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| 8134618 | Multispectral image capturing apparatus A multispectral image capturing apparatus has different spectral sensitivity characteristics of at least four bands. Three primary bands of the at least four bands have spectral sensitivity characteristics of standard RGB. At least one auxiliary band of the rest of ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8040413 | Solid-state image pickup device In a pixel unit, W, R, G, and B pixels are arranged in rows and columns. The pixel unit output W, R, G, and B signals obtained by photoelectrically converting light incident on the W, R, G, and B pixels. An edge detection unit determines a specific area having a W p... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031243 | Apparatus, method, and medium for generating image An apparatus, method, and medium for generating an image is provided. The apparatus includes an optical module, a filter module which includes a wide-band filter area that allows transmission of optical signals within a wavelength band corresponding to a color of a ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7903157 | Imaging system and image sensor with filter selectively transmitting combination of plural narrow wavelength bands of incident light in low color rendering illumination An imaging system according to the present inventions includes an image sensor in which a plurality of unit pixels are arranged on a chip and an image processing LSI for converting color components output from the image sensor to color signals. The imaging system is... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7868937 | Imaging apparatus and imaging device An imaging device having five color filters. The five color filters include three color filters of a R (red) filter, a G (green) filter, and a B (blue) filter of a primary color system and two color filters of a Y (yellow) filter and a C (cyan) filter of a complemen... | 01/11/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7154545 | Image scanner photosensor assembly with improved spectral accuracy and increased bit-depth Photosensor assemblies have, for each color, multiple line-arrays of photosensors. For each color, the spectral bandwidth received by each line-array is different. The additional spectral bandwidths are used to improve the spectral measurement accuracy, and to incre... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6803955 | Imaging device and imaging apparatus An imaging device having an imaging pixel array formed as a two-dimensional periodic array of N-pixel (N being 5 or a greater natural number) arrays as unit arrays is disclosed. Also, the color imaging apparatus comprises a CCD imaging device, which have pixels arra... | 10/12/2004 |
| 5889554 | Process and system for generating a full color image of multispectral image from the image data of a CCD image sensor with a mosaic color filter Process and system for producing color images and/or multispectral images in which an optical arrangement (3) images a scene on a CCD image sensor (2), said sensor being covered by a mosaic filter with a periodically repeating basic pattern (GM). A follow... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5424543 | Imaging spectroradiometer A spectroradiometer images a scene as a repeating sequence of spectral images, each of which spectral images depicts the scene at a preselected wavelength. In a preferred embodiment, the image is of size 256 by 192 pixels, and the sequence repetition rate... | 06/13/1995 |
| 4760441 | Solid-state color imaging apparatus having color filter array which eliminates vertical color error A solid-state color imaging apparatus includes an array of color filters. The first and third rows of the array are constructed entirely of same-color filters. The second row of the array comprises a first set of color filters for generating a first color... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4630105 | Symmetric color encoding shift pattern for a solid-state imager camera and decoding scheme therefor A color encoding filter is provided for use with a camera having a solid-state imager. The filter comprises a plurality of rows of color filter elements, each row having a sequence of color filter elements which repeats after a predetermined number P of e... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4525737 | Color solid state image pick-up device In the disclosed solid state image pick-up device, different kinds of color filters are mounted relative to photoelectric picture elements and a correlative process arrangement obtains the correlative output of each picture element and that of a predeterm... | 06/25/1985 |
