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  • Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium for providing a limited extraction range of a video image
    Patent number: 7868934
    Abstract: This invention can appropriately control the relationship between the electronic zoom magnification and the resolution of a displayed image in electronic zoom. An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor which photo-electrically converts an image of an image sensing field formed by a photographing optical system, an extracting unit which extracts a part of the video image generated upon being photo-electrically converted by the image sensor, an adding unit which adds signals of respective pixels, the number of which corresponds to the luminance of the image sensing field, of a plurality of pixels of the image sensor, and a limiting unit which limits the extraction range of the video image extracted by the extracting unit, in accordance with the number of pixels added by the adding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Harushige Yamamoto
  • Control unit for optical apparatus and image pickup apparatus
    Patent number: 7868944
    Abstract: There is provided a control unit of an optical apparatus and an image pickup apparatus, which can prevent a shift of an already controlled position of a member when an impact, etc. apply to the optical apparatus. A control unit for an optical apparatus that includes a first member that is movable, an actuator, and a drive mechanism that transmits a driving force of the actuator to the first member, includes a determination part for determining whether the optical apparatus or a second member provided to an apparatus attached to the optical apparatus is to move, and a controller for controlling, prior to a movement of the second member, the actuator from a first state at which the drive mechanism can transmit the driving force to a second state at which the drive mechanism cannot transmit the driving force, when the determination part determines that the second member is to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Tanaka, Jun Nozaki
  • Data transfer apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and data transfer system
    Patent number: 7868941
    Abstract: The data transfer apparatus includes a recording unit which records a plurality of image data on a first recording medium, a management unit which manages the plurality of image data by classifying the image data into a plurality of groups, an addition unit which adds one of the plurality of groups as a group of a second recording medium, a determination unit which determines a group corresponding to the group from the plurality of groups, a search unit which searches the plurality of image data for image data classified into the group determined by the determination unit, a display control unit which displays information of image data found by the search unit, and a transfer unit which transfers selected image data to a recording apparatus for recording information data on the second recording medium so as to record the selected image data on the second recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Honda
  • Money-transfer techniques
    Patent number: 7870065
    Abstract: A financial institution has a web-based server for use in transferring money between a customer and a beneficiary. A customer, having a client computer, and a credit card, opens a transaction web page provided by the server. The customer inputs transaction data into the web page, and sends the transaction data to the server via the Internet. The customer then receives a fund-pick-up (“folio”) number and provides the beneficiary with the fund-pick-up number to use in collecting the funds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Uniteller Financial Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Luis Eduardo Gutierrez-Sheris
  • Image processing apparatus and method thereof
    Patent number: 7864250
    Abstract: Color saturation in chroma correction is reduced. Hence, a two-dimensional histogram is generated in association with the luminance and chroma levels of an image for one frame. An ease of saturation of the image is calculated from the two-dimensional histogram. A chroma gain is set according to the ease of saturation. Color-difference signals undergo chroma correction according to the chroma gain k.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Izumi Kanai
  • Display apparatus, user terminal, distribution apparatus, control method thereof, computer program and storage medium
    Patent number: 7865918
    Abstract: There is provided a content distribution system configured by a distribution apparatus for storing content data, a display apparatus for displaying content data distributed from the distribution apparatus in accordance with a predetermined display schedule, and a user terminal for acquiring the content data displayed on the display apparatus from the distribution apparatus. The user terminal receives data of a display schedule from the display apparatus, and requests the distribution apparatus to send data of content identified from the display schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Tsukamoto
  • Image sensing apparatus for making an image sensing operation using a mechanical shutter and an electronic shutter and control method
    Patent number: 7864242
    Abstract: An image sensing apparatus has an image sensing element which accumulates received light as a charge, a mechanical shutter which travels to shield the image sensing element, and a scan unit which makes a scan for starting charge accumulation. The image sensing apparatus executes the scan for starting charge accumulation prior to traveling of the mechanical shutter and controls the scan for starting charge accumulation and traveling of the shutter to serve as a front curtain and a rear curtain of a shutter. Note that a scan pattern setting unit (113b) sets the scan pattern of the charge accumulation start scan based on information associated with a mounted photographing lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Namai, Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Baking sheet
    Patent number: 7861886
    Abstract: A baking sheet having a substantially flat silicone cooking surface, two rods extending along and coupled to opposite sides of the cooking surface, and two thermo-resistant handles coupled to and extending between the two rods. The thermo-resistant handles may be connected to the rods using thermo-resistant connectors. The baking sheet may be rectangular, square, round or other shape. The handles and rods may be manufactured from various materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Mastrad SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Lion, Lucas Bignon
  • Communication apparatus, communication method, program for controlling communication apparatus, storage medium storing program
    Patent number: 7864696
    Abstract: When a station, which associates itself in a wireless network, wants to make transmission/reception of traffic with a certain characteristic, it makes the transmission/reception as it expects. To this end, a communication apparatus which has an access point function and station function determines if the transmission/reception of the traffic with the certain characteristic can be made in the existing wireless network. If that transmission/reception cannot be made in the existing network based on the determination result, the apparatus serves as the access point function to create a network, and communicates with a communication partner using the created network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Sawada
  • Printing control apparatus, printing control method, and program
    Patent number: 7865105
    Abstract: A duplex printing instruction is accepted. When duplex printing is performed in accordance with the single-side printing and duplex printing is performed for a job of one page is decided in accordance with a condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Abe
  • Signal processing device
    Patent number: 7864214
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a system of circuit processing in essence while avoiding large sized device under restoring fluctuated signals such as deterioration and the like. The signal processing unit includes a processing unit that restores one of a signal before fluctuation, a signal which should have been intrinsically obtained, and signal data which is approximated from these signals from an initial signal which has fluctuated like deterioration. A fluctuated data region storing fluctuated data and a restored data region storing signal data (restored data) restored every restoring process are installed. The processing unit repeats the following processes in order to produce data formed in the restored data region at the completion of processing as original signal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Nittoh Kogaku K.K.
