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7250592 |
Image sensor with improved sensitivity and method for driving the same
There is provided an image sensor and a method for driving the same, in which fill-factor value is increased to improve a sensitivity of the image sensor. The image sensor includes a pixel array...
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7250893 |
Signal processing circuit and method for use with an optical navigation system
A signal processing circuit and processing method are provided for measuring an analog signal from a photo-detector. Generally, the method includes steps of: (i) sampling and storing a...
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7250593 |
Mobile body surrounding surveillance apparatus, mobile body surrounding surveillance method, control program, and readable recording medium
A mobile body surrounding surveillance apparatus comprises an image capturing section for capturing an image of a surrounding of a mobile body, a setting section for setting a landscape, band-like...
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7247829 |
Solid-state image sensor with an optical black area having pixels for detecting black level
A digital camera includes an image sensor having an array of CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) cells on which an optical image is focused via a lens and a shutter. The image sensor produces an image...
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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...
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7247828 |
Semiconductor pickup device comprising pixel circuits having a varying frame rate
A semiconductor pickup device includes a pixel circuit including: a photodiode passing to a prescribed node a current of a value corresponding to intensity of light received; a log transistor...
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7247835 |
Optical navigation device, and method for manufacturing same
An optical navigation sensor receives light that is produced by a light source and reflected from a surface. The optical navigation sensor has a silicon substrate having a plurality of...
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7248729 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus and method capable of automatically performing the blackening processing of a blank area and/or a scattering area even in a mammograph obtained by radiation imaging....
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7247851 |
Imaging device and an imaging method
An optical lens 1 makes three components of visible light and near infrared light in different wavelength regions severally form images at different locations according to their wavelengths. An...
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7245317 |
Imaging device having a luminous profile detecting element
A photosensitive region includes a semiconductor substrate 40 made of a P-type semiconductor, and N-type semiconductor regions 41, 42 and 43 formed on the surface of the semiconductor...
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7244921 |
Solid-state imaging device, driving method therefor, and imaging apparatus
A solid-state imaging device includes the following: a pixel array section in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, each of the pixels outputting an image signal; and a column...
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7244919 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device having photo detector circuits, processing elements, and comparing circuits which compare the output of a photo detector element with a reference voltage
A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided which has a plurality of photo detector circuits and a plurality of processing elements. Each of the photo detector circuits includes a...
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7244918 |
Method and apparatus providing a two-way shared storage gate on a four-way shared pixel
A method of operating a pixel array includes activating a global storage signal to store a photosensor charge in a first storage region of each pixel, activating a first reset signal for pixels in...
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7244920 |
CMOS sensor array with a shared structure
A CMOS sensor array includes a plurality of unit blocks. A unit block includes: N pairs of photo diode regions arranged in a first direction; 2N transfer transistors respectively corresponding to...
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7241984 |
Imaging apparatus using saturation signal and photoelectric conversion signal to form image
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an imaging apparatus which can include a plurality of pixel sections disposed in a two-dimensional pattern. Each pixel section can include a...
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7241983 |
Method for reading out a surface detector
A method for reading out a surface detector ( 3 ) is proposed, the information content of a faulty detector element ( 16 ) being initially corrected with the aid of adjacent detector elements, and...
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7242332 |
Column-parallel sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion with gain and offset control
A sigma-delta modulation sensing circuit and an analog-to-digital converter for an imager that eliminate the erroneous conversion of non-zero analog voltages to zero digital voltages is provided....
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7241985 |
Sheet conveying apparatus having supported openably upstream and downstream portions, image reading apparatus and image reading and forming apparatus
A sheet conveying apparatus has a feeding port from which a sheet is fed, a discharging port from which the sheet is discharged, a U-shaped conveying path for guiding the sheet fed from the feeding...
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7241982 |
Optical image transmitting system, optical image transmitting apparatus, optical image receiving apparatus, and optical image transmitting method
Provided is an optical image transmitting system capable of producing signal light including plural image information and emitting the signal light, and in addition, receiving the signal light and...
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7238926 |
Shared amplifier pixel with matched coupling capacitances
A method of making an image sensor, the method includes the steps of providing a plurality of pixels each with a photodetector; providing an amplifier that is shared between the plurality of...
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7239352 |
Method of reading out signals from higher and lower photosensitivity regions of a solid-state image pickup apparatus
In a signal reading method for a solid-state image pickup apparatus, an estimated photometric value is calculated at the time of preliminary image pickup and compared with a threshold value set...
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7238897 |
Contact sensor and method for making the same
A contact sensor includes a base, a wall device securely attached to the top face of the base and having a hole defined in the wall device to correspond to the top contacts so as to allow the top...
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7238925 |
Column current source
An image sensor includes an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. A reference current source provides the reference current to a transistor forming one half of a current mirror. Each column...
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7235771 |
Increasing the dynamic range of CMOS photodiode imagers
A multiple-step reset process and circuit for resetting a voltage stored on a photodiode of an imaging device. A first stage of the reset occurs while a source and a drain of a pixel...
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7235772 |
Image sensor with anti-saturation function in pixel level
In a CMOS image sensor of the invention, a dynamic range is varied at a per-pixel level by a light amount to prevent saturation without degrading color reproduction of an overall image. A photo...
