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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...
7589777 Solid-state imaging device with light shield electrically connected to inter-horizontal transfer register  
A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging part, a first horizontal charge-transfer part and a second horizontal charge-transfer part that transfer charges transferred from the imaging part...
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...
7551216 CCD imaging device and driving method thereof  
One horizontal CCD register is provided for a plurality of vertical CCD registers. The horizontal CCD register has horizontal transfer electrodes in such a manner that transfer electrodes that are...
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;...
7489357 Solid-state image pickup element having improved resolution and signal to noise ratio and solid-state image pickup apparatus using the same  
Row driving circuits drive a plurality of kinds of pixels in each scanning line. Column reading circuits read from the plurality of kinds of pixels in each column. A column selection circuit for GR...
7480000 Image-taking apparatus including a vertical transfer control device  
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...
7466354 Solid-state imaging apparatus  
Disclosed herein is an XY-addressing solid-state imaging apparatus including a solid-state imaging device having a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels and a horizontal and vertical...
7446694 System for synchronization of multi-sensor data  
A multi-sensor system includes a first analog sensor sub-system, a second analog sensor sub-system, and a system for synchronizing the outputs of the first and second analog sub-systems. Each...
7336312 Multi-mode charge-coupled imager having plural readout sampling frequencies  
A charge-coupled imager includes an imaging section, a read-out section, and a way to reduce the number of charge packets for every row read. The imager is switchable between at least two read-out...
7301574 Charge coupled device for outputting image data  
A solid-state imaging element comprising a plurality of light-receiving sensors that convert optical signals into electrical signals and a memory storing the electrical signals. The memory is...
7289150 Solid-state image apparatus including a plurality of horizontal transfer registers for transferring image signals from an imaging area  
In a CCD image apparatus in which an image section is horizontally divided into two areas, two horizontal CCDs are related to the two image areas with one-to-one correspondence and transfer the...
7236199 Multi-tap camera  
A camera comprises a multitap imager, separate digitizing channels for each imager tap, adjustments for channel gain and black level, a pattern generator, and a channel balancer. The channel...
6760060 Observation apparatus for observing a defect in a moving target object using scattered light  
An observation apparatus includes a CCD sensor which has, on a light-receiving surface, pixel lines each including a plurality of pixels, sequentially shifts charge signals of the pixels of each...
6683703 Photoelectric transducer and photoelectric transducing method of the same  
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a plurality of elements (D) for receiving reflected light from an object, photoelectrically converting it into image signals (OS 1 -OS 4 ), and...
6337713 Processor for image-pixel signals derived from divided sections of image-sensing area of solid-type image sensor  
An image-pixel signal processor is used to process image-pixel signals obtained from an image-sensing area, divided into a first section and a second section, of a solid-type image sensor. The...
6262769 Method and system for auto rotating a graphical user interface for managing portrait and landscape images in an image capture unit  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically rotating a graphical user interface for managing portrait and landscape captures in an image capture unit. A method and...
6169577 Color CCD solid-state image pickup  
A color CCD solid-state image pickup device having a color filter array such that it is not possible to mix pixels adjacent in the column direction. Even rows and odd rows of pixels arrayed in a...
6031571 Solid-state imaging device  
A solid-state imaging device has a storage section formed on a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate to receive and store signal charges, a discharge section formed on the surface portion of...
5966174 Signal processing circuit and method for driving a solid state imaging device using plural reading operations per image scanning time  
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...
5917546 Imaging apparatus  
An imaging apparatus in which the dynamic range can be substantially increased even with the use of a solid image sensor, such as a CCD image sensor. The imaging apparatus includes a solid-state...
5867215 Image sensor having multiple storage wells per pixel  
An image sensing device having an array of photodetectors capable of generating electron/hole pairs from incident photons, with multiple charge coupled devices organized in a tandem well design...
5812192 Solid state imaging apparatus having a channel stop section for forming a transfer channel between first and second transfer sections in a horizontal transfer register  
There is provided a solid state imaging apparatus which has realized sharing of signal charges without generation of a fault of image like a vertical stripe resulting from defective sharing of...
5737015 Imaging device equipped with multiple output channel imaging element  
The direct current voltage level and amplification of a multiple channel output imaging element are adjusted by comparing the output values of each channel. A calculating device, such as, for...
5703639 Charge coupled device pulse discriminator  
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to providing methods and apparatus for detecting light energy in real-time while minimizing the effects of background charge accrual on the...
5565916 Automatic channel gain and offset balance for video cameras employing multi-channel sensors  
A high frame rate camera includes; a multi-channel sensor array for producing a plurality of parallel analog image signals representative of a sensed image; a plurality of analog-to-digital...
