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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164662 | Image-processing device for color image data and method for the image processing of color image data A digital image-processing device with a Bayer sensor and an image memory is provided in which the image data of the sensor is written into an image memory, and from this image memory, image data in the Bayer format with a length L and a width B is written continuou... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8130293 | Image processing apparatus having patterned polarizer, patterned polarizer, and image processing method An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a color and polarization obtaining section 101 including a single-chip color image capture device that has a color mosaic filter 201 and a patterned polarizer 202 in whic... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115839 | Image signal processor According to the present invention, an image signal processor, comprising a receiver, a mixing block, and an adjustment block, is provided. The receiver receives first, second, and third color pixel signals which an imaging device outputs. The mixing block generates... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115840 | Image enhancement in the mosaic domain Imaging apparatus includes a mosaic image sensor (24), which is configured to generate a stream of input pixel values belonging to a plurality of input sub-images, each sub-image responsive to light of a different, respective color that is incident on the mos... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098308 | Image processing device and computer-readable storage medium An image processing device that processes an image signal in which at least one of a predetermined plural number of color signals intended to constitute the image signal in each pixel is missing in accordance with a pixel position comprises: a component separation u... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077234 | Image pickup device and method for processing an interpolated color signal An image pickup device has a signal processing part configured to perform signal process for the first to third color signals. The signal processing part includes a first color generator configured to generate a fourth color signal corresponding to a reference pixel... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059176 | Linear image sensor A linear image sensor with low noise and low power consumption comprises both high and low resolution analog shift registers for each photocell array. Noise in the output signals is decreased by driving either the low resolution analog shift register or the high res... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054352 | Color filter array with reduced crosstalk effect and image sensor and image pickup apparatus having the same An image sensor includes a color filter array including a primary color pixel such as a green filter pixel for sensing a predetermined primary color, a first secondary color pixel such as a yellow filter pixel, and a second secondary color pixel such as a cyan filte... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7990445 | Image sensor having differing wavelength filters An image sensor includes filters formed over a portion of an array of photosensitive elements in a predetermined pattern. The pattern can be such that the exposure of a matrix (such as a 2-by-2 square of pixels) to light (such as blue light) is improved, while maint... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982788 | Digital video camera with binning or skipping correction A method of generating video and a video camera are disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating an input signal by sensing an optical signal using a plurality of first pixels, wherein (i) the sensing is capable of a pixel reduction by at lea... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7952624 | Image pickup device having a color filter for dividing incident light into multiple color components and image processing system using the same In a multilayer film filter formed of inorganic dielectric materials, a spacer layer has different thicknesses to form a plurality of color-transmissive filter elements having multiple different spectral characteristics on an image sensor. ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7932944 | Pixel mixture method The pixel mixture method of the present invention for mixing several pixels on a solid-state image sensing device, which is applied to an imaging device having the solid-state image sensing device with a color filter array (CFA) and multiple pixels, comprising: a pi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7884866 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method First YUV data produced from a pixel output in which one RAW-RGB data is read out from an SDRAM and is compensated in a dynamic range expansion compensating section of a YUV converting section and second YUV data produced from a pixel output which is equal to or mor... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7872681 | System and method for a high performance color filter mosaic array A method of implementing high-performance color filter mosaic arrays (CFA) using luminance pixels. The introduction of luminance pixels greatly improves the accuracy of the image acquisition process for a given pixel and image sensor size. ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7773138 | Color pattern and pixel level binning for APS image sensor using 2×2 photodiode sharing scheme A color image sensor includes an array of pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including a floating diffusion that is shared by four pixels disposed in a 2×2 arrangement. Each of said four pixels includes a photodetector and a color filt... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7760256 | Image processing apparatus that obtains color and polarization information An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a color and polarization obtaining section 101 including a single-chip color image capture element with a color mosaic filter and a patterned polarizer in which a number of polarizer u... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7746397 | Image device having color filter An image device comprises an image sensor including an array of photodiodes for converting an optical image into electrical signals, a color filter comprising an array of red, green and cyan filter elements disposed opposite the array of photodiodes, and a color pro... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7705896 | Imaging apparatus which adds a first number of R and B pixels, and adds a second number of G pixels An imaging apparatus for accurate focusing detection and/or exposure control in a low-light environment with a driving control device which controls the read-out of the pixels so that the R and B pixels are each vertically added for a first number of vertical additi... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7697046 | Image signal processing device and method of image signal processing including pixel array pattern determination A device, for processing each pixel signal output from a solid-state imaging device, has a determination processor and an interpolation processor. Each pixel is defined as a center pixel of a k×k matrix. The interpolation processor presumes which pixels have the sa... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7659930 | Edge enhancement method and apparatus for Bayer images, and color image acquisition system An edge enhancement method and apparatus for Bayer images are provided. The apparatus stores the raw Bayer image data into a line buffer. After having directly read the raw Bayer image data from the buffer, the apparatus computes luminance characteristic values, ana... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7643074 | Pixel signal processing apparatus and pixel signal processing method The difference between the output of a k-signal nonlinear low-pass filter (8g) and the output of an h-signal nonlinear low-pass filter (8r) is added (44) to the value of the h-th pixel signal (h(i, j)) at the pixel position of inte... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7557842 | Image processing circuit and image processing method An object is to provide an image processing circuit and an image processing method which can use various technologies for a bayer array CCD even when an RGB independent array CCD is used, and can accommodate for the bayer array CCD. A first matrix acquiring circuit ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551214 | Pixel interpolation method Correlation values in the vertical direction, horizontal direction and two diagonal directions are obtained in a pixel signal of RGB Bayer pattern. The correlation values are calculated using G signals. Between a first pair of the vertical and horizontal directions ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7525584 | Fast edge directed demosaicing An edge directed demosaicing algorithm for determining an edge direction from an input color filter array (CFA) sampled image is disclosed. Aspects of the present invention include calculating for a current missing green pixel, interpolation errors in an East-West (... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7443433 | Pixel compensating circuit, method for compensating pixels, and image taking apparatus employing such pixel compensating circuit The present invention relates to a pixel compensating circuit, an image taking apparatus employing such pixel compensating circuit, and a method for compensating pixel, wherein a defect pixel existed on an image sensor is effectively compensated. Namely, plural kind... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440016 | Method of processing a digital image Processing of a mosaic digital image includes interpolating values of a first color at pixels where the first color was not sampled. The interpolation of the first color value at a given pixel includes determining likelihoods of the given pixel belonging to the same... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7427734 | Multiple photosensor pixel A multiple photosensor pixel image sensor sense differentiated color components of light. The multiple photosensor pixel image sensor has a plurality of photo-sensing devices formed with the surface of the substrate. Each photo-sensing device has a structure adjuste... | 09/23/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7420607 | Solid-state imaging element and digital camera A solid-state imaging element contains a plurality of photoelectric converting regions, vertical transfer portions, a horizontal transfer portion, and an output portion. These photoelectric converting regions are arranged on a surface of a semiconductor substrate al... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7417671 | Image processing system capable of providing color correction An electrical signal output from an image sensing device is converted into digital image data and stored in a non-compressed form or a lossless-compressed form, in a storage medium. A user sets parameters associated with a white balance via a setting screen. The set... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411619 | Signal processing method, a signal processor circuit, and imaging apparatus Providing a signal processing method for image synthesis with reduced computation load, a signal processor circuit for image synthesis with reduced computation load which allows manufacturing at a low production cost, and imaging apparatus which uses the signal proc... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403228 | Solid-state camera device and method of manufacturing the same, and method of making mask for manufacturing the device The present invention provides a solid-state camera device which can improve both the shading caused by the eclipse of the incident light and the shading cased by the rim darkening. The present solid-state camera device comprises a plurality of light-receiving parts... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7365785 | Electronic camera There is provided an electronic camera comprising an imaging element which photo-electrically converts an object field light, a timing generator including an internal register in which timing of a drive signal used to operate the imaging element can be programmed, a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362362 | Reformatter and method A programmable data reformatter reorders output from an image sensor to yield various formats. The reformatting applies to reduced resolution output from large image sensors as in digital cameras operating in video mode, and converts an irregular video mode output t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355641 | Solid state imaging device reading non-adjacent pixels of the same color A solid-state imaging device includes: an imaging portion in which a plurality of pixels for photoelectrically converting incident light are arranged so as to form a plural kinds of pixel lines having different color arrangements; a memory in which pixel signals obt... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352896 | Method for interpolation and sharpening of images A method, a system, a device, a storage means, and a computer software product for sharpening colours in an image, in which a first colour component is interpolated and sharpened in such a way that the effect of the colour component is computed in different directio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345701 | Line buffer and method of providing line data for color interpolation A line buffer and a method of providing data to a 3×3 line interpolation processor using the line buffer in an image processing system, such as a digital camera, includes a readable and writable single memory, a buffer register having a prior data area storing firs... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342607 | Mathematical calculation method for an image capturing device A mathematical calculation method for an image-capturing device includes steps: estimating a green value of a red, blue pixel; calculating four differences between an estimated red value and four neighboring green pixels, weighing proportions of the four neighboring... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336302 | Frame memory device and method with subsampling and read-out of stored signals at lower resolution than that of received image signals A frame memory device is employed in a digital camera, for example, to output raster-scanned digital color image signals at lower resolution than that of original image signals. The order of sequentially received original raster-scanned digital color image signals i... | 02/26/2008 |
