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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akira Egawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
396106 ; 2502014 ; 356-308 ;
Abstract
A sensor apparatus which accumulates charges, generated in a sensor array having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, in a plurality of accumulation units, and integrates the charges using transfer units having a less number of transfer sections than the number of accumulation units. The plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are grouped into a plurality of groups, a part of the groups is selected, and charges generated by photoelectric conversion elements which belong to the selected group or groups are integrated using the transfer unit.