Abstract: In a solid-state image pick-up device comprising photoelectric converting devices 3r, 3g and 3b formed at a predetermined array interval in row and column directions on a semiconductor substrate, vertical transfer paths 4a, 4b, 4c, . . . provided in the column direction of the photoelectric converting device and serving to read and transfer a signal charge obtained by the photoelectric converting device, and a shielding film for covering an upper part of the vertical transfer path, a pore 7 is provided in a place corresponding to an imaginary pixel point position in the shielding film. Consequently, an actual signal (an imaginary pixel point charge) corresponding to the amount of a received light on the imaginary pixel point through the pore 7 is stored in the vertical transfer path.

Abstract: After electrode pads 20 formed on a silicon substrate 1 and an electrode 21 to be connected thereto are exposed, a photoelectric conversion layer 12 is formed via a first mask 23 which covers exposed surfaces of the electrode pads 20 and the electrode 21. Then, a second electrode 13 is formed on a third electrode via a second mask 26 in which an opening is formed. This establishes a connection between the second electrode 13 and the electrode pads 20.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensing device comprising: a silicon substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer provided for absorbing a green light component to generate optical charge; and photodiodes provided in a shallow portion and in a deep portion respectively in a depth direction of the silicon substrate, wherein the solid-state image sensing device further comprises a trimming layer provided between the photoelectric conversion layer and the silicon substrate for adjusting intensity of each of respective color light components of the light which is transmitted through the photoelectric conversion layer so as to be made incident on the photodiodes.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter including complementary color filter segments. When a shutter release bottom is pressed to its half-stroke or full-stroke position, light incident via the filter is picked up in a movie/photometry or a still picture mode, respectively. While signal charges are read out of an image sensor in accordance with the mode, the signal charges are digitized to become pixel data. In the movie/the photometry mode, despite that a plurality of pixel data are mixed together, a set of primary color pixel data are generated as if pixel signals were thinned out by mixture. In the still picture mode, all the pixels are sequentially read out and interpolated to generate primary color pixel data greater in number than photosensitive cells. The primary color data are raised in frequency to enhance the resolution of a picture.

Abstract: An imaging device unit to be removably attached to a camera body having an objective lens, the imaging device unit comprising: a board; a solid-state imaging device fixed on the board; and an abutment region formed on the board, and to abut against a reference plate provided on the camera body in a state the imaging device unit is attached to the camera body, wherein, in a state the abutment region is abutted against the reference plate, the solid-state imaging device has an imaging surface in a position coincident with a focal point of the objective lens.

Abstract: An imaging device unit to be removably attached to a camera body having an objective lens, the imaging device unit comprises: a board; a solid-state imaging device fixed on the board; a drive circuit that drives the solid-state imaging device; an identification-information generating circuit that generates identification information to specify the solid-state imaging device; and an interface electrically that is connected to the camera body in a state attached to the camera body and supplies identification information to the camera body.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter including complementary color filter segments. When a shutter release bottom is pressed to its half-stroke or full-stroke position, light incident via the filter is picked up in a movie/photometry or a still picture mode, respectively. While signal charges are read out of an image sensor in accordance with the mode, the signal charges are digitized to become pixel data. In the movie/the photometry mode, despite that a plurality of pixel data are mixed together, a set of primary color pixel data are generated as if pixel signals were thinned out by mixture. In the still picture mode, all the pixels are sequentially read out and interpolated to generate primary color pixel data greater in number than photosensitive cells. The primary color data are raised in frequency to enhance the resolution of a picture.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensing device comprising: a silicon substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer provided for absorbing a green light component to generate optical charge; and photodiodes provided in a shallow portion and in a deep portion respectively in a depth direction of the silicon substrate, wherein the solid-state image sensing device further comprises a trimming layer provided between the photoelectric conversion layer and the silicon substrate for adjusting intensity of each of respective color light components of the light which is transmitted through the photoelectric conversion layer so as to be made incident on the photodiodes.

Abstract: Cartridge type solid-state image pickup apparatus, which is used to photograph a digital image while it is attached to a film camera instead of a film, comprises: a housing having a shape of a cartridge from which the film is drawn by a predetermined length; and a solid-state imaging element mounted on a part corresponding to the film, wherein the solid-state imaging element has a light-receiving surface of an aspect ratio horizontally greater than that of a rectangular range to be photographed.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup element has: a photoelectric converting film which is stacked above a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric converting elements which are arranged in the row direction and the column direction on the semiconductor substrate, and signal charge accumulating portions in which signal charges generated in the photoelectric converting film are accumulated; vertical transfer paths which are formed in the semiconductor substrate, and which transfer signal charges accumulated in the photoelectric converting elements and the signal charge accumulating portions, in the column direction; a horizontal transfer path which transfers the signal charges transferred from the vertical transfer paths, in the row direction; and an output section which outputs color signals corresponding to the signal charges transferred from the horizontal transfer path.

