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8169508 Image input apparatus for forming a composite image based on a photoelectric conversion signal and a saturation signal  
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image input apparatus including a plurality of pixel sections, each including a light-sensitive element configured to generate electric charge by...
8120690 Imaging device  
An imaging device of the present invention includes a plurality of photosensors arranged in matrix on a light-receiving surface and a readout section for adding up photo signals on the photosensors...
8106989 Solid-state image capturing apparatus, driving method of the solid-state image capturing apparatus, and electronic information device  
A solid-state image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of pixel sections, a vertical transfer section, and a horizontal transfer section, wherein the horizontal transfer section includes a...
8106979 Camera module and array based thereon  
The invention relates to the development of economical camera modules having objectives contained therein with a minimal constructional length and excellent optical properties. It is made possible...
8102454 Image pickup apparatus  
An image converter tube 2c and a plurality of image sensors CCDs 1 (eight CCDs 1 here) are provided, and the respective CCDs 1 and image positions in the image converter tube 2c are in one-to-one...
8102455 Multiple output charge-coupled devices  
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels overlaid with a color filter pattern of at least two colors having the same color on every other pixel in one direction; three or more charge-coupled...
8098316 Multiple output charge-coupled devices  
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels overlaid with a color filter pattern of at least two colors having the same color on every other pixel in one direction; three or more charge-coupled...
8063968 Device for detecting an image of a nonplanar surface  
An image sensing device for detecting an image of a nonplanar surface includes a plurality of pixels configured to detect the image of the nonplanar surface. The plurality of pixels are associated...
8031235 Imaging apparatus and signal processing method  
An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device. The solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units having plural first photoelectric conversion units...
8023017 Pattern of color filter array  
The present invention relates to a pattern of a color filter array. The pattern includes a plurality of pixel arrays, which has four color filters arranged in an array. The color of the neighboring...
8023018 Drive method for solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus  
A solid-state imaging device having: (a) a pixel array with an oblique pixel pattern in which pixels are obliquely disposed, an odd-numbered row vertical signal line in an odd-numbered row vertical...
8018516 Solid-state image sensor and signal processing method of same  
A signal processing method of a solid-state image sensor includes comparing a high-sensitivity-pixel output signal and a first threshold value to determine whether or not the high-sensitivity-pixel...
8004579 Gain measurement structure  
A CCD Device of the type for providing charge gain by impact ionisation has a multiplication register. Gain provided by a subset of the elements of the multiplication register are independently...
7986360 Image processing apparatus and method for generating a restoration image  
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which can restore, from a color and sensitivity mosaic image acquired using a CCD image sensor of the single plate type or the like, a...
7978255 Solid-state image sensor and image-capturing device  
A solid-state image sensor includes: a plurality of image-capturing pixels, each equipped with a first micro-lens used to condense light; and a plurality of focus detection pixels engaged in focus...
7965331 Solid state imaging element, image pickup device and method of driving solid state imaging element  
A solid state imaging element comprises: photoelectric conversion elements; a plurality of vertical electric charge transfer passages that transfer, in a vertical direction, electric charges...
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...
7956924 Fast computational camera based on two arrays of lenses  
Method and apparatus for a fast (low F/number) computational camera that incorporates two arrays of lenses. The arrays include a lenslet array in front of a photosensor and an objective lens array...
7952636 Method for driving solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus  
A plurality of charge accumulation packets each of which is configured to accumulate signal charges from photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to (2n−1) rows where n denotes an integer e...
7944496 Imaging apparatus and driving method for CCD type solid-state imaging device  
A driving method for driving a CCD type solid-state imaging device, includes: controlling, when taking dynamic images without a mechanical shutter, exposure time of a first pixel group and exposure...
7916200 Image sensor with corner cuts  
The invention relates to image sensors using a chip with cut corners. The sensor comprises a chip with cut corners comprising a matrix (10) of horizontal lines and vertical columns of...
7907197 Solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging apparatus  
A solid-state imaging device is provided. The imaging device includes an imaging portion which includes light receiving portions and vertical transfer registers, a horizontal transfer portion, an...
7898586 Solid-state imaging device and method of driving the same  
A shift gate is arranged to be adjacent to a pixel column including a plurality of photosensitive pixels. The shift gate controls a storage time of a signal charge generated in the photosensitive...
7889271 AE/AF sensor device with photometry conversion element formed using plural semiconductor regions and automatic focusing photoelectric conversion element formed using plural semiconductor regions  
A solid state image pickup device is provided which can reduce crosstalks between range finding photoelectric conversion elements (AF sensor) and photometry photoelectric conversion elements (AE...
7880787 MOS image sensor  
A MOS image sensor comprises: a semiconductor substrate that has a surface including an image area; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged on the image area; and lines formed...
7847987 Method of compensating a zipper image by a K-value and a method of calculating a K-value  
A method is disclosed as including scanning a first pixel of an image with a primary scanning line of a sensor, and scanning a second pixel of the image with a secondary scanning line of the...
