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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6809766 | Look ahead rolling shutter system in CMOS sensors A shutter system for a pixel array is disclosed. The system includes a read shift register, first and second reset shift registers, and a plurality of logic gates. The read shift register is configured to sequentially count rows of the pixel array from top to bottom... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6806901 | Controlling the range and resolution of offset correction applied to the output of a charge coupled device An offset correction circuit which enables a designer to control the correction range irrespective of the amplification sought to be achieved to the image component of the input signal. The offset correction further enables the designer to perform offset correction ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6806902 | System and method for correcting bad pixel data in a digital camera A bad pixel detection and correction system and method in which two estimates are computed in real time for the value of a given pixel. The two estimates are based on the values of pixels surrounding the given pixel. One of the estimates is a minimum value and the o... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6803956 | Color recognition camera A color-recognition camera comprises a red-green-blue CCD-imaging device that provides an analog RGB-video signal. A set of three analog-to-digital converters convert the analog RGB-video signal into a digital RGB-video signal. A digital comparator tests the digital... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6803953 | Image sensing apparatus and method having noise reduction function In an image sensing apparatus which performs noise reduction processing using pixel signals obtained by consecutively scanning a CCD image sensor at different timings, for performing image expansion in the vertical direction by controlling scanning of the CCD image ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6803958 | Apparatus and method for eliminating artifacts in active pixel sensor (APS) imagers An active pixel sensor (APS) that includes circuitry to eliminate artifacts in digital images. The APS includes a comparator for comparing a signal level from a pixel to an adjusted saturation voltage to determine if the pixel is saturated. If the pixel is saturated... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6801249 | Device for emitting a time varying signal in the field of vision of a picture taking device A device for emitting digital video images may include a picture-taking unit for producing the images and a unit for forming at least one signal in the field of vision of the picture-taking unit so that the signal appears in at least some of the images produced by t... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6801255 | Image pickup apparatus There is provided an image pickup apparatus having two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, a plurality of read-out channels each including a read-out circuit and an amplifier circuit, a parallel-serial conversion circuit which sequentially selects pixel signals output via... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6791613 | Signal processing apparatus The invention provides a signal processing apparatus having clamp capacitance device for receiving, at one electrode thereof, first and second signals outputted from a signal source, a signal transfer transistor of which one main electrode is connected to an other e... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6791611 | Dual ported memory for digital image sensor An image sensor architecture that accommodates the relative mismatch of bus width between the image sensor, processor, and memory is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the invention provides a dual-ported memory structure having a relatively wide data port for r... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788338 | High resolution video camera apparatus having two image sensors and signal processing A video signal generating apparatus where the video signal is produced using two different image sensors has been described. The optical beam received from the camera lens is split into two beams via a beam splitter. Each beam is applied to the corresponding color a... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6784935 | Image pickup apparatus capable of wide dynamic range by double exposure, and control thereof An image pickup apparatus having:a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements each generating an electric signal through photoelectric conversion; a plurality of signal storage elements for storing the electric signals generated by the photoelectric conversion e... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6784926 | Method and arrangement for processing CCD pixel data This invention relates generally to the processing of measured data. Especially the invention applies to the binning procedure of data which is measured with a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) sensor unit. The invention is preferably used in photometrics for measuring ra... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6778219 | Three-dimensional image capturing device A three-dimensional image capturing device obtains distance information of a standard subject, to which the distance from the device to each point of a surface of the standard subject is known. Based on the distance information of the standard subject, correction da... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6774940 | Electronic camera apparatus having image reproducing function and method for controlling reproduction thereof A picture number of an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display is compared with index data contained in an index section of a work memory to produce a display signal to be delivered to the liquid crystal display by using compressed or non-compressed data w... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6774947 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus has a lens, an optical fiber and a scanning stage. The tip end of an optical fiber is disposed on a surface for forming a subject image by the lens via the scanning stage. The scanning stage can rotate horizontal and vertical scanning motor... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6774943 | Method and apparatus for edge enhancement in digital images An apparatus for edge enhancement of a digital image provided as raw digital image data to an input terminal and for providing processed image data to an output terminal. An offset processing circuit is coupled to the input terminal and configured to receive the raw... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6771310 | Image pickup apparatus with optical beam shifting with independently controlled optical elements An optical apparatus includes an optical element for shifting an incident position of a light beam on an image forming plane, a plurality of restricting portions for controlling an inclination position of the optical element with respect to an optical axis by respec... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771308 | Digital camera having blur detection There is provided a digital camera having a printing function, the camera comprising a detector for detecting the amount of camera shake during shooting, a recording medium for recording each of shot images and camera shake data on the amount of camera shake detecte... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6768509 | Method and apparatus for determining points of interest on an image of a camera calibration object The present invention allows for the locations of points of interest in a calibration object in a calibration image for a digital camera to be identified automatically. The image is an array of pixels corresponding to the calibration object, which has a known refere... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6768515 | Two architectures for integrated realization of sensing and processing in a single device An integrated sensing device including array of sensor processor cells capable of being arranged into a detection an array. Each sensor processor cell includes a sensing medium; at least one transconductance amplifier configured for feedforward template multiplicati... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6765616 | Electric camera A photography related to video cameras, camcorders, digital still cameras and others using a solid-state image sensing device, and particularly an electric camera using a solid-state image sensing device with a large number of pixels. The use of an image sensing dev... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6765611 | Method for compressing an image from a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image sensing device A method of producing a compressed image from a full resolution sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image produced by a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image sensing device having fast photosites with a predetermined response to a light exposure for prod... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6765608 | Image processing apparatus and system executing predetermined image processing on image data shot by camera, and image recording medium recorded with image processing program An image processing apparatus includes a camera unit providing an image of a shot object, a marker detection unit detecting an object from the image output from the camera unit and comparing the configuration of the detected object with a predetermined configuration... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6762793 | Apparatus and method for high-brightness compression Signal levels of input three, R, G, and B, color video signals are examined by a level examining circuit. After a knee-compression is performed to the video signals, a selector selects the maximum knee-compressed color signal and the minimum knee-compressed color si... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6760064 | Camera A camera is provided in which an electronically picked up image is exposed on a silver halide roll film and higher degree of freedom in print size and the cost down of the additional printing can be attained. An image-pickup signal outputted from a CCD is converted ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6757021 | Method for controlling a video reflection device containing A CCD image converter and a video electronics unit, for a motion picture camera A motion picture camera for transporting and exposing a motion picture film with an adjustable rotary shutter, a rotation surface (dark sector) of which reflects the recording path of rays to at least a video recording device that has a CCD image sensor and a video ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757019 | Low-power parallel processor and imager having peripheral control circuitry The present invention implements a parallel processing architecture in which a plurality of parallel processors concurrently operate upon a different block, preferably a column, of image data. Implemented on a single monolithic integrated circuit chip, this single c... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6747689 | Method of operating a multiple component electronic imaging system A method of operating an electronic imaging system (20) as a distributed processor network is provided for a system that includes multiple imaging components such as digital cameras (22), printers (34), etc., wherein each component is connected ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6741282 | Method and apparatus for processing a photocurrent in both discrete and continuous time An image sensing array having discrete and continuous time processing capabilities. Integration of a photocurrent is used to produce a high resolution digital image. By also employing continuous time processing of the photocurrent within the image sensing array, the... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6741287 | Electronic still camera having separable monitor device An electronic still camera includes a camera body having a photographic optical system, and a monitor device detachably attached to the camera body. The monitor device has an image indication portion in which an object image obtained by the photographic optical syst... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738090 | System and method for using a single intelligence circuit for a plurality of imaging rendering components An electronic imaging system and method are provided that include an image capturing component, such as a digital camera, an image rendering component, such as a printer, digital projector, video screen, etc., each of which requires an intelligence circuit for opera... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6734909 | Electronic imaging device An electronic imaging device has a reproduction section which reproduces at least one of a thumbnail image and a full image, display section to display reproduced at least one of the thumbnail image and the full image, a scene select section which selects a desired ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6731334 | Automatic voice tracking camera system and method of operation An automatic voice tracking camera system (12) is provided. System (12) includes a camera (18) operable to receive control signals for controlling a view of the camera (18). A microphone array (14) comprises a plurality of micropho... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6724429 | System for sensing and displaying lens data for high performance film and video cameras and lenses A system for sensing and displaying lens data for a cinematography zoom lens and camera in real time. A plurality of sensors are connected to the lens for producing signals continually representing the present positions of focus, zoom and T-stop setting rings of the... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6724426 | Multi junction APS with dual simultaneous integration A new kind of pixel is formed of two floating diffusions of different sizes and different conductivity type. The two floating diffusions have different image characteristics, and hence form a knee-shaped slope. ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6721009 | Method of driving solid state imaging device An aspect ratio variable solid state imaging device capable of reducing the frequency of a drive pulse of a horizontal register required for discharging signal charges in unnecessary portions at a small aspect ratio or of reducing a discharge period for signal charg... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6714239 | Active pixel sensor with programmable color balance A semiconductor based image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels formed upon a major surface of a semiconductor substrate, a majority of the pixels having a photodetector with a plurality of color filters of at least two different colors arranged over a second ma... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6710807 | Image sensing apparatus There is disclosed an apparatus having an image sensing device, a signal processing device for performing a first image sensing operation for making the image sensing device perform an image sensing operation in an exposure state to obtain a sensed image signal, and... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6710808 | Image sensing apparatus There is disclosed an apparatus having an image sensing device, an image sensing time fixing instruction device for instructing to fix the image sensing time so as to inhibit the image sensing time of the image sensing device from changing in each image sensing, and... | 03/23/2004 |
