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20100289100 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including a solid-state image pickup element operable to produce an electric charge according to the amount of light received, a lens disposed on the upper side of a pixel of the solid-state image pickup element, a protective film which covers the upper side of the lens and a surface of which is flattened, and a surface film which is formed at the surface of the protective film and which is higher in hydrophilicity than the inside of the protective film. | 11-18-2010 |
20100320554 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a solid state imaging device, including the steps of: forming a light receiving portion in a light receiving area of a semiconductor substrate; forming a pad portion in a pad area of the semiconductor substrate; forming a microlens material layer over the light receiving portion and the pad portion; providing the microlens material layer with a microlens corresponding to the light receiving portion; forming a low-reflection material layer on the microlens material layer; etching the microlens material layer and the low-reflection material layer over the pad portion to form an opening; and imparting hydrophilicity to a surface of the low-reflection material layer and an inside portion of the opening by a normal temperature oxygen radical treatment. | 12-23-2010 |
20130235230 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including a solid-state image pickup element operable to produce an electric charge according to the amount of light received, a lens disposed on the upper side of a pixel of the solid-state image pickup element, a protective film which covers the upper side of the lens and a surface of which is flattened, and a surface film which is formed at the surface of the protective film and which is higher in hydrophilicity than the inside of the protective film. | 09-12-2013 |
20140084406 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a solid state imaging device, including the steps of: forming a light receiving portion in a light receiving area of a semiconductor substrate; forming a pad portion in a pad area of the semiconductor substrate; forming a microlens material layer over the light receiving portion and the pad portion; providing the microlens material layer with a microlens corresponding to the light receiving portion; forming a low-reflection material layer on the microlens material layer; etching the microlens material layer and the low-reflection material layer over the pad portion to form an opening; and imparting hydrophilicity to a surface of the low-reflection material layer and an inside portion of the opening by a normal temperature oxygen radical treatment. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100166053 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, program, and communication system, whereby encoded data can be transmitted with low delay. A data control unit | 07-01-2010 |
20110149023 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a video signal processor including: a combining process section adapted to superimpose a first marker signal on a first video signal component at a specific position and superimpose a second marker signal on a second video signal component at roughly the same position as the specific position; and a control section adapted to control the condition of superimposition of the first and second marker signals so that an image appears to indicate that the first and second marker signals are combined correctly when the first and second video signal components are combined in a correct phase relationship, and so that an image appears to indicate that the first and second marker signals are combined incorrectly if the first and second video signal components are combined in an incorrect phase relationship. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149162 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed herein is a transmission system including a digital transmission path configured to transmit a digital video signal outputted from an imaging apparatus to a processing apparatus that executes one of processing and relaying of a video signal received from the imaging apparatus, an analog transmission path configured to transmit an analog reference signal outputted from the processing apparatus to the imaging apparatus, a command superposing block in the processing apparatus configured to superpose, at an analog level, each bit of command data for commanding the imaging apparatus in other than a section in which a synchronous signal component of the reference signal is included, a digital conversion block configured to digitally convert an analog-level signal of each bit of a command included in a reference signal received via the analog transmission path in the imaging apparatus, and an imaging control block configured to control an imaging operation. | 06-23-2011 |
20110157317 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND CAMERA CONTROL METHOD - A camera system includes: a first camera and a second camera; a camera adaptor box; and a camera control unit. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157428 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a video signal processing apparatus including an image outputting portion, a manipulation portion, and a video signal extracting portion. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158629 | CAMERA ADAPTOR BOX AND CAMERA CONTROL METHOD - An adapter for controlling a first camera and a second camera, which exhibit differing operating characteristics, in a three-dimension ( | 06-30-2011 |
20120133792 | VIDEO SIGNAL CAPTURING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL APPARATUS, AND VIDEO SIGNAL CAPTURING, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING, AND TRANSFERRING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A video signal transfer system including an imaging apparatus for capturing an object to be imaged and generating a consecutive plurality of picture data forming a moving image, selecting from the plurality of picture data picture data positioned in advance at predetermined intervals to generate a plurality of lines (series) of video signals, and transmitting the plurality of systems of video signal, and a signal processing apparatus having a plurality of signal processing circuits, outputting the plurality of lines of video signals received from the imaging apparatus to the plurality of signal processing circuits, and making them process the signals in parallel. | 05-31-2012 |
