| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 358513000 | Solid-state | 21 |
| 20090034032 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus, of lower power consumption and a smaller area with maintaining sufficient performance, includes a plurality of pixels for reading a plurality of color components, a plurality of holding units holding a signal from each pixel, a plurality of common output lines to which the plurality of respective holding units corresponding to respective color components are connected, and a plurality of output circuits connected to the plurality of common output lines. Then, at least two of the plurality of common output lines are connected to one of the plurality of output circuits through a selecting unit. In addition, outputs of a holding unit to which pixels of at least two different color components among the plurality of pixels in the unit cell are connected are connected to one of the plurality of common output lines through a selecting unit. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090040576 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LINEAR SENSOR, AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A method for controlling a linear sensor comprises: transferring an electric charge converted in a photoelectric conversion unit to a charge storage unit; transferring the electric charge stored in the charge storage unit to a transfer register; driving the transfer register; removing an electric charge stored in the charge storage unit; and controlling to successively execute the first transferring, the second transferring, the driving and the removing in synchronization with a trigger signal generated on a predetermined cycle. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090059324 | SIGNAL GENERATOR, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A clock-signal generating unit generates temporally-continuous clock signals. A spread-spectrum clock-signal generating unit generates a spread-spectrum clock signal by modulating a frequency spectrum of a clock signal generated by the clock-signal generating unit. A signal delaying unit generates a fixed delay unaffected by a spread spectrum from the spread-spectrum clock signal generated by the spread-spectrum clock-signal generating unit, and delays a phase of the spread-spectrum clock signal based on an amount of the fixed delay. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090059325 | Optical scanning device, image display device and retinal scanning display - An optical scanning device is constituted without using any arc sin θ correction lens, while maintaining quality of an image. In the optical scanning device, a clock cycle of an actually-used dot clock corresponding to the scanning direction of an optical flux exhibits an error equal to or less than 1 cycle of a master clock with respect to a clock cycle of a dot clock which constitutes a theoretical value such that optical fluxes corresponding to respective dots are arranged at equal intervals, the cycle differences between the clock cycle of the actually-used dot clock corresponding to the scanning direction of the optical flux and the clock cycles of the preceding and succeeding dot clocks become errors equal to or less than 1 cycle of the master clock, and an error between the number of the master clocks which is acquired by cumulatively adding the dot clocks from the dot clock corresponding to a scanning start position of the optical flux to the dot clock to be generated, and the number of the master clocks which constitutes a theoretical value and is acquired by cumulatively adding dot clocks which constitute the theoretical values corresponding to the dot clocks from the dot clock corresponding to the scanning start position of the optical flux to the dot clock to be generated becomes equal to or less than 1 cycle of the master clock. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090244663 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING METHOD - The present invention aims to prevent a problem that an image on a document sheet is erased due to misdetection of a line-shaped noise. A copy machine | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100182658 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An image reading apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and an image forming apparatus including the same are disclosed. The image reading apparatus may pre-recognize performances of even-pixel and odd-pixel groups for each color in an image sensor including an even-pixel group and an odd-pixel group for each color. In case of reading an image using only one of the above pixel groups, the image reading apparatus may read the image using a superior-performance pixel group selected from the above pixel groups, such that a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) may be reduced and image processing may be more quickly carried out. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110205605 | Image Reading Apparatus - An image reading apparatus which performs shading correction using black reference data, wherein in the process of obtaining the black reference data, the image reading apparatus includes a reading control section that outputs a shift pulse which is the start timing of charge accumulation corresponding to each RGB color and controls the process of lighting of the light source of a predetermined color for a predetermined period after a predetermined period having elapsed since the output of each shift pulse, and a data processing section that does not obtain the data output from the image sensor as the black reference data according to the shift pulse and obtains the data output from the image sensor as the black reference data during a period that at least overlaps with the lighting period. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110304893 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - This invention is directed to correcting a smear by a line-sequential reading scanner. To accomplish this, in a line-sequential reading type image reading apparatus (scanner), the first memory stores reference smear amount data of a smear occurred for each color component. The correction amount for the brightness value of each color component obtained by reading an original by an image sensor is calculated based on the reference smear amount data stored in the first memory and the brightness value level of a pixel on a preceding line. The brightness value is corrected based on the correction amount. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120002254 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Certain embodiments provide an image reading apparatus including: a monochrome CCD sensor including a first photo-diode array; plural color CCD sensors each including a second photodiode array; an AD converter configured to apply analog-to-digital conversion to each of analog outputs from the second photodiode array and the first photodiode array; a delay processing unit configured to delay at least one of color image data of plural colors from the AD converter and interpolate, with delayed any one or more of the color image data, a blank of image data that is to be read on a line in a sub-scanning direction; and an inter-line correction unit configured to correct, by the intervals and a set reduction magnification, a positional deviation in the sub-scanning direction between the monochrome image data and the color image data, respective timings of which are aligned on the line by the delay processing unit. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20130278980 | METHOD FOR SCANNING HARD COPY ORIGINALS - A method for converting a hard copy original to a digital image by a scanner system having an image line sensor and a transport system for transporting the hard copy original across the image line sensor are provided. The scanner system has several modes of operation, each mode being associated with a predefined original type and each mode assembling either grey lines or color lines for composing the digital image. The method includes determining an optimal mode of operation for converting the hard copy original by transporting a first part of the hard copy original across the image line sensor. Grey lines from the image line sensor are used in the determination, because this allows the hard copy original to be transported three times as fast across the image line sensor. It is still possible to discern originals with color information from scanned originals with only black-and-white information. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140029072 | SENSOR IC, CONTACT IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A sensor IC of the present invention is provided with plurality of light receiving portions arranged in a row along a primary scanning direction and including a first light receiving portion for receiving light of a first wavelength, a second light receiving portion for receiving light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and a third light receiving portion for receiving light of a third wavelength different from the first wavelength and the second wavelength. The sensor IC further includes a control circuit that outputs a first electric signal corresponding to light of the first wavelength received by the first light receiving portion, a second electric signal corresponding to light of the second wavelength received by the second light receiving portion, and a third electric signal corresponding to light of the third wavelength received by the third light receiving portion. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20160112595 | Image Sensing Device - An image sensing device includes N red light sensing units, N green light sensing units, N blue light sensing units and a control circuit. The control circuit accumulates an exposure capacity Q | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112598 | APPARATUS FOR FORMING DIGITAL IMAGES - A method and apparatus for acquiring a corrected digital image of an object includes a digital camera operable to capture a plurality of color component images, an imager body and a support arm. The support arm is coupled to the imager body and adapted to support the digital camera. An image processor is provided to produce corrected color component images and an image combiner is provided to combine the corrected color component images to form the corrected digital image. The camera is moveable to more than one position to enable to formation of three-dimensional images or images with increased depth of focus. | 04-21-2016 |
| 358514000 | With plural sensors | 8 |
| 20090051984 | IMAGE SENSOR HAVING CHECKERBOARD PATTERN - An image sensor for capturing a color image, comprising a two-dimensional array of pixels having a plurality of minimal repeating units wherein each repeating unit is composed of eight pixels having four panchromatic pixels, two pixels having the same color response, and two pixels having different color responses that are different than the pixels having the same color response, with the minimal repeating units tiled to cause each row or each column of the image sensor to have color pixels of a single color or to cause each row and each column to have color pixels of only two colors. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090086294 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING METHOD - There is provide a technique which can contribute to reduction of data capacity of image data read from an original document in an image reading apparatus, and can contribute to realization of a flexible image processing to meet user's requests. There are included a first image reading unit to read an image in monochrome from an original document at a first resolution, a second image reading unit to read an image in color from an original document at a second resolution lower than the first resolution, a position information acquisition unit to acquire position information indicating, in respective image data read by the first and the second image reading units from the same original document, corresponding positions of respective pixels on the original document, a color information acquisition unit to acquire color information indicating colors of the respective pixels in the respective image data, and a storage unit to associate the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit with the color information acquired by the color information acquisition unit with respect to the pixel corresponding to the position information and to store them in a specified storage area. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090103149 | APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE READING, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - It is made possible to determine image characteristics in a reading image while the image of an original is being read. A first line sensor ( | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090135458 | Contact image sensor structure - A contact image sensor structure includes a body, a substrate, and a light source unit. The body has a first side surface and a second side surface. The body has a pin slot that passes through the first side surface and the second side surface. The second side surface has a light source receiving slot, and the light source receiving slot links with the pin slot. The substrate has a plurality of pads. The light source unit is fastened in the pin slot and the light source receiving slot. One end of the light source unit has a plurality of pins. The pins pass through the pin slot and contact the pads of the substrate. Thereby, the pins are electrically connected with the pads without welding. The life time and the reliability of the contact image sensor are enhanced, and the assembling process is simplified. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090257103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLOR ACQUISITION BASED ON HUMAN COLOR PERCEPTION - The subject application is directed to a system and method for color acquisition based on human color perception. First component image data in a first component region is received from a first associated sensor having a first sensor area. Second component image data in a second component region is then received from a second associated sensor having a sensor area greater than that of the first sensor area, according to a distribution of human eye color receptors corresponding to the first component region and the second component region. The first and second component image data are then processed into image data in a selected luminance-chrominance color space. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100110511 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NOISE IN IMAGE DATA - An image reading apparatus includes: three line sensors mutually spaced in a sub scanning direction; a platen arranged between the original and the three line sensors; a mover moving the platen relative to the three line sensors at a rate relative to the three line sensors, the rate being different from that of the original relative to the three line sensors; a lightness difference detector extracting a feature pixel having a predetermined feature from each of three data output from the three line sensors; and NOR and AND devices comparing a plurality of data corresponding to a single location on the original to detect the feature pixel extracted from one of the plurality of data, as a noise pixel if the feature pixel is not a feature pixel for the other data and also has at least a predetermined value in saturation. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100157396 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. A color contact image sensor (CIS) module employing a single channel line sensor can be used to produce substantially the same performance as a color CIS module employing a three-channel line sensor and having color filters to, for example, reduce manufacturing costs. Moreover, a blurring phenomenon that can occur in a scanned image can be reduced and the quality of the scanned image can be improved. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20130321887 | IMAGE PROCESSING USING MULTIPLE IMAGING DEVICES - Apparatus and methods for image processing using multiple imaging devices are provided. A first imaging device is configured to acquire a first image of a portion of a printed substrate and the second imaging device is configured to acquire a second image of a portion of the printed substrate. At least a portion of the first image and the second image are acquired from the same portion of the printed substrate at the same time. The first imaging device is configured to process color data from the first image using a first processing circuit of the first imaging device and the second imaging device is configured to process spatial information from the second image using a separate second processing circuit of the second imaging device. | 12-05-2013 |