    Inventor: Fuminori Takahashi
  • Information receiving apparatus and control method thereof
    Patent number: 7865923
    Abstract: A channel selection order to receive, from each channel, program data corresponding to a designated partial period is determined based on the start timing of the reception and the receiving timing of each of N program data received for each channel. A channel is selected in accordance with the determined order, and program data transmitted from the broadcast device of the selected channel is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriyuki Yoshigahara
  • Coordinate detection apparatus and method, and computer program
    Patent number: 7864341
    Abstract: A coordinate detection apparatus has a light projecting unit and light receiving unit, detects abnormal light based on the output from the light receiving unit in a state in which the light projecting unit does not project any light, and detects the coordinates of a light-shielded position based on the output from the light receiving unit in a state in which the light projecting unit projects light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Kobayashi
  • Install apparatus, install method, program, and storage medium
    Patent number: 7861241
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to obviate the need of updating a master installer even when one of a plurality of software programs to be installed is modified. An install method of installing, in a computer, a plurality of software programs each having an installation setting file describing process contents to install the software continuously, installs the plurality of software programs by continuously reading out the contents of the installation-setting files of the plurality of software programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Kumagai, Shigeyuki Miyazaki
  • Image pickup apparatus with function of rate conversion processing and control method therefor
    Patent number: 7860321
    Abstract: A rate conversion unit determines a frame thinning-out rate to thin out frames on the basis of a recording rate at the time of photographing and a display rate for display on a display apparatus so that a temporal updating interval of a video image between continuous fields becomes constant. After that, a frame is repeatedly inserted so that a frame rate becomes equal to the display rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Watanabe, Hideyuki Rengakuji
  • Device management system and control method therefor
    Patent number: 7860954
    Abstract: A device management apparatus is equipped with a function to record document information including link information about a specified linked object in response to a link request and a Web server function to provide the document information to a Web client and is connected with a managed device. The device management apparatus has a recording unit which records information about the managed device; a Web server unit which provides the information to the Web client; and a transmission unit which transmits, to the managed device, a link request for the information about the managed device recorded by the recording unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoya Sato
  • Printing apparatus and printing processing method
    Patent number: 7860411
    Abstract: The presence/absence of a printing failure on a printed product is accurately detected to prevent a defective product from mixing in printed products to be delivered to a customer. In order to achieve this object, a printing processing method according to this invention includes steps of inputting first image data, executing the printing process for a printing medium based on the first image data, reading the printing medium on which the first image data is printed to obtain second image data, specifying a determination area to be used to determine the presence/absence of a printing failure in the second image data based on a processing content after the printing process for the printing medium, and determining the presence/absence of the printing failure by comparing the first image data and the second image data corresponding to the determination area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Toda
  • Image processing apparatus and image processing method
    Patent number: 7859545
    Abstract: Conventionally, a user interface used to change the color of a digital image has a configuration in which three elements, i.e., hue, chroma, and brightness are independent from each other, and the relationship among the three elements are difficult to be recognized, resulting in poor usability. This invention provides a user interface which movably displays a color object that represents an original color on a chromaticity diagram that expresses an arbitrary color system. The user can designate a destination color by moving the color object on the chromaticity diagram. For this reason, the user can easily select and designate a practical color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koshi Tokunaga
  • Recording apparatus and control method thereof
    Patent number: 7859578
    Abstract: A recording apparatus is able to suppress instances in which the user misses shutter opportunities or has to abort shooting due to insufficient remaining capacity on a recording medium. When the remaining capacity of the recording medium falls below a threshold, the user is allowed to set a desired recording duration. If it is determined that recording for the set desired recording duration at the target encoding data rate currently set is not possible, recording for the desired recording duration is enabled by automatically setting a recording mode that corresponds to a lower target encoding data rate, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshimichi Kudo
  • Member for push button switch and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 7855347
    Abstract: To obtain a member for a push button switch having a natural metallic impression and an upscale impression; enabling a precise arrangement of the push buttons; being capable of being made thinner; and being difficult to get stained, there is provided a member for a push button switch having a configuration in which a gap between adjacent metal push buttons is filled with a transparent organic polymer material, the transparent organic polymer material including a transparent resin sheet extending from an interior surface of the gap to a ceiling surface side of the push button, and a transparent rubber-like elastic material disposed inside the transparent resin sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kato, Hitoshi Uchiyama