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US20090278968 SOLID STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE DRIVING METHOD AND CAMERA  
A solid state imaging apparatus includes a solid state imaging device and a control circuit for performing control such that a first clock signal applied to transfer signal charges for a time...
US20120013780 OPTICAL BLACK PIXEL CELL READOUT SYSTEMS AND METHODS  
This is generally directed to systems and methods for reading optical black pixel cells. For example, in some embodiments, the columns of a pixel array can be shunted together during an optical...
US20070139543 Auto-adaptive frame rate for improved light sensitivity in a video system  
A system, method and computer readable medium are described that improve the performance of video systems. Light is shown-upon an image pickup device such as a CCD. Frames are generated in response...
US20110007199 VISION SENSOR FOR MEASURING CONTRASTS AND METHOD FOR MAKING SUCH MEASURE  
A digital vision sensor includes a pixel array (10) for receiving a light beam representing a visual scene. The sensor includes: a reference voltage Vref generator; in each pixel, an element for...
US20090141154 SOLID-STATE PICKUP APPARATUS, ITS DRIVING METHOD AND CAMERA SYSTEM  
There is used an XY address type solid-state image pickup element (for example, a MOS type image sensor) in which two rows and two columns are made a unit, and color filters having a color coding...
US20100110250 POWER SAVINGS WITH MULTIPLE READOUT CIRCUITS  
An imager with a switch circuit located between, and connected to, the pixel array and associated readout chains. In one embodiment the switch is located within the column sample and hold...
US20100201850 NOISE REDUCTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGING DEVICES  
Embodiments describe noise reduction methods and systems for imaging devices having a pixel array having a plurality of pixels, each pixel representing one of a plurality of captured colors and...
US20090295963 METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COLLECTING DIGITAL IMAGE DATA FROM MICROSCOPE MEDIA-BASED SPECIMENS  
A digital image collection system and method includes an area scan camera that scans a region to obtain digital image data therefrom, the area scan camera having an optical scan axis. A specimen...
US20090213256 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA  
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device which includes a group of elements, the group including at least color photoelectric conversion elements configured to convert light signals in first,...
US20080111903 Imaging apparatus with function of shading compensation  
A photographing unit photographs an object “n” times respectively with exposure times T1(1) to T1(n) to generate “n” sheets of images of the same object per an exposure time T1, where “n” is ...
US20120062775 Power gate circuit, solid-state imaging device, and camera system  
A power gate circuit includes: a power gate switch connected at least between a reference potential terminal of a circuit to be power-gated and a reference potential or between a power supply...
US20080079832 HIGH-SPEED CMOS IMAGE SENSOR  
A CMOS image sensor having two ASPs can reduce increasing design difficulty as arising from a pixel array becoming larger and larger. The image sensor includes a selection circuit for transmitting...
US20110002017 PHOTOSENSITIVE CHIP WITH SHIFTED ROWS OF PHOTOSENSORS AND METHODS THEREOF  
A photosensitive chip, including: a plurality of sets of photosensors arranged along an X direction, the photosensors within each set of photosensors aligned in a Y direction, perpendicular to the...
US20110310280 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup element has a plurality of pixels which are arranged two-dimensionally. The plurality of pixels form at least two pixel sets having a first pixel set and a second pixel set. An exit...
US20100149393 INCREASING THE RESOLUTION OF COLOR SUB-PIXEL ARRAYS  
Increasing the resolution of digital imagers is disclosed by sampling an image using diagonally oriented color sub-pixel arrays, and creating missing pixels from the sampled image data. A first...
US20080049131 CMOS imaging facility and a modular array for use in such a facility  
A CMOS imaging facility is implemented on a substrate through a set of pixel circuits that are array-wise organized in lines and columns and each comprise a radiation-to-charge accumulator (20), a...
US20090256939 SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS  
Solid-state imaging apparatus comprises: a plurality of A/D converters converting the analog electric signal from the pixel into a digital signal to output the digital signal from an output...
US20070247537 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE  
A solid-state imaging device that suppresses crosstalk of light in a semiconductor substrate that caused by diffraction of light is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention,...
US20080309808 METHOD OF DRIVING CCD SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS  
A method of driving a CCD solid-state image pickup device, which performs multiplication driving on the signal charges, the method including: reading out signal charges from a plurality of...
US20090086073 IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE  
A solid-state imaging device 5 includes photoelectric conversion elements 51R, 51G, and 51B and photoelectric conversion elements 51r, 51g, and 51b there are controlled to have an exposure time...
US20060109358 System on a chip camera system employing complementary color filter  
A system on a chip (SoC) camera system includes a pixel array which has a color filter and converts an optically photographed image to an electrical analog image signal, an analog signal processing...
US20090273697 SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS  
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes an A/D conversion circuit in each column, wherein a connecting unit is provided for connecting a register circuit in a certain column to a register circuit...
US20090219423 Solid-state imaging device, electronic camera  
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional array that individually output analog pixel signals corresponding to amounts of light received thereat, a...
US20080170148 SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, AND IMAGING DEVICE  
To erase the afterimage. A solid-state imaging element includes an X decoder for generating the reset voltage for resetting the pixel cell, and supplying the reset voltage to every other pixel...
