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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139130 | Image sensor with improved light sensitivity An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and where... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125547 | Driving method of solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus including photoelectric conversion elements for luminance detection A driving method of a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements as defined herein, includes performing first driving which mixes a first electric charge generated in the first photoelectric conversion element with a second... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8035711 | Sub-pixel array optical sensor Improving the dynamic range of captured images is disclosed by using sub-pixel arrays to capture light at different exposures and generate color pixel outputs for an image in a single frame. Each sub-pixel array can include multiple sub-pixels. The sub-pixels that m... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7893976 | Light sensitivity in image sensors An image sensor is disclosed for capturing a color image, comprising a two-dimensional array of pixels having a plurality of minimal repeating unit wherein each repeating unit is composed of eight pixels having five panchromatic pixels and three pixels having differ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7830430 | Interpolation of panchromatic and color pixels A method for forming a final digital color image, includes: capturing an image using an image sensor having panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses; providing from the captured image a digital high resolution panchroma... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7821553 | Pixel array, imaging sensor including the pixel array and digital camera including the imaging sensor A pixel array in an image sensor, the image sensor and a digital camera including the image sensor. The image sensor includes a pixel array with colored pixels and unfiltered (color filter-free) pixels. Each unfiltered pixel occupies one or more array locations. The... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7812870 | Color space conversion in the analog domain Systems and related methods have been achieved to convert in an analog domain the output of color image sensors into another color space. A chosen implementation converts the output of red, green, blue and white image sensors to the YcrCb color space, wherein the wh... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7773137 | Imaging apparatus, imaging element, and image processing method An imaging element includes a pixel group that has pixels arranged two dimensionally therein, each including a photoelectric converting unit. The pixel arrangement of the pixel group is m rows by n columns. In the pixel group, a pixel area of an arbitrary two rows b... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7663679 | Imaging apparatus using interpolation and color signal(s) to synthesize luminance An imaging apparatus is provided and includes a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; and a image data-generation unit that generates image data represented by a first luminance signal and a color-difference signal, b... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7643073 | 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... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7570291 | Imaging system and image processing program The image pickup system of the present invention is an image pickup system for processing an image signal at each pixel which is composed of more than one color signals and one or more of the color signals are dropped out according to the location of the pixel, comp... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7483065 | Multi-lens imaging systems and methods using optical filters having mosaic patterns Imaging systems and methods are provided. One exemplary system incorporates multiple lenses that are individually configured to receive visible light from an object to be imaged, and to direct this light upon a corresponding sensor array. Luminance information is th... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7423677 | Color filter method and apparatus Method and apparatus for generating an output signal that represents light with a desired color profile. A first sensor is provided to receive light and based thereon to generate a first signal with a first color profile. A color sensor is also provided that receive... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7365777 | Digital camera First to third processors are arranged in a digital camera, one image (one frame) obtained by one photographing operation is divided into three regions (assigned regions), and photographing signal processing is shared by the first to third processors. Digital image ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349016 | Solid-state color imaging apparatus capable of reducing false signals with regard to both luminance and chrominance A pixel area of a megapixel solid-state color imaging device is divided into unit areas for pixel adding and all the pixels for the same color are added together in each unit area. Accordingly, the percentage of utilized pixels is raised to 100% and aliasing noise t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336308 | Digital camera with sensitivity compensation Voltage signals outputted from a CCD are subjected to correlated double sampling processing by a correlated double sampling circuit (CDS), after which digital gain processing is carried out at a gain control amplifier (GCA). A gain difference between G color signals... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321395 | Image capturing apparatus and method of setting exposure for AF control executed by image capturing apparatus It the image capturing apparatus, if AF control is carried out by illuminating an object with AF auxiliary light, then when the auxiliary light is emitted, exposure for the AF control is set according to an EV value determined by illuminating the object with the aux... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7285768 | Color photodetector array A color sensor for measuring light from a light source and the method for fabricating the color sensor. The color sensor includes a plurality of photodetectors, a plurality of primary color filters and a trim filter. Each primary color filter includes a layer of mat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282696 | Photoelectric converter device and manufacturing method thereof A photoelectric converter device comprises a semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric converter element formed on its surface, a visible light filter arranged to at least partially cover the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a support member attac... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7259788 | Image sensor and method for implementing optical summing using selectively transmissive filters An image sensor includes a two-dimensional array of pixel elements where the array of pixel elements outputting pixel data representing an image of a scene, and a two-dimensional array of selectively transmissive filters superimposed on the two-dimensional array of ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7202896 | Solid state image pickup device having spectral device A spectral device is disposed above a semiconductor substrate formed with a number of photoelectric conversion elements. The spectral device has a plurality of spectral regions each corresponding to a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, each of the spect... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199826 | Thin-out drive method for CCD image sensor A solid-state image pickup device includes photoelectric converters in row-column matrix configuration, VCCDs, one for each column, a color filter disposed above each converter to form a color filter array including layouts each including n rows, and a drive circuit... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196724 | Image signal processing device, digital camera and computer program product that perform white balance adjustment using pixel outputs from extracted areas R, G and B signals are output from individual pixels provided at an image-capturing element. Pixel output averages corresponding to the R, G and B signals are calculated for each of partition areas into which the light-receiving surface of the image-capturing elemen... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7154547 | Solid-state image sensor having control cells for developing signals for image-shooting control under poor illumination A solid-state image sensor and a digital cameral capable of executing accurate image-shooting adjustment even in a low illumination environment. A charge coupled device type of image sensor includes red, green and blue pixel cells provided with color filter segments... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148925 | Solid-state honeycomb type image pickup apparatus using a complementary color filter and signal processing method therefor A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter including complementary color filter segments. When a shutter release bottom is pressed to its half-stroke or full-stroke position, light incident via the filter is picked up in a movie/photometry or a sti... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148926 | Image sensing apparatus and signal processing method therefor A color filter arrangement (11) is used, in which a plurality of filter units are each made of 2×2 arrangements of red (R), green (G), green (G) and blue (B) color elements. First, signal charges are added up for all pixels belonging to each of a plurality o... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7123299 | Color image pickup device and color image pickup apparatus including a randomized color coding array A color image pickup device including: a pixel group placed in array of a plurality of pixels of photoelectric conversion elements; and a color coding array corresponding to the pixel group, the color coding array arranged in a randomized array, or arranged in a ran... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116358 | Image processing circuit of image input device In image input devices such as digital still cameras, processing is speeded up and power consumption is reduced by arranging in a RPU (23) performing real time processing of a pixel data from a CCD (21), such that only special exceptional image process... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110002 | Image displaying system of environment-adaptive type, presentation system, and image processing method and program To provide an environment-compliant image display system, a presentation system, an image processing method, and a program, a colored-light information processing section 140 is used to create XYZ values that take into account a visual environment, based on c... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7057652 | Color solid-state imaging apparatus A color solid-state imaging apparatus of the present invention includes a read pixel position selecting section for selecting read pixel positions such that in two directions crossing each other, a first pixel pair of horizontally-adjacent pixels corresponding to a ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057654 | Four color image sensing apparatus An imaging camera apparatus (20) for capturing images electronically and providing output data for four separate color channels, red, green, blue, and a fourth saturated primary color, expanding the color gamut over conventional three color channel cameras. A... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053908 | Method and apparatus for sensing and interpolating color image data We disclose an electronic imaging method and apparatus capable of effectively and accurately sensing and interpolating color image data received from a two-dimensional array of discrete image sensing elements, particularly, from a so-called “Bayer Pattern” array... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7042527 | Field sequential display of color video picture with color breakup prevention A method of displaying a color video picture according to a field sequential process is provided. A display device displays an image comprising a matrix of pixels. One frame image is composed of four field images ranging from a first field image to a fourth field im... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6970195 | Digital image sensor with improved color reproduction An image sensor includes a sensor array including a two-dimensional array of pixel elements. The array of pixel elements includes a first group of photodetectors having a first sensitivity level and a second group of photodetectors having a second sensitivity level.... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6930336 | Vertical-color-filter detector group with trench isolation A vertical-color-filter detector group comprises a semiconductor body including a plurality of alternating silicon layers of first and second conductivity types, the second conductivity type being opposite that of the first conductivity type, formed over a substrate... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6876763 | Image resolution improvement using a color mosaic sensor A method for electronic imaging, consisting of forming an image having a background color and a non-background color on a plurality of pixels in a color mosaic image sensor, and receiving from each of the plurality of pixels a respective initial signal responsive to... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6836289 | Digital still camera architecture with red and blue interpolation using green as weighting factors An interpolation for a Bayer pattern color filtered array with red and blue interpolation using weightings as ratios of corresponding green pixel values. ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6683996 | Method and apparatus for rotating Bayer images A method for sampling a Bayer image having two dimensional planes of red, green and blue pixels, the method including the steps of: rotating the green plane by 45 degrees; sequentially sampling an m×m pixel block of the rotated image, where m is an integ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6683706 | System and method for scanning a document A system and method are provided to control an acquisition of a number of pixels in a scanning system. In one embodiment, the system includes an interface circuit with a multiplexer to route at least one color component of one of a number of pixels from a... | 01/27/2004 |
