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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5262632 | Integrated circuit for achieving pattern recognition An apparatus for massive computation in integrated circuits provides the ability to calculate multiple dot products between an image focused on the integrated circuit surface and many reference patterns built into the integrated circuit, and then give an ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5262870 | Image sensor in which reading and resetting are simultaneously performed An image sensor chip comprises a plurality of output lines to which signals from a plurality of light-receiving elements are output. A plurality of switches are respectively connected to the plurality of output lines. Outputs from the plurality of switche... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5262871 | Multiple resolution image sensor An image sensor comprised of an array of photo elements (pixels) includes a device for randomly addressing individual pixels and a device for selectively varying the number of pixels which can be read out on any one reading cycle. The random addressing of... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5184018 | Sensor matrix A matrix of light-sensitive or x-ray sensitive sensors (S1,1, . . . S2000,200) are arranged in rows and columns and generate charges in dependence on the amount of incident radiation. The sensors comprise a respective electric switch... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5153731 | Solid state image pick-up device and apparatus capable of providing filtering output with direct and real time manner A solid state image pick-up device includes a solid state image pick-up body and two-dimensional filtering sections. The solid state image pick-up device body includes a plurality of semiconductor photoelectric sections and parallel transfer sections. The... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5122649 | Solid-state imaging device having a predetermined impurity layer embedded between two adjacent sets of switching transistors A MOS-type solid-state imaging device is disclosed capable of high speed scanning. The imaging device includes a plurality of photodiodes arranged in a matrix form, a vertical scanning circuit, a horizontal scanning circuit, a first group of switching tra... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5122881 | Solid-state imaging device with an amplifying FET in each pixel and an output capacitor in each row Disclosed is an MOS solid-state imaging device including a source-follower FRT amplifier in each picture-cell and a capacitor in each row for differentially directing output signals to cancel offset parameters such as those due to deviations of manufactur... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5109440 | Image sensing apparatus A plurality of opto-electro conversion elements are arranged integrally in a row to constitute a line image sensor to produce respective image bit signals. A plurality of switching elements are connected to the corresponding conversion elements and switch... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5045686 | Semiconductor optical-reading device A semiconductor reading device comprises an insulated substrate and a plurality of integrated circuit reading chips disposed on the substrate. Each reading chip comprises a semiconductor substrate containing thereon a plurality of bipolar phototransistors... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5043820 | Focal plane array readout employing one capacitive feedback transimpedance amplifier for each column A readout circuit for use with a focal plane array that employs a single transistor in each unit cell and a single capacitive feedback transimpedance amplifier to process the outputs of each column of detector elements of the array. The capacitive feedbac... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5027217 | Solid-state imaging system with a feed-back circuit including a variable photo-sensitivity control circuit A solid-state imaging system is provided with: a solid-state imaging device including a first scanning circuit for outputting, in a time series manner, signals of a plurality of picture element cells arranged in a two dimensional manner, and a second scan... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4992876 | Noise reduction circuit for an imaging and recording apparatus with an MOS solid-state imaging device A noise reduction circuit receives a periodic signal from an imaging device, and includes first and second circuits in which noise components opposite in phase are offset by delaying the input signal to produce a delayed signal and adding the delayed sign... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4974093 | Solid state image-pickup device with expanded dynamic range A solid state image-pickup device having an expanded dynamic range so that light reception from a subject having a high light intensity can be carried out without saturation of the light receiving elements of the image-pickup device.... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4959723 | Solid state image pickup apparatus having multi-phase scanning pulse to read out accumulated signal There is provided a solid state image pickup apparatus wherein optical information accumulated in a plurality of photoelectric converting elements are read out to the outside by multi-phase scanning pulses and the multi-phase scanning pulses scan temporar... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4953028 | Image sensor with capacitance addition means An image sensor comprising MOS-type solid-state image pickup elements for transferring signals produced in photosensing elements to signal read-out lines through MOS-type switches. The image sensor is equipped with capacitance addition means comprising MO... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4945418 | Solid state image pickup apparatus with charge storage device A solid state image pickup device is provided in which a photodiode photoelectrically converts incident light to a voltage. Next a transistor performs voltage-to-current conversion, and a capacitor stores the charge. Current is stored in the capacitor wit... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4912537 | Image sensing array with charge isolation A semiconductor image sensing array for an electronic still image camera comprising a plurality of light sensing elements may be electronically shuttered by a gate control electrode in each light sensing element which operates simultaneously to inhibit th... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4868405 | Photoelectric converting apparatus having a common region connecting either sources or drains to a common signal line A photoelectric converting apparatus having a plurality of photosensors and a plurality of transistors of the insulative gate type which select the signals from the photosensors and output to a signal line. Source or drain regions which are connected to t... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4833515 | Imaging devices comprising photovoltaic detector elements In an imaging device, photocurrent generated by photovoltaic detector elements (1), e.g. cadmium mercury telluride photodiodes, is integrated in resettable capacitors (2), and an output signal (S) is derived by reading the potential of the capacitor (2) a... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4809061 | Image readout method and apparatus The image readout apparatus has a plurality of independently driven image sensors. The charge storage time for each image sensor is determined based on light incident thereto, and the signal pickup is started in the storage completion order of the image s... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4786818 | Integrated sensor and processor for visual images An integrated sensor and analog processor for visual images is produced from an array of photoreceptor signals that are the space-time derivative of the photoreceptor outputs. Each photoreceptor output VR is first processed by an integrator hav... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4775895 | Modular image sensor structure An image sensor module for reading optical information on an original and converting the information into electrical signals, has a row of opto-electrical sensors, each sensor having associated processing circuitry integrated therewith in the module. The ... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4771183 | Photo-electric imaging device having overlaying row and column electrodes forming discrete, independently addressable areas A photo-electric imaging device having an array of rows (7) of minute electrodes (8) and an array of columns (1) of electrodes (4) overlying the rows and separated by semiconductor layer (6). Imaging plates (11) are positioned above each pair of respectiv... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4763198 | Interline transfer CCD sensor with a CID readout stage An image sensor in which charge is transferred from an array of photosensing elements to a plurality of vertical CCDs arranged between columns of the photosensing element. The CCD channels are all gated near their ends by a first MOS electrode. Thereafter... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4760558 | Analog image memory device using charge transfer An analog image memory device using charge transfer and comprising: a memory zone of N lines of M memory points, each memory point being formed by the integration on the same semiconductor substrate of an MIS capacity separated from a diode by a screen grid, m... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4736234 | Method of fabrication of a light image detector and a two-dimensional matrix detector obtained by means of said method In a light image detector, a substrate is covered with a first layer of conductive material on which is formed a two-dimensional matrix array of photodiodes in the form of pads arranged in rows and columns and each comprising a layer of amorphous semicond... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4733097 | High signal to noise ratio optical image reader An optical image reader includes plural pairs of switches, each pair of switches having a CMOS structure signal switch and a CMOS structure dummy switch, plural photosensing elements each corresponding to each pair of switches, plural inverters each corre... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4685117 | Base clipping process for a solid state photosensitive device A method of operating a solid state photodetector device which has N photodetectors formed on a first substrate portion connected to a readout stage, through a transition zone having at least one storage zone and a transfer gate, and a multiplexer of the ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4656361 | NMOS digital imaging circuit A digital imaging circuit is disclosed utilizing an indirect charge sensing technique and also sense line capacitance neutralization circuitry. A plurality of sensing cells in conjunction with odd and even digital shift registers operate to propagate the ... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4644404 | Solid-state image pickup device and manufacturing method thereof A solid-state image pickup device includes a semiconductor structure, a photosensitive cell array formed on the semiconductor structure and having a plurality of photosensitive cells, and a shift register formed on the semiconductor structure for selectiv... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4630091 | Solid state imaging apparatus Photoelectric transducing elements are formed in a first impurity-doped region (14), and signal charge reading-out circuits (2, 3) are formed in a second impurity-doped region which is deeper than the first impurity-doped region, so that fixed pattern noi... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4622567 | Integrated FET device having multiple outputs The invention discloses a compact construction of an n-channel surface MOS source follower in a p-pocket in an n-type substrate. The source is connected to the p-pocket in order to avoid feedback. The drain is connected to the substrate which acts as a su... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4620232 | Reset circuit for MOS imager array A reset circuit for a MOS imager array in which a reset gate that normally has its source grounded and its gate controlled by a column signal, in order to pass a row signal to a row of imaging elements, has a high chip reset signal applied to its drain. A... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4611223 | Solid-state image sensor and manufacturing process thereof A solid-state image sensor comprises an n-type silicon substrate (11), a p-type silicon layer (12) formed on the substrate (11), a plurality of nMOS transistors (1), a field insulating film (13) for separating the nMOS transistors (1) and a buried insulat... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4603355 | Solid state image pick-up device A solid state image pick-up device includes a number of picture elements arranged in a matrix form each picture element being constituted by a MOS transistor and a photodiode, gates of the MOS transistors arranged in a vertical direction are connected to ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4597012 | Two-dimensional image read-out sensor device A two-dimensional image read-out device comprises an insulating substrate, a plurality of Y-line electrodes formed on the insulating substrate and arranged parallel with each other, a plurality of X-line electrodes formed over the insulating substrate and... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4591916 | Solid state image pickup device A solid state image pickup device comprises first switching elements (S'11 to S'mn) arrayed in horizontal and vertical rows and composed of a plurality of P-channel insulated-gate field-effect transistors, the first switching element... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4584608 | Solid state image pickup device A solid state image pickup device comprises a plurality of image pickup picture units (E11 to Emn) arrayed in horizontal and vertical rows and composed of first switching elements (S11 to Smn) and photoelectric ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583002 | Imaging sensor with automatic sensitivity control comprising voltage multiplying means A solid-state imaging sensor in which the sensitivity of the sensor is automatically adjusted in accordance with the overall intensity of the image being sensed. A charging potential applied to an image signal storage capacitor in each pixel of an array o... | 04/15/1986 |
