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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7349015 | Image capture apparatus for correcting noise components contained in image signals output from pixels An image capture apparatus includes first and second pixels. Each pixel has a sensor and a reading portion for reading out a signal from the sensor to an output line. The apparatus further includes a correcting section for changing a correction signal in accordance ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336757 | Charge-coupled device A CCD shift register capable of switching between two-phase driving and three-phase driving in which crosstalk among clock signal lines is reduced and a decrease in transfer efficiency is prevented. Transfer electrodes disposed at regular intervals along a channel r... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7236643 | System and method for filtering and binarization of images in the presence of specular noise In order to render information contained in images more detectable in the presence of noise, the present invention discloses a system and method to binarize the images in the presence of noise. The method of this invention comprises the steps of applying a dynamic r... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7199409 | Device for subtracting or adding charge in a charge-coupled device The present invention provides an apparatus for adding or subtracting an amount charge to or from a charge packet in a CCD as the packet traverses the CCD. The apparatus uses a “wire transfer” device structure to perform the addition or subtraction of charge dur... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7046283 | Arrangements of clock line drivers A circuit includes a circuit chip and a plurality of clock drivers external to the circuit chip. The circuit chip includes a plurality of isolated clocking subunits and a corresponding plurality of terminals. Each clocking subunit is electrically isolated from any o... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7015520 | Charge-coupled devices having efficient charge transfer rates A camera includes a charge-coupled device having a substrate or well of a first conductivity type; a buried channel of a second conductivity type; a dielectric disposed on the substrate; six gates disposed on the dielectric that are space oriented sequentially 1 | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003068 | Device for subtracting or adding a constant amount of charge in a charge-coupled device at high operating frequencies A circuit for adding or subtracting an amount of charge from a charge sample, such as in a Charge Coupled Device (CCD), by portioning and pipelining the processing stages, to avoid introducing a memory effect. The operation, such as subtraction, is split into multip... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6914291 | Self-aligned floating-gate structure for flash memory device The self-aligned floating-gate structure with a high coupling ratio being formed by one masking photoresist step is disclosed by the present invention, which comprises a first conductive layer over a tunneling-dielectric layer being formed over a semiconductor subst... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6825879 | Solid-state image sensing device and method of driving the same In a solid-state image sensing device, photoelectric conversion elements are two-dimensionally arrayed in a matrix on a semiconductor substrate. A transfer gate portion is arranged adjacent to each photoelectric conversion element to read signal charges stored in th... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6818878 | Multi-resolution charge-coupled device sensing device A multi-resolution charge-coupled device (CCD) sensing device is provided. The multi-resolution CCD sensing device achieves the object of the invention by using more than two CCD shift registers. The purpose of the invention is to combine and store the charge signal... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6784929 | Universal two dimensional (frame and line) timing generator A programmable two-dimensional timing generator according to the invention employs a clock generator (102) and a user-defined two-stage waveform generator (106, 108). A single static random access memory (SRAM) (112) stores a user-defined wavefo... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6728330 | Register arrangement for a microcomputer with a register and further storage media There is provided a register system of a microcomputer having a register that includes at least one register bit and having an additional storage arrangement allocated to the register and on which the data content of the register is able to be intermediately stored.... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6683647 | Method for driving solid-state image sensing device A method for driving a CCD solid-state image sensing device. The method is applied to driving the CCD in order to ensure a sufficiently large charge to be handled. In the method, the driving control is performed such that the length of a control interval,... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6639202 | Multi-resolution charge-coupled device (CCD) sensing apparatus A multi-resolution charge-coupled device (CCD) sensing apparatus is provided. The multi-resolution CCD sensing apparatus includes a photo sensor set, a shift gate, and several CCD shift registers. The shift gate includes several switches for receiving the... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6618088 | Charge transfer device having three pixel rows arranged adjacently to each other A charge transfer device is disclosed wherein three pixel rows are arranged adjacently to each other. First to third pixel rows are arranged adjacently to each other, and the charge transfer device includes a first charge transfer element for reading out ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6586784 | Accumulation mode clocking of a charge-coupled device A method for reducing dark current within a charge coupled device includes the steps of providing three or more phases of gates separated by an insulating layer from a buried channel of the first conductivity type in a well or substrate of the second cond... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6583818 | Solid state image sensor with readout modes having different drive phases A solid state image pickup device having: a mode selector for selecting one of first and second modes; a plurality of photoelectric converters for converting received light into electric charges; transfer paths each having a plurality of packets for recei... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6215840 | Method and apparatus for sequential memory addressing Circuits for sequentially addressing memory locations in time with pulses received from a clock are disclosed. The circuits may provide a positive voltage output signal at successive output nodes associated with corresponding stages in the circuit respons... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5937025 | High speed CCD bus structure A CCD shift register includes a continuous buried channel over a length of the shift register, a plurality of conductor segments, a plurality of narrow bus segments, and a plurality of wide busses. Each conductor segment includes a plurality of sets of co... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5848305 | Circulating shift register and distance measuring device When a voltage signal corresponding to charges circulating a circulating shift register including charge transfer channels, which are arranged in a ring pattern, are read out from the shift register as a signal value, since clocks for circulating the char... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5748035 | Channel coupled feedback circuits Channel coupled feedback- technology for implementing many analog and digital signal processing functions in a single-polysilicon digital IC fabrication process is described. Field effect transistors are constructed having a common channel and the substra... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5731722 | Low power capacitive load driving circuit A circuit for driving a capacitive load uses a plurality of driving signals with different phases including a quiescent time, and a driving time having a driving duration and an other time. An inductance element is connected across the driving terminals o... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5731833 | Solid-state image pick-up device with reference level clamping and image pick-up apparatus using the same In order to stabilize the reference level of an output signal from a solid-state image pick-up device, the solid-state image pick-up device includes an output circuit 12 for obtaining a picture signal Y1(t) from information charges outputted from a horizo... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5675623 | Two dimensional image processing having linear filter within a CCD array Signal processing involves accruing signal charge at photosensors, accumulating samples of the content of several adjacent photosensors in individual potential wells of a CCD according to a predetermined pattern, shifting them into individual stages of a ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5640028 | Charge transfer device with reduced parasitic capacitances for improved charge transferring A charge transfer device formed on a semiconductor substrate comprising: a charge transfer section formed on the semiconductor substrate for transferring charges, a floating gate having a floating gate diffusion layer formed on the semiconductor substrate... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5634044 | Charge coupled device control module The control system controls the operation of a charge coupled device. The operation of the charge coupled device is responsive to a shift clock signal of a given frequency and a shift enable signal. The control system includes a timer for generating one o... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5604765 | Position enhanced communication system including system for embedding CDMA navigation beacons under the communications signals of a wireless communication system A cellular telephone system having three or more cell sites with each cell site having a source of cellular communication signals and an RF transmitter and antenna for broadcasting the cellular communication signals. A direct sequence spread spectrum wave... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5585652 | Method and apparatus for real-time background illumination subtraction The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for accurately detecting light energy of a signal of interest (e.g., a laser pulse) even when the signal-to-noise ratio is relatively low. The present invention is further directed to accurate det... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5539404 | Digital to analog converter using recursive signal dividing charge coupled devices Analog memories such as CCD, which are advantageous in less power consumption and higher integration density, are used to configure a system for highly accurately executing digital/analog processing. A digital to analog converter according to the inventio... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5524036 | Charge transfer device having charge injection source for reset drain region A charge transfer device having an improved signal stage is disclosed. This stage includes a floating region formed in a semiconductor layer and receiving signal charges from a charge transfer stage, a reset drain region formed in the semiconductor layer ... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5508646 | Controlled feedback charge-to-voltage converter The invention concerns a charge-to-voltage converter including a read diode and a read transistor of no-load gain Go. The converter includes complementary circuits assuring a conversion gain greater than Go during read periods and a ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5432364 | Output circuit device for charge transfer element An output circuit device for detecting and converting signal charge transferred thereto from a charge transfer section of a CCD into a signal voltage his constructed such that a gate oxide film of a driving side MOS transistor of a first stage source foll... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5393971 | Radiation detector and charge transport device for use in signal processing systems having a stepped potential gradient means A charge transport apparatus for use in a signal information system (10) is disclosed. The apparatus includes a detector (18), having a number of radiation sensitive elements (24), for receiving a radiation signal (14) and generating electrical charge res... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5386384 | Parallel CCD memory chip and method of matching therewith A fully parallel CCD memory chip of N address lines which detects in just one clock cycle, a perfect match between an input pattern and any of a plurality of stored patterns and also detects in less than (N+1)-comparison cycles and still just one XOR oper... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5362978 | Method for establishing an electrical field at a surface of a semiconductor device A thinned backside illuminated charge-coupled imaging device has improved quantum efficiency by providing a sharp ion implant distribution profile (20) disposed at the rear surface (22) of the device. The sharp ion implant distribution profile (20) is for... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5294817 | Output circuit for charged transfer device and having a high detection sensitivity In an output circuit for a charge transfer device, a floating diffusion region is connected to a source side gate electrode of a double-gate read-out field effect transistor having its drain side gate electrode connected to the drain of the read-out trans... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5291083 | Bucket brigade analog delay line with voltage limiting feedback A bucket brigade analog delay line with voltage limiting feedback includes an input stage for receiving an input signal and a series of delay stages coupled to the input stage for propagating the input signal through the line. Each delay stage contains a ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5287393 | Charge transfer device equipped with charge signal detector improved in sensitivity as well as in voltage amplification A charge coupled device transfers a charge packet to a floating diffusion region for producing voltage variation therein, and the voltage variation is relayed to an output terminal by means of a driving unit implemented by a plurality of source follower c... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5276723 | Floating diffusion type charge detection circuit for use in charge transfer device A floating diffusion type signal charge detection circuit for use in a charge transfer device includes a charge transfer region formed in a semiconductor layer, a plurality of transfer electrodes formed on the charge transfer region through an insulating ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5247554 | Charge detection circuit A charge detection circuit includes a p-type semiconductor substrate, a reference voltage source for generating a reference voltage having a predetermined voltage difference with respect to the potential of the semiconductor substrate, a first n+ | 09/21/1993 |
