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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7619669 | Power savings with multiple readout circuits An imager with a switch circuit located between, and connected to, the pixel array and associated readout chains. In one embodiment the switch is located within the column sample and hold circuitry; in another embodiment the switch is located between the column samp... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7408443 | Circuit and method for reducing fixed pattern noise An image sensor and method, which includes a switching device for establishing a connection between at least one column line and one of at least two analog-to-digital converter blocks, where at least one of the at least two analog-to-digital converter blocks is conn... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7336306 | Solid-state image sensor efficiently utilizing its dynamic range and image pickup apparatus using the same A solid-state image sensor includes photodiodes, which constitute pixels, shifted in position from each other and red (R), green (G) and blue (B) filter segments fitted on the photodiodes in a preselected pattern. R transfer gates, G transfer gates and B transfer ga... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7330599 | Contour compensation circuit, and a method and program for contour compensation, and an image signal display device A contour compensation circuit that generates a contour-compensated signal by which a signal level of a contour of the object is emphasized, from an image signal obtained by an image pickup of an object. This circuit includes a reverse gamma controller, a contour co... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327500 | Image inputting apparatus All electric charges accumulated in a line sensor are transferred via a first shift gate to a first analog shift register. By controlling the width of a shift pulse signal to be supplied to a second shift gate, the amount of an electric charge transfer when the elec... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7301574 | Charge coupled device for outputting image data A solid-state imaging element comprising a plurality of light-receiving sensors that convert optical signals into electrical signals and a memory storing the electrical signals. The memory is formed of a plurality of line buffers corresponding to the pixel units pro... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7259394 | Solid-state imaging device A vertical transfer charge-coupled device for vertically transferring signal charges, a horizontal transfer charge-coupled device for receiving and horizontally transferring the transferred signal charges, an unwanted electron eliminator, and a potential barrier bet... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7236196 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus for reading out image signals with pixels reduced in a horizontal direction and a signal reading method for the same A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter having an R (red), G (green) and B (blue) vertical stripe pattern. During preliminary pickup, a signal feeding section feeds particular drive signals for reading signal charges out of only odd-numbered col... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230646 | Single sensor electronic video camera technique with diagonally coupled pixels A method for producing electronic video signals representative of color images of a scene, includes the following steps: providing a sensor having a color filter thereover; providing a motion picture film camera type of lens system that focuses light from the image ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227570 | Solid-state image pickup device and signal processing method therefor The invention makes it possible to perform effective A/D conversion on pixel signals read from a pixel array part, to achieve a reduction in power consumption and reductions in the size and the price of an image pickup device as well as simplification of the constru... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223955 | Solid-state imaging element and imaging device with dynamically adjustable sensitivities and method thereof A solid-state imaging element converts light intensity into an electric charge signal and stores the thus-converted electric charge signal through use of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a square lattice pattern on the surface of a semico... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7030915 | Signal processing apparatus A signal transfer gain is prevented from being lowered by parasitic capacitance. A signal processing apparatus is provided which includes switches provided for a plurality of signal sources, a common line to which signals from the plurality of signal sources are seq... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7012644 | Multiple output node charge coupled device A system for optically imaging includes an array of cells, a charge shift register, two or more charge sensing nodes, and a charge demultiplexor. Each cell produces an electrical charge in response to photon stimulation. The charge shift register receives the electr... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6980242 | Solid state image sensing device A solid-state image sensing device comprising a photoelectric converter portion, a solid-state image sensor, and a controlling means. The photoelectric converter portion has a plurality of photoelectric converters arranged in two dimensions on a semiconductor substr... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6803951 | Apparatus and method for video image information processing In a digital video camera unit wherein its CCD outputs an image pickup signal with an odd line and an even line in the 1HD period to convert the image pickup signal to luminance signal and color signal, a line memory portion for separating each line of two image pic... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6795119 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus for producing image signals with pixel signals mixed in a horizontal direction and a signal reading method for the same A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a timing signal feeding section for outputting signals assigned to a preliminary pickup mode as well as signals assigned to an actual pickup mode that follows the preliminary pickup mode. In the preliminary pickup mode, ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6784928 | Solid state image pickup device and signal reading method thereof A solid state image pickup device has a drive unit with an all pixel drive mode for reading all pixels in a horizontal direction and a pixel skip drive mode for reading pixels in the horizontal direction by skipping some pixels, and a plurality of read-out systems f... | 08/31/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6600512 | Color linear image sensor having small line-to line distance and its driving method Disclosed is a color linear image sensor having a small line-to-line distance, which comprises signal charge storage sections adjacent to light receiving sections. Signal charges are read by signal charge reading sections from the signal charge storage se... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6169577 | Color CCD solid-state image pickup A color CCD solid-state image pickup device having a color filter array such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction. Even rows and odd rows of pixels arrayed in a matrix respectively have the same filter arrays and it is th... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6034366 | Color linear CCD image device and driving method A color linear CCD for a pickup apparatus comprises a photodiode array including a blue-sensing photodiode array formed between a red-sensing photodiode array and a green-sensing photodiode array. A storage area is located beside of the red-sensing photod... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5847758 | Color CCD solid-state image pickup device A color CCD solid-state image pickup device having a color filter array such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction. Even rows and odd rows of pixels arrayed in a matrix respectively have the same filter arrays and it is th... | 12/08/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5625412 | High-frame rate image acquisition and motion analysis system A high-frame rate image acquisition and motion analysis system comprising a first arrangement to obtain an image of an object; a second arrangement coupled to the first arrangement to slice the image into N analog segments, where N is equal to an integer ... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5485204 | Solid state image sensor and imaging method using spatial pixel offset A solid state image sensor and an imaging method using a spatial pixel offset, in which in each field, charges of pixels of solid state imaging devices for green color and red/blue colors are separately summed and mass center of the summed charges for the... | 01/16/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5285295 | Line image sensor A shift register of a CCD line image sensor is divided into two from the center thereof so as to transfer the signal electrical charge for output portions placed on both ends of the sensor, so that the line image sensor has a higher data rate, and reduced... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5063439 | Solid state pickup system having improved color reproducibility A solid state pickup system having improved color reproducibility characteristics involves using additional photodetector elements to produce color signals including wavelength components in areas of negative stimulus values. These color signals are subtr... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5027195 | Color detection and/or recognition apparatus A color detection and/or recognition apparatus comprises a twin row array (16) of detector elements, each element being arranged to produce an electrical signal on detection of a given color. The two rows (21, 22) each comprise a plurality of groups of de... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4989075 | Solid-state image sensor device A solid-state image sensing device comprises photoelectric image sensors disposed in parallel with each other for receiving an optical image, vertical transfer members coupled to the image sensors, and horizontal transfer members coupled to output of the ... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4985758 | Signal processing system having selected output from plural readout devices A signal processing system has an image pickup device and a plurality of different color filters which generate a plurality of color signals. A memory stores the color signals, and a plurality of readout devices divides the signals from the memory into th... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4935808 | Low-noise image pickup device having readout transfer paths for divided image information An image pickup device has an image sensor which converts an optical image into electric information, and readout transfer paths to divide the information of one horizontal line of the sensor and to read it out, e.g., as dot signals. A control device dist... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4924316 | Solid color pickup apparatus A solid pickup apparatus comprises a photo sensitive portion comprising photosensitive means and photosensitive transfer means for receiving a light including image information and generating respectively first signal charges and second signal charges the... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4821088 | Solid-state color image pickup unit with mosaic color filter and two horizontal output registers A solid-state image pickup unit in which two neighboring horizontal lines are paired for scanning. In the vertical transfer, the photocharge signals on the two lines are transferred to different horizontal CCDs, which concurrently shift out their contents... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4814865 | Color picture solid image-pickup element A color picture solid-state pickup element comprising a solid-state image sensor and a colored matrix microfilter. The image sensor has photo elements arranged in a matrix. The horizontal lines are paired into scanning lines. The scanning lines alternate ... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4802001 | Micro filter arrangement in an interlaced solid-state image pickup element A solid image pickup element for use in interlaced scanning in which at least two lines of photo-elements are simultaneously read in one interlaced scanning line. The lines are algebraically combined to reproduce the color signals and different groups of ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4791307 | Method for reading out charges in solid-state image pickup unit A method for reading out signal charges in a solid-state image pickup unit providing either an improved resolution for a constant vertical integration density or a reduced vertical integration density while maintaining the same resolution. The photoelectr... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4761683 | Charge transfer in multiple sensor row arrays A scanner system for detecting images on a surface and generating an electronic representation thereof for transmission to an image processing system, including at least first, second and third rows of n sensors generating charges representative of detect... | 08/02/1988 |
