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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:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2001
Applicants:
Takayuki Kijima, Akiruno, JP;
Hideaki Yoshida, Hachioji, JP;
Inventors:
Takayuki Kijima, Akiruno, JP;
Hideaki Yoshida, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/238 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a solid state image pick-up device, charge transfer gate pulse timing for different phases is intentionally offset resulting in different exposure times for different image element subsets of the image pick-up device. The amount of added signal compensation for an individual pixel is determined as a function of one or more of: exposure time, pixel output signal level, and strobe use.