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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8045011 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus including an infrared video camera. The infrared video camera includes a sensor array operable to produce successive video images in the form of pixelated two-dimensional images. The imaging apparatus further comprises a processing arrangement o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7746383 | Photodiode CMOS imager with column-feedback soft-reset for imaging under ultra-low illumination and with high dynamic range The present invention provides a CMOS imager with a reset scheme, by which a CMOS imager generates a sub-kTC noise so that read noise does not depend on the sense node capacitance. By using a column feedback circuit, reset noise can be suppressed to a negligible amo... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7436442 | Low light sensor signal to noise improvement A number of different elements are added together in a staggered way to avoid the total loss of resolution caused by the binning process. The circuit for doing this includes a variable gain. In a second circuit for carrying this out, to fixed pattern noise reduction... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7369174 | Helmet-mounted thermal imaging system An improved thermal imaging camera system is adapted to be releasably mounted to a protective helmet typically worn by a firefighter or other emergency personnel at an incident site. The present system comprises a thermal imaging camera assembly having a single eyep... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7355705 | Using a fixed-frequency oscillation in a dispersive spectrometer to measure scene inhomogeneity A method for measuring scene inhomogeneity includes the steps of directing radiance of a scene into a dispersive spectrometer, and changing the field-of-view (FOV) of the spectrometer, while directing the radiance of the scene into the spectrometer. The method then ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348531 | Photoelectric conversion device and image pickup device using electron emission devices Disclosed is an image pickup device capable of greatly reducing delay in drive signals supplied to field emission devices, and cross-talk and the like that originate in these drive signals. The image pickup device comprises a photoelectric conversion film for receiv... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340767 | Camera apparatus, image server and image server system An image server includes: a focus position control unit for determining a focus position based on a maximum value of focus evaluation detected by a picture signal level detection unit; and a focus lens driver for moving the focus lens in predetermined control volume... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327396 | Smart camera with a plurality of slots for modular expansion capability through a variety of function modules connected to the smart camera A smart camera with modular expansion capabilities, including a housing, a camera directly attached to the housing for acquiring an image of an object, a functional unit comprised in the housing and coupled to the camera, where the functional unit is configurable to... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310113 | Camera for automatically adjusting image brightness for an image on a display Image signals outputted from a CCD to an image signal processing circuit, which performs A/D conversion, YC signal processing to convert the image signals into video signals of NTSC or the like and outputs video signals after D/A conversion. A microcomputer receives... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307793 | Fusion night vision system A fusion night vision system having image intensification and thermal imaging capabilities includes an edge detection filter circuit to aid in acquiring and identifying targets. An outline of the thermal image is generated and combined with the image intensification... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7297924 | Imaging device with focus switching means for day and night vision An optronic observation device including a detector having a photocathode and a sensor arranged to receive an incident light beam. The device also including a switch to position an optical element opposite the detector in the pathway of the incident beam or to retra... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7265785 | Imaging apparatus and method that provide high resolution under low illumination without substantial S/N degradation An imaging apparatus provides minimal S/N degradation with a high resolution at low illumination. The imaging apparatus includes a CCD, a gain adjusting section, an LPF for performing smoothing on an output signal of the gain adjusting section, and a control section... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7239344 | Camera and device for switching optical filters To provide an optical filter switching device for a camera in which a clear image can always be obtained during the day and at night. In a cameral in which an image is formed on an image pick-up element (2) through a lens (1a) provided on... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236697 | Device for driving light emitting diode for flash of camera Disclosed herein is a device for driving a LED for a flash of a camera, such as a digital camera or a camera of a mobile phone, which is capable of driving the LED in two modes to reduce power consumption. The LED drive device comprises the LED, a continuous low cur... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7224396 | Still image pickup device and pickup method The present invention concerns a digital still camera (1). This camera carries out a framing process by using an infrared pick-up image and a visible light photographing by using a flash or a low speed shutter in a still image pick-up process. Upon automatic ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7173237 | Ruggedized digital low-light viewing device A digital low-light viewing device comprises a housing having a first end and an opposing second end, the first end defining an optical input aperture and the second end defining an optical output aperture; an infra-red camera assembly responsive to low intensity li... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7158323 | Apparatus for switching optical low pass filters for use in optical instrument Disclosed is an optical filter switching apparatus used in an optical instrument for converting externally input image information into video image information and outputting the video image information. The apparatus comprises: an optical filter holding section hol... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154547 | Solid-state image sensor having control cells for developing signals for image-shooting control under poor illumination A solid-state image sensor and a digital cameral capable of executing accurate image-shooting adjustment even in a low illumination environment. A charge coupled device type of image sensor includes red, green and blue pixel cells provided with color filter segments... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139474 | Mobile equipment and mobile phone with shooting function Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illumi... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136095 | Digital image system and method for noise compensation For a digital imaging device having automatic gain control, a system and method have been provided for noise compensation in low-light conditions. The method comprises: receiving digital image information; compressing the image information; supplying the compressed ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7114846 | Two-color radiation thermometer A two-color radiation thermometer includes an image pickup device having micro photo receiving units arranged two-dimensionally; a light diverging device for diverging incident light coming from a measuring object into two paths and irradiating the light on two diff... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7097318 | Mobile phone provided with lighting, lighting control method and lighting control program A mobile phone provided with lighting devices capable of capturing not only a still image but also a moving image in the dark. When a user sets the lighting of a light emitting section to ON at the time of capturing an image, the light emitting section is controlled... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7085489 | Mobile device and mobile telephone device having imaging function Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illumi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076162 | Mobile equipment and mobile phone with shooting function Mobile equipment includes LEDs supplied with a current to emit red light, green light and blue light, FETs and a booster circuit for controlling the current supplied. The current supplied is controlled to supply all of the LED with a current of a low level to illumi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7057645 | Camera system that compensates low luminance by composing multiple object images In a digital camera using an image pickup device such as CCD, a high resolution and properly exposed image is obtained by composition a plurality of image data of the same object taken by a plurality of image pickup operation when a luminance of the object is lower.... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7006741 | Contact-field optical microscope A broad-spectrum, high spatial and time resolution contact-field optical microscope comprises a fiber optical taper, a vacuum chamber, a photocathode, a magnetic lens photoelectron image enlarger, a micro-channel plate image intensifier, a phosphor screen and a CCD.... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6989867 | CCD camera daytime/nighttime control A controlling method for a CCD camera in which a photographing area is divided into a number of cell regions, the illumination of each cell regions is detected, and the photographing mode of a camera is switched to a daytime or nighttime mode on the basis of the det... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6969855 | Active night vision thermal control system A thermal control system (11) for a light source (46) of a vision system (10) includes a heater (63) that is thermally coupled to the light source (46). A thermal sensor (60) is thermally coupled to the light source (46 | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961086 | Photographing apparatus for correcting white balance of an image signal and a color correction coefficient of image data A photographing apparatus provided with a picture-taking device which photographs a subject, includes a transmission type chart to be attached to the photographing apparatus and having at least a chromatic color portion; a storage device which stores a color reprodu... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6947086 | Imaging method and apparatus for imaging with low incident radiation The invention relates to a method of reading out the sensor elements of a sensor (1) with a matrix of light-sensitive or X-ray-sensitive sensor elements (S1,2; S1,2 . . . ) which are arranged in rows and columns and generate charges in d... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6931668 | Headmount apparatus for attaching and supporting devices A headmount apparatus for mounting vision enhancement equipment thereon which is comprised of a mounting shell having at least one pad and having at least one mounting surface to which the vision enhancing equipment is mounted, where at least one pad is configured t... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6919919 | Light calibration device for use in low level light imaging systems The invention describes systems and methods for calibrating a low-level light imaging system. Techniques described herein employ a light calibration device that is placed within a low level light imaging box to calibrate the system and its constituent components suc... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6903770 | Digital camera which produces a single image based on two exposures A digital camera includes a CCD imager having an interline transfer scheme. A first charge produced due to first exposure is read from light receiving elements positioned vertically intermittently. A second charge produced due to second exposure is also read from th... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6765613 | Low light sensor signal to noise improvement A number of different elements are added together in a staggered way to avoid the total loss of resolution caused by the binning process. The circuit for doing this includes a variable gain. In a second circuit for carrying this out, to fixed pattern noise reduction... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6744471 | Electronic camera that synthesizes two images taken under different exposures Disclosed herein is an electronic camera for generating an image having a wide dynamic range by synthesizing two image pickup signals of different exposure amount generated by using an electronic shutter function and means for shutting off light, shading of image pi... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6720996 | Imaging apparatus In order to provide an imaging apparatus that uses an electron-bombarded multiplying tube with an internal solid imaging device with a long life, improved S/N ratio, high resolution, and moreover high sensitivity, an electron-bombarded multiplying tube with a photoc... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6603507 | Method for controlling a light source in a night vision surveillance system A method for controlling a light source in a night vision system is provided. The method first computes a pulse width Tp =2(d-d1)/c, where c is the light speed, according to parameters of a desired observing distance d and a shortest... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6518998 | Image quality by automatically changing the black level of a video signal A video camera and imaging system having signal processing circuitry configured to change the black level (pedestal) of a video signal in response to comparing an overall system gain (for instance, a gain value and the electronic exposure time of the imag... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6344874 | Imaging system using a data transmitting light source for subject illumination The invention provides an imaging system including a camera with an image sensor sensitive to light and a light emitter with the camera to transmit image data from the camera. It includes a controller to control the light emitter to illuminate a subject i... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6307586 | Electron bombarded active pixel sensor camera incorporating gain control A camera includes a photocathode operable in a night mode wherein electrons are generated in response to incident light, an active pixel sensor including an array of pixels for sensing electrons in the night mode, a power supply for energizing the photoca... | 10/23/2001 |
