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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7554586 | System and method for scene image acquisition and spectral estimation using a wide-band multi-channel image capture A system and method for multi-spectral image capture of a first scene includes acquiring a first series of images of the first scene with one or more image acquisition systems and filtering each of the first series of images of the scene with a different non-interfe... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7373120 | Mobile communication terminal A mobile communication terminal which includes a plurality of lights, apparatus for controlling the activation of the lights, apparatus for storing a number of sequences of activation of the lights, and apparatus for assigning one of the stored sequences of the acti... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7333156 | Sequential colour visual telepresence system For implementing an anthropomorphic visual telepresence system with high resolution and low loop latency a sequential color video loop is provided. A sequential color camera sequentially captures color images, each captured image consisting of a portion of a single ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7312823 | Solid-state image pick-up apparatus and video camera loaded with the apparatus A solid-state image pick-up apparatus that is capable of suppressing luminance flicker and chroma flicker occurring under a florescent lamp. The apparatus has a CCD solid-state image pick-up device. The image pick-up device further includes an accumulation region th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7270299 | Space based change detection using common ground track constellations A new approach for designing satellite constellations whereby each satellite follows a common ground track is being proposed for performing high-precision change detection imagery for long periods of time. By precisely prescribing the orbital parameters, i.e., the r... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262799 | Image sensing apparatus and its control method, control program, and storage medium This invention has as its object to provide an image sensing apparatus which can satisfactorily correct misregistration among images, and can composite the images. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes: a plurality of apertures that receives ex... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258305 | Space based change detection using common ground track constellations capable of being configured for multi-manifest launches A new approach for designing satellite constellations whereby the satellites are distributed into contiguous groups forming longitudinal lengths at least equal to 360 degrees. Gaps between the contiguous groups are uniformly distributed along the tracks. These conti... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255308 | Solar dominated satellite constellations capable of having repeating common ground tracks A new method of constellation design based on combining repeating ground tracks with common ground tracks and/or sun-synchronous orbits is used for performing high-precision change detection imagery for longer periods of time while minimizing battery usage. By preci... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7232410 | Adjusting method for endoscope systems An adjusting method for endoscope systems comprises a first adjusting step, a second light adjusting step and a storing step. The first adjusting step compares video signals, which are produced from illumination light rays that are reflected from an object and whose... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221388 | Endoscope image sensing method and apparatus This invention relates to an endoscope image sensing apparatus which can switch suitable color matrixes in accordance with the type of observation region, the type of light source used, or the like, and obtain good color reproduction corresponding to the type of obs... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209160 | Versatile teleconferencing eye contact terminal The present invention enables eye contact between conferees during a teleconference using a terminal equipped with a beam-splitter. The camera is positioned behind the viewing side of the beam-splitter to capture the conferee's image through the beam-splitter. The r... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7145652 | Microscope with position detection of changers of optical components A microscope with optical components which are provided in the illumination beam path and/or observation beam path and/or detection beam path for exerting different spectral influences on at least one of the beam paths mentioned above. An arrangement comprising a li... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7135698 | Multi-spectral infrared super-pixel photodetector and imager A multi-spectral super-pixel photodetector for detecting four or more different bands of infrared radiation is described. The super-pixel photodetector includes two or more sub-pixel photodetectors, each of which includes a diffractive resonant optical cavity that r... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136672 | Mobile telephone with built-in camera and flash A mobile telephone quipped with a camera may employ, as a camera flash, one or more RGB tri-color LEDs arranged on a face of the mobile telephone which is aligned with the direction in which a photograph may be taken by the camera. The viewing angle of the RGB tri-c... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7110038 | Image signal processor employing voltage regulators to decrease overall power consumption A signal processor for reducing power consumption. The signal processor includes a first regulator for generating a first regulated voltage with a power supply voltage and supplying the first regulated voltage to a signal processing circuit. A second regulator gener... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106511 | Imaging system with large depth of field An optical imaging system and method for achieving a large depth of field without decreasing the relative aperture of an imaging lens. The imaging system has a light source for sequentially illuminating an object to be imaged with light of different ones of a plural... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106377 | Image capturing device capable of single pixel exposure duration control A still image capturing device includes an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixel elements. An electronically actuatable shutter device includes a plurality of individually addressable and actuatable shutter elements. A shutter element substantially correspond... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7085428 | Image data forming method and apparatus An image forming method and apparatus that improves the S/N ratio of a low frequency component without causing losses to the data of a high frequency component. Low frequency image data representing the low frequency component of a sample is obtained by a CCD imagin... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7071979 | Image sensing apparatus and method An image sensing apparatus senses an image by illuminating a document by a light source including three light emitting diodes which emit light of red, green, and blue so that the light reflected from the document is incident on a sensor array which in turn generates... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6972736 | Color display device and color display method The color display device includes a colored light generation unit for repetitively generating a plurality of colored lights in a time sequence with a predetermined frequency, and an image generation unit for processing said plurality of colored lights, so as to gene... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6928194 | System for mosaicing digital ortho-images The present invention provides a system for mosaicing multiple input images, captured by one or more remote sensors, into a seamless mosaic of an area of interest. Each set of input images captured by the remote sensors within a capture interval are ortho-rectified ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6677959 | Virtual true color light amplification A method is provided for enhancing a digital image without distortion of the color. The result is an adjusted image which preserves the essential color of each and every dot in the input digital image while varying the effective light gathering power--lik... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6005616 | Frame-by-frame color image pickup apparatus In a frame-by-frame color image pickup apparatus, images of light components transmitted through red, green, and blue filters of a rotating filter are introduced to an image pickup device arranged in an optical path with rotating filter. The cells in the ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6002497 | Three-line linear sensor In a three-line linear sensor, a first linear sensor (10) without electronic shutter structure and second and third linear sensors (20), (30) with electronic shutter structures (28), (38) being disposed in an axial symmetry fashion are combined and a line... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5995136 | Frame sequential type imaging apparatus for obtaining high resolution object image by irradiating frame sequential light on the object, photoelectrically converting the object image and processing signals by a solid state imaging device An electronic endoscope apparatus serving as a frame sequential type imaging apparatus comprises an electronic endoscope for picking up an object, a CCU for driving and controlling the electronic endoscope and processing imaging signals originated from th... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5682201 | Method and device for generating pixel signals A pixel signal generating device is provided with a color filter having a matrix arrangement, in which color filter elements for passing magenta light, green light, yellow light and cyan light are arranged in a regular manner. A first exposure is performe... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5654756 | Image pick-up apparatus having color space converter and/or shield disc with slit An image pick-up apparatus, wherein a light emitting device sequentially emits a plurality of colors of light to a subject, a mono-color image pick-up element photo-electrically converts light reflected by or transmitted through the subject into color-fie... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5650864 | Full color single-sensor-array contact image sensor (CIS) using advanced signal processing techniques A color-reproducing contact image sensing (CORCIS) system that eliminates the use of multiple arrays of photodetectors with separate color filters and which permits the use of any of various signal-processing improvements such as voltage pickoff, transduc... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5585847 | Electronic color imaging technique and structure using a very high resolution monochrome full-frame CCD imager A charge-coupled device is exposed to a color portion of an image, thereby generating charge packets in the array of photosensitive storage regions. The charge packets stored in a first set of horizontal rows of photosensitive storage regions are then mov... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5555106 | Single pass line scanning of an image with a color filter wheel having a plurality of filters A method and apparatus for digitizing color images on photographic and other media insures accurate registration between color planes and provides a digitization capability substantially equivalent to the dynamic range of photographic film.... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5528295 | Color television camera using tunable optical filters A color television camera includes a panchromatic light sensor such as a CCD imager. Light from a scene to be imaged is filtered by an electronically controlled light filter such as an etalon, which is scanned from color to color at the field rate, so tha... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5523786 | Color sequential camera in which chrominance components are captured at a lower temporal rate than luminance components A color sequential electronic camera includes an RGB light source in which the R and G sources are activated in combination to provide a luminance light beam, and the R and B sources separately to provide separate chrominance light beams. Image light refl... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5497195 | Electronic color snapshot technique and structure using very high resolution monochrome full frame CCD imagers A technique and structure is used for producing high resolution color images using a monochrome area charge-coupled device (CCD) 64 and a sequential color illumination scheme. The monochrome CCD 64 comprises a plurality of semiconductor storage cells 76, ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5485203 | Color misregistration easing system which corrects on a pixel or block basis only when necessary An encoder decomposes an input color image signal into a luminance signal and color signals, places the color signals in image memories, then fetches color signals of a given screen before and after. A detector calculates differences between the color sig... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5408268 | Video imaging system and method using a single full frame sensor and sequential color object illumination A sequential video imaging system uses a video sensor having full frame whereby image data is moved from sensor image elements to a video amplifier. The object being viewed is sequentially illuminated with colored light sources to produce RGB or luminance... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5398061 | Light source switching type color image scanner The present invention is directed to a light source switching type color image scanner in which a color signal can be read out at high speed by reducing a read-out time. A red light source (3), a green light source (4) and a blue light source (5) which ca... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5394187 | Video imaging systems and method using a single interline progressive scanning sensor and sequential color object illumination A sequential video imaging system uses a video sensor having interline architecture whereby image data is moved from sensor elements to adjacent interlined storage elements. The object being viewed is sequentially illuminated with colored light sources to... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5379065 | Programmable hyperspectral image mapper with on-array processing A hyperspectral imager includes a focal plane having an array of spaced image recording pixels receiving light from a scene moving relative to the focal plane in a longitudinal direction, the recording pixels being transportable at a controllable rate in ... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5333010 | Color misregistration easing system for a field sequential electronic endoscope system The present invention provides a color misregistration easing system for inputting a color image signal of a subject imaged by a field sequential type imaging device and carrying out color misregistration easing. The system comprises a color misregistrati... | 07/26/1994 |
