Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
  • Patent number: 8284262
    Abstract: A shake correction device includes a shake detection unit detecting shake so as to generate a shake detection signal, a driving unit displacing a relative positional relationship between a lens unit and an imaging device with respect to an optical axis so as to displace the position on the imaging surface of an optical image formed on an imaging surface of the imaging device, a displacement detection unit detecting a displacement state of the correction lens unit or the imaging device, a filter processing unit performing a filter process of the shake detection signal, and a correction control unit displacing the relative positional relationship between the lens unit and the imaging device according to the filter-processed shake detection signal so as to correct the shake of the optical image on the imaging surface generated by the shake detected by the shake detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazato Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8285108
    Abstract: An image-capture device includes: an image-capture section that captures an image of a subject; a detector that detects a portion of the subject, the portion having a specific feature, from the image captured by the image-capture section; an evaluator that determines a numerically expressed evaluation value of the specific feature of the portion detected by the detector; a buffer section that temporarily stores delayed images corresponding to a predetermined amount of time; and a recording-operation controller that controls the image-capture device to record image data including a predetermined delayed image in the buffer section, upon determining that the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8284306
    Abstract: An image signal processing unit includes a frame rate conversion circuit performing double frame rate conversion on an input image signal from a first frame frequency to a second frame frequency. When performing frame rate conversion with the motion correction process, a motion vector is determined between a first frame image and a third frame image, and three interpolation frame images are formed through the motion correction process to the first frame image based on the motion vector, and are inserted between the first and third frame images so as to establish the second frame frequency. When performing frame rate conversion without the motion correction process, an interpolation frame image same as the first frame image is inserted between the first and second frame images, and an interpolation frame image same as the second frame image is inserted between the second and third frame images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Hoshino, Shinichiro Miyazaki, Seiko Imai
  • Patent number: 8285075
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a pre-combination processing unit configured to perform a pre-combination process so that a plurality of frames of image data having continuity in time are used as combination-use image data to be combined, an operation detection unit configured to detect operation input information used for a combination process, and a combination processing unit configured to perform a combination process on the combination-use image data of the plurality of frames obtained in the pre-combination process according to the operation input information detected by the operation detection unit so as to generate combined-image data representing a still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuo Makii
  • Patent number: 8285051
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detects, from time-sequential information continuously supplied for a given period of time, associated information regarding a time at which a piece of information satisfying a predetermined condition is supplied within the given period of time. A dividing section divides the time-sequential information into a plurality of temporally successive information units at predetermined time intervals. A feature value detecting section temporally successively detects feature values of the plurality of temporally successive information units. A change-information detecting section stores the temporally successively detected feature values for a predetermined period of time, and detects a plurality of temporally successive pieces of feature-value-change information on the basis of the stored feature values and a currently detected feature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Seki, Sho Murakoshi, Daisuke Negi
  • Patent number: 8285783
    Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus including an individual identification acquiring device and a unit for transmitting individual identification information. A central controller allows for comparing a piece of individual identification data, stored in a storage unit to the received individual identification information and, if an individual identification code could be specified, the portable terminal apparatus obtains information from the base apparatus. The distributive information storage unit stores information to be distributed. Information relative to a material displayed on a large-sized image display apparatus is transmitted from the base apparatus to the portable terminal apparatus through a communication line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Otobe
  • Patent number: 8286091
    Abstract: An image display controlling apparatus, including an image-data maintaining section for maintaining a plurality of image data, a link management section for managing a link representing a parent-child relationship of parent image data and child image data between two image data in the plurality of image data, an operation receiving section for receiving operation input relating to a display of the plurality of image data, and a display controlling section for controlling such that switching is performed between a whole display in which all of the plurality of image data is subject to be displayed and a digest display in which image data other than those which are the child image data by the link, out of the plurality of image data, are subject to be displayed in response to the operation input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuuji Takimoto
  • Patent number: 8279223
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of displaying image data on a display device that has resolution lower than that of the image data, includes a processor that categorizes image data of one screen into a plurality of groups by setting two or more pixels of the image data being mutually adjacent on the screen as one group and that outputs data to be displayed time-divisionally and sequentially on one pixel of the display device respectively based on data of the pixels in each of the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8277668
    Abstract: A method of forming printed circuit boards and packaging substrates. After blind vias are created in a dielectric layer, a first seed layer is provided in the vias and on the dielectric layer. Copper is applied to fill the vias and to form a copper layer over the vias and over the first seed layer. The first seed layer and the copper layer are removed and a second seed layer is formed on the dielectric layer and the exposed surfaces of the vias. A wire pattern is then formed using a photo-sensitive thin film applied to the second seed layer, and the wires in the wire pattern are thickened. The photo-sensitive thin film and the exposed portions of the second seed layer are removed to form a first conductive pattern of wires. The process may be repeated to form a second conductive pattern of wires on the first pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Shanghai Meadville Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: FanXiong Cheng, Peifeng Chen, Haitao Fu, Yonghong Luo
  • Patent number: 8280071
