Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110096216 | IMAGING PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - An image pickup device includes an image sensing device and a driving unit. The image sensing device includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group. The first pixel group includes a plurality of pixels arranged as a two-dimensional array in a semiconductor substrate surface portion that receives incidence light from a subject. The second pixel group includes a plurality of pixels arranged as a two-dimensional array in the semiconductor substrate surface portion in an area overlapping the first pixel group while the pixels in the first pixel group do not disposed in the same positions as the pixels in the second pixel group. The driving unit outputs a picked-up image signal of one frame from the first pixel group exposed over one vertical synchronizing time period for each vertical synchronizing signal. | 04-28-2011 |
20110216228 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING ELEMENT, METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - A solid-state image sensing element includes a plurality of pixels, a color filter, a plurality of vertical charge transfer paths, a plurality of readout electrode portions. The pixels are formed on one face of a semiconductor substrate in a two-dimensional array arrangement. The color filter corresponds to a plurality of colors and includes a plurality of color filter elements disposed color by color on the pixels respectively so as to be arranged as a mosaic pattern as a whole. The vertical charge transfer paths are formed one by one between two of pixel columns composed of the pixels so that each of the vertical charge transfer paths transfers signal corresponding to one of the colors. The readout electrode portions connect each of the vertical charge transfer paths to pixels arranged in both sides of each of the vertical charge transfer paths. | 09-08-2011 |
20130002911 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Pixel values of focus detection pixels are suitably corrected according to reducing occurrence of a residual error of correction. | 01-03-2013 |
20130038761 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD OF PROCESSING CAPTURED IMAGE, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING CAPTURED IMAGE - Two kinds of color images, obtained by a solid-state imaging device, having different color tones are combined with each other. A first captured color image due to a first pixel group (pixels in which spectral sensitivities of color filters are wide) of the solid-state imaging device is processed. A second captured color image due to a second pixel group (pixels in which spectral sensitivities of color filters are narrow) is processed. The level difference between captured image signals of the pixels of the first pixel group and captured image signals of the pixels of the second pixel group, and due to the spectral sensitivity difference between the color filters in which the spectral sensitivities are wide and narrow is obtained (steps S1 and S2). The level difference is corrected. The first captured color image and the second captured color image are combined with each other. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038767 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and a driving unit. The solid-state imaging device has a plurality of pairs of first and second photoelectric conversion elements having different spectral sensitivity characteristics. The driving unit independently controls an exposure time of a first group of the plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements and an exposure time of a second group of the plurality of second photoelectric conversion elements. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has spectral sensitivity fall within the respective wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light. A half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of each first photoelectric conversion element is wider than a half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of each second photoelectric conversion element of the pair. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044244 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pairs of a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element which have different spectral sensitivity characteristics. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity respectively fall within a wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light. The plurality of pairs include a plurality of types of pairs having different specific colors of visible light. The half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of the first photoelectric conversion element of the each pair is wider than a half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of the second photoelectric conversion element of the each corresponding pair. | 02-21-2013 |
20130113965 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device that has a plurality of pairs of a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element, which have different spectral sensitivity characteristics, respectively. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of the pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity fall within wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light respectively. The plurality of pairs include a plurality of types of pairs having different specific colors. A half-width in a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair is wider than a half width in a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the first photoelectric conversion element of the pair. | 05-09-2013 |
20150244925 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The image acquisition section acquires a first image and a second image output from an image pick-up device. A parallax computation section computes parallax indicating the amount of displacement between each of the pixels in the first image and corresponding pixels in the second image acquired by the image acquisition section. The generation section generates a first display image based on a third image output from the image pick-up device, and generates a second display image for use in focus verification based on the first and second images acquired by the image acquisition section. The change section changes the resolution of at least the second display image from out of the first display image and the second display image generated by the generation section according to the parallax computed by the parallax computation section. | 08-27-2015 |