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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188417 | Light detecting device In a photodetecting device 3, a wiring board 12 is provided at the front surface side of a photodetecting element 11 so that a first bonding pad region 15 formed on the front surface of the photodetecting element 11 is exposed, and... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188416 | Engineered phantoms for perfusion imaging applications In various embodiments, microengineered phantoms with microvascular networks serve as calibration standards for perfusion imaging systems. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8183510 | Image sensor with buried self aligned focusing element An image sensor includes an optical sensor region, a stack of dielectric and metal layers, and an embedded layer. The optical sensor is disposed within a semiconductor substrate. The stack of dielectric and metal layers are disposed on the front side of the semicond... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8168933 | Method for forming image sensor with shield structures An image sensor having shield structures and methods of forming the same are provided. Generally, the image sensor includes: (i) substrate having at least one photosensitive element formed therein; (ii) a dielectric layer overlying the substrate and the photosensiti... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168932 | Semiconductor image sensor module, method for manufacturing the same as well as camera and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor image sensor module and a method for manufacturing thereof as well as a camera and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided in which a semiconductor image sensor chip and an image signal processing chip are connected with a minimum parasitic r... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164039 | Method and apparatus for detecting spiculated masses in mammography A method and apparatus detects one or more spiculated masses in an image using a processor. The image is received in the processor. The received image is filtered using one or more Gaussian filters to detect one or more central mass regions. The received image is al... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8158919 | Image capturing system, image capturing method, and computer readable medium An image capturing system includes an image capturing section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements configured to receive light in a first wavelength range and light in a second wavelength range, a control section that controls the light in the secon... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158921 | Dual conversion gain gate and capacitor combination An imaging device comprising a plurality of photosensors, a shared diffusion region for receiving charge generated by the photosensors, and a dual conversion gain element that can be selectively coupled to the shared diffusion region to increase a conversion gain of... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158920 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus and imaging system A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprises: a plurality of pixels; a signal line; a holding block; an output unit; and a control unit, wherein the control unit selectively operates the holding block in a first mode or a second mode, the first mode being a mode i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153946 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a light-receiving element which is connected to a negative power supply and generates conductive carriers by receiving light, an amplifier transistor which is a depletion transistor and amplifies an electrical signal obtained by the c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153947 | Pixel circuit for global electronic shutter An image sensor formed of an array of pixels, each pixel including a photodiode coupled between a first reference voltage and a first switch, the first switch being operable to connect the photodiode to a first node; a capacitor arranged to store a charge accumulate... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153948 | Systems for image acquisition Image acquisition systems utilizing a pixilated transducer. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148671 | Proximity-type imaging device and imaging filter A proximity-type imaging device includes an image sensor and an angle limiting filter. The image sensor performs photoelectric conversion for light transmitted from a subject using plural pixels, so as to capture the subject. The angle limiting filter includes a tra... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143565 | Adjustable multimode lightfield imaging system having an actuator for changing position of a non-homogeneous filter module relative to an image-forming optical module An adjustable multimode lightfield imaging system. A non-homogeneous filter module is positioned at the aperture plane of the lightfield imaging system and provides the multimode capability. The filter module can be moved relative to the imaging system, thus allowin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138461 | Integrated circuit device and imaging apparatus using integrated circuit device An integrated circuit device of the present invention includes a plurality of signal processing circuits classified into a plurality of groups, each signal processing circuit including an amplifier circuit for amplifying an input electric signal and a bias circuit h... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138462 | Resetting a row driven imager pixel An imaging system includes a pixel that does not require a row select transistor. Instead, an operating voltage is selectively provided to the pixel's readout circuitry, and the readout circuitry provides output signals based on charge or voltage of a storage node. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134109 | Optical projection engine device having a polarizing beam splitter and a control providing modulation instructions to modulation imagers An optical projection engine device uses a symmetrical wire grid polarizing beam splitter (PBS) that splits incident illumination to a symmetrical pair of polarized light beams in two orthogonal polarization states, one by reflection and the other by transmission, f... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134110 | Solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device manufacturing method A solid-state imaging device 1 includes: a semiconductor substrate 11 on which pixels are placed like a matrix; and each of the pixels having a photoelectric conversion element 13 and a color filter layer 21 which is formed on the photoel... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129670 | Optical vector matrix multipliers Improved optical vector matrix multipliers are disclosed. The multipliers comprise: a plurality of light sources, each operable to radiate light of intensity ui; fan-out optics arranged to expand the light radiated by the light sources in one dimension; a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8119966 | Solid-state image pickup device suppressing power consumption in case of increase in imaging pixels or speed by controlling imaging A/D converting circuit by signal from low power triggering A/D converting circuit The solid-state image pickup device 1 includes an imaging region 10, a triggering photosensitive region 20, a row selecting section 30, a column selecting section 40, a voltage holding section 50, an output section 60... