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7402789 Methods for pixel binning in an image sensor  
Embodiments provide structures and methods for binning pixel signals of a pixel array. Pixel signals for pixels in an element of the array are binned simultaneously. Pixels in an element are...
7402787 Method of thin lightshield process for solid-state image sensors  
An image sensor includes a substrate having photosensitive areas; an insulator spanning at least a portion of the substrate; and a first and second layer of a multi-layer metallization structure,...
7402786 Vehicle headlight control using imaging sensor with spectral filtering  
A vehicle headlamp control method and apparatus includes providing an imaging sensor that senses light in spatially separated regions of a field of view forward of the vehicle. Light levels sensed...
7399952 Image processing apparatus and image capturing apparatus  
An image processing apparatus for processing a color image signal includes a signal processing unit for processing a plurality of image signals in parallel, where the plurality of image signals are...
7399951 Solid-state image-sensing device  
In a solid-state image-sensing device, by global shuttering, whereby image sensing is performed simultaneously in all the pixels, a potential commensurate with the amount of light incident on a...
7397587 Fast, auto-cropping, bi-directional multi-resolution scanner apparatus, system and software therefor  
Bi-directional multi-resolution scanner having software/firmware for 1- to 2-pass high resolution scanning, enabling the scanner to capture and render image data both the standard direction, top to...
7397023 Image sensor module with optical path delimiter and accurate alignment  
An optical path delimiter having a lens is disposed so as to be in contact with a transparent lid bonded to a surface of a solid-state image sensor, and is fixed without bonded. Further, the...
7397020 Image sensor using a boosted voltage and a method thereof  
An image sensor and method thereof. In an example, the image sensor, may include a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels, each of the plurality of unit pixels having a charge transfer...
7394531 Apparatus and method for automatic optical inspection  
An automated optical inspection system, comprising at least one camera having a field of view; and at least one image scanning module comprising a plurality of objective modules arranged to have...
7394492 Solid state image pickup device, method of driving solid state image pickup device, and camera using the solid state image pickup device  
Provided is an amplification type solid state image pickup device capable of increasing a saturation charge amount even when an increase in circuit scale is suppressed. In a pixel of the...
7394056 Image sensor having pinned floating diffusion diode  
The present invention provides an image sensor having a pinned floating diffusion region in addition to a pinned photodiode. The pinned floating diffusion region increases the capacity of the...
7394055 Solid-state image-pickup device with column-line amplifiers and limiter  
The levels of the power supply and the ground are kept constant against a parasitic resistance by keeping the constant current of an amplifier irrespective of the size of a pixel signal and the...
7394054 Photoelectric converter and a method of driving the same  
A photoelectric converter capable of reducing random noise has a photoelectric conversion circuit that generates an optical signal in correspondence to incident light, a reset circuit connected to...
7394053 Systems and methods for multi-modal imaging having a spatial relationship in three dimensions between first and second image data  
The invention relates to imaging systems that include a coded aperture detection system and an optical detection system. The coded aperture detection system is configured to detect radiation...
7394052 Parallel processing logic circuit for sensor signal processing  
A parallel processing logic circuit for sensor signal processing includes sensors and processing units. The sensor and the processing unit are integrated in the same pixel and arranged in a matrix....
7391845 Semiconductor radiation detector with guard ring, and imaging system with this detector  
A guard-ring electrode can be used at a suitable position for each of a plurality of imaging regions. Improvement in image quality and reduction in unnecessary radiation exposure, such as reduction...
7391453 Solid-state image sensor and image reading method  
In the solid-state image sensor comprising 4-Tr-pixels, TG lines connecting the gate electrodes 28 TG of the transfer transistors of the pixel units of the n th row, and select lines connecting...
7391014 Vehicle outside rear-view mirror assembly prepared for carrying an image detector device  
An outside rear-view mirror for a vehicle, which is designed to support an image-detector device is disclosed. The assembly comprises a casing with a reflector fastening device and a detector...
7391008 Method and system for wavelength-dependent imaging and detection using a hybrid filter  
Apparatus and methods for wavelength-dependent detection are provided. A detector includes a hybrid filter having unpatterned and patterned filter layers and at least one light-detecting sensor...
7391006 Fingerprint scanning device with contact image sensing module  
A fingerprint scanning device and an electronic device with a fingerprint scanning function are proposed. The fingerprint scanning device has a contact image sensing module, a signal conversion...
7391004 Photo detecting apparatus  
A pixel circuit includes a first detector which amplifies a voltage obtained by charging and discharging a capacitance with a photocurrent flowing through a photo detecting element and then outputs...
7391003 Apparatus and method for adjusting write start position of a scanning light beam of an image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image forming unit in which a light beam scans in a second scan region wider than a first scan region. The light beam is modulated in accordance with an...
7391002 Solid state imaging device having electromagnetic wave absorber attached to a mounting board  
A solid state imaging device is constituted of an image sensor chip, a circuit board, and an electromagnetic-wave absorber formed of copper. The image sensor chip is constituted of a bare chip, a...
