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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159590 | Solid-state image sensing device When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154642 | Apparatus and method for controlling image sensor output An apparatus and method for controlling an image sensor output are discussed. When a certain number of valid pixels of an image sensor, such as a CCD, is selected, a corresponding timing parameter is calculated. Signal values output from charge wells respectively co... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144229 | Solid-state image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device including a driver-control unit configured to control the operation timing of a pulse-driven actuator driver based on the read timing of the sensor of a solid-state image pickup element is provided. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134629 | Image sensor driving unit and camera An image sensor driving unit, comprising a signal generator and a controller, is provided. The charge-transfer channel transfers the signal charges at a speed according to the frequency of a transfer signal. The signal generator transmits the first discharge signal ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130307 | Drive circuit and driving method for charge transfer unit and charge transfer system A drive circuit applying two or more drive voltages to a charge transfer unit includes at least one current mirror circuit that receives a reference current and outputs a predetermined current; at least one switch circuit that switches the current output from the at... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130306 | Electronic appliance using video camera responsive to detected motion of an operator within detection zones when the motion exceeds a threshold An electronic appliance includes a display. A screen of the display on which an image from a video camera is displayed is divided horizontally by N and vertically by M, to define a plurality of detection zones. A detection unit of the electronic appliance includes d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111313 | Image sensor driving unit and imaging apparatus An image sensor driving unit, comprising a first controller, a second controller and a third controller, is provided. The image sensor driving unit drives an image sensor to carry out the capture of an image. The capture is carried out by ordering pixels to generate... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8094227 | Solid state image sensor A solid state image sensor capable of preventing image degradation, such as shading and ringing, from occurring in an image portion along the left edge of a screen. The solid state image sensor includes, in addition to a horizontal drive circuit that generates a hor... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085331 | Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and camera An objective of the present invention is to provide the solid-state imaging device and the driving method thereof which can control: a poor picture quality, such as blooming, to maximize a dynamic range of the photodiode; and a poor picture quality resulted from an ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077241 | Phase adjustment method and digital camera A signal change differential value detector detects a signal change differential value between two digital signals obtained when the analog imaging signal is converted into the digital value for each pixel using two phase adjustment sampling pulses. An analog imagin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8054365 | Solid-state image pickup device having a signal separation part for separating and providing vertical and horizontal signals and drive method thereof A solid-state image pickup device relating to the present invention comprises a pixel area where multiple pixels used for photoelectric conversion of incident light are two-dimensionally arranged. Vertical signal input lines to which vertical transfer signals for tr... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054364 | Image apparatus and drive control method for image pickup device with horizontal addition of pixel data A drive control method for an image pickup device is disclosed. The image pickup device includes two-dimensionally arranged light receiving elements to photoelectrically convert incoming light, vertical transfer paths to transfer charges, which have been generated t... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045035 | Imaging apparatus, imaging control method and recording medium readable by computer A timing signals generator, a frequency divider, an oscillator, and a signals processing IC generates driving signals and transfer signals of a CCD. When the CCD is exposed through a long time exposure in which exposure is performed for not less than a predetermined... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035718 | Systems, methods, and devices for preventing shoot-through current within and between signal line drivers of semiconductor devices An imaging device driver for transmitting a signal onto a signal line for controlling transistors of a pixel row. The device includes a controller and associated circuitry for reducing shoot-through current within and between row driver circuits for driving the sign... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031251 | Charge transfer device and a driving method thereof and a driving method for solid-state image sensing device A driving method for a solid-state image sensing device having a plurality of sensor portions being disposed two-dimensionally in a horizontal and a vertical directions, and a vertical charge transfer portion being disposed between said plurality of sensor portions ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023028 | Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device and a charge transfer method are provided. The solid-state imaging device includes light receiving portions arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, vertical transfer portions, and a horizontal transfer portion. The vertical transfer po... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8009218 | Method for driving semiconductor device having capacitive load, method and apparatus for driving load, and electronic apparatus When a signal is read from a CCD solid-state image pickup element, the CCD solid-state image pickup element is driven with at least two driving voltages so that high-speed reading is performed with generation of noise due to interference between the driving voltages... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995128 | Charge-coupled apparatus and device incorporating a transfer pulse supplying circuit for driving a vertical transfer unit A transfer pulse supplying circuit for supplying transfer pulses to a solid-state imaging apparatus including a charge transfer unit includes N (N is an integer of two or more) transfer pulse supplying wirings to which the transfer pulses are supplied, and lead-in w... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990454 | Phase adjustment device capable of high speed operation and digital camera utilizing the same In a phase adjustment device according to the present invention, a first luminance level detector detects a luminance level of a digital imaging signal in a first pixel region, a second luminance level detector detects a luminance level of the digital imaging signal... