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7623708 Color image color shift correction method and color image imaging apparatus  
Color shift correction comprising: (a) imaging an object and acquiring image data of each of a plurality of color planes including planes of primaries; (b) determining whether a color of each of...
7623172 Solid-state image pickup device and drive method thereof  
A solid state imaging device having an X-Y addressable solid state imaging device with color filters and a driving unit which reads out pixel information of a same color filter in a unit pixel...
7623167 Wavelength component proportion detection apparatus and image-pickup apparatus  
A wavelength component proportion detection apparatus is disclosed which is capable of detecting the proportions of the wavelength components under a light source including the visible and infrared...
7623166 Solid-state imaging device with high pixel count that includes color filter with high color reproducibility and camera that uses it  
A solid-state imaging device is composed of a P-type semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulation film, a multilayer interference filter and condenser lenses which have been successively laminated...
7619685 Optical recording apparatus for wireless equipment including infrared and color recording devices  
An optical recording apparatus for a wireless electronic equipment includes an infrared recording device configured to receive light in the infrared spectrum and record data according to the...
7612805 Digital imaging system and methods for selective image filtration  
A system is disclosed for the automated correction of optical and digital aberrations in a digital imaging system. The system includes digital filtration and digital system corrections to optical...
7609307 Heterogeneity-projection hard-decision interpolation method for color reproduction  
The present invention discloses a heterogeneity-projection hard-decision interpolation method for color reproduction, which utilizes a heterogeneity-projection method to determine the optimal edge...
7609306 Solid-state image pickup apparatus with high- and low-sensitivity photosensitive cells, and an image shooting method using the same  
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes high-sensitivity photosensitive cells and low-sensitivity photosensitive cells alternating with each other in the horizontal and vertical directions....
7609300 Method and system of eliminating color noises caused by an interpolation  
A method and system of eliminating color noises caused by an interpolation, which performs an interpolation on a Bayer image obtained by an image sensor to restore red, green and blue colors of...
7609298 Image capturing apparatus, image capturing sensor, and image capturing processing method  
This invention is directed to reduce a deterioration in image quality after thinning operation when pixels are read out upon thinning. An image sensor is designed such that different gains are...
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...
7602427 Image sensor that provides raw output comprising compressed data  
An image sensor is configured to output transformed image data. The image sensor includes a set of pixel sensors that are sensitive to light and a set of filter elements positioned adjacent to the...
7595826 Method a system for improving resolution in color image data generated by a color image sensor  
An intensity value is independently estimated based upon interpolated values as well as measured sensor values according to the location of an individual sensor within a sensor unit. The...
7595819 Signal processing device and signal processing method, program, and recording medium  
A signal processing unit subjects to signal processing first image signals, obtained as the output from a three-sensor-system sensor unit which uses CMOS sensors or the like, thereby obtaining...
7593567 Transformation structures for approximating color matching functions  
RGB filter set and color estimation performance for RGB LED color sensing is provided. A criteria function describing an error between desired color matching functions and a spectral response of an...
7593047 CMOS image sensor for suppressing degradation of spatial resolution and generating compressed image signals  
The present invention is an image sensor having a pixel array, which arranges pixels having photoelectric conversion circuits in rows and columns; and a pixel selecting circuit for selecting each...
7593046 Color image pickup apparatus having random color coding array  
A color image pickup device including: a pixel group placed in an array of a plurality of pixels of photoelectric conversion elements; and a color coding array corresponding to the pixel group, the...
7589772 Systems, methods and devices for multispectral imaging and non-linear filtering of vector valued data  
An apparatus and method for multispectral imaging comprising an array of filters in a mosaic pattern, a sensor array and an acquisition and processing module. The sensor array being disposed to...
7586530 Solid-state imaging device including pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array  
The present invention provides a solid-state imaging device including an optical element that efficiently condenses even wide-angle incident light and has a color separation function. The...
7586528 Color sensor and color image pickup method  
A color sensor comprises: light reception elements that generate color signals corresponding to stimulus values of colors in an RGB color system, the stimulus values of colors comprising a stimulus...
7583303 Imaging device element  
An imaging device having a hybrid RGBYC color filter using a primary color system RGB filter and a complementary color system YC filter is composed. Four G filters that directly relate to...
7573508 Image signal processing apparatus and method for performing an adaptation process on an image signal  
An image signal generated by a CCD image sensor is processed by the block-generating section 28 provided in an image-signal processing section 25 . A class tap and a prediction tap are thereby...
7567271 Shared color sensors for high-resolution 3-D camera  
In one embodiment, an apparatus for three-dimensional (3-D) image acquisition can include: (i) first and second lenses configured to receive light from a scene; (ii) first, second, third, and...
7564492 Solid-state image sensing device and camera using the same  
The present invention provides a solid-state image sensing device that can reduce at least the number of pixels arranged in the horizontal direction and can output high quality picture signals at...
7557826 Method for device spectral sensitivity reconstruction  
A method and system are provided for approximating spectral sensitivities of a particular image sensor, the image sensor having a color filter array positioned over the image sensor. In one example...
