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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8059180 | Image sensors having non-uniform light shields An image sensor includes a pixel array divided into two or more corresponding sub-arrays. The pixel array includes an imaging area having a plurality of pixels and one or more reference areas each having a plurality of reference pixels. A continuous non-uniform ligh... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7995129 | Image sensor for still or video photography An image sensor includes a plurality of vertical CCDs; first HCCD receiving charge packets from even numbered vertical CCDs; and a second HCCD receiving charge packets from odd numbered vertical CCDs; wherein four charge packets are summed together from the first HC... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7787040 | Solid-state image-taking element and image-taking apparatus including the solid-state image-taking element An image-taking apparatus according to the present invention is constituted to have a wiring structure of transfer electrodes matching with a color filter arrangement and exert vertical transfer control over signal charges so as to transfer the signal charges read f... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7636119 | Image sensor for still or video photography An image sensor includes a plurality of vertical CCDs; first HCCD receiving charge packets from even numbered vertical CCDs; and a second HCCD receiving charge packets from odd numbered vertical CCDs; wherein four charge packets are summed together from the first HC... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7489357 | Solid-state image pickup element having improved resolution and signal to noise ratio and solid-state image pickup apparatus using the same Row driving circuits drive a plurality of kinds of pixels in each scanning line. Column reading circuits read from the plurality of kinds of pixels in each column. A column selection circuit for GR colors selects outputs of the column reading circuits in even number... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7480000 | Image-taking apparatus including a vertical transfer control device An image-taking apparatus according to the present invention is constituted to have a wiring structure of transfer electrodes matching with a color filter arrangement and exert vertical transfer control over signal charges so as to transfer the signal charges read f... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7362358 | Correction of level difference between signals output from split read-out type image sensing apparatus Disclosed is an sensing apparatus using an image sensing device having at least first and second output terminals, comprising first and second amplifiers that independently amplify signals output from the first and second output terminals, respectively; a first gain... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355644 | Linear image sensor In a linear image sensor, a shutter structure includes: a shutter gate electrode provided between photodiode arrays; and a shutter drain provided below the shutter gate electrode. With this construction, a layout area is reduced and the number of scanning operations... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7236199 | Multi-tap camera A camera comprises a multitap imager, separate digitizing channels for each imager tap, adjustments for channel gain and black level, a pattern generator, and a channel balancer. The channel balancer compares adjacent pixels and sums the differences in levels over m... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233350 | Image sensor with interleaved image output An image sensor with a light reader circuit coupled to a pixel array. The light reader circuit retrieves a first image and a second image generated by the pixel array. The image sensor may also include a memory controller and/or data interface that transfers the fir... | 06/19/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7064781 | Apparatus and methods of calibrating pixel off set and pixel gain using digitial hardware A calibration system in accordance with the invention, which is implemented at least in part in digital hardware, can calibrate for at least one of pixel offset and pixel gain. Calibration for pixel offset can include a pixel range adjust process which sets up the r... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058211 | Electronics interface for an ultrasound console Systems and methods for interfacing an Optical Coherence Domain Reflectometry (OCDR) system to an ultrasound console are provided. A first electronics interface embodiment processes parallel channel outputs of the OCDR system into a serial analog signal for input to... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7027093 | Method of transferring electric charge from image sensing device and image sensing device An image sensing device for transferring electric charge from a plurality of photoelectric converters disposed therein. The image sensing device is divided into a plurality of pixel areas. At least a pair of the divided pixel areas contiguous to each other have a ve... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7015966 | Reducing discontinuities in segmented imaging sensors A segmented imaging sensor having plural output pipelines in correspondence to the number of segments. Discontinuities between segments of the electronic imaging sensor are reduced by providing duplicated pixel values for pixels in an overlap region between segments... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6972791 | Electronic camera and solid-state camera element that provides a reduced pixel set A solid-state camera device having a matrix of pixels arranged in rows and columns, wherein a subset of pixels of the entire pixel matrix can be read for display and confirmation of photographic conditions to reduce power consumption and decrease time to display the... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970197 | CCD imaging device and driving method thereof One horizontal CCD register is provided for a plurality of vertical CCD registers. The horizontal CCD register has horizontal transfer electrodes in such a manner that transfer electrodes that are provided for each pair of vertical CCD registers adjacent to each oth... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6937277 | Image input apparatus employing read region size determination This invention relates to a video camera for inputting an image of an object as an electrical signal. This video camera includes a CCD, a clock selector for selecting a clock having a frequency corresponding to a read object region in which pixels are read out from ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6760060 | Observation apparatus for observing a defect in a moving target object using scattered light An observation apparatus includes a CCD sensor which has, on a light-receiving surface, pixel lines each including a plurality of pixels, sequentially shifts charge signals of the pixels of each line, which are generated upon receiving light, to the adjacent line, a... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6683703 | Photoelectric transducer and photoelectric transducing method of the same A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a plurality of elements (D) for receiving reflected light from an object, photoelectrically converting it into image signals (OS1-OS4), and outputting the image signals, a first output buffer (121) for outputt... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6337713 | Processor for image-pixel signals derived from divided sections of image-sensing area of solid-type image sensor An image-pixel signal processor is used to process image-pixel signals obtained from an image-sensing area, divided into a first section and a second section, of a solid-type image sensor. The processor has an image-pixel signal reader, which simultaneous... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6262769 | Method and system for auto rotating a graphical user interface for managing portrait and landscape images in an image capture unit The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically rotating a graphical user interface for managing portrait and landscape captures in an image capture unit. A method and apparatus for viewing an image in an image capture unit includi... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6169577 | Color CCD solid-state image pickup A color CCD solid-state image pickup device having a color filter array such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction. Even rows and odd rows of pixels arrayed in a matrix respectively have the same filter arrays and it is th... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6031571 | Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device has a storage section formed on a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate to receive and store signal charges, a discharge section formed on the surface portion of the substrate at a predetermined distance from the storag... | 02/29/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5917546 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus in which the dynamic range can be substantially increased even with the use of a solid image sensor, such as a CCD image sensor. The imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging unit for reading out two picture signals with differ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5867215 | Image sensor having multiple storage wells per pixel An image sensing device having an array of photodetectors capable of generating electron/hole pairs from incident photons, with multiple charge coupled devices organized in a tandem well design that employs multiple storage wells per pixel. The wells use ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5847758 | Color CCD solid-state image pickup device A color CCD solid-state image pickup device having a color filter array such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction. Even rows and odd rows of pixels arrayed in a matrix respectively have the same filter arrays and it is th... | 12/08/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5737015 | Imaging device equipped with multiple output channel imaging element The direct current voltage level and amplification of a multiple channel output imaging element are adjusted by comparing the output values of each channel. A calculating device, such as, for example, a CPU uses the data of one channel (i.e., a standard c... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5703639 | Charge coupled device pulse discriminator Accordingly, the present invention is directed to providing methods and apparatus for detecting light energy in real-time while minimizing the effects of background charge accrual on the charge-coupled device. Exemplary embodiments provide relatively fast... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5565916 | Automatic channel gain and offset balance for video cameras employing multi-channel sensors A high frame rate camera includes; a multi-channel sensor array for producing a plurality of parallel analog image signals representative of a sensed image; a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADC) for converting each of the parallel analog image sign... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5559553 | Clock control circuit with independent timing adjustments for image sensing devices An image sensor used to implement a system to prevent aliasing problems typically encountered in charge coupled devices where a single charge coupled device is used to sense multiple colors. The image sensor has an imaging region having a substrate of sem... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5523788 | Image processor with input buffering to multiple digital signal processors A system architecture is provided that includes an image sensor unit operable in a single channel mode and a dual channel mode. The image sensor unit includes an electronic image sensor comprising a row and column array of pixel elements, wherein the rows... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5491512 | Solid state image sensor device and its driving method A solid state image sensor comprising a matrix of photosensitive elements adapted to accumulate signal charges corresponding to at least two different aspect ratios, a plurality of vertical shift registers disposed adjacent to columns of the photosensitiv... | 02/13/1996 |
