Image sensors and color filter arrays for charge summing and interlaced readout modes
    62.
    发明授权
    Image sensors and color filter arrays for charge summing and interlaced readout modes 有权
    用于电荷求和和隔行扫描模式的图像传感器和滤色器阵列

    公开(公告)号:US08350940B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-01-08

    申请号:US12480659

    申请日:2009-06-08

    申请人: Scott Smith John Ladd

    发明人: Scott Smith John Ladd

    IPC分类号: H04N5/335

    CPC分类号: H04N9/045 H04N5/335 H04N5/347

    摘要: Image sensors and color filter arrays for in-pixel charge summing and interlaced readout modes may be provided. An image sensor that supports charge summing and interlaced readout modes may include an array of pixels with pairs of adjacent green, red, and blue light-sensitive pixels. An image sensor may implement an in-pixel charge summing readout mode in which charges from pairs of pixels are summed onto a common node and then read out from the common node. An image sensor may implement an interlaced readout mode in which image data is read out from alternating rows of the image sensor. An image sensor may use a shared readout scheme in which a group of four pixels is formed from two pairs of commonly-colored pixels. The four pixels may share circuitry such as a reset transistor, a buffer transistor, and a row select transistor and may connect to a single readout line.

    摘要翻译: 可以提供用于像素内电荷求和和隔行读出模式的图像传感器和滤色器阵列。 支持电荷求和和隔行读出模式的图像传感器可以包括具有相邻绿色,红色和蓝色感光像素对的像素阵列。 图像传感器可以实现像素内电荷求和读出模式,其中来自成对的像素的电荷被合并到公共节点上,然后从公共节点读出。 图像传感器可以实现隔行读出模式,其中从图像传感器的交替行读出图像数据。 图像传感器可以使用共享读出方案,其中由两对共同着色的像素形成一组四个像素。 四个像素可以共享诸如复位晶体管,缓冲晶体管和行选择晶体管的电路,并且可以连接到单个读出线。

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLAX CORRECTION IN FUSED ARRAY IMAGING SYSTEMS
    64.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLAX CORRECTION IN FUSED ARRAY IMAGING SYSTEMS 有权
    融合阵列成像系统中PARALLAX校正的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120188389A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-26

    申请号:US13110252

    申请日:2011-05-18

    IPC分类号: H04N5/225

    摘要: Electronic devices may include camera modules. A camera module may include an array camera having an array of lenses and an array of corresponding image sensors. Parallax correction and depth mapping methods may be provided for array cameras. A parallax correction method may include a global and a local parallax correction. A global parallax correction may be determined based on one-dimensional horizontal and vertical projections of edge images. Local parallax corrections may be determined using a block matching procedure. Further improvements to local parallax corrections may be generated using a relative block color saturation test, a smoothing of parallax correction vectors and, if desired, using a cross-check between parallax correction vectors determined for multiple image sensors. Three dimensional depth maps may be generated based on parallax correction vectors.

    摘要翻译: 电子设备可以包括相机模块。 相机模块可以包括具有透镜阵列和相应图像传感器阵列的阵列相机。 可以为阵列相机提供视差校正和深度映射方法。 视差校正方法可以包括全局和局部视差校正。 可以基于边缘图像的一维水平和垂直投影来确定全局视差校正。 可以使用块匹配过程来确定局部视差校正。 可以使用相对块颜色饱和度测试,视差校正向量的平滑以及如果需要使用为多个图像传感器确定的视差校正矢量之间的交叉检查来产生对局部视差校正的进一步改进。 可以基于视差校正矢量生成三维深度图。

    Minimally Invasive Access for Renal Nerve Ablation
    65.
    发明申请
    Minimally Invasive Access for Renal Nerve Ablation 有权
    微创获取肾神经消融

    公开(公告)号:US20120123303A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-17

    申请号:US13243134

    申请日:2011-09-23

    摘要: An elongated flexible medical device is inserted into a patient's body via a natural orifice, and advanced through the natural orifice to a location proximate innervated tissue that influences renal sympathetic nerve activity. The medical device can be advanced into a body organ and to a location within the organ proximate the innervated tissue. The organ may comprise an organ of the gastrointestinal tract or urinary tract. The medical device may be advanced through and beyond an access hole in a wall of the organ, and situated at a location proximate the innervated tissue. One or both of imaging and ablation energy is delivered from a distal end of the medical device to the innervated tissue. Innervated renal tissue can be ablated using various forms of energy, including RF energy, ultrasound energy, optical energy, and thermal energy.

