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20090174017 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF AS WELL AS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF - A solid-state image sensor and a method for manufacturing thereof and a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided. A semiconductor substrate is made to be the thin film without using an SOI substrate and cost is reduced. An edge detection portion having hardness larger than that of a semiconductor substrate is formed in the thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate; the semiconductor substrate is made to be the thin film until a position where the edge detection portion is exposed by chemical mechanical polishing from the rear surface; and means Tr | 07-09-2009 |
20090317935 | INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD, INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING ARRAY OF PLURALITY OF UNIT COMPONENTS FOR DETECTING PHYSICAL QUANTITY DISTRIBUTION, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device for detecting a physical amount distribution, the semiconductor device comprising unit components arrayed in a predetermined order, the unit components each including a unit signal generation portion for detecting an electromagnetic wave and outputting the corresponding unit signal. A diffraction grating is provided on the incident light side of a spectral image sensor, the diffraction grating including scatterers, slits, and scatterers disposed in that order. An electromagnetic wave is scattered by the scatterers to produce diffracted waves, and by using the fact that interference patterns between the diffracted waves change with wavelengths, signals are detected for respective wavelengths by photoelectric conversion elements in each photodiode group. | 12-24-2009 |
20100283873 | METHOD OF PROCESSING NOISE IN IMAGE DATA, NOISE REDUCTION UNIT, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A method of processing noise in image data by an image processor having a signal-processing portion converting an image signal from an image sensor into a digital signal and outputting the converted signal as image data for each frame, the image data indicating sets of pixel values each having a brightness at a corresponding one of coordinate points arranged in directions of rows and columns is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: extracting pixel values; deciding pixel value; finding autocorrelation coefficients of pixel values which are less than a first threshold value; and deciding random noise in the image. | 11-11-2010 |
20110025420 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A pre-amplifier (column region unit) of a solid-state imaging device including a pixel-signal controller. The pixel-signal controller, for each vertical signal line, detects the level of each pixel signal independently by a pixel-signal detector on the output side of a pixel-signal amplifier, and sets a gain independently to the pixel-signal amplifier according to the level of the signal. At a subsequent stage of the solid-state imaging device, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter and a signal extending unit are provided. The A/D converter digitizes a pixel signal, and the digitized pixel signal is corrected by a gain set to the pixel-signal amplifier with reference to a classification signal from the pixel-signal detector, so that the dynamic range of signals of one screen is extended. | 02-03-2011 |
20110134264 | Imaging element and camera system - An imaging element includes an amplifying transistor. A signal charge from the photodiode is transferable to the gate of amplifying transistor, the photodiode being within a semiconductor substrate. The source and drain of the amplifying transistor are electrically isolated from a semiconductor substrate, wherein the source is within a well or the source and drain are within a silicon-on-insulator layer. | 06-09-2011 |
20120104235 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A pre-amplifier (column region unit) of a solid-state imaging device including a pixel-signal controller. The pixel-signal controller, for each vertical signal line, detects the level of each pixel signal independently by a pixel-signal detector on the output side of a pixel-signal amplifier, and sets a gain independently to the pixel-signal amplifier according to the level of the signal. At a subsequent stage of the solid-state imaging device, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter and a signal extending unit are provided. The A/D converter digitizes a pixel signal, and the digitized pixel signal is corrected by a gain set to the pixel-signal amplifier with reference to a classification signal from the pixel-signal detector, so that the dynamic range of signals of one screen is extended. | 05-03-2012 |
20140160332 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A pixel includes an embedded photo diode (PD), an amplification transistor forming a source follower circuit having a gate for input and a source for output, and a transfer transistor that transfers a charge to the gate of the amplification transistor, the charge being photoelectrically converted by the PD. The amplification transistor is formed in a semiconductor substrate electrically isolated from a substrate on which the embedded PD and the transfer transistor are formed and the substrate of the amplification transistor is in a floating state. The reading unit includes a ΔΣ modulator that inputs/outputs the image signal per pixel unit and the output of the ΔΣ modulator is given, as feedback, to a capacitative unit functioning as a capacity to integrate the pixel. | 06-12-2014 |