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7235770 |
Method for calibrating deviation of OECFs and apparatus thereof
A method suitable for calibrating the deviation of opto-electronic conversion functions (OECFs) in an imaging apparatus is provided. The method of calibrating the deviation of OECFs comprises the...
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7235769 |
Image reading apparatus having adjustable contact sensor distance
An image reading apparatus includes a line light source having a light guide plate and red-, green-, and blue-LEDs, for a light transmitting original, and a contact image sensor unit for detecting...
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7232981 |
System and a method for displaying an image captured by a sensor array
A system for displaying an image captured by a sensor array reduces physical movement of the camera. The system includes means for displaying an image corresponding to an output from a plurality of...
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7232982 |
Crystallization apparatus, crystallization method, method of manufacturing thin film transistor, thin film transistor, and display apparatus
A laser crystallization apparatus and method for crystallizing a semiconductor thin film while monitoring at a high spatial and temporal resolution in real time. In a laser crystallization...
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7230225 |
Image reading apparatus having an image sensor unit
There is disclosed an image reading apparatus having an image sensor unit. The image sensor unit may include a number of photodiode arrays. The photodiode arrays may have different qualities and...
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7230644 |
Image-sensing apparatus with brightness range adaptation functionality
An image-sensing apparatus has an area sensor 1 that outputs image data by logarithmically converting the brightness of light incident thereon, a black-level detector 2 for detecting the black...
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7230226 |
Photoelectric conversion layer stack type color solid-state image sensing device
A solid-state image sensing device comprising: a silicon substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer provided for absorbing a green light component to generate optical charge; and photodiodes...
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7230224 |
Solid state image pickup device with two photosensitive fields per one pixel
A solid state image pickup device having: a semiconductor substrate having a light receiving area; a number of pixels formed in the light receiving area of the semiconductor substrate in a matrix...
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7227648 |
Method and apparatus for a touch-free examination of objects, particularly regarding the surface character of the same
A method and apparatus for optically examining an object in a contactless manner, in which light successively impinges upon the surface of an object being examined. The different sources of light...
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7227673 |
Color measurement with distributed sensors in a color hard copy apparatus
A method and apparatus for color measurement using a physically distributed multiplicity of sensors. Broad band illumination is provided to irradiate a test pattern. The sensors are used to measure...
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7227117 |
High speed auto-exposure control
An imager with a two dimensional array of sensors processes illumination data from a subset of the sensors located within a selected region of the image to determine imager settings prior to acting...
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7224497 |
Light source of image reading apparatus and driving device of light source
The object of the invention is to extend the life of the light source while uniformizing the illuminance intensity in the main scanning direction. The invention is based on a light source of image...
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7223955 |
Solid-state imaging element and imaging device with dynamically adjustable sensitivities and method thereof
A solid-state imaging element converts light intensity into an electric charge signal and stores the thus-converted electric charge signal through use of a plurality of photoelectric conversion...
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7223954 |
Apparatus for accessing an active pixel sensor array
A circuit includes a decoder for receiving an address within an address space of a processor and for accessing a pixel in an active pixel sensor array based on the address. The decoder maps the...
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7224390 |
CMOS image sensor with voltage control circuit
A CMOS image sensor that reduces kTC noise in a wide band. A pixel circuit corresponding to one pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element for carrying out the photoelectric conversion of...
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7223956 |
Electronic imaging system
An electronic imaging system having an image sensor array that includes photodetectors arranged in rows and a rolling shutter for initiating charge integration by row and reading out pixel signals...
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7223960 |
Image sensor, an image sensor pixel, and methods of forming the same
A semiconductor image sensor utilizing a metal mesh filter to transmit light of a specific wavelength to a photoconversion device, and method of making said image sensor. Semiconductor image sensor...
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7224391 |
MOS sensor and drive method thereof
To provide a drive method for finding out an optimum storage period quickly. In the method for driving the MOS sensor having a plurality of pixels, after all the plurality of pixels are...
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7223953 |
Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same
An image sensor and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. When forming an impurity region for a photodiode, the photodiode can be exposed by reducing the impurity region. Thus, a...
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7221397 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus which avoids certain shading effects
In order to solve the problem in which voltages Vsig1 read in units of rows have differences to cause vertical shading, thereby degrading image quality, and the problem in which the dynamic ranges...
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7217910 |
Solid-state image pickup device
A solid-state image pickup device comprises first and second photoelectric conversion regions, wherein each of first ones of the second photoelectric conversion regions in a peripheral area...
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7217915 |
Method and apparatus for detecting the position of light which is incident to a semiconductor die
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for detecting light which is incident to a first semiconductor die. During operation, the system receives light at a photo-detector on the...
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7218452 |
Controlling lens shape in a microlens array
A semi-conductor based imager includes a microlens array having microlenses with modified focal characteristics. The microlenses are made of a microlens material, the melting properties of which...
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7217911 |
Solid state light detector
An optical wireless local area network using line of sight optical links. The base station and terminal stations are provided with optical transceivers which include a transmitter array and...
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7214921 |
Photoelectric converting layer lamination type solid-state image pick-up device
A photoelectric converting layer lamination type solid-state image pick-up device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; at least three layers of photoelectric converting layers each of which is...
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