| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7612812 |
Solid state imaging device with increased vertical resolution in interlace scanning method |
November 3, 2009 |
| A solid state imaging device comprises a semiconductor substrate defining a two-dimensional surface, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a light receiving area of said semiconductor substrate in a plurality of rows and columns, an electric charge read-out dev |
| 7465910 |
Solid state imaging device with increased vertical and horizontal resolutions in interlace scann |
December 16, 2008 |
| A solid state imaging device comprises a semiconductor substrate defining a two-dimensional surface, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a light receiving area of said semiconductor substrate in a plurality of rows and columns, color filters in a plurality of |
| 7271836 |
Solid state image pickup device capable of draining unnecessary charge and driving method thereo |
September 18, 2007 |
| A drain region is formed along a horizontal charge transfer channel constituting a horizontal charge transfer element, and a barrier region for charges is formed between the horizontal charge transfer channel and drain region. A two-electrode element is formed by using the horizontal |
| 7230224 |
Solid state image pickup device with two photosensitive fields per one pixel |
June 12, 2007 |
| A solid state image pickup device having: a semiconductor substrate having a light receiving area; a number of pixels formed in the light receiving area of the semiconductor substrate in a matrix shape, each of the pixels having a main photosensitive field having a relatively large area |
| 7227575 |
Linear image sensor chip and linear image sensor |
June 5, 2007 |
| A linear image sensor chip is manufactured by forming an image pickup section, peripheral circuit sections, a plurality of bonding pads, and a light-suppressing layer on a semiconductor substrate having an elongated shape. In this case, each of the bonding pads is formed outer than p |
| 7187411 |
Charge transfer device having discharge drain, CCD image sensor, and CCD image pickup system |
March 6, 2007 |
| In a CCD image sensor, a CCD line memory is disposed between each vertical charge transfer device and a horizontal charge transfer device to selectively transfer charges from each vertical charge transfer device to the horizontal charge transfer device. A discharge drain is disposed |
| 7184083 |
Solid state image pickup apparatus of low power consumption and its driving method |
February 27, 2007 |
| A charge transfer device whose output end is electrically connected to a charge detector circuit is driven by negative pulse voltage trains to reduce power consumption of the charge detector circuit. |
| 7110031 |
State image pickup apparatus having pixel shift layout |
September 19, 2006 |
| A color shooting solid state image pickup apparatus is composed by using a solid state image pickup device having a number of color pixels disposed in a plurality of rows and columns in a pixel shift layout with distributing at least one color-type color pixels in a square lattice pa |
| 7091464 |
Image sensor |
August 15, 2006 |
| A linear image sensor is constituted to include a red diode line 11, a green diode line 12 and a blue diode line 13, and the green diode line 12 positioned between the red diode line 11 and the blue diode line 13 is provided with a shift of an approximately 1/2 pitch in the vertical |
| 7050101 |
Solid state image pickup device capable of draining unnecessary charge and driving method thereo |
May 23, 2006 |
| A drain region is formed along a horizontal charge transfer channel constituting a horizontal charge transfer element, and a barrier region for charges is formed between the horizontal charge transfer channel and drain region. A two-electrode element is formed by using the horizontal |
| 7019274 |
Solid state image pickup device with wide dynamic range |
March 28, 2006 |
| A solid state image pickup device, having: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of pixels formed on the semiconductor substrate, each pixel having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements inclusive of a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conve |
| 6914633 |
Charge transfer path having lengthwisely varying channel width and image pickup device using it |
July 5, 2005 |
| A solid state image pickup device of high integration, high photoelectric conversion and high transfer performances is made of: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a matrix shape on the surface of a semiconductor substrate, the photoelectric conversion elemen |
| 6891243 |
Solid-state image pick-up device |
May 10, 2005 |
| In a solid-state image pick-up device comprising a plurality of light receiving sensor sections, a vertical transfer path 12 formed close to each of the light receiving sensor sections, and a channel stopper 13 provided between the adjacent vertical transfer paths 12 and formed by an |
| 6707498 |
Charge transfer of solid-state image pickup device |
March 16, 2004 |
| An image signal processing apparatus includes: a solid-state image pickup device capable of taking a two-dimensional image, the device having a plurality of primary transfer paths and a secondary transfer path, wherein the plurality of primary first transfer each have a plurality of tran |
| 6690421 |
Structure of solid state image pickup device |
February 10, 2004 |
| A solid state image pickup device in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion element pairs are disposed in a row direction and a column direction, each pair constituting one unit including two adjacent photoelectric conversion elements disposed in the column direction, wherein |
| 6573935 |
Two-dimensional solid state image pickup device |
June 3, 2003 |
| A solid state image pickup device has: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements for generating and accumulating electric charges corresponding to an amount of incidence light; color filters of a plurality of colors disposed on the plurality of photoelectric conversion element |
| 6236434 |
Solid state image pickup device |
May 22, 2001 |
| Photosensor rows are disposed in such a manner that one photosensor row is shifted by a half of a layout pitch of photosensors, relative to another adjacent photosensor row. Column direction charge transfer devices are disposed in such a manner that two column direction charge transfer |
