Sony Corporation

Nec Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Ichiro Murakami

Yasutaka Nakashiba

Norimasa Furukawa

Toru Nishi

Shinichiro Miyazaki

Takashi Sato

Masayuki Furumiya

Mitsuyasu Asano

Akira Ebisui

Hiroshi Murayama

Keisuke Hatano

Nobukazu Teranishi

Shinichi Kawai

Takao Tamura

Chihiro Ogawa

Yasuaki Hokari

Tetsuji Inada

Nobuhiko Mutoh

Yoshihiro Katsu

Michihiro Morimoto

Kouichi Arai

Kozo Orihara

Naoki Ikawa

Shinobu Suwazono

Hiroaki Utsumi

A display unit includes: an image display panel; a backlight section disposed on a back surface of the image display panel, and including a light guide member and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel; a light source emitting light, the light being allowed to enter the light guide member of the backlight section; a polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel drive section driving the polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel of the backlight section in synchronization with writing of an image displayed on the image display panel to control a location that scatters light incident on the light guide member on the polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel; and a light source drive section allowing the light source to blink in synchronization with a period in which light is scattered by the polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel.

Display unit, displaying method, and recording medium

A light source unit is used in a multiply combined manner, and includes a light source element having a substrate and one or more light emitting elements disposed on the substrate. The light source unit is configured such that when a plurality of the light source units are arranged in cascade, the light source element in the light source unit comes to in electric connection with another light source element in an adjacent light source unit. Thereby, the plurality of light source units may emit light at the same time. Thus, the structure similar to rod-shaped light source such as CCFL is achieved.

Light source unit, light source device, and display apparatus

The present invention provides an image display apparatus capable of reducing a judder and simultaneously weakening the degree of reducing the judder at the time of converting frame rate of a film signal using motion compensation. At the time of converting frame rate of a video signal by adding N (N: integer of 2 or larger) interpolation frames into between original frames neighboring each other along time base obtained from video images in original frames by using motion compensation so that interpolation positions of the video images in the N interpolation frames are set to a deviated position which is closer to the nearest video image in the original frames rather than positions obtained by equally dividing, into (N+1) portions, magnitude of video image motion between an earlier original frame and a following original frame along the time base.

Image display apparatus, video signal processor, and video signal processing method

A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate having a principal surface, and three or more pixel regions formed in at least one direction of two different directions along the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. Each pixel region includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions having different sensitivities. The photoelectric conversion region having the highest sensitivity in peripheral pixel regions of the pixel regions has a higher sensitivity than the photoelectric conversion region having the highest sensitivity in a central pixel region of the pixel regions.

Solid-state imaging device and signal processing circuit

The present invention provides an image display apparatus capable of reducing a hold blur in accordance with circumstances. A black inserting process for inserting a black display area into a display screen in a liquid crystal display panelaccording to at least one of substance of a video signal in an original frame and brightness of viewing environment for user is performed. Concretely, for example, when a video signal in the original frame is a cinema signal (film signal), the black inserting process of inserting a black display area into the display screen in the liquid crystal display panelis performed. More concretely, for example, a backlight driving unitperforms switching drive between turn-on and turn-off of a backlightso that the black inserting process is performed on the display screen in the liquid crystal display panel

Image display apparatus

A display apparatus includes a display section, a backlight, and a drive section. The display section is formed from a liquid crystal display apparatus of the transmission type having a display area formed from pixels arranged in a matrix. The backlight is formed from a plurality of light source units disposed individually corresponding to a plurality of display area units which form the display area and configured to illuminate the back side of the display section. The drive section is configured to drive the display section and the backlight based on input signals from the outside. The drive section includes a control section configured to control a light emitting state of the light source unit corresponding to each of the display area units based on a display area unit internal maximum input signal which indicates a maximum value from among the input signals corresponding to the display area unit.

