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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7907194 | Imaging apparatus and gain adjusting method for the same An imaging apparatus 1A includes an electron multiplying solid-state image pickup device which has an electron multiplier section for multiplying charge signals generated in respective pixels; a multiplication gain setting part 41 for setting a multipl... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7760251 | Solid-state imaging device and manufacturing method thereof The present invention aims to provide a solid-state imaging device that enables miniaturization of camera while maintaining the level of electrostatic damage resistance in the solid-state imaging device, and includes: an imaging unit 100 that transfers signal... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7414655 | Charge-coupled device having multiple readout paths for multiple outputs An image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in at least two sub-arrays; first and second delay areas respectively connected to each sub-array for respectively receiving charge from the sub-array; wherein a pitch of the first delay area is different fro... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408683 | Image sensor for reading image and image reading apparatus including the image sensor An image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a main scanning direction, a plurality of switching elements connected to respective ones of the photoelectric conversion elements, individually, and a controller for generating a... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362361 | Noise suppressing circuit using luminance detection A technique of achieving optimal noise suppression with respect to a video signal whose noise amount differs according to brightness is disclosed, and according to the technique, a low-luminance detecting section 18 detects a video signal of a relatively low ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7332930 | Noise canceller circuit A noise canceller circuit capable of suppressing power supply noise, produced by transition of a data signal, even in case a data signal is increased in speed. The noise canceller circuit includes an output buffer 20 for outputting a first binary signal that ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7301574 | Charge coupled device for outputting image data A solid-state imaging element comprising a plurality of light-receiving sensors that convert optical signals into electrical signals and a memory storing the electrical signals. The memory is formed of a plurality of line buffers corresponding to the pixel units pro... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289146 | Solid state image pickup device In an image reading apparatus using a solid state image pickup element, a smear amount and the total received light amount at whole image taking region of the CCD linear sensor when a light source is turned on without film, are measured and calculated. Using ... | 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 |
| 7274321 | Analog to digital converter A analog to digital converter, comprising: an input for receiving an input signal to be digitized; a first converter core for performing a first part of an analog to digital conversion, and for outputting a first digital result; a first residue calculator for calcul... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7224389 | Method to adjust the signal level of an active pixel and corresponding active pixel An active pixel comprises a sensor circuit for collecting radiation induced charges and transducing them to a measurement signal corresponding to the amount of charge collected, and a capacitor element with two nodes, where the measurement signal is present on a nod... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7206020 | Adaptive white defect signal correction method and image-pickup apparatus using the method An adaptive white defect correction method and an image-pickup apparatus implementing the method. Pixel data on lines located above and below a white defect pixel are judged according to a predetermined algorithm to determine which of a plurality of previously suppo... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7187409 | Level difference correcting method and image pick-up device using the method An OB level difference is calculated from the luminance signal levels of at least two frames which are exposed for proper exposure time and for exposure time different from the proper exposure time, and the OB level difference is corrected in an input step of a sign... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7173656 | Method and apparatus for processing digital pixel output signals Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a digital camera includes: a digital imaging array including a plurality of pixels, and image processing circuitry to process the digital pixel output signals produced by the imaging array. The imaging pro... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7145600 | Image pickup apparatus having a plurality of CCDs, charge detecting circuits, and A/D conversion circuits An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup element formed on a single semiconductor chip, the solid-state image pickup element including photoelectric conversion units arranged two-dimensionally, a plurality of CCDs for transferring charges genera... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138617 | Solid-state image pickup device and output method thereof A solid-state image pickup device has a differential output configuration for an output stage thereof and an IC in a next stage has a differential amplifier configuration for an input stage thereof. An output buffer unit buffers and outputs a digital signal from a h... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7113212 | Solid state imaging device, signal processing method and driving method therefor and camera A solid state imaging device and a signal processing method therefor as well as a camera by which a reference signal for cancellation of vertical string-like fixed pattern noises can be obtained readily. In an initial stage after a power supply to the device is made... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106373 | Method for increasing dynamic range of a pixel by multiple incomplete reset A method is disclosed for obtaining a read-out signal of a pixel having at least a photosensitive element with a charge storage node. Charge carriers are converted from radiation impinging on the photosensitive element. While acquiring charge carriers on said charge... | 09/12/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7075475 | Correlated double sampling modulation system with reduced latency of reference to input A charge balancing modulation system for digitizing the output of a variable impedance sensor utilizes synchronous excitation of the input sensor and AC coupling of the analog input signal. In one embodiment, the modulation system includes a switched excitation sour... