Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090109323 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS, IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A RECORDING OPERATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DISPLAYING OPERATION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A shooting operation is performed using a short exposure time at least one to obtain frame image data “A”, and a shooting operation is performed a plurality of times using a long exposure time to obtain sequential frame image data “B”. The image data “A” and “B” are recorded in a single file. In a moving image displaying operation, a moving image consisting of the plural pieces of frame image data “B” sequentially shot using the long exposure time is displayed. When the moving image being displayed is paused, a still image is displayed based on the frame image data “A” shot using the short exposure time. | 04-30-2009 |
20090147125 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A shooting operation using a short exposure time and a shooting operation using a long exposure time are performed in turn repeatedly. | 06-11-2009 |
20090207278 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a moving image recording process, a shooting operation using a short exposure time appropriate for shooting a still image, and a shooting operation using a long exposure time appropriate for shooting a moving image are performed repeatedly in turn. Plural pieces of frame image data “B” shot by the shooting operations using a long exposure time are successively recorded as moving image data. When a shutter button is pressed in the moving image recording process, frame image data which is shot using a short exposure time just before the shutter button is pressed is recorded as a still image. | 08-20-2009 |
20090237525 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS, AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, WITH APPROPRIATE COLOR SPACE CONVERSION - An image pick-up apparatus includes an image pick-up device, a storage media which stores an image picked up by the image pick up device, a color space converter which converts a color space of the image; a storage media reader which reads out the image from the storage media, an external display interface, a coefficient determiner which determines a coefficient for color conversion based on comparison between a resolution of the image read out by the storage media reader and a resolution of a display which is connected to the external display interface, and a display controller which outputs the image of which color is converted by the color space converter based on the coefficient for color conversion to the display. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237527 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGING PROGRAM RECORDED - An image data imaged consecutively is divided into three groups in time series. As for a first group imaged most newly, all imaged image data are held in buffers. The image data of a second group is divided again into subgroups at every 2 | 09-24-2009 |
20100039554 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS FOR SHOOTING AND REPRODUCING A MOVING IMAGE - A user friendly image pick-up apparatus is provided, which is capable of reproducing a moving image in various ways. The image pick-up apparatus | 02-18-2010 |
20100254349 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD TO PERFORM HANDOVER OF COMMUNICATION USING DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Disclosed is that when the first wireless communication apparatus is connected to a terminal apparatus such as a wireless access point wirelessly, the second wireless communication apparatus performs the communication with the first wireless communication apparatus by a short distance wireless communication, then the first wireless communication apparatus transmits participation information to participate in the network to the second wireless communication apparatus by the short distance wireless communication, and the second wireless communication apparatus is connected to the network based on the received participation information so as to communicate with the first wireless communication apparatus through the terminal apparatus. | 10-07-2010 |
20100296434 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR SWITCHING WIRELESS CHANNELS - In a wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses and a relaying apparatus, the relaying apparatus performs a channel search to select a wireless channel in a good communication situation when the relaying apparatus transmits a beacon signal at a constant period, and transmits switching destination information to be used to switch the wireless channel to the selected one in a state of being stored in the beacon signal. When the communication situation of the wireless channel has deteriorated, the relaying apparatus switches the wireless channel being used by the communication section to the selected one based on the switching destination information. When the communication situation of a wireless channel of the wireless terminal apparatus has deteriorated, the wireless terminal apparatus switches the wireless channel to the selected one based on the switching destination information. | 11-25-2010 |
20100311330 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION HANDOVER BY USING DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION MODES - A wireless communication system includes a terminal device; a first wireless communication device; and a second wireless communication device. When the first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device by wireless LAN communication after a handover and completes prescribed processing to the second wireless communication device, the first wireless communication device sends first disconnection information to the second wireless communication device to disconnect the second wireless communication device. The second wireless communication device stores wireless LAN connection information before communicating with the first wireless communication device by the wireless LAN communication when the second wireless communication device is connected with the terminal device at a time of the handover. The second wireless communication device disconnects the first wireless communication device and connects with the terminal device based on the wireless LAN connection information when the first disconnection information is received. | 12-09-2010 |
20110058713 | DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME, CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH CONTROL PROGRAM - A digital photo frame including a display section capable of sequentially displaying at least two digital photographs judges the facial expression of a person viewing a digital photograph displayed in the display section, and information related to this judged facial expression is stored in association with the digital photograph being displayed. Also, when stored digital photographs are to be displayed, information related to a facial expression stored in association with each digital photograph and a judged facial expression of a person are compared, and the display of each stored digital photograph is controlled based on the comparison result. | 03-10-2011 |
