| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7605411 |
Charge transfer device and imaging apparatus |
October 20, 2009 |
| An HCCD includes a channel 21 that transfers electric charges in an X direction, a channel 25 that transfers the electric charges in a Z1 direction, a channel 23 that transfers the electric charges in a Z2 direction, and a channel 22 that connects the channels 23, 25 to the channel 2 |
| 7580073 |
Charge coupled device |
August 25, 2009 |
| 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 one-dimensional array on the semiconductor substrate and a channel region formed below eac |
| 7573520 |
Solid state imaging apparatus and a driving method of the solid state imaging apparatus |
August 11, 2009 |
| A first voltage is impressed to a reading out electrode for reading out accumulated signal electric charges from photo electric conversion elements to transfer channels in a reading out period and at a same time during the reading out period a second voltage is imposed to at least one |
| 7564494 |
Solid-state imaging device and its driving method for preventing damage in dynamic range |
July 21, 2009 |
| A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate, a multiplicity of photo electric conversion elements, a vertical electric charge transfer device having a plurality of vertical electric charge transfer channels and transfer electrodes, reading out parts and a driv |
| 7554592 |
Solid-state imaging device and its driving method for preventing damage in dynamic range |
June 30, 2009 |
| A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate, a multiplicity of photo electric conversion elements, a vertical electric charge transfer device having a plurality of vertical electric charge transfer channels and transfer electrodes, reading out parts and a driv |
| 7550706 |
Solid state imaging device and output circuit thereof having a protecting device |
June 23, 2009 |
| An output circuit of a solid state imaging device comprises: a source follower circuit that amplifies a voltage value signal converted by a charge detecting portion in accordance with an amount of a signal charge stored by each of pixels and outputs the amplified voltage value signal; |
| 7446349 |
Two-branch outputting solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus |
November 4, 2008 |
| A two-branch outputting solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: two output amplifiers including a first output amplifier and a second output amplifier, each outputting a voltage signal in accordance with the signal charge transferred toward the output end through the cha |
| 7052929 |
Solid state image pickup device capable of suppressing smear |
May 30, 2006 |
| A driving method for a solid state image pickup device, having four or more transfer stages as one transfer unit, includes reading signal charge from the charge accumulation regions to the vertical charge transfer channels. The reading step includes (b-1) applying the barrier forming |
