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7630008 |
Method of controlling image quality of an integrated CMOS imager and microcontroller
A method and apparatus providing a CMOS imager with an integrated controller on a common integrated circuit substrate. Also integrated on the common substrate are, a serializer circuit including a...
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7623173 |
Solid-state image pickup device having analog-digital converters configured to sum values of multiple pixels in the array and method for driving the same
A CMOS image sensor includes column-parallel ADCs. Each of the ADCs includes a comparator and an up/down counter. With this configuration, digital values of pixels in a plurality of rows can be...
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7623170 |
Amplification type image pickup apparatus and method of controlling the amplification type image pickup apparatus
An image pickup apparatus comprising an array of unit cells, vertical signal lines, and a control circuit. The unit cells are arranged in rows and columns. Each unit cell has a light-receiving...
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7619674 |
CMOS image sensor with wide dynamic range
The present invention provides a CMOS image sensor for broadening a dynamic range by controlling an integration time for each pixel to thereby obtain a high quality image with a low noise. The CMOS...
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7612813 |
Auto exposure for digital imagers
An apparatus and method for performing automatic exposure control based on current measured luminance of an image and dynamic/modifiable target luminance levels. Exposure adjustments and/or...
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7605852 |
Real-time exposure control for automatic light control
An imager and a method for real-time, non-destructive monitoring of light incident on imager pixels during their exposure to light. Real-time or present pixel signals, which are indicative of...
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7602428 |
Image pick-up apparatus and image pick-up method
At a controller 5 , pixel values that a CCD 3 outputs are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluation result, exposure times with respect to a light receiving surface of the CCD 3 in a shutter ...
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7602438 |
Method and apparatus for capturing high quality long exposure images with a digital camera
A digital camera captures high quality long exposure images by capturing and summing several images of the same scene. The effective ISO of the camera is reduced by scaling the summed image, thus...
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7599573 |
Image processing device, method, and program
An image processing device and method, and a program, obtains processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the...
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7598998 |
Method and system for increasing the effective dynamic range of a random-access pixel sensor array
To effective increase the dynamic range of a pixel array, a plurality of brightness groups is set. The pixels of a pixel array are then distributed among the groups according with their likely...
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7598481 |
CMOS image sensor and method of driving the same
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and a method of driving the CMOS image sensor that can reduce the number of devices required by each of a plurality of pixels and can...
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7596268 |
Image processing device, method, and program
An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into...
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7593048 |
Method and apparatus for saturation detection and electronic shutter in a solid state image sensor
Imaging system having a sensor array with photocells that permit the monitoring of light levels while the sensor is exposed to a scene, and the ability to accurately avoid saturation on a per...
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7586074 |
Multi-mode high capacity dual integration direct injection detector input circuit
A unit cell ( 20 ) is disclosed that has an input node for coupling to an output of a detector (D 1 ) of electromagnetic radiation, such as IR or visible radiation. The unit cell includes a first...
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7583305 |
Extended dynamic range imaging system
A method for decreasing integration time of saturated paxels within an imager; wherein the method includes decreasing the integration time of the saturated paxels within an imager according to...
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7573016 |
Amplification type solid-state imaging device
In the amplification type solid-state imaging device of the present invention, the input side of a switched capacitor amplifier portion 20 is connected to the output side of each transfer...
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7561196 |
Method and apparatus for preventing image artifacts
A pixel sensing subsystem for a solid state image sensor includes frame timing logic that produces a frame timing signal indicative of an end-of-frame time and a beginning-of-frame time and reset...
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7557845 |
Solid state imaging device incorporating unwanted electric charge discharging channel and method of driving the same
A solid state imaging device comprises a substrate, a photoelectric conversion element, an accumulation well, a modulation well, a modulation transistor, a transfer control element, and an unwanted...
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7554588 |
Dual exposure for image sensor
A method of capturing an image of a scene using an image capture device having an array of pixels arranged into a plurality of rows includes, for a first duration, capturing a first portion of the...
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7548261 |
Column averaging/row averaging circuit for image sensor resolution adjustment in high intensity light environment
A photo-sensor image resolution adjustment apparatus is in communication with an array of image photo-sensors that are organized in columns and rows and have multiple sensor types arranged in a...
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7525579 |
Image sensing apparatus and image processing method for use therein
An illumination-component extractor (illumination component extraction section) extracts an illumination component Log from a picked-up image (original image picked up an image sensor having a...
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7515183 |
Column averaging/row binning circuit for image sensor resolution adjustment in lower intensity light environment
A photo-sensor image resolution adjustment apparatus is in communication with an array of image photo-sensors that are organized in columns and rows and have multiple sensor types arranged in a...
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7515187 |
Photoelectric conversion film-stacked type solid-state imaging device
A solid-state imaging device is provided in which noise caused by fluctuation of potential of a readout pulse is prevented from being superposed on the amount of signal charges even if the...
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7508428 |
Noise restraint apparatus for digital camera
A noise restraint apparatus for a digital camera which has an imaging device for imaging a photographic subject, comprises an outputting processor and a controlling processor. The outputting...
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7492400 |
Adaptive pixel for high dynamic range and disturbance detection and correction
A new adaptive pixel architecture, folded-multiple-capture (FMC), integrates synchronous self-reset and multiple capture schemes and advantageously eliminates the requirement of a high-frame-rate...