20120257106 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a video processing apparatus including a video addition unit for receiving two systems of input interlaced video signals each including two fields, and adding the video signals to generate a ½x video signal of the input interlaced video signal. The video addition unit adds a second field of the interlaced video signal of one system among the two systems and a first field of the interlaced video signal of the other system to generate the ½x video signal of the input interlaced video signal, subjects the interlaced video signal of the other system to 1 horizontal line delay when the ½x video signal is generated, validates a horizontal line in a vertical blanking interval on one row of a top line of valid lines in the first field of the interlaced video signal of the other system, and then adds the video signals of the two systems. | 10-11-2012 |
20120320988 | VIDEO SENDING APPARATUS, VIDEO RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO SENDING METHOD - Provided is a video sending apparatus, comprising: a compression unit configured to handle, in encoded video data encoded by pixel unit, a predetermined number of continuous pieces of pixel data as a differential-data-generating unit, the predetermined number being two or more, to cause the first piece of pixel data in the differential-data-generating unit to pass through, and to transform the pieces of pixel data other than the first piece of pixel data into pieces of differential data to thereby generate compressed video data, each of the pieces of differential data indicating a change amount from the preceding piece of pixel data in one of a positive direction and a negative direction; and a sending unit configured to send the compressed video data generated by the compression unit. | 12-20-2012 |
20130208149 | FLASH BAND CORRECTION APPARATUS, FLASH BAND CORRECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A flash band correction apparatus includes a flash band detection unit and a frame rate conversion unit. The flash band detection unit is configured to detect a start line and an end line of a flash band in a frame on the basis of a difference in an exposure period for each line of an image signal output for each frame at a predetermined frame rate by an image pickup element with a rolling shutter system. The flash band is an unevenness in brightness level for each line which is generated in the frame due to flash light. The frame rate conversion unit is configured to determine a combination of the frames of the image signal before a frame rate is converted on the basis of the start line and the end line and convert the frame rate to 1/n thereof. | 08-15-2013 |
20130297238 | DETECTION APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, POWER RECEPTION APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A detection apparatus includes a first acquisition part that acquires information about a suppliable electric power of a power supply apparatus that supplies an electric power to a power reception apparatus via a transmission path; a second acquisition part that acquires information about a supply electric power output from the power supply apparatus, including information about a supply voltage output from power supply apparatus; a third acquisition part that acquires information about a voltage applied to the power reception apparatus after a voltage drop in the transmission path; and a margin information calculation part that calculates first margin information about a margin of a supply electric power, and calculates second margin information about a margin of the voltage drop. | 11-07-2013 |
20140300807 | INTERMEDIATE UNIT AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Provided is an intermediate unit including a first connect unit, a second connect unit, and an information bridge unit. The first connect unit is for connecting a camera unit having a first resolution in one of a spatial direction and a temporal direction. The second connect unit is for connecting a camera control unit for a camera unit having a second resolution lower than the first resolution in one of the spatial direction and the temporal direction. The information bridge unit is interposed between the first connect unit and the second connect unit and configured to bridge information exchanged between the camera unit and the camera control unit. | 10-09-2014 |
20140347557 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE SIGNAL, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - An image signal processing apparatus includes a down-converter unit configured to down-convert an image signal having a first resolution into an image signal having a second resolution lower than the first resolution, a high-frequency-band-edge detection unit configured to perform filtering on the image signal having the first resolution to extract components in a higher frequency band than a frequency corresponding to the second resolution and to perform down-conversion on an edge detection signal obtained through the filtering to obtain an edge detection signal having the second resolution, and a combination unit configured to combine the edge detection signal obtained by the high-frequency-band-edge detection unit with the image signal having the second resolution generated by the down-converter unit so as to obtain an image signal having the second resolution and being to be displayed. | 11-27-2014 |
20150124114 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that has image sensors for each image of red, green, and blue which have a two-line addition function respectively. The imaging unit outputs image signals of red and blue and an image signal of green of which sample phases in a space are shifted by one pixel interval in a vertical direction using the two-line addition function. A resolution conversion unit obtains image signals of red, green, and blue of which the number of lines is doubled by performing interpolation processing on the image signals of red and blue and an image signal of green output from the imaging unit. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124143 | CAMERA APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE SIGNAL FOR VIEWFINDER - There is provided a camera apparatus including: a display signal generation unit that generates an index display signal for displaying an index indicative of a current focal position based on focal position information; and a combination unit that acquires an image signal for a viewfinder by combining a captured image signal with the index display signal. | 05-07-2015 |
