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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7022965 | Low voltage active CMOS pixel on an N-type substrate with complete reset A pixel sensor cell used in a CMOS image sensor is disclosed. The cell includes a pinned photodiode formed in a Pwell that is formed in an N-type semiconductor substrate. A transfer transistor is placed between the pinned photodiode and an output node. A reset trans... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023481 | Solid state imaging device for alleviating the effect of background light and imaging apparatus including same In a solid state imaging apparatus of the present invention, first and second charge-coupled devices (CCDs) 336A and 336B are prepared as two charge accumulation circuits for one photodiode 330. The first and second CCDs 336A and 336 | 04/04/2006 |
| 7022968 | Optical sensor that measures the light output by the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine An optical sensor provides information about the burn of the fuel mixture in the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine as well as the timing and waveform of the spark that ignites the fuel mixture in the combustion chamber. The optical sensor can be im... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019277 | Imaging device The invention is directed to an imaging device and a method of operating the imaging device, which will reduce banding in the image caused by parasitic capacitance. The imaging device comprises an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns and column signal lines ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012645 | Image sensor with p-type circuitry and n-type photosensor A pixel sensor that provides image sensing under radiation or space environment is disclosed. The pixel sensor includes a readout circuit and a first reset circuit. The readout circuit converts optical image signals to electronic signals, and includes p-type transis... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012644 | Multiple output node charge coupled device A system for optically imaging includes an array of cells, a charge shift register, two or more charge sensing nodes, and a charge demultiplexor. Each cell produces an electrical charge in response to photon stimulation. The charge shift register receives the electr... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012590 | Motionless-image display with auto-adjusting light system and the method for forming the same An auto-adjusting light system includes an inputting sub-circuit, a photosensitive sub-circuit, a controlling sub-circuit, a starting sub-circuit, and a display. The inputting sub-circuit is used to input a setting value. The photosensitive sub-circuit is used to ca... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009645 | Constant resolution and space variant sensor arrays A sensor array is described comprising a substantially constant resolution portion comprising a first series of first concentric closed rings, each first closed ring comprising a monodimensional array of equally spaced sensor element location sites, each location si... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009649 | Solid-state image sensor device and solid-state image sensor apparatus including same A solid-state image sensor device comprises a photoelectric converter for converting incident light to electric charge, a logarithmic converter for logarithmically converting a photoelectric current output from the photoelectric converter, the logarithmic converter ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009165 | Optical detection device for detecting an intensity of a light beam and for detecting data transmitted by the light beam An optical detection device for detecting an intensity of a light beam in a detection window and for detecting data transmitted by the light beam includes a first detection diode and an array of at least two second detection diodes in a detection window. In addition... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005647 | Photoelectric converter and radiation reader A photoelectric conversion apparatus having (i) a photoelectric conversion device for converting an incident light into an electric charge and (ii) a reading circuit including at least one thin film transistor for amplifying a signal from the photoelectric conversio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002626 | Image sensor with motion artifact supression and anti-blooming An image sensor includes pixels formed on a semiconductor substrate. Each pixel includes a photoactive region in the semiconductor substrate, a sense node, and a power supply node. A first electrode is disposed near a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A bias s... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002705 | Image reading apparatus Disclosed is an image reading apparatus in which the band width for reading by one scanning is variable in accordance with the original size, the reading mode, etc. R, G, and B image data of the k-th band is successively read in one-band width to store image data R1... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999120 | CMOS imaging device for amplifying and fetching signal charge Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device comprising pickup circuit formed by the arrangement of a unit cell in two dimensions, a plurality of reading lines provided in a horizontal direction corresponding to each pixel row in the pickup region to transmit the readi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992715 | Row decoding scheme for double sampling in 3T pixel arrays The invention disclosed is directed to a method and apparatus which allows a “rolling shutter” type of read out sequence in a pixel array that is read using a double sampling technique by having the rows of pixels reset a second time in each of their cycles for ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6982759 | Amplification type solid-state imaging device having a potential detecting circuit for each unit cell and high-speed readout method thereof A solid-state imaging device comprising an imaging area having unit cells, a vertical driving circuit, signal processing circuits, a horizontal driving circuit, and an output circuit. Each of the unit cells including first and second photoelectric conversion/storage... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980243 | Photoelectric conversion device providing advantageous readout of two-dimensional array of transistors The present invention is intended to provide a photoelectric conversion device provided with a plurality of groups comprising a plurality of adjacent photoelectric conversion elements, wherein the plurality of groups are respectively provided with a detection circui... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980230 | Center of mass detection via an active pixel sensor An imaging system for identifying the location of the center of mass (“COM”) in an image. In one aspect, an imaging system includes a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in a matrix. A center of mass circuit coupled to the photosensitive elements inclu... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980239 | Imaging system with multiple boot options An imaging system with multiple boot options and preferably implemented as an integrated system-on-a-chip (SOC) imaging system. According to the present invention, an imaging system can be operated in one or more operating modes enabled in a number of ways. The imag... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980244 | Solid state image pickup device, driving method thereof and camera There are provided a solid state image pickup device in which the accumulation time of each pixel when an electronic shutter operation is performed is constant, and a high shutter speed can be set, a driving method therefor, and a camera. A solid state image ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977684 | Arrangement of circuits in pixels, each circuit shared by a plurality of pixels, in image sensing apparatus In an image sensing apparatus having a plurality of unit cells, each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a common circuit shared by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, arranged in either one or two dimensions, the plurality... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977685 | Single-chip imager system with programmable dynamic range The imager system of the invention, provided in a semiconductor substrate, includes a plurality of photosensitive, charge integrating pixels that are arranged in rows and columns of a pixel array for capturing illumination of a scene to be imaged. Each pixel include... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975357 | Solid-state imaging pickup device with vertical and horizontal driving means for a unit pixel In a CMOS image pickup device in which the signal corresponding to the accumulated charge amount of each pixel is output to horizontal signal lines wired on a row basis, for example, two vertical selection transistors are provided for every horizontal signal lines, ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975356 | Solid-state imaging device with the elimination of thermal noise A solid-state imaging device comprises: a plurality of pixels including a light-sensitive portion (2) for photoelectrically converting incident light, a transfer gate (10) for transferring a charge stored in the light-sensitive portion, a resettable de... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975355 | Multiple sampling via a time-indexed method to achieve wide dynamic ranges An architecture for a digital pixel sensor is disclosed in which the dynamic range of the sensor is increased by taking samples of a subject to be recorded, where each sample is taken over an interval of a different duration than the other samples. In the preferred ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972457 | Imaging cell that has a long integration period and method of operating the imaging cell The integration period of an imaging cell, or the time that an imaging cell is exposed to light energy, is substantially increased by utilizing a single-poly, electrically-programmable, read-only-memory (EPROM) structure to capture the light energy. Photogenerated e... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972995 | Imaging cell with a non-volatile memory that provides a long integration period and method of operating the imaging cell The image capture period of an imaging cell, or the total time that an imaging cell is exposed to light energy, is substantially increased by utilizing a non-volatile memory (NVM), such as an electrically-erasable, programmable, read-only-memory (EEPROM) structure. ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972795 | High-speed imaging device A high-speed image sensor has a plurality of signal converting means (30) for generating electric signals corresponding to an incident light intensity and a plurality of electric signal recording means (33) for recording electric signals output from co... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972794 | Dual sensitivity image sensor A system of taking images of different sensitivities at the same time uses both an image sensor, and an auxiliary part to the image sensor. The image sensor element can be a photogate, and the auxiliary part can be the floating diffusion associated with the photogat... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972791 | Electronic camera and solid-state camera element that provides a reduced pixel set A solid-state camera device having a matrix of pixels arranged in rows and columns, wherein a subset of pixels of the entire pixel matrix can be read for display and confirmation of photographic conditions to reduce power consumption and decrease time to display the... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972790 | Host interface for imaging arrays An interface for receiving data from an image sensor having an imaging array and a clock generator and for transferring the data to a processor system is described. The interface comprises a memory for storing the imaging array data and the clocking signals at a rat... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970191 | Video camera apparatus The video camera apparatus obtains a still image sensing signal with high image quality in a progressive scan mode and is capable of recording onto a recording medium by a recording means which performs recording operation corresponding to an interlace scan mode. An... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970196 | High-speed vision sensor with image processing function A high-speed vision sensor includes: an analog-to-digital converter array 13, in which one analog-to-digital converter 210 is provided in correspondence with all the photodetector elements 120 that are located on each row in a photodetector arra... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970195 | Digital image sensor with improved color reproduction An image sensor includes a sensor array including a two-dimensional array of pixel elements. The array of pixel elements includes a first group of photodetectors having a first sensitivity level and a second group of photodetectors having a second sensitivity level.... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967683 | Imaging apparatus with multiple local clocks for readout from a large number of photosensors In an imaging device having an array of photosensors, each photosensor being associated with a shift register stage for reading out image signals, there is provided a number of local clock drivers, each local clock driver being associated with a subset of photosenso... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965407 | Image sensor ADC and CDS per column A solid state imager includes an arrangement for converting analog pixel values to digital form on an arrayed per-column basis. An N-bit counter supplies an N-bit DAC to produce an analog ramp output providing a ramp signal with a level that varies corresponding to ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965102 | Large dynamic range, low-leakage vertical color pixel sensor A low-leakage, high-dynamic range active pixel sensor is formed on a p-type semiconductor substrate. A photodiode cathode n-type region is disposed within the semiconductor substrate forming a pn junction with the semiconductor substrate. An n-well is disposed in th... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965410 | Image sensing apparatus employing dark image data to correct dark noise An apparatus has an image sensing device, an instruction device for instructing to execute a plurality of image sensing operations with different image sensing times of the image sensing device, and a signal processing device for performing a first image sensing ope... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965707 | Compact active pixel with low-noise snapshot image formation A low-noise active pixel circuit is disclosed that efficiently suppresses reset (kTC) noise by using a compact preamplifier consisting of a photodetector and only four MOSFETs of identical polarity, in conjunction with ancillary circuits located on an imager's perip... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963372 | Solid-state image sensing apparatus and method of operating the same In a solid-state image sensing apparatus, each pixel includes a photodiode, a MOS amplifier whose gate receives photo-charge generated by the photodiode, and a MOS switch for controlling connection between the photodiode and the gate of the MOS amplifier, and transf... | 11/08/2005 |