Abstract: An imaging device for imaging an object to generate a color image data, comprising: a solid-state imaging element comprising: a photoelectric conversion layer laminated above a semiconductor substrate; photoelectric conversion elements comprising at least two kinds of photoelectric conversion elements aligned on the semiconductor substrate for detecting colors different from that to be detected by the photoelectric conversion layer; and a signal reading circuit formed on the semiconductor substrate for reading out color signals according to signal charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements and signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion layer; and a color signal generating unit for generating a color signal constituting one-pixel data in the color image data on the basis of signal charge accumulated in a first photoelectric conversion element corresponding the one-pixel data among the photoelectric conversion elements and signal charge accumulated in at least one second photoelect

Abstract: In a photoelectric converting film stack type solid-state image pickup device, a plurality of photoelectric converting film are stacked on a semiconductor substrate in which a signal readout circuit is formed, each of the photoelectric converting films is sandwiched between a common electrode film and pixel electrode films corresponding to respective pixels, and photo-charges generated in the photoelectric converting films are taken out through the pixel electrode films. In the solid-state image pickup device, a common electrode film for a first photoelectric converting film is used also as a common electrode film for a second photoelectric converting film, the first photoelectric converting film is stacked below the common electrode film, and the second photoelectric converting film is stacked above the common electrode film.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes an image pick-up section in which photosensitive devices are arranged in, e.g., a honeycomb G square lattice, RB full-checker pattern due to shifted pixels. Regions void of the photosensitive devices are assumed to be virtual photosensitive devices. A signal processing section generates data for the virtual photosensitive devices by using the data of surrounding photosensitive devices while attaching importance to accurate color reproduction and horizontal and/or vertical resolution. As a result, the number of pixel data are increased in a square lattice arrangement. Therefore, high quality image signals are readily achievable with a smaller number of photosensitive devices than conventional with a conventional apparatus. Interpolation can be executed with the high quality signals to the limit of resolution with an adequate circuit scale.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a timing signal feeding section for outputting signals assigned to a preliminary pickup mode as well as signals assigned to an actual pickup mode that follows the preliminary pickup mode. In the preliminary pickup mode, signal charges read out of photodiodes are mixed and read out via a horizontal transfer path as if they were reduced in the horizontal direction, thereby increasing a substantial transfer rate. A signal processor includes a preliminary pickup processing circuit. The preliminary pickup processing circuit performs calculations with digital data derived from the mixed signal charges. As a result, the representative primary colors R (red), G (green) and B (blue) of a plurality of signal charges are produced from the mixed, reduced signals by approximation or within a preselected horizontal range. A luminance signal and chrominance signals are then produced from the above colors R, G and B.

Abstract: In a solid-state image pick-up device comprising photoelectric converting devices 3r, 3g and 3b formed at a predetermined array interval in row and column directions on a semiconductor substrate, vertical transfer paths 4a, 4b, 4c, . . . provided in the column direction of the photoelectric converting device and serving to read and transfer a signal charge obtained by the photoelectric converting device, and a shielding film for covering an upper part of the vertical transfer path, a pore 7 is provided in a place corresponding to an imaginary pixel point position in the shielding film. Consequently, an actual signal (an imaginary pixel point charge) corresponding to the amount of a received light on the imaginary pixel point through the pore 7 is stored in the vertical transfer path.

Abstract: An image print system for printing a picture from an image file having additional information, which enables high-quality image printing to be achieved using various types of image data and their additional information. Image data obtained by taking subjects are sent, together with their additional information, to an image reproduction system in a photographic laboratory. The image reproduction system carries out processing of the image data in accordance with the additional information, and produces its resultant images in the form of image prints. The additional information includes post-processing information for temporally or spatially correlating a series of images to combine them or to select some of them.

Abstract: An image print system for printing a picture from an image file having additional information, which enables high-quality image printing to be achieved using various types of image data and their additional information. Image data obtained by taking subjects are sent, together with their additional information, to an image reproduction system in a photographic laboratory. The image reproduction system carries out processing of the image data in accordance with the additional information, and produces its resultant images in the form of image prints. The additional information includes post-processing information for temporally or spatially correlating a series of images to combine them or to select some of them.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter including complementary color filter segments. When a shutter release bottom is pressed to its half-stroke or full-stroke position, light incident via the filter is picked up in a movie/photometry or a still picture mode, respectively. While signal charges are read out of an image sensor in accordance with the mode, the signal charges are digitized to become pixel data. In the movie/the photometry mode, despite that a plurality of pixel data are mixed together, a set of primary color pixel data are generated as if pixel signals were thinned out by mixture. In the still picture mode, all the pixels are sequentially read out and interpolated to generate primary color pixel data greater in number than photosensitive cells. The primary color data are raised in frequency to enhance the resolution of a picture.

Abstract: In a case where a frame image possessing an amount of data greater than a predetermined amount is recorded on a magnetic tape using a multiplicity of tracks, on which tracks the data has been recorded is made clear. Image data composed of 1,400,000 pixels, which is four times that of the conventional number of 350,000 pixels, is obtained. Since the image data has an amount of data that is four times that in a frame image when photography is performed using the conventional 350,000-pixel CCD, the image data is recorded in a video recording area one frame at a time on ten tracks per frame, for a total of 40 tracks. Auxiliary-area recording data representing on which tracks the recorded image data has been recorded and the manner in which the recorded image has been partitioned is recorded in an auxiliary recording area. One frame of a still picture is produced after reference is made to the auxiliary-area recording data that has been recorded in the auxiliary recording area.

Abstract: A reproduced still picture having a comparatively high picture quality is obtained irrespective of the luminance of the subject. In an interval photography mode, photography is performed one time in a plurality of fields at a relatively high shutter speed of 1/250 of a second to obtained a first video signal, and photography is performed at an ordinary shutter speed of 1/60 of a second in other fields to obtain a second video signal. These video signals are amplified at mutually different first and second amplification factors (6 dB and 18.4 dB, respectively) in conformity with the shutter speed, by an AGC. The first and second amplification factors are varied in dependence upon the illumination of the subject in such a manner that the average levels of the first and second video signals are maintained at a fixed level.