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8183521 Optoelectronic module provided with a flexible substrate and at least one photoreceptor circuit incorporated into a computer mouse  
The optoelectronic module includes a photoreceptor circuit for picking up light from a light source by reflection on an external surface. The photoreceptor circuit and the light source circuit are...
8183515 Pumps for CMOS imagers  
A pixel for an imaging device is described. The pixel includes a photosensitive device provided within a substrate for providing photo-generated charges, a circuit associated with the...
8183514 Signal waveform measuring apparatus and method comprising a wavelength conversion element  
A signal waveform measuring apparatus 1A is configured from: a signal optical system 11, a reference optical system 16, a time difference setting unit 12 setting a time difference between signal...
8183513 In-cell current subtraction for infrared detectors  
Read-out cell systems are disclosed for image detectors, including infrared image detectors, that provide improved sensitivity by providing in-cell subtraction through the use of a voltage ramp...
8183512 Optically-triggered power system and devices  
A power device is provided in an optically-triggered power system having a controller for generating electrical control signals and a converter for converting the electrical control signals to...
8178827 Universal LED testing device  
Apparatus for optically testing LEDs or other light-emitting components in a wide variety of test environments and to the degree necessary pertinent to the type(s) of faults encountered. In one...
8173947 Scanning mirror position determination  
A scanning projector includes a mirror that scans in two dimensions, at least one of which is sinusoidal. A position sensor provides a position signal that represents an angular displacement of the...
8168935 Pressure sensor and pressure measurement method of pressure sensor  
Disclosed is a pressure sensor comprising: a substrate; a pressure reception plate which is provided in a state of facing the substrate, the pressure reception plate comprising in a surface which...
8168934 Integrated circuit comprising an array of single photon avalanche diodes  
Integrated circuit (1) comprising: an array of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs),a plurality of read-out circuits, each SPADs being coupled to one read-out circuit, wherein at least some of...
8168936 Interface techniques for coupling a sensor to a readout circuit  
Techniques are disclosed that can be used to interface a sensor circuit with readout circuitry. The techniques can be employed, for instance, with microchannel plate (MCP) based devices used in...
8164039 Method and apparatus for detecting spiculated masses in mammography  
A method and apparatus detects one or more spiculated masses in an image using a processor. The image is received in the processor. The received image is filtered using one or more Gaussian filters...
8158923 Time-frequency fusion digital pixel sensor  
Light is converted to an electric signal by performing a light-to-frequency conversion of the light received during a first phase of operation. Following the first phase of operation, a...
8160457 PIN/TIA system for use in FTTx applications  
A system is disclosed for an improved ROSA that has increased sensitivity for permitting greater numbers of ONTs to be connected to an optical network per defined transmission line distances. The...
8153951 Optical communication device and electronic equipment having an array of light receiving sections  
An optical communication device includes a one-chip light receiving element having a plurality of light receiving sections having light receiving sensitivity to different wavelength ranges in a...
8153954 Photoelectric conversion device and electronic device having the same  
To output a digital signal corresponding to illuminance without being adversely affected by circuit delay. A photoelectric conversion device includes a photoelectric conversion element; a ramp-wave...
8143566 Electron emission device of high current density and high operational frequency  
An electric device operable with a THz-range frequency of the device output is presented. The device comprises a photocathode installed in either one of a diode, triode and tetrode configuration,...
8139957 High sensitivity optical receiver employing a high gain amplifier and an equalizing circuit  
An optical receiver includes a light receiving element for converting an optical signal to an electrical signal having a first bandwidth and an amplifier for amplifying the electrical signal. The...
8138463 Photosensor and ambient light sensor with constant bias voltage  
A method of operating a photosensor comprising: applying a bias voltage to a photosensor (12) comprising n (n>1) photo-sensitive elements (8) connected in series, and determining the photocurrent...
8138464 Optical receiving circuit  
An optical-receiving circuit includes a first photodiode converting an optical signal into a current signal, a first trans-impedance amplifier to which a first power supply voltage of Vreg is...
8134113 Dynamically configurable photodetector arrays  
In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes a photodetector (PD) array including a plurality of electrically isolated PD sections. Additionally, the circuit includes a switching matrix...
8134111 Reverse bias processing apparatus and reverse bias processing method for photoelectric conversion devices  
When reverse bias processing is performed on a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices connected in series, different potentials are applied to electrodes of three or more photoelectric...
8134106 Current detection circuit  
A first transistor may be provided on a current path of a photo transistor. The bias current path may include a bias switch and a first bias resistor connected in series and is provided in parallel...
8134110 Solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device manufacturing method  
A solid-state imaging device 1 includes: a semiconductor substrate 11 on which pixels are placed like a matrix; and each of the pixels having a photoelectric conversion element 13 and a color...
8129669 System and method generating multi-color light for image display having a controller for temporally interleaving the first and second time intervals of directed first and second light beams  
System including first and second light sources and controller. First light source is configured to generate first light beam of first perceived color. Second light source is configured to generate...
8124922 Photoelectric conversion device including photoelectric conversion element and amplifier circuit having a thin film transistor  
Objects are to accumulate electric charge in a capacitor so that light intensity can be detected even when the amount of incident light is small, and to operate a photoelectric conversion device...
8119972 Solid-state image sensing device having a low-pass filter for limiting signal frequencies passing to the output node of an inverting amplifier  
The present invention refers, inter alia, to pixel circuits. The pixel circuit according to embodiments of the invention may include a photo-sensitive device having charge storage capability...
