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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127355 | DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion, an accumulation portion for accumulating the charge, a first transfer portion connecting the photoelectric convers... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105698 | SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM A MOS type solid state imaging device having unit pixels, each having a photodiode a transfer transistor for transferring the signal of the photodiode to a floating node, an amplifier transistor for outputting the signal of the floating node to a vertical signal line, a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081588 | PIXEL SENSOR CELL WITH HOLD NODE FOR LEAKAGE CANCELLATION AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND DESIGN STRUCTURE A reference pixel sensor cell (e.g., global shutter) with hold node for leakage cancellation, methods of manufacture and design structure is provided. A pixel array includes one or more reference pixel sensor cells dispersed locally throughout active light sensing regio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081589 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM An imaging device includes: a pixel array section functioning as a light receiving section which includes photoelectric conversion devices and in which a plurality of pixels, which output electric signals when photons are incident, are disposed in an array; a sensing ci... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069228 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS MANUFACTURING METHOD A photoelectric conversion apparatus having a pixel array region and a peripheral region includes a pixel array, a readout unit, an output unit, a plurality of output lines, and a color filter layer which is arranged in the pixel array region and the peripheral region a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050584 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, AUTO-FOCUSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM Each of a plurality of unit pixels includes first and second photoelectric conversion units, and a pixel output unit shared between the first and second photoelectric conversion units. A monitoring unit configured to control the charge-accumulation operation of the firs... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050594 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM In a first reset period, electrons on a floating node shared by conversion elements are reset by a sequence of reset voltages before electrons in the first conversion element are transferred to the floating node for common use. In a second reset period, electrons on the... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050595 | INCREASING READOUT SPEED IN CMOS APS SENSORS THROUGH GROUP READOUT A method and associated architecture for dividing column readout circuitry in an active pixel sensor in a manner which reduces the parasitic capacitance on the readout line. In a preferred implementation, column readout circuits are grouped and provided with group signa... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044398 | CMOS SENSOR WITH LOW PARTITION NOISE AND LOW DISTURBANCE BETWEEN ADJACENT ROW CONTROL SIGNALS IN A PIXEL ARRAY A CMOS image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels with individual rows of unit pixels being coupled to respective row control signal lines, and a buffer including plural row control signal drivers. Each driver is coupled to a respective one... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038810 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS An image capturing apparatus includes: an image sensor including image sensing pixels that generate a signal for image generation, and focus detection pixels dividing the pupil region of an imaging lens into pupil regions and generating a signal for phase difference det... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038809 | DIFFERENTIAL COLUMN ADC ARCHITECTURES FOR CMOS IMAGE SENSOR APPLICATIONS Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide differential-input, single-slope, column-parallel analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architectures for use in high-resolution CMOS image sensors (CIS) are described. A column ADC is coupled with a column of a pixel array and ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038811 | METHODS FOR ENHANCING QUALITY OF PIXEL SENSOR IMAGE FRAMES FOR GLOBAL SHUTTER IMAGING The image qualify of an image frame from a CMOS image sensor array operated in global shutter mode may be enhanced by dispersing or randomizing the noise introduced by leakage currents from floating drains among the rows of the image frame. Further, the image quality ma... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033121 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE According to one embodiment, a pixel that outputs a photoelectrically-converted pixel signal, a column ADC circuit that converts the pixel signal output from the pixel into a digital value, a test-signal generating unit that generates a test signal with which the column... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033097 | COUNTER CIRCUIT, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (ADC) INCLUDING A COUNTER CIRCUIT, IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING COUNTER CIRCUIT AND/OR ADC, SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH, AND METHOD ASSOCIATED THEREWITH In one embodiment, the counter circuit is associated with a pixel array and includes a plurality of counting circuits. Each counting circuit is configured to receive an associated input signal, and each input signal is associated with a different column of the pixel arr... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033118 | CMOS IMAGE SENSOR HAVING WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE AND SENSING METHOD THEREOF Disclosed are a CMOS image sensor having a wide dynamic range and a sensing method thereof. Each unit pixel of the CMOS image sensor of the present invention includes multiple processing units, so that one shuttering section for the image generation of one image frame c... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120019698 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM Provided is a solid-state image pickup device including a pixel section arranged with multiple pixel circuits in matrix having functions for converting an optical signal to an electrical signal and for accumulating the electrical signal depending on an exposure time, an... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019697 | Solid-state imaging device and camera system A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section in which pixels performing photoelectric conversion are arranged in a matrix shape; and a pixel signal reading section that has an AD conversion section which reads pixel signals through pixel units from the pixel s... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019699 | Solid-State Imaging Device A trace control unit 61 traces photoelectric conversion characteristics of dummy pixels G2 by varying a current value outputted from constant current sources Id. The constant current sources Id are provided common to respective rows in a dummy pixel sectio... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013780 | OPTICAL BLACK PIXEL CELL READOUT SYSTEMS AND METHODS This is generally directed to systems and methods for reading optical black pixel cells. For example, in some embodiments, the columns of a pixel array can be shunted together during an optical black pixel readout phase of the imaging system. This may, for example, help... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008032 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a comparison section comparing a pixel signal from a pixel with a ramp signal and outputting a comparison signal. A measurement section starts counting in synchronism with the ramp signal and continues the counting until a signal... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008033 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM A solid-state image pickup device and a camera system in which: (1) counters are organized into a counter group and a memory group on a column-by-column basis; (2) in each column, the individual counters are cascade-connected between individual bits; (3) switches are pr... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002092 | LOW NOISE ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR A vertically-integrated active pixel sensor includes a sensor layer connected to a circuit layer. At least one pixel region on the sensor layer includes a photodetector and a charge-to-voltage converter. At least one pixel region on the circuit layer consists of a sourc... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317056 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING DEVICE Disclosed herein is an imaging element including a pixel array section, a first current source, a first ground line, a first switch, a first capacitive element, a second switch, and a current control circuit.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317055 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND IMAGING METHOD According to one embodiment, a third optical black portion is arranged in parallel with a first optical black portion in a row direction and in parallel with a second optical black portion in column direction. At least one of the vertical line correction circuit and the... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310282 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate and a photoelectric conversion region. The substrate has a charge accumulation region. The photoelectric conversion region is provided on the substrate. The photoelectric conversion region is configured to generate signa... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304758 | HIGH SPEED IMAGING THROUGH IN-PIXEL STORAGE Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of high speed imaging through in-pixel storage. In one embodiment, an image sensor includes an event sensor to detect events in a process. In addition, the image sensor includes an in-pixel storage to increase an event c... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298957 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM USING THE METHOD An image sensor supporting a normal sampling mode and a 1/N sampling mode for transmitting image data detected by a plurality of unit image sensors and stored in a plurality of latch circuits to a data processor using a plurality of transmission lines, wherein N is a na... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298955 | Clock multiplying circuit, solid-state imaging device, and phase-shift circuit A clock multiplying circuit includes: first and second inverters being ON/OFF-controlled by a positive- or negative-phase signal, respectively, of a first clock signal and including current source and current sync terminals; a capacitive element provided between output ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298918 | DEPTH ILLUMINATION AND DETECTION OPTICS A depth image capture device uses a circular polarization structure positioned at the output of an illumination radiation source, such as a diode laser. A linear polarization element receives the collimated illumination radiation and provides polarized radiation to a qu... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298956 | LINEAR IMAGE SENSOR IN CMOS TECHNOLOGY A time-delay-integration image sensor comprises a matrix of pixels organized in rows and columns. Each pixel comprises a first photosensitive element, a storage node and a first transfer element connected between the first photosensitive element and the storage node, Ea... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292265 | Integrating A/D converter, integrating A/D conversion method, solid-state imaging device and camera system An integrating A/D converter includes: a comparator comparing an input voltage to a reference voltage having a ramp waveform, a voltage value of which linearly varies with time; a higher-order bit counter starting operation or stopping operation triggered by inversion o... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292266 | Electro-Active Focus and Zoom Systems Aspects of the present invention provide dynamic focusing systems and dynamic zoom systems having no moving parts. The dynamic focusing systems can include an electro-active lens, a fixed focus lens in optical communication with the electro-active lens and a focal plane... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285890 | CAMERA MODULE A camera module has a lens unit including a lens, a first chip having an image region on which an image is formed from light having passed through the lens unit, a housing enclosing side surfaces of the lens unit and the first chip, a second chip and at least one printe... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285889 | CAMERA MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE CAMERA MODULE A camera module includes an image sensor chip including a substrate having first and second opposite surfaces and a ground pad on the first surface, a housing surrounding the sides of the image sensor chip but which leaves the second surface of the image sensor chip exp... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285891 | Integrated Display Camera Using Masked Display Elements Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for capturing photographic images with a camera integrated in an electronic display. The system includes: a display screen; a set of display elements coupled to a front side of the display screen; a set of masking el... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285892 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND CAMERA A photoelectric conversion device including a pixel region having a photoelectric converter, and a transfer MOS transistor for transferring charges in the photoelectric converter to a floating diffusion, comprises a first insulating film continuously arranged to cover t... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279722 | IMAGE SENSOR The invention relates to an image sensor, in particular to a CMOS image sensor, for digital cameras, having a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, wherein the respective pixel comprises: a light sensitive detector element to generate electrical charge from ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279724 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels that perform photoelectric conversion are arranged in the form of a matrix; a pixel signal reading unit performing reading of a pixel signal in a signal line from the pixel unit in the un... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279723 | Signal processing circuit, solid-state imaging device, and camera system A signal processing circuit includes: a reference signal generating circuit that generates a reference signal of a ramp waveform of which a voltage value varies with the lapse of time by changing a current; and a signal processing unit including a plurality of processin... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279725 | IMAGE SENSOR IN CMOS TECHNOLOGY WITH HIGH VIDEO CAPTURE RATE An time-delay-integration image sensor comprises a matrix of photosensitive pixels organized in rows and columns, a first matrix of memory cells associated with control and adding means to store accumulated brightness levels of several rows of pixels in a row of memory ... | 11/17/2011 |
