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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7456892 | Signal charge transfer line for transferring signal charge by application of transfer pulses to transfer electrodes Disclosed is a horizontal transfer line in which first horizontal transfer pulses are applied to transfer electrodes via a commonly connected electrode line, second horizontal transfer pulses are applied to transfer electrodes via a commonly connected electrode line... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7436449 | Electronic imaging system The invention relates to an electronic imaging system such a video camera or digital camera, whose thickness or size is reduced while performance degradation is reduced as much as possible. The system comprises a zoom lens system comprising a first G1, a seco... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7358997 | Multiple resolution optical imager using single size image elements An image sensor has two or three rows of imaging elements, all the imaging elements being of the same size. This provides the rows with a native resolution. The image sensor is also provided with three shift registers. First and second shift register elements receiv... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327500 | Image inputting apparatus All electric charges accumulated in a line sensor are transferred via a first shift gate to a first analog shift register. By controlling the width of a shift pulse signal to be supplied to a second shift gate, the amount of an electric charge transfer when the elec... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7312825 | Solid-state image pick device having a timing pulse generator, and method for replacing signals from a switch A solid state image pickup device being provided with a photoelectric converter portion being composed of a plurality of pixels disposed in a row, a charge transfer portion for transferring the charges generated in the photoelectric converter portion, and a charge/v... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7289153 | Scanning type image pick-up apparatus and a scanning type laser beam receive apparatus The present invention has an object of realizing highly reliable search with high precision by obtaining a clear view image over a wide view. In particular, a reflection mirror is formed so as to correspond to an image pick-up element at a focus surface of a converg... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271837 | Method and apparatus for acquiring line signals When signal charges are read from light receiving pixels of each of CCD sensors, which are arrayed linearly such that end regions of CCD sensors adjacent to each other overlap with respect to a direction intersecting with the linear array direction of the CCD sensor... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7250971 | Charge read-out method and solid-state imaging device capable of shortening read-out time charges stored in a plurality of light receiving units A charge read-out method and a solid-state imaging device capable of shortening a read-out time of charges stored in a plurality of light receiving units arranged linearly are provided. The charge read-out method includes the steps of moving the charges, which are g... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7247830 | Output amplifier for solid-state imaging device An output amplifier for a solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a floating diffusion that stores a signal charge; and at least three source follower circuits that output a signal in accordance with a change of a potential on the floating diffusion, th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7233351 | Method for high resolution incremental imaging A method and apparatus to capture a high resolution photograph of a target. A focal zone of a linear image sensing array is displaced across an area containing a target to be photographed. The displacement may be angular or linear with appropriate scaling to yield t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7217590 | Color image sensor with enhanced colorimetry and method for making same The invention relates to very small-sized color image sensors. The sensor according to the invention is made by the following method: the formation, on the front face of the semiconductive wafer (10), of a series of a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7190398 | Image sensor with high dynamic range linear output Designs and operational methods to increase the dynamic range of image sensors and APS devices in particular by achieving more than one integration times for each pixel thereof. An APS system with more than one column-parallel signal chains for readout are described... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7164518 | Fast scanner with rotatable mirror and image processing system A scanner for obtaining an image of an object placed on an at least partially transparent platform, wherein the platform is defined by edge portions and has at least including a first scan area and a second scan area. In one embodiment, the scanner includes a white ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7142240 | Active pixel sensor array reset The method and apparatus for resetting an Active Pixel Sensor (APS) array comprises a controller for sequentially pre-resetting groups of one or more sensors in the array and then simultaneously resetting all of the sensors. The groups may be formed from one or more... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7116442 | Image processing apparatus applicable to different copying types of color copying machines To reduce the number of memories, an image processing apparatus includes a color correcting unit for sequentially processing input pixel data, a memory device provided at a preceding stage of the color correcting unit and for storing the pixel data, a region discrim... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7092030 | Image pickup apparatus with prism optical system An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup apparatus body, an image recording/reproducing section placed on the right-hand side within the image pickup apparatus body when viewed in a photographing direction, an image-displaying monitor disposed on the left-... | 08/15/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7042600 | Method and apparatus for eliminating lamp strobing in a digital input scanner A method of eliminating strobing in successive scan lines of an image includes determining a nominal scan line time and an associated scan line integration time for the image sensor. A nominal illumination light source output period is determined for the illuminatio... