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US20090322917 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a solid-state imaging device capable of operating at high-speed, and suppressing the deterioration of image quality caused by coupling. A...
US20090316025 IMAGE PICKUP  
An image pickup including a light emission portion that irradiates an object with near infrared; and an image pickup portion that receives a reflection light image of the object by the near...
US20090290051 SOLID-STATE IMAGER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME  
A solid-state imager including an imaging region, a color filter layer, and an electro-conductive component, wherein the imaging region has a plurality of light receiving elements positioned...
US20090284627 Image processing Method  
An image processing method includes photographing an object by a camera via a filter, separating image data, which is obtained by photographing by the camera, into a red component, a green...
US20090278954 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS  
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a color and polarization obtaining section 101 including a single-chip color image capture device that has a color...
US20090251573 SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF  
A solid-state imaging apparatus and a manufacturing method of a solid-state imaging apparatus are provided. Metal wirings 102 and 103 are formed in an effective pixel region A and out-of...
US20090244332 SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD FOR SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS  
When a solid-state imaging apparatus which has A/D conversion circuits in every column and subjects a digitized signal to arithmetic processing carries out a horizontal skipping operation and...
US20090231475 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREAKING SURFACE TENSION DURING A RECESSED COLOR FILTER ARRAY PROCESS  
A method of making a color filter array of an imaging device comprises forming a main recess for a color filter array, forming a tension breaking feature at an edge of the main recess, and...
US20090225204 SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA  
A wavelength separation filter 206 is composed of λ/4 multilayer films 302 to 304 that are sequentially laminated on a multilayer interference filter 301 . The multilayer interference...
US20090207287 Colored photosensitive composition, and color filter array and solid image pickup device using the same  
An object of the present invention is to provide a colored photosensitive composition capable of forming a color filter array having improved spectral characteristics. The colored photosensitive...
US20090207286 Colored photosensitive composition, and color filter array and solid image pickup device using the same  
An object of the present invention is to provide a colored photosensitive composition capable of forming a color filter array having improved spectral characteristics. The colored photosensitive...
US20090207267 METHOD FOR CALCULATING SHIFT AMOUNT OF IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT  
A method for calculating a shift amount of a microlens from a position of a light receiving element arranged in a pixel of an image pickup element is provided. The microlens collects incident light...
US20090195678 IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CAPTURING LABELED IMAGE  
An image capture system is provided. The image capture system for capturing an image of an object includes a light emitting module, a lens, a base unit and a filter unit. The light emitting module...
US20090195683 DRIVE UNIT FOR IMAGE SENSOR, AND DRIVE METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE  
A drive unit for an image sensor of the present invention comprises, for horizontal scanning, a drive section performing addition and readout of a first FD (floating diffusion) shared by two pixels...
US20090185059 COLORED NEGATIVE PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, COLORED PATTERN COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COLORED PATTERN  
The present invention relates to a colored negative photoresist composition comprising a coloring agent (A), an alkali soluble binder polymer (B), a photopolymerizable compound (C), a...
US20090153705 IMAGE-CAPTURING ELEMENT AND IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS  
An image-capturing element includes a group of first pixels configured to receive object light and generate an image signal representing an object image; and a group of second pixels configured to...
US20090147111 IMAGE ENHANCEMENT IN THE MOSAIC DOMAIN  
Imaging apparatus includes a mosaic image sensor ( 24 ), which is configured to generate a stream of input pixel values belonging to a plurality of input sub-images, each sub-image responsive to...
US20090147112 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACHIEVING PANCHROMATIC RESPONSE FROM A COLOR-MOSAIC IMAGER  
A method and apparatus for achieving monochromatic response from a low-cost color imager is presented. In this method and apparatus, the out-of-band response to infrared (IR) light is by solid...
US20090147109 CALCULATING INTERPOLATION ERRORS FOR INTERPOLATION EDGE DETECTION  
An edge directed demosaicing algorithm for determining an edge direction from an input color filter array (CFA) sampled image is disclosed. Aspects of the present invention include calculating for...
US20090135282 Visible imaging device with a colour filter  
A visible imaging device with a colour filter, including: main optics ( 10 ) equipped with a pupil, a sensor ( 13 ) forming a sensitive pixel array, a circuit for addressing said pixels, a...
US20090135281 DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGING APPARATUS  
A driving method of a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements as defined herein, includes performing first driving which mixes a first electric charge...
US20090135267 Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method  
An image processing apparatus includes a discriminating unit that discriminates a color component originating in an image structure in an image captured through an optical system from a color...
US20090128672 Color solid-state image capturing apparatus and electronic information device  
A color solid-state image capturing apparatus is provided, where a plurality of light receiving sections are arranged on a light receiving surface of an image capturing area, a plurality of color...
US20090116750 COLOR INTERPOLATION METHOD AND DEVICE  
A color interpolation method and device are disclosed. The color interpolation method includes (a) extracting a pixel value only from a Bayer pattern image regardless of R, G and B values and...
US20090115874 Image sensors, color filter arrays included in the image sensors, and image pickup apparatuses including the image sensors  
A color filter array may include two or more yellow filter pixels, one or more green filter pixels, and one or more cyan filter pixels. The two or more yellow filter pixels may be disposed in a...