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7483059 |
Systems and methods for sampling an image sensor
Systems and methods according to the present invention provide techniques which adjust the sampling scheme associated with an image sensor in order to provide high quality renditions, e.g., printed...
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7479994 |
Image sensor having resolution adjustment employing an analog column averaging/row averaging for high intensity light or row binning for low intensity light
A photo-sensor image resolution adjustment apparatus is in communication with an array of image photo-sensors that are organized in columns and rows and have multiple sensor types arranged in a...
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7477305 |
Imaging device and imaging method
At a controller 5, pixel values that a CCD 3 outputs are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluation result, exposure times with respect to a light receiving surface of the CCD 3 in a shutter ...
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7476841 |
Photodetector, spatial information detecting device using the photodetector, and photo detection method
A photodetector is provided, which has the capability of preventing a reduction in dynamic range for a signal light even under a plenty of environmental light to stably obtain a received light...
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7474345 |
System and method to facilitate time domain sampling for solid state imager
A time domain sampling technique for a CMOS imager enables a wide dynamic range and flexibility by employing up to two-degrees of freedom during such sampling. Two degrees of freedom can be...
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7468750 |
Solid state imaging device having transition time relationship for drive signals
A CMOS sensor has unit pixels each structured by a light receiving element and three transistors, to prevent against the phenomenon of saturation shading and the reduction of dynamic range. The...
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7460163 |
Line sensor spatially compressing charge distribution
The line sensor 100 comprises an image pick-up part 10 , charge integrator 20 and charge output part 30. The image pick-up part comprises an N pixel parts 11 1 to 11 N arranged in one...
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7446812 |
Wide dynamic range operations for imaging
Embodiments provide a method and apparatus that achieve wide dynamic range operation of an image sensor. In an array of pixel cells, first charge is accumulated in a first subset of pixel cells...
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7436444 |
Radiation image pick-up apparatus having reading element, drive circuit for driving reading element, and control circuit for controlling drive circuit
A radiation image pick-up apparatus includes a conversion element, accumulation element, read element, detection element, driving circuit, and controller. The conversion element converts radiation...
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7433093 |
Method and apparatus for increasing signal to noise ratio
A method for increasing signal to noise ratio is disclosed. The method can automatically detect saturation output voltage of the photosensors via adjusting exposure time or illumination intensity...
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7428010 |
Photosensor system and drive control method for optimal sensitivity
A photosensor system includes a photosensor array constituted by two dimensionally arraying a plurality of photosensors, an image reading section which reads a subject image at a predetermined...
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7420154 |
Pixel circuit with non-destructive readout circuit and methods of operation thereof
A pixel cell allows both correlated double sampling (CDS) and automatic light control (ALC) operations through a non-destructive, parallel readout. An image sensor may include an array of pixel...
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7411169 |
Wide dynamic range image sensor and method of use
An exemplary image sensor comprises a photodetector proximate to a pixel site, and a light meter proximate to the pixel site configured to approximate an initial charge acquired by the...
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7411624 |
Image sensing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium
An object of this invention is to increase the precision and speed of autofocusing operation. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes a photographing optical system which forms...
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7411626 |
Image acquiring apparatus and image acquiring method
An image acquiring apparatus includes a pixel shifting section which changes the relative position between luminous flux incident on an imaging element and the imaging element to a plurality of...
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7403707 |
Method for estimating camera settings adaptively
A camera is configured to adaptively determine camera settings. The camera includes a plurality of sensors elements configured to acquire a current image of a scene according to a current set of...
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7400355 |
Image pickup apparatus and photometer
A received light quantity detection device where high-sensitivity pixels and low-sensitivity pixels are formed is used for photometry. It is possible to perform measurement over the low range (for...
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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...
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7379101 |
Photosensor system and drive control method for the same
A photosensor system includes an image read section which includes an image read region formed by arranging a plurality of photosensors in a matrix form. The image read region includes a...
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7362365 |
Digital image capture having an ultra-high dynamic range
An image capture method in a digital image sensor implements a continuous sampling technique with a massively parallel thermometer-code analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) technique to generate...
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7348534 |
Method for controlling active pixel elements and active pixel arrays having a column-read transistor for reading signals
An active pixel element of an image sensor array includes a sensor, a transfer transistor, a reset transistor, and a source follower. There is a column-read transistor positioned in each column of...
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7349015 |
Image capture apparatus for correcting noise components contained in image signals output from pixels
An image capture apparatus includes first and second pixels. Each pixel has a sensor and a reading portion for reading out a signal from the sensor to an output line. The apparatus further includes...
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7336307 |
Camera having accumulation operation in the period between the time of fully opening a leading shutter and the time of starting of a trailing shutter
Disclosed is a camera including: an image-taking device; a shutter unit having a first shutter member that travels from a position where a shutter opening is closed to a position which is retreated...
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7336309 |
Dynamic range compression method
A method for compressing the dynamic range of an image sensor ( 202 ) including a multiplicity of pixels. The method includes the steps of exposing each of the pixels to light and producing an...
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7326903 |
Mixed analog and digital pixel for high dynamic range readout
An improved CMOS pixel with a combination of analog and digital readouts to provide a large pixel dynamic range without compromising low-light performance using a comparator to test the value of an...
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