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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7978245 | Method and apparatus for controlling color balance in a digital imaging device A digital imaging device provides for different exposure times for each of a set of color components, the exposure time of each color component being inversely related to its strength relative to the other color components in a pre-exposure frame. By compensating fo... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7714922 | Imaging device and imaging method The present invention is directed to an image pick-up apparatus adapted for picking up image of object, which comprises a solid-state image pick-up device (1) for performing photo-electric conversion in accordance with a received image pick-up light, a switch... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710484 | Driving method for CCD image sensor, and imaging method A CCD image sensor is driven in an interlace scan method, in which readout of signal charge is performed in two divided fields. In the first field, signal charge Qs accumulated in photodiodes of the first horizontal line and noise charge Qn generated in VCCDs on the... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7609312 | Driving controlling method for image sensing device, and imaging device A driving controlling method and system for an interline transfer type solid-state image sensing device. The device is driven by setting an arbitrary horizontal extraction period is set in a horizontal sync period, and making a selection between a first horizontal t... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7508436 | Method for capturing a sequence of images in close succession A method for capturing a sequence of images, the method includes the steps of capturing a first image on an image sensor having a plurality of photosensitive areas having a first portion of photosensitive areas and a second portion of photosensitive areas; transferr... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7443430 | Image sensing apparatus and method for correcting signal from image sensing device by using signal correction amount In an image sensing apparatus which uses a solid-state image sensing device, it is an object of the present invention to minimize smear. In order to achieve the object, a solid-state image sensing apparatus includes a solid-state image sensing device, a calculation ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440019 | Solid-state image pick-up device A plurality of low-sensitivity pixels 10 and a plurality of high-sensitivity pixels 20 are arranged like a tetragonal grid respectively, and are provided in positions shifted by ½ of an array pitch from each other in a row direction X and a column dir... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432969 | Imaging apparatus, solid imaging device and driving method for solid imaging device A CCD has transferring gates to which gate pulses for transferring only pixel information of pairs of two adjoining lines with intervals of a plurality of lines to vertical transferring routes are applied when the image signals with the low definition are produced. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7394494 | Sub-sampling apparatus and method and image sensor employing the same The present disclosure relates to an address sub-sampling apparatus and method, and an image sensor employing the same. An address sub-sampling apparatus includes a counting unit that generates a binary address of N bits, N being a natural number larger than 2. The ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394493 | CCD camera utilizing an IRIS and method for controlling the same A Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera and a method for controlling the same. When a photographing command is input from the input unit by operation of user, the controller controls the iris drive unit so as to open and close the iris periodically for a preset time. A... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372488 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus with horizontal thinning and a signal reading method for the same In a solid-state image pickup apparatus, a solid-state image sensor includes a color filter having filter segments arranged in a pattern, photosensitive cells for photoelectrically transducing light transmitted through the filter segments to generate corresponding s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7292274 | Solid-state image pickup device driving method and image capturing apparatus for outputting high-resolution signals for still images and moving images of improved quality at a high frame rate A CPU 14 drives the CCD2 by switching its driving mode between an omission readout mode and a summation readout mode. Summing the signal charge of pixels in the summation readout mode offers an increased sensitivity. The omission readout mode reduces s... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7262793 | Imager and image quality correcting method performing correction based on the output of different readout modes An image-capturing apparatus, in which solid-state image-capturing elements having a large number of pixels are used, capable of suitably performing image-quality correction on a captured image. In a monitor reading mode, a camera system LSI (6) detects the r... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259780 | Image sensor with designatable read-out range A compact, energy efficient image sensor which enables transfer of images to an external system is made compact in size and low in power consumption comprises an image sensor control circuit 20 which operates to drive a CCD image sensor 4 and stores ho... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256832 | CCD camera forming a still image by adding offset values to the odd and even fields and method for controlling the same A Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera and a method for controlling the same. When a photographing command is input from the input unit by operation of user, the controller controls the iris drive unit so as to open and close the iris periodically for a preset time. A... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7236196 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus for reading out image signals with pixels reduced in a horizontal direction and a signal reading method for the same A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter having an R (red), G (green) and B (blue) vertical stripe pattern. During preliminary pickup, a signal feeding section feeds particular drive signals for reading signal charges out of only odd-numbered col... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235824 | Active gate CCD image sensor An active gate includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, a channel of a second conductivity type formed in the substrate, a first gate region of the first conductivity type formed in a corresponding first portion of the channel, and a first contact connecte... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7212241 | Solid-state imaging device and method for driving the same A solid-state imaging device comprises, on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of sensor sections for storing a signal charge commensurate with a quantity of reception light, a charge transfer section for transferring and outputting the signal charge of the senso... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202900 | Method of producing frame pair signals from an image sensor and method for displaying same A method is disclosed for producing progressive scan signals representative of an image of a scene, including the following steps: providing an image sensor onto which the image is projected, the image sensor having a diagonal pixel pattern; producing frame pairs as... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199826 | Thin-out drive method for CCD image sensor A solid-state image pickup device includes photoelectric converters in row-column matrix configuration, VCCDs, one for each column, a color filter disposed above each converter to form a color filter array including layouts each including n rows, and a drive circuit... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7173229 | Solid state imager A charge division arrangement for a CCD device for producing a divided charge output from an input charge, comprising an input for receiving an input charge, an array of elements and an output. The array of elements being arranged in rows and columns and having cloc... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7151569 | Image pickup element drive control method and image pickup device An image pickup element drive control method can outputs a sharp image effectively without producing any overlapped images when it is driven for a high rate image pickup operation. In a high rate image pickup operation using an interline transfer type solid state im... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7139028 | Image pickup apparatus There is provided an image pickup apparatus in which a plurality of pixel areas in which pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit are arranged two-dimensionally, are arranged on a single semiconductor chip to be adjacent to each other through a predetermin... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7102680 | Image pickup device capable of adjusting the overflow level of the sensor based on the read out mode The driving device of a solid-state imaging device comprises a driving unit for driving the solid-state imaging device in either an addition driving mode in which a plurality of pixels are added and read as a single pixel or a non-addition driving mode, and a substr... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7071983 | System and method for controlling photosensitive charge transfers A system for controlling photosensitive charge transfers utilizes an array of photosensitive elements, a transfer gate, a charge transfer register, and a controller. The transfer gate is coupled to the photosensitive elements, and the charge transfer register is cou... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064786 | Substrate electrical bounce compensation circuitry for digital cinematography image capture cameras A charge coupled device (CCD) circuit employing substrate electrical bounce compensation circuitry that is particularly useful in a cinematography digital image capture cameras. An exemplary CCD circuit comprises a CCD array having a substrate that is coupled to an ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7046283 | Arrangements of clock line drivers A circuit includes a circuit chip and a plurality of clock drivers external to the circuit chip. The circuit chip includes a plurality of isolated clocking subunits and a corresponding plurality of terminals. Each clocking subunit is electrically isolated from any o... | 05/16/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7034875 | CCD camera forming a still image by adding offset values to the odd and even fields and method for controlling the same A Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera and a method for controlling the same. When a photographing command is input from the input unit by operation of user, the controller controls the iris drive unit so as to open and close the iris periodically for a preset time. A... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7006115 | Supporting variable line length in digital display timing controllers using data enable signal A digital display unit which receives horizontal lines of unequal length in a V-active region and computes an average length of the lines. The average is used to generate horizontal line demarkers in the V-blank (vertical blank) region. The demarkers specify the tra... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002626 | Image sensor with motion artifact supression and anti-blooming An image sensor includes pixels formed on a semiconductor substrate. Each pixel includes a photoactive region in the semiconductor substrate, a sense node, and a power supply node. A first electrode is disposed near a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A bias s... | 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 |
| 6985182 | Imaging device with vertical charge transfer paths having appropriate lengths and/or vent portions In a solid-state imaging device, a plurality of vertical charge transfer paths is arranged at a horizontal pitch A within a photoelectric conversion region, and at a pitch B that is smaller than the pitch A in a portion where the signals are input into the horizonta... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980242 | Solid state image sensing device A solid-state image sensing device comprising a photoelectric converter portion, a solid-state image sensor, and a controlling means. The photoelectric converter portion has a plurality of photoelectric converters arranged in two dimensions on a semiconductor substr... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977364 | System and method for compensating for dark current in photosensitive devices A method is used to perform dark current compensation in a sensor (e.g., a CCD or CMOS sensor). A first and second array of devices (e.g., pixels) in the sensor are used to determine a first dark current value. The first array of pixels in the sensor receives imping... | 12/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6950138 | Gray code counter Conventionally, it is difficult to design the logic of a Gray code counter that can be used in interlaced counting. Even though interlaced counting is possible with a Gray code counter, the number of simultaneously changing bits increases greatly depending on the nu... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6914627 | Method and apparatus for digital column fixed pattern noise canceling for a CMOS image sensor The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for reading out signals from a MOS image sensor. The invention allows for a relatively high fixed pattern noise canceling rate, even in low light environments. The invention includes a digital processing st... | 07/05/2005 |
