Patents Represented by Attorney Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

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  • Optical sensor unit provided with radio optical sensor having radio element and radio communication means apart from the radio optical sensor, optical sensor array and method of driving optical sensor
    Patent number: 7262800
    Abstract: To provide an optical sensor unit in which the respective optical sensor elements can be easily provided on a curved surface without using wirings, a reduction in image pickup speed due to wiring delay is prevented to improve a photographing speed, and highly sensitive photographing is realized. The optical sensor unit is composed of an image pickup area section in which a large number of radio optical sensors are arranged and a radio communication means located in the vicinity thereof. The radio communication means has an image data signal circuit, a radio transmission circuit connected therewith, and an antenna. Each of the radio optical sensors is composed of an optical sensor element, a radio element, and an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Nishimura
  • Communication system and management apparatus and method for restricting functions in communication system
    Patent number: 7263612
    Abstract: In order to prevent illegal data tampering or leakage of information caused by devices connected to a system such as a conference system and save time and trouble in setting functional restrictions separately from an application, an access point uses authentication information for authenticating electronic devices operated by participants who participate in a conference also as the information to decide functional restrictions on the electronic devices during the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamazaki, Toshihiko Myojo
  • Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and display apparatus
    Patent number: 7259771
    Abstract: To provide an image processing system capable of increasing a sense of affinity for a robot at a low cost, an image processing system has an image generating device for generating computer graphics in a figure corresponding to a positional relationship between an observer, who is observing a figure of an actual object and the actual object; a nimbus generating device for generating a nimbus image around a periphery of the computer graphics; a combined image generating device for generating a combined image combining the computer graphics and the nimbus image; and an image display processing device for displaying the combined image on an display which is seen by the observer so that the combined image is superimposed on the actual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Inventor: Michihiko Shouji
  • Proxy print processing apparatus, proxy print processing method, program, and memory medium
    Patent number: 7256909
    Abstract: To enable automatic proxy printing and manual proxy printing to be switched and used, whether the automatic proxy printing has been set or not is discriminated. If it is determined that the automatic proxy printing has been set, the automatic proxy printing is executed. If it is determined that the automatic proxy printing is not set, the manual proxy printing is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Gomi
  • Probe designing method and information processing apparatus
    Patent number: 7254488
    Abstract: In automatically designing a base sequence to be used as a probe which is hybridized with an unknown nucleic acid fragment to perform gene analysis, a discrimination tree in which a plurality of partial base sequences obtained from target base sequence data are arranged on nodes is generated. The suitability as a probe of a partial base sequence represented by a desired node is evaluated. A plurality of partial base sequences are grouped on the basis of specificity, and an appropriate group combination is selected. A partial base sequence to be used as a probe is determined, from partial base sequences belonging to the selected groups, on the basis of the evaluation result. In this manner, a probe appropriate for analysis can be automatically selected in accordance with a target base sequence to be analyzed. This effectively supports probe designing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroto Yoshii
  • Method and system for displaying lighting fixtures
    Patent number: 7249872
    Abstract: A lighting fixture display system and method including a light support member for supporting truncated floor-based lighting fixtures and a rail member. The light support members have shelf structures and brackets and are mounted on or attached to the rail member, which in turn may be mounted on or attached to a display wall. The rail members and light support members may be configured to form a display system having multiple horizontal display rows. The display system makes efficient use of retail space, is easy to build, and can be varied to enable various different display configurations as well as allow easy replacement or repair of lighting fixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Catalina Lighting Inc.
