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WO2001003014A9
A method of collecting a copyright fee relating to a document when a user obtains, via coded data disposed on a surface, the document, the method including, in a computer system, the steps of: recording at least one copyright ownership r...  
WO/2001/098909A1
Imaging data inputted through an input unit (10) is processed by a data processing unit (30) and stored in an area corresponding to the user ID of a DB server (40). The data representing the method of referring to the imaging data stored...  
WO/2001/095109A2
This invention includes apparatus and methods for merging of overlapping two-dimensional (2D) images which are formed by a image pick-up device as projections of a three-dimensional (3D) scene. In particular, the merging includes image r...  
WO/2001/089205A1
An automated image recording and document generation system is disclosed that generates identity documents using image and text information that is input to the system using computer controlled video cameras. The image and text informati...  
WO/2001/080556A1
A digital camera (10) comprising a CCD imager (12). When an interval shooting or an animation shooting is selected, the object is shot a plurality of times by means of the CCD imager (12) to generate compressed image data every shooting....  
WO/2001/076235A1
When an image signal is darker than a specified level, it is subjected to linear gray scale conversion. The dark areas of an image are thereby not distorted and the feeling of gradation of the shade and hair is reproduced sufficiently. O...  
WO/2001/070312A1
A medical syringe needle free from the danger of a cannula being broken when the needle is repetitively bent during use or when the needle is inserted into a predetermined region. The medicinal syringe needle is characterized by comprisi...  
WO/2001/071421A1
A computer implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium for identifying and correcting red-eyes in images. The method includes the acts of determining the presence of at least one homogeneously colored region (620); determini...  
WO/2001/067748A1
A digital camera which includes a CCD imager. When the luminance of an object to be shot is insufficient, the frame rate of the CCD imager at focus adjusting is changed from 30 fps to 15 fps to thereby lower the reading speed of a camera...  
WO/2001/054402A1
An image data set of wide gray scale and an image data set of narrow gray scale are coexistently recorded in a file. An image recording apparatus subjects image data to gray-scale conversion piece by piece so as to create a 'first inform...  
WO/2001/052522A2
The invention relates to a method for transforming image signals that have been obtained by color filtering and that have been logarithmically compressed. According of the inventive method, the color intensity of the recorded images is i...  
WO/2001/037209A1
An image processing system (100) stores image files in a memory device (108) at a number of incremental quality levels. Each image file has an associated image quality (that is fidelity or resolution) level corresponding to a quality lev...  
WO/2001/028228A1
A method is disclosed for accessing at least one image file transferred from a digital camera to a host computer by producing icons representative of portions of each image file, the at least one image file having a digital image and at ...  
WO/2001/028229A1
A method is disclosed for a host computer to selectively operate on a plurality of image files captured by a digital camera, each image file having at least one digital image. The plurality of captured image files are stored in a memory ...  
WO/2001/028227A1
A method is disclosed for transferring to a host computer a plurality of image files captured by a digital camera in accordance with an assigned priority and permitting interruption of such transfer to operate on an untransferred image. ...  
WO/2001/024535A1
An imager (100) reduces lighting induced flicker by setting its pixel integration time (204, 210) to an integral multiple of periods between peak intensity of the lighting. In one implementation, flicker is reduced in a 30 Hz frame rate ...  
WO/2001/003020A1
Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to listing classified advertising via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by an appropriate sensing devic...  
WO/2001/003019A1
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a system for enabling searching of stored information, the system including a search request form including information relating to a search request, the search request form including cod...  
WO/2001/003022A1
Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to submitting auction bids via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by an appropriate sensing device. The ...  
WO/2001/003013A1
The present invention concerns a system and method for enabling examinations. Employing the invention involves the use of one or more forms which support interaction with a computer system or network. Each form is printed on sheet materi...  
WO/2001/003431A1
A video recording apparatus preferable for recording an imaged still picture with high definition which can be reproduced even by a recordable player or player basically designed for MPEG dynamic image reproduction. When a still picture ...  
WO/2001/002905A1
A camera for capturing an image and printing a first interface onto a first surface, in response to a user input, and for printing a second interface onto a second surface, in response to first indicating data received from a sensing dev...  
WO/2001/003021A1
Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to seeking auction bids via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by an appropriate sensing device. The sen...  
WO/2001/002977A1
Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to listing classified advertising via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by an appropriate sensing devic...  
WO/2001/001267A1
A method and system for viewing images from an image capture device (110) on a host computer (112). The method and system include establishing communication between the image capture device (110) and the host computer (112), and mounting...  
WO/2000/079392A1
A secure storage device with the identical external dimensions, form factor and hardware connectivity configuration of a standard removable storage device for cameras at the acquisition stage. Original digital camera data is saved in the...  