7812377 Semiconductor device  
In the semiconductor device, a gate region is formed in a mesh pattern having first polygonal shapes and second polygonal shapes the area of which is smaller than that of the first polygonal...
7807951 Imaging sensor system with staggered arrangement of imaging detector subelements, and method for locating a position of a feature in a scene  
An imaging sensor system includes an optics system that images a point feature of a scene at an image plane with a blur-circle image having a blur diameter, and a detector array at the image plane....
7791665 Imaging apparatus and driving method of solid-state imaging device  
A driving method of a solid-state imaging device including plural high-sensitivity pixels and plural low-sensitivity pixels that are arranged in mixed form in a manner of a two-dimensional array on...
7787040 Solid-state image-taking element and image-taking apparatus including the solid-state image-taking element  
An image-taking apparatus according to the present invention is constituted to have a wiring structure of transfer electrodes matching with a color filter arrangement and exert vertical transfer...
7763899 Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus having a plurality of pixel sections disposed in a staggered manner  
An electro-optical device provided with a plurality of pixel sections, includes: a first substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements to configure the plurality of pixel sections; a...
7728887 Image processing device and method  
Image data of a digital signal is inputted to a digital signal processor. A CPU reads out color correction coefficients from a ROM. Weights are added to the color correction coefficients based on...
7728899 Image sensor, and image pickup apparatus using same, and manufacturing method for manufacturing image sensor  
A CCD type solid-state image sensor (CCD) and an image pickup apparatus of this invention have an image pickup unit and a charge multiplier mounted, as separated from each other, on a packaging...
7714915 Solid-state image device having multiple PN junctions in a depth direction, each of which provides and output signal  
A solid-state image device is provided which has a semiconductor substrate, pixels A each containing a photoelectric conversion portion in which at least two PN junction parts are provide in a...
7710484 Driving method for CCD image sensor, and imaging method  
A CCD image sensor is driven in an interlace scan method, in which readout of signal charge is performed in two divided fields. In the first field, signal charge Qs accumulated in photodiodes of...
7705901 Image pickup apparatus including photosensitive cells each having photosensitive regions partitioned  
In an image pickup apparatus, photosensitive devices each are allocated to particular one of pixels bidimensionally arranged on a photosensitive cell array and is divided into two photosensitive...
7692706 Charge summing in multiple output charge-coupled devices in an image sensor  
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels overlaid with a color filter pattern of at least two colors having the same color on every other pixel in one direction; three or more charge-coupled...
7692707 Solid-state image pickup apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image sensor  
In a solid-state image sensor according to this invention, an image signal temperature variation suppressing unit changes a voltage value of a driver voltage applied to multiplying registers in...
7679662 Solid-state imaging element and solid-state imaging device  
Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging element which includes a plurality of drive signal inputs, a plurality of bus lines, and a plurality of vertical transfer register electrodes. In the...
7663685 Hybrid solid-state image pickup element and image pickup apparatus using the same  
A solid-state image pickup element has: a photoelectric converting film which is stacked above a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric converting elements which are arranged in the row...
7652701 Solid-state honeycomb type image pickup apparatus using a complementary color filter and signal processing method therefor  
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter including complementary color filter segments. When a shutter release bottom is pressed to its half-stroke or full-stroke position,...
7643079 Control circuit for reading out signal charges from main and subsidiary pixels of a solid-state image sensor separately from each other in interlace scanning  
In a control circuit for controlling a solid-state image pickup device, two sorts of image data are read out separately with differing sensitivities. A timing generator control in a digital camera...
7636115 High dynamic range imaging device using multiple pixel cells  
A method and apparatus for achieving high-dynamic range operation with a set of spatially distributed pixel cells is provided. A pixel array with a row of pixels having apertures of varying sizes...
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...
7612812 Solid state imaging device with increased vertical resolution in interlace scanning method  
A solid state imaging device comprises a semiconductor substrate defining a two-dimensional surface, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a light receiving area of said...
7602432 Solid-state imaging element and solid-state imaging device  
A solid-state imaging element includes an imaging element area, a first horizontal transfer register, a second horizontal transfer register, a first transfer channel, a second transfer channel, and...
7602431 Solid-state imaging element and solid-state imaging apparatus  
A solid-state imaging element includes: a plurality of light receiving elements provided within an imaging region on a semiconductor substrate; a color filter with a plurality of colors provided on...
7586133 Solid state imaging apparatus and driving method of solid state imaging apparatus  
A solid state imaging apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate, photoelectric conversion elements, a vertical electric charge transferring device, a horizontal electric charge transferring...
7570290 Drive method for solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus  
A drive method for a solid-state imaging device having an oblique pixel pattern includes the steps of: adding, separately for an odd-numbered row and an even-numbered row, x pixels in the...
7551217 Solid-state image sensor obviating degradation of image quality and apparatus using the same  
A solid-state image sensor includes photo-sensitive cells arranged in a bidimensional array for converting incident light to corresponding signal charges. Vertical transfer paths transfer the...
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