    Abstract: A voice output system and method provide a voice of high quality while enabling coexistence with other wireless transmission systems. Compression-encoded voice data accompanying a video displayed on a video display surface is acquired at the side opposed to the video display surface. The voice data is wirelessly transmitted. At least at the video display surface side, the wirelessly transmitted voice data transmitted is received and expanded. Then, the voice based on the acquired expanded voice data is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naokazu Miyamoto, Osamu Takahashi, Yutaka Sato
  • Patent number: 8280504
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a condition of a selected region of epithelial tissue. At least two current-passing electrodes are located in contact with a first surface of the selected region of the tissue. A plurality of measuring electrodes are located in contact with the first surface of the selected region of tissue as well. Electropotential and impedance are measured at one or more locations. An agent may be introduced into the region of tissue to enhance electrophysiological characteristics. The condition of the tissue is determined based on the electropotential and impedance profile at different depths of the epithelium, tissue, or organ, together with an estimate of the functional changes in the epithelium due to altered ion transport and electrophysiological properties of the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: EPI-SCI, LLC
    Inventor: Richard J. Davies
  • Patent number: 8277053
    Abstract: A projection method and projection device for projecting an overall image to interior walls of an aircraft, in which method or device the boundary regions of several partial images of an overall image to be presented are matched correspondingly, and partial images are pre-distorted in order to, in this way, obtain a large-area non-distorted image presentation even in the case of complex geometric shapes of projection areas, in which image presentation the transition regions of partial images are at least perceptible only to a limited extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Vogel, Tilo Budinger, Ulrich Kunkel
  • Patent number: 8279282
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a television broadcast signal containing at least remote broadcast image information, a display unit that displays image information contained in the television broadcast signal, a player information acquiring unit that acquires, from the remote broadcast image information, information regarding players in a sports game included in a broadcast image signal, a field information acquiring unit that acquires field information from the remote broadcast image information, a player position information acquiring unit that acquires player position information from the image signal using the player information and the field information, a player information providing unit that provides the acquired player information by displaying the player information on the display unit, and a cursor control function unit that sets, using the player position information, a cursor on one of the players selected using the provided player information and displayed on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Inagaki, Gen Fujiki, Miwako Fujiki, legal representative
  • Patent number: 8280050
    Abstract: The construction of a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers is simplified. In a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers, of the function blocks which constitute the receiving apparatus, a block used in common irrespective of the broadcasting provider is formed as a common block, and a block different from one broadcasting provider to another is formed as an independent block. These blocks are connected to each other through an IEEE1394 interface, and the common block is shared among the plurality of blocks which are not used in common, so that a receiving process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takehiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 8280891
    Abstract: A system and method for calibrating a scoring function. The scoring function S(input, classification) provides a score based on the amount of evidence a particular input has in connection with a particular classification. For example, a street level image may be OCR'ed so as to indicate the names of establishments contained within the image, and the scoring function indicates how much evidence exists within the image for a particular establishment. Some establishments (i.e. classifications) may produce higher scores based on the nature of the establishment rather than the nature of the image (i.e. input) causing any ranking of establishments done on the basis of the scoring function to be biased. Accordingly, the scoring function is calibrated by determining the probability distribution of scores for an establishment over a false set of images that do not display the establishment. The scoring function is calibrated so as to adjust the score to overcome such bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shlomo Urbach, Yuval Netzer
  • Patent number: 8279295
    Abstract: There is provided an image delivery apparatus including a camera capable of changing a shooting condition specified by at least a shooting direction, a camera controller that causes the camera to shoot image shots corresponding to a plurality of shooting conditions in a predetermined period according to a shooting pattern containing the plurality of mutually different shooting conditions and having the predetermined period, an image storage that stores data of image shots shot corresponding to the plurality of shooting conditions and updated in the predetermined period, an operation information receiver that receives operation information indicating any shooting condition contained in the shooting pattern from image reproducing apparatuses, and an image delivery unit that delivers data of image shots corresponding to the shooting condition indicated by the operation information received from each of the image reproducing apparatuses and updated in the predetermined period to each of the image reproducing appa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawahata, Yasuto Masuda, Takehiko Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8276585
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visualizing patient treatment data collected while a patient suffering from sleep-disordered breathing is treated are provided. For example, according to certain example embodiments, a PAP device for treating a patient suffering from sleep-disordered breathing is provided. A processor may be set or programmed to generate a signal indicative of a triggering event. A flow generator may be configured to provide a supply of pressurized breathable gas to the patient based at least in part on the signal. Recording programmed logic circuitry may be provided to record in a data log pressures provided during patient treatment and triggering events occurring during patient treatment. Visualizing programmed logic circuitry in communication with the PAP device may be configured to read the data log and generate a visual depiction of provided pressures over time. Triggering events may include, for example, one or more of apnea, hypopnea, flattening, snore, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Mark David Buckley, Glenn Richards
  • Patent number: D668475
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Bell'O International Corp.
    Inventor: Michael P. Zambelli
  • Patent number: D668714
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Trodat GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Zindl, Markus Zehetner, Volker Martin
  • Patent number: D668743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Niagara Conservation Corp.
    Inventors: Kevin Kennedy, Kyle Cutler, David Denker