7554587 Color solid-state image pickup device  
A color solid-state image pickup device comprises a plurality of light-receiving sections being arranged on the surface of a semiconductor substrate; complementary color filters which are stacked...
7545411 Solid-state image pickup apparatus, its driving method, and camera system  
There is used an XY address type solid-state image pickup element (for example, a MOS type image sensor) in which two rows and two columns are made a unit, and color filters having a color coding...
7538808 Method and system for luminance noise filtering  
In a method and system for luminance noise filtering, a region of pixel data directly from the image sensor is used for determining a virtually filtered luminance for a pixel location within the...
7538309 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup apparatus capable of capturing a composite image of a visible-light image and an infrared image of a subject is provided, whereby the configuration is simplified and made more...
7535600 Imaging device and its driving method  
An imaging device includes: a plurality of light receiving parts for generating electric charge by photoelectric conversion; a shift register for transferring the electric charge generated by the...
7535504 One chip camera with color sensing capability and high limiting resolution  
A high sensitivity, single chip, low light level imaging device is provided. The imaging device of the present invention utilizes sparse color sampling, to maximize the luminance information...
7528870 Image pickup apparatus with filter on incident side of image pickup region  
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, each pixel including a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions disposed in the depth...
7518637 Imaging processing apparatus  
An imaging processing apparatus for effecting imaging processing on imaging signals inputted from an imaging device having a plurality of pixels arranged on a plane and having color filters...
7499089 Color interpolation method in bayer array  
A sensor such as a CCD image pickup device is equipped with a color filter of RGB Bayer array. An image is read from such a sensor (S 1 ) and inputted to a color interpolation device as raw data (S...
7479998 Image pickup and conversion apparatus  
The present invention related to an image pickup apparatus which can produce a color and sensitivity mosaic image which can be converted into a color image signal having a wide dynamic range by...
7474350 Solid state image pickup device comprising lenses for condensing light on photodetection parts  
A solid-state image pickup device improvable in photosensitivity also in the vicinity of an end of a substrate is provided. This solid-state image pickup device comprises a photodetection part...
7474337 Method and apparatus to provide edge enhancements as part of a demosaicing process  
A method and apparatus provide edge enhancements as part of a demosaicing process in which an image is captured. By providing edge enhancements as part of the demosaicing process, the edge...
7471322 Solid state imaging device and driving method thereof  
A solid state imaging device of the present invention comprises a solid state imaging element which includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix. In the solid...
7468746 Digital camera  
A digital camera is provided with: a diaphragm for controlling an amount of incident light; a solid-state imaging element for receiving the incident light passing through the diaphragm, in which a...
7463287 Solid-state image pick-up device and image pick-up apparatus capable of distinguishing a photographing light source type  
In a solid-state image pick-up device provided with a pixel for distinguishing a light source type in a predetermined region of the solid-state image pick-up device, a filter for transmitting a...
7460160 Multispectral digital camera employing both visible light and non-visible light sensing on a single image sensor  
A digital camera having a single image sensor made up of an array of filtered photosites used to capture non-visible light wavelengths in addition to the standard red/green/blue (RGB) or other...
7456881 Method and apparatus for producing Bayer color mosaic interpolation for imagers  
A method and system for color plane interpolation in a color pattern which selects a color-interpolation point within a pixel image offset from the center of the pixel image for which the color...
7456878 Method of color filter design and color reproduction under the effect of pixel crosstalk in CMOS image sensors  
The present invention is directed at method of designing a Color Filter Arrays (CFA) for CMOS image sensors under the effects of crosstalk for optimal color reproduction. Instead of a focus on...
7456866 Correction of barycenters of signals obtained by adding and reading charges accumulated in solid-state image sensing device  
A signal processing apparatus processes an image signal outputted from an image sensing device which has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements covered with a color filter and which can...
7453503 Pixel interpolation method  
A method for interpolating image data captured by an electronic imaging device having a Bayer arrangement, by pixel interpolation involving interpolating interpolation pixel X33 (a green pixel),...
7450758 Stylization of video  
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a system for stylizing video, such as interactively transforming video to a cartoon-like style. Briefly stated, the techniques include...
7446294 True color image by modified microlens array  
An image sensor array includes a substrate having at least three image sensors located therein. The image sensor array also includes a blue filter positioned proximate to the first image sensor; a...
7439479 Photonic crystal-based filter for use in an image sensor  
The invention, in various exemplary embodiments, incorporates a photonic crystal filter into an image sensor. The photonic crystal filter comprises a substrate and a plurality of pillars forming a...
7426065 System and method for alternating between transmitting and reducing incident light on pixel portion of an imager  
An imager apparatus comprises a pixel and a first filter positioned in an incident light path for a portion of the pixel, the filter being operable to alternate between transmitting and reducing...
7423681 Interline CCD implementation of hybrid two color per pixel architecture  
An image sensor includes at least first and second photo-sensitive regions; a color filter array having at least two different colors that selectively absorb specific bands of wavelengths, and the...
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