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071977 | Solid-state image sensing device When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068313 | Method and arrangement for processing measurement data The invention applies to the binning procedure of data, which is measured with a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) sensor unit. There is created a solution for measurement of radiation, in which a good signal-to-noise value is achieved, and still it is possible to exploit... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064786 | Substrate electrical bounce compensation circuitry for digital cinematography image capture cameras A charge coupled device (CCD) circuit employing substrate electrical bounce compensation circuitry that is particularly useful in a cinematography digital image capture cameras. An exemplary CCD circuit comprises a CCD array having a substrate that is coupled to an ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7015960 | Image sensor that uses a temperature sensor to compensate for dark current An image sensor that has a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor senses the temperature of a pixel array of the image sensor. The sensed temperature is used to scale a dark frame image generated by the pixel array. The scaled dark frame image is subtracted from... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6977682 | Solid-state imaging device A current signal corresponding to the amount of incident light detected by a photoelectric conversion device 13 is inputted to and integrated by an integrator circuit 30, whereby a voltage signal is outputted from the integrator circuit 30. When... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6963367 | Image pickup apparatus To obtain a high-quality image, there is provided an image pickup apparatus having a plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion unit for converting an optical signal from an object into an electrical signal and a read unit for reading out the signal fr... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6950133 | Method of detecting defective pixels of a solid-state image-pickup device and image-pickup apparatus using the same A defective pixel detecting method and an image-pickup apparatus having a plurality of solid-state image-pickup devices each receiving respective one of spectral lights obtained by separating light incident to the image-pickup apparatus, generating, for each spectra... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6940548 | Analog optical black clamping circuit for a charge coupled device having wide programmable gain range An image processing apparatus (200) for a charge coupled device including analog front end circuitry having optical black and offset correction, whereby the offset and optical black correction circuit is programmable. The present invention includes a first ci... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6930722 | Amplification type image pickup apparatus and method of controlling the amplification type image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus comprising an array of unit cells, vertical signal lines, and a control circuit. The unit cells are arranged in rows and columns. Each unit cell has a light-receiving device for receiving light and generating an electric charge correspondin... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6917029 | Four-component pixel structure leading to improved image quality Pixel structures and a read-out method of pixels are disclosed. The pixel structures and the read-out method improve the image quality of imaging devices or imaging sensors based on such pixels. A pixel comprises in a parallel circuit configuration a radiation sensi... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6862041 | Circuit for processing charge detecting signal having FETS with commonly connected gates A circuit for processing charge detecting signals transferred to a floating diffusion amplifier from a charge coupled device includes a first node connected to the floating diffusion amplifier; a first enhancement type FET connected in series between a first fixed-v... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6861634 | CMOS active pixel sensor with a sample and hold circuit having multiple injection capacitors and a fully differential charge mode linear synthesizer with skew control An CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) imaging system include circuitry to compensate for different analog offset levels from the CMOS pixel array. More specifically, the compensation is performed in the analog (charge) domain. A digital correction value, which may be me... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6806901 | Controlling the range and resolution of offset correction applied to the output of a charge coupled device An offset correction circuit which enables a designer to control the correction range irrespective of the amplification sought to be achieved to the image component of the input signal. The offset correction further enables the designer to perform offset correction ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6803952 | Signal readout circuit of an amplification type solid-state imaging device An amplification type solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region including a plurality of amplification type photo-electric conversion elements arranged in a matrix array, vertical signal lines for transmitting a pixel signal and a reference signal for each ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6795118 | Testing of solid-state image sensors An image sensor testing system is described. The system includes a differencing element, first and second comparators, and a counter. The differencing element is arranged to provide a difference value between a given pixel value and a pixel stream value. The first c... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6791607 | Optical black and offset correction in CCD signal processing An image processing apparatus for a charge coupled device including analog front end circuitry having optical black and offset correction, whereby the an offset and optical black correction circuit has a digitally programmable bandwidth is disclosed herein. The imag... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6778215 | Driving method of solid-state image pickup device and image pickup system Defective sweep occurs when strong light enters, i.e., a quantity of input light increases, and smear and blooming components increase during an exposure period because a quantity of unnecessary charge to be swept during a sweep-out transfer period of a first field ... | 08/17/2004 |
