24th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170171376 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION - A method for displaying information and an electronic device, wherein the method includes: receiving a new information; acquiring a level of the new information; acquiring a current state of an information display window; and determining a display mode of the new information for displaying the new information according to the level of the new information and the current state of the information display window, wherein the display mode comprises a direct display mode, a waiting in queue mode and a discarding mode. In the embodiments of the disclosure, levels are assigned to information; after a terminal equipment receives a piece of new information, the terminal equipment will no longer directly display the new information, instead, it will determine a display mode based on the information level and the state of the information display window. Thus, some unimportant information may be filtered off while display of important information is guaranteed, and an overall amount of information to be displayed is reduced; thereby it may be avoided that the display of information occupies many system resources, and the processing load on the terminal equipment may be reduced. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT AWARE PROPER NAME SPELLING - According to some embodiments, a method for determining proper name spelling in a text message from a sender to a receiver is described. The method may include evaluating text from a sender to a receiver to identify a proper name, comparing the text against a repository containing one or more proper names, determining a confidence ranking related to the accuracy of spelling of the proper name using shared contacts between the sender and receiver, and outputting a specific spelling of the proper name based on a highest confidence ranking of the confidence ranking. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171378 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR ANSWERING MOBILE PHONE CALL - This disclosure provides a method and electronic device for operating a mobile phone, including: acquiring a first kinematic acceleration of a mobile phone when the mobile phone has an incoming call; judging whether the first kinematic acceleration is greater than a first threshold or not, and answering the incoming call if the first kinematic acceleration is greater than the first threshold. As the acquisition of the first kinematic acceleration of the mobile phone is started only when the mobile phone has an incoming call, the energy consumption is saved; and meanwhile, as the first kinematic acceleration will be greater than the first threshold when a user does an action of shaking or the like, the user can answer a call through a shaking action, which is convenient for operation, achieves answering an incoming call with one hand, and is suitable for large-screen smart phones. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171379 | METHOD FOR SECURING AN INTERIOR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - A position of a mobile terminal in the interior of a motor vehicle is sensed by a sensor device. The sensed position is taken as a basis for a control device of the motor vehicle to ascertain whether the mobile terminal adopts a position within a predetermined safety area to be kept clear between a predetermined interior equipment component of the motor vehicle, for example an airbag, and a user of the motor vehicle. When such a position within the safety area is adopted or exists, prevention of use of the mobile terminal within the safety area is brought about by a safety check device. In this case, a restraining device can return or restrain the mobile terminal from the safety area, for example. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171380 | TECHNIQUES TO DYNAMICALLY ENGAGE ECHO CANCELLATION - Techniques to dynamically engage echo cancellation are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a streaming component operative to establish a audio connection between the first client device and a second client device via the network interface controller; and receive a far-end audio stream at the first client device from the second client device via the audio connection; an audio capture component operative to capture a near-end audio stream at the first client device; and an echo processing component operative to compare the near-end audio stream and the far-end audio stream to determine whether a far-end echo is present in the near-end audio stream; and use an echo-cancellation module at the first client device where the far-end echo is present in the near-end audio stream. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171381 | TELECONFERENCING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CONFERENCE CALL - A teleconferencing system and a method for facilitating teleconferencing between devices is disclosed. The teleconferencing system includes a remote phone that is connected to two or more satellite phones via a phone conference hub. When the user of remote phone initiates a call, the call is routed through the phone conference to each of the two or more satellite phones. The call is pre-processed to remove noise in audio signal. Further, the audio signal is processed to remove echo and noise is removed such that the participants in the teleconferencing system can receive the audio signal clearly without any disturbances. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171382 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Beacon transmits a beacon identifier “B1”. Server apparatus determines whether or not a condition for changing the beacon identifier “B1” is met. In the case where server apparatus has determined that the condition is met, communication terminal establishes communication with beacon and sends a change instruction instructing the beacon identifier “B1” to be changed to “B2” to beacon. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171383 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECOVERING RINGTONE ALARM IN HANDHELD DEVICE - An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to the technical field of automatically recovering ringtone alarm in a handheld device and discloses an apparatus and a method for automatically recovering ringtone alarm in a handheld device. The apparatus includes: a receiver, configured to receive a volume level setting instruction and a specified time; and a processor, configured to set, when the received volume level setting instruction indicates that a volume level is set to be lower than a preset volume level, the volume level to be an indicated volume level, and determine a duration of the indicated volume level according to the received specified time, and adjust the volume level to a volume level higher than the preset level after the duration reaches the specified time. With the technical solutions of this embodiment, a case where a user cannot hear alarm of an incoming call, an SMS message, or another message of the handheld device because of forgetting to turn up a volume level of the handheld device can be avoided. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171384 | CALL LOG MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES USING THE SAME ADDRESS OF RECORD - A request to establish a communication is received. For example a request to establish a voice communication is received. The request can be forked to a plurality of communication devices based on an address of record. The address of record is an address associated with multiple communication devices of the same user. The request to establish the communication is stored in a call log entry in a call log. An event associated with the call log entry is received. The event is based information associated with a calling device or a communication device that is not initially part of an established communication session. In response to receiving the event associated with the call log entry, the call log entry in the call log is updated based on the event. The updated call log or the updated call log entry is the sent to the plurality of communication devices. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171385 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Processing Communications - Users are provided control of their communications. Should a call be processed for a user, a text message may be automatically sent as a response to the call. The user may pre-compose different text messages. The user may also compose a custom text message. Regardless, the user's text message is automatically sent as a response to the call. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171386 | Abuse Detection for Phone Number Lookups - A system and method for rate-limiting phone number lookups. An account look-up application receives an address book of a first user, the address book including a phone number that belongs to a second user, creates a phone edge by associating the phone number in the address book with an account of the second user, receives a request including the phone number from the first user for obtaining the account associated with the phone number, determines an edge cost associated with the phone edge for the first user, determines whether to provide the phone edge to the first user based on the edge cost, and provides the phone edge to the first user responsive to a positive determination. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171387 | TECHNIQUEST FOR BYPASSING CALL SCREENING IN A CALL MESSAGING SYSTEM - A call messaging system includes a database comprising a call screening rule for a callee and a call screening engine configured to determine whether a bypass condition exists for an incoming call to the callee, and to bypass the call screening rule for the incoming call, if the bypass condition exists. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171388 | NETWORK-BASED SOCIAL TELEPHONY FIREWALL - A method receives a call from a device of a caller destined to a device of a subscriber of a communication network. The method connects the call to the device of the subscriber and then receives from the device of the subscriber an indication that the call is an undesirable call. The indication further includes a description of the call. The method then provides a reward to the subscriber when the indication further includes the description of the call. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171389 | ISSUE DETECTION FOR ROUTING ASSISTANCE REQUESTS - An issue is identified based on corresponding information indicative of steps taken in an on-boarding process and a velocity of transition through the steps. The issue is matched against an agent based on agent capabilities exposed by the agent. The issue and corresponding information are routed to the agent. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171390 | Apparatus and Method for Categorizing Voicemail - The present disclosure relates to voicemail categorization and access. An apparatus, for example a PBX, is provided for categorizing voicemails. The apparatus is configured to store voicemail messages and to determine and store metadata associated with the voicemail messages. The apparatus allows searches of the stored voicemail messages to be performed using the associated metadata. A user interface may reside on a user device or be provided by the apparatus. The interface allows other user to search for voicemails using the metadata associated with them and subsequently displays information about the voicemails which match the search criteria. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171391 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUP MESSAGE DELIVERY - A computer-implemented system and method for group message delivery is provided. A voice message is received from a user associated with a personal communication device. An identification code for a discussion group to which the voice message is directed is obtained from the voice message. The voice message is added to a queue associated with the discussion group and a list of members associated with the discussion group is obtained. A sublist of personal communication devices associated with those members that are signed in to the discussion group is built. The voice message is transmitted to the personal communication devices on the sublist when the voice message reaches a top of the queue. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171392 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUBGROUP CALL TO GROUP MEMBERS MISSING A GROUP CALL - A Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) method includes managing mobile devices in range using temporary identifiers temporarily assigned to each of the mobile devices; receiving a group call grant with a list of required mobile devices for a group call; defining a representation for the required mobile devices based on the required mobile devices' respective temporary identifiers; and broadcasting the group call grant with the representation, wherein the mobile devices utilize the representation to determine if they are required mobile devices for the group call. A mobile device and a group call server are also disclosed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171393 | Method and Device for Call - Disclosed are a method and device for a call, wherein the method includes: receiving by a calling terminal an identifier of a called terminal and multimedia information that are input by a user, generating a calling request message according to an identifier of the calling terminal, the identifier of the called terminal and the multimedia information, and sending the calling request message to the called terminal. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, individualized multimedia information is added to the calling request by the calling terminal, such that the multimedia information is displayed simultaneously on the called terminal when the calling request is received; therefore, the problem in the prior art that information displayed during calling is uninteresting and low in information content and lacks individuality is solved, and the process of calling is enabled to be individualized and interesting. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171394 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS USING INTERNET PROTOCOL - A database stores unique associations between account identifiers and mobile-network telephone numbers assigned by a mobile network to mobile communications devices. The account identifiers are also associated with voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone numbers. Voice calls between the mobile communications devices are made as voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls using respective VoIP telephone numbers. Tracking of the VoIP calls is performed through the mobile network using respective mobile-network telephone numbers, so that a prepaid balance can be enforced. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171395 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTITENANCY TELEPHONE NETWORK - A method and system for operating a multitenancy telephony system including a call queue that stores call requests received from a plurality of users; an expandable and contractible telephony resource cluster that establishes call sessions for call requests; a analysis system that calculates capacity requirements of the system; a resource allocator that manages the scaling and operation of the telephony resource cluster; and a plurality of telephony network channels that are used as telephony communication channels for call sessions. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171396 | JOINT ACOUSTIC ECHO CONTROL AND ADAPTIVE ARRAY PROCESSING - A system and method for joint acoustic echo control and adaptive array processing, comprising the decomposition of a captured sound field into N sub-sound fields, applying linear echo cancellation to each sub-sound field, selecting L sub-sound fields from the N sub-sound fields, performing L channel adaptive array processing utilizing the L selected sub-sound fields, and applying non-linear audio echo cancellation. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171397 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING COMMUNICATIONS IN A NETWORK - Methods and systems are described for monitoring communications in a packet-switched network. More specifically, the system initiates a communication between a network endpoint associated with a call mediator and at least a second network endpoint; records, at the call mediator, information associated with the communication; and upon termination of the communication, communicates, from the call mediator to an enterprise gatekeeper, the information associated with the communication. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171398 | Wireless Service Card Having Machine Readable Codes and Device and Process for Use Therewith - A process for authorizing wireless service includes providing a generally rectangular flat form factor card having a first surface and opposing second surface. The process further includes providing a machine-readable activation code arranged on the first surface, wherein the machine-readable activation code is configured to authorize the wireless service when provided to a system associated with a wireless service provider, receiving the machine-readable activation code in a server, the machine-readable activation code being captured by a wireless device, and provisioning the wireless service to the wireless device from a wireless network when the machine-readable activation code is provided to the system associated with the wireless network. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171399 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A service providing system is for providing a service that is in cooperation with a printing service that is provided by an external printing system. The service providing system includes a job obtaining unit configured, when receiving from the printing system a notification representing that a print job is created by the printing service, to obtain the print job from the printing system; a job managing unit configured to store, in a job storage unit, the print job obtained by the job obtaining unit; and a job transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job stored in the job storage unit in response to a print job request from an image forming apparatus that is coupled to the service providing system via a network. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171400 | Identifying Problematic Printers by Applying Markov Chain Model - Systems and methods for identifying problematic printers are provided. An example method can involve determining a time interval for a printing device. The method may also involve determining a number of pages printed by the printing device during the time interval. The method may also involve determining a number of printing-device errors that occur on the printing device during the time interval. Still further, the method may involve determining one or more coefficients of a Markov chain based on the number of pages printed by the printing device during the time interval and the number of printing-device errors that occur on the printing device during the time interval. The method yet further includes, based on the determined coefficients of the Markov chain, determining an operational status of the printing device. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171401 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is provided and includes a display unit which displays an operation screen. The information processing apparatus controls whether or not to receive setting for a first application from a different apparatus and use the received setting for the first application, in accordance with a type of a screen being displayed on the display unit. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171402 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that has an electronic mail function and is capable of operating in cooperation with a portable terminal includes: a communication unit configured to perform a communication with the portable terminal; a terminal control unit configured to transmit a command of activating an address book application to the portable terminal, and to acquire a transmission destination address and a user address from the portable terminal; a mail creating unit configured to create an electronic mail in which the transmission destination address is set to a transmission destination of the electronic mail, and the user address to a transmission source of the electronic mail; an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image to be transmitted with the electronic mail; and a mail transmitting unit configured to attach the image acquired by the image acquiring unit to the electronic mail, and to transmit the electronic mail. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171403 | Encoded Error Frequency as Printing Device Status - Systems and methods for identifying the health status of one or more printing devices are provided. An example method can involve determining one or more printing-device error parameters. The method may also involve determining one or more error intervals based on the one or more printing-device error parameters. The method may also involve generating an error frequency code based on the determined error intervals. Still further, the method may involve determining a health value based on the error frequency code. The method yet further includes performing a managing action based on the determined health value. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171404 | Photographing Process Remaining Time Reminder Method and System - Provided is a method and a system for reminding a remaining time for shooting in a shooting process. The method includes: acquiring, by a terminal, a remaining memory space and/or a remaining battery power of the terminal in a shooting process; determining, by the terminal, a first remaining time for shooting according to the acquired remaining battery power; and/or determining, by the terminal, a second remaining time for shooting of the terminal according to the acquired remaining memory space; and displaying, by the terminal, the first remaining time for shooting and/or the second remaining time for shooting, or displaying, by the terminal, the smaller one between the first remaining time for shooting and the second remaining time for shooting. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT ENTRY OF FAX NUMBERS - A system and method for populating fax recipient information on multifunction peripherals includes a touchscreen and a processor configured to generate user interface screens and receive user input from the touchscreen. The processor monitors the touchscreen for user entry of fax recipient information. The processor determines when there is a match between user entered information and contact information from an address book. When there is a match, the processor populates additional fax recipient information using the contact information. When there is no match of an entered fax number with a contact, the processor enters the fax number as the name of fax recipient. The processor monitors the touchscreen for user input that overwrites the processor populated fax recipient information, or a user command to add a fax recipient to a fax recipient list. The processor faxes a document to each fax recipient on the fax recipient list. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171406 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE WITH OPERATION PANEL RESPONDING BY VIBRATION - A touch panel has a display region for an operation screen and senses an outer object touching the display region. A vibrator unit applies vibration to the display region. In response to the touch panel sensing the object, a response controller unit instructs the vibrator unit to apply to the display region vibration responsive to the object. The response controller unit checks whether an image processing unit is under waiting or operating condition at the time the touch panel senses the object, and when the image processing unit is under the operating condition, sets the responsive vibration to a level lower than when the image processing unit is under the waiting condition. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171407 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes a reading unit, an edge extraction unit, a feature point search unit, a document area size calculation unit, a user operation unit, and a multi-feed determination unit. The reading unit optically reads a document to generate image data. The edge extraction unit extracts an edge of the document from the image data. The feature point search unit searches edge data of the edge extracted by the edge extraction unit for a feature point. The document area size calculation unit calculates a document area size from the feature point found by the feature point search unit. The user operation unit is used by a user to specify a document size. The multi-feed determination unit compares the document area size calculated by the document area size calculation unit with the user-specified document size so as to determine whether multi-feed of the document has occurred. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171408 | SCANNING SYSTEM, SCANNED IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SCANNING METHOD - A scanning system | 2017-06-15 |
20170171409 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANAGING ENERGY SAVING STATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a network interface and circuitry. The network interface is configured to connect to a server and an information processing apparatus through a network. The circuitry is configured to set either one of a first connection mode and a second connection mode, execute a browser in the second connection mode, to cause the browser to receive from a web application via a network port an instruction for controlling image formation by the image forming apparatus, and to control the image forming apparatus to form the image in accordance with the instruction received from the web application, in the second connection mode, close a network port other than the network port that is used for communication with the web application, and in the first communication mode, controlling the image formation based on a print job data transmitted from the information processing apparatus. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171410 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device that is capable of executing a job by working together with a server, having: an application that establishes a connection that enables a communication with the server, and establishes periodic communications with the server at predetermined time intervals to maintain the connection; a periodic communication managing part that manages the periodic communication with the server by the application; and a power controller that includes a timer that measures a time elapsed after the application establishes the periodic communication, the power controller starting again a power supply to the application when the timer measures the time interval after the power supply to the application is stopped if a predetermined condition is met. The periodic communication managing part enables the application to establish the periodic communication with the server and resets the measured time before the power supply to the application is stopped by the power controller. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171411 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device that communicates with a first server and a second server includes a main controller and a power controller. The main controller establishes a connection that enables communication with the first and second servers, establishes a periodic communication with the first and second servers to maintain the connection, manages a first time interval between the periodic communication with the first server, manages a second time interval between the periodic communication with the second server, and changes one or both of the first time interval and the second time interval. The power controller stops and starts power supply to the main controller. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171412 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SERVER AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device that communicates with a server on Internet over a local network, having: a session establishing part that establishes a session that enables a communication with said server over said local network; a periodic communicating part that establishes periodic communications at a predetermined time interval with said server to maintain said session; a power controller that stops a power supply to said periodic communicating part if a predetermined condition to enter sleep mode is met; and a substitute requesting part that requests another device installed on said local network to establish the periodic communication with said server that should be established by said periodic communicating part for said periodic communicating part when said power controller enables said information processing device to enter sleep mode. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171413 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WORKFLOW SERVICE - A method by which an image forming apparatus provides a workflow service is provided. The method includes acquiring an execution request for a workflow of an image forming operation, determining whether conditions for executing the workflow are satisfied, according to the acquired execution request, and executing pre-stored functions corresponding to the workflow if it is determined that the conditions are satisfied. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171414 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a transmission function of transmitting data receives data including at least a destination field and a data field set to be transferred. Setting is performed so that a setting included in a field in the received data is added to a setting previously set as a setting for the transmission function. Data is transmitted to destinations that have been set as settings for the transmission function. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171415 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing system includes one or more devices configured to operate based on setting information for controlling an operation; and at least one external device configured to change the setting information of the device. The external device includes circuitry configured to: acquire the setting information of the device, generate change information obtained by changing the acquired setting information, and set the change information in the device. The device includes circuitry configured to: acquire the setting information from a setting storage and transmit the acquired setting information to the external device, acquire the change information in the external device, and rewrite original setting information stored in the setting storage to the acquired change information. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171416 | ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR INSIDE OF MACHINE, ELECTRONIC MACHINE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR INSIDE OF MACHINE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An environment management apparatus for inside of a machine includes an estimator and a generator. The estimator estimates an environment state in the machine in a case of executing a process under a predetermined control condition, from process execution data for instructing execution of the process. The generator generates, for the environment state estimated by the estimator, a time-series scheme for environment control during the execution of the process from a calculation result obtained by calculating a control condition which maintains the environment state to be less than or equal to a predetermined target value. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171417 | Image Reading Apparatus and Image Formation System - An image reading apparatus includes: a light emission section including a light emitting element, and a light guiding member configured to irradiate a sheet with light emitted from the light emitting element; a reading section configured to read an image formed on the sheet; a heat dissipation section configured to dissipate heat of the light emitting element; and a cooling section configured to cool the heat dissipation section, in which the light emitting element and the heat dissipation section are disposed at positions outside a sheet passing region of the sheet in the width direction. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171418 | Thermal Imaging in a High Temperature Furnace - An apparatus and method for thermal imaging of an interior space of a high temperature furnace through an opening in a wall of the furnace. An outer housing houses at least a portion of a rigid borescope. The outer housing has a port for aspirating ambient air through the outer housing to cool the rigid borescope and passing the air through a hole at the end of the outer housing and into the furnace. A camera is operatively connected to a rigid borescope but is located such that it is isolated from the air passing through the outer housing. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171419 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An image reading apparatus includes a light receiving element configured to receive light from an image to perform photoelectric conversion, an amplification unit configured to amplify a signal generated by the photoelectric conversion, a switch element electrically connected to first and second ends of the amplification unit to be in parallel with the amplification unit, and a capacitor. The capacitor is electrically connected to the first and second ends of the amplification unit to be in parallel with to the amplification unit, and includes a first wire electrically connecting a first end of the light receiving element, the first end of the amplification unit, and a first end of the switch element, and a second wire electrically connecting the second end of the amplification unit and a second end of the switch element. The capacitor includes capacitance that is interconnect capacitance between the first and second wires. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171420 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There are provided an image reading device and a printing apparatus that can reduce an influence of the shadows of suction holes. Suction holes, which are used to suck a sheet, are arranged on the peripheral surface of a drum that transports the sheet. The suction holes are arranged in grooves that are formed along a direction orthogonal to a transport direction. Accordingly, since an influence of the shadows of the suction holes can be reduced even in a case in which density unevenness is inspected on the basis of a read image, the false detection of density unevenness can be prevented. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171421 | Scan Boundary Indicators - A scanner comprising a platen, a first laser assembly movable along a first axis, a second laser assembly movable along a second axis substantially orthogonal to the first axis, and laser movement controllers configured to control the movement of the laser assemblies along their axes. The laser assemblies comprise laser emitters configured to project laser lines on the platen that illustrate edges the current scan area, such that the dimensions and/or position of the scan area can be adjusted by moving the laser lines on the platen. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171422 | SCANNER CAPABLE OF READING DOUBLE SIDES OF SHEET ONCE - Generally, a scanner of the present embodiment, which reads a first surface with a first reading section configured to read the first surface of a sheet and a second surface with a second reading section configured to read the second surface opposite to the first surface of the sheet, executes individual processing on a first reading image of the first surface and a second reading image of the second surface. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171423 | On-Chip Image Sensor Data Compression - Systems and methods are disclosed that capture and compress frames of pixel data. In an implementation, an image sensor chip converts light into pixel data and generates transform data by applying a transform to a portion of the pixel data associated with a pixel category from a plurality of pixel categories and generates compressed pixel data at a variable compression rate by compressing the transform data. The variable compression rate is within an available bandwidth of an output bus that outputs the compressed pixel data. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171424 | PRINTED DOCUMENT CONTROL WITH VERIFIED UNIQUE WATERMARKS - Systems and methods are directed towards generating a verified unique watermark. More specifically, the systems and methods are directed towards generating a watermark that is as long as possible without any repetition. Such watermarks are possible by selecting characteristics of the watermark and methods for producing the watermarks (e.g., dandy rollers). By producing longer unique watermarks, users would be capable of generating longer rolls of paper whereby more sheets can be produced that each possesses a unique watermark. With the unique watermark, users can identify what information is printed on each sheet as well as authenticate the contents of each individual sheet. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171425 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PORTABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a docking unit configured to mount a plurality of portable display apparatuses therein, a communication interface configured to receive data, and a processor configured to control to store the received data in at least one of the plurality of portable display apparatuses. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171426 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CLOUD SERVER, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SETTING CONNECTION WITH IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a communicator configured to receive printing data, an image former configured to print the received printing data, and at least one processor configured to, in response to receiving a request for connection setting information from the user terminal apparatus, control the communicator to transmit the connection setting information to the user terminal apparatus. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171427 | DOCUMENT CAMERA DEVICE AND CUTOUT ASSISTANCE METHOD - A document camera device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes: performing control so as to display, in cutout processing that cuts out and saves, from an image imaging a subject, an image corresponding to an inside of a region designated for the subject, an image specifying a region associated with identification information of a subject targeted by the current cutout processing on the subject targeted by the current cutout processing, based on history information associated with identification information of the subject and with the region in cutout processing that was executed in the past; and performing processing that, when a region specified by an image specifying the region has been selected, sets an image cut out and saved from inside the selected region as an image that has been cut out by the current cutout processing. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171428 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING AMOUNT OF SKEW IN DOCUMENT AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A device for detecting an amount of skew in a document placed on a plate is provided. The device includes: a scanner for scanning an area including an edge of the document; a detector for detecting a boundary point between the document and the plate; a portion for setting a boundary point group of interest including boundary points; a portion for setting a midpoint of an oblique line for approximating the edge of the document; a portion for setting, as the oblique line, a line which passes through the midpoint and slants to the main scanning direction; a portion for modifying an amount of skew of the oblique line; and a portion for determining that an amount of skew in the document is an amount of skew of the oblique line having the error equal to a threshold or smaller. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171429 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including a receiver, the image forming apparatus being controlled based on a copy mode for copying an original read by a reading device that is connectable to the image forming apparatus and a print mode for printing image data received by the receiver. The image forming apparatus further includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, a measurement unit configured to measure a measurement image formed by the image forming unit, a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form the measurement image, and to control the measurement unit to measure the measurement image, and a detector configured to detect a connection state of the reading device. The measurement image includes a first measurement image for the copy mode and a second measurement image for the print mode. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171430 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, TERMINAL, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM - An image processing system includes a terminal worn by a user for use; and an image output apparatus configured to perform an output process for outputting an image in accordance with a command given by the user. The terminal includes an obtaining portion configured to obtain, from the user, a physical feature of the user. Any one or both of the terminal and the image output apparatus includes an authentication portion configured to perform, prior to the output process, an authentication process for verifying the user based on the physical feature obtained by the obtaining portion. The image output apparatus includes an output process portion configured to perform the output process when the authentication portion verifies the user. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171431 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus requests a server to permit a user to automatically log in to the information processing apparatus, and the server, based on face recognition processing for an image in which the user is imaged, permits the automatic login, and then the information processing apparatus provides its function to the user in response to the permission. The information processing apparatus inquires the server about whether a condition for the user to automatically log out from the information processing apparatus has been satisfied, and the server, based on face recognition processing for an image in which the user or another user is imaged, informs the information processing apparatus that the condition has been satisfied, and then the information processing apparatus stops providing its function to the user in response to the information. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171432 | Mechanism for Automatically Determining Input Profiles - A printing system is described. The printing system includes a printer having a control unit to perform color mapping from an input color space defined in a printer input profile to a printer color space defined in a printer output profile and a printing condition matching module to automatically determine a printer input profile based on a selection of one of a plurality of printing conditions, wherein a printer input profile corresponds to each of the plurality of printing conditions. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171433 | LOW-LATENCY TIMING CONTROL - A timing control system includes one or more device processors operatively coupled to one or more devices, a counter connected to the device processor(s), and a plurality of timing registers operatively coupled to the counter, each of the timing registers configured to store a value indicating a time at which an event is to be initiated at a corresponding one of the device(s). The system also includes a pulse generator operatively coupled to the counter and the timing registers, the pulse generator configured to generate one or more associated general-purpose input/output (GPIO) output signals, and send to each of the one or more devices an associated GPIO output signal to initiate the event at a plurality of the one or more devices in coordination with one another or to initiate the event at one of the one or more devices in coordination with another event at that device. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171434 | IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging system | 2017-06-15 |
20170171435 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DISCRETELY RECORDING AN EVENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN EVENT PARTICIPANT - An ornamental designed housing to attach a video recording device on or in flower bouquets. The invention improves and compliments the floral bouquet. The housing has a plurality of slots to thread either a ribbon or a stick for attachment to the bouquet. It also has areas that allow for optimum sound recording and ease of use during a ceremony. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171436 | ARRANGEMENT FOR SUPPORTING A MONITORING CAMERA AND A METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING THE ARRANGEMENT - An arrangement for supporting a monitoring camera is provided. The arrangement comprising: an arm ( | 2017-06-15 |
20170171437 | MULTI-FOCAL LENGTH RANGE IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A multi-focal length range image capturing device including a device body, an image capturing circuit, and a processing circuit is provided. The image capturing circuit performs image capturing based on a focal length setting value and generates an image signal. The processing circuit controls the image capturing circuit to be operated in one of plural image capturing modes. When the image capturing circuit is operated in a first image capturing mode, the image capturing circuit sets a focal length range thereof to a first preset focal length range, so as to select the focal length setting value within the first preset focal length range. When the image capturing circuit is operated in a second image capturing mode, the image capturing circuit sets the focal length range to a second preset focal length range, so as to select the focal length setting value within the second preset focal length range. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171438 | COLOR MEASUREMENT JIG - Apparatuses and methods for producing improved photographs suitable for measuring teeth whiteness with a handheld camera using a camera jig are provided. The camera jig includes a base that contacts a surface. The camera jig also includes a light shield made from a tubular structure defining an interior cavity. The camera jig further includes a slot in the tubular structure that supports the handheld camera at a predetermined distance from a target, which may be teeth of a user. The slot aligns a lens of the handheld camera with the target. Further, the light shield blocks substantially all ambient light, other than light of a light source of the handheld camera, from the target as it is photographed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171439 | MOUNT FOR AN OBJECTIVE - A mount for an objective housing. The mount includes a hollow space that is circular-cylindrical about an axis and has at least three receptacle protrusions for holding the objective housing, between which the hollow space arises and that are designed to hold the objective housing through clearance-free contact. The receptacle protrusions include at least two ribs that each have at least two regions having different extensions in the radial direction, relative to the axis. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171440 | LENS ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A lens assembly and an electronic device are provided. The lens assembly and/or the electronic device includes a lens barrel, a housing configured to accommodate the lens barrel on one surface of the housing, and an image sensor assembly mounted to the other surface of the housing, the image sensor being configured to rotate around an optical axis of the lens barrel. The image sensor assembly includes a ring-shaped rotation member facing the other surface of the housing, and a plurality of balls interposed between the rotation member and the other surface of the housing. The rotation member rotates on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171441 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG) CAMERA CONTROL - Various techniques for performing camera control techniques based on brainwave data from an electroencephalography (EEG) headset are disclosed herein. In an example, a computing system operates to receive brainwave data representing brainwave activity, process the brainwave data, and transmit a command to a camera device based on the processed brainwave data. For example, the brainwave data may correlate to raw brainwave signals (from gamma, beta, alpha, theta, or delta brainwaves), or composite brainwave signals (from multiple brainwaves, representative of attention, meditation, or like states). As a result, the computing system may transmit a command to a camera device to capture an image, a burst of images, start/stop video recording, or like commands for image and video operations, based on a human user's detected brainwave state. Further processing, detection, and training methods for brainwave control of camera operations are also disclosed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171442 | Transmitting Settings in a Digital Imaging System - An approach is provided to control digital imaging system. In the approach, isolated camera settings pertaining to a first camera body are configured. The first camera body is included in a camera group that includes two or more camera bodies. Each of the cameras in the camera group is controlled by a human operator. Shared camera settings that pertain to each of the cameras in the camera group are also configured. When an adjustment is received at the camera body from the human operator, the approach checks whether the adjustment is a shared group setting. If the adjustment is a shared setting, the system wirelessly transmits the adjustment over the wireless transmitter/receiver to the other camera bodies included in the camera group. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171443 | System and Method For Frame Capturing and Processing - Systems and methods are provided that capture and process frames of frame data. An image sensor captures frames of frame data representative of light incident upon the image sensor using a rolling shutter and outputs the frames of frame data. The image sensor captures at least one of the frames over a frame capture interval and then waits over a blanking interval before capturing another frame. A buffer receives and stores the frames output by the image sensor. An image signal processor retrieves the frames from the buffer and processes the frames over successive frame processing intervals to generate a video having a time interval per frame greater than the frame capture interval. At least one of the successive frame processing intervals is greater than the frame capture interval and is less than or equal to a sum of the frame capture interval and the blanking interval. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171444 | IMAGING SETTING CHANGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING SETTING CHANGING METHOD - Provided are an imaging setting changing apparatus, an imaging system, and an imaging setting changing method that are capable of improving visibility of a combined image around a movable body. An imaging setting changing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images capturing around a movable body in a partially overlapping manner generated by a plurality of imaging units, and a controller configured to change imaging setting of at least one of two imaging units in such a manner as to reduce at least one of a brightness difference and a color difference of the overlapping area in the images taken by the two imaging units configured to commonly image the overlapping area. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171445 | BRIGHTNESS COMPENSATION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR FRONT-FACING CAMERA, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - Disclosed are a brightness compensation method and an electronic device for a front camera, and a mobile terminal. The method includes: firstly, acquiring a current ambient brightness; then judging whether or not the brightness is less than a light compensation starting threshold, and if so, calculating a compensation brightness; and judging whether or not the compensation brightness is less than a brightness compensation extreme value of a screen, and if so, turning on the screen and adjusting the brightness of the screen to the compensation brightness. In the solution, the screen or a front flash is individually used for compensation at first, and when the requirement of brightness compensation is not satisfied, the screen and the front flash can be used together so as to satisfy the compensation requirement, so that the current brightness can be maximally compensated, thereby achieving a better shooting effect under adverse shooting conditions. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171446 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus capable of high dynamic range shooting for compositing a plurality of images captured with different exposures in temporarily continuous frames includes: an image capturing unit configured to repeatedly capture a relatively-low-exposure image and a relatively-high-exposure image in temporarily continuous frames; an image generation unit configured to generate a first image obtained by correcting the low-exposure image on a basis of reference exposure and a second image obtained by correcting the high-exposure image on a basis of the reference exposure; a calculation unit configured to calculate reference exposure, which is used for performing image capturing of a subsequent frame, on a basis of the first image and the second image; and a correction unit configured to correct exposure conditions, under which a relatively-low-exposure image and a relatively-high-exposure image in a subsequent frame are captured, on a basis of the reference exposure calculated by the calculation unit. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171447 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE INCLUDING FLASH, AND THE PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE - Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling an electronic device including a flash. The method includes obtaining light emission waveform data including light emission times and light emission intensities of the flash corresponding to a plurality of pre-set guide numbers. Also, calculating a waveform area of the light emission waveform data and calculating light emission amounts regarding the respective guide numbers by using the waveform area. The method further includes calculating a main guide number corresponding to light emission amount that satisfies necessary light emission amounts obtained when the flash pre-flashes from among the respective light emission amounts and controlling the flash to emit light according to a light emission time and light emission intensity based on the calculated main guide number. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171448 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH DISPLAY OVERLAID WITH AT LEAST A LIGHT SENSOR - Some embodiments include a mobile device with a light sensor overlaid under a display (e.g., a touchscreen). The mobile device can identify a command to capture an image. The mobile device can adjust at least a target portion of an opaqueness adjustable region of the display directly over the light sensor. The opaqueness adjustable region is capable of transforming from substantially opaque to substantially transparent. The mobile device can capture the image utilizing at least the light sensor while the target portion of the opaqueness adjustable region is substantially transparent. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171449 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - An image pickup apparatus includes a microcomputer that sets, when a proper exposure time is longer than a frame period, one or more long exposure times equal to or shorter than the frame period and a short exposure time such that a total time of the one or more long exposure times and the short exposure time is equal to the proper exposure time, an image pickup device that outputs a long exposure image and a short exposure image for every frame period, and a cumulative addition processing section that adds the short exposure image and the long exposure image or long exposure images of one or more frames to generate a synthetic image corresponding to the proper exposure time. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171450 | IMAGE SENSOR CIRCUIT REMOVING FLICKER AND CAMERA DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An image sensor circuit includes an image sensor, a flicker detector and a flicker compensator. The image sensor generates frame data for a plurality of successive frames. The flicker detector determines a representative value of the frame data for each of the plurality of successive frames and generates a flicker detection signal that is activated when the determined representative values of the generated frame data show periodicity between a minimum value and a maximum value. The flicker compensator generates compensated frame data by compensating the frame data based on the determined representative values and a predetermined reference value when the flicker detection signal is activated. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171451 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes a first exterior member made of a conductive material, a second exterior member made of a nonconductive material, and an antenna covered by the second exterior member and configured to provide a wireless communication. The antenna includes a feeder configured to supply a current, an oscillator configured to oscillate the current as a radio wave, and an intermediate part located between the feeder and the oscillator. The feeder and the oscillator are farther from the first exterior member than the intermediate part. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171452 | Handling Operational Settings in a Digital Imaging System - An approach is provided to control digital imaging system. In the approach, camera bodies are configured to establish a camera group that includes each of the camera bodies. Each of the camera bodies in the camera group is controlled by a human operator in photographing an event. Shared camera settings that pertain to each of the cameras in the camera group are also configured. A wireless receiver included in one of the camera bodies receives an adjustment that was sent from another camera body included in the camera group. One of the settings of the receiving camera body is then adjusted based on the received adjustment. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171453 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A communication apparatus has a communication control function, which enables the apparatus to operate as a control apparatus that forms a wireless network and controls the wireless network, and has an apparatus function other than the communication control function. The communication apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in the case that an instruction to implement the apparatus function is received while the apparatus is implementing the communication control function and operating as the control apparatus, and a control unit configured to control operation of the apparatus such that priority is given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in a case that the determination unit determines that priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171454 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ROBOTIC STANDS DURING VIDEOCONFERENCE OPERATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting and orienting a computing device mounted on a robotic stand for videoconferences. For example, a method for operating a robotic stand supporting a computing device is disclosed, which includes displaying, by a display of a remote device, a control interface depicting a physical location that includes a plurality of robotic stands with respective computing devices. The method further includes providing, responsive to a user of the remote device interacting with the control interface, a selection instruction selecting a region of the physical location for viewing with one of the plurality of robotic stands with respective computing devices, and generating, by the control interface, a positioning instruction based on the selected region of the physical location, the positioning instruction configured to orient the robotic stand including the computing device determined to be available to face the region of the physical location. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171455 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - [Object] To provide an image pickup apparatus suited for self-shooting. [Solving Means] An image pickup apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a main body and a movable unit. The main body includes a lens tube portion. The movable unit includes a movable portion and a bias portion that biases the movable portion toward the lens tube portion, the movable portion having a relative position with respect to the lens tube portion being variable along an axial direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens tube portion. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171456 | Stereo Autofocus - A first image capture component may capture a first image of a scene, and a second image capture component may capture a second image of the scene. There may be a particular baseline distance between the first image capture component and the second image capture component, and at least one of the first image capture component or the second image capture component may have a focal length. A disparity may be determined between a portion of the scene as represented in the first image and the portion of the scene as represented in the second image. Possibly based on the disparity, the particular baseline distance, and the focal length, a focus distance may be determined. The first image capture component and the second image capture component may be set to focus to the focus distance. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171457 | AUTOMATIC FOCUSING METHOD AND AUTOMATIC FOCUSING SYSTEM - An automatic focus method includes: catching an image data in a focus area; calculating the image data to get a contrast value curve via a contrast value algorithm; obtaining a contrast weight of each contrast value; calculating an adapted contrast value by multiplying the contrast value to the contrast weight; and adapting the focus according to the adapted contrast value curve. An automatic focus system using the automatic focus method is further disclosed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171458 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment that enable improvement of image quality of a captured image. In the solid-state imaging device, two or more photoelectric conversion layers including a photoelectric converter and a charge detector are laminated. The solid-state imaging device is configured to include a state in which light having entered one pixel of a first photoelectric conversion layer closer to an optical lens is received by the photoelectric converter of a plurality of pixels of the second photoelectric conversion layer farther from the optical lens. The technology of the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device that performs imaging. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171459 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, DISTANCE DETECTION APPARATUS, FOCUSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a first phase difference detector configured to detect two phase differences in a range that contains a phase difference that provides the highest correlation between a pair of image signals, a comparator configured to compare a signal representative of a matching degree when the pair of image signals have a first phase difference among the two phase differences, and a signal representative of a matching degree when the pair of image signals have a second phase difference among the two phase differences, a signal separator configured to separate a pair of signal components relating to a specific object from the pair of image signals, based on a comparison result by the comparator, and a second phase difference detector configured to detect a phase difference that provides the highest correlation between the pair of signal components separated by the signal separator. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171460 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE BODY, AND LENS BARREL - A distance-information acquisition unit acquires information about a distance to a subject in each focus detection region by setting a plurality of focus detection regions in an imaging region. A depth-of-field calculating unit calculates the depth of field for one major subject (principal object) on the basis of the information about a distance to the major subject, which is selected from a plurality of subjects, and a diaphragm value, which is corrected on the basis of optical characteristics of an APD filter. An insertion/retreat control unit determines whether or not a subject other than the major subject is present outside the depth of field on the basis of the information about the distance and inserts the APD filter onto the light path in a case in which the subject other than the major subject is present outside the depth of field. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171461 | FOCUS CONTROL APPARATUS, FOCUS CONTROL METHOD, CAMERA APPARATUS AND FOCUS CONTROL METHOD IN CAMERA APPARATUS - There is provided a focus control apparatus including: a first adjustment unit configured to adjust a focus distance; a second adjustment unit configured to adjust an addition amount of the focus distance adjusted with the first adjustment unit; and a focus control unit configured to control a focus based on the focus distance adjusted with the first adjustment unit and the addition amount adjusted with the second adjustment unit. Also provided are a focus control method, a camera apparatus and a focus control method in the camera apparatus. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171462 | Image Collection Method, Information Push Method and Electronic Device, and Mobile Phone - The application provides an imago collection method, an electronic device and a mobile phone. The image collection method is used for a mobile terminal, and a plug-in capable of calling a camera to operate is installed in browser software of the mobile terminal; after an image collection instruction is received, the camera is called to perform image scanning, and whether an image scanned by the camera is a human portrait is judged; if the image is a human portrait, the camera is called to photograph the image; and then an image photographed by the camera is acquired, and the human portrait is saved as a picture and transmitted to a server side. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171463 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The image processing apparatus includes an image producer to produce a captured image by using outputs from multiple photoelectric converters in an image sensor, a phase difference information acquirer to acquire phase difference information by using outputs from multiple specific photoelectric converters, and an object detector to detect an object, a size detector to detect an image size of the detected object. The object detector is capable of detecting a first object and a second object that is a part of the first object. The selector selects, when the image size of the first object is smaller than a predetermined size, the specific photoelectric converters depending on an area including the first object and selects, when the image size of the first object is larger than the predetermined size, the specific photoelectric converters depending on an area including the second object. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171464 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A wide-angle lens calibration system is provided, which may include a rotation unit, an image input unit, and a processing unit. A lens to be calibrated may be disposed on the rotation unit; the rotation direction of the rotation unit may be parallel to the horizontal direction; the optical axis center of the lens may be aligned with a reference object. The image input unit may receive images from the lens. The processing unit may control the rotation unit to rotate and analysis the images received from the lens. The processing unit may execute a distortion calibration process, wherein the processing unit may continuously rotate the rotation unit by a predetermined angle and then record the distance between the position of the reference object in the image and the optical axis center and a total rotation angle after each rotation so as to establish a distortion calibration model. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171465 | IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM AND IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD - An image capture system includes: a pan-tilt head with a driving-and-supporting mechanism; an image capture module including at least two image capture devices fixed on the driving-and-supporting mechanism and arranged side by side in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction; a distance obtaining module configured to obtain a distance between a to-be-captured object and the image capture module; a processor configured to calculate a width P of the to-be-captured object which is capable of being currently captured by one of the image capture devices based on the distance L and a visual angle of the image capture device in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction, and calculate a relative rotation angle of the image capture devices in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction based on the width; and a controller configured to control the image capture device to rotate based on the relative rotation angle. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171466 | Flare Detection and Mitigation in Panoramic Images - Lens flare mitigation techniques determine which pixels in images of a sequence of images are likely to be pixels affected by lens flare. Once the lens flare areas of the images are determined, unwanted lens flare effects may be mitigated by various approaches, including reducing border artifacts along a seam between successive images, discarding entire images of the sequence that contain lens flare areas, and using tone-mapping to reduce the visibility of lens flare. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171467 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a plurality of images are synthesized. The present invention includes a camera configuring to acquire a first image in response to a shooting command and a plurality of second images on a preset condition, a controller creating a synthetic image by synthesizing a whole part of the acquired first image and at least one portion of a plurality of the acquired second images, and a display unit configured to display the created synthetic image, wherein the controller controls a prescribed visual effect to be displayed on the synthetic image to indicate a region corresponding to the first image. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171468 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR STABILIZATION AND VIBRATION REDUCTION - The present invention provides an apparatus for stabilizing an imaging device and methods of using the same for a wide variety of applications including photography, video, and filming. Also provided are unmanned vehicles including aerial vehicles that contain the apparatus disclosed herein. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171469 | CAMERA MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAMERA MODULE - Reducing the risk of fracturing of a suspension wire in a camera module that has an image stabilizing function. A camera module is provided with a joining portion ( | 2017-06-15 |
20170171470 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a signal processing method therefor, and an electronic apparatus enabling sensitivity correction in which a sensitivity difference between solid-state imaging devices is suppressed. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171471 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING MULTIMEDIA PICTURE AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a multimedia picture generating method, device and electronic device, wherein the multimedia picture generating method includes acquiring a locational information of the location where the photographing device is located, and acquiring a picture of a photographed subject of the photographing device; extracting a figure image as a foreground image from the picture after receiving an instruction for removing picture background; searching for an image and music that matches the locational information from a multimedia database as background image and background music for the picture; and finally integrating the foreground image, the background image and the background music to generate a multimedia picture. Thus, when a user is unsatisfied with background effect of a picture that has been taken, a figure image can be automatically extracted from the picture as a foreground image, and the original background with poor effect can be removed, then an image that matches the locational information of the place of photographing can be searched out from a multimedia database as a new background image, which simplifies the optimum processing and improves the user experience. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171472 | Method and Related Camera Device for Generating Pictures with Object Moving Trace - A method of generating pictures with an object moving trace includes controlling a camera lens to capture a first picture at a first time, a second picture at a second time and a third picture at a third time, comparing the first and second pictures to generate a first image mask and a second image mask, keeping a first area of the first or second picture according to the first image mask and removing a second area of the first or second picture according to the second image mask to generate a fourth picture, and blending the third and fourth pictures according to a weighting to generate a fifth picture with an object moving trace. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171473 | METHOD FOR REALIZING PHOTOGRAPHING EFFECT OF A DISTORTING MIRROR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method for realizing a photographing effect of a distorting mirror and an electronic device. The method includes the following steps: operating a photographing mode of the electronic device; acquiring image data of each frame which is captured in real time by a camera module of the electronic device, processing each frame image data in real time according to a preset distorting-mirror algorithm, and displaying the processed image data on a photograph preview interface of the electronic device; receiving a photographing instruction, and acquiring the image data that is collected by the camera module, processing the collected image data according to the preset distorting-mirror algorithm, and generating a compressed and encoded picture according to the processed image data. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171474 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging device of the present invention comprises a first combination processing circuit that carries out first cumulative combination processing for every pixel of image data that has been generated by the image sensor and image data that has been stored in a memory, and updates pixel data, a second combination processing circuit that carries out second cumulative combination processing for every pixel of image data that has been generated by the image sensor and image data that has been stored in the memory, and updates pixel data, and a controller that determines whether or not level of each pixel data constituting image data is a given threshold level or greater, and in accordance with the result of determination selects to either carry out the first cumulative processing by the first combination processing circuit, or to carry out the second cumulative processing by the second combination processing circuit. | 2017-06-15 |
20170171475 | ZOOM CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND ZOOM CONTROL METHOD - The zoom control apparatus configured to control an angle of view. The apparatus includes a motion. acquirer configured to acquire a motion amount of an image capturing optical system, a calculator configured to calculate a displacement amount of a main object image in a captured image by using the motion amount of the image capturing optical system, a determiner configured to determine whether or not the displacement amount of the main object image is larger than a first threshold, and a controller configured to perform, when. the displacement amount of the main object image is larger than the first threshold, control for making the angle of view wider than that for when the displacement amount of the main object image is smaller than the first threshold. | 2017-06-15 |