Display apparatus and driving method therefor

The present invention provides an image display apparatus capable of suppressing deterioration in picture quality resulting from precision of detection of a motion vector at the time of performing a predetermined video signal process to improve picture quality. In consideration of reliability in detection of a motion vector mv by a motion vector detector, a video signal process in an interpolation section, an imaging blur suppression processor, and an overdrive processoris performed. Concretely, the video signal process is performed so that a degree of the video signal process rises as reliability increases and, on the other hand, a degree of the video signal process falls off as the reliability decreases. In the case of performing the video signal process using a motion vector, even when a motion vector lies out of a motion vector search range (block matching range), the video signal process according to the motion vector detection precision can be performed.

A photo-electric converting apparatushas an arrangement in which a photo-electric converting apparatusis formed on the surface of a substrate, an insulating filmis formed on the substrate, an uneven portionhaving concavities and convexities in the thickness direction of the substrateis formed on at least a part of the interface between the substrateof the photo-electric converting portion and the insulating filmand a recombination regionfor decreasing a dark current is formed so as to contain the uneven portionwithin the photo-electric converting portion. This photo-electric converting apparatus becomes able to obtain a high sensitivity characteristic and to suppress a dark current from being increased by a decrease of the interface states.

Photo-electric converting device and its driving method, and its manufacturing method, solid-state image pickup device and its driving method and its manufacturing method

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion photodiodes provided on a silicon substrate, and a refractive index matching film provided on each of the photodiodes. The refractive index matching film is composed of an insulating compound layer represented by SiON(0&#x2266;x and y) assuming that the molar ratio of silicon, oxygen and nitrogen of the compound layer is 1:x:y. The oxygen content of the compound layer is the lowest at the silicon interface with each photodiode and the highest in an upper portion of the compound layer, and the nitrogen content is the highest at the silicon interface with each photodiode and the lowest in the upper portion of the compound layer. Therefore, multiple reflection can be decreased to improve light receiving sensitivity, as compared with a case in which a SiN single layer and a SiOsingle layer are laminated.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor imaging device having a refractive index matching layer

A frame transfer-type solid imaging device is provided, which can be operated without reducing the transfer efficiency or the transfer charge quantity. A plurality of N-type regionsconstituting photoelectric conversion regions and a plurality of P-type regionsconstituting channel stop regions are formed on a P-type silicon substrate, and a transparent electrodeis further formed through an insulating filmon the substrate. The thickness of the transparent electrode at a portion above the photoelectric conversion region is made thinner than the thickness of the other part of the transparent electrode, and an antireflection filmis formed above the photoelectric conversion region

Method of manufacturing a solid-state imaging device

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion photodiodes provided on a silicon substrate, and a refractive index matching film provided on each of the photodiodes. The refractive index matching film is composed of an insulating compound layer represented by SiO N (0&lE;x and y) assuming that the molar ratio of silicon, oxygen and nitrogen of the compound layer is 1:x:y. The oxygen content of the compound layer is the lowest at the silicon interface with each photodiode and the highest in an upper portion of the compound layer, and the nitrogen content is the highest at the silicon interface with each photodiode and the lowest in the upper portion of the compound layer. Therefore, multiple reflection can be decreased to improve light receiving sensitivity, as compared with a case in which a SiN single layer and a SiO single layer are laminated.

Semiconductor imaging device having a refractive index matching layer

The present invention provides a method of forming micro lenses over a base structure of a solid state image pick-up device. The method comprises the steps of: forming a light-transmitting material layer on the base structure; and pushing a die having a die pattern against the light-transmitting material layer to transfer the die pattern of the die to the light-transmitting material layer, thereby forming micro lens patterns over the base structure.

Method of forming micro lenses of a solid-state image pick-up device

Solid imaging device

A solid-state image sensing device having: a plurality of sensing means arrayed in the form of a matrix; a charge accumulation means that is connected to the sensing means and accumulates a charge generated at the sensing means; an accumulable charge adjusting means that adjusts the amount of accumulable charge of the charge accumulation means; and a control means that controls the accumulable charge adjusting means. The control means controls the amount of accumulable charge to vary continuously or discontinuously in time series within one imaging period and within a given amount of accumulable charge of the control means.

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Ichiro Murakami