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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...
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...
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...
7369168 Circuit for an active pixel sensor  
A pixel circuit includes a silicon substrate having a photodiode that converts light intensity into a voltage signal and two metal layers disposed on the substrate having a pixel control circuit....
7368698 Imaging device with reduced row readout time and method of operating the same  
An imager in which a column line bias current control signal is pulsed at some time during and/or after the pulsing of the reset control and the transfer control signals to increase a bias current...
7368697 System for identifying a photoelectric sensor array size having a detector for determining discontinuity in the readout charge from a readout register  
In a size determining system, a number of pixels in a dimension of a sensor array of photoelectric devices is determined. A readout register is arranged to receive charge accumulated in the...
7368696 Generation and storage of column offsets for a column parallel image sensor  
The plural signal chains of an imaging device are calibrated in the digital domain. The pixel array of the imaging device includes a row of calibration pixels. The column circuitry, prior to...
7368695 Image sensor package and fabrication method  
An image sensor package is disclosed that reduces the overall size of known image sensor packages. The image sensor package includes an image sensor and image sensor controller that are arranged on...
7365301 Three-dimensional shape detecting device, image capturing device, and three-dimensional shape detecting program  
A three-dimensional shape detecting device comprising projection means which projects pattern light, image capturing means which captures a pattern light projection image of a subject on which the...
7365300 Rear vision system  
A rear vision system having a divided lens configuration and sensor array. The sensor array has a first, second section and third sections. The lens configuration includes a first portion directing...
7365299 Method and apparatus for providing flexible photodetector binning  
A method and apparatus for providing flexible photodetector binning are provided. A photodetector having multiple pixels, such as a charged coupled device (CCD), a focal plane array (FPA), an...
7365298 Image sensor and method for manufacturing the same  
The present invention discloses an image sensor and a method for manufacturing the same which is capable of increasing the light-collection efficiency of a photodiode. The image sensor comprises:...
7362364 Solid-state image pickup device with photoelectric charge transferrer to a floating diffusion region  
A solid-state image pickup device including a charge transferrer to transfer a signal charge obtained through photoelectric conversion; a floating diffusion region; a reset means for resetting the...
7361919 Multi-biometric finger sensor having different selectivities and associated methods  
A multi-biometric finger sensor may sense different biometric characteristics that have different matching selectivities and that have at least a known spatial relationship. The sensor may include...
7361881 Ganged detector pixel, photon/pulse counting radiation imaging device  
A ganged-detector pixel cell is used in a device having an array of such pixel cells to construct an x-ray and gamma-ray radiation energy imaging device. The ganged-detector pixel cell comprises a...
7361880 Digital camera module for detachably mounting with flex printed circuit board  
A digital camera module ( 100 ) includes a holder, an image sensor chip package ( 30 ), a number of conductive elements ( 24 ) and a circuit board ( 40 ). The holder defines a receiving portion....
7361879 Method for capturing an image with an electronic handheld device  
A method for capturing an image with an electronic handheld device ( 1 ) equipped with a camera unit ( 2 ) and capture means ( 3 ) for triggering an image capture, said electronic handheld device (...
7361878 Image display apparatus and image pickup apparatus with two dimensional scanning  
An image forming apparatus with a light source unit emitting a light beam optically modulated based on image/video information, a scanning unit for scanning the light beam emitted from the light...
7361877 Pinned-photodiode pixel with global shutter  
An image sensor includes a two-dimensional array of pixels having a photodetector for collecting charge in response to incident light; a storage region adjacent the photodetector that receives the...
7361875 Vehicle headlamp control utilizing a light sensor having at least two light transducers  
Equipment on automotive vehicle is controlled by a system including at least one semiconductor light sensor having variable sensitivity to light. Each light sensor generates a light signal...
7358515 Multi-biometric finger sensor including electric field sensing pixels and associated methods  
A multi-biometric finger sensor includes a plurality of electric field fingerprint sensing pixels on an integrated circuit substrate for sensing an image of the user's finger, and at least one...
7358514 Multi-biometric finger sensor apparatus and associated methods  
A multi-biometric finger sensor may include infrared sensing pixels on an integrated circuit substrate for sensing infrared radiation emitted from the user's finger, and at least one other finger...