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8111308 Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and image pickup apparatus  
A signal processing apparatus which is capable of performing a smear amount correction processing suitably according to change in the smear amount to suppress overcorrection of the smear amount. An...
7995122 Solid-state image capturing device, smear charge removing method and digital still camera using the same  
In a solid-state image capturing device including a pixel array arranged in a row direction and a column direction orthogonal thereto, and a vertical register having a plurality of transfer...
7990442 Image pickup device and noise reduction method thereof  
An image pickup device having an electron multiplying-charge coupled device includes a control unit for controlling an electron multiplication factor of the electron multiplying-charge coupled...
7956389 Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device  
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; photoelectric conversion elements; vertical charge transfer paths that transfer charges generated in photoelectric conversion...
7944489 Solid-state image-capturing device, driving method thereof, camera electric charge transfer device, driving method and driving device for driving load, and electronic equipment  
A solid-state image-capturing device which has built in an image-capturing area including a light receiving element provided on a semiconductor substrate, a substrate bias circuit, and a clamp...
7880783 Image pickup apparatus and method  
A digital still camera has a CCD image sensor, which includes an active pixel area for image pickup of an image to produce image data. A black pixel area is disposed outside the active pixel area,...
7804539 Solid-state imaging device and method of driving same  
A method of driving a solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric converting elements arranged in a...
7804534 Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and imaging apparatus  
A solid-state imaging device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate in the form of a...
7796170 Solid-state imaging device with enhanced pixel thinning out configuration and method for driving same  
A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging unit, a charge control unit, and a horizontal transfer unit. The imaging unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged into a matrix for performing...
7733393 Digital camera comprising smear removal function  
A horizontal evaluation data generation section calculates an average value of pixel signals in a vertical optical black region based on given pixel data in the horizontal optical black region and...
7710473 Smear-corrective device  
A smear-correcting device that corrects a smear of an image signal from a CCD having photoelectric conversion elements including a smear-correcting photoelectric conversion element, is provided and...
7630104 Image sensor  
Provided is an image sensor capable of outputting an image signal in accordance with a data loading position of a signal processing IC. In the image sensor that can arbitrarily select the start...
7630007 Driving method for solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device  
According to the invention, a driving method for a solid-state imaging device includes: a first holding step of holding electric charges which cause smear and are obtained from incident light in a...
7616246 Solid-state imaging device with enhanced pixel thinning out configuration, method for driving same, and image apparatus incorporating same  
A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging unit, a charge control unit, and a horizontal transfer unit. The imaging unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged into a matrix for performing...
7616239 Method and apparatus for correcting smear in a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device  
A method for driving a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device, wherein the charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device comprises: high sensitivity photoelectric conversion...
7508432 CCD with improved substrate voltage setting circuit  
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels for converting incident photons into electrical charge; an overflow drain to draw off excess charge from at one or more of the pixels; a mechanism for...
7428013 Electronic camera having solid-state image pickup device  
PDs and vertical CCDs are formed on CCD. A control unit drives the CCD by one of a first image pickup mode for executing an exposure and reading the electric charges on the vertical CCDs and...
7375750 Solid-state image capturing device, smear charge removing method and digital still camera using the same  
In a solid-state image capturing device including a pixel array arranged in a row direction and a column direction orthogonal thereto, and a vertical register having a plurality of transfer...
7277128 Image-sensing device having a plurality of output channels  
An image-sensing device has pixel areas for outputting CCD signals of plural channels, and an adjusting portion for adjusting a level of each channel of the CCD signals outputted from the pixel...
7242426 Digital still camera for recording images in high and low sensitivity modes  
The present invention provides a digital still camera that can read high quality image data from a solid state image pickup device in both the low and the high sensitivity modes. The digital still...
7218346 Method for driving solid-state image pickup device  
A method to overcome a disadvantage that the signal charges decrease depending upon the storage time in a photo-electric conversion unit of a solid-state image pickup device. At the moment t2 when...
7218351 Image-sensing apparatus for compensating video signal of a plurality of channels  
An image-sensing apparatus for compensating video signal of a plurality of channels, adds an electric charge of a pilot signal on a signal vertically transferred in an image-sensing device 11. A...
7102680 Image pickup device capable of adjusting the overflow level of the sensor based on the read out mode  
The driving device of a solid-state imaging device comprises a driving unit for driving the solid-state imaging device in either an addition driving mode in which a plurality of pixels are added...
6888570 Image pickup device and exposure control method in the image pickup device  
An image pickup device comprises a CCD solid-state imaging element composed of a charge accumulation section and a charge transfer section, a CCD driver for driving the imaging element, a...
6798450 Apparatus and method for reducing smear in digital images captured using frame-transfer CCD sensor  
An apparatus and method for reducing smear in electronic images utilizes estimated smear signals to remove components in the image signals of the electronic images that are attributable to the...
6631217 Image processor  
An image processor includes unit pixel circuits, each circuit outputting a pixel value, according to incident light, to an output line; and read circuits in each row and each column, each of which...