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7030924 | Image reading device and method for the same When an image object is read using a camera including a line sensor having pixels arrayed in a line, a relative-movement-detecting section detects a movement of a transfer head holding the object in X direction relative to the camera. The detecting section outputs a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6954230 | Solid image pickup apparatus A solid image pickup apparatus which is not easily susceptible to an influence of an emitted light caused by impact ionization. The solid image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes an output circuit for converting a signal charge outputted from a photo... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954232 | Method for controlling a charge-coupled device sensing module A method for controlling a charge-coupled device (CCD) sensing module. The CCD sensing module includes photosensors divided into two sets of photosensors including a first set of photosensors and a second set of photosensors. First, the first set of photosensors and... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6798454 | Solid state image sensor system and method for driving same Every time signal charges, which are generated in pixels “1”, “3”, “5”, . . . of one 1a of pixel rows 1a and 1b spaced from each other by a distance D, are transferred to a final stage 4a of ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6791614 | Color linear image sensor device with shutter function for charges in photodetectors and method of manufacturing the same A color linear image sensor device has a shutter function for selectively draining charges stored in a photodetector circuit. The color linear image sensor device includes first, second, and third linear image sensors having different sensitivities with respect to i... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6781628 | Solid-state image pickup device and method of driving the same A solid-state image pickup device includes image pickup means having at least two sensor arrays disposed so as to be adjacent to each other, and horizontal charge transfer means having at least two horizontal registers which are disposed so as to be adjacent to the ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6765615 | Apparatus for reducing exposing time of an image processing system Apparatus for reducing exposing time of an image processing system is disclosed herein. The image processing system including a shift register coupled to a photo-sensing means, the photo-sensing device is used to convert an optical image from a lens to a plurality g... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6724062 | Semiconductor energy detector A semiconductor energy detector as disclosed herein is arranged so that an aluminum wiring pattern is formed on the front side of transfer electrodes of a CCD vertical shift register, which pattern includes meander-shaped auxiliary wirings for performing auxiliary a... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6717617 | Image reader In an image reading apparatus, for reading in the color mode, outputs of even-number pixels and odd-number pixels of respective color components output from a CCD line sensor are time shared and multiplexed at selectors and are sent to A/D converters, respectively. ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6683647 | Method for driving solid-state image sensing device A method for driving a CCD solid-state image sensing device. The method is applied to driving the CCD in order to ensure a sufficiently large charge to be handled. In the method, the driving control is performed such that the length of a control interval,... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6646682 | Linear tri-color image sensors An improved color image linear sensor is disclosed to minimize the registration problems commonly seen in a sensor using three rows of photodetectors. In particular, according to one embodiment, the photodetectors in the improved color image linear sensor... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6593968 | Linear image sensor, image reading device, and charge transfer method The linear image sensor according to the present invention includes a light receiving a member consisting of at least three light receiving pixel lines 11, 12 and 13; signal charge transfer sections 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36 located on both sides of each ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6593966 | Prevention of noise being superposed on video signal in image pickup apparatus Video information can be taken from an image pickup apparatus at a desired frequency. A first timing control circuit operates in synchronization with the operation of a drive circuit to control the operation of an analog processing circuit and an A/D conv... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6570615 | Pixel readout scheme for image sensors In one embodiment, an image sensor includes a linear pixel array and array readout lines, wherein the linear pixel array includes a group of pixels arranged in a row, and each array readout line is selectively coupled to an output of at least one pixel in... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6563541 | Solid state image device with a vertical charge transfer portion In a solid state image device, a group of optical-electrical conversion portions are arranged in a vertical direction. Further, at least one vertical charge transfer portion is arranged adjacent to the optical-electrical conversion portions and transfer t... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6233014 | Line sensor camera without distortion in photo image A camera shoots an image of a two-dimensional object by a line sensor for main scanning and a rotation scanning mechanism for secondary scanning. The image pickup angle range in the secondary scanning direction is altered according to modification of the ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6184929 | Solid state imaging device and image read apparatus with polygonal photosensitive pixels A solid state imaging device comprising: a plurality of photosensitive pixels for scanning an optical image signal falling thereon and converting the same photoelectrically which are arranged in parallel to one another in a main scan direction, wherein the pho... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6133596 | Near complete charge transfer device A charge transfer structure (30) includes a substrate comprised of semiconductor material and, coupled to a surface of the substrate, a plurality of serially coupled devices each having a gate terminal. The plurality of serially coupled devices include a ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5973736 | Color linear sensor The present invention is directed to a color linear sensor of a simple structure which can accurately measure a degree of a color mixture in a sensor section. In a color linear sensor having a dot-sequential sensor array (1), only one pixel of a predeterm... | 10/26/1999 |
