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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179458 | System and method for improved image processing A system and method for improving image processing. In one aspect of the invention the method includes receiving data indicating an intensity of light incident on a first pixel of a pixel array and determining from the received data if the intensity of incident ligh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8045025 | Image pickup device adaptable to display fewer vertical pixels In an image pickup device, in order to enable signal charge read-out from the image pickup element in a thinning-out manner from the pixels of predetermined rows, even in case the image display unit has a number of pixels in the vertical direction smaller than the n... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7864235 | Imaging device and imaging method including generation of primary color signals An imaging device has an image sensor, and a color filter that is located on said image sensor and has at least four color elements, a signal reading processor that reads at least four series of color signals corresponding to the at least four color elements from sa... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852389 | Solid-state image pick-up device having primary color and gray color filters and processing means therefor In a single plate type solid-state image pickup device having a color filter with primary color filters, gray filters are disposed at specific pixels of the arrangement of the primary color filters, whereby variation of the sense of resolution with respect to color ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7545422 | Imaging system An imaging system comprising a filter array adapted to filter electromagnetic waves, a lens array adapted to focus electromagnetic waves, and an image sensor configured to receive the focused electromagnetic waves. The filter array and the lens array are configured ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7420610 | Solid-state imaging element, solid-state imaging device, and method for fabricating the same A solid state-imaging element including photoelectric conversion element and an optical element such as a photonic crystal is disclosed. The optical element is formed on the photoelectric conversion element, and has a refractive index periodic structure made up of s... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7355760 | Solid-state image sensing device, driving method thereof, and image scanner A CCD linear sensor includes a monochrome sensor and a color sensor, which have different transfer speeds and which are mounted on the same chip. In the CCD linear sensor, while one read-out operation is performed by the color sensor, two read-out operations are per... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7326978 | Color filter of image sensor, image sensor, and method for manufacturing the image sensor A color filter of an image sensor, an image sensor and a method for manufacturing the image sensor are disclosed, wherein shapes of respective unit color cells closely form various color patterns, such as a red color pattern, a green color pattern and a blue color p... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324690 | Metal mask for light intensity determination and ADC calibration An apparatus and method for controlling gain characteristics in a CMOS imager and for calibrating light intensity and analog to digital conversion in a pixel array. A mask with varying sized apertures is provided over pixels of an array outside the active area for u... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312824 | Image-capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus and image recording apparatus There is described an image-capturing apparatus, which has plural kinds of image sensors, sensitivities of which are different relative to each other, for recording wide dynamic range image data, and an image processing apparatus for applying optimization processing... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307657 | Video signal processing method and device for processing luminance signal In a video signal processing method of processing a luminance signal of a video signal generated by causing a CCD to receive light transmitted through color filters, a control signal yf1 is generated by calculating Cy/Y using a complementary color signal Cy a... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292274 | Solid-state image pickup device driving method and image capturing apparatus for outputting high-resolution signals for still images and moving images of improved quality at a high frame rate A CPU 14 drives the CCD2 by switching its driving mode between an omission readout mode and a summation readout mode. Summing the signal charge of pixels in the summation readout mode offers an increased sensitivity. The omission readout mode reduces s... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7280146 | Image pickup apparatus having its peripheral conversion elements shifted outwardly as compared to converging lenses In order to prevent an image quality from being lowered by shading and or the like, an image pickup apparatus is provided which includes an image pickup area including a plurality of photoelectric conversion areas, a plurality of converging lenses for converging lig... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274393 | Four-color mosaic pattern for depth and image capture A sensor for color and depth information capture is disclosed. A filter passes selected wavelengths according to a predetermined pattern to the sensor. The sensor measures light intensities passed by the filter. In one embodiment, the wavelengths passed by the filte... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7262794 | Method of making digital photograph and digital photograph made by that method A method of making a digital photograph composed of a moving water element and still element by applying a known computer image processing system, and a digital photograph made by this method, involves taking a basic photograph indicating a realistic image of still ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7236627 | Image sensing apparatus and method, program, and storage medium The object of this invention is to decrease a memory capacity required for a lookup table. To achieve this object, in an image sensing apparatus which causes an image processing section to execute image processing to convert digital image data, which is obtained by ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7190396 | 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... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7176911 | Solid-state imaging apparatus A plurality of pixel sets, each having 16 pixels are vertically provided successively one after another. A vertical transfer path 2 has two groups a and b of transfer electrodes 1a, 1b to 16a, 16b. Two l... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7158183 | Digital camera A digital camera having small time lag for recording the object after releasing a shutter by employing less movable parts, and by employing an image sensor for other purpose as well as actual forming picture image for recording the object is provided. According to o... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7148927 | Signal readout structure for an image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus includes a photoelectric converter having a plurality of pixels covered by a color filter composed of a plurality of colors, a plurality of common readout units adapted to sequentially output signals from the plurality of pixels, a time di... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7133073 | Method and apparatus for color interpolation An imaging method and system that flexibly accesses light sensor elements and processes imaging signals. The imaging system comprises an array of pixel sensor cells, an array controller and a readout control circuit. The imaging system provides color interpolation. | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126633 | Solid-state image-pickup device having primary color and gray color filters and processing means thereof In a single plate type solid-state image pickup device having a color filter with primary color filters, gray filters are disposed at specific pixels of the arrangement of the primary color filters, whereby variation of the sense of resolution with respect to color ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7106277 | Image display apparatus and method The effect of the fluctuation of a signal that is caused by interference between the lines of an image display apparatus can be reduced. For this purpose, an image display apparatus comprises a plurality of lines, a plurality of display devices to which signals are ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095434 | Image sensing apparatus with sensor displacement capability A plurality of images in which pixels are displaced from each other are obtained by displacing the optical path of light passing an image sensing device. The plurality of images have different exposure amounts in image sensing operations. In order to obtain an image... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7061528 | Signal processing apparatus which suppresses a color signal according to luminance level To provide a signal processing apparatus and an image pickup signal processing method both of which restrain a color signal from being influenced by band limitation in a color processing system, thereby enabling signal processing which produces an undegraded image, ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7030923 | Digital camera having overlapped exposure A digital camera includes a shutter button. When taking a still picture of a subject in response to operation of the shutter button, a TG carries out first exposure and second exposure. The first exposure and the second exposure are simultaneously started by the sus... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7012643 | One chip, low light level color camera A high sensitivity, single chip, low light level imaging device is provided. The imaging device of the present invention utilizes sparse color sampling, to maximize the luminance information gathered. In particular, color information is gathered by a small proportio... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013043 | Method of and apparatus for image processing A monochromatic image signal is made from a color image signal. Values of brightness of pixels in a color border region of a type where two color regions which are small in brightness difference and large in chromaticity difference are positioned side by side are ch... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6995796 | Image sensor for digital cameras An apparatus for recording an image. The apparatus includes a two-dimensional array of image sensors. Each image sensor provides a measurement of the light intensity in a selected spectral region. The two-dimensional array is generated from a plurality of identical ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6977677 | Imaging apparatus with video data transmission A communication circuit transmits the digital video signal to a transmission line and receives a clock signal and timing data transmitted through the transmission line. The timing data indicates a communication timing. A timing signal generation circuit generates ti... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975437 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for color correction Appropriate color correction is carried out when image data obtained by a digital camera are printed. Correction degrees for lightness, chroma, and hue are set for specific colors R, G, B, C, M, Y, YG, BS, SK(HL), SK(MD), SK(SD) in an image represented by the image ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6917381 | Color filter array and color interpolation algorithm A color filter array includes arrangements of green-filtered pixels to optimize performance and accuracy of color interpolation operations. Where red or blue pixels are found, green values are estimated with a high degree of accuracy. Unknown red and blue intensity ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6908088 | Wheelbarrow bumper A wheelbarrow bumper for a wheelbarrow having a frame, a bin, and a wheel, the wheelbarrow bumper includes: a curved plate having a convexly curved outer surface and an inner surface; and, a first and a second side support members having a width and extending transv... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6822680 | One-chip color camera that can suppress generation of pseudo color signal while maintaining high resolution and method of separating color data A CCD is driven by a drive circuit, whereby an independent readout drive of all pixels is carried out. Data of 4 lines are input in parallel to a two-dimensional register array by 4 scanning line delay devices. Interpolation is carried out for every color signal of ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6822677 | Method and device for adjusting white balance based on primary color signals modulated with fourth color signal obtained by fourth sensor An image pickup device includes a first, second, and third sensors respectively sensitive to light in the blue, green, and red wavelength ranges, and a fourth sensor sensitive to light in a certain wavelength range between a first and second wavelengths, where spect... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6809770 | Imaging device and a digital camera having same A digital camera including a CCD imager and a complementary color filter mounted on a light receiving surface thereof. The complementary color filter has color blocks each having 8 rows×4 columns while the CCD imager has, at its light receiving surface, pixel block... | 10/26/2004 |
