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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7804540 | Image pickup apparatus having a plurality of different readout modes An image pickup apparatus includes horizontally and vertically arranged charge-generating pixels, vertical charge transfer elements reading out charges generated by the pixels of vertical pixel lines, a horizontal charge transfer element reading out charges read out... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7719594 | Solid-state imaging device with OB region and camera provided with the same A solid-state imaging device, and a camera provided with this device, that can output high quality images at high speed are realized by preventing improper OB clamping in a solid-state imaging device that performs pixel mixing in the horizontal direction. Vertical f... | 05/18/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7379110 | Solid-state image pickup device for producing thinned image There is disclosed a solid-state image pickup device in which light receiving elements of a light receiving region generates information charges in accordance with incident lights. The information charges are transferred to storage picture elements of a storage regi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7336306 | Solid-state image sensor efficiently utilizing its dynamic range and image pickup apparatus using the same A solid-state image sensor includes photodiodes, which constitute pixels, shifted in position from each other and red (R), green (G) and blue (B) filter segments fitted on the photodiodes in a preselected pattern. R transfer gates, G transfer gates and B transfer ga... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7314775 | IT-CCD and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a power-thrifty IT-CCD having a charge transfer electrode area thinned for improving the light reception efficiency of a photoelectric conversion section and being capable of executing high-speed and high-sensitivity transfer without l... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315329 | Solid-state image-pickup device having an accumulation gate for reading out, accumulating, and allocating signal charges The present invention relates to a solid-state image pickup device comprising a sensor array and a plurality of transfer registers for transferring signal charges from the sensors of the sensor array, wherein an accumulation gate is provided between the sensor array... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7265432 | Solid state imaging device and method of fabricating the same A method for fabricating a solid state imaging device comprising photoelectric conversion sections and charge transfer sections having single-layered charge transfer electrodes for transferring charges generated in the photoelectric conversion sections, the method i... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256830 | Solid-state imaging device and manufacturing method for solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device comprises a semi-conductor substrate demarcating a two-dimensional surface, a multiplicity of photoelectric conversion units formed at grid points of a first grid of a first tetragonal matrix and a second tetragonal matrix having grid po... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256831 | Method for driving an imaging device and image pickup device, wherein signals corresponding to same color outputs are combined Systems and methods allow driving a solid-state image pickup apparatus at high-speed operation by reducing a number of different samples in the horizontal and vertical directions. In an exemplary embodiment, three or more odd-numbered pixels are incorporated into a ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7184084 | Method and apparatus for image sensing with CCD A method for producing electronic video signals representative of a focused moveable image includs the following steps: providing a charge coupled device, masking substantially less than half of the lines of the device to form a masked storage area and a substantial... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176972 | Fast imaging device and fast photographing device A fast imaging device 32 has a charge signal converter 33, a charge signal accumulator 36 and a charge signal transporter 37. A charge signal accumulator 36 is provided to each charge signal converter 33. A charge signal acc... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7154549 | Solid state image sensor having a single-layered electrode structure Provided is a CCD image sensor wherein driving power and power consumption are reduced without increasing unusable regions. Photodiodes are arranged in a honeycomb form. Each vertical charge-transfer channel is made in such a manner that invasion portions, which inv... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7129953 | Two dimensional buffer pages Methods and apparatus for storing data using two-dimensional arrays mapped to memory locations. In one implementation, a buffer page system includes: a data source, providing data elements in a first order; a data destination, receiving data elements in a second ord... | 10/31/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7079184 | Image pickup device with vertical and horizontal charge transfer devices operable in plural modes There is provided an image pickup apparatus including a plurality of pixels which are arranged in a horizontal and a vertical direction and which generate charges corresponding to optical signals, in which a color filter arrangement of a first order are arranged in ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7050100 | Solid-state imaging apparatus capable of reducing leakage charge under the read gate According to a driving method for an interline type CCD imaging device, the voltage level to be applied to a channel electrode in a vertical charge transfer line to which at least one photodiode is connected is controlled to form a shallower potential well just in t... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7034876 | Solid-state image pickup device and method for driving the same In a solid-state image pickup device, third transfer electrodes are disposed in parallel to vertical transfer registers, and second transfer electrodes are disposed vertically to the vertical transfer registers. These transfer electrodes are also formed on the read-... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027092 | Image capture and storage device An integrated image capture and storage device is provided. The image capture and storage device comprises a first memory layer, a second memory layer disposed below the first memory layer, and an image capture layer disposed above the first and second memory layers... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023481 | Solid state imaging device for alleviating the effect of background light and imaging apparatus including same In a solid state imaging apparatus of the present invention, first and second charge-coupled devices (CCDs) 336A and 336B are prepared as two charge accumulation circuits for one photodiode 330. The first and second CCDs 336A and 336 | 04/04/2006 |