7391001 Thin lightshield process for solid-state image sensors  
An image sensor includes a substrate having photosensitive areas; an insulator spanning the substrate; and a first and second layer of a multi-layer metallization structure, wherein the first layer...
7390999 Differential Shack-Hartmann curvature sensor  
A differential Shack-Hartmann curvature sensor for measuring a curvature including principal curvatures and directions of a wavefront. The curvature sensor includes a Shack-Hartmann sensor with an...
7388691 Method of operating a double-sided scanner  
An operating method for a double-sided scanner is provided. A light source of one particular color inside a first group of light sources and a light source of a different color (or the same color)...
7388187 Cross-talk reduction through deep pixel well implant for image sensors  
An image sensor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first type of conductivity, a semiconductor layer having the first type of conductivity formed on the semiconductor substrate, and...
7388185 Pixel detector and method of manufacture and assembly thereof  
A detector assembly ( 50 ) is formed by integrating the electronic processing circuits on a CMOS wafer by stitching a plurality of reticles of at least two different types so as to form an...
7388184 Image reading device and image reading method  
The image reading device of the present invention includes (i) a sensor substrate which functions as a photoelectric transfer element having a photodetecting TFT and a pixel capacitor and (ii) a...
7388183 Low dark current pixel with a guard drive active photodiode  
A method and apparatus for reducing thermally generated dark current in a CMOS imaging device is disclosed. A photodiode within the imaging device is kept zero-biased, so that the voltage is equal...
7388182 Image sensing system for controlling an accessory or headlight of a vehicle  
An image sensing system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of light sensing photosensor elements, preferably formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a...
7385412 Systems and methods for testing microfeature devices  
Systems and methods for testing microelectronic imagers and microfeature devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a microfeature workpiece including a substrate...
7385173 Photosensitive array detector for spectrally split light  
A detector includes a photosensitive array including at least one photosensitive surface. A focusing device focuses spectrally split light onto the photosensitive array. The focusing device is...
7385171 Method and apparatus for providing enhanced resolution in photodetectors  
A method and apparatus for providing enhanced resolution in photodetector arrays is provided. In a first pass, pixels of a photodetector array are set to low input impedance values, and...
7385169 Contact image sensor and methods for aligning a light element array substrate thereof  
A contact image sensor is provided including a housing, a slit plate a lens, one or two light sources and a light-receiving element array mounted on a light-receiving element array substrate. The...
7385168 Imaging system, methodology, and applications employing reciprocal space optical design  
An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system includes a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer...
7385167 CMOS front end process compatible low stress light shield  
An improved imaging device having a pixel arrangement featuring a multilayer light shield. The multilayer light shield includes stacked layers of light-shielding and light-transparent material. The...
7385166 In-pixel kTC noise suppression using circuit techniques  
A circuit and method for reducing kTC noise in CMOS imagers while minimizing power dissipation is disclosed. Correlated double sampling (CDS) is performed within each pixel such that the reset...
7382461 Analysis method and apparatus utilizing attenuated total reflection  
An image of a light beam, which has been totally reflected from an interface between a dielectric material block and a thin film layer of an analysis chip for supporting a sample, is detected with...
7381941 Contact image sensing module with movement detecting function  
A contact image sensing module with movement detecting function has a main circuit substrate, a linear sensor array, at least a movement detecting element, a light source, a light-guiding device,...
7381938 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,...
7381937 Image analysis and enhancement system  
An image analysis and enhancement system is provided with an image processor, imaging metrics, an image storage depository, and a reconfigurable sensor device that can be present at the same...
7381936 Self-calibrating anti-blooming circuit for CMOS image sensor having a spillover protection performance in response to a spillover condition  
A method and apparatus to provide blooming protection for a pixel in an array while extending dynamic range.
7378644 Image reading apparatus  
An image reading apparatus includes a stage for placing a specimen. The stage moves in first directions between a setting position where the specimen is placed and removed and a reading position...
7378639 Photoelectric conversion device and image sensor having a reset potential of a common signal line being common to the potential of a reference voltage terminal  
To provide a photoelectric conversion device with low noise at low cost. The photoelectric conversion device includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion circuits whose output potentials...
7378635 Method and apparatus for dark current and hot pixel reduction in active pixel image sensors  
A method of operating an imager pixel that includes the act of applying a relatively small voltage on the gate of a transfer transistor during a charge acquisition period. If a small positive...
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...
7375311 Scanned-beam imager with phase offset photon emission imaging  
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to attributing light emissions to spots a light was scanned over. In aspects, the scanned light includes light capable of increasing light...
7372495 CMOS aps with stacked avalanche multiplication layer and low voltage readout electronics  
An image sensor includes a pixel having a protection circuit connected to a charge multiplying photoconversion layer. The protection circuit prevents the pixel circuit from breaking down when the...
7369683 Imaging device  
In an imaging device of the present invention, an imaging element 2 is driven in a thinning read-out mode for reading out signal charges from a subset of pixels, or in an all-pixels read-out mode...
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