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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4775880 | Solid-state image sensor with amorphous semiconductor photoconductive cell array A contact type amorphous linear image sensor is disclosed with planar comb-shaped electrodes. Photoelectric converting elements are linearly aligned on a stripe-shaped amorphous silicon layer formed on an insulative substrate. These elements serve as phot... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4745480 | Solid-state image pick-up device having an arrangement to avoid adverse effects on the waveform of picture elements signal by the read-out start pulse A solid-state image pick-up device is provided which will not have a waveform of the picture element signals adversely influenced by a start pulse of the read out. The device includes photoelectric converting elements arranged in a two dimensional array a... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4742494 | Device for reading a two-dimensional charge image Stacked slab-shaped support bodies of electrically insulated material are provided with electrodes at one of their side surfaces. In the stack, the electrodes of a support body form the rows of a matrix. The support bodies are each connected detachably to... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4734773 | Imaging apparatus having high-frequency electron purging circuit operable during an exposure time A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises an image sensor having an array of photodiodes, a shift register and a transfer gate for transferring electrons developed in the photodiodes to the shift register in response to a gate control signal applied there... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4734589 | A/D photodiode signal conversion apparatus A method and apparatus for directly converting an analog photodiode signal to digital form using a switched capacitor successive approximation A/D converter. The charge extracted from a video line during a predetermined time interval by a photodiode is co... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4683498 | Compatible wide-screen television system camera A solid-state imager for a television camera which generates a compatible wide-screen signal, i.e., a wide-screen signal with compressed left and right edge portions for each television line. The solid-state imager includes photosensitive picture elements... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4660095 | Contact-type document scanner and method There is disclosed an apparatus and method for providing electrical signals representative of an image projected thereon. The apparatus includes an array of spaced apart, light sensitive elements formed from deposited semiconductor material and arranged f... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4602290 | MOS-type image sensor with branch readout The transfer transistors employed in an MOS image sensor for coupling the sensor array outputs to a smaller number of output terminals are arranged in tiers so that the image sensor output terminals are selectively connected to the sensor array outputs th... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4598320 | Solid state photosensitive device A solid state photosensitive device according to the invention comprises at least one photonic and charges integration cell connected to a reading stage constituted by voltage reading means each connected to a cell through the intermediary of means allowi... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4581539 | Solid-state image sensor A solid-state image sensor comprises photo sensors (111 to 114, 211 to 214 and 311 to 314), transfer gates (121 to 124, 221 to 224 and 321 to 324), a selecting circuit (800), vertical charge transferring elements (130, 230 and 330) and a driving circuit (... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4566031 | Spatial light modulation with application to electronically generated holography A spatial light modulator with application to holography utilizes two planar transparent supports between which is positioned an electro-optical dipolar medium which is normally opaque but light transmissive in the presence of an applied electric field. O... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4556908 | Solid state image sensor A solid state image sensor comprises an image sensing matrix comprised of a number of photoelectric elements arranged in a matrix array and a scanning circuit for two-dimensionally scanning the image sensing matrix by scanning signals to extract image sig... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4551757 | Method for driving solid-state image sensor A method for driving a solid-state image sensor in which the bias charges in a horizontal readout CCD (charge-coupled device) shift register are transferred onto vertical signal lines with the signal charges and then the signal and bias charges are transf... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4484219 | Electronically generated holography Holographic data in the form of electronic signals is generated through the utilization of two planar transparent supports between which is positioned an electro-optical dipolar medium which is normally opaque but light transmissive in the presence of an ... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4454545 | Charge coupled device based inspection system and method An inspection system utilizing a CCD includes a CCD data transfer generator which allows the changing of the CCD without redesigning the system. The numbers of horizontal rows and vertical columns of pixels of the CCD are set into a digital memory and int... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4441125 | Image sensor using dynamic random access memory A new and improved solid-state image sensor uses a dynamic random access memory as the light sensitive element. The dynamic random access memory is mounted in a semiconductor package having a transparent lid, and one or more lenses focuses the light image... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4402014 | Circuit arrangement for discharging a capacity MOS switch is provided, in particular for a camera, with which within the line flyback time the whole optically generated signal can be transferred by periodically transferring back a fixed quantity of charge from the drain to the source.... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4340909 | Solid state area imaging apparatus Solid state area imaging apparatus consisting of a X-Y addressed photodiode array, a p-s conversion area and an output CCD register. In this apparatus, stored signal charges in the photodiode array are read out a line at a time into column lines during a ... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4336557 | Monolithically integrated circuit for relatively slow readout from a two-dimensional image sensor A monolithically integrated circuit for relatively slow readout of a two-dimensional image sensor and transfer of separate signal charge packets and noise charge packets from the image sensor to a pair of charge transfer devices has first and second inter... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4260900 | Charge-transfer image sensor A charge-transfer image sensor comprises a photosensitive section for receiving a light signal to produce a charge packet corresponding to the intensity of the light signal, a readout shift register for reading out the charge packet for transfer, an outpu... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4247874 | Photoconductor device for imaging a linear object A photoconductive device for imaging a linear object has a plurality of photoconductive elements, extending in a line, on a substrate, with first and second patterns of electrical conductors, a pattern on each side of the line. Connections are made to the... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4185293 | Opto-electronic sensing apparatus and method An opto-electronic sensor has an insulating substrate on which a plurality of x-lines of doped n (p) type conductivity semiconductor material are arranged. A light-permeable insulating layer covers the x-lines. A plurality of y-lines of electrically condu... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4084190 | Image sensor An image sensor includes a plurality of parallel spaced apart semiconductor strips carried on an electrically insulating substrate and covered with at least one layer of light-permeable electrically insulating material. A plurality of parallel spaced apar... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4038690 | Charge-coupled device video-signal-generating system A video-signal-generating system comprises a pair of similar charge-coupled area-image-sensing devices, each comprising a two-dimensional array of photosensor sites arranged in rows and columns, each site being effective to produce a charge packet in resp... | 07/26/1977 |
