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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7679667 | Solid-state image sensor using junction gate type field-effect transistor as pixel A source region and drain region are formed in a surface region of a first semiconductor region. Moreover, a second semiconductor region connected to the drain region is formed in the surface region of the first semiconductor region. A third semiconductor region is ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7679666 | Solid-state logarithmic image sensing device In a solid-state image-sensing device, after completion of image sensing by individual pixels, in each pixel, a signal φVRB fed to a capacitor C1 connected to the gate of a first MOS transistor T1 is turned to a high level to make it easy for a negati... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675562 | CMOS image sensor including column driver circuits and method for sensing an image using the same The image senor includes a plurality of row lines and a plurality of column lines crossing the plurality of row lines. A pixel is formed at respective crossings of the row and column lines. Each pixel generates a charge based on light incident thereon and selectivel... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671915 | Solid-state imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having two-dimensionally arrayed unit pixels each having a first pixel and a second pixel respectively containing photoelectric conversion devices that are located at positions regarded as the same position ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671914 | Increasing readout speed in CMOS APS sensors through block readout A method and associated architecture for dividing column readout circuitry in an active pixel sensor in a manner which reduces the parasitic capacitance on the readout line. In a preferred implementation, column readout circuits are grouped in blocks and provided wi... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7667755 | Variable sensitivity imaging device including a pulse voltage applying section, and imaging apparatus including the same A variable sensitivity imaging device comprises: a substrate; a photosensitive layer which is stacked above the substrate, and which is interposed between a pixel electrode layer and an opposing electrode layer; a signal reading section, formed on the substrate, tha... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667754 | Amplifying solid-state imaging device An input side of a switched capacitor amplifier section is connected to output sides of transfer transistors of a photoelectric conversion transfer section group comprised of a prescribed number of a plurality of photoelectric conversion transfer sections, each of w... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7663682 | Variable sensitivity imaging device including a voltage applying section, and imaging apparatus including the same A variable sensitivity imaging device comprises: a substrate; a photosensitive layer which is stacked above the substrate, and which is interposed between a pixel electrode layer and an opposing electrode layer; a signal reading section, formed on said substrate, th... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663683 | Solid state image sensing device which performs a linear conversion operation and a logarithmic conversion operation A solid state image sensing device includes an MOS transistor T2 that has a source thereof connected to a drain of an MOS transistor T1 being provided with a transfer gate which is connected to an embedded photodiode PD; an MOS transistor T5 tha... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663681 | CMOS active pixel and method of driving the same In a driving method of a complementary metal oxide semiconductor active pixel, timing of a transmission control signal and a reset control signal generated in a read-out section is performed in advance in a reset section. A potential wall between a photodiode area a... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656449 | Solid-state imaging apparatus having gate potential that is negtive with respect to a well region Each unit pixel includes a photodiode, a reading selection transistor, a reading transistor, an amplifying transistor, a reset transistor, and a horizontal selection transistor, and thus a MOS image sensor of a dot-sequential reading 5-Tr type is formed. The reading... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652703 | Dual panel pixel readout in an imager An imager having two panels of pixels (i.e., the imager's rows of pixels are split into two panels) that are controllable by separate row decoders. The dual panel architecture allows pipelining of pixel readout and column readout operations to improve the imager's f... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652708 | Solid-state imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel section having two-dimensionally arrayed pixels each having a photoelectric conversion means, a memory means for storing photoelectric conversion signal, a transfer means for transferring the photoelectric conversion... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652706 | Pixel analog-to-digital converter using a ramped transfer gate clock An image sensor includes a photosensitive region that accumulates charge corresponding to received incident light; a transfer gate for transferring charge from the photosensitive region; a voltage supply having an increasing voltage over time; a floating diffusion f... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652704 | Pixel for boosting pixel reset voltage A pixel cell in which a capacitance is coupled between a storage node and a row select transistor. The pixel cell utilizes a readout timing sequence between operation of a reset transistor and a row select transistor to boost a reset voltage. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652705 | Photoelectric conversion film-stacked type solid-state imaging device To achieve high sensitivity in such a manner that photoelectric charges generated by photoelectric conversion films are made to flow into gates of output transistors smoothly to increase a signal voltage relative to signal charges, a solid-state imaging device inclu... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652707 | Pixel circuit with reduced wiring A pixel circuit of an image sensor includes a floating diffusion node and a reset transistor. The reset transistor is coupled between the floating diffusion node and a reset control signal node of another pixel circuit of the image sensor. A voltage applied on the r... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649560 | Solid state image sensors A pinned-photodiode image sensor using shared output amplifiers, for example output amplifiers in the 2.5T arrangement has transfer gate control lines alternating or cross-coupled between successive columns or adjacent rows. This assists in removing row-row mismatch... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649561 | Physical quantity detecting device and imaging apparatus A physical quantity detecting device includes: a detecting unit that detects a physical quantity supplied from the outside; and pixels which are two-dimensionally arranged and each of which has a selecting transistor for outputting a signal from the detecting unit t... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7643077 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system having the apparatus In order to provide a photoelectric conversion apparatus, which is an apparatus excellent in reading speed, high S/N, high tone level, and low cost, the photoelectric conversion apparatus has a photoelectric conversion circuit section comprising a plurality of photo... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643076 | Image scanning device having multiple CMOS element in matrix form An image scanning device divides an image scanning element group into a plurality of areas and an image signal is output for every area. The device includes a plurality of charge integrating units respective provided in each of the plurality of areas for integrating... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639298 | Imaging device Adjacent pixels in a pixel circuit of an imaging device use a primary capacitance, an amplifying transistor, a reset switch and a selection switch in common. Each pixel has a photodiode and a transfer switch having first and second gates provided on the photodiode s... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7639297 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus is provided, which comprises a plurality of image pickup areas formed on a same semiconductor chip and arranged in the horizontal and the vertical directions, each image pickup area having a plurality of pixels arranged in the horizontal an... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7639296 | Solid state imaging apparatus AD conversion is rapidly carried out with a low load, and high-quality digital image signals are output by simultaneous AD conversion, without increasing the sizes of a pixel array and an optical system. A pixel array (110) includes pixels (111)... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7633541 | Image pickup apparatus having a correction unit for a digital image signal An image pickup apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric converting element; a plurality of capacitor which receive signals from the plurality of pixels at first terminals; a plurality of clamping switches for setting a second termi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630011 | High-speed sampling of signals in active pixel sensors Techniques are disclosed for enhancing the speed at which pixel levels are read out and sampled for processing. A method of processing pixel levels includes clamping a pixel readout line to a voltage level less than a voltage corresponding to a signal sensed by an n... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626627 | Photoelectric conversion layer stack type color solid-state imaging device A color solid state imaging device as defined herein, which includes an output signal processing section including: signal memory means provided for respective columns of the unit pixels, for holding signals read-out from the pixels of the same color of the same uni... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626624 | Serial output from a CMOS imager Systems, methods and devices related to detecting and transmitting images. Imaging systems and devices as well as methods of using such that are provided herein include flicker detection and/or correction; and/or built-in self test associated with various analog cir... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626628 | Photoelectric conversion device, image sensor, optical reader, and method of driving photoelectric conversion device Provided is a photoelectric conversion device, including: a plurality of photoelectric conversion blocks each including a photoelectric conversion element, photoelectric conversion element resetting means for supplying an initialization potential to the photoelectri... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626625 | Solid-state imaging device and camera system A solid state imaging device able to make noise from a nonselected row small, able to suppress occurrence of vertical stripes in a bright scene, not requiring charging including a floating node capacity via a reset transistor, able to prevent an increase of a driver... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626626 | Method and apparatus providing pixel storage gate charge sensing for electronic stabilization in imagers An imaging device that stores charge from a photosensor under at least one storage gate. A driver used to operate the at least one storage gate, senses how much charge was transferred to the storage gate. The sensed charge is used to obtain at least one signature of... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623175 | Solid state image sensing device for analog-averaging and sub-sampling of image signals at a variable sub-sampling rate and method of driving the same Provided are a CMOS image sensor (CIS) type image sensing device for averaging and sub-sampling analog image signals at a variable sub-sampling rate and a method of driving the same. The image sensing device includes: a two-dimensional active pixel sensor (APS) arra... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7619674 | CMOS image sensor with wide dynamic range The present invention provides a CMOS image sensor for broadening a dynamic range by controlling an integration time for each pixel to thereby obtain a high quality image with a low noise. The CMOS image sensor according to the present invention includes plural pixe... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7619673 | Image sensor, driving method and camera An image sensor includes the following: a sensor unit being made up of a plurality of pixels; a scanning circuit having a dynamic logic circuit which outputs selection signals that select pixels from among the plurality of pixels in the sensor unit; and a bootstrap ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7619672 | Retrograde well structure for a CMOS imager A retrograde well structure for a CMOS imager that improves the quantum efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio of the imager. The retrograde well comprises a doped region with a vertically graded dopant concentration that is lowest at the substrate surface, and highes... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616244 | Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving the same To read stable image information by making small in a short time the amount of change in potential at the time the potential of signal wires or sensor bias wires drops a moment, the device is, in the refresh mode of photoelectric conversion pixels, so driven that th... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616245 | Active pixel sensor with a diagonal active area An imaging device formed as a CMOS semiconductor integrated circuit having two adjacent pixels in a row connected to a common column line. By having adjacent pixels of a row share column lines, the CMOS imager circuit eliminates half the column lines of a traditiona... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7612818 | Input sensor containing display device and method for driving the same An input sensor containing a display device including a group of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, a group of optical sensor circuits arranged in a matrix, a display driving circuit which provides a display signal to the display element group and which provides a... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7612817 | CMOS image sensor with noise cancellation An image sensor that has one or more pixels within a pixel array. The pixel array may be coupled to a control circuit and one or more subtraction circuits. The control circuit may cause each pixel to provide a first reference output signal and a reset output signal.... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7612819 | CMOS image sensor and method of operating the same A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and a method for operating the same are provided. The CMOS image sensor includes a pixel array unit having a matrix of pixels, wherein each pixel comprises a charge transfer element for transferring charg... | 11/03/2009 |