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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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