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7609310 Display device having an image pickup function and a two-way communication system  
A two-way communication device having a display device of novel structure and an image pickup device is provided. More particularly, a two-way communication system having a display device and an...
7605356 Apparatus and method for rapid microscopic image focusing  
A method of capturing a focused image of a continuously moving slide/objective arrangement is provided. A frame grabber device is triggered to capture an image of the slide through an objective at...
7605354 Color sensor, production method thereof, sensor, and electronics device  
A color sensor of the present invention is arranged such that (i) an interference filter is provided directly above light receiving elements so as to transmit incoming light having a predetermined...
7605359 Light source frequency detection circuit for image sensor  
An apparatus for measuring the power frequency of a light source includes a photo-sensor, a modulator, and a logic unit. The photo-sensor generates an electrical signal that is responsive to light...
7605361 Fuel property detection device  
A fuel property detection device for detecting a property of fuel based on a detection signal output from a photoreceptor includes a light guiding member having a reflecting surface located in...
7605854 Operational amplifier for an active pixel sensor  
The present invention includes operational amplifier for an active pixel sensor that detects optical energy and generates an analog output that is proportional to the optical energy. The active...
7605355 System and method for a high dynamic range sensitive sensor element array  
A high dynamic range sensitive sensor array is described which uses a combination of pixel structures, some of which incorporating phase domain integration techniques to accurately capture high and...
7605855 Dual sensitivity image sensor  
A system of taking images of different sensitivities at the same time uses both an image sensor, and an auxiliary part to the image sensor. The image sensor element can be a photogate, and the...
7601939 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...
7601938 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...
7598992 Imaging apparatus having pixel sensor  
Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having unit pixels disposed two-dimensionally in rows and columns, each pixel containing a photoelectric conversion...
7598994 Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method  
In an image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device configured by a plurality of pixels having different photoelectric conversion characteristics on each side of the inflection point of...
7598478 Image pickup device having a light shield element  
An image pickup device wherein the range in the amount of incident light (dynamic range) for obtaining an appropriate image can be expanded, and shutter and aperture functions are provided. A light...
7599103 Optical carriage of scanner and method of the same  
An optical carriage of scanner has a mirror assembly and a device assembly, the mirror assembly has a mirror mount, some mirror holder, and some supporters, and the device assembly has a chassis....
7598481 CMOS image sensor and method of driving the same  
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and a method of driving the CMOS image sensor that can reduce the number of devices required by each of a plurality of pixels and can...
7595475 Image-pickup apparatus having a focus controller and an exposure controller  
The image-pickup apparatus includes a focus detector generating focus detection information using light from an image-pickup optical system, a photometer generating photometry information using the...
7595474 Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and method of driving the same  
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion element, an amplification transistor having a gate electrically connected to the output terminal of the photoelectric...
7595478 Method and device for processing optical signals in computer mouse  
The present invention discloses a method and a device for processing optical signals in a computer mouse, which is related to electric digital data processing. The method is that the relative...
7595828 Solid-state image pickup device and driving method therefor  
In a MOS solid-state image pickup device including two capacitors storing electric charges of pixels in two rows for each column and two charge-voltage conversion amplifiers for outputting pixel...
7595477 Anti- reflective device having an anti-reflection surface formed of silicon spikes with nano-tips  
Described is a device having an anti-reflection surface. The device comprises a silicon substrate with a plurality of silicon spikes formed on the substrate. A first metallic layer is formed on the...
7592578 Photoelectric-conversion apparatus and image-pickup system  
A photoelectric-conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric-conversion area where a plurality of photoelectric-conversion elements configured to convert incident light into electrical charges, a...
7592575 Photoelectric conversion device having plural pixel columns and independent readout wiring, multichip image sensor, contact image sensor, and image scanner  
The invention provides a photoelectric conversion device, in which a decrease in sensitivity and a crosstalk between wirings are suppressed. Plural pixel columns are arranged in one direction,...
7592579 Photoelectric conversion device manufacturing method, semiconductor device manufacturing method, photoelectric conversion device, and image sensing system  
A photoelectric conversion device manufacturing method comprises: a first implantation step of implanting impurity ions of a first conductivity type into an underlying substrate via a region of the...
7592577 Self-triggering CMOS imaging array utilizing guard region structures as light detectors  
A camera having an exposure detector is disclosed. The camera includes an array of pixel sensors, CMOS circuitry that is separate from the array of pixel sensors, a guard region, and a current...
7592576 Optical sensor array, sensing method and circuit therefore, and device and apparatus thereby  
The present invention is made to realize a two dimensional optical sensor array having improved performance, for instance, at least one of improved response time, improved intermixing problem,...
7589304 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...
7589310 Image correlation sensor  
A sensor includes an array of substantially parallel wires, radiant energy sensitive material formed adjacent the array of parallel wires, and output units connected to each of the wires and...