20140211058 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Provided are an image pickup device and a camera system that are capable of performing high-precision image pickup with less noise both at low illuminance and high illuminance without increasing the speed of a sense circuit and power consumption. The image pickup device includes a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, each of the pixels including a photoelectric conversion device, a storage section, and an amplifier device configured to output an accumulated charge as an electrical signal, each of the pixels configured to output an electrical signal to an output signal line in response to photon incidence; and a sense circuit section including a sense circuit, the sense circuit configured to perform decision as to whether or not a photon is incident on the pixel in a predetermined period, in which the sense circuit includes an AD conversion device connected to the output signal line, the AD conversion device is allowed to operate by at least two modes, i.e., a one-bit output mode by binary decision and a gray-scale output mode by multi-bit resolution, and at least when the one-bit output mode is selected, the AD conversion device integrates output results from each of the pixels by a plurality of exposures to determine intensity of light incident on each of the pixels by calculation. | 07-31-2014 |
20140293107 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - Provided are an image pickup device and a camera system that are capable of detecting an extremely small signal from a pixel or one photon signal with low noise and high precision at high speed, and are capable of performing various kinds of high-performance shooting by increasing a frame rate with use of this. Each sense circuit includes a comparator configured to compare an output signal from a pixel with a reference signal, and when signal detection is performed, a charge allowing a first pixel signal output from a selected pixel to be cancelled out is held in one or both of input sections of the comparator, an independent offset bias for each comparator is applied to one of the input sections of the comparator to cancel out an offset of the comparator, and a digital decision on intensity of light incident on the pixel is performed by comparing a reference signal changing in steps with a second pixel signal output from the selected pixel. | 10-02-2014 |
20140332668 | IMAGING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PHOTOSTIMULATED LUMINESCENCE DETECTION SCANNER, AND IMAGING METHOD - An object is to improve accuracy of photon counting in an imaging apparatus. | 11-13-2014 |
20140375855 | IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND IMAGING METHOD - To improve the speed of AD conversion. An amplifier amplifies, by a magnification larger than 1, signals of a pixel that outputs a signal in which there is no accumulation of a charge by a photon as a reset signal, and outputs a signal in which there is accumulation of a charge by a photon as an accumulation signal. A calculation unit generates an offset amount signal corresponding to an amount of own offset component using the amplified signal, and calculates a digital value corresponding to the own offset component using the generated offset amount signal and accuracy set for AD conversion of the amplified accumulated signal. | 12-25-2014 |
20150021461 | IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided an image sensor including pixels each configured to include a transfer transistor configured as an embedded channel type MOS transistor and to output a pixel signal based on a charge transferred to a floating diffusion from a photodiode by the transfer transistor in an on state, and a determination unit configured to convert the output pixel signal to a digital value, then compare the converted digital value to a threshold value, and thereby make a binary determination on presence or absence of incidence of a photon on the pixel that has generated the pixel signal. | 01-22-2015 |
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20090267977 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING HEAD ADJUSTING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head having plural sub-heads, the sub-heads each including plural nozzles, each of the plural nozzles within a sub-head ejecting liquid droplets at the same time with respect to a medium on which an image is drawn, and the sub-heads being arranged in a width direction of the medium; a setting unit; and a rotation unit. The setting unit uses a timing when a predetermined sub-head of the plural sub-heads ejects liquid droplets as a reference to set timings when sub-heads other than the predetermined sub-head eject liquid droplets. The rotation unit uses a predetermined axis as a spindle to rotate and position the recording head in a plane parallel to a plane of the medium. | 10-29-2009 |
20090296170 | DRAWING DEVICE AND DRAWING METHOD - An image is highly accurately drawn by correcting an error due to waving or defective optical characteristics of a photosensitive material and by preventing an appearance of irregularity in the drawing caused by a defect in micromirrors. To achieve this, a part of the micromirrors constructing a DMD is adapted to serve as a use region and the remaining part as a non-use region, pixels are formed on a photosensitive material with the width of the DMD set narrower relative to a scan direction, and multiplex exposure using the micro mirrors is performed to form each of the pixels. | 12-03-2009 |
20100141732 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD - An object is to repress image degradation due to sensitivity unevenness and a change of sensitivity of a recording medium. Laser light emitted from a plurality of laser light sources are combined, the combined laser light is irradiated to the recording medium including a photosensitive layer and a light-transmitting layer provided over the photosensitive layer, and wavelengths of the laser light emitted from the plurality of laser light sources are determined so as to be distributed within a predetermined wavelength range which is greater than or equal to a resonance minimum wavelength range between a first wavelength wherein light transmittance thereof through the light-transmitting layer is maximized and a second wavelength wherein the light transmittance thereof through the light-transmitting layer is minimized and a different between the first and second wavelengths is minimized. | 06-10-2010 |
