Japan's Fujifilm has sued Google's Motorola Mobility, claiming that several of its cell phones and tablets infringe on four of its patents related to digital camera and photography technology.
Fujifilm, which filed its lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said its filing came after attempts to negotiate a licensing deal with Motorola failed. The Japanese photo giant said it notified Motorola in April 2011 of its belief that the handset maker was infringing on its patents and held face-to-face meetings with Motorola representatives. However, those discussions failed to produce a licensing deal and infringing behavior continues, Fujifilm said.
The four patents cited in the lawsuit:
- U.S. Patent 6,144,763, which covers converting captured color images to monochrome images;
- U.S. Patent 6,915,119, which describes a method in which devices communicate with each other over a telephone network;
- U.S. Patent 7,327,886, which covers facial detection in digital photography;
- U.S. Patent 5,734,427, which covers a process for allowing high-resolution images captured by an image sensor to be displayed on a low-resolution view finder.
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