7589309 Imager system for an automated microscope  
An imager system is disclosed comprising a image intensifier and a CMOS image sensor. The system provides fast capture speed and high sensitivity.
7589307 Image display apparatus that reduces illuminance irregularity, projection-type image display apparatus using the image display apparatus and rear-projection televison  
An illumination apparatus includes: a light source including at least one light-emitting element, the light-emitting element being configured to emit light and having an uneven light distribution...
7589306 Image sensor with buried self aligned focusing element  
An image sensor includes an optical sensor region, a stack of dielectric and metal layers, and a buried focusing layer. The optical sensor is disposed within a semiconductor substrate. The stack of...
7589305 Display device having switching elements corresponding to individual pixels and dual ambient light photosensing unit  
With the related art, the choice of locations for disposition of ambient light photosensors is narrow, and consequently it is difficult to respond flexibly to user specifications for differing...
7586531 Amplification type solid-state image pickup device  
An amplification type solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel section 10 and a control unit 15 . The control unit 15 iterates first control and second control a plurality of times...
7586076 Image sensor device having one or more modified dummy pixels that are usable as non-volatile memory elements  
One or more dummy pixels of an image sensor device IC are modified to include programming circuitry that enables them to be used as non-volatile memory. Dummy pixels are non-imaging pixels that...
7586074 Multi-mode high capacity dual integration direct injection detector input circuit  
A unit cell ( 20 ) is disclosed that has an input node for coupling to an output of a detector (D 1 ) of electromagnetic radiation, such as IR or visible radiation. The unit cell includes a first...
7586086 Scanning imaging device for image-substraction confocal microscopy  
The invention relates to an imaging device comprising means for generating two images which are filtered differently by a mask ( 304 ) and for combining same.
7586075 Method for analyzing output data of array subelements of an imaging segmented array  
A position of a feature in a scene is located by forming an image of the feature using a segmented array having a plurality of array subelements. Each of the array subelements has an output signal....
7586077 Reference pixel array with varying sensitivities for time of flight (TOF) sensor  
The sensitivity of a reference pixel array RPA to the reference modulated light MLR is varied for different reference pixels RP of the reference pixel array RPA. In one embodiment the different...
7583416 Document scanning system with tethered platen element providing sheet-fed and platen scanning functions  
A modular scanning system ( 10 ) consisting of a first scanning unit ( 11 ) and a plurality of tethered scanning ( 13 ) and digital capture elements ( 150, 160 ) providing both sheet-fed, platen,...
7579576 Method of manufacturing a solid state image pickup apparatus having multiple transmission paths  
An arithmetic circuit, which is retained by each pixel in a conventional image sensor, is shared by each column. Signal processing circuits of different configurations are provided on signal...
7579594 Infrared radiation imager having sub-pixelization and detector interdigitation  
An infrared radiation (“IR”) focal plane array (“FPA”) imager includes a detector array chip containing pixels having substantially one-hundred percent operability. Each of the pixels...
7579577 Image capturing apparatus having a filter section disposed on periphery of a light passing section of a partial wavelength spectrum diaphragm section  
An image capturing apparatus is provided that simultaneously captures a visible light image and an infra-red light image in which the same subject is in focus. The image capturing apparatus...
7577275 Image processing system  
In image processing system for detecting a target object in image data, featuring a plurality of image processing units at least some having an image filter for conducting an image process which...
7576310 Imaging optical system and endoscope provided with imaging optical system  
An imaging optical system includes a spherical or nearly spherical viewing port, an objective lens that includes an aspheric surface and is formed as a single lens element, and a solid-state image...
7573015 Image reading device and image reading method  
An image reading device which reads a document as an image includes a light source unit, a light receiving unit, a transporting mechanism which relatively transports either one of the light...
7573017 Pixel sensors using nonlinear capacitance with logarithmic characteristics  
Disclosed herein is an active pixel sensor having a first transistor amplifying voltage generated in response to light at an integration node; a second transistor selects a specific pixel from a...
7573016 Amplification type solid-state imaging device  
In the amplification type solid-state imaging device of the present invention, the input side of a switched capacitor amplifier portion 20 is connected to the output side of each transfer...
7573014 Image sensor with well regions of different depths and method of fabrication thereof  
Disclosed is an image sensor and method of fabricating the same. The image sensor includes a photoelectric transformation region formed in a semiconductor substrate, and pluralities of interlayer...
7573519 Method for correcting eclipse or darkle  
A CMOS image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged column and rows in an array; a column circuit for storing reset values and a value after integration; a correlated double sampler which...
7573013 Pixel driving circuit and method of driving the same having shared contacts with neighboring pixel circuits  
Contacts and/or a transistor are shared by neighboring pixel circuits in an image sensor. In addition, a common interconnect line provides common control signals for minimizing metal wiring. Such...
7573617 Scanning chassis with a light transparent slot  
A scanning chassis is suited for scanning a document. The scanning chassis includes a case, a light source, at least one reflector, a lens assembly and an optical sensor. The case has a light...