5559553 Clock control circuit with independent timing adjustments for image sensing devices  
An image sensor used to implement a system to prevent aliasing problems typically encountered in charge coupled devices where a single charge coupled device is used to sense multiple colors. The...
5523788 Image processor with input buffering to multiple digital signal processors  
A system architecture is provided that includes an image sensor unit operable in a single channel mode and a dual channel mode. The image sensor unit includes an electronic image sensor comprising...
5491512 Solid state image sensor device and its driving method  
A solid state image sensor comprising a matrix of photosensitive elements adapted to accumulate signal charges corresponding to at least two different aspect ratios, a plurality of vertical shift...
5486859 Charge-coupled device type solid state imaging device making best use of effective pixels and obtaining images of different two or more kinds of aspect ratios  
There is provided a low-cost CCD solid state imaging device which can make best use of effective pixels and which can obtain images of two or more kinds of aspect ratios without using digital...
5485207 CCD image sensor for normal and mirror images  
A single-output CCD image sensor selectively transfers a normal or a mirror image without changing the combination of clock signals needed by the HCCD. The CCD image sensor comprises VCCD's arrayed...
5483283 Three level high speed clock driver for an image sensor  
A high speed clock driver circuit for use with an area image sensor which has two horizontal shift registers is disclosed. Circuitry is provided which is responsive to the third level of one of the...
5387935 Solid state imaging device having dual H-CCD with a compound channel  
A solid state imaging device having a horizontal transfer register formed of a plurality of transfer sections for alternately transferring a signal charge of the same pixel in the horizontal...
5369434 Charge transfer device with high speed transfer rate  
The present invention is directed to a charge transfer device having a four-phase drive system register in which first, second, third and fourth transfer sections sequentially arrayed constitute...
5309240 CCD linear image sensor including a CCD shift register on both sides of linearly arranged photosensor cells  
A CCD linear image sensor comprises an array of linearly arranged photosensor cells, and a pair of CCD shift registers respectively arranged on both sides of the array of linearly arranged...
5231500 Detecting and monitor device by observing picture image  
A detecting and monitoring device which observes a detected object, includes a video camera with a solid state image pickup device including elements divided into two lines corresponding to an...
5210614 Display interface for high resolution CCD video sensor  
A low cost system for efficiently doubling the data readout rate from a high resolution CCD video sensor having two line outputs includes a pair of analog to digital converters, a separate pair of...
5194944 Image signal processing apparatus for successively transferring a series of color signals obtained as image signals  
An image signal processing apparatus includes a vertical register for storing and transferring color signals obtained as image signals related to at least three primary colors, a horizontal...
5177614 High-definition still picture camera having a solid-state imaging device with photoelectric conversion elements divided into four fields  
A high definition camera for photographing still pictures using a high resolution charge-coupled solid-state imaging device. The charge-coupled solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of...
5132803 Image pickup device having a frame size memory  
An image pickup device for temporarily storing photoelectrically converted signals of a photoelectric conversion unit in a memory device capable of storing at least one field from the image pickup...
5040071 Image sensor having multiple horizontal shift registers  
An image sensor is disclosed which comprises an imaging region and horizontal shift registers which receive charge carriers generated in the imaging region and transfer them to an output circuit...
4989095 Controlling method for two dimensional charge-coupled device improved in anti-blooming capability  
A controlling method for a charge-coupled device according to the present invention decreases the amount of ineffectual electric charges by applying a photo shield film over photo sensing elements...
4985758 Signal processing system having selected output from plural readout devices  
A signal processing system has an image pickup device and a plurality of different color filters which generate a plurality of color signals. A memory stores the color signals, and a plurality of...
4837630 Solid-state imaging apparatus with a plurality of CCD storage sections  
An image pickup section includes an interline transfer CCD and a color filter arrangement having a period of two picture elements in horizontal and vertical directions. The image pickup section...
4647977 Charge-coupled-device parallel-to-serial converter  
A CCD parallel-to-serial converter comprising two successions of charge transfer stages, recurrently side-loaded with respective ones of parallelly supplied charge packets, then serially unloaded...
4603354 Image pickup device  
An image pickup device for picking up an image of a subject by using a solid-state image pickup array having a number of photo-electric conversion cells arranged in a matrix is disclosed a selector...
4566037 Solid-state area imaging apparatus  
There is disclosed a solid-state area imaging apparatus suitable for photographing a still picture. The apparatus comprises a plurality of vertical transfer electrodes and a pair of horizontal read...
4500915 Color solid-state imager  
The present invention consists in providing a CCD type color solid-state imager in which color signals respectively separated in time can be derived from picture elements for respective colors...
4330796 Block readable charge coupled device  
In accordance with the present invention, a conventional area image sensor of the interline transfer type is so configured as to be readable in blocks of adjacent photosite rows, thereby enabling...
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