Hardly a week goes by that we’re not reading about Lawsuits
regarding alleged infringement of Patents concerning technology being
used in Mobile Phones and Tablets. But, we don’t see as many
lawsuits being filed by camera manufacturers against smart phone and
tablet manufacturers.
But, that may be changing, as Japan’s Fujifilm has filed a lawsuit
against Motorola Mobility in the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of California, claiming infringement of the following
patents:
- U.S. Patent # 6,144,763: This patent covers a method and
apparatus for compression coding of image data representative of a
color image, and may be related to conversion of color to monochrome. - U.S. Patent # 6,915,119: This patent describes an
apparatus to which received data of an image and/or characters is to
be transmitted,and a wireless communications device that communicates
without a transmitting provider, as well as describing the ability to
display or store data through the transmitting provider. - U.S. Patent #7,327,886: This patent involves Facial
Detection. For example, Processing for judging whether a face is
included in a frame is performed in a predetermined interval on each
of frames included in a moving image of a subject and then displayed
on a monitor until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged
that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected
in the frame and stored. - U.S. Patent #5,734,427: This patent describes the ability
for a high resolution camera with an electronic viewfinder to display
an image at reduced resolution. The abstract for the patent filing
mentions use of an imaging device that outputs a high-resolution
image signal representative of an optical image via a lens, with a
processing section that reduces the image so that a lower resolution
image is seen on a real-time basis.
Fujifilm claims that it notified Motorola in April 2011 that it
believed Motorola was infringing on the patents related to
Photography named in the suit, and held meetings with Motorola
Mobility about licensing the technology without any agreement being
made before they decided to file a lawsuit.
This Lawsuit alleges that the infringing devices include “at
least” the Motorola’s Droid X, Xyboard 10.1, Xyboard 8.2, Droid 4,
Razr Maxx, Razr, Admiral, Droid Bionic, Atrix 2, Electrify, Droid 3,
Photon 4G, Triumph, XPRT, Theory, Droid X2, Xoom, Atrix 4G, Droid
2-Global, Droid Pro, CLIQ, CLIQ XT, and DEFY smart phones/tablets.
You can read the complaint (uploaded by Martyn Williams of IDG
News Service) by clicking here.
(via pcworld.com)