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982790 | Solid-state imaging apparatus and method for driving the same To provide a solid-state imaging apparatus which is capable of preventing electric charge from being injected from a semiconductor substrate while electric charge is being accumulated into photodiodes. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7956919 | Method for driving semiconductor device having capacitive load, method and apparatus for driving load, and electronic apparatus When a signal is read from a CCD solid-state image pickup element, the CCD solid-state image pickup element is driven with at least two driving voltages so that high-speed reading is performed with generation of noise due to interference between the driving voltages... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956920 | Transfer pulse generator circuit and image pickup apparatus A transfer pulse generator circuit for outputting a vertical register transfer pulse includes transfer pulse control circuit for controlling to set rise and fall timings of the vertical register transfer pulse to desired timings in a predetermined period. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940320 | Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor having a field based varying horizontal cycle An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing unit that performs image sensing by converting incoming light into electrical signals, a control unit that controls driving of the image sensing unit so as to read out the electrical signals by each area of a plur... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7920197 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes the following units. An image pickup unit captures an image and outputs an analog image signal. A conversion unit converts the analog image signal into a digital image signal. A synchronization signal generation unit generates a sy... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920198 | Methods and apparatus for variable mode drivers A method of transferring charge from a photosensitive array using a plurality of vertical shift registers, each having a plurality of vertical elements including first and last vertical element is disclosed The vertical shift registers are capable of transferring ch... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911523 | Automatic adjuster for image capture circuit A reference charge generator provided on an image capture element generates reference charge. The reference charge is transferred through a vertical transfer section as is signal charge of a pixel which is generated by a photoelectric converter. A reference signal c... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7893981 | Image sensor with variable resolution and sensitivity A charge-coupled device image sensor includes (a) a two-dimensional array of pixels having a plurality of rows and columns, the two-dimensional array includes: (i) a plurality of gates arranged as a charge-coupled device; wherein the array further includes a plurali... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893982 | Solid-state image sensing device When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7825977 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method An image pickup method of picking up images at a frame rate changeably set out of a plurality of frame rates is provided. The method includes the steps of: setting a vertical synchronization cycle in accordance with a set frame rate and adding an image pickup signal... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7804538 | Solid state image pickup device having a time pulse generator, and method for replacing signals from a switch A solid state image pickup device being provided with a photoelectric converter portion being composed of a plurality of pixels disposed in a row, a charge transfer portion for transferring the charges generated in the photoelectric converter portion, and a charge/v... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804539 | Solid-state imaging device and method of driving same A method of driving a solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric converting elements arranged in a two-dimensional array on a light-receiving surface of the semiconductor s... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796176 | Phase adjusting device, phase adjusting method, and digital camera A temperature detecting unit detects a temperature of an imaging element for imaging an image signal. A storage unit stores phase change of a pulse, which is used by the imaging element when imaging the image signal, involved in temperature change of the imaging ele... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7773140 | Stereo image-pickup apparatus A stereo image pickup apparatus having a plurality of image pickup units, an input selection unit for executing a selection processing of an input signal, a sensor driving signal generation unit for driving the image pickup units, and a camera signal processing unit... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7750964 | Method and apparatus for driving a semiconductor device including driving of signal charges within and outside an effective transfer period When a signal is read from a CCD solid-state image pickup element, the CCD solid-state image pickup element is driven with at least two driving voltages so that high-speed reading is performed with generation of noise due to interference between the driving voltages... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7750963 | Timing signal generating circuit and photographing device having same circuit A circuit for generating a timing signal, the circuit having a memory and a pulse generator, the timing signal consisting of a number of pulses. The memory stores pulse count data, including an indication of the number of pulses in the timing signal, and rising edge... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7738022 | Transfer pulse generator circuit and image pickup apparatus A transfer pulse generator circuit for outputting a vertical register transfer pulse includes transfer pulse control means for controlling to set rise and fall timings of the vertical register transfer pulse to desired timings in a predetermined period. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7719593 | Variable frame rate imaging An image processing apparatus for processing an image signal, including: an operation processing section performing an operation according to a detected value of the image signal; a latch signal generation section for generating a plurality of latch signals, which i... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7667756 | Solid-state imaging device driving apparatus and digital camera A solid-state imaging device driving apparatus for generating a driving pulse for a solid-state imaging device includes a status memory 48 that stores a status data at each address as a logic value, a command data memory (42, 43, 46, 47) that stores co... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7643078 | CCD with improved charge transfer A charge coupled device having a plurality of non-adjacent first gate electrode pairs; a plurality of second gate electrode pairs placed in every second space between the first gate electrode pairs; a plurality of third gate electrode pairs placed in the spaces betw... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7626629 | Device and method for generating timing signals of different kinds A timing signal generating device capable of generating different kinds of signals is disclosed. A first, a second and a third data setting circuit each generate a particular kind of set data for generating corresponding timing signals. The set data are selectively ... | 12/01/2009 |
