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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965331 | Solid state imaging element, image pickup device and method of driving solid state imaging element A solid state imaging element comprises: photoelectric conversion elements; a plurality of vertical electric charge transfer passages that transfer, in a vertical direction, electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion elements; and a horizontal electr... | 06/21/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7423681 | Interline CCD implementation of hybrid two color per pixel architecture An image sensor includes at least first and second photo-sensitive regions; a color filter array having at least two different colors that selectively absorb specific bands of wavelengths, and the two colors respectively span portions of predetermined photo-sensitiv... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420607 | Solid-state imaging element and digital camera A solid-state imaging element contains a plurality of photoelectric converting regions, vertical transfer portions, a horizontal transfer portion, and an output portion. These photoelectric converting regions are arranged on a surface of a semiconductor substrate al... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403226 | Electric camera An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a di... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7375748 | Differential readout from pixels in CMOS sensor The present invention provides an improved pixel readout circuit that compensates for common mode noise during a read out operation. This is accomplished by using a differential readout of the signal and reset value from the desired pixel compared with the reset val... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7365785 | Electronic camera There is provided an electronic camera comprising an imaging element which photo-electrically converts an object field light, a timing generator including an internal register in which timing of a drive signal used to operate the imaging element can be programmed, a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355760 | Solid-state image sensing device, driving method thereof, and image scanner A CCD linear sensor includes a monochrome sensor and a color sensor, which have different transfer speeds and which are mounted on the same chip. In the CCD linear sensor, while one read-out operation is performed by the color sensor, two read-out operations are per... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333139 | Digital camera having correction of center positions of color pixels generated by mixing of pixels of the same color In a digital camera by the use of a CCD of a honeycomb array, the center positions of mixed pixels of colors B and G are fixed in (4k+1)th and (4k+2)th rows, wherein k represents an integer 0 or more, while the center positions of mixed pixels (mixed pixels R11 | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7315328 | Solid-state image sensor device and driving method A solid-state image sensor device having an image sensing portion performing the photoelectric conversion and being able to correspond to both progressive mode in which all picture element signals obtained by the scanning of one time are output independently, and in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7286701 | Image synthesis apparatus and image synthesis method Original YC data is converted to Bayer data, and the converted Bayer data is inversely gamma-converted. Picked-up YC data which is a synthesis object is also converted to the Bayer data, and the converted Bayer data is inversely gamma-converted. These inversely gamm... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285765 | Photoelectric converter and X-ray image pick-up device A photoelectric converter includes a plurality of substrates, which are located adjacent to each other and on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices are two-dimensionally arranged, and either scan circuits or detection circuits that are arranged on tw... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274399 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus reducing false signals and a solid-state image sensor for the same A solid-state image sensor for a solid-state image pickup apparatus includes photosensitive cells each having a photosensitive area divided into a main region and a subregion. The subregion is extended to include the position of a virtual pixel. A light-screening la... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271835 | Solid-state image pickup device and device driving control method for solid-state image pickup Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including: a plurality of unit pixels each having: a charge generating section for generating a charge, a charge storage section for storing the charge generated by the charge generating section, a transfer gate ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268813 | Solid state imaging apparatus A solid state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in the row direction and the column direction, and every two of the plurality of pixels that are adjacent to each other in the row direction or the column direction include col... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7242332 | Column-parallel sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion with gain and offset control A sigma-delta modulation sensing circuit and an analog-to-digital converter for an imager that eliminate the erroneous conversion of non-zero analog voltages to zero digital voltages is provided. The sensing circuit includes an offset branch that allows input of an ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242426 | Digital still camera for recording images in high and low sensitivity modes The present invention provides a digital still camera that can read high quality image data from a solid state image pickup device in both the low and the high sensitivity modes. The digital still camera according to the present invention includes shooting mode sele... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7229223 | Rotation transfer mechanism and a zoom camera incorporating the rotation transfer mechanism A rotation transfer mechanism includes a rotatable ring and has a circumferential gear formed on a peripheral surface of the rotatable ring, and a rotation transfer gear, wherein rotation of the rotatable ring is transferred to the rotation transfer gear via engagem... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7193252 | Solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device array In a photosensitive part 10, arranged from pixels A aligned in n rows and m columns, supply wiring lines 13a and 13b, which are electrically connected and apply transfer voltages to transfer electrodes 12a to 12 | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173660 | Method for displaying an information image on a screen For an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display, a thinning process is executed to reduce a number of pixels constructing the image. An original image of an information image is produced in accordance with a pixel number of a taken subject image. A low-pass... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170042 | Photoelectric converter and X-ray image pick-up device A photoelectric converter includes a plurality of substrates, which are located adjacent to each other and on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices are two-dimensionally arranged, and either scan circuits or detection circuits that are arranged on tw... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7161625 | Image pickup apparatus For preventing the blooming phenomenon, there is provided an image pickup apparatus comprising a solid-state image pickup device adapted for a first readout method in which plural pixels are added to be read and a second readout method in which plural pixels are not... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158183 | Digital camera A digital camera having small time lag for recording the object after releasing a shutter by employing less movable parts, and by employing an image sensor for other purpose as well as actual forming picture image for recording the object is provided. According to o... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154552 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus for generating an image signal by adding outputs corresponding to two types of light receiving pixels having different storage time of information charges Two types of image signals are obtained from a solid-state image pickup device in a frame transfer system and subject to signal processing so as to extend the dynamic range. Two types of mutually different image signals are obtained from a solid-state image pickup d... | 12/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7151305 | Photoelectric conversion device, and image sensor and image input system making use of the same In a photoelectric conversion device including a first-conductivity type first semiconductor region located in a pixel region, a second-conductivity type second semiconductor region provided in the first semiconductor region, and a wiring for electrically connecting... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148926 | Image sensing apparatus and signal processing method therefor A color filter arrangement (11) is used, in which a plurality of filter units are each made of 2×2 arrangements of red (R), green (G), green (G) and blue (B) color elements. First, signal charges are added up for all pixels belonging to each of a plurality o... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7123303 | Focal plane array with improved transfer circuit A focal plane array in which information from the pixel forming elements is transferred into a vertical shift register and then from the last stage of the vertical shift registers row by row into a horizontal shift register is provided with a storage element and gat... | 10/17/2006 |