US20100165163 IMAGING DEVICE  
An imaging device comprises a pixel array, a reading unit, a pixel signal addition unit, and a display unit. A plurality of pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel are arranged in two...
US20090002507 Image Pickup Device, Integrated Circuit if Image Pickup Element, and Image Pickup Result Processing Method  
The present invention is applied to for example video cameras recording an image pickup result by moving picture, electronic still cameras, monitoring devices and the like. Image pickup means 3 and...
US20090284632 DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS  
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion, an accumulation portion for accumulating...
US20120105661 ROW AND COLUMN JUMPING FOR PIXEL READOUT USING BURST SWITCHING MODE  
An imaging apparatus is described for obtaining images. The imaging apparatus includes a pixel array, a row decoder, a column decoder, and a trigger circuit. The pixel array integrates electrical...
US20090002534 Solid-state image capturing device, driving method of solid state image capturing device and electronic information device  
A solid-state image capturing device for capturing a subject to generate and output an image signal is provided, in which a predetermined number of transfer gates applied with different driving...
US20110211102 LENS ARRAY  
A lens array includes: a substrate in which a plurality of through holes are formed; and a plurality of lenses provided in the substrate by filling the plurality of through holes respectively. A...
US20090167915 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME  
Provided is a solid-state imaging device being capable of suppressing RTS noise and preventing decrease in S/N when a signal having a smaller value is converted to a digital signal. The solid-state...
US20080303932 ISOLATION STRUCTURE FOR IMAGE SENSOR DEVICE  
Provided is an image sensor device including a substrate with a pixel region and a peripheral region. A first isolation structure is formed on the substrate in the pixel region. The first isolation...
US20080170146 MISSING PIXEL ARCHITECTURE  
An active pixel sensor (APS) comprises a regular repeating pattern of geometrically similar pixel regions, active pixels of which have photodiodes formed therein. A remainder of the geometrically...
US20120105697 ARRANGEMENT OF CIRCUITS IN PIXELS, EACH CIRCUIT SHARED BY A PLURALITY OF PIXELS, IN IMAGE SENSING APPRATUS  
In an image sensing apparatus having a plurality of unit cells, each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a common circuit shared by the plurality of photoelectric...
US20120120293 Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment  
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels converting physical quantities into electric signals are arranged in a two-dimensional shape, a vertical signal...
US20110317046 MISSING PIXEL ARRAY  
An active pixel sensor (APS) comprises a regular repeating pattern of geometrically similar pixel regions, active pixels of which have photodiodes formed therein. A remainder of the geometrically...
US20080284887 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA  
A solid-state imaging device comprises a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, and a readout unit operable to read out pixel signals of the pixels included in...
US20080204584 IMAGING APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGING SYSTEM  
In an imaging apparatus according to the present invention, the driving unit drives each of the pixels in the non-readout region in the first mode such that the setting unit sets the input unit to...
US20100066880 MICROCHIP AND METHOD FOR CELL SORTING  
[Problems] To provide a microchip for cell sorting to obtain the desired cell from a number of cells quickly and accurately by combining the advantages from both methods using the optical tweezer...
US20090122172 SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS  
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel region including a plurality of pixels, each including a photoelectric conversion element, arranged in matrix, and a reset switch for discharging...
US20100188540 IMAGING DEVICE  
The present invention relates to improved imaging devices having high dynamic range and to monitoring and automatic control systems incorporating the improved imaging devices.
US20090207284 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ANTI-BLOOMING TIMING TO REDUCE EFFECTS OF DARK CURRENT  
An electronic imager includes a plurality of pixels having photosensors for accumulating charge corresponding to individual pixel values of a sensed image. Each of the pixels includes an...
US20090147118 DEVICE AND PIXEL ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL IMAGING  
The present invention discloses structure of a two-gate field effect transistor (FET), named as charge gated FET, and presents various active pixel sensor (APS) and multimode architectures using...
US20090040349 Imager methods, apparatuses, and systems providing a skip mode with a wide dynamic range operation  
Methods, apparatuses and systems provide a high dynamic range mode of operation for an image sensor when operating in a skip mode where certain pixels of an array are not readout. Multiple...
US20080192133 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS  
There is provided a solid-state imaging device having a pixel array section in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in a matrix form, and sweeping out unnecessary...
US20110019048 SENSOR AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR A CAMERA  
A sensor module has first and second sensor arrays formed on a substrate, with the first and second sensor arrays adapted to share common readout circuitry and shared read out for a pair of sensors...
US20110169990 CURRENT GENERATION CIRCUIT, AND SINGLE-SLOPE ADC AND CAMERA USING THE SAME  
A linear relationship is established between a gain control signal and an amplification factor (value in dB). Described is a current generation circuit including a first current output section...
US20120008022 Solid-state imaging device and camera system  
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section in which a plurality of pixels converting optical signals into electric signals and accumulating the electric signals in accordance with an...
US20060087576 Charge transfer device, and control method therefor  
There is provided a charge transfer element, comprising a shift register, with a plurality of transfer electrodes, for transmitting information charge by application of clock pulses to the transfer...
US20050012836 Image sensor with charge binning and dual channel readout  
An image sensor includes: (a) a plurality of light measuring elements arranged in an array and at least a portion of the elements have a color filter mated with the light receiving elements which...
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