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7638749 Capacitive transimpedance amplifier for CCD arrays  
An image sensor having a first substrate on which a CCD array is fabricated in a first fabrication system is disclosed. The CCD array includes a node through which charge from the pixels passes...
7619675 Solid-state image taking apparatus with photoelectric converting and vertical charge transferring sections and method for fabricating the same  
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes one or a plurality of photoelectric converting sections for photoelectric converting incident light into a signal charge on a semiconductor substrate,...
7619196 Imaging device including a multiplier electrode  
An imaging device capable of multiplying carriers and miniaturizing the device is obtained. The imaging device includes a carrier storage portion for storing carriers generated by photoelectric...
7619201 Multiplication register for amplifying signal charge  
A multiplication register for use in solid state imaging apparatus, such as a CCD, is described. The multiplication register has a gain element 22 comprising a plurality of register electrodes ...
7616256 Multiple exposure methods and apparatus for electronic cameras  
A method for capturing multiple sets of image data with an electronic camera having a shutter and an electronic shutter for selectively allowing light to reach an image sensor comprises opening the...
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....
7609311 Automatic calibration of electron multiplying CCDs  
A method of determining the gain of an electron multiplier, especially in an Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Device (EMCCD). The electron multiplier multiplies, in use, signals received from a...
7595517 Charge coupled device having diverged channel  
A charge coupled device comprises a semiconductor substrate of one conductive type, a first charge couple device having a series of electrodes linearly arranged on the semiconductor substrate, a...
7593051 CCD breakage prevention system  
An electronic endoscope is provided with a CCD control system which can prevent CCD breakage caused by a latchup, etc. by detecting a Vsub output error and a Vsub supply error without placing any...
7589585 Noise reduction circuit  
A noise reduction circuit outputs a signal corresponding to a voltage difference between two different signals. The noise reduction circuit includes: an amplifier circuit for amplifying the two...
7589775 Solid-state imaging device  
An energy ray sensitive region 11 is divided in its horizontal direction into m columns with the vertical direction as the longitudinal direction, divided in its vertical direction into n rows...
7580070 System and method for roll-off correction in image processing  
A system and method is provided for processing a digital image. The system and method processes image data by correcting for roll-off variability in the digital image. The system and method...
7580073 Charge coupled device  
A charge coupled device comprises: a semiconductor substrate of one conductivity type; a one-dimensional first charge coupled device including a plurality of continuous electrodes arranged in a...
7573520 Solid state imaging apparatus and a driving method of the solid state imaging apparatus  
A first voltage is impressed to a reading out electrode for reading out accumulated signal electric charges from photo electric conversion elements to transfer channels in a reading out period and...
7573517 Image-capturing device that utilizes a solid state image capturing element and electronic camera  
An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are two-dimensionally arrayed; a charge transfer circuit that transfers electrical charges from the...
7573519 Method for correcting eclipse or darkle  
A CMOS image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged column and rows in an array; a column circuit for storing reset values and a value after integration; a correlated double sampler which...
7564494 Solid-state imaging device and its driving method for preventing damage in dynamic range  
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate, a multiplicity of photo electric conversion elements, a vertical electric charge transfer device having a plurality of vertical...
7564493 Solid-state imaging apparatus and method for driving solid-state imaging device  
Vertical transfer portions for transferring signal charges from photoelectric conversion portions in a vertical direction and a horizontal transfer portion for transferring them in a horizontal...
7561195 Image sensing apparatus  
An image sensing apparatus has an image sensing device. The image sensing device includes a photoelectric conversion element that photoelectrically converts an optical image to acquire image data,...
7554593 Solid state imaging device  
A solid state imaging device including a plurality of photo diodes disposed in a matrix shape, a vertical transfer unit disposed along each vertical column of the photo diodes, and a horizontal...
7554594 Solid-state image pickup apparatus for compensating for deterioration of horizontal charge transfer efficiency  
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor provided with an image sensing surface including a photosensitive zone for measurement and an optical black area adjoining an output...
7551213 Method for detecting vertical transfer defects in image sensors  
A charge transfer implemented by a transfer section for transferring charges stored in image sensor elements along one direction on a surface where the image sensor elements are disposed is halted...
7538811 Solid-state image pickup device that suppresses crosstalk between pixels  
In an image pickup portion of a frame transfer CCD image sensor, a constitution that inhibits color mixing from occurring between light-sensitive pixels adjacent along a vertical CCD shift register...
7535505 Imaging device and a digital camera having same in which pixel signals read from the pixel block are horizontally transferred in a collective fashion  
A digital camera including a CCD imager and a complementary color filter mounted on a light receiving surface thereof. The complementary color filter has color blocks each having 8 rows×4 columns...
7525587 Image sensors with pixel reset  
Techniques for use with image sensors include transferring a signal level from an active sensor pixel to a readout circuit, performing a flushed reset of the pixel, and isolating the pixel from the...