    摘要翻译: 细长的柔性医疗装置通过自然孔插入患者体内,并通过自然孔推进到影响肾交感神经活动的靠近神经组织的位置。 医疗装置可以进入身体器官和靠近神经组织的器官内的位置。 器官可以包括胃肠道或泌尿道的器官。 医疗装置可以前进穿过器官壁中的进入孔并且位于邻近神经组织的位置处。 成像和消融能量中的一个或两个从医疗装置的远端传送到神经组织。 可以使用各种形式的能量消融内源性肾组织,包括射频能量,超声能量,光能和热能。

    PRECISION ELECTRODE MOVEMENT CONTROL FOR RENAL NERVE ABLATION
    66.
    发明申请
    PRECISION ELECTRODE MOVEMENT CONTROL FOR RENAL NERVE ABLATION 有权
    精神电极运动控制用于神经退行性疾病

    公开(公告)号:US20120029513A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-02-02

    申请号:US13194920

    申请日:2011-07-30

    IPC分类号: A61B18/14

    摘要: A catheter is configured to access a renal artery. A lumen of the catheter's shaft is dimensioned to receive a flexible actuation member which extends between the shaft's proximal and distal ends. The actuation member is moveable within the lumen and subject to elastic deformation, friction, and/or whip along its length. A flexible support member is coupled to a distal end of the actuation member and extendible beyond a distal tip of the shaft. An RF ablation electrode at a distal end of the support member is configured to ablated perivascular renal nerve tissue. A position converter at the distal end of the shaft is configured to convert movement of the actuation member into one or both of controlled rotational and axial movement of the support member and electrode to one of a multiplicity of stable circumferential positions substantially free of elastic deformation, friction, and/or whip impacting actuation member movement.

    摘要翻译: 导管配置成进入肾动脉。 导管轴的内腔的尺寸被设计成容纳在轴的近端和远端之间延伸的柔性致动构件。 致动构件可在内腔内移动并且沿其长度受到弹性变形,摩擦和/或鞭状。 柔性支撑构件联接到致动构件的远端并且可延伸超过轴的远侧末端。 在支撑构件的远端处的RF消融电极被配置为消融血管周围肾神经组织。 在轴的远端处的位置转换器被配置为将致动构件的运动转换成支撑构件和电极的受控旋转和轴向运动到基本上没有弹性变形的多个稳定的圆周位置中的一个或两个, 摩擦和/或搅动撞击致动构件运动。

    Spiral Balloon Catheter for Renal Nerve Ablation
    67.
    发明申请
    Spiral Balloon Catheter for Renal Nerve Ablation 有权
    螺旋气囊导管用于肾神经消融

    公开(公告)号:US20120029509A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-02-02

    申请号:US13184673

    申请日:2011-07-18

    申请人: Scott Smith

    发明人: Scott Smith

    IPC分类号: A61B18/14

    摘要: A catheter comprises a flexible shaft having a length for accessing the renal artery. A balloon arrangement, dimensioned for deployment within the renal artery, is provided at the shaft's distal end and fluidly coupled to a lumen arrangement. A balloon body is configured to complete at least one revolution of the shaft's distal end to form a spiral configuration thereabout, and is secured to the shaft by one or more movable mounting arrangements. The balloon body supports an electrode arrangement for ablating perivascular renal nerves in a substantially spiral pattern. A cooling arrangement cools at least the electrode contact regions during ablation. The distal end of the shaft has a stiffness sufficient to oppose a force produced by the balloon body when inflated that tends to contort the shaft's distal end and to maintain a substantially constant apposition force between the electrodes and an inner wall of the renal artery.

    摘要翻译: 导管包括具有用于进入肾动脉的长度的柔性轴。 尺寸适合部署在肾动脉内的球囊装置设置在轴的远端并且流体地联接到管腔装置。 气球体构造成完成轴的远端的至少一圈,以在其周围形成螺旋形结构,并通过一个或多个可移动的安装装置固定到轴上。 气囊体支撑用于以大致螺旋图案消融血管周围肾神经的电极装置。 冷却装置在消融期间至少冷却电极接触区域。 轴的远端具有足够的刚度,该刚度足以抵抗气囊体在充气时产生的力,倾向于扭曲轴的远端并且保持电极与肾动脉的内壁之间基本上恒定的配合力。