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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. 29, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2006
Applicants:
Kazuko Nakagawa, Kunitachi, JP;
Jun Takayama, Tama, JP;
Inventors:
Kazuko Nakagawa, Kunitachi, JP;
Jun Takayama, Tama, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2006.01); H01L 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging device including an imaging element having a plurality of pixels for switching a linear conversion mode for linearly converting incident light to an electric signal and a logarithm conversion mode for logarithmically converting incident light to an electric signal on the basis of incident light intensity,