20150138418 | CAMERA APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF GENERATING VIEW FINDER IMAGE SIGNAL - A camera apparatus includes: a display signal generation section configured to generate an indicator display signal for displaying an indicator at a position in accordance with an inclination of a camera body in a predetermined direction; and a combination section configured to combine a captured image signal with the indicator display signal in order to obtain a view finder image signal, wherein the display signal generation section generates the indicator display signal such that a display of the indicator is masked using a mask area having a predetermined width and with a position corresponding to a predetermined inclination of the indicator in a movement direction as center. | 05-21-2015 |
20150207979 | FOCUS CONTROL APPARATUS, FOCUS CONTROL METHOD, CAMERAAPPARATUS AND FOCUS CONTROL METHOD IN CAMERA APPARATUS - There is provided a focus control apparatus including: a first adjustment unit configured to adjust a focus distance; a second adjustment unit configured to adjust an addition amount of the focus distance adjusted with the first adjustment unit; and a focus control unit configured to control a focus based on the focus distance adjusted with the first adjustment unit and the addition amount adjusted with the second adjustment unit. Also provided are a focus control method, a camera apparatus and a focus control method in the camera apparatus. | 07-23-2015 |
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20110194874 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a developer container, a developer carrier, exposed partly from a casing, facing a latent image carrier in a development area, a magnetic field generator inside the developer carrier, having multiple magnetic poles including a conveyance pole to convey the developer downstream from the development area to a developer release portion, a developer agitator, and a developer regulator. A predetermined gap is kept between an outer surface of the developer carrier and an inner wall of the casing downstream from an opening of the casing, upstream from a developer release portion, in a direction in which the developer carrier rotates. Multiple recesses are formed in the outer surface of the developer carrier at a pitch in a circumferential direction shorter than half a width of a magnetic flux density of the developer conveyance pole in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the developer carrier. | 08-11-2011 |
20120057907 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A development device including a developer container, a developer bearer, a magnetic field generator, a developer agitator to supply the developer to the developer bearer, and a developer regulator to adjust a layer thickness of the developer carried on the developer bearer. Multiple oval recesses oblique to the axial direction of the developer bearer are formed in the outer circumferential surface of the developer bearer and arranged in a circumferential direction and the axial direction thereof. An upstream inner wall of the recess in the rotational direction of the developer bearer applies a force to the developer as the developer bearer rotates, and an angle between a long axis of the recess and the axial direction is set so that the force applied by the upstream inner wall of the recess has a component in a direction substantially identical to the developer conveyance direction of the developer agitator. | 03-08-2012 |
20130236216 | MAGNET ROLLER, DEVELOPER BEARER, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A magnet roller includes a roller-shaped body constructed of a magnetic field generating material, a first support rod provided to a first axial end of the body; and a second support rod provided to a second axial end of the body. At least one of the first and second support rods is constructed of a nonmagnetic material and includes a projecting part projecting outside the body from an end face of the body and a buried part united to the projecting part and positioned inside the body. The buried part includes a reduced-area portion smaller than a base end of the projecting part adjacent to the buried part in cross-sectional area perpendicular to an axial direction of the first and second support rods. | 09-12-2013 |
20140356031 | ROLLER, DEVELOPING ROLLER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A roller includes a cylindrical body having openings on both ends thereof and a press-fit member fitted in at least one of the openings of the cylindrical body with an outer circumferential face thereof in contact with an inner face of the cylindrical body. The outer circumferential face of the press-fit member is grooved obliquely to an axis of the cylindrical body, and the inner face of the cylindrical body is smooth at least in a portion that contacts the outer circumferential face of the press-fit member. | 12-04-2014 |
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20130163035 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided is an image forming device including a modifying unit that individually modifies plural items of setting information held in an own device, a specifying unit that specifies an item of the setting information which is not modified by the modifying unit, a communication unit that communicates with an external device, an acquiring unit that acquires reference setting information corresponding to each of the plural items of the setting information from the external device via the communication unit, and an updating unit that updates the item of the setting information specified by the specifying unit based on the reference setting information acquired by the acquiring unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20150212768 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a selection-information acquiring unit, a type-information acquiring unit, and a selecting unit. The selection-information acquiring unit acquires selection information including information representing an additional apparatus which is selectable in accordance with a combination of one or more types of additional apparatuses connectable to the image forming apparatus. The type-information acquiring unit acquires type information representing one or more types of connecting additional apparatuses which are the additional apparatuses connected to the image forming apparatus. The selecting unit selects a connecting additional apparatus corresponding to the type information from the selection information. | 07-30-2015 |
