摘要:
A signal processing circuit is disclosed in which the DC level of a signal having constant signal value periods during each of non-inverting periods and inverting periods can be correctly adjusted. The circuit has first and second sample-and-hold sections which perform sample-and-hold operations on the signal value which occurs during the constant signal value periods of the non-inverting and inverting periods. An averaging section averages the sample-and-hold values of the sample-and-hold sections. A feedback section compares the output value of the averaging section with a reference value and, upon comparison, feeds back the resulting value to the signal processing section. Also disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus using the above-described signal processing circuit.
摘要:
There is provided an imaging device which eliminates complexity in reading an image in low resolution and reading an image in high resolution and realizes prevention of decrease in frame rate. The device includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixel elements and imaging an incident light of an object as an image and a reading unit for thinning out a pixel element from the pixel region to read a thinned out image in low resolution and reading a partial image in resolution higher than the thinned out image from a partial region of the pixel region (a horizontal shift register and a vertical shift register), wherein the reading unit reads the thinned out image and the partial image from mutually different pixel elements and reads the thinned out image and the partial image as different imaging frames.
摘要:
An image pickup system includes an image pickup element with an image pickup region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, and a controller configured to control reading of signals from the pixels. The controller divides a first frame period in which a first image is read from the image pickup element into a plurality of divided frame periods, including first and second divided frame periods. When the number of pixels included in the first image is larger than the number of pixels included in a second image, a second frame period required for reading all signals from the pixels included in the second image is inserted between the first and second divided frame periods. A refresh cycle of the second image is shorter than a refresh cycle of the first image.
摘要:
An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel array; a selection unit which selects a readout region in the pixel array; and a readout unit which reads out a signal from the readout region, wherein in thinning-out readout, the readout unit reads out signals from a first readout region corresponding to the whole pixel array at a first pixel density in a first frame period and reads out signals from a second readout region corresponding to a part of the pixel array at a second pixel density in a second frame period, the second pixel density being higher than the first pixel density, and in thinning-out readout, the selection unit causes pixels in the first readout region to perform a charge accumulation operation for a first accumulation period and causes pixels in the second readout region to perform the charge accumulation operation for a second accumulation period.
摘要:
The present invention provides high-accuracy image input capable of correcting for uneven lighting due to the shape of the subject, its reflectivity, its positioning and ambient light conditions, without increasing the scale of the circuitry or its costs. The image input apparatus of the present invention has an LED that projects light onto the subject, a sensor including a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally and that detects light reflected back from the subject, and a controller that changes the LED irradiation conditions in a cycle longer than that for a single screen.
摘要:
Image qualities of a full color image can be changed as needed by arranging two flat round color filter plates so as to overlap each other in part and so as to be selectively rotationally driven. Further, these color filter plates and are set so that the color characteristics thereof are mutually different from each other. White light from a lamp is injected into an overlapping portion A of these color filter plates, but this white light is converted into light of each single color as the color filter plate is rotationally driven, and this light irradiates an image display element. At the image display element, an image is switched or changed in synchronization with the irradiation of the light in single colors; therefore, the image is recognized as a color image and the colors of a plurality of color images are mixed to be seen and recognized as full color image. The image qualities of this image are switched or changed by means of changing the driven color filter plates.
摘要:
A display and its driving method is provided in which the image signal can be input into a panel having a smaller number of rows than the number of scan lines for the image signal, without producing image distortion. For example, a signal of the PAL system having more rows is displayed on a display for the NTSC having less rows. The signal control is made such that an image signal is written in two rows at every horizontal scan, except for a particular image signal, but the particular image signal is written in one row. Normally, the image signal for every horizontal scan is written in two rows, but only a particular image signal for every horizontal scan is compressed and displayed in one row. Accordingly, the vertical resolution is not degraded, unlike the scan for thinning out the image signal.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide an imaging system capable of improving S/N ratio and increasing dynamic range and a method of driving the imaging system suited to the improvement and increase. An imaging system includes: a solid-state imaging device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, column amplifiers each corresponding to each of columns of the pixels and an output portion for outputting an image signal based on an amplification by the column amplifier; and a signal processing portion receiving the image signal, wherein the column amplifier amplifies a signal output from the pixel by a gain q larger than 1, and the signal processing portion multiplies, by a factor less than 1, the image signal based on the signal amplified by the gain q.
摘要:
There is provided an imaging device which eliminates complexity in reading an image in low resolution and reading an image in high resolution and realizes prevention of decrease in frame rate. The device includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixel elements and imaging an incident light of an object as an image and a reading unit for thinning out a pixel element from the pixel region to read a thinned out image in low resolution and reading a partial image in resolution higher than the thinned out image from a partial region of the pixel region (a horizontal shift register and a vertical shift register), wherein the reading unit reads the thinned out image and the partial image from mutually different pixel elements and reads the thinned out image and the partial image as different imaging frames.
摘要:
Integers n and k are set to be equal to or greater than 1, and reading of signals from pixels is controlled as follows. In a first frame, signals are output from pixels in every (n+1)th row of the pixel array, and in a second frame following the first frame, signals are output from pixels that are different from the pixels from which the signals are output in the first frame and that are located in a first set of rows defined by selecting every (k+1)th row of the pixel array.