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119967 | Semiconductor image sensor array device, apparatus comprising such a device and method for operating such a device A method of using a line-scan sensor device to scan an image includes determining and removing. The device includes sensor cells arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. The determining includes determining when a pixel signal value from a pixel in a first row and ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119965 | Image sensor having two light receiving elements and camera module having the image sensor An image sensor able to capture an image with a suitable dynamic range even in a case where a bright/dark difference within an imaging range is large is provided. An image sensor 1 is provided with a substrate 2, a plurality of first photodiodes 5 | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119968 | Multifunctional rear view mirror mounted device for bicycles which provides display information A multifunctional safety, information and comfort device to be mounted on a vehicle, preferably a bicycle, comprises a rear-view mirror, an alphanumeric and iconographic display, sensors for measuring kinetic and environmental parameters, electronic components for m... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119969 | Imaging device and method for high-sensitivity optical scanning and integrated circuit therefor An inspection system includes a CMOS integrated circuit having integrally formed thereon an at least two dimensional array of photosensors and providing an inspection output representing an object to be inspected. A defect analyzer is operative to receive the inspec... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115154 | Solid-state imaging device, method of producing the same, and imaging device A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel portion having a photoelectric conversion portion and a peripheral circuit portion; a first sidewall composed of a sidewall film and disposed on each sidewall of gate electrodes of MOS... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115155 | 4 transistors 4 shared step and repeat unit cell and 4 transistors 4 shared image sensor including the unit cells A 4T-4S step & repeat unit cell obtained by combining four image sensor unit cells each including four transistors and a 4T-4S image sensor including the 4T-4S step & repeat unit cell are provided. The 4T-4S step & repeat unit cell includes first and second shared i... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115156 | Optical condition design method for a compound-eye imaging device An imaginary object plane is set in front of an imaging device body (plane setting step). A part of optical conditions of optical lenses are changed as variables, and positions of points (pixel observation points) on the imaginary object plane where lights coming fr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115152 | Method of operating a photoconductor in an imaging system, and read-out circuit employing an AC-biased photoconductor A photoconductor read out circuit includes a biasing signal generator connected to apply an alternating current biasing signal to a first terminal of the photoconductor. An input capacitance connected to a second terminal of the photoconductor stores charge applied ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115157 | Row driven imager pixel An imaging system includes a pixel that does not require a row select transistor. Instead, an operating voltage is selectively provided to the pixel's readout circuitry, and the readout circuitry provides output signals based on charge or voltage of a storage node. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115158 | Device and method for the demodulation of modulated electromagnetic wave fields A new pixel in semiconductor technology comprises a photo-sensitive detection region (1) for converting an electromagnetic wave field into an electric signal of flowing charges, a separated demodulation region (2) with at least two output nodes (D10... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115153 | Solid state imaging device with mode selection, method of driving solid state imaging device, and image pickup apparatus A solid-state imaging device which includes a pixel unit, a plurality of pixels in the pixel unit which are two dimensionally arranged in rows and columns and each include a photoelectric conversion element and a reset element, a driver unit which sequentially appli... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115159 | Solid-state image pickup device including a common phase feedback circuit, a method of driving the same, a signal processing method for the same, and image pickup apparatus A solid-state image pickup device including: a pixel array portion; a differential circuit; a reset voltage supplying section; and a common phase feedback circuit. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110787 | Image sensor with a reflective waveguide An image sensor having shield structures and methods of forming the same are provided. Generally, the image sensor includes: (i) substrate having at least one photosensitive element formed therein; (ii) a dielectric layer overlying the substrate and the photosensiti... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110788 | Method and device for detecting weak optical signals An optical detection device is disclosed. The device comprises a photoelectric unit, configured to sense incoming photons and to produce electrical signals pertaining to at least a few of the photons within a plurality of temporally resolved time-windows; an analog-... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106342 | Solid-state image capturing device and electronic information device A solid-state image capturing device includes a multilayer wiring layer to open regions above a plurality of respective light receiving sections for performing photoelectric conversion on incident light to generate a signal charge; a color filter of each color provi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106344 | Compound eye camera module A compound eye camera module according to the present invention includes a lens array including at least two lenses; an imaging element having two imaging areas corresponding to the two lenses; a light shielding block having a light shielding wall for separating opt... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106343 | Image sensing system interposing light shielding portion between color filter and pixel arrays An image sensing apparatus includes a pixel array, a first color filter, a second color filter, and a light shielding portion. The amount of electric charges generated in a first pixel after light of a first wavelength enters the first pixel is larger than that of e... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101899 | Image pickup apparatus An apparatus includes pixels each having a transistor that transfers a charge of a photoelectric conversion unit, an amplification unit that receives the transferred charge, a scanning unit that supplies, to the transistor, a conductive pulse, a non-conductive pulse... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097839 | Radiation image processing apparatus for removing periodic patterns caused by a scattered radiation removing means A filter processing means removes periodic patterns caused by a scattered radiation removing means from radiation images, which are obtained by detecting radiation that has passed through the scattered radiation removing means with a radiation detector. The filter p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093541 | Anti-blooming protection of pixels in a pixel array for multiple scaling modes Circuits and methods of generating control signals for transistors in a pixel row of a pixel array are disclosed. The circuits include a transfer transistor control signal row driver that includes a plurality of output branches and a reset transistor control signal ... | 01/10/2012 |
