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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8120683 | High resoultion digital imaging apparatus An integrated application specific integrated circuit having a detection layer, a time delayed integration capability, data acquisition electronics, and a readout function is provided for detecting breast cancer in women. The detection layer receives x-ray radiation... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8005338 | Recording and reproducing device The following configuration is preferable for providing a digital broadcast-enabled recording and reproducing device involving no lip-sync error and offering good usability. For example, the recording and reproducing device includes a receiver that receives digital ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7952633 | Apparatus for continuous clocking of TDI sensors A method and apparatus for propagating charge through a sensor and implementation thereof is provided. The method and apparatus may be used to inspect specimens, the sensor operating to advance an accumulated charge between gates of the TDI sensor. The design implem... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7675561 | Time delayed integration CMOS image sensor with zero desynchronization A time delayed integration image sensor provides over-sampled image data on a time-shared column bus to maintain data synchronization. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7609309 | Continuous clocking of TDI sensors A method and apparatus for propagating charge through a time division and integration (TDI) sensor is provided. The method and apparatus may be used with the TDI sensor to inspect specimens, the TDI sensor operating to advance an accumulated charge between gates of ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7532242 | Pipelined amplifier time delay integration A series of time delay integration TDI stages each integrate a photocurrent from a separate detector such as detectors in an array. In a first stage 20, a first integrator is initialized with a fixed bias 30, and integrates a signal from a first detect... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7417243 | High-sensitivity optical scanning using memory integration An inspection system includes a CMOS integrated circuit having integrally formed thereon an at least two dimensional array of photosensors and providing an inspection output representing an object to be inspected. A defect analyzer is operative to receive the inspec... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7358996 | Device for detecting a photonic flux with self-adaptive scanning Scanning type device for detection of a photonic flux emitted by a scene containing at least one acquisition channel (V) comprising: several useful detectors (1) aligned with the scanning, each associated with a preamplifier... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355385 | Voltage injector and detector using pixel array for printed circuit board testing One embodiment includes an injector pixel array having injector pixels each coupled to the bottom surface of a conductive material having a directional electrical conductivity only in a direction corresponding to a path between the bottom surface and top surface of ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7324147 | Intermittent driving type imaging device for portable terminal An imaging system controller (5) outputs a control signal (VC). The control signal (VC) gives a command to output driving clocks (φVn, φHm) of an imaging element (1) in a signal transmission period, and a command to suspend output of the clocks (φVn... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7289144 | Flicker detection apparatus, a flicker correction apparatus, an image-pickup apparatus, a flicker detection program and a flicker correction program A flicker detection apparatus takes in a plurality of images having different shutter times from the image sensing element and judges whether flicker occurs or not based on a variation of flicker components extracted from these images so that the accuracy of flicker... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277566 | Microscope system A microscope system comprises: a control means (18) capable of generating electric control signals (18a); a spatial modulator means (7) having an illuminated surface (7a) to be illuminated by light emitted by a light source ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274398 | Autoblank readout mode The present invention implements an automated blank time function, which calculates a horizontal and/or a vertical blank time for a desired integration time and window size. Input data and control signals for predetermined integration time and window size are provid... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268814 | Time-delayed-integration imaging with active pixel sensors Imaging techniques and devices for performing time-delayed integration based on active pixel sensors. An integrator array is integrated on the chip with the active pixel sensors to perform correlated double sampling and the signal summing based switching capacitor b... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265828 | Spectroscopy imager methods and apparatus having extended dynamic range Methods and apparatus for imaging spectral lines are disclosed. Spectral lines are imaged using an imager that includes photosensitive cells. The photosensitive cells are arranged to form channels including banks of photosensitive cells. Horizontal blooming barriers... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262888 | Optical scanner apparatus with pinhole imaging device A pinhole-imaging device is used as an imaging device for an optical scanner apparatus. The pinhole-imaging device replaces the conventional lens-imaging device and is placed in front of the optical sensor to receive the imaged light from the scanning object and the... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7247829 | Solid-state image sensor with an optical black area having pixels for detecting black level A digital camera includes an image sensor having an array of CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) cells on which an optical image is focused via a lens and a shutter. The image sensor produces an image signal by photoelectric conversion. The image signal is clamped by an ana... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7212240 | Imager with a row of photodiodes or pinned photo diodes A TDI sensor includes a first readout register and a plurality of sensor columns. The first readout register includes a plurality of first readout register elements. A first sensor column includes a photogate and a diode photodetector at an end. The diode photodetec... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7184610 | Miniaturized microscope array digital slide scanner An array of microscopes and a method of imaging an object with the array of microscopes. The array includes a plurality of optical elements being individually disposed with respect to a corresponding image plane and configured to image respective sections of an obje... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7145600 | Image pickup apparatus having a plurality of CCDs, charge detecting circuits, and A/D conversion circuits An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image pickup element formed on a single semiconductor chip, the solid-state image pickup element including photoelectric conversion units arranged two-dimensionally, a plurality of CCDs for transferring charges genera... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7129509 | High-sensitivity optical scanning using memory integration An inspection system includes a CMOS integrated circuit having integrally formed thereon an at least two dimensional array of photosensors and providing an inspection output representing an object to be inspected. A defect analyzer is operative to receive the inspec... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7106526 | Thin imaging apparatus, a thin camera, and an imaging method A thin imaging apparatus with an extremely low profile captures high quality images with outstanding resolution. The imaging apparatus has a light guide, incidence mirror, imaging device, and aperture unit. The incidence mirror reflects and guides light from a subje... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7084973 | Variable binning CCD for spectroscopy An apparatus includes a source of spectral light indicative of a sample to be measured, a camera to sense a spectrum, and a chromatic dispersion device to spatially separate light from the sample to be measured into the spectrum. The camera includes a sensor and con... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7046283 | Arrangements of clock line drivers A circuit includes a circuit chip and a plurality of clock drivers external to the circuit chip. The circuit chip includes a plurality of isolated clocking subunits and a corresponding plurality of terminals. Each clocking subunit is electrically isolated from any o... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7009163 | High-sensitivity optical scanning using memory integration An inspection system includes a CMOS integrated circuit having integrally formed thereon an at least two dimensional array of photosensors and providing an inspection output representing an object to be inspected. A defect analyzer is operative to receive the inspec... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6980241 | Solid image capturing device, lens unit and image capturing apparatus including an optical mask for storing characteristic data A solid image capturing device outputs image data and characteristic data of the solid image capturing device on the same output signal line. Both outputs are processed by the same circuit. In one embodiment, the characteristic data is optically stored in the solid ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6970193 | Electronic imaging apparatus operable in two modes with a different optical black correction procedure being effected in each mode An image pickup apparatus including: CCD image pickup device; a correction reference signal generating section for generating a correction reference signal for correcting effective image signals of the image pickup device from output signals of a vertical optical bl... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6944322 | Optical tomography of small objects using parallel ray illumination and post-specimen optical magnification A parallel-beam optical tomography system for imaging an object of interest includes a parallel ray beam radiation source that illuminates the object of interest with a plurality of parallel radiation beams. After passing through the object of interest the pattern o... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6933975 | TDI imager with automatic speed optimization An apparatus and a method for synchronizing the velocity of an image of a moving object and the clocking of image sensor elements used to track the moving target. The imaging apparatus includes a two-dimensional array of image sensor elements being configured to sen... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6927396 | High-speed pulse discriminating gamma ray camera A gamma ray camera A includes a crystal array S which includes a plurality of pixels 4 each of which outputs a pixel signal in response to receiving a gamma ray. A first circuit (6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 22) outputs for each pixel 4 of the cr... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6917026 | Radiation-image readout apparatus and line sensor to be deployed therein A radiation-image data readout apparatus in which the charge transferring time occurring during a readout operation utilizing a line sensor having a broad-width light-receiving portion is shortened is provided. A line sensor having two photodiode portions, each havi... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914701 | Digitizer with improved dynamic range and photometric resolution A digitizer having a dual exposure technique is combined with an associated LUT for each exposure. Each LUT may have a transfer function including a logarithmic operator resulting in a digitized image with improved photometric resolution and increased dynamic range.... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6914629 | Image capture control A method of operating a solid state image sensor (1) for the acquisition of an image generated by an asynchronous stimulus (S) is described in which the sensor is operated in conjunction with at least one detector (4) which detects the said asynchronou... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6906749 | CMOS TDI image sensor A column slice of a CMOS TDI sensor includes a column bus, a column of pixels, plural first switches, a column of accumulators, plural second switches, plural third switches and output bus 39. Each of the plural first switches is coupled between the column bu... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6825877 | Multiplex bucket brigade circuit A sensor chip assembly time delay integration circuit useful with image sensing arrays uses a duplex bucket brigade circuit (120) with two or more charge transfer paths, a number of capacitors (130, 133, 136) common to the charge transfer paths, and a ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822681 | Image capturing device for capturing a shape of a measurement subject A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises a light source and an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes. The light source outputs a pulsed distance measuring light beam simultaneously with a discharge of unwanted charges from the... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6762795 | Bi-directional capable bucket brigade circuit A time delay integration circuit in which a number of unit cell inputs (101, 103, 105, 107) along with their respective switches (170, 171, 172, 173) are input to a bi-directional BBD circuit (110). The BBD circuit performs an SCA TDI with reduc... | 07/13/2004 |
| RE38499 | Two-stage amplifier for active pixel sensor cell array for reducing fixed pattern noise in the array output An active pixel sensor cell array in which a two-stage amplifier amplifies the output of each cell. The two-stage amplifier design reduces fixed pattern noise in the image data generated by reading the array, by providing increased gain for the output of each cell w... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6714283 | Sensor and method for range measurements using a TDI device A sensor and method for taking range measurements of a target object using a TDI device as a detector are provided. The device is positioned to detect reflections of a structured light beam on the target object. To avoid losing the range information in the TDI proce... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6630957 | Solid state imaging apparatus and method of driving the same In a solid state imaging apparatus, a normal function to read a pixel signal and an electronic shutter function are both realized by using a single shift register. The shift register successively transmits a driving signal supplied from a control unit. A ... | 10/07/2003 |