6614472 Solid state image pickup device driving method, measurement method and measurement apparatus  
There has been raised a problem of how to make the measurement of characteristics of a solid state image pickup device easy to carry out, to shorten the measurement time and to increase the...
6266087 Circuit and technique for smear subtraction in CCD image sensors  
The image sensing device includes an image sensing area 22 having an antiblooming drain structure; and a frame memory area 24 coupled to the image sensing area 22 for storing charge from the image...
6249314 Solid-state imaging apparatus having a solid-state imaging device and a signal processing circuit and method for driving the solid-state imaging device  
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and a signal processing circuit. The solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric converting sections...
6215520 Solid state image pickup apparatus capable of improving smear characteristics and increasing dynamic range and having high charge transfer efficiency  
In a CCD type solid state image pickup apparatus including two-dimensionally arranged photodiodes, a plurality of vertical transfer registers, and at least one horizontal transfer register, at...
6211914 Apparatus for reading signals out of solid-state image sensing device  
A solid-state image sensing device compensates for reset noise by integrated correlated double sampling to determine a difference between a reference signal obtained in a feed through period and a...
5963251 Frame transfer readout correction  
A method for reducing smear in video images generated by a frame transfer CCD imaging system having an array of charge coupled devices. The video images comprise successive image frames, each frame...
5912703 Apparatus for reading signals out of solid-state image sensing device  
A solid-state image sensing device compensates for reset noise by integrated correlated double sampling to determine a difference between reference signal obtained in a feed through period and a...
5898168 Image sensor pixel circuit  
Disclosed is an image sensing device having a reduced number of transistors within each imager cell as compared to prior art devices. Each imager cell includes a photosensitive element providing a...
5896172 Method of operating a CCD imager suitable for the implementation of such a method  
The absence of a memory matrix in full frame CCD imagers renders it difficult to convert an image with a sufficiently high frame rate for displaying it again in a satisfactory manner on, for...
5881182 Adaptive process for removing streaks in digital images  
A method of removing columnar streaks from a digital image of the type in which it is assumed that pixels in a predetermined region near a given pixel are strongly related to each other and...
5880780 Solid state imaging device  
A solid state imaging device includes an array of photosensitive elements for storing signal charges, a plurality of vertical shift registers for storing the signal charges transferred from the...
5867212 Solid-state image pickup device using charge coupled devices with vacant packet transfer  
A method of driving a solid-state image pickup device includes steps of using vertical charge-coupled devices each having a pixel section and a vacant packet section to fetch all the electric...
5861917 Focus detection using an image signal extracted before digital signal processing  
In an image pickup apparatus having an electronic zooming function for enlarging and interpolating an image by electronic image processing of an image pickup signal output from an image pickup...
5856846 Charge-coupled imaging device having electrical connections on the readout register side  
In charge-coupled imaging devices it is generally necessary to provide zones (12) in the matrix with a contact. These zones may form part, for example, of a mechanism for draining charge, for...
5804843 Solid state pickup device for suppressing smear signals  
In a solid state image pickup device including a semiconductor substrate, a photo/electro conversion element and a register formed within the semiconductor substrate, and an photoshield layer...
H001740 Synchronized rotating prism and CCD electrical readout color camera  
A video camera system combining a charge coupled device (CCD) with a rotating prism optical element is disclosed. The rotating prism optical element moves an optical image on the transducer surface...
5717457 Output circuit of a solid-state imaging device  
An output circuit of a solid-state imaging device has been improved. The output circuit receives a plurality of pixel signals in a dummy bit portion, an optical black portion and an effective pixel...
5699114 CCD apparatus for preventing a smear phenomenon  
A CCD for detecting images includes a substrate, a well region formed on the semiconductor substrate, a horizontal CCD (HCCD) formed in the well region, a photodiode region formed in the well...
5691773 Anti-hand-jittering dataform readers and methods  
Dataform readers using two-dimensional sensor array cameras provide image frames comprising successive first and second fields of image data. In hand-held operation, hand jitter results in image...
5661521 Smear correction of CCD imager using active pixels  
A smear correction circuit for elimination of smear error within image sensing devices wherein image receiving means receive CCD image data, a determination of a smear scaling factor for smear...
5631695 Endoscope with smear extraction and correction  
An image processing apparatus for an endoscope including a smearing component extraction device for extracting a smearing component caused by a high luminance light beam from an original image...
5614950 CCD image sensor and method of preventing a smear phenomenon in the sensor  
A charge coupled device image sensor which can prevent smear and improve sensitivity, including a substrate of a first conductive type, a first well of a second conductive type formed on one side...
5528294 Method for eradicating smear in a charge-coupled device camera  
A smear noise eradication method in a charge-coupled device (CCD) type camera comprises the steps of inputting respective image signals from one pair of CCD image pick-up devices whose lengthwise...
5515102 Charge coupled device apparatus having means for correcting for changes in the charge transfer efficiency of a charge coupled device  
An apparatus (10) for correcting for changes in the charge transfer efficiency of a charge coupled device (12) includes a light source (38) for providing synthetic reference images to a preselected...
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