53rd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090322877 | Cellular Control of Airborne Equipment - A manned or unmanned aircraft, and equipment aboard the aircraft, are controlled through a cell phone network or other public package switched network. Some of the information downlinked from the aircraft may include video imagery acquired by sensors integrated with the aircraft. In addition, some of the information uplinked to the aircraft may include instructions to control equipment onboard the aircraft, including cameras, spotlights, and public-address systems. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322878 | Image Processor, Image Processing Method, And Vehicle Including Image Processor - A visibility support system is provided which displays a wide field of view while absorbing camera installation errors. The visibility support system obtains a first conversion matrix H | 2009-12-31 |
20090322879 | Method and device for the detection of defective pixels of an image recording sensor, preferably in a driver assistance system - In a method and an apparatus for detecting defective pixels of an image acquisition sensor, preferably in a driver assistance system, brightness values are evaluated statistically for each pixel while the image acquisition sensor is being operated as intended for image acquisition, at least one comparable parameter being determined for statistical evaluation for each pixel from the ascertained brightness values, and that parameter being compared with at least one predefinable reference value; and a defective pixel being detected when the at least one parameter determined for the relevant pixel meets a predefinable condition with respect to the at least one reference value. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322880 | CAR WITH MOVEABLE CAMERA UNIT - A car includes a car body, a camera unit, a driving unit, a display unit, a processing unit and a power source unit. The car body includes a rear portion. The camera unit is moveably coupled to the rear portion and is configured to capture images. The driving unit is to drive the camera unit to move along the rear portion. The display unit is configured to display the captured images. The processing unit is configured to receive the captured images, send the captured images to the display unit to display and control the driving unit to drive the camera unit. The power source unit is configured to supply electrical power to the camera unit, the driving unit, the processing unit and the display unit. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322881 | Video analysis, archiving and alerting methods and apparatus for a distributed, modular and extensible video surveillance system - Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing, managing and cataloguing video tracks generated by a video surveillance system. Systems and methods operating in accordance with the present invention receive video tracks from a video surveillance system; analyze them for particular categories of, for example, objects or events, assign unique identifying tags to the video tracks; and save them in highly-cross-referenced databases so that video tracks containing, for example, particular objects or events can be easily searched for and recalled. In addition, the present invention provides browsing facilities for viewing events that have just elapsed, events that are occurring in near real-time. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322882 | Image processing apparatus, image apparatus, image processing method, and program - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a detection section configured to detect a motion area in a screen based on images taken, and output detection information; an accumulation section configured to accumulate the detection information for the past as outputted from the detection section; an area division section configured to divide the screen into an area where motions regularly occur and a motion-free area, based on the detection information for the past as accumulated in the accumulation section, and output area information; and an alarm management section configured to perform particular control based on the area information from the area division section and the detection information from the detection section. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322883 | Method of producing a remote imaging array - The present invention provides a method of producing a remote imaging array. A first imaging sensor, having a focal axis, is coupled to a housing, having a curvilinear array axis, along the curvilinear array axis. A second imaging sensor, having a focal axis, is coupled to the housing along the curvilinear array axis adjacent to the first imaging sensor, such that the focal axes of the first and second imaging sensors intersect one another at an intersection area. A third imaging sensor, having a focal axis, is coupled to the housing along a curvilinear array axis adjacent to the first imaging sensor, opposite the second imaging sensor, such that the focal axes of the first and third imaging sensors intersect one another at the intersection area. The second and third imaging sensors' fields of view are aligned with target areas opposite their respective positions in the housing. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322884 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR READING GAUGES AND OTHER VISUAL INDICATORS IN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM OR OTHER DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM - A portable apparatus includes a camera configured to capture images of multiple visual indicators. Each visual indicator, such as a gauge or meter, includes a display configured to present a reading. The portable apparatus also includes a recording device configured to store and/or transmit information associated with the captured images of the visual indicators. The camera and/or the recording device could be configured to identify, using the images, the readings presented on the displays of the visual indicators, and the information associated with the captured images could include the readings. Also, the camera could be configured to be mounted on each visual indicator in order to capture one or more images of the visual indicator's display and to be removed from the visual indicator after the one or more images are captured. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322885 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD EXECUTABLE BY COMPUTER - An image processing method is provided for detecting the position of a specific subject from a movie and combining a display of detection result indicating the detected position with the movie. The image processing method includes a step of determining, depending on a display time of the detection result, whether the detection result should be continuously displayed, when the subject cannot be detected during the display of the detection result combined with the movie. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322886 | Pull-Down Signal Detecting Apparatus, Pull-Down Signal Detecting Method, and Interlace-Progressive Converter - According to the invention, a pull-down signal detecting apparatus includes: an interfield motion detecting module configured to determine whether or not an interfield motion between a first field signal and a second field signal exists by comparing a first counted number with a first threshold; an interframe motion determining module configured to determine whether or not an interframe motion between the first field signal and a third field signal exists by comparing a second counted number with a second threshold; a determination module configured to determine whether or not the video signal is pull-down signal based on the determination result of the interfield motion determining module and the interframe motion determining module; and a threshold control module configured to vary the first threshold, when the determination result of the interframe motion determining module corresponds with a second pull-down pattern and when the determination result of the interfield motion determining module does not correspond to a first pull-down pattern. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322887 | IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT METHOD AND IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image quality assessment method and an image quality assessment apparatus are provided. In the image quality assessment method, the contrast of a measurement pattern displayed on the display apparatus, the brightness of the background, and the resolution are adjusted, and thereby the luminance characteristic of the measurement pattern is detected. Accordingly, the image quality of a display apparatus can be assessed using the number of waves determined from the luminance characteristic and the modulation transfer function (MTF) of the waves. Therefore, image quality assessment can be performed objectively by the display apparatus. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322888 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING MOVEMENTS OF PERSONS - An integrated circuit processes image data of a video camera by determining the optical flow and uses this to calculate output data that are either a measure for the position and/or movement of body parts of persons, or that represent and code gestures of persons. Furthermore, an electronic data-processing system, a method, and a computer program are provided. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ILLUMINATING USERS OF VIDEO COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method for illuminating a user of a video communication device is disclosed. The method may include capturing a video image using the video communication device, determining video image quality factor values based on the captured video image, determining if the video image quality factor values exceed at least one threshold value, wherein if the video image quality factor values are determined not to exceed at least one threshold value, adjusting at least one display property of at least one unused portion of the user's display based on the determined video image quality factor values and the at least one threshold value, wherein the at least one unused portion of the user's display is not being used to present images to the user, and capturing the video image using the adjusted display properties for presentation to another party in video communication with the user. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322890 | DISABLING OPERATION OF FEATURES ON A HANDHELD MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE BASED UPON LOCATION - Methods and devices for implementing subsystem or functional aspect restrictions on a wireless handheld communication device. Data defining geographical boundaries of a restricted operating area is stored on the device. The present position of the device is ascertained and a determination is made whether the device is located within the restricted operating area. A restriction on the subsystem or functional aspect is imposed when it is determined the device is within the restricted operating area. The subsystem or functional aspect restriction can be communicated to the device via a wireless communication network. Additionally, the restrictions and boundaries can be communicated to the device as part of an IT security policy. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322891 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A signal processing apparatus includes: an input unit receiving a first image generated by a first camera and higher-resolution second images generated by a plurality of second cameras; a similar portion detecting unit detecting a similar portion between part of a subject included in the first image and a subject included in each of the second images; an image synthesizing unit pasting the second images at positions corresponding to the detected similar portions within the first image to generate a synthesized image; an imaging area detecting unit detecting an area, for which image information is insufficient in the first image and is difficult to complement by the second cameras, as a non-imageable area from the synthesized image; and a camera parameter calculation unit changing a camera parameter for controlling the second camera that captures the second image by which the image information insufficient in the first image is complemented. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING AND CORRECTING SHADING NON-UNIFORMITY OF CAMERA SYSTEMS - The invention includes methods and apparatus for correcting shading non-uniformity in camera systems. A method includes capturing at least two sets of flatfield images from at least two sets of camera modules under first and second illuminant, respectively. Pixels for each image in the sets of flatfield images are then averaged to form first and second averaged flatfield images, respectively. The first averaged flatfield image is transformed using the second averaged flatfield image to create a transform image. The transform image is then saved in memory for calibrating the shading non-uniformity of the camera module. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322893 | CAMERA DATA MANAGEMENT AND USER INTERFACE APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - In certain embodiments, a graphical user interface (“GUI”) including a live camera sensor view is displayed and, in response to the capture of a camera image, an image manager pane is displayed together with the live camera sensor view in the graphical user interface. The image manager pane includes a visual indicator representative of the captured camera image. In certain embodiments, a camera image is captured and automatically assigned to a session based on a predefined session grouping heuristic. In certain embodiments, data representative of a captured camera image is provided to a content distribution subsystem over a network, and the content distribution subsystem is configured to distribute data representative of the camera image to a plurality of predefined destinations. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322894 | Computer program product for photographic subject tracking, photographic subject tracking device, and camera - By a program stored in a computer program product for tracking a photographic subject, a computer executes a template matching step of performing template matching upon each frame of an input image with each of a plurality of template images and extracting a plurality of regions whose similarities with each of the template images are the highest from within the input image, a classification step of classifying the extracted regions into regions that are to be used for specifying a photographic subject position within the input image and another region, on the basis of the mutual distances between the extracted regions within the input image, a specification step of specifying the photographic subject position, on the basis of the positions of the regions that have been classified by the classification step as the regions that are to be used for specifying the photographic subject position within the input image, and a photographic subject tracking step of tracking the movement of the photographic subject over the image consisting of a plurality of frames, by tracking the photographic subject position between frames. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322895 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image sensing apparatus according to this invention includes an image sensing unit which sequentially generates still image data, a holding unit which holds a plurality of still image data, a display unit which displays the still image data, a setting unit which sets a predetermined state as the start timing of shooting by the image sensing unit, a determination unit which determines whether the predetermined state has been obtained, a shooting control unit which causes the image sensing unit to start shooting when the determination unit determines that the predetermined state has been obtained, a display control unit which causes the display unit to sequentially display, at a display speed lower than an actual time, the still image data, a selection unit which selects one of a plurality of image data displayed on the display unit, and a recording unit which records the selected image data. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322896 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image recording apparatus includes an imaging unit to obtain captured image data; an image configuration determining unit to determine an appropriate image configuration; an image configuration acquisition control unit to execute image configuration acquisition control to obtain captured image data of image content having the appropriate image configuration; a capturing/recording unit to record the captured image data when the captured image data of the image content having the appropriate image configuration is obtained; a capturing history information holding unit to hold capturing history information; an image configuration exhaustion determining unit to determine whether the captured image data of the image content having the appropriate image configuration has been recorded a predetermined number of times; and a recording setting unit to prevent recording of captured image data of image content having the appropriate image configuration determined to have been recorded the predetermined number of times. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322897 | DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING SELF-NAVIGATOR FUNCTION, AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A digital image processing apparatus and method are provided, particularly, a digital image processing apparatus having a self-navigator function for allowing capture of a self-image with a user-desired composition, and an operation method of the digital image processing apparatus. The digital image processing apparatus includes a digital signal processing unit for setting a desired position at which a subject is to be positioned on a live-view image and directing the subject to move until an actual position of the subject corresponds to the desired position. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322898 | Image Pickup Apparatus and Electronic Device - An image processing method and apparatus operable for processing images is disclosed. The image processing method allows for drawing any given image in an output image on which various types of image processing have been performed. Such various types of image processing are, for example, correction of an image having distortion due to the distortion aberration of an imaging lens, an image having unnatural perspective distortion of a subject due to high-angle or overhead photography, generation of an output image with the viewpoint changed from the viewpoint of a captured image, mirror-image conversion of a captured image, and electronic zooming. Embodiments of the present invention also relate to an imaging apparatus that uses the image processing method. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322899 | FAIL SAFE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Methods of capturing image pixel data representing a scene may be practiced using a camera and may be implemented as software, such as an application program executing within the camera. The methods are particularly advantageous where user modification to the camera control parameters leads to a difference between the values of the pre-capture control parameters for the camera when compared to the pre-capture control parameters that the camera would determine in fully automatic mode. The measured difference may be compared to one or more predetermined threshold values. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322900 | WIRELESS DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD - A wireless data transmitted method is disclosed. Firstly, a carrier block is displayed. Then, color of the displayed carrier block is modulated in accordance with data to be transmitted. The data is transmitted by capturing an image of the displayed carrier block. The captured carrier block is recognized and the color thereof is calibrated. Finally, the transmitted data is obtained by demodulating the color of the captured carrier block. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322901 | Method and apparatus providing rule-based auto exposure technique preserving scene dynamic range - A method and apparatus for applying exposure compensation to an image. Exposure correction limits inclusion of, but does not ignore, image highlights and lowlights. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322902 | Imaging apparatus and exposure control method used for the same - An imaging apparatus includes a shutter drive section, an aperture blade drive section, an ND filter drive section, a light intensity detection section, a memory, and a control section. The shutter drive section opens and closes a shutter for a light receiving surface of a solid state image sensor. The aperture blade drive section drives an aperture blade forming an aperture. The ND filter drive section adjusts the position of an ND filter against the aperture. The control section calculates the exposure control voltage representing an exposure amount from the light intensity signal output from the light intensity detection section, and reads out the F value and the shutter speed corresponding to the exposure control voltage from the exposure control table stored in the memory so as to avoid a partial application state of the ND filter, for controlling respective drive sections. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322903 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an imaging system capable of improving S/N ratio and increasing dynamic range and a method of driving the imaging system suited to the improvement and increase. An imaging system includes: a solid-state imaging device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, column amplifiers each corresponding to each of columns of the pixels and an output portion for outputting an image signal based on an amplification by the column amplifier; and a signal processing portion receiving the image signal, wherein the column amplifier amplifies a signal output from the pixel by a gain q larger than 1, and the signal processing portion multiplies, by a factor less than 1, the image signal based on the signal amplified by the gain q. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322904 | Data Recording/Reproducing Device, Data Recording/Reproducing Program And Data Reproducing Device - A data recording/reproducing device includes: a position detection unit that detects information (hereafter referred to as position information) indicating a position at which data are acquired and reproduced; a determining unit that determines which specific set of geographical information, among a plurality of sets of geographical information defined in advance, the position information detected by the position detection unit at the time of data acquisition and data reproduction corresponds to; a recording control unit that records the acquired data into a recording medium based upon determining results provided by the determining unit; a selection unit that selects reproduction-permitted data from the recording medium based upon the geographical information determined by the determining unit at the time of data reproduction; and a reproducing unit that outputs and reproduces at least one set of data among the reproduction-permitted data having been selected. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322905 | Storage control device - A storage control device includes: a memory where a data file is temporarily stored; a read-out unit that sequentially reads out divided data segments of the data file; a storage medium that includes data storage areas having small areas and data management areas each corresponding to the small area, so as to store each of the data segments into small areas and store at least one of first link information and second link information into the data management areas; a first instruction unit that issues an instruction for procuring consecutive data management areas corresponding to a data size of data segments; a second instruction unit that issues an instruction for writing the first link information into the data management areas excluding a trailing-end data management area; and a third instruction unit that issues an instruction for sequentially writing the data segment into the data storage areas. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322906 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGED PICTURE RECORDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM - Upon an operation to full-press a shutter button being detected, a CPU detects human faces included in a picture imaged by an imaging unit, counts the number of the faces, and stores the number of the counted faces in a predetermined area of a memory unit. Thereafter, the CPU again detects faces included in an imaged picture and counts the number of the faces. When the number of the counted faces is equal to or smaller than the number of the faces stored in the predetermined area of the memory unit, the CPU repeats the process of detecting faces included in an imaged picture and counting the number of the faces. Meanwhile, when the number of the counted faces has increased from the number of the faces stored, the CPU records a picture that is to be imaged after a predetermined period of time passes in a recording medium. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322907 | Image obtainment method and apparatus - An image obtainment apparatus images an observation target to obtain an ordinary image by illuminating the observation target with illumination light and by receiving, at an imaging device, reflection light reflected from the observation target. Further, the apparatus generates spectral estimation image signals of a predetermined wavelength by performing spectral image processing on image signals output from the imaging device. A spectral image processing unit generates spectral estimation image signals of a specific wavelength related to an agent administered to the observation target, as spectral estimation image signals for obtaining luminance information, based on the image signals output from the imaging device. Further, a luminance information obtainment unit obtains luminance information about each of the spectral estimation image signals for obtaining luminance information that have been generated at a predetermined time interval, and obtains a rate of change in the luminance information. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322908 | SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING GRAPHICAL IMAGES USING HYPERSPECTRAL ILLUMINATION - A graphical scanner for scanning a graphical image includes a source for producing an optical beam, a monochromator for dividing the optical beam into a plurality of component beams for hyperspectral bandpasses, a director for directing the component beams to illuminate portions of the graphical image, a sensor for measuring a light intensity for the one or illuminated portions, and a translator for transforming the measured light intensities for each of the one or more portions into hyperspectral traces each representing a spectral power distribution. The translator further transforms the hyperspectral traces into one or more device-independent representations of color. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322909 | SIMULATED REFLECTIVE DISPLAY - A method may be performed by a device having a camera and a display. The method may include identifying a graphical element to be presented on the display, capturing an image of an area in front of the display, determining information for distorting the captured image based on the graphical element, distorting the captured image based on the determined information. The distorted image may be combined with the graphical element on the display. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322910 | SUPER-RESOLUTION DIGITAL ZOOM - When a user selects digital zooming in a camera such as might be included in a wireless telephone or PDA, a series of images are automatically obtained and superimposed using super-resolution techniques to produce an improved digital zoom image transparently to the user. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322911 | PIXEL OR COLUMN FIXED PATTERN NOISE MITIGATION USING PARTIAL OR FULL FRAME CORRECTION - Systems and methods are provided that facilitate mitigating pixel or column fixed pattern noise in a CMOS imaging System-on-Chip (iSoC) sensor. Pixel or column fixed pattern noise can be recognized by gating a pixel array without firing a transfer signal (TX). Inhibiting the transfer signal can cause zero input to be provided to pixels in the pixel array; thus, the sampled output from the pixels under such conditions can be a function of noise. Calibration and correction can thereafter be effectuated. Additionally or alternatively, pixel or column fixed pattern noise can be managed by controlling a frame rate; thus, the frame rate can be reduced under low light conditions to enable integrating incident light for longer periods of time as well as providing reference frames of pixels generated from zero input that can be utilized for calibration and correction of pixel or column fixed pattern noise associated with other frames. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322912 | PIXEL OR COLUMN FIXED PATTERN NOISE MITIGATION USING PARTIAL OR FULL FRAME CORRECTION WITH UNIFORM FRAME RATES - Systems and methods are provided that facilitate mitigating pixel or column fixed pattern noise in a CMOS imaging System-on-Chip (iSoC) sensor. For instance, pixel or column fixed pattern noise can be recognized by gating a pixel array without firing a transfer signal (TX). Inhibiting the transfer signal can cause zero input to be provided to pixels in the pixel array; thus, the sampled output from the pixels under such conditions can be a function of noise. Calibration and correction can thereafter be effectuated. Moreover, uniform frame rates for outputted frames can be yielded irrespective of use of a subset of read out frames for calibration. For example, frames employed for calibration can be replaced in a sequence of outputted frames by copies of stored frames. Further, signal levels can be balanced to account for differences in light integration time, which can result from blocking and unblocking firing of transfer signals. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322913 | SPLIT TRANSFER GATE FOR DARK CURRENT SUPPRESSION IN AN IMAGER PIXEL - A pixel with a photosensor and a transfer transistor having a split transfer gate. A first section of the transfer gate is connectable to a first voltage source while a second section of the transfer gate is connectable to a second voltage source. Thus, during a charge integration period of a photosensor, the two sections of the transfer gate may be oppositely biased to decrease dark current while controlling blooming of electrons within and out of the pixel cell. During charge transfer the two gate sections may be commonly connected to a positive voltage sufficient to transfer charge from the photosensor to a floating diffusion region. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322914 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes a smear detection unit configured to detect the amount of smear from an image signal, a smear correction unit configured to execute smear correction based on the detected amount of smear, and an image processing unit configured to execute image processing based on the detected amount of smear. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322915 | Speaker and Person Backlighting For Improved AEC and AGC - Regions of interest in video image capture for communication purposes are selected based on one or more inputs based on sound source localization, multi-person detection, and active speaker detection using audio and/or visual cues. Exposure and/or gain for the selected region are automatically enhanced for improved video quality focusing on people or inanimate objects of interest. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322916 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A signal processing system includes: defining a nonlinear function; defining a set of requirements for an output signal; obtaining an input signal; applying a cubic polynomial fitting to approximate the nonlinear function and provide an approximated nonlinear function; assigning a set of fitted polynomial parameters to the approximated nonlinear function; transforming the input signal with the approximated nonlinear function to provide a transformed signal; modifying the transformed signal by adjusting the set of fitted polynomial parameters to provide a modified signal meeting the set of requirements for the output signal; and outputting the modified signal. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322917 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a solid-state imaging device capable of operating at high-speed, and suppressing the deterioration of image quality caused by coupling. A solid-state imaging device according to the present invention includes: pixels arranged in rows and columns; color filters each of which is arranged on a light incidence plane of a corresponding one of the pixels, each of the color filters being one of at least two colors; and column signal lines provided for each of the columns of the pixels, and each of which transmits the signals from the pixels in a column direction, in which one of the color filters is arranged on one of the pixels connected to the column signal line, and is of a same color as another one of the color filters arranged on another one of the pixels connected to the column signal line. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322918 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CAMERA - An imaging apparatus having a function of enabling focus detection at high speed while exposing an image sensor to light. Imaging apparatus | 2009-12-31 |
20090322919 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion portion; a floating diffusion region; a transfer gate electrode made of an n-type semiconductor; a sidewall made of an n-type semiconductor formed on the photoelectric conversion portion side of the transfer gate electrode through an insulating film; and a sidewall made of an insulating layer formed on the floating diffusion region side of the transfer gate electrode. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322920 | Operational amplifier for an active pixel sensor - The present invention includes operational amplifier for an active pixel sensor that detects optical energy and generates an analog output that is proportional to the optical energy. The active pixel sensor operates in a number of different modes including: signal integration mode, the reset integration mode, column reset mode, and column signal readout mode. Each mode causes the operational amplifier to see a different output load. Accordingly, the operational amplifier includes a variable feedback circuit to provide compensation that provides sufficient amplifier stability for each operating mode of the active pixel sensor. For instance, the operational amplifier includes a bank of feedback capacitors, one or more of which are selected based on the operating mode to provide sufficient phase margin for stability, but also considering gain and bandwidth requirements of the operating mode. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322921 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes: plural pixel cells, arranged in a matrix, each of which includes a photodiode which photoelectrically converts incident light, a transferring transistor which transfers a charge generated by the photodiode, a floating diffusion which accumulates the transferred charge, a reset transistor which resets a potential of said floating diffusion, and an amplifying transistor which converts the charge accumulated in the floating lo diffusion into a voltage; column signal lines each connected to associated ones of plurality of amplifying transistors including the amplifying transistor corresponding to a corresponding one of columns having the associated plurality of pixel cells; and a voltage control circuit which increases a voltage of the column signal line to a predetermined voltage between the reset of the potential by the reset transistor and the transfer of the charge by the transferring transistor. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322922 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - In order to suppress a variation of a signal held by each signal holding unit, a solid-state imaging apparatus of the present invention is characterized in that, when a clamp operation of a pixel output signal is performed in the signal holding unit, a time changing rate of an amplitude of a drive pulse supplied to the selecting unit for turning from a non-conducting state to a conducting state is not larger than a time changing rate of the amplitude of the drive pulse supplied to the selecting unit for turning from the conducting state to the non-conducting state. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322923 | PHOTOELECTRIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF FABRICATING PHOTOELECTRIC APPARATUS, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A photoelectric apparatus includes a substrate and an array of a plurality of pixels each having at least one photoelectric device including a lower electrode over the substrate, a photoelectric layer over the lower electrode, and an upper electrode over the photoelectric layer, the photoelectric apparatus further includes an electrically conductive partition between adjacent two of the pixels, the conductive partition being electrically connected with the upper electrode and a transparent insulating layer on the upper electrode, and the pixels is individually sealed in by the partition and the transparent insulating layer. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322924 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE DRIVING METHOD - Photosensitive cells each includes a photodiode ( | 2009-12-31 |