20100245423 | DROPLET EJECTING HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - There is provided a droplet ejecting head in which plural ejecting openings, that eject droplets onto a recording medium that is conveyed by a conveying unit that conveys the recording medium, are provided so as to be lined-up in a conveying direction of the recording medium onto which the droplets are ejected, and in an cross-conveying direction that crosses the conveying direction. The respective ejecting openings are arranged so as to become distances that are determined in accordance with timings at which the respective ejecting openings eject the droplets, an ejecting speed of the droplets, a conveying speed of the recording medium, and a radius of the drum, such that positions, in the conveying direction of the recording medium, at which the droplets ejected from the ejecting openings land, substantially coincide at all of the ejecting openings. | 09-30-2010 |
20120076951 | BLACK INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A black ink composition includes: carbon black and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the carbon black; a cyan pigment and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the cyan pigment; a magenta pigment and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the magenta pigment; water-insoluble resin particle; and water, wherein a content ratio of the carbon black is from 1.0 to 2.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the composition, and a total amount of pigments is from 1.8 to 3.5% by mass with respect to the total mass of the composition. The black ink composition can be used in an ink set and an image forming method. | 03-29-2012 |
20150062238 | BLACK INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A black ink composition includes: carbon black and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the carbon black; a cyan pigment and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the cyan pigment; a magenta pigment and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the magenta pigment; water-insoluble resin particle; and water, wherein a content ratio of the carbon black is from 1.0 to 2.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the composition, and a total amount of pigments is from 1.8 to 3.5% by mass with respect to the total mass of the composition. The black ink composition can be used in an ink set and an image forming method. | 03-05-2015 |
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20090288728 | Multi-layer tube - A multi-layer tube of thermoplastic resin exhibiting barrier capacity, flexibility, transparency, kink resistance and chemical resistance especially used to transport and supply various types of liquids, which multi-layer tube realizes high steam barrier performance and excels co-extrusion forming performance. There is provided a multi-layer tube comprising at least a flexible elastomer layer, a fluoro resin layer excelling in steam barrier performance and chemical stability and an adhesive resin layer disposed for bonding the layers. This multi-layer tube can find application in medical use including fluid infusion or blood transfusion tubes, use in automobile including cleaning liquid or fuel liquid tubes and use in machine instruments including ink supply tubes of printer units provided in printer, various measuring equipments and observation equipments, etc. | 11-26-2009 |
20100086755 | OXYGEN BARRIER MULTILAYER STRUCTURE, AND MULTILAYER PACKAGING MATERIAL AND MULTILAYER CONTAINER USING SAME - An oxygen barrier multilayer material for containers is developed that selectively shields oxygen from the outside and also shields volatile substances by-produced by oxidation reaction. Provided are a selective oxygen absorbent multilayer structure produced by co-extrusion having an oxygen absorbing layer containing an oxygen absorbing resin composition, an inner barrier layer (A) and an outer barrier layer (C) arranged inside and outside the oxygen absorbing layer, in which the oxygen transmission rate of the outer barrier layer (C) is smaller than the oxygen transmission rate of the inner barrier layer (A), and a multilayer packaging material and a multilayer container, using the selective oxygen absorbent multilayer structure. | 04-08-2010 |
20110048571 | BLOW-MOLDED FOAM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the invention is to provide a blow-molded foam which has homogeneous foamed cells in size, is light in weight, and is excellent in surface smoothness, and a process for producing the same. The invention is directed to a blow-molded foam 1 having a wall portion formed in such a manner that a thermoplastic resin containing a foaming agent mixed therewith is subjected to blow molding. Herein, the wall portion has a closed cell structure in which a plurality of foamed cells are contained. The wall portion has an expansion ratio of not less than 2.0 times. The wall portion has an outer face having a center-line average surface roughness Ra of less than 9.0 μm. The foamed cell has a cell diameter having a standard deviation of less than 40 μm in a thickness direction of the wall portion. | 03-03-2011 |
20110104414 | METHOD FOR MOLDING MOLDED FOAM, AND MOLDED FOAM - The invention provides a molded foam molding method capable of obtaining a molded foam in which pinholes may not be formed with ease even when a blow ratio is high and which has a high expansion ratio. The invention also provides a molded foam which includes no pinholes, is reduced in weight, and is excellent in heat insulating property. The molding method includes blending a polypropylene-based resin having an equilibrium compliance from 2.0 to 6.0 (10 | 05-05-2011 |
20110127688 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLDED FOAM - A method for manufacturing molded foam which uses cheap materials, is light in weight and which is excellent in impact resistance. In the method for manufacturing molded foam, propylene homopolymer with a long chain branch, propylene ethylene block copolymer and low density polyethylene are mixed in the base resin at a prescribed mixing ratio. A blowing agent is added to carry outfoaming. A prescribed mixing ratio is determined based on the value arrived at by a multiplying melt tension of each material mixed with the melt flow rate and the Tensile Rupture Elongation. | 06-02-2011 |
