Nec Corporation

Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

Nec Toshiba Space Systems, Ltd.

Teledyne Dalsa, Inc.

Nec Space Technologies, Ltd.

Teledyne Digital Imaging, Inc.

Kazuhide Noguchi

Takashi Sakashita

Jun Yoshida

Shunsaku Okada

Provided is an image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of a target object by optically scanning the target object by moving in a predetermined scanning direction. The apparatus includes a light-receiving device that is disposed on a light-receiving surface of the image capturing apparatus and accumulates an electric charge according to an amount of light received from a light detection window, a length of which in the scanning direction is shorter than a length in the scanning direction of an area defined as one pixel of the target object; and an output device that outputs the electric charge accumulated by the light-receiving device when the light-receiving device has completed the optical scanning of the area defined as one pixel.

Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and image capturing circuit

Provided is an image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of a target object by optically scanning the target object by moving in a predetermined scanning direction. The apparatus includes light-receiving devices that are arranged on a light-receiving surface of the image capturing apparatus in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction, where each light-receiving device accumulates an electric charge according to an amount of light received from the target object; and an output device that outputs the electric charge accumulated by each light-receiving device regularly at a predetermined output period which is determined in a manner such that the larger the length in the scanning direction of a light-receiving range for the target object by the light-receiving device, the longer the output period.

Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image capturing circuit, and program

A remote time calibrating system has a calibrating station with a reference time and a remote station having a local time, the local time having to be adjusted to coincide with the reference time. The calibrating station receives telemetry signals sent from the remote station, each of the telemetry signals including data indicating the local time of the remote station from which the telemetry signal is transmitted. Responsive to any first difference between the receive reference time and the local transmit time is detected and calculated by taking into account the signal propagation delay of the telemetry signal between the remote station and the calibrating station. Responsive thereto, the local time is calibrated at the remote station.

Remote calibrating system for satellite time

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhide Noguchi