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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7907197 | Solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging device is provided. The imaging device includes an imaging portion which includes light receiving portions and vertical transfer registers, a horizontal transfer portion, an output part for outputting an electrical signal converted from electri... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7889260 | Image signal processing circuit, image pickup apparatus and image signal processing method as well as computer program An image signal processing circuit for executing signal processing for an output of an image pickup device, includes an image signal correction section; the image signal correction section including a calculation section, and a correction section. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880790 | Image-signal processing apparatus for use in combination with an image sensor An image-signal processing apparatus (1) designed to process the signals output from a CCD image sensor (10) that reads pixel data for one screen, line by line, divides the pixel data into a plurality of channels and outputs the pixel data thus divided... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7808539 | Image processor that controls transfer of pixel signals between an image sensor and a memory Pixel signals are sequentially output from an image sensor in a reverse order to an order in which light sensing cells are arranged with respect to one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. In an image processor, first, a data reading part transfers th... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7667757 | Solid-state imaging device and driving method for solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion unit 110, an analog shift register, and signal output units 131 and 132. The analog shift register is divided into a first transfer section 121 and a second transfer section... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7602432 | Solid-state imaging element and solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging element includes an imaging element area, a first horizontal transfer register, a second horizontal transfer register, a first transfer channel, a second transfer channel, and a channel stop region. ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7508435 | Method for the correction of video signals The invention relates to a method for the correction of video signals which are produced by pixel-by-pixel reading of picture cells from an optoelectronic sensor via two or more channels which have different transmission characteristics. In this case, the video sign... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7474347 | Solid-state image pickup device having a lensing function A substantially semicylindrical lens having a lensing function, a shading-correcting (reducing) function, and a predetermined-wavelength transmitting function is formed on the upper surface of a device chip including a sensor array, a CCD transfer register, a read-o... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7430007 | Drive method of CCD color image sensor and color image input apparatus for realizing an electronic shutter function A drive method of a CCD color image sensor for realizing an electronic shutter function with the signal charge accumulation time varying from one color to another according to a simple structure is provided. Unnecessary charges occurring in photoelectric conversion ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7405758 | Image pickup device and driving method therefor In addition to transfer units for transferring electric charges generated from photo receiving units for every cell, a high-speed transfer unit is provided which transfers electric charges generated from the photo receiving units collectively on a unit basis of plur... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7369171 | Read controller for image pick-up device, and image pick-up apparatus A digital camera that captures object light by a CCD to create an image signal includes a read controller that controls reading of light signals from at least two fields of the CCD, in which a field, from which a light signal received by an R-sensor sensitive to red... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365791 | Image pickup apparatus having iris member and filter units An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing a decline of resolution of a still image while keeping a dynamic range of exposure control. The image pickup apparatus capable of photographing with changing over a moving image and a still image, includes an iris mech... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352405 | Optical axis varying imaging device An imaging device includes a matrix array of photosensor pixels. An effective area in the array is set to a first region during a first mode of operation of the imaging device, and is set to a second region during a second mode of operation of the imaging device. Th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336312 | Multi-mode charge-coupled imager having plural readout sampling frequencies A charge-coupled imager includes an imaging section, a read-out section, and a way to reduce the number of charge packets for every row read. The imager is switchable between at least two read-out modes. The imaging section includes image elements arranged in a two-... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326978 | Color filter of image sensor, image sensor, and method for manufacturing the image sensor A color filter of an image sensor, an image sensor and a method for manufacturing the image sensor are disclosed, wherein shapes of respective unit color cells closely form various color patterns, such as a red color pattern, a green color pattern and a blue color p... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317559 | Imaging device and imaging method for use in such device An imaging device which assures high-quality image information free from a line noise by extracting line noise information from a taken image, detecting an existence of an extrinsic line noise in the image, and correcting the line noise if it exists. The imaging dev... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315330 | Solid-state image pickup element including a thinning method to discharge unnecessary image data In a case where a thinning operation is implemented at the point when signal charges are read out from each of pixels to thin out pixel information by lines (row), the thinning may be performed only in the vertical direction, but not in the horizontal direction. In ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295238 | Image signal processing device of image sensor An image-signal processing apparatus (1) designed to process the signals output from a CCD image sensor (10) that reads pixel data for one screen, line by line, divides the pixel data into a plurality of channels and outputs the pixel data thus divided... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289150 | Solid-state image apparatus including a plurality of horizontal transfer registers for transferring image signals from an imaging area In a CCD image apparatus in which an image section is horizontally divided into two areas, two horizontal CCDs are related to the two image areas with one-to-one correspondence and transfer the signal electric charges of the two image areas, and the two horizontal C... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7278577 | Image input system An image input system includes a solid state image pickup device and a preprocessor for performing correlated double sampling amplification on an output of the image pickup device and outputting a video signal. The preprocessor has a correlated double sampling ampli... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277128 | Image-sensing device having a plurality of output channels An image-sensing device has pixel areas for outputting CCD signals of plural channels, and an adjusting portion for adjusting a level of each channel of the CCD signals outputted from the pixel area. A first channel CCD signal is provided from a pixel area 11... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262802 | Charge-coupled device sensing apparatus with dual photo sensor sets The invention provides a signal charge-coupled device (CCD) sensing apparatus, including at least one first CCD shift register, one first photo sensor set, and one second photo sensor set. The first CCD shift register includes a plurality of first CCD components and... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256819 | Order processing method and system for image output service, and order information generating apparatus, order receiving apparatus, and digital camera used in the method When order information is recorded in a recording medium and an image output service is requested using this order information, the content of a new order is not confused with that of an old order and a user's intention can be conveyed accurately to a service provid... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7250971 | Charge read-out method and solid-state imaging device capable of shortening read-out time charges stored in a plurality of light receiving units A charge read-out method and a solid-state imaging device capable of shortening a read-out time of charges stored in a plurality of light receiving units arranged linearly are provided. The charge read-out method includes the steps of moving the charges, which are g... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245323 | Transferring method of electric charge from image sensing device and the image sensing device An image sensing device operates in a first and a second picture image mode. The image sensing device includes a pixel area having a first vertical transferring CCD to transfer a first electric charge converted from an optical image and a second vertical transferrin... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245318 | Imaging apparatus that corrects an imbalance in output levels of image data In an imaging apparatus, a method of correcting image data, or a storage medium storing a program, a target is imaged in a plurality of imaging regions and image data is output from each of the plurality of imaging regions; based on the image data captured in a firs... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7224839 | Compression packaged image transmission for telemicroscopy A system and method for visual image compression and transmission offers significant bandwidth conservation while retaining high resolution imaging capability. Videograpic images are decomposed into detail levels, and images are delivered to a remote site display at... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218351 | Image-sensing apparatus for compensating video signal of a plurality of channels An image-sensing apparatus for compensating video signal of a plurality of channels, adds an electric charge of a pilot signal on a signal vertically transferred in an image-sensing device 11. A pixel area of the image-sensing device 11 is divided into... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206102 | Image reading apparatus with partially shielded light-receiving elements An image reading apparatus includes a plurality of light-receiving elements, a lens array, and a light-shielding member. All of the light-receiving elements are arranged in a single line having an extremity. The light-shielding member covers one or more light-receiv... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197228 | Multifunction remote control system for audio and video recording, capture, transmission and playback of full motion and still images A multifunction remote controlled video recording, transmission and playback system includes a still frame generator adapted for selecting and generating still frames on the fly while a full motion video signal is being recorded, without interrupting the recording f... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7176941 | Dropout control in subpixel rendering The present invention relates to dropout control in which one or more samples are added to adjacent samples that fall within an image outline. The samples are used in sub-pixel rendering to compensate for unnaturally thin or faint object stems. Horizontal dropout co... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161695 | Image information distributing system In an image processing system, a server stores first image information in a compressed manner therein and sends second image information that represents the same element as that of the first image information with information content smaller than that of the first i... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7139025 | Active pixel sensor with mixed analog and digital signal integration An active pixel sensor includes mixed analog and digital signal integration on the same substrate. The analog part of the array forms the active pixel sensor, and the digital part of the array does digital integration of the signal. ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7116365 | Solid-state imaging element, method for driving the same, and camera system Since the great number of elements constituting a unit pixel having an amplification function would hinder reduction of pixel size, unit pixel n,m arranged in a matrix form is comprised of a photodiode, a transfer switch for transferring charges stored in the photod... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7098952 | Imager having multiple storage locations for each pixel sensor An imager includes an array of pixel sensors. Each pixel sensor indicates at least two different primary color components of an image. For each pixel sensor, at least two storage locations are located in the array and store the indications from the pixel sensor.... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092021 | Frame shuttering scheme for increased frame rate A frame shutter apparatus comprising a controller for controlling multiple groups of pixels and for reading out values corresponding to the charge collected by different groups of pixels at different times. A method of reading out multiple groups of pixels is provid... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7061527 | Image sensing apparatus employing photoelectric conversion elements In a motion picture taking mode, pixels in the area B are outputted as a motion picture. Electric charges from the area E are intercepted by the intercepting section D and not transmitted to the HCCD 3. In a still picture taking mode, pixels in all the areas ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057626 | Dropout control in subpixel rendering The present invention relates to dropout control in which one or more samples are added to adjacent samples that fall within an image outline. The samples are used in sub-pixel rendering to compensate for unnaturally thin or faint object stems. Horizontal dropout co... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
