摘要:
A pixel area of a megapixel solid-state color imaging device is divided into unit areas for pixel adding and all the pixels for the same color are added together in each unit area. Accordingly, the percentage of utilized pixels is raised to 100% and aliasing noise to low frequencies in a high-frequency video signal is greatly suppressed by a spatial LPF (low pass filter) effect of the pixel addition in the area units.
摘要:
An imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion element, a readout transistor, an accumulated element, a detection transistor, and a reset transistor. The readout transistor reads a signal charge when a gate potential to be supplied to the gate terminal is changed from a first state to a second state. The detection transistor detects a voltage signal after the gate potential to be supplied to the gate terminal of the readout transistor is changed from the second state to the first state. A reset potential supplied from the reset transistor to the accumulated element has an intermediate potential between the gate potential in the first state that is supplied to the gate terminal of the readout transistor and a predetermined VDD potential.
摘要:
The solid-state image pickup element comprises a filter film made of a single-layer inorganic material which exhibits a maximum value at a specific wavelength on transmission spectra of incident light in accordance with a film thickness thereof, and a photoelectrical conversion part for generating a signal charge in accordance with light quantity of the incident light transmitted through the filter film. For the filter film, a number of the filter films of at least two kinds having different film thickness is provided, and a number of the filter films are arranged in parallel based on a prescribed arrangement. Image pickup signals outputted from the solid-state image pickup element are signal-processed by a signal processor. The signal processor generates at least one of the signals that correspond to a luminance signal, a color signal, a color difference signal, and light quantity of incident light by applying color conversion processing on the image pickup signal in accordance with the prescribed arrangement.
摘要:
A microcomputer outputs correction data. A shading correction circuit performs a shading correction to a digital image signal using the correction data outputted from the microcomputer. A YC processing circuit generates a video signal from the digital image signal having undergone the shading correction, performs processing such as a gamma correction to the generated video signal, and outputs the video signal having undergone the processing such as the gamma correction.
摘要:
A solid state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in the row direction and the column direction, and every two of the plurality of pixels that are adjacent to each other in the row direction or the column direction include color filters of different colors, respectively. A signal mixture circuit is provided in each same-row and same-color pixel group. Each said same-row and same-color pixel group consisting of ones of the plurality of pixels which are included in a pixel mixture unit to be a subject of pixel signal mixture, which are located in the same row, and which include color filters of the same color. The signal mixture circuit includes a combination of a capacitor and a transmission switch, stores pixel signals from pixels included in a same-row and same-color pixel group and mixes the signals together.
摘要:
A solid state imaging apparatus which includes a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction and every two vertically or horizontally adjacent ones of the plurality of pixels have color filters of different colors. In a predetermined period of time, charge signals received from ones of the plurality of pixels arranged in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction which include color filters of the same color (represented by circles) are sequentially output.
摘要:
The present invention provides a small, high-performance imaging device and its application to products at low cost by preventing noise superimposed on a timing pulse feed line from affecting the output of an imaging chip. The imaging device includes two chips: an imaging chip 101 including a sensor 102 and an image processing chip 106 including an image processing circuit 110. The transistors of all circuits in the imaging chip 101 are formed as either nMOS or pMOS transistors. The imaging chip 101 is stacked on the image processing chip 106.
摘要:
The present invention provides a solid-state image sensing device that can reduce at least the number of pixels arranged in the horizontal direction and can output high quality picture signals at high speed without generating moire or alias. The solid-state image sensing device includes vertical transfer parts 3 in which signal charges read out from photoelectric conversion parts 2 arranged bidimensionally are transferred in the vertical direction stage by stage, a horizontal transfer part 4 in which signal charges received from the vertical transfer parts 3 are transferred in the horizontal direction, and a control unit that controls transfer operations of the vertical transfer parts 3 and horizontal transfer part 4, wherein vertical last stages of the vertical transfer parts 3 have transfer electrodes formed to have identical configurations repeated every 2n+1 (n denotes an integer of 1 or higher) columns, and vertical last stages of columns other than one column among the 2n+1 columns or all vertical stages are provided with transfer electrodes that are independent of those of the other vertical last stages.
摘要:
A solid-state imaging element includes photoelectric conversion elements having a complementary or Bayer color filter array. The solid-state imaging element adds together electric charges stored in nine photoelectric conversion elements having color filters of one of multiple colors in each portion of six rows and six columns, to obtain a resulting electric charge, and outputs the resulting electric charge as one pixel. A portion for one of the colors deviates from a portion for each of the other colors by three rows and/or three columns. This pixel-addition operation produces an effect of a spatial low pass filter, thereby reducing signal components exceeding a Nyquist frequency corresponding to a target resolution. Consequently, aliasing noise in an image with the target resolution is reduced, and therefore higher image quality can be achieved, when compared with a conventional resolution reduction technique.
摘要:
The present invention provides a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera realizing a high-speed operation, all operable to output signal charges so as to maintain the light sensitivity and generate high-quality video signals free from moiréand aliased signals even if the number of pixels making up one frame of an image is reduced. The solid-state image sensor comprises a plurality of photoelectric converters, vertical transfer groups, and a horizontal transfer unit disposed at one side of the vertical transfer groups. Each vertical transfer group includes 2n+1 vertical transfer units, where n is an integer of 1 or more. Each vertical transfer unit includes a plurality of transfer electrodes arranged in columns and charge storage units receiving and storing charges from the photoelectric converters. In n out of the 2n+1 vertical transfer units, predetermined transfer electrodes disposed near the horizontal transfer unit are independent transfer electrodes.