| 7002629 | CCD image detector and method of operating a CCD as an image detector A CCD image detector includes an image area array, a storage area array, a buffer area array, and a readout shift register, all of which being controlled by a timing controller through separate and independent clock signals. The timing controller controls the transf... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995795 | Method for reducing dark current A method for reducing dark current within an image sensor includes applying, at a first time period, a first set of voltages to the phases of gate electrodes of vertical shift registers sufficient to accumulate holes of the vertical shift register, beneath each gate... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980245 | 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 ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975292 | Image display apparatus for photographing an object and displaying the photographed image In an imaging section, an image of an object is converted to signal charge by photodiodes arranged in the form of a matrix, the signal charge is transferred to output circuits by vertical transfer paths, and then the signal charge transferred to the output circuits ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6967684 | Solid state image pickup device and its driving method using two different periods A method and apparatus for driving a solid state image pickup device. The method and apparatus include setting a first signal charging period and a second signal charging period for each one of a plurality of unit pixels. The second signal charging period is shorter... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6958862 | Use of a lenslet array with a vertically stacked pixel array An improved optical imaging system includes a vertically stacked pixel array and a lenslet array for capturing images while minimizing the focal length. The vertically stacked pixel array is configured to operate as an image sensor. The lenslet array is configure to... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6930716 | Imaging apparatus capable of adding together signal charges from pixels and reading out the added pixel signals A color imaging apparatus includes a CCD imaging device having interline transfer charge transfer paths adapted for interlaced reading and a Bayer-arranged color filter. The apparatus can be put in either of normal shooting mode and high-sensitivity shooting mode. I... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6914632 | Apparatus for panning and scaling window in image sensor An apparatus for panning and scaling a window in CMOS image sensor is described. The apparatus comprises a pixel array having a plurality of unit pixels, a row driving part, an analog-digital converting part, an address generating part for generating a row address a... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6847401 | Solid-state image pickup device for producing thinned image A solid-state image pickup device for generating image signals in accordance with incident light includes a semiconductor substrate with a semiconductor region formed on one surface thereof, plural channel regions extending in a column direction on the region and de... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6822682 | Solid state image pickup device and its read method A solid state image pickup device including: a plurality of pixel groups disposed on a two-dimensional plane defined by horizontal and vertical directions, the plurality of pixel groups being juxtaposed in the horizontal direction, each of the pixel groups including... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6707499 | Technique to increase dynamic range of a CCD image sensor A method of driving a solid-state imaging device to increase the dynamic range of a CCD image sensor is described. The imaging device has a plurality of light receiving members arranged in a matrix in horizontal and vertical directions. In addition, a plurality of c... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6288744 | Solid-state image pickup device with a shared shift register and method of driving the same The invention is intended to provide a highly integrated solid-state image pickup device, in which the number of transfer electrodes of a horizontal shift register is reduced, and a plurality of vertical shifter registers are arranged with a reduced pitch... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6184928 | Method and apparatus for split shift register addressing An addressing circuit designed for implementation within the device being addressed that uses less silicon space by selecting the desired address with shift register outputs. A fast shift register is coupled to a slow shift register by a combinatorial cir... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6118483 | Image sensing apparatus for high-speed image sensing An image sensing apparatus with an image sensor which comprises a plurality of sensors (47) each provided on each of pixel (37) forming a photo-receptive area (36), the sensor generating an electric signal in response to brightness of incident light from ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5966174 | Signal processing circuit and method for driving a solid state imaging device using plural reading operations per image scanning time A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and a signal processing circuit. The solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric converting sections provided with color filters having different spectroscopic cha... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5812192 | Solid state imaging apparatus having a channel stop section for forming a transfer channel between first and second transfer sections in a horizontal transfer register There is provided a solid state imaging apparatus which has realized sharing of signal charges without generation of a fault of image like a vertical stripe resulting from defective sharing of signal charges in a horizontal transfer register consisting of... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5801850 | Linear sensor having a plurality of sensor rows A linear sensor for sampling vertically opposed pixels of a plurality of vertically arranged sensor rows substantially at a time. A plurality of horizontal transfer registers and a plurality of shift gates are provided to oppose the plurality of sensor ro... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5781234 | Charge-coupled image sensor operable to simultaneously transfer pixels from adjacent image acquisition and image storage areas at different pixel transfer rates A charge-coupled image sensor having adjacent image acquisition and image storage areas is described. Pixel transfer can take place from the image acquisition area to the image storage area and from the image storage area to an output register simultaneou... | 07/14/1998 |