20090322925 | PROVIDING CURRENT TO COMPENSATE FOR SPURIOUS CURRENT WHILE RECEIVING SIGNALS THROUGH A LINE - Circuits, methods, and systems are disclosed in which a current is provided to compensate for spurious current while receiving signals through a line. For example, the spurious current can be sensed and the compensating current can be approximately equal to the sensed spurious current. The spurious current could include photocurrent from a bright light, and the compensating current can prevent bright light effects. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322926 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a display screen displaying a first image included in a continuously taken image group, a friction position detector detecting a friction position on the display screen rubbed by a user, and an image synthesizing unit synthesizing a pixel area of the first image corresponding to the friction position, and a pixel area of a second image included in the image group, wherein the image synthesizing unit switches the second image to be synthesized with the first image so as to increase an imaging time difference between the first image and the second image along with an increase in the amount of friction rubbed by the user. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322927 | CAMERA - The present invention has an object in providing a camera with which further miniaturization is realized, in a camera having the bending optical system. A digital camera ( | 2009-12-31 |
20090322928 | Electro-optic imaging system with aberrated triplet lens compensated by digital image processing - An electro-optic imaging system includes an aberrated triplet lens, a detector subsystem and a digital image processing subsystem. The triplet lens is not fully corrected for all aberrations (typically suffering from significant spherical aberration), with the digital image processing subsystem compensating for deficiencies in the triplet lens. In this way, an increased depth of field can be realized. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322929 | COMPACT CAMERA MODULE - A camera module includes an image sensor package and a lens module. The image sensor package includes a base having an interior surface and an opposite exterior surface, an image sensor, a carrier plate and a plurality of passive elements. A cavity is defined on the interior surface of the base. The image sensor chip having a sensitive region is received in the cavity of the base and is electrically connected to the base. The carrier plate, comprising a light transparent area and an electrode area surrounding the transparent area, is formed on the base. A plurality of electrodes attached on the electrode area of the carrier plate and electrically connected to the base. The passive elements are mechanically and electrically attached on the electrode area of the carrier plate. The lens module is attached on the carrier plate for receiving the passive elements therein. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322930 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A portable electronic apparatus includes a main body, a camera device, and a supplementary light device. The camera device and the supplementary light device are fixed on the main body. The supplementary light device includes a light module, a lens module, and a motor. The light module includes a circuit board, a light source, and a heat sink opposite to the light source. The lens module includes a lens barrel and a plurality of lenses received in the lens module. The motor drives the lens module to change the intensity distribution of the light from the light module. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322931 | DIGITAL CAMERA MODULE FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A digital camera module ( | 2009-12-31 |
20090322932 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, FOCUS CONTROL METHOD AND FOCUS CONTROL PROGRAM - An image pickup apparatus includes: an in-focus operation section configured to drive a focus lens to move over a predetermined driving range in order to detect evaluation values each representing the strength of the contrast of an image signal generated based on a subject of an image pickup operation from a plurality of predetermined positions and find an in-focus position of the focus lens based on the evaluation values; a detector configured to acquire first evaluation values obtained for the predetermined positions during a first period of driving the focus lens to move over the predetermined driving range, and second evaluation values obtained for at least one of the predetermined positions during a second period between the end of the first period and a process to find the in-focus position based on the first evaluation values; and a change measurement section configured to measure a change of the evaluation value. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322933 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image capturing apparatus performs autofocus control that uses a face detection function. The image capturing apparatus sets a face region as an AF frame if face detection is successful. However, if a state in which face detection is successful transitions to a state in which face detection has failed, and furthermore a variation between subject distances is less than or equal to a threshold value, the image capturing apparatus maintains the previous AF frame setting instead of changing the AF frame setting. If the variation in subject distances is greater than the threshold value, the image capturing apparatus sets the AF frame to a predetermined region that does not follow a face region. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322934 | FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A focus adjustment apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object image to be focused from a captured image, a setting unit configured to set a focus detection region in the captured image, and a focus adjustment unit configured to adjust an in-focus state of an imaging optical system depending on AF evaluation values based on output signals from the focus detection region. First and second focus detection regions are set for a region which has followed the object image detected and a region which does not follow the object image detected. The focus adjustment unit performs a weighted addition of the AF evaluation values based on the output signals in the first and second focus detection regions at ratios depending on at least either a size of an object image within a screen, a position of the object image within the screen and a shooting mode. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322935 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to receive an optical image transmitted through a lens unit and configured to convert the image into image data, a target image detection unit configured to detect a target image satisfying a predetermined form from the image data converted by the imaging unit, and a focus control unit configured to move a focus position of the lens unit by a predetermined amount according to a result of the target image detected by the target image detection unit. The target image detection unit detects the target image from image data converted by the imaging unit in the moved focus position when the focus control unit moves the focus position of the lens unit by the predetermined amount according to the detected result of the target image. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322936 | AUTO FOCUSING METHOD FOR FACE DETECTION OF DIGITAL IMAGING DEVICE - A auto focusing method for face detection of a digital imaging device is described, in which high-frequency information of a focusing area is increased according to a size, a position of a face of a person to be shot, and an image area at least covering the face and body of the person, thereby improving a focusing success ratio. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322937 | SEALED CAMERA ASSEMBLY AND HEAT REMOVAL SYSTEM THEREFOR - Sealed camera apparatus may include a generally closed chamber having at least one transparent window provided therein. A video camera mounted within the generally closed chamber receives light transmitted through the at least one transparent window. A radio transmitter mounted within the generally closed chamber is operatively associated with the video camera. A heat conduit having a first end and a second end extends through an opening provided in the generally closed chamber so that the first end of the heat conduit is located interior to the generally closed chamber and so that the second end of the heat conduit is located exterior to the generally closed chamber. The first end of said heat conduit is in thermal contact with at least a portion of the radio transmitter so that heat from the radio transmitter is transferred to the heat conduit. A heat sink mounted to the second end of the heat conduit dissipates heat from the transmitter and conducted through the heat conduit. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322938 | METHOD AND RELATED IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS UTILIZED FOR COMBINING COLOR LOOK-UP TABLE AND VIDEO DAC CALIBRATION MAPPING TABLE - A signal processing apparatus for generating an output analog signal according to a raw digital signal is disclosed. The signal processing apparatus includes a DAC, a storage device, and an adjusting device. The storage device is utilized for storing a target mapping table equivalent to a combination of a predetermined correction mapping table and a DAC calibration mapping table corresponding to the DAC. The adjusting device is coupled to the DAC and the storage device, and is utilized for adjusting the raw digital signal to generate a calibrated digital signal according to the target mapping table stored in the storage device. The DAC converts the calibrated digital signal to generate the output analog signal. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322939 | VIDEO SCAN CONVERTER - A video scan converter processes a video stream including a first coding unit, which has been obtained by encoding a pair of fields N | 2009-12-31 |
20090322940 | Apparatus and Method for Film Source Reconstruction - A method for film reconstruction includes identifying motion tear artifacts within a plurality of video fields of a stream of video fields. The motion tear artifacts identified by analyzing the video fields using fuzzy logic. The method also includes comparing the analysis of one video field to the analysis of an immediately preceding video field to determine whether there is a relatively high level of motion tear artifacts within the video field or a relatively low level of motion tear artifacts within the video field. The method further includes identifying a pattern of temporal periodicity for the comparisons. The method also includes determining the cadence of the stream of video fields based on the pattern of temporal periodicity. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322941 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - According to the present invention, in converting an interlaced signal in 4:2:0 format into an interlaced signal in 4:2:2 format, diagonal correlation is detected using a luminance signal and color-difference signals are also interpolated diagonally based on a result of the detection. As a result, the quality of the image represented by the color-difference signals can be improved and the signal can be converted into the 4:2:2 format with the block noise of the color-difference signals, which could be produced in an MPEG decoded image in the 4:2:0 format, reduced. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322942 | VIDEO DE-INTERLACING WITH MOTION ESTIMATION - A method includes determining a lowest-score interpolation direction among a plurality of interpolation directions. The method further includes calculating a candidate pixel value by interpolating along the lowest-score interpolation direction. The method further includes applying a median function to a set of pixel values. The set of pixel values includes (a) the candidate pixel value, (b) at least one pixel value from a line of pixels that is immediately above a pixel location that is currently being interpolated, and (c) at least one pixel value from a line of pixel values that is immediately below the pixel location that is currently being interpolated. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322943 | TELOP COLLECTING APPARATUS AND TELOP COLLECTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a telop display system includes an extracting module which extracts a telop region identified as an image of a telop from video image information of a television program, an image analyzing module which performs image analysis related to coordinates, a size, and a color scheme of the telop region extracted by the extracting module, a semantic analyzing module which performs text analysis related to a word class and a meaning of the obtained character string, and a classifying module which classifies the telop on the basis of an analysis result of at least one of the image analysis and the text analysis to accumulate character strings of the telops as items of text information classified in units of categories. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322944 | Electronic Device - An electronic device has a plurality of wired-connection terminals, a selection portion that selects one of the plurality of wired-connection terminals for input of source data, and a transmission portion that wiredly transmits a command requesting a shift to a normal-operation mode to another electronic device having a power-save mode after switching of input by selection by the selection portion. The plurality of wired-connection terminals are all of an identical type for wired connection to another electronic device having a power-save mode. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322945 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - When display according scheduled program viewing is provided on multi-screen-display, a user may not even notice the display. First, upon the start of processing for display according to scheduled program viewing, which has been set in advance (for example, two minutes before the scheduled program viewing), at step S | 2009-12-31 |
20090322946 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of input units configured to correspond to respective image data items to be obtained, an obtaining unit configured to obtain the image data items corresponding to the input units when the input units are operated, a determination unit configured to determine, when one of the input units is operated within a predetermined period of time, layout for displaying a corresponding one of the image data items in a display unit, and configured to determine, when at least two of the input units are operated within the predetermined period of time, layout for displaying image data items corresponding to the operated input units in the display unit in parallel, and an output unit configured to generate display data for a single screen using at least one of the image data items obtained using the obtaining unit in accordance with the layout determined using the determination unit and output the display data to the display unit. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322947 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - A digital broadcast receiver A according to the present embodiment includes a tuner | 2009-12-31 |
20090322948 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR WIRELESSLY TRANSMITTING SETTING INFORMATION OF DISPLAY UNIT - In a wireless communication system including a source device for wirelessly transmitting a video signal, and a sink device for receiving the wirelessly transmitted video signal and displaying the received video signal on a display, the sink device reads out EDID information from a ROM and wirelessly transmits a wireless data signal including the EDID information to the source device. The source device wirelessly receives the wire less data signal including the EDID information and wirelessly transmitted from the sink device, and wirelessly transmits the video signal to the sink device based on the EDID information. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322949 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video signal processor includes an input module which receives a second video signal including control information for performing various specification about acquisition and display of a first video signal, an obtaining module which obtains the first video signal based on the specification of the control information detected from the second video signal and performs the processing about the display, and a processing module which superimposes the first video signal on the second video signal to display the both on the same screen at the same time. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322950 | Receiver device, tuner, and television receiver - A receiver device is provided singly capable of applying demodulator circuits with differing frequency characteristics with respective signals of desired frequencies for the demodulator circuits. The receiver device in accordance with the present invention switches between a mode in which a digital signal having a frequency suitable for various signal processes is supplied to a DA converter and a mode in which a digital signal for which the IF frequency is about 30 MHz to 60 MHz is supplied to the DA converter, by using a switch and a wire. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322951 | Reduction of Blocking Artifacts in Image Decompression Systems - A method and apparatus for reducing blocking artefacts in a decompressed image signal includes inputting the decompressed video signal and detecting locations of block and image content edges therein. Image content and block edges are discriminated between to remove or conceal the image content edges and the remaining block edges transformed to produce an error correcting signal to smooth the block edges at the detected locations in a delayed version of the decompressed video signal. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322952 | Method for adjusting saturation and contrast of an area of an image and apparatus thereof - A method for adjusting saturation of an area of an image is disclosed. The method includes calculating a deviation level of a pixel in the area of the image by a processor and calculating a modified saturation value of the pixel in the area of the image according to the deviation level of the pixel in the area of the image and an original saturation value of the pixel in the area of the image by the processor. The deviation level indicates brightness differences of the brightness values among the pixel and a pixel set in a vicinity of the pixel in the area of the image. The pixel set includes pixels in the vicinity of the pixel of the area of the image. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322953 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACHIEVING SELECTED AUDIO/VIDEO AND OTHER FUNCTIONS - A method and apparatus are provided for reproducing an audio, video or data signal. The signal may be a digital input with each segment of the signal being broadcast at least two times, which broadcast transmissions are at time spaced intervals. The time spaced transmissions are stored in at least one RAM, and the multiple transmissions are processed to obtain an enhanced output for each segment, which is applied to a receiver for reproduction. For example, the multiple transmissions for each segment may be compared, and the best transmission for the segment selected as the enhanced output for the segment. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322954 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF 3D COMB FILTER BASED ON MOTION - A narrower bandwidth 3D comb filter is used to render a still motion portion of a video frame if motion in a moving portion of the frame exceeds a threshold, and otherwise a wider bandwidth 3D comb filter is used to render the still motion portion. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322955 | DATA TRANSMITTING DEVICE, DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD, AUDIO-VISUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL DEVICE, AUDIO-VISUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND AUDIO-VISUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL METHOD - An audio-visual environment control system is provided for realizing control of an optimum audio-visual environment illumination in response to an atmosphere of a shot scene and a scene setting intended by an image creator. An image transmitting apparatus | 2009-12-31 |
20090322956 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTION ESTIMATION OF DIGITAL VIDEO USING MULTIPLE RECURSION RULES - A system and method of providing motion estimation is disclosed. A recursive motion estimation module applies multiple recursive motion estimation rules which have complimentary performance advantages. A selection module provides a switching scheme which determines which rule to apply to a specific block within a video frame. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322957 | Image Processing Method and Related Apparatus for Calculating Target Motion Vector Used for Image Block to be Interpolated - An image processing method includes: detecting a motion vector of a source image block within a first video image to determine a flag value of the source image block, wherein the flag is used for indicating whether image content of the source image block correspondingly includes sight variations; and determining a target motion vector used for an interpolated image block according to the flag value. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322958 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus capable of providing a plurality of image processing functions includes: a first controller to execute and control a plurality of application programs; and a second controller to execute and control a part of the plurality of application programs. When the power of the image processing apparatus is turned on, the second controller completes the execution of the part of the plurality of application programs before the execution of the plurality of application programs by the first controller completes, and causes a part of the plurality of image processing functions provided by the part of the application programs executed by the second controller to be available for use by a user before the plurality of image processing functions becomes available for use by the user. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322959 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - Reservation information is acquired (S | 2009-12-31 |
20090322960 | Television Broadcasting Receiver - According to the embodiment of the invention, a television broadcasting receiver includes: an input terminal to which a television broadcasting signal is inputted, the second standard being different from the first standard; a printed circuit board having the input terminal substantially at the center of the printed circuit board and having first and second tuner units, the first tuner unit being disposed on one side of the input terminal, the second tuner unit being disposed on another side of the input terminal; and a casing housing the printed circuit board and the first and second tuner units so that the input terminal is exposed to the outside, wherein each of the first and second tuner units performs frequency conversion on the television broadcasting signal according to the first standard or the second standard inputted to the input terminal to obtain a video signal or an audio signal corresponding one of the first standard and the second standard. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322961 | System for digital television broadcasting using modified 2/3 trellis coding - Serially concatenated convolutional coding (SCCC) transmitting ancillary data within DTV signals incorporates the ⅔ trellis coding used for all DTV signals as its inner convolutional coding. The outer convolutional coding of the SCCC is subjected to _“anti-Gray”_ coding, either before or after its interleaving, but before its inner convolutional coding. In a receiver for ancillary data as so transmitted, simple logic circuitry recodes portions of the trellis decoded DTV signal containing soft decisions as to the symbol-interleaved convolutionally coded ancillary data to provide a Gray-code mapping of symbols to modulation levels. This recoding is done either before or after symbol de-interleaving, but before decoding the outer convolutional coding to recover ancillary data. Soft decisions concerning extrinsic information to be fed back to the ⅔ trellis decoder to close a turbo decoding loop are derived from soft decisions as to the ancillary data, and this derivation includes recoding for a binary-code mapping of symbols to modulation levels. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322962 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Low Resolution Images in a Broadcast System - Low resolution information streams are combined in a broadcast carrier and broadcast along with full resolution information streams down a television broadcast network. The low resolution streams may be decoded and displayed in mosaic display with multiple images from separate low resolution streams simultaneously displayed. When a user selects a particular channel to be displayed, a low resolution stream associated with the selected channel is displayed (video and audio) while the full resolution stream is processed for display. Once the full resolution stream is available for display, it replaces the low resolution stream. The user perceives a much lower channel change time by viewing the low resolution stream during the channel change delay. The low resolution stream may also be provided directly to a portable media player (PMP) in a low resolution format required for display by the PMP. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322963 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiving apparatus is disclosed which includes: an amplification section configured to amplify a received signal including a digital broadcast signal; a mixing section configured to mix the received signal amplified by the amplification section with a selective frequency signal so as to acquire an intermediate frequency signal; a demodulation section configured to demodulate the intermediate frequency signal acquired by the mixing section so as to acquire a demodulated signal of the digital broadcast signal; and a control section configured to control the amplification factor of the amplification section in a manner bringing to a target level the signal level of the intermediate frequency signal acquired by the mixing section, the control section being further configured to set variably the target level in accordance with bit error status of the demodulated signal acquired by the demodulation section from the digital broadcast signal. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322964 | BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE - A broadcast receiving device capable of easily setting area information. A control unit of a DVR transmits an acquisition request for area information to a TV. When the control unit receives a response to the acquisition request from the TV, the control unit extracts area information from the received response and performs a channel presetting using the extracted area information. A control unit of the TV has area information stored therein. When the control unit receives an acquisition request for area information from the DVR, the control unit transmits, as a response to the request, the stored area information to the DVR. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322965 | Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same - A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322966 | TELEVISION TUNER - A television tuner capable of receiving digital television signals and analog television signals comprises: a mixer circuit that converts the received television signals into signals of an intermediate-frequency band, and an intermediate-frequency tuning circuit being connected to a rear end of the mixer circuit and set to a tuning frequency corresponding to a reception channel, wherein the intermediate-frequency tuning circuit includes: a first resonant circuit configured to have a first capacitance and to have a resonant frequency set in the intermediate-frequency band, and a second resonant circuit configured to have a second capacitance and to have a resonant frequency set substantially equal to that of the first resonant circuit, and wherein the first capacitance is smaller than the second capacitance. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322967 | Notebook computer having projection function - A notebook computer having projection function includes a mainframe, a display, and a compact projector. The compact projector is pivotally disposed at the upper portion of a frame area, and is electrically connected with the mainframe so as to receive signals therefrom. The compact projector projects images identical to those shown from the display toward a direction opposite to a displaying direction from a screen area. Therefore, people located at opposite sides of the notebook computer can view simultaneously identical images, without a need to move to the side, to which the screen displays, so as to enhance convenience of communication between the parties. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322968 | VIDEO PROJECTOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VIDEO PROJECTOR - A video projector includes: a signal processor; a display device; an optical unit configured to emit light for projecting an image displayed on a display screen of the display device toward a projection surface; and a detection module configured to detect an inclination, with respect to the projection surface, of an optical axis of the light emitted from the optical unit and a shake of the optical axis, wherein the signal processor includes: a distortion correction module configured to correct distortion of the image displayed on the projection surface to display a distortion-corrected image; and a blur correction module configured to correct blur of the image displayed on the projection surface, and wherein the distortion correction module corrects a position and size of the distortion-corrected image so that a blank area is provided around the distortion-corrected image. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322969 | Static retention mode for display panels - A video display method consistent with certain embodiments involves sampling video from a video source using a sample and hold frame buffer such that frames are received and stored as the frames of video information are supplied from the video source at a refresh interval to a video display panel in a dynamic mode of operation wherein the screen is refreshed with a new frame of video data at each refresh interval; determining that a static mode of operation is to be entered; sending an output signal from the sample and hold frame buffer to the video display panel during the static mode of operation; and placing the video source in a lower power consumption mode in the static mode of operation. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322970 | Optical Low-Pass Filter, Camera, Imaging Apparatus, and Method for Producing Optical Low-Pass Filter - An optical low-pass filter is constituted with a liquid crystal substrate including a layer of liquid crystal. The optical low-pass filter includes: a first liquid crystal part in which the liquid crystal is aligned along a first direction; and a second liquid crystal part in which the liquid crystal is aligned along a second direction different from the first direction. The first liquid crystal part and the second liquid crystal part are disposed in an alternately repeated fashion. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322971 | POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT LIQUID CRYSTAL-BASED ETALON AND DEVICES USING SAME - A liquid crystal etalon includes a chiral nematic material contained in a liquid crystal cell having alignment surfaces configured to bias the chiral nematic material toward a twisted liquid crystal configuration with a twist less than 360°. Electrodes are arranged to apply an operative electrical bias to the liquid crystal cell. Mirrors disposed about the chiral nematic material define a resonant optical cavity. At a first electrical bias the etalon is transmissive for light of a first wavelength via a selected liquid crystal twist angle and cavity thickness at which different non-equal eigenmodes reach resonance conditions simultaneously. In a projector embodiment, a projection system with a field sequential image projection light source is coupled with the liquid crystal etalon, the etalon electrodes are patterned into pixels defining a display area, and the projector is operated in a field sequential illumination mode. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322972 | OPTICAL UNIT AND HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical unit | 2009-12-31 |
20090322973 | CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS - A charged particle beam impinging on a specimen is set to have left and right tilt angles corresponding to a parallactic angle. A control unit is provided which scans the beam over the specimen while giving a left tilt and a right tilt corresponding to the parallactic angle alternately to the beam on each scanning line. In this way, images are acquired. A three-dimensional image in which deterioration of the resolution is suppressed is displayed in real time by combining aberration cancellation means with the control of the beam according to the parallactic angle. The aberration cancellation means uses an optical system having plural stages of lenses to provide overall cancellation of aberrations by making use of the action of a lens to deflect the beam back to the optical axis. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322974 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate, a gate line formed disposed on the first substrate, a first data line and a second data lines formed both of which are disposed on the first substrate, and insulated from and intersection disposed substantially perpendicular to the gate line, a first thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the first data line, a second thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the second data line, a first pixel electrode connected to the first thin film transistor, a second pixel electrode connected to the second thin film transistor, a second substrate facing disposed substantially opposite to the first substrate, a common electrode formed disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and including biaxial liquid crystal. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322975 | Array substrate for fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display device and fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display device including the same - An array substrate for a fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines on a substrate; a gate insulating layer on the plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines on the gate insulating layer and crossing the plurality of gate lines to define a plurality of pixel regions; a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate and data lines and in each pixel region; a pixel electrode having a plate shape and in the each pixel region, the pixel electrode connected to a portion of the thin film transistor; a first passivation layer on the pixel electrode and over the thin film transistor; and a common electrode on the first passivation layer and having a plurality of openings of a bar shape in the each pixel region, each of the openings having a major axis along the data line and a minor axis along the gate line, wherein a center portion of each opening overlaps the pixel electrode, and both ends along the major axis of each opening protrude beyond the pixel electrode. | 2009-12-31 |
20090322976 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE FOR TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - An array substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device and its fabrication method are discussed. In one embodiment, an array substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device includes a gate pad on a base substrate, a gate insulator on the gate pad and having an opening exposing a portion of the gate pad, an auxiliary pad pattern on the gate insulator and made of an intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, and a conductive layer on the auxiliary pad pattern and contacting the gate pad through the opening. | 2009-12-31 |