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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7535505 | Imaging device and a digital camera having same in which pixel signals read from the pixel block are horizontally transferred in a collective fashion 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 CCD imager has, at its light receiving surface, pixel blocks co... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7515184 | Solid-state image sensor, solid-state image sensing apparatus, camera, and method for controlling a solid-state image sensor The present invention provides a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera realizing a high-speed operation, all operable to output signal charges so as to maintain the light sensitivity and generate high-quality video signals fre... | 04/07/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7379107 | Image sensor for still or video photography A method for reading out charge from an interlined CCD having a plurality of photo-sensing regions and a plurality of vertical shift registers, and each photosensitive region is mated respectively to a CCD of a vertical shift register and a color filter having a rep... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7352391 | Method of controlling the display mode and the recording mode of an electronic still camera An electronic still camera according to the invention picks up field image signals from a CCD image sensor by adding signal charges of two adjacent pixels and, based on the field image signals, displays a moving picture on an LCD according to an interlace-scanning m... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7345704 | Imaging apparatus for capturing an object with low luminance by adding pixels of the same color from different fields In the present invention, first of all, an image in each field is monitored by carrying out monitoring. An evaluation value of an AE is calculated from a result of the monitoring, and if the result of the calculation shows that the image is not in low luminance, dat... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333139 | Digital camera having correction of center positions of color pixels generated by mixing of pixels of the same color In a digital camera by the use of a CCD of a honeycomb array, the center positions of mixed pixels of colors B and G are fixed in (4k+1)th and (4k+2)th rows, wherein k represents an integer 0 or more, while the center positions of mixed pixels (mixed pixels R11 | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315330 | Solid-state image pickup element including a thinning method to discharge unnecessary image data In a case where a thinning operation is implemented at the point when signal charges are read out from each of pixels to thin out pixel information by lines (row), the thinning may be performed only in the vertical direction, but not in the horizontal direction. In ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7170046 | Color image capture element and color image signal processing circuit A color image capture element comprises a plurality of color component photoelectric conversion elements, each disposed with a color filter on a light receiving surface for respectively transmitting different color components, for receiving incoming light and select... | 01/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7106372 | Method and apparatus for programmable color balance in an image sensor An integrated circuit including a pixel sensor array having a set of pixel sensors arranged in a set of rows and a set of columns, the set of pixel sensors having a set of first color pixel sensors, a set of second color pixel sensors, and a set of third color pixel... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7071983 | System and method for controlling photosensitive charge transfers A system for controlling photosensitive charge transfers utilizes an array of photosensitive elements, a transfer gate, a charge transfer register, and a controller. The transfer gate is coupled to the photosensitive elements, and the charge transfer register is cou... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7057645 | Camera system that compensates low luminance by composing multiple object images In a digital camera using an image pickup device such as CCD, a high resolution and properly exposed image is obtained by composition a plurality of image data of the same object taken by a plurality of image pickup operation when a luminance of the object is lower.... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053948 | Solid-state image pickup device with discharge gate operable in an arbitrary timing A solid-state image pickup device has a discharge gate and a discharge drain provided adjacent to a connection of a vertical CCD and a horizontal CCD so that charges accumulated for an arbitrary pixel can be completely depleted. Data can be read at an arbitrary deci... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7015963 | CCD sensor incorporating parallel diffusion regions within the output In a CCD sensor in which electric charges derived from a plurality of detecting elements 2 are outputted from a signal output portion 9, two diffusion portions 22A and 22B are provided in a parallel manner to each other in the signal outp... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6930724 | Solid-state image sensing apparatus with a relative positional light shift Light from an object is incident to an image sensing device and converted into an image signal. The image sensing device is exposed to the light by a shutter, provided between the object and the solid-state image sensing device, for a first exposure period and a sec... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6549233 | Color interpolation system A color interpolation technique may use a Bayer matrix or pattern. In one embodiment, a color intensity gradient may be calculated between data from a center pixel in the Bayer pattern and the sensor spaced from the center pixel. A minimum and maximum gra... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6545713 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus In an output section (11d) of an image sensor (11), information charges are discharged from a capacitance at a reset clock $c;r1, which is twice the period of a horizontal clock $c;h, and the information charges for two pixels are accumulated in the... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6496224 | Imaging device including thinned read out mode and all pixel read out mode To avoid mixtures of signal charges read out in an all-pixel read out mode and also in a thinning read out mode, a charge sweeping-out pulse is produced from a timing generating circuit of a CCD solid-state imaging device. In the CCD solid-state imaging d... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6459450 | Infrared filterless pixel structure A pixel structure of an image sensor, the pixel structure for providing sensor signals in response to incident light is provided. The pixel structure includes light selective elements, the light selective elements having predetermined thicknesses to absor... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6134631 | Non-volatile memory with embedded programmable controller Computer systems may be provided with additional performance for demanding applications while adding little additional hardware. For example, a slave device for a host computer system combines an embedded programmable controller with non-volatile memory, ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5838840 | Inspection device using a field mode video camera with interpolation to replace missing pixels A video inspection device using a field mode CCD camera. In order to inspect the printing on a moving web, a field mode CCD camera is provided with a zoom lens and strobe light. The image obtained is processed so that only alternate pixels of the image ar... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5784101 | Image reading apparatus having charge transfer means between the plurality of lines of photoelectric conversion means A color linear image sensor is constituted by forming a plurality of linear image sensors on a single wafer, each linear image sensor including a photoelectric conversion unit for converting light from an object into an electrical signal, a plurality of c... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5754229 | Electronic image sensor with multiple, sequential or staggered exposure capability for color snap shot cameras and other high speed applications An image sensor device capable of snap shot color applications comprising an array of image registers for converting the light from successive image frame exposures into indicative charge packets, and an array of light-shielded storage registers intersper... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5613156 | Imaging system with 1-N Parallel channels, each channel has a programmable amplifier and ADC with serial controller linking and controlling the amplifiers and ADCs An imaging system having an image sensor which is read out as a plurality of parallel image signals. A plurality of parallel image signal processing channels are provided to process said plurality of image signals. Each channel includes a programmable I/O... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5579047 | Image signal processing apparatus using color filters and an image pick-up device providing interlaced field signals An image signal processing apparatus comprises an image pick-up device driven in an interlaced manner, a color filter having portions for passing luminance components located in an offset manner and a memory for storing the signal read out from the image ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5526048 | White balance adjusting device for an electronic still camera A white balance adjusting device includes a dichroic prism for dividing light reflected from an object into a green-component, a red-component and a blue-component. These primary color components are incident on a first CCD, a second CCD and a third CCD. ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5436662 | Imaging apparatus having a solid state matrix-type imaging element and pulse generator for the expanding the dynamic range In an imaging apparatus capable of expanding a dynamic range image signals of different levels are read simultaneously from a solid-state element whose light-receiving surface is divided. Read 1/2 frame image signals are switched by a changeover switch ci... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5340977 | Solid-state image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device, and in particular, a CCD image sensor is capable of color reading, wherein n lines (nࣙ2) of photo diodes disposing a plurality of photodiodes straightly are disposed parallel adjacently to each other, and adjacent n li... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5319451 | Color signal processing apparatus using a common low pass filter for the luminance signal and the color signals A color signal processing apparatus for processing signals from a color signal-plate sensor having an offset sampling filter array and obtaining a luminance signal and a plurality of color signals, wherein a vertical and/or horizontal low-pass filter is u... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5305096 | Image signal processing apparatus using color filters and an image pick-up device providing, interlaced field signals An image signal processing apparatus comprises an image pick-up device driven in an interlaced manner, a color filter having portions for passing luminance components located in an offset manner and a memory for storing the signal read out from the image ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5283633 | Solid state image pickup device in which picture elements of green are generated in vertical charge transfer paths A solid-state image pickup device in which a plurality of optoelectric transducing elements are vertically and horizontally arranged into a matrix array, groups of optoelectric transducing elements arrayed in first rows serve as picture elements having a ... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5282043 | Color video camera and method for improving resolution of a semiconductor image sensor A color television camera has a semiconductor image sensor composed of sensor elements of the CCD type arranged in a raster. The charges produced in the sensor elements within an integration interval are read out as video signals. The image on the semicon... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5278661 | Image pickup apparatus wherein output signals in one field are transferred two filter elements and in the other field they are first transferred one filter element and subsequently a second filter element A solid-state image pickup apparatus of the type from which signal charge can be read out for two lines at a time, wherein the amount of smear is made equal at locations above and below a point light source on a screen and a correcting circuit for such sm... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276508 | Analog signal processor for electronic imaging system providing highly accurate reproduction of images An electronic imaging system employes a linear charge coupled device (CCD) imaging unit and a unique analog signal processor (ASP) implemented on a single integrated circuit chip. The ASP has a plurality of matched signal channels for receiving respective... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5266425 | Self-aligned process for applying color filters to electronic output color image intensifiers A method for fabricating a stripe color filter for the input of an image intensifier having a color-interpretive CCD output includes ascertaining CCD subpixel-to input coordinate correlation by test illumination with a positioning laser having low power. ... | 11/30/1993 |
