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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7432971 | In-situ storage image sensor and in-situ storage image pickup apparatus A plurality of storage pixels within each unit pixel are arranged successively so that signal electrons for each storage pixel are moved independently through the storage pixels. Signal electrons newly generated in a photosensitive pixel are added to relevant signal... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423553 | Image display apparatus, image display method, measurement apparatus, measurement method, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and identification method An external index detection unit (105) receives an image sensed by a camera (100), and detects an external index set in a real scene. A tachometer (110) measures the rotational velocities of two rear wheels of a vehicle. A vehicle measurement un... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7068317 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus This invention is to decrease the sensor pitch, prevent saturation by external light, accurately determine skimming, simplify skimming determination, and prevent any difference in influence of the transfer efficiency between the ON and OFF states. For this purpose, ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054417 | Advanced call screening appliance According to the invention, a network interface device for processing a telephone call is disclosed. The network interface device includes a first and second communication interfaces, a telephone switch and a controller. The first communication interface is coupled ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6507876 | Detecting apparatus A plurality of sensor portions detect a variety of physical characteristics of objects to be detected, which are being conveyed on a conveyance passage to asynchronously transmit electric signals indicating results of detection to a processing unit. The p... | 01/14/2003 |
| 5923061 | CCD charge splitter An apparatus and method of equalizing a first and second charge packet. The apparatus includes a charge splitter for splitting the first charge packet into a third charge packet on the first side of the charge splitter and a fourth charge packet on the se... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5870142 | Image sensor, image reading device, and image reading method An image sensor includes a plurality of photosensitive pixel lines adjacent to each other in the sub-scanning direction, each of the photosensitive pixel lines having a number of photosensitive pixels arranged in the main scanning direction, and horizonta... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5847757 | Method of driving solid-state image sensing device A driving method for a solid-state image sensing device includes the steps of: transferring signal charges generated at pixels (12) arranged in odd rows in the column upward direction through vertical transfer paths (13) each arranged for each column; tem... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5708282 | CCD charge splitter An apparatus and method of equalizing a first and second charge packet. The apparatus includes a charge splitter for splitting the first charge packet into a third charge packet on the first side of the charge splitter and a fourth charge packet on the se... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5591996 | Recirculating charge transfer magnetic field sensor A device for producing an output voltage which is proportional to an applied magnetic field. The device includes a plurality charge injection regions, a corresponding plurality of charge exit regions, and a charge transfer region. The charge transfer regi... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5500675 | Method of driving solid-state image sensing device In the method of driving a solid-state image sensing device, for each vertical blanking (VBL), the signal charges of a first pixel group composed of photosensitive pixels of odd ordinal numbers counted in the vertical direction of the photosensitive regio... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5459509 | Method for transferring charge, charge transfer device and solid state image sensing device using the same In the method of transferring charges generated by signal charge generating sections in response to light, a signal charge existing under some transfer electrode of the plural charge transfer sections arranged in parallel to each other is transferred thro... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5202765 | Television receiver with picture in picture and non-linear processing A video switch combines a first video signal with a compressed second video signal for application to a display unit to provide "picture-in-picture" images in which the first video is displayed in a main picture area of the display and the compressed seco... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5200842 | Charge-coupled device with wide dynamic range This device has, on one and the same component: an image zone having a first array of at least one line of cells integrating an electrical charge than can then be transferred from point to point in the array, along the line, up to an end of this line; a m... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4897728 | Charge transfer device for solid state image pickup apparatus and method of driving the same The solid state image pickup apparatus comprises photosensitive element columns (1) made up of a plurality of photosensitive elements (I) and charge storage/transfer devices each having a cyclic transfer path (12) including a plurality of loop-linked tran... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4774585 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus comprises: first and second areas for converting an incident light to charges; a recombining electrode for allowing a part of the charges in the second area to be recombined with majority carriers; and a control circuit for allow... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4656520 | Frame-transfer CCD imager with recirculating frame storage register A CCD imager of frame-storage type has a frame storage register operable as a recirculating serial memory. The output ends of the parallel charge transfer channels in the image register are separated from respective ones of the input ends of the parallel ... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4553167 | Image signal processing device In the disclosed image signal processing device, an area type CCD with an input shift register and an output shift register, is used as a band converting element or, by recycling the output of an output register to an input register, is used as a reproduc... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4539596 | CCD Imagers with interleaved image registers using opposed directions of charge transfer Disclosed are CCD imagers, each with a composite image register comprising two component image registers with interleaved charge transfer channels is operated with charge transfer in opposite directions from the two image registers. Also disclosed are app... | 09/03/1985 |
