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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7995122 | Solid-state image capturing device, smear charge removing method and digital still camera using the same In a solid-state image capturing device including a pixel array arranged in a row direction and a column direction orthogonal thereto, and a vertical register having a plurality of transfer electrodes which serves to read signal charges Qa, Qb, . . . generated by li... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990442 | Image pickup device and noise reduction method thereof An image pickup device having an electron multiplying-charge coupled device includes a control unit for controlling an electron multiplication factor of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; an obtaining unit for obtaining signals output from predetermined... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7944489 | Solid-state image-capturing device, driving method thereof, camera electric charge transfer device, driving method and driving device for driving load, and electronic equipment A solid-state image-capturing device which has built in an image-capturing area including a light receiving element provided on a semiconductor substrate, a substrate bias circuit, and a clamp circuit for receiving output of the substrate bias circuit and applying t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7804534 | Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate in the form of a two-dimensional array so as to comprise a plurality of sets, each comprisi... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796170 | Solid-state imaging device with enhanced pixel thinning out configuration and method for driving same A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging unit, a charge control unit, and a horizontal transfer unit. The imaging unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged into a matrix for performing photoelectric conversion, and a plurality of vertical transfer units a... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7733393 | Digital camera comprising smear removal function A horizontal evaluation data generation section calculates an average value of pixel signals in a vertical optical black region based on given pixel data in the horizontal optical black region and outputs the calculated average value to an evaluation section. A vert... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7710473 | Smear-corrective device A smear-correcting device that corrects a smear of an image signal from a CCD having photoelectric conversion elements including a smear-correcting photoelectric conversion element, is provided and includes: a determining section determining whether a smear componen... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7630007 | Driving method for solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device According to the invention, a driving method for a solid-state imaging device includes: a first holding step of holding electric charges which cause smear and are obtained from incident light in a first holding unit, in a previous field period which appears temporal... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7616239 | Method and apparatus for correcting smear in a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device A method for driving a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device, wherein the charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device comprises: high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements for executing photoelectric conversion with relatively high ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7428013 | Electronic camera having solid-state image pickup device PDs and vertical CCDs are formed on CCD. A control unit drives the CCD by one of a first image pickup mode for executing an exposure and reading the electric charges on the vertical CCDs and transferring those, and a second image pickup mode for setting an electric ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7375750 | Solid-state image capturing device, smear charge removing method and digital still camera using the same In a solid-state image capturing device including a pixel array arranged in a row direction and a column direction orthogonal thereto, and a vertical register having a plurality of transfer electrodes which serves to read signal charges Qa, Qb, . . . generated by li... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7336305 | Solid-state image capturing device, smear correcting method thereof and digital still camera using the same In a solid-state image capturing device 100 comprising pixel arrays 11r, 11g and 11b arranged in a row direction and a column direction which is orthogonal thereto and a vertical register 12 including a plurali... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7289155 | Automatic exposure control apparatus and method An automatic exposure (“AE”), control apparatus to prevent exposure errors resulting from “smear.” Image-capturing is performed at a single exposure time TI (I=1, 2, . . . n); a CCD output is applied with a CCD drive signal to perform an integrating operatio... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277128 | Image-sensing device having a plurality of output channels An image-sensing device has pixel areas for outputting CCD signals of plural channels, and an adjusting portion for adjusting a level of each channel of the CCD signals outputted from the pixel area. A first channel CCD signal is provided from a pixel area 11... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7247898 | Self adjusting transfer gate APS An active pixel sensor circuit comprising a photodiode, a storage node, and a transfer gate between the photodiode and storage node, where the potential barrier between the photodiode and the storage region is maintained during charge accumulation, thereby preventin... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242426 | Digital still camera for recording images in high and low sensitivity modes The present invention provides a digital still camera that can read high quality image data from a solid state image pickup device in both the low and the high sensitivity modes. The digital still camera according to the present invention includes shooting mode sele... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7218351 | Image-sensing apparatus for compensating video signal of a plurality of channels An image-sensing apparatus for compensating video signal of a plurality of channels, adds an electric charge of a pilot signal on a signal vertically transferred in an image-sensing device 11. A pixel area of the image-sensing device 11 is divided into... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218346 | Method for driving solid-state image pickup device A method to overcome a disadvantage that the signal charges decrease depending upon the storage time in a photo-electric conversion unit of a solid-state image pickup device. At the moment t2 when a prescribed exposure time (t1−t2)... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7204416 | System and method for uncontrolled velocity scanning Disclosed are systems and methods which provide for scanning of information, such as characters or symbols, without requiring a controlled scan velocity. Preferred embodiments utilize an optical sensor in detecting attributes of information scanned and implement com... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193650 | Image sensing apparatus The level of smear charge stored in a CCD is calculated. If the smear level is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, exposure is performed using a mechanical shutter in order to suppress smear. If the smear level is less than the threshold value,... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7167204 | Automatic exposure control apparatus and method An automatic exposure (“AE”), control apparatus to prevent exposure errors resulting from “smear.” Image-capturing is performed at a single exposure time TI (I=1, 2, . . . n); a CCD output is applied with a CCD drive signal to perform an integrating operatio... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156311 | System and method for decoding and analyzing barcodes using a mobile device The present invention discloses a system and method for decoding barcodes using mobile device. Generally, the barcode image is acquired via a digital camera attached to the mobile device. After the barcode image has been acquired, software located on the mobile devi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154552 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus for generating an image signal by adding outputs corresponding to two types of light receiving pixels having different storage time of information charges Two types of image signals are obtained from a solid-state image pickup device in a frame transfer system and subject to signal processing so as to extend the dynamic range. Two types of mutually different image signals are obtained from a solid-state image pickup d... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7119839 | High resolution CMOS circuit using a matched impedance output transmission line Image sensor with CMOS output, an another circuit receiving input. The circuit operates like a transmission line, in current mode, with substantially zero voltage. The impedances are matched by setting bias currents. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7102680 | Image pickup device capable of adjusting the overflow level of the sensor based on the read out mode The driving device of a solid-state imaging device comprises a driving unit for driving the solid-state imaging device in either an addition driving mode in which a plurality of pixels are added and read as a single pixel or a non-addition driving mode, and a substr... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7053948 | Solid-state image pickup device with discharge gate operable in an arbitrary timing A solid-state image pickup device has a discharge gate and a discharge drain provided adjacent to a connection of a vertical CCD and a horizontal CCD so that charges accumulated for an arbitrary pixel can be completely depleted. Data can be read at an arbitrary deci... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028902 | Barcode having enhanced visual quality and systems and methods thereof A barcode with enhanced visual quality may be used with an item such as a document. The barcode includes a background field having an embedded graphic. The background caries data related to the item. The embedded graphic may obscure some background data. A bar codin... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6965361 | Method of manufacture of active matrix addressed polymer LED display A display having a plurality of light emitting pixels. Each pixels includes an isolation transistor, a driving circuit, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The driving circuit storing a value that determines the magnitude of the light emitted by that pixels,... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6946694 | Gate oxide film structure for a solid state image pick-up device In a solid-state image pick-up device in which a photoelectric converting section formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate oxide film of a transfer path of a charge coupled device (CCD) which is close to the photoelectric converting section are constituted by ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947087 | Solid-state imaging device with dynamic range control A solid-state imaging device includes unit cells, arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, each having a photodiode for photoelectrically converting incident light to store signal charges, a readout transistor Td for reading out the signal charges and amplifying tr... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6927434 | Providing current to compensate for spurious current while receiving signals through a line Circuits, methods, and systems are disclosed in which a current is provided to compensate for spurious current while receiving signals through a line. For example, the spurious current can be sensed and the compensating current can be approximately equal to the sens... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6914627 | Method and apparatus for digital column fixed pattern noise canceling for a CMOS image sensor The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for reading out signals from a MOS image sensor. The invention allows for a relatively high fixed pattern noise canceling rate, even in low light environments. The invention includes a digital processing st... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909126 | Imager cell with pinned transfer gate An imager cell includes a photoreceptor, a sense node, and a pinned transfer gate. The pinned transfer gate is tied to the same potential of a substrate of the imager cell and is disposed between the photoreceptor and the sense node in order to transfer charge betwe... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6888570 | Image pickup device and exposure control method in the image pickup device An image pickup device comprises a CCD solid-state imaging element composed of a charge accumulation section and a charge transfer section, a CCD driver for driving the imaging element, a mechanical shutter for switching between the transmitting state and shading st... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6798450 | Apparatus and method for reducing smear in digital images captured using frame-transfer CCD sensor An apparatus and method for reducing smear in electronic images utilizes estimated smear signals to remove components in the image signals of the electronic images that are attributable to the smear. The estimated smear signals correspond to the smear components of ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6631217 | Image processor An image processor includes unit pixel circuits, each circuit outputting a pixel value, according to incident light, to an output line; and read circuits in each row and each column, each of which can read out a pixel value of each unit pixel circuit and ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6614472 | Solid state image pickup device driving method, measurement method and measurement apparatus There has been raised a problem of how to make the measurement of characteristics of a solid state image pickup device easy to carry out, to shorten the measurement time and to increase the measurement accuracy. In order to solve the problem described abo... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6266087 | Circuit and technique for smear subtraction in CCD image sensors The image sensing device includes an image sensing area 22 having an antiblooming drain structure; and a frame memory area 24 coupled to the image sensing area 22 for storing charge from the image sensing area, wherein during charge integration, the antib... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6249314 | Solid-state imaging apparatus having a solid-state imaging device and a signal processing circuit and method for driving the solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and a signal processing circuit. The solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric converting sections provided with color filters having different spectroscopic cha... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6215520 | Solid state image pickup apparatus capable of improving smear characteristics and increasing dynamic range and having high charge transfer efficiency In a CCD type solid state image pickup apparatus including two-dimensionally arranged photodiodes, a plurality of vertical transfer registers, and at least one horizontal transfer register, at least two different signal charges of each column of the photo... | 04/10/2001 |
