| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 348268000 | Color sequential | 11 |
| 20080266430 | Method and system for optimizing an image for improved analysis of material and illumination image features - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a camera is provided. The camera comprises a lens and a sensor to record an image focused by the lens in N color bands, wherein N equals a number of color bands, with the number and respective locations and widths of the N color bands being selected to optimize the image for processing. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20140327797 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM - A large difference in exposure timing is prevented from arising in cases in which plural pixels have a common amplifier, even when image data is read by thinning | 11-06-2014 |
| 348269000 | With color sequential illumination | 1 |
| 20160156891 | COLOR IMAGING USING A MONOCHROMATIC DIGITAL CAMERA | 06-02-2016 |
| 348270000 | With moving color filters | 8 |
| 20140022422 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR IMAGING DEVICE - Interpolation precision of phase difference detection pixels is raised. An image pickup device includes: a color filter disposed with a repeating basic array pattern configured by 3×3 pixel square arrays of a first array pattern and a second array pattern disposed symmetrically about a point; a first phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of the 4 corner portions of at least one array pattern in 1 pair of the first array pattern and the second array pattern out of 2 pairs of the first array pattern and the second array pattern configuring the basic array pattern; and a second phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of the 4 corner portions in the array pattern, out of the first array pattern. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140071316 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus, including imaging optical system having a lens group and an aperture stop, and a solid-state image sensor which includes a photoelectric conversion layer made of an organic material and a color filter layer with color filters of two or more colors and a separation wall. The photoelectric conversion layer has a thickness of 0.1 82 m to 1 μm, each of the color filters has a refractive index of 1.5 to 1.8, the separation wall has a width of 0.05 μm to 0.2 μm and a refractive index of 1.22 to 1.34, and the lens group and the solid-state image sensor are disposed such that the relationship between a pixel pitch D (μm) of the sensor and a maximum angle α (°) of a principal ray incident on the sensor is 45≧α≧25.D−20 where D≦2.6 μm. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140118585 | COLOR PROCESSING OF DIGITAL IMAGES - An embodiment relates to a method for color processing of an input image, the method including the steps of low-pass filtering of the input image to obtain a low-pass component, high-pass filtering of the input image to obtain a high-pass component, processing the input image for edge detection to obtain edginess parameters, and performing a color-space transformation of the input image based on the low-pass component, the high-pass component, and the edginess parameters. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140232912 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided an image pickup unit capable of suppressing occurrence of false color and color mixture and acquiring a color image with high image quality. The image pickup unit includes: an image sensor including a plurality of pixels and acquiring an image pickup data; a variable filter provided on a light receiving face of the image sensor, and transmitting a selective wavelength; and a filter drive section (a wavelength selection circuit and a system control section) driving the variable filter and thereby setting its transmission wavelength. By acquiring the image pickup data while time-divisionally switching the transmission wavelength of the variable filter, pixel data corresponding to the transmission wavelength of the variable filter are acquired in a temporally-successive manner. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20150042853 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern; and a pixel signal read-out unit including an AD conversion unit performing AD conversion of a pixel signal read out from the pixel unit, wherein each pixel included in the pixel unit includes division pixels divided into regions in which photosensitivity levels or electric charge accumulating amounts are different from one another, wherein the pixel signal reading unit includes a normal read-out mode and a multiple read-out mode, and wherein the AD conversion unit acquires a pixel signal of one pixel by adding the division pixel signals read out in accordance with the read-out mode while performing AD conversion for the division pixel signals. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20160073066 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided an image pickup unit capable of suppressing occurrence of false color and color mixture and acquiring a color image with high image quality. The image pickup unit includes: an image sensor including a plurality of pixels and acquiring an image pickup data; a variable filter provided on a light receiving face of the image sensor, and transmitting a selective wavelength; and a filter drive section (a wavelength selection circuit and a system control section) driving the variable filter and thereby setting its transmission wavelength. By acquiring the image pickup data while time-divisionally switching the transmission wavelength of the variable filter, pixel data corresponding to the transmission wavelength of the variable filter are acquired in a temporally-successive manner. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160191866 | METHOD FOR DRIVING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A method for driving an image pickup apparatus is a method that generates image data using signals output by R, G, and B pixels contained in n frames, where n is an integer greater than or equal to two, and a signal or signals output by a W pixel contained in m frame or frames, where m is smaller than n, or that generates image data using signals output by R and B pixels contained in n frames and a signal or signals output by a G pixel contained in m frame or frames. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160205373 | IMAGING APPARATUS COMPRISING IMAGE SENSOR AND SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT | 07-14-2016 |
