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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7583303 | Imaging device element An imaging device having a hybrid RGBYC color filter using a primary color system RGB filter and a complementary color system YC filter is composed. Four G filters that directly relate to resolution and that is close to a luminance signal that human eyes sense are a... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7542084 | Imaging apparatus for reading images at a set resolution An imaging apparatus for outputting image signals by effecting photoelectric conversion of images formed at an optical system by an image sensor having a color filter array having various spectral transmittance disposed on a front surface thereof includes an image s... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7370972 | Two-dimensional image display device In a two-dimensional image display device, speckle noise is reduced by a simple construction. A two-dimensional image display device for displaying an image by projecting coherent light onto a projection plane is provided with at least one coherent light source (... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372488 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus with horizontal thinning and a signal reading method for the same In a solid-state image pickup apparatus, a solid-state image sensor includes a color filter having filter segments arranged in a pattern, photosensitive cells for photoelectrically transducing light transmitted through the filter segments to generate corresponding s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7352896 | Method for interpolation and sharpening of images A method, a system, a device, a storage means, and a computer software product for sharpening colours in an image, in which a first colour component is interpolated and sharpened in such a way that the effect of the colour component is computed in different directio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339699 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first sensor having a plurality of reading elements arranged in the primary scanning direction, a second sensor disposed in parallel with the first sensor and by a predetermined lines in the secondary scanning direction, an i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7289665 | Image processing device and image processing program An image processing unit of the present invention receives a first image, performs weighted addition on color information in the first image to generate a color component different from that of the color information in the first image, and outputs the generated colo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7269295 | Digital image processing methods, digital image devices, and articles of manufacture Digital image processing methods, digital image devices and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a digital image processing method includes providing digital image data of a plurality of colors of an image, wherein the image data comprises... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262802 | Charge-coupled device sensing apparatus with dual photo sensor sets The invention provides a signal charge-coupled device (CCD) sensing apparatus, including at least one first CCD shift register, one first photo sensor set, and one second photo sensor set. The first CCD shift register includes a plurality of first CCD components and... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| RE39712 | Digital imaging device optimized for color performance A digital imaging device captures an image and generates a color signal from the image for application to an output device having specific color sensitivities, the imaging device further being one of many devices of the same type useful with the output device. The d... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236196 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus for reading out image signals with pixels reduced in a horizontal direction and a signal reading method for the same A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter having an R (red), G (green) and B (blue) vertical stripe pattern. During preliminary pickup, a signal feeding section feeds particular drive signals for reading signal charges out of only odd-numbered col... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235775 | Infrared imaging apparatus for processing emissions in infrared and visible spectrum The infrared imaging apparatus comprises a CCD sensor 13 having sensitivities in the infrared region and visible region; three color filters FR, FG, FB each transmitting visible light in a specific wavelength region and infrared light in a specific wavelength... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7206021 | Hybrid pixel interpolating apparatus and hybrid pixel interpolating method A hybrid pixel interpolating apparatus (1) has a function of converting raw image data (D1) having one color component for each pixel into pixel interpolated data in which each pixel has a plurality of color components. This hybrid pixel interpolating ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7158268 | Digital image scanner with a variable aperture lens and multiple scanning speeds A scanner is provided with a variable aperture lens system. High resolution scans use a relatively small aperture size, and scanning speed is relatively slow. Low resolution scans use a relatively large aperture size, and scanning speed is increased. Fast scans are ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158582 | Digital I/Q modulator having a predistortion An I/Q modulator processes a time-discrete I/Q signal comprising an I component and a Q component. The I/Q signal is based on a sampling frequency which is equal to four times a carrier frequency of a carrier signal onto which the I/Q signal is modulated. A predisto... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7148920 | Solid state image pickup device capable of distinguishing between light sources and image pickup apparatus using such solid state image pickup device There are photographing scenes which are difficult, for a conventional image pickup apparatus having a solid state image pickup device with primary color filters, to correctly judge whether an illumination light source is the sun or a fluorescent lamp. The solid ima... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142233 | Image pickup element To output a color image signal of an arbitrary basic block and facilitate processing on the output side, an image pickup element including a plurality of photodetectors each having a color filter array, a vertical direction selection circuit for selecting in the ver... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7126634 | Image processing system, image pickup apparatus and image processing apparatus The image processing system includes: an image pickup apparatus (10) including image pickup elements of a color difference line sequential system that outputs, as video signals, a luminance signal (Y) and a line sequential, color difference signal (U/V); and ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123297 | Processing a sensor output signal including a clip A signal processing device for a sensor output signal from a sensor covered by a color mask pattern having a plurality of colors, the signal processing device comprising a reconstruction unit (5) for generating a plurality of color signal values (R, G, B) for... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7095438 | Image signal processing device for minimizing false signals at color boundaries An image signal processing device of the present invention includes an RGB-YC conversion for converting color component signals output from a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor to luminance signals and components thereof lying in a high frequency range. The lu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7071978 | Image mosaic data reconstruction This invention relates to the reconstruction of a full colour image from image mosaic data in particular where the image mosaic data is unequally weighted between different colours. The image mosaic is composed of a plurality of image pixels. Each image pixel has on... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068314 | Image pickup apparatus which can eliminate a false color in the spatial frequency band during chromatic signal processing A system according to the present invention reads image pickup signals for all lines from a CCD image sensor and inputs these signals to a delay circuit 20. The system retrieves signals [H0D] to [H5D] for six contiguous lines and sends these sig... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064779 | Imaging system combining multiple still images for higher resolution image output Digital image enhancement techniques and apparatus are provided that increase the effective resolution of a digital imager without requiring an increase in the number of pixel sensors in the digital imager. Multiple images are captured in succession from the digital... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053944 | Method of using hue to interpolate color pixel signals Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of using hue to interpolate color pixel signals includes the following. For a particular pixel location in a subsampled color image, differences in hue are compared for two mutually orthogonal dir... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053940 | Signal processing apparatus, method, program of the method, and storage medium storing the program for interpolating an output color signal from an image sensing device It is an object of this invention to appropriately interpolate an image signal having a frequency close to the Nyquist frequency of an image sensing device. To achieve this object, a signal processing apparatus includes a first interpolation circuit for performing i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046446 | Speckle reduction for display system with electromechanical grating A method for displaying an image including: forming at least three light beams by diffraction at a single linear light modulator, wherein the at least three light beams have substantially equal intensity and are substantially the same color; projecting the at least ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7030916 | Color image pickup apparatus with light source distinguishing function An image pickup system includes photodiodes with color filters. A first color filter group includes visual light color filters, and a second color filter group includes a long red color filter at 640 nm or longer or a color filter at 580 nm and one of the visual lig... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6914628 | Image processing apparatus and method, and medium containing image processing control program Conventionally, in image processing using a smoothing filter, the large amount of calculation for 25× the number of pixels takes much processing time. A computer 21 as the nucleus of image processing determines whether or not a pixel of interest is a color b... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912004 | Method and system for processing images A method and a system for processing images using interpolating. A variation value for different sets of pixels is determined, and the set of pixels with the highest correlation (lowest numeric value) is selected. A missing color at a given pixel is expressed in ter... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6812963 | Focus and exposure measurement in digital camera using charge binning Apparatus and techniques for transferring image signals to readout electronics from image sensors. Electronic charges from multiple photosensitive elements are combined during and after transfer to detection electronics resulting in a greater signal to noise ratio. ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6757015 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus is provided, in which the charges of four pixels that are adjacent in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction are mixed and output, and combinations of pixel mixings in the horizontal direction are changed at each line, so that... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6753906 | Image sensing apparatus utilizing pixel-shifting Two plane parallel plates, orthogonally intersecting each other, are provided in front of a CCD device. The plane parallel plate is supported by its two ends which are deviated from an optical path. Each end of the plane parallel plate includes an armature made of s... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6697109 | Method and system for field sequential color image capture A method of field sequential color image capture includes optically capturing a scene; filtering the scene through an active color filter to product first color components, thereby modifying the spectral transmission of the scene as a function of time; de... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6654056 | Geometric configurations for photosites for reducing Moire patterns Geometric configurations for photosites found on photosensitive chips for creating electrical signals from an original image, as would be found, for example, in a digital scanner, copier, facsimile machine, or other document generating or reproducing devi... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6642964 | Geometric configurations for photosites for reducing moire patterns Geometric configurations for photosites found on photosensitive chips for creating electrical signals from an original image, as would be found, for example, in a digital scanner, copier, printer, facsimile machine, or other document generating or reprodu... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6507876 | Detecting apparatus A plurality of sensor portions detect a variety of physical characteristics of objects to be detected, which are being conveyed on a conveyance passage to asynchronously transmit electric signals indicating results of detection to a processing unit. The p... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6456414 | Sequential color scanner A sequential color scanner capable of generating both two and three dimensional moving color images has only one x- and y-deflection channel. The system includes first, second, and third optical signal generators for generating a first, second, and third ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6346969 | Color filter array and its color interpolation apparatus A color filter array and its signal process circuit in which vertical interpolation process is not needed, which can be applied to the field of image signal input and signal process such as video camera, digital camera and color scanner, and color copier ... | 02/12/2002 |
