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| 20090128134 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT RESULT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - A semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus, and more particularly a technology for measuring and managing a physical amount of factors that exert an influence upon an operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit is provided; more particularly, a semiconductor integrated circuit that is an object of measurement, and a measurement circuit which measures a physical factor that exerts an influence upon the actual operation of the semiconductor integrated circuit, such as jitter or noise jitter, and noise of this semiconductor integrated circuit are provided on an identical chip; also, a measurement result of the measurement circuit of the present invention is analyzed, and is fed back to a circuit for adjusting the semiconductor integrated circuit that is the object of measurement. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090250777 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - In an upper waveguide structure ( | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100157094 | FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS, FOCUS DETECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - A focus detection apparatus includes an image sensor which includes a pair of pixel groups, outputs a first image signal from one of the pair of pixel groups, and outputs a second image signal from the other of the pair of pixel groups, where the pair of pixel groups receive luminous fluxes passing different pupil regions of an imaging optical system which forms an object image; a calculation unit which generates a first corrected image signal by subtracting the second image signal multiplied by a coefficient from the first image signal and generates a second corrected image signal by subtracting the first image signal multiplied by a coefficient from the second image signal; and a focus detection unit which detects a defocus amount based on a phase difference between the first corrected image signal and the second corrected image signal generated by the calculation unit. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110025904 | FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A focus detection device having imaging pixels and focus-detecting pixels using a phase-difference focus detection method implements high-precision focus detection. In the focus detection device, a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit for converting an incident light flux into signal charges, and a microlens having a focus position near the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged. The plurality of pixels include a plurality of imaging pixels for generating a shot image, and a plurality of focus-detecting pixels for generating an image signal for focus detection by the phase-difference focus detection method. An opening for giving a pupil division function to the focus-detecting pixel is formed using electrodes arranged to read out signal charges from the photoelectric conversion unit. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110169997 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING ELEMENT AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - An image sensor that output a signal for detecting a focus state of a photographing lens. The image sensor includes a microlens; a light-receiving pixel; a first focus state detection pixel pair for outputting a focus state detection signal, in which aperture areas of the first focus state detection pixel pair are small in comparison to the light-receiving pixel; and a second focus state detection pixel pair for outputting a focus state detection signal, in which aperture areas of the second focus state detection pixel pair are small in comparison to the light-receiving pixel, wherein the second focus state detection pixel pair is arranged at a position that is shifted by a predetermined amount relative to each aperture position, with respect to the microlens of the first focus state detection pixel pair. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110199506 | FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A focus detection apparatus includes an image sensor including pixels for focus detection for receiving a pair of respective light beams transmitted through different pupil areas of a photographing lens to output a pair of signals; an acquisition unit for acquiring exit window information on the photographing lens; an arithmetic circuit for calculating a tilt for detection area in the detecting position, depending on an image height for a detecting position in which a focus state is detected and on the exit window information; and a calculation unit for calculating the shape of the detection area depending on the calculated tilt, in which the defocus amount is detected on the basis of a phase difference between the pair of signals obtained from pixels for focus detection included in the calculated detection area. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110260781 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - The interposer is disposed on an upper surface of the stacked structure formed by stacking a plurality of a DRAM chip and a plurality of a flash memory chip. Thus down-size of an entire device is accomplished. A boost converter having an inductor is used as a voltage boost circuit. Thus down-size of the entire device is accomplished in comparison to a voltage boost circuit using a charge pump connected in parallel with a plurality of a capacitance. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110273602 | Optical Device and Signal Processor | 11-10-2011 |
