20140354846 | VISIBLE LIGHT RECEIVING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A visible light is photographed through an optical diffusion filter with a camera of a portable terminal. The camera includes a pixel amplifier sequential output type imaging element in which electric charges generated in respective pixels are amplified by respective pixel amplifiers, to output imaging signals in sequence from the respective pixel amplifiers. A striped pattern based on an information signal is generated in the column direction or row direction in the imaging element, in a photographed optically-diffused image. The information signal is extracted to be demodulated on the basis of a state of generation of the striped pattern. | 12-04-2014 |