US20090109306 HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE SENSOR WITH REDUCED LINE MEMORY FOR COLOR INTERPOLATION  
An image sensor has an array of pixels organized into a row and column format. Pixels are read out in a line-by-line sequence and buffered in a line image buffer. An extended dynamic range is...
US20090096899 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANISOTROPIC DEMOSAICING OF IMAGE DATA  
A method and apparatus for determining missing color pixel values in image data. Pixel values are interpolated in a horizontal or a vertical direction based on gradient scores and optionally chroma...
US20090091645 Multi-exposure pattern for enhancing dynamic range of images  
The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for enhancing a dynamic range of an image with a multi-exposure pixel pattern taken by an image sensor of a...
US20090091646 COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF  
Interpolated image data is generated from image-sensing data according to the color characteristic of an object. A color filter that has a strong correlation with the color characteristic of an...
US20090091644 Metallic nanostructure color filter array and method of making the same  
A color filter array with metallic nanostructures and a method of fabricating the same. The color filter array is fabricated by forming a plurality of color filter regions corresponding to pixels...
US20090086064 DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE COLOR FILTER ARRAY  
A microfluidic color filter array, color imager system, and method for dynamic color filtering are disclosed. The microfluidic color filter array includes a network of fluid channels configured to...
US20090073291 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE  
To control the potential distribution generated in a well at the time of amplification and reduce a shading in a solid-state imaging device of amplification type, the amplification type solid-state...
US20090066821 Method And Apparatus For Interpolating Missing Colors In A Color Filter Array  
A method, of interpolating missing colors in a color filter array comprising red, green and blue photosites comprises determining and interpolation direction for each red and each blue photosite...
US20090066820 FILTERING OPTIMIZATION VIA IMPLICIT BAYER GRID SUBSAMPLING  
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for filtering captured image data are provided. An array of pixel data values corresponding to a captured image is received. The pixel data values in the received...
US20090046182 PIXEL ASPECT RATIO CORRECTION USING PANCHROMATIC PIXELS  
A method for forming an enhanced digital full-color image having a first pixel aspect ratio includes capturing an image using an image sensor having panchromatic pixels and color pixels...
US20090040345 Color imaging device and color imaging device manufacturing method  
A color imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photoelectric transducers, and a color filter including a plurality of coloring layers provided to associate with...
US20090027531 PIXEL MIXTURE METHOD  
The present invention provides a pixel mixture method for mixing multiple pixels in a high-pixel solid-state image sensing device capable of obtaining a high-definition image while reducing the...
US20080278610 Configurable pixel array system and method  
Present embodiments relate to techniques for capturing images. One embodiment may include an image sensor, comprising a substrate, a first pixel cell array disposed on the substrate, a first...
US20080252759 Method, apparatus and system providing green-green imbalance compensation  
Method, apparatus and system for determining a value for green-green imbalance and applying the value to green pixels to correct the imbalance are described. Average pixel values of green pixels...
US20080231735 Activity-Based System and Method for Reducing Gain Imbalance in a Bayer Pattern and Digital Camera Employing the Same  
An activity-based system for, and method of, reducing Gr-Gb gain imbalance and a digital camera incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a sensor...
US20080204580 Method, apparatus and system providing imaging device with color filter array  
A method and apparatus that provide a color filter array for use in an imaging device and/or system. The color filter array contains a stopping layer located at least on selected color filters. The...
US20080204581 Image capturing apparatus  
When a selected target color space for a digital camera is changed, the colors of a final image, i.e., the colors of an image in the changed target color space, are predicted from an image that is...
US20080198248 Reduced edge effect from recesses in imagers  
Methods for making a recessed color filter array for a semiconductor imager employing a sidewall spacer for reducing an edge effect from the array are disclosed. In one embodiment, a substrate is...
US20080151083 Color filter pattern for color filter arrays including a demosaicking algorithm  
A device for acquiring color images using a color filter array. The color filter array includes a pattern of red array elements, green array elements, and blue array elements. The red array...
US20080117319 Imager device with anti-fuse pixels and recessed color filter array  
An imager device having a recessed color filter array formed in a trench of a material layer above a pixel array. Light-sensitive pixels are formed in the center area of the array, while...
US20080094491 Image processing apparatus and method  
The invention discloses an image processing apparatus and method. The method of the invention first splits the image into a green color plane, a red color plane and a blue color plane. Afterward,...
US20080088722 Photoelectric converter  
A photoelectric converter comprising a resin layer that absorbs infrared light cuts out unnecessary infrared light, while the photoelectric converter has a problem that the resin layer also reduces...
US20080068475 Image photographing apparatus, method and medium  
An image photographing apparatus, method and medium that can enhance color reproducibility and sensitivity. The image photographing apparatus includes a filter unit having a first filter region to...
US20080036886 Methods For Generating Enhanced Digital Images  
Slight camera movement between capture of successive images is advantageously utilized to minimize or eliminate the need to interpolate in order to fill in the “holes” in a Bayer pattern. The...
US20080030603 COLOR FILTER, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE-CAPTURE APPARATUS, IMAGE-CAPTURE METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM  
A color filter allows a light signal to pass through by each pixel and be incident on an imaging device. The light signal is inputted through a lens and including one of plural different spectral...
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