20110071832 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - It is an object of the present invention to make an act of viewing an image interactive and further enriched. A microphone | 03-24-2011 |
20110072040 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - It is an object of the present invention to search for image data with an intuitive operation to which active elements are added. | 03-24-2011 |
20110074656 | DISPLAY TERMINAL PROVIDED WITH AN IMAGE DATA SHARING FUNCTION, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING IMAGE DATA - A display terminal that performs image display processing for displaying in a display section image data recorded in a recording section, which includes a controlling section that performs image sharing processing for providing image data recorded in the recording section to another display terminal over a network, acquiring image data recorded by another display terminal over the network, and displaying the acquired image data in the display section, and sharing control processing for performing control to select image data recorded by another display terminal set up at a location whose distance from the setup location of the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, as target image data for the image sharing processing. | 03-31-2011 |
20110181503 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A reproduction device comprises an operation input unit that an operation command is input, a communication unit that connects with another reproduction device via a communication network, and a reproduction unit that reproduces data. Furthermore, a control unit of the reproduction device that, when an operation command that specifies the data that is to be coordinated and reproduced by each of the another reproduction device and the reproduction unit is input to the operation input unit, transmits a coordinated reproduction command for coordinating and reproducing the specified data to the another reproduction device via the communication unit, acquires the specified data to be reproduced and causes the reproduction unit to reproduce the acquired data. | 07-28-2011 |
20110211086 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE GENERATING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capturing unit outputs an image data signal. A first moving picture data generating unit generates first moving picture data based on the image signal from the image capturing unit. A trigger signal generating unit causes a trigger signal to be generated, every time a predetermined trigger condition is met, while the first moving picture data generating unit is in process of generating the first moving picture data. A second moving picture data generating unit causes, every time the trigger signal is generated, generation of moving picture data corresponding to an image signal of the predetermined period of time based on the point of time the trigger signal has been generated. A recording unit effects recording of the first moving picture data and the second moving picture data. | 09-01-2011 |
20110235987 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are a communication apparatus and program which improve the operability for a user before and during data communication. The communication apparatus includes a plurality of communication units that establish electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling with a communication device located within a predetermined distance, a storage unit storing control information indicative of predetermined control contents in association with the respective communication units, a control information acquisition section that acquires, from the storage unit, control information associated with that communication unit which has established the electric field coupling or the magnetic field coupling, and a control unit that controls communication of that of the communication units which has established the electric field coupling or the magnetic field coupling by using the control information acquired by the control information acquisition section. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246903 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COLLABORATION AMONG A PLURALITY OF DEVICES - An apparatus, system, or method for causing a controlled device and a controlling terminal to operate in collaboration with each other, wherein a server apparatus stores in advance a plurality of sets of collaboration information which causes the controlled device and the controlling terminal to operate in collaboration with each other. The plurality of sets of collaboration information is respectively stored in association with a plurality of controlled apparatuses different from one another in type. When the controlling terminal requests the server apparatus to send the collaboration information designating the type of the controlled device, the server apparatus sends to the controlling terminal the collaboration information corresponding to the type of the controlled device. The controlled device and the controlling terminal operate in collaboration with each other using the collaboration information. | 10-06-2011 |
20120120273 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD - An object of the exemplary embodiment is to make it possible to easily take a group photo of a plurality of persons including a photographer. | 05-17-2012 |
20130083049 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, SERVER, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - In an image display system, a server determines whether or not an attribute of a display of plural images that is executed at one image display apparatus matches an attribute of a display of plural images that is executed at another image display apparatus. If the attributes match, the server reports to both the image display apparatuses that there is another image display apparatus displaying plural images with a matching attribute. Hence, the users of the two image display apparatuses may communicate through images with one another, prompted by interesting information such as a similarity in hobbies or preferences or the like. | 04-04-2013 |
20150081539 | INFORMATION DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE, AND WEARABLE INFORMATION DEVICE - An information device makes a payment with a payment terminal through a contactless communication, using amount data of an electronic purse function of a mobile device. The mobile device with the electronic purse function permits the information device to be used for performing payment processing with the payment terminal, using amount data of the electronic purse function of the mobile device. A wearable information device includes an image taking unit configured to take an image of an object in the direction of line of vision of a user, and notifies the information device of the presence or absence of the information device in a taken image. The information device makes a payment with the payment terminal through a contactless communication based on the notification from the wearable information device of the presence or absence of the information device. | 03-19-2015 |