmitting unit is adapted to embed a time stamp in the audio signal to be transmitted by way of the second transmission path. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033090 | NETWORK CAMERA, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The object of the present invention is to provide a network camera, an operation control method and a program that can improve convenience. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033091 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image capture apparatus comprises an image capture unit which photo-electrically converts an object image, a shake detection unit which detects a shake of the image capture apparatus, a motion vector detection unit which detects a motion vector, a reference value calculation unit which calculates a reference value serving as an output from the shake detection unit when the image capture apparatus stands still, a correction amount calculation unit which calculates a shake correction amount, and an image blur correction unit which corrects a blur of the object image, wherein the reference value calculation unit calculates the reference value based on an integrated value of the output from the shake detection unit, an integrated value of an output from the motion vector detection unit, and a variation of the output from the correction amount calculation unit in a predetermined period. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033092 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image capture apparatus comprises an image capture unit, a shake detection unit, a reference value calculation unit, an image blur correction unit, a motion vector detection unit, a determination unit which determines whether the motion vector indicates a movement of an object, and a control unit which controls one of the calculation methods of the reference value and the reference value, wherein the reference value calculation unit calculates the reference value using both an output from the shake detection unit and an output from the motion vector detection unit as one of the plurality of calculation methods, and when the determination unit determines that the motion vector indicates the movement of the object, the control unit controls not to calculate the reference value using the output from the shake detection unit and the output from the motion vector detection unit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033093 | IMAGE STABILIZER CONTROL DEVICE - An image stabilizer control device includes a biaxial gyroscope, a processing unit and an actuator unit. The biaxial gyroscope senses movement of an imaging module and detects a first angular velocity of the imaging module in two reference planes perpendicular to each other. The processing unit generates a first driving signal in response to the first angular velocity. The actuator unit moves the imaging module to compensate the movement in response to the first driving signal. The biaxial gyroscope detects a second angular velocity of the imaging module in the two reference planes upon completing movement compensation associated with the first driving signal. The processing unit converts the second angular velocity into a second angle, compares the second angle with a predetermined angle range and generates a second driving signal in response to the comparison result. The actuator unit moves the imaging module in response to the second driving signal. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033094 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An image capture device of the present invention includes: a first image capture element | 2012-02-09 |
20120033095 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING FRAMING ASSIST CONTROL - In an imaging apparatus having framing assist control, a controller controls a change speed of the display angle of view changed by a second or a third instruction member faster than the change speed of the display angle of view changed by a first instruction member. The first instruction member is configured to issue an instruction regarding a change of a display angle of view and a change direction of the display angle of view. The second instruction member is configured to issue an instruction to change the display angle of view displayed on the monitor to a wide-angle side by a predetermined amount. The third instruction member is configured to issue an instruction to change the display angle of view displayed on the monitor to the display angle of view before the display angle of view is changed by the second instruction member. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033096 | MOTION BLUR MODELING FOR IMAGE FORMATION - The present disclosure includes motion blur modeling methods and systems for image formation. One motion blur modeling method for image formation includes obtaining image data utilized to form a particular image taken by a camera of a subject, obtaining velocity vector data for the subject at the time the image was taken, defining a convolution kernel for use formation of the particular image and based upon the velocity vector data, and applying the convolution kernel to the image data to produce a de-blurred set of image data utilized to form the particular image. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033097 | COUNTER CIRCUIT, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (ADC) INCLUDING A COUNTER CIRCUIT, IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING COUNTER CIRCUIT AND/OR ADC, SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH, AND METHOD ASSOCIATED THEREWITH - In one embodiment, the counter circuit is associated with a pixel array and includes a plurality of counting circuits. Each counting circuit is configured to receive an associated input signal, and each input signal is associated with a different column of the pixel array. A first of the plurality of counting circuits is configured to count based on the associated input signal. Each subsequent counting circuit in the plurality of counting circuits is configured to count based on a difference between the associated input signal and the input signal associated with a preceding counting circuit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033098 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD OF A PICKED-UP IMAGE - An image pickup apparatus determines from which position in a plurality of photographed frames a pixel of each of lines of an image to be output is read out, on the basis of a motion amount at a photographing time of each of the lines of a photographed predetermined frame, and if the determined read-out position is located on the outside of a photographing range of the predetermined frame, then determines to read out a pixel in a frame photographed before and/or after a photographing of the predetermine frame as the pixel of the output image and calculates a read-out position of the pixel on the basis of the motion amount at a photographing time of each of the lines in the frame. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033099 | PHOTO-DETECTOR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OPTICAL RADIATION - An image acquisition system comprises a radiation photodetector implementing at least two tunable spectral responses indicating the photodetector sensitivity as a function of the wavelength. The photodetector includes means for receiving at least two configuration signals controlling the tuning of at least part of the shape of the at least two spectral responses. The system comprises a control module for receiving an identification signal indicating the spectral intensity of a source of light, detecting that the source spectral intensity shape in at least one spectrum portion is different from the reference spectral intensity shape in the at least one spectrum portion, and changing a configuration signal in order to change a spectral response shape in the at least one spectrum portion as a function of the difference between the shape of the source spectral intensity and the shape of the reference spectral intensity in the at least one spectrum portion. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033100 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - One of objects of the invention is to provide an image capturing device and an image capturing method, which is capable of capturing an image of the target at the proper angle by a simple device configuration. An image capturing device of the present invention includes: a housing; an image capturing unit capturing an image of a target; an image display unit that is capable of displaying the image; a position detection unit detecting a position of the housing; and an image correction unit correcting an original image acquired from the image capturing unit based on the position detected by the position detection unit, when a preview image of the captured image is displayed on the image display unit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033101 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE SENSORS - A computer system has machine-readable instructions stored thereon. The instructions when executed cause the computer system to perform a method of controlling a camera system. The method includes accessing a first data set in an image file. The first data set includes identification data indicating an identity of an image sensor associated with a previous boot of the camera system and configuration data indicating operation parameters of the image sensor associated with the previous boot. The method further includes: determining whether a matching is found between the identification data and an image sensor associated with a current boot of the camera system; and setting the image sensor associated with the current boot based on the configuration data of the first data set if the matching is found. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033102 | Image File For Storing Digital Images And Ancillary Data Values Using Multiple Encoding Methods - An image format for storing digital images within a baseline DCT compatible bitstream comprises entropy coded image data, a first application marker storing a first data value using a first encoding method to convey a first information value related to the image, and a second application marker storing a second data value using a second encoding method to convey the same said first information value related to the image. More specifically, the first application marker uses TIFF tags within an Exif application marker and the second application marker uses a FlashPix compatible structured storage stream, while the entropy coded data includes restart markers to define tile boundaries within the entropy coded image data. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033103 | Raw-Split Mode Image Capture - Systems, methods and a computer readable mediums for reducing run-time bandwidth requirements within digital image capture devices are disclosed herein. As the resolution of digital image capture devices increase, the bandwidth needed to support this increased resolution is becoming increasingly difficult to support. To reduce the problems associated with run-time bandwidth requirements, it may be beneficial to obtain full-resolution and display-resolution images at the same time from the image capture circuitry—writing both to memory at virtually the same time. The display resolution image may then be delivered to a display unit directly without the need for additional memory operations on the full-resolution image. Only when a user indicates they wish to capture an image need additional memory operations on the full-resolution image be performed. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033104 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image pickup apparatus includes a recording-mode switching section for selecting a single-format recording mode in which recording is performed in one of recording formats or a multiple-format recording mode in which recording is simultaneously performed in a plurality of recording formats, and a recording-size setting section for setting a recording size of image data for each of the recording formats. If the multiple-format recording mode is set, and if a recording size is set to one of the recording formats, the recording size set by the recording-size setting section is set to all the recording formats recorded in one-time image capturing. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033105 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section that acquires a plurality of images that differ in in-focus state, a reference point setting section that performs a reference point setting process on each of the plurality of images, the reference point setting process setting a reference point that is set to an attention area, a distance estimation section that estimates distance information about a distance to a corresponding point based on a pixel value corresponding to the reference point, the corresponding point being a point in real space that corresponds to the reference point, and an additional information generation section that generates additional information based on the estimated distance information, the additional information being information that is added to the attention area to which the reference point is set. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033106 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-CAPTURING METHOD - An image-capturing apparatus includes an imaging unit that generates RAW image data by capturing an object image, an image processing unit that generates color image data by implementing image processing on the RAW image data, a processing mode setting unit capable of setting a filter effect mode for artificially reproducing an image effect obtained by image-capturing using an optical filter, a display unit that displays the color image data, a ring type or dial type rotary operating unit, a rotation operation detection unit that detects a rotation operation of the rotary operating unit, and a control unit that, when a rotation operation of the rotary operating unit is detected in a case where the filter effect mode has been set, controls the image processing unit to perform image processing for varying the image effect in conjunction with the rotation operation. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033107 | Electronic image pickup apparatus - An electronic image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of lens units, an image forming optical system, and an image pickup element. The image forming optical system includes at least a lens unit nearest to object side which is disposed nearest to an object side, an aperture stop which is disposed on an image side than the lens unit nearest to object side, and an image-side lens unit which is disposed on the image side than the aperture stop. The lens unit nearest to object side includes a lens having a mark formed on an effective area of a lens surface thereof. At least any one of the lens in the image forming optical system is held such that, a shifting or a tilting of the lens can be adjusted. The electronic image pickup apparatus further includes a correction parameter storage section which stores correction parameters for correcting an unevenness of brightness due to the mark, and a signal processing section which corrects the unevenness of brightness due to the mark of which, an image has been picked up by the image pickup element, based on the correction parameter stored in the correction parameter storage section. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033108 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - An object is to improve noise reduction. Provided are an image-capturing-mode selecting portion ( | 2012-02-09 |
20120033109 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image capturing system includes: a first noise reduction unit which roughly removes the effects of an edge component by performing edge-preserving adaptive noise reduction processing on a target pixel within a local region including the target pixel and the neighboring pixels extracted from an image signal acquired from a CCD; a noise estimation unit which dynamically estimates the noise amount with respect to the target pixel based upon the target pixel value thus subjected to the noise reduction processing by the first noise reduction unit; and a second noise reduction unit which performs noise reduction processing on the target pixel based upon the target pixel value thus subjected to the noise reduction processing by the first noise reduction unit and the noise amount thus estimated by the noise estimation unit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033110 | LIGHT OR RADIATION IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The radiation image pickup apparatus of this invention can obtain an accurate temperature characteristic of dark current noise, the dark current noise being caused by dark current flowing through an X-ray conversion layer, by obtaining dark image signals at varied times for accumulating in capacitors charge signals converted by an X-ray converting layer. Consequently, the noise due to the dark current can be removed with high accuracy by removing periodically acquired offset signals from X-ray detection signals acquired at a time of X-ray image pickup, and correcting variations of the dark current noise due to a difference in temperature between a time of offset signal acquisition and the time of X-ray image pickup, using the temperature characteristic of the dark current noise. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033111 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An image capturing system includes a signal correction unit which corrects a signal output from a defective pixel in an optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel. The optical black region has a plurality of pixel blocks. Each of the plurality of pixel blocks has a plurality of pixels each including one or more elements which have the same functions as in the remaining pixels and which have relative positions different from the remaining pixels. The signal correction unit corrects the signal output from the defective pixel in the optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel which is included in another pixel block different from the pixel block of the defective pixel in the optical black region and includes one or more elements having the same functions and same relative positions as in the defective pixel. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033112 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGES OBTAINED BY AN ARRAY OF PHOTOSENSITIVE POINTS - A method for correcting an image obtained by a matrix of photosensitive points finds particular utility when the matrix is subjected to an electromagnetic disturbance. The method of correction comprises a first step of row-by-row reading of the matrix. The signals read during a first reading of each row represent the charges accumulated subsequent to exposure of the matrix to luminous radiation and make it possible to form, for each column of the matrix, a discrete signal. The signals read during a second reading represent the charges accumulated in the absence of exposure and form, for each column of the matrix, a discrete signal. In a second step of the method, a signal corresponding substantially to the signal which would have been formed at the time of the first reading in the absence of exposure is determined. In a third step, the signal is subtracted column by column from the signal. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033113 | Quantum Photonic Imagers and Methods of Fabrication Thereof - Emissive quantum photonic imagers comprised of a spatial array of digitally addressable multicolor pixels. Each pixel is a vertical stack of multiple semiconductor laser diodes, each of which can generate laser light of a different color. Within each multicolor pixel, the light generated from the stack of diodes is emitted perpendicular to the plane of the imager device via a plurality of vertical waveguides that are coupled to the optical confinement regions of each of the multiple laser diodes comprising the imager device. Each of the laser diodes comprising a single pixel is individually addressable, enabling each pixel to simultaneously emit any combination of the colors associated with the laser diodes at any required on/off duty cycle for each color. Each individual multicolor pixel can simultaneously emit the required colors and brightness values by controlling the on/off duty cycles of their respective laser diodes. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033114 | ACTIVE DEVICE ARRAY SUBSTRATE - An active device array substrate including a substrate, multiple scan lines, multiple data lines, multiple of pixels are provided. The scan lines and the data lines are disposed on the substrate. Each pixel includes multiple sub-pixels including at least a transistor, a pixel electrode, and a color filter. The transistor is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the scan line and the data line correspondingly. A portion of the color filter is disposed between the pixel electrode and the corresponding scan line. The pixel electrode is coupled with the corresponding scan line to form a first capacitor. The drain of the transistor is coupled with the corresponding scan line to form a second capacitor. In a single pixel, the coupling areas of the pixel electrodes corresponding to various color filters with the corresponding scan lines are different, so that capacitance of the first capacitors are substantially the same. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033115 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image-capturing apparatus including: an image-capturing device where pixels covered with first filters blocking light other than light in a first wavelength range among wavelength ranges obtained by two-dividing a specific wavelength range and second filters blocking light other than light in a second wavelength range are disposed based on a predetermined rule; a light-blocking filter being detachably disposed in an optical path of subject light toward the image-capturing device and blocking the light in the first wavelength range; a focus-alignment determination unit performing focus-alignment determination through phase-difference detection based on a signal generated by the image-capturing device when the light-blocking filter is inserted into the optical path; an image-generation unit generating an image based on a signal generated by the image-capturing device; and a controller controlling insertion/detachment of the light-blocking filter with respect to the optical path based on necessity of the focus-alignment determination. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033116 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND CAMERA - A solid-state image sensor includes first-color pixels and second-color pixels, each of the first-color pixels including a first antireflection film and a first color filter, and each of the second-color pixels including a second antireflection film and a second color filter, wherein the solid-state image sensor satisfies | 2012-02-09 |
20120033117 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD - A plurality of pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns, and each of which outputs an electric signal according to an amount of received light; a first column signal line provided for each of the columns, and for sequentially transferring the electric signals from said pixel circuits in a corresponding column; and a holding circuit provided for each of the pixel circuits in each column, and which holds the electric signal transferred through the column signal line in the corresponding column are provided. A holding circuit includes a first capacitor which holds a first electric signal of the corresponding pixel circuit in a reset state; and a second capacitor which holds a second electric signal after the corresponding pixel circuit receives light. A difference circuit calculates a difference between two electric signals held by the first capacitor and the second capacitor in a same holding circuit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033118 | CMOS IMAGE SENSOR HAVING WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE AND SENSING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a CMOS image sensor having a wide dynamic range and a sensing method thereof. Each unit pixel of the CMOS image sensor of the present invention includes multiple processing units, so that one shuttering section for the image generation of one image frame can be divided into multiple sections to separately shutter and sample the divided sections by each processing unit. Thus, the image sensor of the present invention enables many shuttering actions to be performed in the multiple processing units, respectively, and the multiple processing units to separately sample each floating diffusion voltage caused by the shuttering actions, thereby realizing a wide dynamic range. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033119 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device having a backside illuminated structure, includes: a pixel region in which pixels each having a photoelectric conversion portion and a plurality of pixel transistors are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix; an element isolation region isolating the pixels which is provided in the pixel region and which includes a semiconductor layer provided in a trench by an epitaxial growth; and a light receiving surface at a rear surface side of a semiconductor substrate which is opposite to a multilayer wiring layer. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033120 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CAMERA - An object of the present invention is to provide a highly-accurate AF without adding a mechanism of the camera or increasing the power consumption. A solid-state imaging device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units configured to convert incident light into electronic signals, the photoelectric conversion units being arranged in a two dimensional array, the photoelectric conversion units including a plurality of first photoelectric conversion units and a plurality of second photoelectric conversion units; a plurality of first microlenses each of which is disposed to cover a corresponding one of said first photoelectric conversion units; and a second microlens disposed to cover the second photoelectric conversion units, in which at least two of the second photoelectric conversion units are located at respective positions which are offset from an optical axis of the second microlens, in mutually different directions. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033121 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a pixel that outputs a photoelectrically-converted pixel signal, a column ADC circuit that converts the pixel signal output from the pixel into a digital value, a test-signal generating unit that generates a test signal with which the column ADC circuit is tested, and a switching circuit that switches between the pixel signal output from the pixel and the test signal generated in the test-signal generating unit to input to the column ADC circuit are included. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033122 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An imaging apparatus using a CCD image sensor in which a size of a circuit for generating a voltage to be applied to a substrate of the CCD image sensor is reduced. A partial range within a voltage range from a supply voltage Vcc to 0 V is divided by a resistance voltage divider and one of different voltage values obtained as a result of voltage division is selected by a selector according to external data and outputted to a high voltage amplifier. The high voltage amplifier generates a voltage signal with a voltage expressed by VMSUB=(Vdaout−Vdd | 2012-02-09 |
20120033123 | INFORMATION CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA ANALYZING APPARATUS, SIGNAL, SERVER, INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SIGNAL CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information control apparatus comprises: a determination unit that determines at least an attribute of an object to be analyzed on the basis of captured image data acquired by an imaging apparatus fixed to a signal; and an output unit that outputs determination result information of the determination unit to a data analyzing unit that generates analysis result information on the basis of at least the attribute of the object to be analyzed. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033124 | OPTICAL PHOTOGRAPHING LENS ASSEMBLY - This invention provides an optical photographing lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface on which at least one inflection point is formed, the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; wherein a stop is disposed between an imaged object and the first lens element and an electronic sensor is disposed at an image plane for forming images of the imaged object; and wherein the optical photographing lens assembly further comprises another stop disposed between the second and fourth lens elements. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033125 | IMAGING OPTICAL DEVICE - An imaging optical device includes a first lens group and a second lens group disposed in an order from the object side to the image side. The first lens group has a positive refractive power, and includes at least a first lens, a second lens and a third lens in an order from an object side to an image side. The third lens has a convex image-side surface. The second group has a negative refractive power and includes at least three lenses. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033126 | LIGHT-COLLECTING DEVICE, LIGHT-COLLECTING DEVICE GROUP, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A light-collecting device includes at least one first annular region having a first refractive index, and at least one second annular region having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, the at least one first annular region and the at least one second annular region are adjacently and alternately arranged in a concentric manner, and at least one of the at least one first annular region and the at least one second annular region includes a gap at a portion where a width of the annular region gradually decreases. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033127 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - An image capture apparatus comprises an image sensor, a detection unit which detects an object area based on at least one of color information and luminance information of an image obtained from the image sensor, a setting unit which sets a plurality of focus detection areas, with reference to the object area detected by the detection unit, a selection unit which selects a focus detection area from the plurality of focus detection areas, and a focus adjusting unit which performs focus adjustment by moving the imaging optical system based on the output signal from the image sensor in the focus detection area, wherein an overall range of the plurality of focus detection areas is wider than the object area, and each of the plurality of focus detection areas is smaller than a minimum size which can be set for the object area. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033128 | Optical Device and Focus State Detection Method - An optical device comprises an image sensor having plural pixels and a detection unit configured to detect a focus state. The pixels include first focus state detection pixel pairs that respectively receive a pair of light fluxes having transmitted different pupil areas of the photographing lens, and second focus state detection pixel pairs that respectively receive a pair of light fluxes having transmitted pupil areas shifted by a predetermined amount from the pupil areas where the pair of light fluxes received by the first focus state detection pixel pairs have transmitted. The detection unit detects the focus state based on signal pairs obtained by adding the signals output from the first and second focus state detection pixel pairs, respectively, if a subject to be photographed is darker than a predetermined brightness, otherwise the detection unit detects the focus state based on signal pairs output from the first and second focus state detection pixel pairs, respectively. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033129 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING METHOD - A transmission and receiving apparatus includes: a receiving section receiving a content signal conforming to a predetermined transmission standard, and restoring a video signal included in the content signal to output the video signal; a video-signal processing section performing predetermined processing on the video signal output from the receiving section; a selection section selecting either a signal path allowing the video signal to go through the video-signal processing section or a signal path not allowing the video signal to go through the video-signal processing section; and a transmission section converting the video signal having gone through the signal path selected by the selection section into a content signal conforming to the predetermined transmission standard, and transmitting the content signal. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033130 | DETECTING OCCLUSION - Common techniques for Motion Compensated Frame Rate Conversion (MC-FRC) suffer from occlusion which, if not taken explicitly into account, causes a visually disturbing artifact known as ‘halo’. To solve this artifact, these regions have to be detected prior to performing interpolation. Several techniques exist to detect occlusion in a frame, but these are based on motion vectors, which are frequently unreliable. The invention relates to a method to detect occlusion by comparing match errors, thereby offering occlusion detection even when the motion vectors are incorrect. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033131 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO PROCESSING - A video processing method includes: dividing a currently processed frame into a top field and a bottom field, and performing field exposure on the top field and the bottom field respectively to acquire an exposed top field and an exposed bottom field, where a field exposure time length of the top field and that of the bottom field are different; processing the exposed top field and the exposed bottom field by using a de-interlacing technique to acquire two reconstructed exposed frames; and performing image enhancement processing on the two reconstructed exposed frames to acquire an image of the currently processed frame. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033132 | DERIVING VISUAL RHYTHM FROM VIDEO SIGNALS - A method and a system for deriving visual rhythm from a video signal are described. A feature extraction module receives the video signal and extracts a two-dimensional feature from the video signal. A one-dimensional video feature computation module derives a one-dimensional feature from the extracted two-dimensional feature. A visual rhythm detector module detects a visual beat and a visual tempo from the one-dimensional feature. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033133 | CLOSED CAPTIONING LANGUAGE TRANSLATION - The present invention provides an architecture for translating closed captioning text originally provided with a video program from one language to another and presenting the translated closed captioning text with the video program to a viewer. As such, the viewers are able to receive the closed captioning text in languages other than that used for the closed captioning originally provided with the video program. The original closed captioning text may be translated from one language to another by a centralized closed captioning processor, such that the customer equipment for various subscribers can take advantage of centralized translation services. Once, the original closed captioning text is translated, the translated closed captioning text may be delivered to the customer equipment in different ways. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-BAND A/V TIMING MEASUREMENT OF SERIAL DIGITAL VIDEO SIGNALS - A system and method for characterizing the relative offset in time between audio and video signals and enables the receiver of the audio and video signals to resynchronize the audio and video signals. Signal characterization data is dynamically captured and encoded into frames of video and audio data that is output by a television origination facility. The signal characterization data is extracted by the receiver and signal characterization data is recomputed for the received frames. The extracted signal characterization data is compared with the recomputed signal characterization data to compute the relative offset in time between the video and one or more audio signals for a frame. The receiver may then resynchronize the video and audio signals using the computed relative offset. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033135 | Method and Apparatus For Listening to audio Corresponding to a PIP Display - A method for enabling two or more viewers to simultaneously view and listen to different video content, the method including: displaying simultaneously video content from each of two or more tuners on a television monitor; producing with a speaker hardwired to the television monitor audio corresponding to the displayed video content from any of the two or more tuners; generating wireless audio signals corresponding to the displayed video content from any other of the two or more tuners simultaneously with the at least one speaker producing the audio; transmitting the wireless audio signals to a single remote control; receiving the wireless audio signals at the single remote control; directing the audio signals to headphones detachably connected to the remote control; and entering commands on the single remote control for controlling at least a changing of video content displayed and changing of an audio volume corresponding to the displayed video content. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033136 | FILM-ORIGINATED VIDEO REGION DETECTION METHOD - Film-originated video detection is performed on an input video signal in each of regions into which an entire screen is divided. Based on the detection result, a case where there is not film-originated video is separated from a case where film-originated video covers the entire screen. When both a film region and a non-film region are contained, film-originated video detection is performed in sub-regions into which a region which has been determined to be a film region is subdivided. Based on the detection result, it is determined whether or not all the sub-regions are film regions. The determination is repeatedly performed until it is determined that all sub-regions are film regions. If it is determined that all sub-regions are film regions, a film-originated video region is determined, and the process is ended. Thus, a film-originated video region can be accurately detected in a screen containing film-originated video and non-film-originated video. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033137 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Motion blur at a pixel of interest in a video signal is corrected adaptively by detecting a motion vector of the pixel of interest, estimating the direction and magnitude of the motion blur from the motion vector, and filtering the video signal at the pixel of interest. The filtering process uses the pixel values of the pixels in a neighborhood of the pixel of interest, clipped so that they do not differ too greatly from the pixel value of the pixel of interest, and low-pass filtering coefficients selected according to the estimated direction and magnitude. The filtered value is used to calculate a gain factor for correcting the pixel value of the pixel of interest. The strength of the correction is adjusted according to the difference between the pixel value of the pixel of interest and the mean pixel value in its vicinity. The adjustment and clipping prevent overcorrection. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033138 | MOTION DETECTOR FOR CADENCE AND SCENE CHANGE DETECTION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A motion identification signal is generated, based on a sequence of pictures of a video signal. A motion adaptive filter is adapted based on the motion identification signal. A scene change detection signal is generated based on the motion identification signal. A cadence detection signal can also be generated based on the motion identification signal. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033139 | FAST-BOOTING BROADCAST TELEVISION RECEIVER - Boot-up delay within a television receiver IC is substantially reduced by loading a portion of an operating program into the television receiver IC to enable execution of time-consuming receiver initialization operations, and then executing the receiver initialization operations concurrently with loading the remainder of the operating program into the television receiver IC. By this operation, the time required to execute the receiver initialization operations may be at least partly hidden under the time required to load the operating program, thereby substantially reducing the boot-up delay. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033140 | Method and Apparatus for Interactive Control of Media Players - A method and system are provided in which a wireless controller, such as a smart remote controller or smartphone, for example, may interact with a media device through an adaptive, two-way feedback control scheme. The wireless controller may receive signals from a media player that comprise control information associated with an application on the media player. The wireless controller may then display a control page or user interface on a touch screen. A layout of the control page may be configured based on the control information received by the wireless controller. Once displayed, the control page may enable a user to provide one or more instructions to the wireless controller through the touch screen. The wireless controller may communicate to the media player the instructions provided to the wireless controller. Those instructions are communicated to the media player to control the operation of the application on the media player. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033141 | TELEVISION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a television includes a display panel, a flat plate-shaped cover further includes a margin portion around four sides of the cover, such as to extrude outward from the display panel, a pin extending from the margin portion in a direction crossing the cover and includes a groove portion, and a first metal fitting further includes an opening portion includes a first part and a second part, and a fitting main body which defines surroundings of the opening portion, the display panel being interposed between the cover and the first metal fitting. The first metal fitting is movable between a first position where the pin is put into the first part and a second position where the pin is put into the second part. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033142 | User-Wearable Video Displays, Systems and Methods - User-wearable video display devices, systems and methods | 2012-02-09 |
20120033143 | TELEVISION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a glass panel, a first fixing portion including a first portion attached to the glass panel and a second portion configured to face the glass panel, and a display panel configured to be slid up to a position where a portion of the display panel is interposed between the glass panel and the second portion of the first fixing portion and to overlap the glass panel. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033144 | ACTIVE MATRIX ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY THEREOF - An Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display and a method of controlling a display thereof are provided. The AMOLED display includes an input unit, a controller, a display unit for displaying a low power mode screen, by enabling the controller to turn off an AMOLED and to turn on a cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) in a low power mode, and for displaying a high picture quality mode screen, by enabling the controller to turn on the AMOLED and to turn off the cholesteric LCD in a high picture quality mode. When used in an indoor environment, the AMOLED display can operate in the high picture quality mode, and when used in an outdoor environment or as an e-book reader, the AMOLED display can operate in the low power mode. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033145 | VIEWING GLASSES, 3D DISPLAY SYSTEM AND IMAGE BEAM ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF - A pair of viewing glasses, a three-dimensional (3D) display system and an image beam adjustment method are provided. The adjustment method includes determining an adjustment angle according to an image beam emitted by a display screen; detecting a relative spatial orientation of the viewing glasses and the display screen; determining a compensation angle according to the relative spatial orientation; and adjusting the polarization direction of the image beam according to at least one of the adjustment angle and the compensation angle, so as to change the polarization direction of the image beam to a target polarization direction parallel or perpendicular to the polarization axis direction of a polarizer of the viewing glasses. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033146 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - The invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of ensuring high transparent aperture ratio and realizing high resolution. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a first transparent substrate ( | 2012-02-09 |
