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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ki-Yong Kim, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348169 ; 348211 ; 348373 ;
Abstract
An object tracking apparatus and method of a camcorder which can detect the travelling object and can automatically track the object for shooting by utilizing infra-red incident upon light receiving element from the object. Two embodiments of the object tracking apparatus and method thereof can detect the moving direction of an object so that the shooting direction of a camcorder can be caused to change by comparing mutually the changing electrical signals as the output of a photoelectric converter which converts the light incident from the object to electrical signals changes according to the movement of an object.