WO/2000/074370A1
A digital camera (10) is disclosed for capturing digital images and organizing the captured images for subsequent transfer from the digital camera to an external device (40) that utilizes the digital images. The digital camera includes a...  
WO2000036562A9
A digital camera apparatus includes a sensor that generates image data. The apparatus further includes a parallel processor to process the sensed image data. Programmed parallel computing circuitry accomplishes compute-intensive image pr...  
WO/2000/067195A1
An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method of building an electronic file, using an electronic camera such as a digital camera, that captures 3-dimensional objects. A number of image data tiles that represent the images are g...  
WO/2000/064147A1
An embodiment of the invention is a method of generating a final exposure setting, including, (a) selecting one of a number of predetermined exposure settings as a current exposure setting for a solid state camera having a camera imager,...  
WO/2000/057246A1
A digital camera (300) has panning and/or tilting functionality and comprises: a camera housing (6) with an optical input (400), such as a lens or objective (8); an image capturing unit (500) for producing a digital image from light rece...  
WO2000000895A9
A secure storage device (10) with the external dimensions of a PCMCIA, for securing data of a digital camera (14) at the acquisition stage. Original digital camera data is saved in the memory of the secure storage device which has the ca...  
WO/2000/049797A1
An enhanced digital camera includes a non-volatile memory in which is stored a security value used to produce digital signatures for photographs. A processor within the enhanced digital camera processes a photograph by hashing digital da...  
WO/2000/048388A1
A digital camera (1) for capturing sound passages as well as still images has the following elements. It has a camera apparatus (21) for capturing still images. It also has a sound recording apparatus (101, 102, 103, 106) for capturing s...  
WO/2000/048384A2
A method and structure for transmitting digital picture data between a digital camera (10) having a modem (20) and a remote device (42), either over the Internet (40) or over one or more secure communications links, is presented. A digit...  
WO/2000/024131A1
A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers...  
WO/2000/016261A1
The present invention relates to a method and a system for processing images. The invention relates in particular to a method and a system for processing an image using interpolating. The method determines a variation value for different...  
WO/2000/013132A1
Techniques for storing and translating digital images of different native formats (104a, 104b, 110) in a way that makes it unnecessary for independent manufactures of imaging devices to agree on factors related to production/capture and ...  
WO/2000/013407A1
An image fusion process performs respective pyramid decompositions (814, 816) of input images (810, 812). The components of the pyramid decomposition are processed (818, 820) for saliency to form respective saliency pyramids (822, 824). ...  
WO/2000/008592A1
A method comprising constructing virtual (Discrete Wavelet Transform) DWT sub-bands (200) from an image without performing the DWT and then applying an inverse DWT upon the virtual sub-bands (210), the result of the inverse DWT (220) rep...  
WO/2000/007341A1
A method for accessing a digital image capture unit via a communication network comprising a server computer system and a client computer system communicatively coupled with communication equipment. In one embodiment, the address of the ...  
WO/1999/055081A1
A lens cover (12) for a digital camera (10) provides a diffused light source for calibration purposes which approximates a flat field light source. In this way, digital cameras may be calibrated in the field under user control. The diffu...  
WO/1999/053685A1
A method and system for generating an HTML (hypertext markup language) file including images captured by a digital imaging device, the digital imaging device having a display. A script and its predefined model are provided to the digital...  
WO/1999/051027A1
A camera system for generating panoramic images is described. The camera uses sensors (128) to determine the orientation of the camera as each processor (140) reconstructs a single panoramic image from the recorded images using the recor...  
WO/1999/048276A1
The present invention comprises a method and system for implementing Internet access to images stored in a digital image capture unit including an imaging device and display. The image capture unit (e.g., a digital camera) is used to cap...  
WO/1999/044360A1
A system and method for dynamically updating software-driven features in an electronic imaging device (114), including digital cameras, is disclosed. The user of the electronic imaging device (114) may desire various features which are n...  
WO/1999/035826A1
Image information is transferred between an imaging device (10) and a host system (20). The host system (20) detects that an imaging device (10) is connected to the host system (20). In response to detecting the imaging device (10), one ...  
WO/1999/012345A1
A method and apparatus for taking digital pictures. A film camera (10) having a standard back panel (1), a shutter (9), and a primary lens is provided. An image sensing array (35) is disposed within the camera in an area normally occupie...  
WO/1999/007140A1
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically rotating a graphical user interface for managing portrait and landscape captures in an image capture unit. A method and apparatus for viewing an image in an image ca...  
WO/1999/004551A1
A handheld camera system is disclosed comprising: a core chassis; an ink cartridge unit including an ink supply and print head unit, the ink cartridge unit being mounted on the chassis; a roll of print media rotatably mounted between end...  

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