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20090195675 | IMAGE-PICKUP DEVICE - The present invention relates to an image-pickup device capable of variable-frame rate image-pickup in which a frame rate is modified during image-pickup, and includes a switch | 08-06-2009 |
20090195683 | DRIVE UNIT FOR IMAGE SENSOR, AND DRIVE METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - A drive unit for an image sensor of the present invention comprises, for horizontal scanning, a drive section performing addition and readout of a first FD (floating diffusion) shared by two pixels of the same color that are adjacent in a diagonal direction by simultaneously transferring electrical charge of the two pixels of the same color, and for a second FD shared by two pixels of different colors that are adjacent in a diagonal direction, transferring and reading out electrical charge of a pixel of one color among the two pixels of different colors. | 08-06-2009 |
20100007784 | IMAGING APPARATUS - The imaging apparatus of the present invention is provided with an image-forming lens that images light from a photographic subject; an imaging part that accumulates a pixel signal that corresponds to an optical image formed by the image-forming lens, reads the pixel signal and outputs the pixel signal as an imaging signal; a lens magnification control part that controls a magnification of the image-forming lens; a read-out region control part that controls the size of a read-out region of the pixel signal; and a frame rate control part that controls a frame rate of the imaging signal. In the imaging apparatus of the present invention, the magnification of the image-forming lens, the size of the read-out region, and the frame rate are controlled so that an angle of view of an image based on the imaging signal is constant. | 01-14-2010 |
20100194922 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - The present invention is an image pickup apparatus provided with a pixel section in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion section and a signal storage section that temporarily stores a signal charge of the photoelectric conversion section are two-dimensionally arrayed, that resets the signal storage sections before exposing a still image and reads reset data used to remove reset noise of a still image, configured to divide the pixel section into a plurality of pixel groups and sequentially reset the signal storage sections of the respective pixel groups by a transistor, sequentially read reset signals by a selection transistor and cause the selection transistor to read one or more times an LV signal charge generated by exposure of a predetermined pixel group within a time segment during which the signal storage sections are sequentially reset before the signal storage sections of the predetermined pixel group are reset. | 08-05-2010 |
20110242368 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - This invention provides an image pickup apparatus that performs an image pickup operation that alternately repeats a long exposure LE and a short exposure SE. The image pickup apparatus drives an image pickup device in a first driving mode that makes a first time interval between an exposure end time of a pixel in an SE and an exposure start time of the pixel in an LE immediately thereafter and a second time interval between the exposure end time of the pixel in the LE and the exposure start time of the pixel in the SE immediately thereafter equal. | 10-06-2011 |
20130038757 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The invention provides an image pickup apparatus including: an image pickup device including a memory portion for analog storage and a pixel portion; a first read-out control and processing portions that, in a first frame-period, read out a first-image-signal from a first-pixel-region of the pixel portion, and in a second frame-period longer than the first frame-period, read out a second-image-signal from a second-pixel-region of the pixel portion including the first-pixel-region, and store the read-out signals in the memory portion; a second read-out control and processing portions that read out from a memory portion an AF image signal related to the first-image-signal and a display image signal related to the second-image-signal; a focal point detecting portion that carries out contrast focal point detection based on the AF image signal; and an image display portion that displays an image based on the display image signal. | 02-14-2013 |
20130057754 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus including a pixel section in which plural pixels are arrayed two-dimensionally, an exposure amount control section that determines an exposure amount and controls the pixel section to be continuously exposed plural times, a memory section that can store a pixel signal from the pixel section for plural frames of an output image, a vertical scanning circuit that reads out the pixel signal of the pixel section and stores the pixel signal in the memory section, and a column processing section that reads out the pixel signal stored in the memory section. The vertical scanning circuit sequentially reads out respective pixel signals related to the plural times of exposures and stores the pixel signals in the memory section | 03-07-2013 |
20140085512 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device having a pixel section with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels and a frame memory which temporarily stores, in an analog manner, analog image data read out from the pixel section and first to third readout control sections which perform first readout control that reads out image data of all pixels obtained through one exposure from the pixel section and stores the image data in the frame memory and perform second readout control that nondestructively reads out a piece of image data of a smaller number of pixels than all the pixels from the image data of all the pixels stored in the frame memory a plurality of times such that the piece of image data each has different object region size. | 03-27-2014 |
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20090286503 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A cellular phone, which can be applied to a mobile terminal of the present invention in emergency, has a main display and a control device. The cellular phone receives an emergency mail from the mobile terminal, and the main display displays the received emergency mail. The control device notifies that the emergency mail is received using a vibrator, a speaker, an light emitting device, and the like and executes a control such that it is notified that the emergency mail is received each preset and predetermined period of time during a period of time until a confirming operation to the emergency mail is executed. With this operation, convenience of the cellular phone is improved in emergency. | 11-19-2009 |
20100077054 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A controller of a mobile communication apparatus, such as a cellular phone, that determines whether a received email is urgent by comparing words and phrases contained in the received email with keywords and phrases in a database. The controller generates notice information, such as an icon, when the received email is determined to be urgent, so that a user can recognize that there is an email whose sender wants to contact the user. When the notice information is selected by manipulating a key input device, the controller makes a communication with the sender of the received email. | 03-25-2010 |
20100081480 | MOBILE APPARATUS, AND CALLING METHOD OF MOBILE APPARATUS - In an mobile apparatus, which has a transmission unit for transmitting contents including at least melody data to a communication terminal for reproducing the contents as an incoming melody and in which a user can find a file transfer state and the like from the sense of hearing without paying attention to a screen in such a manner that the progress of a file being transferred and a result of transfer of the file are indicated by the audio effect, the mobile apparatus has a first sounding unit for sounding sound effect while the contents are being transferred, a second sounding unit for sounding, when transmission of the contents is finished, sound effect indicating whether the transmission is succeeded or fails, and a calling unit for calling an opponent to which the contents are transmitted based on the completion of transmission of the contents. | 04-01-2010 |
20100161742 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus including: an input module configured to receive input of figures and/or characters; a communication module configured to send and receive an e-mail; a memory configured to store an e-mail created by using the input module; and a controller configured to read, from the memory, a first reply mail that is a reply mail to a first reception mail received by the communication module and to add the read-out first reply mail to a second reply mail in creating the second reply mail as a reply mail to a second reception mail that is received before sending the first reply mail, if a source address or a destination address of the first reception mail is included in a source address or a destination address of the second reception mail. | 06-24-2010 |