Patents Represented by Law Firm Oblon, Spivak, McClalland, Maier & Neustadt
  • Patent number: 7675552
    Abstract: Even in case the shutter speed is high, a flicker can be corrected accurately. A flicker correction method in which a flicker is corrected by predicting, from a present input frame image, a flicker component in an image of a next frame and adding a correction value to the next frame image on the basis of the predicted flicker component includes holding a plurality of flicker data, calculating the correction value by combining a plurality of flicker data together at a ratio set correspondingly to a shutter speed and frame rate, and adding the calculated correction value to the input image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ono, Motohiro Nakasuji, Yoshiaki Nishide, Hiromasa Ikeyama
  • Patent number: 5143508
    Abstract: A cargo carrying vehicle 10 including a body 12, a movable bulkhead 34 mounted in the interior 14 of the body 12 for movement relative to the body 12, and a plurality of inexpensible cables for stabilizing the movable bulkhead 34 against pivotal movement relative to the internal sidewalls 18, 24 of the body 12. A clamp that is movable relative to the movable bulkhead 34 grips and releases one or more of the inextensible cables, driving the movable bulkhead 34 along the inextensible cables in either direction. The clamp also restrains the movable bulkhead 34 against unwanted forward movement due to quick stops and prevents the load from retreating when the movable bulkhead 34 is used in connection with a reciprocating full or partial floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Inventors: David E. Lutz, David W. Lutz