    Inventors: Joy Ragsdale, Jose Campo, Balraj Narang
  • Image-pickup apparatus with removable lens apparatus
    Patent number: 7250972
    Abstract: An image-pickup apparatus that has a simple structure is disclosed. The image-pickup apparatus includes a linking box provided with a lens mount portion, an image-pickup device unit that receives light that has passed through the lens mount portion, the linking box and a main chassis that is arranged between the linking box and the image-pickup device unit. The main chassis includes an aperture portion through which the light passes. The linking box is fixed to the main chassis, and the image-pickup device unit is fixed to the linking box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shintaro Oshima
  • Image pickup apparatus for reflecting light at an area between successive refractive areas
    Patent number: 7250973
    Abstract: An image pickup element includes: a photoelectric conversion section; a wavelength selection section formed closer to an incident side of light than said photoelectric conversion section, for transmitting light in a predetermined wavelength range; a first area having a predetermined refractive index and being formed closer to the incident side of light than said wavelength selection section; and a second area having a predetermined refractive index and being formed closer to the incident side of light than said first area wherein the refractive index of said first area is higher than the refractive index of said second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Dobashi, Eriko Namazue
  • Methanation assembly using multiple reactors
    Patent number: 7247281
    Abstract: A methanation assembly for use with a water supply and a gas supply containing gas to be methanated in which a reactor assembly has a plurality of methanation reactors each for methanating gas input to the assembly and a gas delivery and cooling assembly adapted to deliver gas from the gas supply to each of said methanation reactors and to combine water from the water supply with the output of each methanation reactor being conveyed to a next methanation reactor and carry the mixture to such next methanation reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: FuelCell Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred C. Jahnke, Sanjay C. Parab
  • Image processing apparatus
    Patent number: 7248788
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting circuit for selecting one of the compression modes of the compression processing circuit in accordance with a selected one of the photographic modes of the image pickup circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Takahashi, Motokazu Kashida, Kenji Kawai
  • Reproduction control of reproduction apparatus based on remaining power of battery
    Patent number: 7246249
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus and method for reproducing selected digital data reproduces digital data selected by a user, detects remaining power of a battery, and determines whether the selected digital data can be reproduced to the end or not based on the detected remaining power. Before the selected digital data is reproduced, if it is determined that there is sufficient battery power to reproduce the selected digital data to the end, then the selected digital data is reproduced. If not, a warning is provided and the user selects either a first reproduction mode or a second reproduction mode. If the first reproduction mode is selected, the selected digital data is reproduced. If the second reproduction mode is selected, summary data that includes a summary of the selected digital data is reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Battery pack including engagement concave portion for engagement with battery-using equipment
    Patent number: 7242164
    Abstract: A concave portion serving as an erroneous insertion prevention groove is provided on a bottom of a battery pack along a battery pack attachment direction and an engagement concave portion engaged with an engagement member is provided in a battery-mounting equipment, whereby the detachment of the battery from the battery-mounting equipment can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Fukushima
  • Recording apparatus
    Patent number: 7242846
    Abstract: A recording apparatus, wherein in a photographing mode in which image data and audio data obtained using a camera section and microphone, respectively, built into the apparatus are recorded, a head element is moved at a first speed corresponding to the photographing mode, and in an external input mode in which image data and audio data input by external sources are recorded, a head mechanism is moved at a second speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiko Suzuki
  • Systems and methods for gathering audience measurement data
    Patent number: 7239981
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for gathering audience measurement data relating to exposure of an audience member to audio data. Audio data is received in a user system and is then encoded with audience measurement data. The encoded audio data is reproduced by the user system, picked up by a monitor and decoded to recover the audience measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Arbitron Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald S. Kolessar, James M. Jensen, Wendell D. Lynch
  • Warmer steamer
    Patent number: D545613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Mastrad SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Lion, Lucas Bignon
  • Spatula
    Patent number: D545645
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Mastrad SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Lion, Lucas Bignon
  • Slope adjustable head for pedestal jack
    Patent number: D548422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Sian Ghee Lee, Henry Austen Greaves
  • Pot
    Patent number: D548516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Mastrad SA
    Inventor: Anne Tanguy
  • Scraper
    Patent number: D548912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Mastrad SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Lion, Anne Tanguy
  • Spoon
    Patent number: D549526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Mastrad SA
    Inventor: Anne Tanguy