8121495 Current mirror circuit and optical receiver circuit using the same  
A current mirror circuit and an optical receiver circuit implementing with the current mirror circuit are disclosed. The current mirror circuit provides two MOSFETs and two differential amplifiers....
8119974 Microprocessor based automatically dimmable eye protection device with interruption prevention  
An auto darkening eye protection device comprising a shutter assembly and a control circuit in electrical communication with the shutter assembly. The shutter assembly is adjustable between a clear...
8119969 Imaging device and method for high-sensitivity optical scanning and integrated circuit therefor  
An inspection system includes a CMOS integrated circuit having integrally formed thereon an at least two dimensional array of photosensors and providing an inspection output representing an object...
8119973 Light receiving circuit  
A light receiving circuit in accordance with an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a photodiode 6 that converts an optical input signal into a current signal, and an I-V conversion...
8119971 Pulse data recorder in which a value held by a bit of a memory is determined by a state of a switch  
A pulse data recorder system and method are provided. Upon the arrival or occurrence of an event or signal, the state of a digital switch is set. Upon receiving a pulse from a readout clock, the...
8119965 Image sensor having two light receiving elements and camera module having the image sensor  
An image sensor able to capture an image with a suitable dynamic range even in a case where a bright/dark difference within an imaging range is large is provided. An image sensor 1 is provided with...
8119970 Radiation image detection apparatus which controls a charge trap density  
In a radiation image detection apparatus having a radiation image detector that includes the following stacked in the order listed below: a bias electrode, a photoconductive layer, a substrate side...
8115156 Optical condition design method for a compound-eye imaging device  
An imaginary object plane is set in front of an imaging device body (plane setting step). A part of optical conditions of optical lenses are changed as variables, and positions of points (pixel...
8115160 Protection circuit and photoelectric conversion device  
A protection circuit and a photoelectric conversion device are provided, each of which includes a first wiring, a second wiring, a first switch, a second switch, a capacitor, and a comparing...
8115152 Method of operating a photoconductor in an imaging system, and read-out circuit employing an AC-biased photoconductor  
A photoconductor read out circuit includes a biasing signal generator connected to apply an alternating current biasing signal to a first terminal of the photoconductor. An input capacitance...
8115849 Photo-sensor, measurement apparatus and camera system  
The present invention provides a photo-sensor with a stable current limiting function and pixel reset function. When the incident light quantity of the phototransistor is equal to or less than a...
8115158 Device and method for the demodulation of modulated electromagnetic wave fields  
A new pixel in semiconductor technology comprises a photo-sensitive detection region (1) for converting an electromagnetic wave field into an electric signal of flowing charges, a separated...
8115159 Solid-state image pickup device including a common phase feedback circuit, a method of driving the same, a signal processing method for the same, and image pickup apparatus  
A solid-state image pickup device including: a pixel array portion; a differential circuit; a reset voltage supplying section; and a common phase feedback circuit.
8106347 Vehicle rearview mirror system  
A vehicular interior rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly, which includes an ambient light sensor operable to sense ambient light and a glare light sensor operable...
8101900 Circuit and method for operating a circuit  
A circuit and method for operating a circuit with a terminal for connecting a photodiode to output an output current dependent on the photocurrent of the photodiode, with a resistance device for...
8102450 Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus and driving method for the same  
A solid-state imaging device includes first-group pixels 41, second-group pixels 42 skipped during thinning drive, and a scanning section 13. The scanning section 13 drives each of the first-group...
8097841 Conversion circuit for converting data of signal line between an air-conditioner and a computer  
A circuit for converting data of a signal line in the form of logical pulses of current to RS232 level voltages between an air-conditioner and a computer is described. The conversion circuit is...
8093543 Voltage generator circuit having a resistor ladder circuit and a switch control circuit allowing a variation of the slope of a given ramp wave, digital-to-analog converter, ramp generator circuit, analog-to-digital converter, image sensor system, and method for generating voltage  
A resistor-ladder voltage generator circuit is provided, which controls so that k switches among consecutive (k+1) switches out of a plurality of switches connected to the resistor ladder circuit...
8089035 CMOS image sensor with high sensitivity wide dynamic range pixel for high resolution applications  
A CMOS image sensor in which each pixel includes a conventional pinned diode (photodiode), a Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) detection (e.g., a simplified time-to-saturation (TTS)) circuit, a correlated...
8089036 Image sensor with global shutter and in pixel storage transistor  
An image sensor includes a photodiode to accumulate an image charge and a storage transistor to store the image charge. A transfer transistor is coupled between the photodiode and an input of the...
8084730 Dual mode source follower for low and high sensitivity applications  
In certain embodiments, a unit cell is provided. The unit cell may include a high sensitivity path and a low sensitivity path. The high sensitivity path may include a first transistor and a first...
8080775 Differential source follower source leader addressable node readout circuit  
A readout circuit for reading from addressable nodes comprises first and second half-circuits of a differential amplifier. The first half-circuit comprises at least one source follower transistor...
8076626 Light amount control, optical writing, and image forming apparatuses having a plurality of drive-current setting units  
A light-amount control apparatus for controlling an output light amount of light sources used for optical writing is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more drive units for supplying a drive...
8058601 Determining a multimodal pixon map for tomographic-image reconstruction  
A computer-implemented method includes causing a computer system to execute instructions for providing a first data set and a second data set, each derived from a common object, providing a first...