7525079 CMOS image sensor circuit and method of supplying initial charge thereof  
Provided are a CIS circuit that does not increase an initial voltage charge time allocated by a CDS even if a pixel size is reduced and a method of providing an initial charge to the CIS circuit....
7522205 Image sensor with charge multiplication  
An image sensor includes an array of pixels arranged into two or more subarrays and each subarray captures charge; and an output charge-coupled device that receives charge from the array of pixels;...
7522194 Electronic camera  
An electronic camera comprises imaging means for optoelectrically converting a subject image to generate electronic image data, temporary storage means for temporarily storing the image data...
7518759 Readout system for a CMOS-based image sensor array  
In an image sensor having a plurality of photodiodes, subsets of photodiodes share a common node for signals to be sent to an amplifier. Within each subset, each individual photodiode is selected...
7515184 Solid-state image sensor, solid-state image sensing apparatus, camera, and method for controlling a solid-state image sensor  
The present invention provides a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera realizing a high-speed operation, all operable to output signal charges so as to...
7502062 CCD breakage prevention system  
A CCD control system is provided which can prevent CCD breakage caused by a latchup, etc. by having a function to detect two kinds of errors, Vsub error and power voltage error to prevent a...
7495201 Charge multiplexed array of solid-state photosensitive detectors  
A charge multiplexed position sensing apparatus and method for measuring an incident radiation with the aid of an array of solid-state photosensitive detectors such as an array of avalanche...
7492404 Fast flush structure for solid-state image sensors  
An image sensor includes a substrate; a plurality of pixels on the substrate, one or more of the pixels comprises (i) first and second charge-storage regions having at least one photosensitive...
7492403 Solid state image sensing device and driving method with sub-sampling mode and improved dynamic range  
A solid state image sensing device and method of driving provide a sub-sampling mode for improving a dynamic range in the solid state image sensing device by using vertical driving electrodes that...
7489356 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup apparatus includes: a solid-state image pickup device having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of vertical transfer paths disposed in respective vertical...
7486316 Image pickup device  
An image pickup device has an image sensor generating an image signal, a pulse pattern generator generating a driving signal for the image sensor and an amplifier for amplifying the image signal...
7476835 Driving method for solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus  
A driving method for a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, VCCDs, a line memory, and an HCCD includes: transferring all of the electric charges,...
7471323 Image sensor with rapid read cycle  
The invention proposes an image sensor comprising a picture capture matrix having N rows and K columns of image dots, a read register at the free end of the K columns. In order to improve the read...
7463299 CCD imaging device and driving method for processing image data without frame memory buffer  
A CCD-based solid state image sensing (imaging) device and a driving method, enabling three-color still or video image signal charge processing without requiring a frame memory buffer. By using...
7456890 Imaging device including a variable selector circuit which filters an output SYNC pulse  
An automatic exposure (AE) sensor includes a line-selecting circuit for line selection between horizontal lines and vertical lines, in addition to components of a typical AE sensor. The...
7440018 Driving method of solid-state imaging apparatus and solid-state imaging apparatus  
A solid-state imaging apparatus, comprising: a semiconductor substrate defining a two-dimensional surface; a multiplicity of photo electric conversion elements arranged in a plurality of rows and...
7432969 Imaging apparatus, solid imaging device and driving method for solid imaging device  
A CCD has transferring gates to which gate pulses for transferring only pixel information of pairs of two adjoining lines with intervals of a plurality of lines to vertical transferring routes are...
7430006 Charge transfer device and a driving method thereof and a driving method for solid-state image sensing device  
A driving method for a solid-state image sensing device having a plurality of sensor portions being disposed two-dimensionally in a horizontal and a vertical directions, and a vertical charge...
7420605 Solid state imager arrangements  
A solid state imager arrangement includes an image area, an output register which receives signal charge from the image area, a separate multiplication register into which signal charge from the...
7416916 Solid-state image sensing device driving method and solid-state image sensing apparatus  
A method of driving a solid-state image sensing device comprises plural photoelectric conversion devices arranged in rows and columns perpendicular to the rows, VCCDs through which charges...
7414760 Image reader, image reading apparatus, and reading resolution setting method  
An image reader including photoelectric transducers each of which converts a light signal into an electric signal, and outputs the signal to a signal line, channel selecting switches each of which...
7411620 Multilayer deposition multipixel image pickup device and television camera  
A multilayer deposition multipixel image pickup device comprising a pixel unit, wherein the pixel unit comprises: a plurality of electromagnetic absorption layers being capable of absorbing...
7408579 Solid-state imaging device  
In a solid-state imaging device, bus lines are provided at both sides of an imaging area vertically to send vertical-transfer clock pulses to shunt wires disposed on or over the imaging area at...
7405758 Image pickup device and driving method therefor  
In addition to transfer units for transferring electric charges generated from photo receiving units for every cell, a high-speed transfer unit is provided which transfers electric charges...
7400353 Solid state image pickup device  
Provided is a solid state image pickup device, comprising a photoelectrical conversion element array and a pixel-data-reading-out control unit. The pixel-data-reading-out control unit controls...
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