摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately separate an IR component and to improve precision of camera processing control using the IR component. SOLUTION: An image input processing device has an optical band separation filter 1A, a color filter 2A having an arrangement of four colors having such equivalence that the sum of two colors is equivalent to another color in the visible light range or the sum of three colors is equivalent to the remaining one color or the double thereof in the visible light range, an optical sensor unit which generates an imaging signal, a data separation unit 541 which separates pixel data of the imaging signal for the four colors, an infrared (IR) separation unit 548 which performs IR separation by subtraction, using the equivalence in the visible light region on the basis of the four-color arrangement among the separated pixel data of the four colors, first and second integration units 61 and 62, and a camera control processing unit (for example, a microcomputer 10) which determines which of integral values thereof is used. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processor capable of providing an image of high resolution and high picture quality with a small false signal while the circuit scale is suppressed small. SOLUTION: An image signal input from an image signal input section 12 is passed through LPFs 14 and 16 having different frequency response characteristics to remove color signal components. A feature quantity calculation section 20 calculates edge quantities, saturation, and hue from peripheral pixels around a pixel of interest and a weighting coefficient calculation section 22 finds a weighting coefficient (k) from the feature quantity calculated by the feature quantity calculation section 20 and their variation quantities. A weighting adder 24 performs weighted addition using the signal of the LPF 14 which passes a high-frequency component, much for an achromatic color part or a chromatic color part which has small saturation and hue variations and uses the signal of the LPF 16 which has a small false signal, much for a chromatic color part which has not small saturation and hue variations according to the weighting coefficient (k) calculated by the weighting coefficient calculation section 22. A horizontal outline correction section 26 receives the output signal of the weighting adder 22 and generates a horizontal outline correction signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust the sensitivity of an imaging element with photosensitive layers (photoelectric conversion layers) laminated on a substrate. SOLUTION: The imaging element includes: the substrate 30; the photosensitive layers 43 (47, 51) laminated on the upper layer of the substrate 30 and sandwiched between pixel electrode layers 41 (46, 50) and counter electrode layers 44 (48, 52); signal read means (34, 35) formed on the substrate 30 and for reading signals corresponding to photoelectric charges produced by light made incident to the photosensitive layers 43 (47, 51); and a voltage application means for applying a sensitivity variable voltage between the pixel electrode layers and the the counter electrode layers, and adjusting the voltage applied between the pixel electrode layers and the the counter electrode layers executes sensitivity control for each photosensitive layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state imaging element that allows the cell size to be reduced for increasing the number of pixels while preserving the conventional characteristic, and an imaging apparatus. SOLUTION: A CCD solid-state imaging element 10 having vertical transfer paths 14, which are formed every other column and therefore reduced in number to one-half of the conventional vertical transfer paths. The resulting idle regions are added to the photosensitive areas 16 of photosensitive cells 12 for thereby broadening the photosensitive areas 16, insuring sufficient signal charges even when the number of pixels is increased. Transfer gates 22 are arranged at a side with which the light emitting elements 12 respectively located to the left and the right of the remained vertical transfer path 14 and the vertical transmission path 14 are in contact, so that signal charges are vertically transferred without the mixture of colors by sharing the remained vertical transfer paths 14. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an endoscope apparatus wherein one solid image pickup device can photograph light in two or more specific wavelength ranges and the light in two or more specific wave length ranges with very different intensities can be acquired as images with appropriate brightness respectively and compounded to form an excellent image. SOLUTION: The endoscope 2 is equipped with a memory apparatus 20. The memory apparatus 20 is constituted of a CPU 21 and a nonvolatile memory 22. The accumulation time (electronic shutter speed) of 3 wavelengths R, G and B in a normal light mode time, and the accumulation time (electronic shutter speed) of 3 wavelengths Ex1, Ex2 and Ex3 in a special light mode (fluorescence observation) time are stored in the memory 22. A CCD driving means 31 drives the CCD 19 with the electronic shutter speed stored in the memory 22. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
摘要:
PURPOSE:To atain simultaneously color reproducibility with fidelity and an excellent luminance signal S/N by using an operating coefficient to obtain a signal for representing luminance suitable for forming a luminance signal and an operation coefficient to obtain the luminance signal suitable for forming a color signal. CONSTITUTION:Two sets of operating circuits 5, 6 converting an output signal of an image pickup element 1 into the luminance signal are provided. Further, the operating circuit 5 has the operating coefficient set in attaching importance to the S/N and its operation output signal Y1 is used for, for example, the luminance signal in the NTSC signal other than applications to form a color difference signal. Moreover, the operating circuit 6 has the operating coefficient set in attaching importance to the color reproducibility and its operating output signal Y2 is used for, for example, the forming of the color signal of the NTSC signal forming mainly the color difference signal.
摘要:
PURPOSE:To obtain a color picture having high picture quality with easy constitution by molulating optically bias light by means of an index oscillating output so as to extract an index control signal more stable than an output signal of photoelectric conversion and controlling the index oscillator by the index control signal. CONSTITUTION:The transparent electrodes of an image pickup tube target 14 are formed as single electrode structure by plural sets of paper-tablet formed elecrode pieces in matching with the period of a color stripe filter. The bias light 15 is modulated optically by an output of the index signal oscillator 20, a stable index control signal is extracted through a band pass filter 19 by using a photoelectric conversion output signal and this signal controls the frequency and phase of the index signal oscillator 20. Futher, a modulated chrominance signal is demodulated synchronizingly by using the index signal.
摘要:
PURPOSE:To obtain a color picture with high quality with simple constitution by utilizing bias light to extract a phase control signal from a couple of electrode signals, tuning the phase of an index signal normally by the phase control signal and demodulating synchronizingly a modulated chrominance signal by means of this index signal. CONSTITUTION:The transparent electrode of an image pickup tube target is formed as a couple of split electrode pieces 2A and 2B with every other transparent electrode and the number of sets of each color stripe filter corresponding to respective electrode pieces is arranged to be an integral multiple. The bias light is given and an output signal from a couple of the elecrode pieces 2A, 2B is added at an adder 39 to obtain a luminance signal and a modulated chrominance signal, and on the other hand, a signal for controlling index phase by subtracting the signal at a subtractor 40. An index signal oscillator 46 is controlled by this signal for controlling index phase and the output of the oscillator 46 is synchronized with the modulated chrominance signal for the purpose of the demodulation.
摘要:
PURPOSE:To obtain a stable picture without color offset by applying gain control to a signal from an image pickup tube to form a chrominance signal before said signal is split into each frequency band of a fundamental wave component and a modulating wave component. CONSTITUTION:A signal from the image pickup tube 1 is amplified at a preamplifier 2 and inputted to a signal input terminal to be controlled and a control input terminal of a low pass filter for a luminance signal 3 and a chrominance signal gain control circuit 16. The gain control circuit 16 is operated so as to decrease the gain when a signal level of the control signal input terminal a prescribed level or over, and the output is led to the low pass filter 4 for a green signal and a band pass filter 5. The signal is separated into a red and blue modulating waves at a color separation circuit 6 and the red and blue signals of the fundamental wave component are obtained through a red signal low pass filter 9 and a blue signal low pass filter 10. In making the sum of the transfer functions of the band pass filter 5 converted into the fundamental wave and of the filters 9, 10 to the transfer function of the low pass filter 4 equal to each other, the output pulse characteristic is made identical.