20120033147 | Multi-Domain Display Using Fringe Fields - A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display that does not require physical features on the substrate (such as protrusions and ITO slits) is disclosed. Each pixel of the MVALCD is subdivided into color components, which are further divided into color dots. The polarity of the color dots are arranged so that fringe fields from adjacent color dots causes multiple liquid crystal domains in each color dot. Specifically, the color dots of a pixel are arranged so that each color dot of a first polarity has four neighboring pixels of a second polarity. Thus, a checkerboard pattern of polarities is formed. Furthermore, the checkerboard pattern is extended across multiple pixels in the MVALCD. In addition, many display unit include multiple pixel designs to improve color distribution or electrical distribution. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033148 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes first and second gate lines, a data line crossing the first and second gate lines, a pixel electrode including first and second sub-pixel electrodes electrically disconnected from each other, a first thin film transistor connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the first sub-pixel electrode, a second thin film transistor connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the second sub-pixel electrode, and a third thin film transistor connected to the second gate line, the second sub-pixel electrode, and a charge sharing capacitor including a first and second electrode. A data voltage applied to the second sub-pixel electrode and to a first electrode swings between a negative voltage and a positive voltage with respect to a common voltage, and a voltage smaller than an average value of the negative voltage and the positive voltage is applied to a second electrode. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033149 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An array substrate comprises a first substrate and a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of the data lines provided on the first substrate, the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of the data lines define a plurality of pixel units arranged into a matrix form. Each of the plurality of pixel units comprising: a first electrode having slits, comprising two or more regions where the slits have the different tilt degrees; a second electrode; and a thin film transistor switch, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are used to form a horizontal electric field for driving liquid crystal molecules, the gate line and the thin film transistor switch are arranged between each two regions of the first electrode, and the thin film transistor switch is controlled by the gate line to operate each region of the first electrode. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033150 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display panel and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the liquid crystal display panel includes i) a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, ii) a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates, iii) a color filter disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate and iv) a black matrix formed on the color filter. The panel may further include i) a sealing member disposed on an outer portion of the liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates so as to couple the two substrates to each other ii) a plurality of protrusion members formed on the second substrate so as to at least partially overlap with the sealing member iii) a reflective layer formed on the protrusion members and iv) a cover layer formed on the reflective layer so as to cover the reflective layer and the protrusion members. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033151 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A reflective region where display is performed with reflection of incident light through a liquid crystal layer and a transmissive region where display is performed by transmission of light from a backlight are provided, and the reflective mode and the transmissive mode are switched. In the case of displaying a full-color image, a pixel portion includes at least a first region and a second region, a plurality of lights of different hues are sequentially supplied to the first region according to a first order, and a plurality of lights of different hues are also sequentially supplied to the second region according to a second order which is different from the first order. In the transmissive mode, the reflective region is made to display black, so that decrease in contrast due to reflection of external light at the reflective region is prevented. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033152 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A thin film transistor, a method of manufacturing the thin film transistor, and a flat panel display device including the thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode formed on a substrate; a gate insulating film formed on the gate electrode; an activation layer formed on the gate insulating film; a passivation layer including a compound semiconductor oxide, formed on the activation layer; and source and drain electrodes that contact the activation layer. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033153 | Display Device - A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display and a diffractive optical element (DOE). The display is used to show an image. When a user looks at the image within a first viewing angle range, he can see a first observed image, and when he looks at the image within a second viewing angle range, he can see a second observed image. The diffractive optical element is disposed in the lighting direction of the display to diffract the light constructing the first observed image to the second viewing angle range, thereby converting the first observed image into a third observed image and converting the second observed image into a fourth observed image at the same time. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033154 | WHITE FILM AND BACKLIGHT USING SAME - A white film including polymer film wherein both the thermal shrinkage rate in the longitudinal direction and that in the transverse direction of the film are not less than −0.2% and not more than 0.5% at 90° C., and a backlight for liquid crystal displays using such a white film. Since the white film hardly suffers from undulation or rise in its end portions, it is most suitable as a reflection film for backlights of liquid crystal displays. Since a backlight for liquid crystal displays using this white film can be used for a long time, it is applicable to liquid crystal displays of various electrical/electronic devices. | 2012-02-09 |
20120033155 | PROTECTIVE FILM, LOWER POLARIZING PLATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROTECTIVE FILM - There is provided a protective film to be bonded to a polarizer to form a lower polarizing plate for a liquid crystal display panel. The protective film for a lower polarizing plate includes a matrix of a resin material and a diffusing component dispersed in the matrix. At least one-side surface, which is to face the polarizer, of the protective film is flat. | 2012-02-09 |