Fujifilm Corporation

Masakatsu Kubota

Atsuhiko Ishihara

Masaya Tamaru

Ryuji Kawaguchi

Tomoyuki Nishimura

Seiji Kawasumi

A method for driving a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device, wherein the charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device comprises: high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements for executing photoelectric conversion with relatively high sensitivity; low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements for executing photoelectric conversion with relatively low sensitivity; and vertical transfer channels for transferring signal charges from said high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements and said low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, the method comprising a charge transfer step of individually reading/transferring first signal charges from said high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements and second signal charges from said low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements onto said vertical transfer channels, without executing a high speed charge transfer operation for the vertical transfer channels after exposure of said solid-state image pick-up device.

Method and apparatus for correcting smear in a charge-transfer type solid-state image pick-up device

An electronic appliance has a data read/write section which reads information about a battery stored in a wireless tag provided in the battery, and a CPU which recognizes the read information about the battery and generates battery remaining energy warning information to be displayed on a display section according to the battery information. The battery remaining energy warning information according to the kind of the battery, the name of the manufacturer of the battery, etc., is generated and displayed to correctly and effectively inform a user of a remaining energy warning about the battery presently used.

Portable electronic appliance with a battery having a wireless tag containing battery information

A method and apparatus for recording data including image data, which includes: a recording unitfor recording image data; a play unitfor playing data including audio data; a release switchfor giving instructions to record image data; and a record and playback control unitfor giving instructions to start recording image data after giving instructions to stop playing data including audio data when a recording of image data is instructed from the release switchwhile data including audio data is being played.

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Asaka, Japan

Masakatsu Kubota