20110262736 | SKINNED PANEL AND METHOD OF MOLDING THEREOF - A skinned panel for stably molding a thin skin material and a molding method thereof. An extruding device is configured to extrude a pair of multilayered resin sheets, each of which has a lamination structure of an inner layer made of a foamed resin and an outer layer made of a non-foamed resin that is changed into a skin material of a sandwich panel as a skinned panel. The pair of the resin sheets is abutted to the circumferential part of the pair of the split molds for producing sealed spaces. The sealed spaces are sucked for pressing the pair of the resin sheets onto cavities of the pair of the split molds. Accordingly, the pair of the resin sheets is formed in a shape substantially identical to the outline of the sandwich panel. | 10-27-2011 |
20110303355 | RESIN LAMINATE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a resin laminate IOU, the method being capable of achieving satisfactory reduction in weight and wall thickness while ensuring manufacture efficiency and product quality. To accomplish the object, a resin laminate manufacturing method includes a step of providing a pair of split mold blocks one of which has a cavity provided with a plurality of protrusions each extending toward the other one, and preparing two molten thermoplastic resin sheets each having a thickness adjusted, a step of feeding the two molten thermoplastic resin sheets between the pair of split mold blocks with a predetermined gap left therebetween such that each thermoplastic resin sheet protrudes around annular pinch-off parts, a step of forming a hermetic space between one of the sheets and the cavity of the one mold block opposed to an outer surface of the one sheet, a step of sucking air in the hermetic space from the one mold block side, pressing the outer surface of the one sheet against the cavity of the one mold block to shape the one sheet, and forming cup-shaped portions, and a step of clamping the pair of mold blocks, welding peripheral edges of the two molten thermoplastic resin sheets to each other, and welding the bottoms of the cup-shaped portions formed on the one sheet to an inner surface of the other sheet. According to this method, in the resin laminate thus manufactured, the two sheets are substantially equal in thickness to each other. | 12-15-2011 |
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20110134742 | PICKUP APPARATUS, OPTICAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - A pickup apparatus includes a light source; a light separator; an object lens that concentrates the light which penetrated the light separator on the optical recording medium; a movable lens; and a light sensing element that receives the reflected light from the optical recording medium separated by the light separator, wherein a coma aberration generated by the transverse shift of the object lens is corrected by a coma aberration which is generated by the deviation of a spherical aberration generated in an optical path from the light source to the object lens and a spherical aberration generated in an optical path from the object lens to a light concentration position on the optical recording medium which are due to the transverse shift. | 06-09-2011 |
20120069722 | REPRODUCING DEVICE AND OPTICAL PATH LENGTH SERVO CONTROL METHOD - A reproducing device includes a homodyne detection part that carries out homodyne detection by using reflected light of first light obtained from a recording layer as signal light and using reflected light of second light by a mirror as reference light, a signal reproducing part that obtains a reproduced signal based on the signal light, based on a result of homodyne detection, and a one-axis actuator that drives the mirror. The reproducing device further includes an optical path length servo control part that carries out driving control of the one-axis actuator in such a manner that the optical path length difference between the signal light and the reference light is kept constant, and an offset giving part that gives an offset that reduces or enlarges the amplitude difference of the reproduced signal of marks that are recorded in the recording layer and have sizes different from each other. | 03-22-2012 |
20120127848 | RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF INITIALIZING THE SAME, INITIALIZING DEVICE, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - There is provided a method of initializing a recording medium having a first surface and a second surface which face to each other with a recording layer in between. The method includes forming interference patterns to have a pitch wider than λr/2N by applying initializing light of a plane wave with a wavelength λf to the recording layer from both of the first surface side and the second surface side, where λr is a wavelength of reproducing light applied to the recording layer at the time of reproducing recorded information, and N is an average refractive index of the recording layer. | 05-24-2012 |
20120188864 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording medium includes a photosensitive layer, a nonphotosensitive layer, and a recording layer formation region in which the photosensitive layer and the nonphotosensitive layer are laminated. The photosensitive layer includes a recording layer in which interference fringes formed in parallel with a recording medium surface are deleted or changed within a portion irradiated with focused light to record information or light reflected during irradiation of focused light is used to reproduce information. | 07-26-2012 |
20140044940 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical recording medium includes a first transparent film layer, a second transparent film layer, and a recording material layer sandwiched between the first transparent film layer and the second transparent film layer. The recording material layer includes a hologram recording material. | 02-13-2014 |