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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188441 | Ultraviolet intensity detecting method, fabricating display apparatus method and display apparatus using the same A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus is used for detecting an ultraviolet (UV) intensity. The display apparatus includes a lower-substrate, an upper-substrate and a processing unit. The lower-substrate includes a first, a second and a third photo s... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8178846 | Light or radiation image pickup apparatus An X-ray detector provided for a radiation image pickup apparatus of this invention includes two types of areas, i.e. an image area for X-ray detection, and an image area for time variation noise detection to detect time variation noises generating from circuits of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173969 | Radiation detecting apparatus and radiation image capturing system A radiation detecting apparatus includes a flexible radiation conversion panel for detecting radiation that has passed through a subject and converting the detected radiation into radiation image information, and grips disposed on ends of the radiation conversion pa... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8158950 | Apparatus and method for detection of radiation Digital images or the charge from pixels in light sensitive semiconductor based imagers may be used to detect gamma rays and energetic particles emitted by radioactive materials. Methods may be used to identify pixel-scale artifacts introduced into digital images an... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8106362 | Surface contamination examining device and method A surface contamination examining device includes a radiation detector 11 and an arithmetic/display device 13 for displaying radiation intensity in form of a counting rate. The arithmetic/display device has a boundary detecting device 10 that de... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8093562 | Radiation imaging apparatus, radiation imaging system, and correction method The invention intends to be able to perform a gain correction fully adequately. Hence, at the time of radiographing an object, a gain correction of the object image is performed based on a gain correction image (XRc1) derived by performing a light reset. On t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089049 | Radiation image capturing system, apparatus for supplying image capturing instruction information, program, method for supplying image capturing instruction information, and radiation image capturing method A radiation image capturing system includes a plurality of image capturing apparatus having different specifications for capturing a radiation image of a subject, a plurality of processors having specifications corresponding to the specifications of the image captur... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084743 | Sensor and image pickup device A sensor for detecting a received electromagnetic wave comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and an amorphous oxide layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080802 | Radiation detecting apparatus, radiographic image capturing system, and radiographic image capturing method In a radiographic image capturing system, when a radiation detector is activated by a battery which is capable of being charged by a charging apparatus, charging of the battery by the charging apparatus is controlled based on whether image-capturing with respect to ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8044360 | Radiation detector The present invention provides a radiation detector that can suppress a deterioration of image quality of a radiation image while suppressing the size of the radiation detector. Namely, a conductive layer configured by a conductive member is disposed at a portion th... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8008627 | Radiation imaging element A radiation imaging element that includes a plurality of pixel portions each having a phosphor layer that absorbs radiation transmitted through a subject to emit light, a photoelectric conversion portion that includes an upper electrode, a lower electrode, and a pho... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7994480 | Visible light and IR combined image camera An infrared (IR) light camera or sensor that provides temperature alarms. The temperature alarms may be audible, vibrational, and visual to indicate when a portion of the IR image meets user-defined alarm criteria. Visual alarms may be provided by displaying on a ca... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7935931 | Radiation image capturing system The power consumption of a battery for supplying electric power to a cassette having a radiation detector for detecting radiation image information is greatly reduced. When a cassette transceiver of the cassette starts transmitting the radiation image information to... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932500 | Radiation image detection method and apparatus A radiation image detection method including the steps of: detecting from a radiation image detector including multitudes of pixels disposed two-dimensionally, each having a TFT switch, an analog image signal of each pixel flowing out through each data line by seque... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928399 | Method and system for imaging a radiation source A method for imaging a radiation source, and a device that utilizes these methods that in one embodiment include the steps of: calculating at least one Compton cone of a first parameter of a radiation emission from information received from a sensor occurrence; and ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928398 | Radiation detecting pixel array signal routing An embodiment of the invention includes a radiation detecting pixel array. The radiation detecting pixel array includes a substrate, a plurality of radiation detecting pixels arranged in a grid pattern on the substrate, a signal routing array embedded within the sub... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7923695 | Radiation image pick-up device and method therefor, and radiation image pick-up system Sensitivity is freely changeable to another one in correspondence to a photographing mode, and both still image photographing and moving image photographing for example which are largely different from each other in dosage of exposure to radiation and which are also... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7897928 | Solid-state photodetector pixel and photodetecting method A pixel is formed in a semiconductor substrate (S) with a plane surface for use in a photodetector. It comprises an active region for converting incident light (In) into charge carriers, photogates (PGL, PGM, PGR) for generating a lateral electric potential (Φ(x)) ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7872237 | Circuit substrate and method Embodiments of the invention are concerned with semiconductor circuit substrates for use in a radiation detection device, said radiation detection device comprising a detector substrate having a plurality of detector cells arranged to generate charge in response to ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7863575 | Radiographic imaging method and radiographic imaging system A radiographic imaging method and system use a radiation solid state detector or a flat panel detector (FPD). The method and system enable radiographic imaging to be continued for a while after occurrence of pixel defects that may lower image quality and minimizing ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7851764 | Method of high-energy particle imaging by computing a difference between sampled pixel voltages A method of high-energy particle imaging by individual particle counting with an active pixel direct bombardment detector. The method includes the step of providing an active pixel direct bombardment detector including an array of pixels. Each pixel is characterized... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7847258 | Radiation imaging device A radiation imaging device 12 has a phosphor film 8; a photoelectric conversion portion 13 including an upper electrode 6, a lower electrode 2, and a photoelectric conversion film 4 disposed between the electrodes; a signal ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7842926 | Method and device for correcting SLM stamp image imperfections The invention relates to production and precision patterning of work pieces, including manufacture of photomask for photolithography and direct writing on other substrates, such as semiconductor substrates. In particular, it relates to applying corrections to patter... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7829859 | Radiation detecting cassette and radiation image capturing system Power supply switches are disposed on respective side walls of a casing of a radiation detecting cassette, which are held out of contact with a patient when a radiation image of the patient is captured. When a surgeon or a radiological technician turns one of the po... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7741608 | Image reader In an image reader, if a first and second light sources alternately light-up when a conveying unit conveys an imaging target medium, a visible light data group that is based on a reflected light, of a wavelength inside a visible spectrum, of a first light having a w... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7737410 | Apparatus and method for detection of radiation Digital images or the charge from pixels in light sensitive semiconductor based imagers may be used to detect gamma rays and energetic particles emitted by radioactive materials. Methods may be used to identify pixel-scale artifacts introduced into digital images an... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7732778 | Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system The invention intends to be able to perform a gain correction fully adequately. Hence, at the time of radiographing an object, a gain correction of the object image is performed based on a gain correction image (XRc1) derived by performing a light reset. On t... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728299 | Radiation image detector Edge portions of detection electrodes, such as a first linear electrode and a second linear electrode, that include the side surfaces of the detection electrodes and parts of surfaces of the detection electrodes, the surfaces continuing from the side surfaces and fa... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7718973 | Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a read unit reading electric signals from radiation detecting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and that convert incident radiation into electric signals. A control unit controls the radiation detecting unit such th... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7709802 | Radiation image capturing apparatus and method of processing image information therefor A radiation detector includes two radiation conversion panels for detecting radiation image information representing a radiation image of a subject. A signal combination judging circuit judges a combination of two serial signals representing the detected radiation i... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7700922 | Cassette device and cassette storage bag for cassette device A cassette device includes a radiation detecting cassette having a radiation detector therein for detecting radiation having passed through a subject and converting the detected radiation into radiation image information, a transmission and reception controller conn... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7683337 | Radiographic apparatus and control method therefor If image data is input to an image processor (step S1), the image processor generates an integrated image sum (step S2). The image processor extracts a maximum output max from the integrated image sum (step S3). The image processor compares the ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7663112 | Cassette A radiation detecting cassette has a casing including a first flat plate for facing a patient and a second flat panel for facing a surgical table. The first flat plate and the second flat panel are spaced from each other by a predetermined distance. The casing also ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7655916 | Radiation image capturing system The power consumption of a battery for supplying electric power to a cassette having a radiation detector for detecting radiation image information is greatly reduced. When a cassette transceiver of the cassette starts transmitting the radiation image information to... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652259 | Apparatus and methods for imaging and attenuation correction Imaging apparatus, is provided, comprising a first device, for obtaining a first image, by a first modality, selected from the group consisting of SPECT, PET, CT, an extracorporeal gamma scan, an extracorporeal beta scan, x-rays, an intracorporeal gamma scan, an int... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652260 | Particle detection circuit comprising basic circuits forming subpixels The particle detection circuit comprises a plurality of basic circuits. Each basic circuit comprises a particle detector element connected to an associated counter and a summing circuit having a first input connected to the output of the counter. Basic circuits, eac... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649177 | Radiation image detector A radiation image detector includes a first electrode for transmitting an electromagnetic wave for recording, the electromagnetic wave carrying a radiation image, a photoconductive layer for recording, a plurality of charge-collecting electrodes, and a substrate. Th... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7642517 | Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system A radiation imaging apparatus has a pixel region arranged on a substrate. Arranged in a matrix pattern in the pixel region are pixels, each pixel including a conversion element which converts radiation to electrical charges, and a switching element which is connecte... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7638772 | Imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels disposed on an insulation substrate. Each of the pixels includes a plurality of thin-film transistors, a conversion element disposed above the TFTs, and a plurality of insulating layers disposed between the convers... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7638773 | Cassette A radiation detecting cassette includes a casing having first through fourth display units mounted on respective side walls thereof for displaying ID information of a patient, etc. The casing also has first detectors on the respective side walls for detecting obstac... | 12/29/2009 |
