摘要:
In order to reduce overhead of a CPU, a relay apparatus for relaying communication from a CPU to a peripheral device includes communication information holding sections for holding information required for communication with the peripheral devices inside the relay apparatus; and command holding sections, which are provided adjacent to the communication information holding section, for holding commands used to communicate desired information inside the communication information holding section to the peripheral device. The CPU writes desired information in the communication information holding section and the command holding section inside the relay apparatus by burst-mode communication, and the relay apparatus performs communication with the peripheral devices in accordance with instructions from the command holding section after the writing of the desired information in the communication holding section and the command holding section is completed.
摘要:
An image capturing system includes a signal correction unit which corrects a signal output from a defective pixel in an optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel. The optical black region has a plurality of pixel blocks. Each of the plurality of pixel blocks has a plurality of pixels each including one or more elements which have the same functions as in the remaining pixels and which have relative positions different from the remaining pixels. The signal correction unit corrects the signal output from the defective pixel in the optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel which is included in another pixel block different from the pixel block of the defective pixel in the optical black region and includes one or more elements having the same functions and same relative positions as in the defective pixel.
摘要:
An image capturing system includes a signal correction unit which corrects a signal output from a defective pixel in an optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel. The optical black region has a plurality of pixel blocks. Each of the plurality of pixel blocks has a plurality of pixels each including one or more elements which have the same functions as in the remaining pixels and which have relative positions different from the remaining pixels. The signal correction unit corrects the signal output from the defective pixel in the optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel which is included in another pixel block different from the pixel block of the defective pixel in the optical black region and includes one or more elements having the same functions and same relative positions as in the defective pixel.
摘要:
An image capturing system includes a signal correction unit which corrects a signal output from a defective pixel in an optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel. The optical black region has a plurality of pixel blocks. Each of the plurality of pixel blocks has a plurality of pixels each including one or more elements which have the same functions as in the remaining pixels and which have relative positions different from the remaining pixels. The signal correction unit corrects the signal output from the defective pixel in the optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel which is included in another pixel block different from the pixel block of the defective pixel in the optical black region and includes one or more elements having the same functions and same relative positions as in the defective pixel.
摘要:
An image capturing system includes a signal correction unit which corrects a signal output from a defective pixel in an optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel. The optical black region has a plurality of pixel blocks. Each of the plurality of pixel blocks has a plurality of pixels each including one or more elements which have the same functions as in the remaining pixels and which have relative positions different from the remaining pixels. The signal correction unit corrects the signal output from the defective pixel in the optical black region based on a signal output from a normal pixel which is included in another pixel block different from the pixel block of the defective pixel in the optical black region and includes one or more elements having the same functions and same relative positions as in the defective pixel.
摘要:
A driving method of an imaging apparatus comprises: horizontally transferring, by a horizontal scanning circuit, a signal based on a photoelectric conversion portion of a first pixel unit held in a signal holding capacitor to a common line; before ending of the horizontal transfer; applying, by a reset switch of a second pixel unit, a selection reset voltage to a floating diffusion region of the second pixel unit; and after the horizontal transfer, transferring, by a transfer switch of the second pixel unit, a signal of a photoelectric conversion portion of the second pixel unit to the floating diffusion region of the second pixel unit and amplifying, by an amplification transistor of the second pixel unit, a signal of the floating diffusion region of the second pixel unit to output the signal to an output line.
摘要:
The method for the formation of a silicide film herein provided comprises the steps of forming an Ni film on the surface of a substrate mainly composed of Si and then heat-treating the resulting Ni film to thus form an NiSi film as an upper layer of the substrate, wherein, prior to the heat-treatment for the formation of the NiSi film, the Ni film is subjected to a preannealing treatment using H2 gas at a temperature which is less than the heat-treatment temperature and which never causes the formation of any NiSi film in order to remove any impurity present in the Ni film, and the resulting Ni film is then subjected to a silicide-annealing treatment to thus form the NiSi film.
摘要:
In a solid-state imaging apparatus, if the total read out time of all pixels is shortened when effective pixels are thinned out without thinning out OB pixels, then the rows have different reset time periods, and the problem of uneven charge accumulation time periods arises. An improvement by the present invention is that, if no signals are read out from a part of the rows in an effective pixel region to skip the rows, then the time period in which the rows to be skipped are selected is made shorter than that in which the rows from which signals are read out are selected, and the pixels in the optical black pixel region and those in the effective pixel region are driven by the drive pulses of patterns different from each other.
摘要:
A method and a device for recovering hydrogen pulverized powder of a raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets capable of lowering a possibility that hydrogen pulverized powder after hydrogen was pulverized remains in a recovery chamber and capable of enhancing magnetic properties by reducing an amount of oxygen of an obtained rare-earth magnet, a processing container 50 is carried into a recovery chamber 40 from a processing chamber through a carry-in port after inert gas was introduced into the recovery chamber 40 by inert gas introducing means 12, the raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets in the processing container 50 is discharged into the recovery chamber 40 after the pressure in the recovery chamber 40 was reduced by evacuating means 33 and thereafter, inert gas is introduced into the recovery chamber 40 by inert gas introducing means 12, and the raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets is recovered into the recovery container 50 from an discharge port 40a after a pressure in the recovery chamber 40 was set to a predetermined pressure by inert gas.
摘要:
If a horizontal skipping operation is performed and operations are performed on the basis of the signals severally held in a plurality of register circuits in a solid-state imaging apparatus including an AD converting circuit in each column to perform the arithmetic processing of a digitized signal, then the AD converters and the register circuits in the columns to be skipped, that is, not to be read out become the state of not participating in the operations, and there is room for an examination in the aspect of the utilization efficiency of the circuits. A unit for connecting a register circuit in a certain column to a register circuit in another column is provided to the solid-state imaging apparatus.