20150268906 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus includes a communication unit, a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a permitting unit. The communication unit communicates with a communication line for which a charge amount is changed in accordance with use of the communication line. The first storage unit stores operation information about an operational condition of the communication apparatus. The second storage unit stores charge information about the charge amount according to the use of the communication line. The permitting unit permits the communication unit to transmit the operation information, on the basis of a result obtained by comparing the charge information with predetermined charge limit information. | 09-24-2015 |
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20090196655 | Coupling device, and image forming apparatus - A coupling unit includes two constant velocity joints arranged in series in the shaft direction. The coupling unit couples a driven shaft and a drive shaft. Each constant velocity joint includes a ball non-retaining member and a ball retaining member. The ball non-retaining member has an annular space with one opened end and a plurality of track grooves extending in the shaft direction on an external wall surface of the annular space at a constant interval in a circumferential direction. The ball retaining member has a portion that engages with the annular space of the ball non-retaining member, and that retains a ball that slides along each of the track grooves formed in the ball non-retaining member. | 08-06-2009 |
20090324262 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes an image carrier, a driving source, a rotation detection unit, and a control unit that performs fluctuation pattern recognition processing, control pattern construction processing, speed fine-adjustment processing, and remaining pattern recognition processing. The control unit is configured to perform control pattern correction processing for setting a frequency band of a remaining speed fluctuation to be detected by the remaining pattern recognition processing narrower than a frequency band of a speed fluctuation to be detected by the fluctuation pattern recognition processing and correcting the speed control pattern so as to be a pattern capable of reducing even the remaining speed fluctuation based on a remaining speed fluctuation pattern recognized by the remaining pattern recognition processing. | 12-31-2009 |
20100232819 | Belt Conveying device and image forming apparatus - A belt conveying device includes an endless belt stretched by a plurality of rollers; a drive unit that is connected to one of the plurality of rollers and drives the roller; a plurality of belt velocity detectors that are arranged at a plurality of locations along a belt width direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the endless belt and detect conveyance velocities of the endless belt; and a belt-inclination calculating unit that calculates an inclination of the endless belt in the moving direction from a difference between conveyance velocities of the endless belt detected by the plurality of belt velocity detectors. | 09-16-2010 |
20110110691 | Belt driving device and image forming apparatus using the same - A steering controller uses a photointerrupter that detects the position of a filler when a steering roller is in a predetermined reference inclined position. The steering controller drives a steering motor to bring the steering roller to the reference inclined position based on a detection result obtained by the photointerrupter every time predetermined adjustment timing arrives or every time the power is turned on. Using the rotation angle of the steering motor in this condition as a reference rotation angle, the steering controller controls the rotation of the steering motor. | 05-12-2011 |
20130195482 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SHEET CONVEYING DISTANCE CALCULATION APPARATUS AND SHEET LENGTH CALCULATION APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus includes a sheet conveying unit that conveys a sheet; a conveying amount measuring unit that measures a conveying amount of the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit; a first detection unit that detects the sheet downstream of the sheet conveying unit in a conveying direction of the sheet; a second detection unit that detects the sheet upstream of the sheet conveying unit in the conveying direction of the sheet; and a conveying distance calculation unit that calculates a conveying distance of the sheet based on the measured result by the conveying amount measuring unit and the detected results detected by the first detection unit and the second detection unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20140348563 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SHEET CONVEYING DISTANCE CALCULATION APPARATUS AND SHEET LENGTH CALCULATION APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus includes a sheet conveying unit that conveys a sheet including a drive roller, a driven roller, and a rotary encoder provided on a rotational axle of one of the drive roller and the driven roller; a conveying amount measuring unit that measures a conveying amount of the sheet; a first detection unit positioned downstream of the sheet conveying unit, the first detection unit being positioned apart from the drive roller and the driven roller not to overlap with the drive roller and the driven roller in the conveying direction; a second detection unit positioned upstream of the sheet conveying unit; and a conveying distance calculation unit that calculates a conveying distance of the sheet based on the measured result by the conveying amount measuring unit and the detected results detected by the first detection unit and the second detection unit. | 11-27-2014 |