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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189086 | Image sensing apparatus and image capturing system that performs a thinning-out readout An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel array; a selection unit which selects a readout region in the pixel array; and a readout unit which reads out a signal from the readout region, wherein in thinning-out readout, the readout unit reads out signals from a f... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8159581 | Photoelectric conversion device and image pickup system using the photoelectric conversion device It is a principle object of the present invention to reduce a voltage drop of a common power supply wiring in a plurality of amplification circuits to suppress crosstalk generated in other signal output lines. A photoelectric conversion device includes: a plurality ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149310 | Readout system and method for an image sensor A readout system with enhanced dynamic range for an image sensor is constructed with a pixel circuit and a readout circuit. The pixel circuit includes at least a first amplifier with a first gain and a second amplifier with a second gain for amplifying signals from ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149309 | Solid-state imaging device and camera system A solid-state imaging device and a camera system are disclosed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit and a pixel signal readout circuit. The pixel signal readout circuit includes a plurality of comparators disposed to correspond to a pixel column arr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149308 | Solid-state image pickup device A high dynamic range solid-state image pickup device is provided with a plurality of unit cells, which convert light into signal charges and accumulate the signal charges. The unit cells are arranged by rows and columns for outputting a signal voltage corresponding ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144224 | Binning circuit and method for an image sensor A binning circuit and method for an image sensor is disclosed. A column amplifier (CA) is first reset, and thus generates a CA reset signal. A capacitor and a switch network are coupled between an output of the image sensor and an input of the column amplifier. A co... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134622 | Imaging device An imaging device has pixels being disposed two-dimensionally, in matrix, a plurality of vertical signal lines each coupled to a plurality of the pixels in a column direction, a column amplifier amplifying an optical signal and a reset signal, and a holding part hol... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8094223 | Bus driving in an image sensor A bus driver having one or more feedback paths between a column amplifier and a pixel bus in an image sensor is described. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094224 | Solid-state image capturing apparatus A solid-state image capturing apparatus has a plurality of light receiving sections for performing photoelectric conversion on incident light to generate a signal charge, a charge transfer section provided along a light receiving section arranged in a column directi... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077239 | Solid-state image pickup device and camera A solid-state image pickup device which has means of adding signals from plural pixels, which achieves a high S/N and a pickup device suitable for both static and moving image pickup. The device has a pixel unit having plural pixels arranged two-dimensionally and ou... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072522 | Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and electronic apparatus A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which unit pixels are arrayed, a complementary-signal generating unit that generates two kinds of complementary signals having complementarity with each other on the basis of analog pixel signals read out from th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8054358 | Solid state image pickup device This invention improves linearity of a solid-state image pickup device beyond that of the prior art source follower to improve image quality. The image pickup device has plural pixels disposed in an array. Each pixel includes: a photodiode (PD); a transfer transisto... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8035713 | Driving circuit, driving method, solid imaging device, and electronic apparatus When a middle voltage within a withstanding voltage of a transistor from a first voltage VL as a low voltage of a source voltage and a second voltage VH as a high voltage of the source voltage is represented by VM and a third voltage within the withstanding voltage ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023022 | Solid-state imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging apparatus, comprising: a pixel section including a matrix having a plurality of pixels, each pixel including photoelectric conversion means, a storage section, transfer means, amplification means, and reset means, on a column basis, an output s... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8009213 | Image sensing apparatus and image capturing system An image sensing apparatus comprises a pixel and a driving unit, wherein the driving unit includes a buffer circuit including a first PMOS transistor and a first NMOS transistor, and letting V3 be a voltage supplied to a gate of the first NMOS transistor to s... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004590 | Solid-state imaging device, pixel-signal processing method, analog-signal transferring device, and analog-signal transferring method From a pixel array where imaging pixels are arranged, pixel signals of respective columns on a selected row are read in parallel in a horizontal blanking period of a horizontal period. The pixel signals of the respective columns are output to horizontal signal lines... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995124 | Image sensor apparatus and method for improved dynamic range with multiple readout circuit paths An image sensor apparatus comprises an image sensor for generating digital images having a high dynamic range. The image sensor apparatus includes an image sensor for generating a first and a second set of digital image samples at a first bit depth, with each set of... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990452 | Apparatus, methods and systems for amplifier Various embodiments comprise apparatus, methods, and systems that include an amplification apparatus comprising a first input, a second input, and an output, a first plurality of series-connected transistors including a first transistor having a first channel ratio ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7961237 | Photoelectric conversion device and image sensing system This invention discloses a photoelectric conversion device. The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of readout circuits which read out signals from p... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948540 | Photoelectric conversion device with isolation switches arranged between signal lines and amplifiers A photoelectric conversion device prevents a pseudo signal caused by the parasitic capacitance of a transfer switch from being input to an amplifier. A photoelectric conversion device (50) includes a pixel (10) which outputs a signal to a signal line (... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948539 | Signal detection method and apparatus, and radiation image signal detection method and system A signal detection method including the steps of: initiating integration of charge signals by an integrating amplifier; holding a first electrical signal integrated by the integrating amplifier during a time period from the start of the integration to the end of a p... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948541 | Signal reading apparatus and image pickup system using the signal reading apparatus A signal reading apparatus includes first and second common signal lines from which a signal from a signal generation unit is output and first and second amplifier circuits and a switch configured to control a conductive state of the first and the second common sign... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7911520 | Data conversion/output apparatus for digitalizing sensor data and outputting through a sensor array A data conversion/output device includes a number of sensors, voltage-time conversion circuits that are arranged adjacent to respective sensors and change output levels upon the lapse of times corresponding to output voltage values from the sensors after a conversio... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7893978 | Image capture device having amplification circuit for amplifying signal from photoelectric conversion portion An image capture device includes a plurality of image capture elements for capturing an object image, a plurality of vertical output lines for reading signals out of the plurality of image capture elements, and a plurality of processing circuits. Each processing cir... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889254 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus and contact-type image sensor To prevent such a situation that a signal from a pixel in a dark state is output at a level shifted from an originally set level to deteriorate an image quality, and to improve the image quality. A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to the present inventio... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884870 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus with current limiting units to limit excessive current to signal lines A photoelectric conversion apparatus is disclosed. A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel array in which pixels including photoelectric conversion units are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of first column signal lines wh... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7852390 | Photoelectric conversion device and image pickup system using the photoelectric conversion device It is a principle object of the present invention to reduce a voltage drop of a common power supply wiring in a plurality of amplification circuits to suppress crosstalk generated in other signal output lines. A photoelectric conversion device includes: a plurality ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839441 | Amplification type solid-state image pickup device An control unit of the amplification type solid-state image pickup device, during a first period T2, controls the gate voltage of the transfer transistor to a first gate voltage V1 to make electrons as signal charge transferred from the phototr... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7830436 | Method of controlling semiconductor device, signal processing method, semiconductor device, and electronic apparatus A pre-amplifier (column region unit) of a solid-state imaging device includes a pixel-signal controller. The pixel-signal controller, for each vertical signal line, detects the level of each pixel signal independently by a pixel-signal detector on the output side of... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7821555 | Multi path power for CMOS imagers An analog signal chain for a CMOS active pixel sensor imaging system utilizes, for each amplification stage, a plurality of fixed gain amplifiers instead of a single multi-gain amplifier. The fixed gain amplifier corresponding to the desired gain level is selected a... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7812876 | Photoelectric conversion device and image capturing device with variable amplifier for amplifying signal by a selected gain A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel output line, a pixel which outputs a signal to the pixel output line, an amplifier unit which amplifies the signal output to the pixel output line, and a holding capacitor which holds the signal output from the ampl... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808537 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus with fully differential amplifier To provide a configuration including a fully differential amplifier in which decrease in a reading speed can be suppressed. A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel area where a plurality of pixels are arranged; an amp... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800671 | Photosensitive cell being adapted to provide an image voltage of a reference voltage and a reading method therefor A method for reading from a cell of a network of photosensitive cells arranged in rows and in columns, each cell being adapted to providing an image voltage or a reference voltage, including charging, simultaneously for all the cells in the row of the cell, at least... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7755686 | Physical quantity distribution detecting apparatus and imaging apparatus A physical quantity distribution detecting apparatus includes a sensor array in which a plurality of unit sensors for sensing physical quantity are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix; and an analog-to-digital conversion unit that includes a plurality of comparat... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755688 | Photoelectric conversion device and image sensing system This invention discloses a photoelectric conversion device. The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of readout circuits which read out signals from p... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755689 | Imaging system with low noise pixel array column buffer An imaging system includes a row and column array of active pixels, each having an associated pitch. In response to respective control signals, each pixel outputs a reset level which includes noise components, or a signal level which includes signal and noise compon... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755687 | Imaging device and method of compensating sensitivity of the imaging device In an image pickup device and its sensitivity compensation method, the image pickup device includes an electron multiplying image pickup device for converting an image into an electrical signal, a temperature detection unit for detecting temperature of the electron ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742092 | Solid-state imaging device, pixel-signal processing method, analog-signal transferring device, and analog-signal transferring method A solid-state imaging device including: an imaging pixel region where a plurality of imaging pixels is disposed; a vertical selecting circuit for outputting pixel signals from imaging pixels of respective columns o... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742091 | Flexy-power amplifier: a new amplifier with built-in power management A voltage amplifier is provided. The voltage amplifier includes an amplifier stage to amplify an input signal. A bias current generator supplies a bias current to the amplifier stage. The bias current generator is controllable in response to a frame rate signal that... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7719586 | Solid-state imaging device, pixel-signal processing method, analog-signal transferring device, and analog-signal transferring method From a pixel array where imaging pixels are arranged, pixel signals of respective columns on a selected row are read in parallel in a horizontal blanking period of a horizontal period. The pixel signals of the respective columns are output to horizontal signal lines... | 05/18/2010 |
