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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174592 | Color interpolation device and color interpolation method A color interpolation device may include a gradient grade calculation block calculating horizontal derivatives and vertical derivatives using composite video signals output from a current pixel and adjacent pixels and calculating a gradient grade using a linear comp... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174591 | Photographing apparatus and photographing method Disclosed is a photographing apparatus of interlace transferring type comprising a photographing device which carries out transfer of electrification of all pixels stored in the photographing device by dividing into a plurality of fields when transferring the electr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8125545 | Photo sensor array using controlled motion A movable sensor including a plurality of photo pixel sites arranged in an array comprising a photo sensor and a neutral density filter filtering the photo sensor. Each of the neutral density filters have a density value that are graduated over a range of densities.... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8094217 | Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method Provided is an image capturing apparatus comprising a plurality of first light receiving elements that are arranged on substantially the same plane and that each receive light of a first color component from a subject; a plurality of second light receiving elements ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077231 | Imaging apparatus containing a solid-state imaging device and imaging method An imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided in the semiconductor substrate and a spectral element which is provided over the plurality of photoelectric con... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077230 | Methods and apparatus for reducing color material related defects in imagers A film is used on the surface of a color filter array to keep tiny particles that remain on the surface so that they do not interfere during subsequent processing steps. The particles may be the result of forming the color filter array or other structures. The film ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077233 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus capable of performing phase difference detection while allowing light to enter an imaging device is provided. An imaging unit (1) includes an imaging device (10) configured to perform photoelectric conversion on received lig... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077232 | Imaging device for adding signals including same color component An imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric converting units arrayed in the horizontal and vertical directions, and an adder for adding signals including the same color component from the a plurality of photoelectric converting units such that the center... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8049797 | Image sensor and color imaging apparatus An image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion element group, and color filters of at least two colors arranged on respective photoelectric conversion elements of the photoelectric conversion element group. The color filters are arranged on the respective photo... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8035708 | Solid-state imaging device with an organic photoelectric conversion film and imaging apparatus There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels that are provided on a semiconductor substrate, and that include a plurality of photoelectric-conversion units and metal oxide semiconductor transistors that selectively read signals from... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035709 | Image pickup apparatus provided with a solid-state image pickup device An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup device sharing a circuit necessary for a pixel structure between multiple pixels composing each set including a certain number of pixels having the same arrangement pattern; a pixel mixture correcting uni... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035707 | Imaging apparatus with scene analysis An imaging apparatus comprises an image-capturing element that outputs image signals representing a plurality of color components and an analyzing device that analyzes a captured photographic image based upon image signals with linearity, which are output from the i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018508 | Light-collecting device and solid-state imaging apparatus The present invention provides an optical device and the like which can collect incident light at a high incident angle than an existing microlens, in order to realize a solid-state imaging apparatus and the like corresponding to an optical system (an optical system... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013917 | Noise filter for bayer pattern image data A method of filtering an image filter is disclosed. The filter is provided for a digital camera including image sensors sensitive to light, a color filter placed over sensitive elements of the sensors and patterned according to a Bayer mosaic pattern layout and an i... | 09/06/2011 |
| RE42639 | Apparatus and method for rotating the display orientation of a captured image The apparatus of the present invention preferably comprises an image sensor, an orientation sensor, a memory and a processing unit. The image sensor is used for generating captured image data. The orientation sensor is coupled to the image sensor, and is used for ge... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986357 | Image processing method for converting non-linear RGB image data to L*a*b* image data An image processing method includes the steps of linearizing a Color Filter Array image having non-linear RGB pixel data to generate a linearized image, the step of linearizing using at least one lookup table for each of the three RGB colors, the step of linearizing... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982786 | Solid-state imaging device for color imaging A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided at a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate by being arranged in a form of a two-dimensional array, spectral elements each provided on a number of the photoelectric... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982787 | Image apparatus and method and program for producing interpolation signal An image apparatus has signal slicing unit for two-dimensionally slicing a signal from an imaging device; pixel correlation detection unit for detecting correlation between a center pixel of the signal sliced by the signal slicing unit and its peripheral pixels; cor... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7932942 | Solid-state imaging device including three stacked photoelectric conversion layers, three accumulators, and a single readout circuit A solid-state imaging device is provided and has: three photoelectric conversion layers stacked above a semiconductor substrate 1, each detecting a different color; three signal charge accumulators in a semiconductor substrate for accumulating signal charges ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7916193 | Interpolator for a CMOS image sensor using a digital register An imager has first and second photosensitive sites and an interpolator located in a semiconductor substrate. The first photosensitive site is configured to receive light having a spectral component, and the second photosensitive site is configured to measure the le... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911517 | Device and method for acquiring digital color-infrared photographs for monitoring vegetation A charge-coupled-device (CCD) camera system for detecting near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths, involving (a) a color CCD camera having a multitude of channels including red and near-infrared responsive channels, green responsive channels, and blue responsive channels, a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903156 | Image processing device, image processing method, computer program, recording medium storing the computer program, frame-to-frame motion computing method, and image processing method An image processing apparatus and method is provided to generate a moving picture with a high resolution, a high frame rate and a high SNR by eliminating a decrease in SNR even if the intensity of incoming light has been halved by a half mirror. The apparatus genera... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903155 | Image capturing apparatus and program An image capturing apparatus includes: an image pickup device in which photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to color components are arranged in a predetermined pattern; an acquisition unit that successively acquires a plurality of images by using the imag... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889252 | Image processing device, non-capture color signal calculating device, and image processing method An image processing device includes a first calculation means for calculating a non-capture color signal corresponding to an H-th interpolation color for a pixel of interest, a second calculation means for calculating a non-capture color signal by multiplying a J-th... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7864233 | Image photographing device and method An image photographing device and method, with the image photographing device enhancing image sensitivity. The image photographing device may include a lens unit, a filter unit including a first filter region which filters a complementary color of a predetermined co... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864232 | Signal processing apparatus for solid-state imaging device, signal processing method, and imaging system A signal processing apparatus corrects color mixture between pixel cells in a solid-state imaging device in which the pixel cells including photoelectric transducers are two-dimensionally arranged in an array and in which color filters having primary color component... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852388 | Imaging device An imaging device free from discoloring under high temperature or high irradiation and having high color reproducibility is provided. Multilayer filters made of inorganic materials are provided above respective photoelectric conversion elements. The filters include ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7830427 | Solid-state image pickup element and image pickup device A solid-state image pickup element is disclosed which includes: a semiconductor substrate at which a plurality of element rows, in which a plurality of light-receiving elements are aligned along a vertical direction, are disposed in parallel along a horizontal direc... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830426 | Method and apparatus providing color interpolation in color filter arrays using edge detection and correction terms A method and apparatus for color plane interpolation are provided which interpolates the color values of pixels differently depending on an edge direction and whether a pixel is at an edge within an image. The use of the edge detection during the interpolation of ea... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7821552 | Imaging apparatus provided with imaging device having sensitivity in visible and infrared regions An imaging apparatus includes: a first pixel which receives both visible light and infrared light, and a second pixel which receives infrared light, both pixels being formed on an imaging device; an infrared light component estimation unit which estimates, based on ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7777795 | Solid-state image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device includes a photoelectric conversion portion for generating signal electric charges in accordance with an amount of incident light, a plurality of color filters, and a flattening layer formed on the plurality of color filters. A thic... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777794 | Solid-state imaging device and method of manufacturing the same A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are arranged in a matrix form on the semiconductor substrate; and color filter layers of a plurality of colors that are formed in a predetermined ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7768560 | multiband camera control apparatus and multiband camera control method A multiband camera control apparatus comprises a multiband camera section configured to be capable of capturing a plurality of color bands, a computer configured to control the multiband camera section, a user interface configured to transmit instruction information... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760253 | Imaging device analysis methods, imaging device analysis systems, and articles of manufacture Imaging device analysis methods, imaging device analysis systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an imaging device analysis method includes providing a plurality of first responsivity values corresponding to a first responsiv... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760255 | Method and apparatus for interpolation of interlaced CMYG color format A color interpolation apparatus includes: an area determination unit determining an area between a flat area and an edge area, to which a sampling unit formed with two pixels of the photoelectric device, vertically adjacent to each other, and to be interpolated belo... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760254 | Single plate-type color solid-state image sensing device A color solid-state image sensing device including: a semiconductor substrate having a surface portion where high density impurity regions connected to signal reading circuits respectively are formed; a blue light detecting photodiode formed in a shallow portion of ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7746395 | Color interpolation methods for correcting outlying values This invention of a color interpolation method for correcting color values of an image, comprising the steps of: constructing a color interpolation matrix having a plurality of points and a center point as an interpolation point, where each point being expressed by ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746394 | Pixel array and image processing apparatus for image-capturing An image-capturing apparatus includes a pixel array including pixels. Each of the pixels includes a transducer for generating signal charge according to the intensity of an incident light beam. The image-capturing apparatus further includes an output circuit for out... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742088 | Image sensor and digital camera A color solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion areas provided in an array pattern on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The inside of each of photoelectric conversion areas 10 is two-dimensionally partitioned int... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7719582 | Solid-state imaging apparatus and its signal reading method When pixel signals are separately read from a plurality of horizontal signal lines to achieve high-speed processing, color difference in image signals and stripes are eliminated. In the operation of reading the pixel signals from the (2n)th row, the pixel sig... | 05/18/2010 |
