Abstract: A method for driving an image pickup device in which a predetermined voltage which is between a power source voltage and a reference voltage is generated, a voltage of an output signal line to the predetermined voltage is set, and a reset voltage from a pixel circuit is output to the output signal line.

Abstract: Correction processing of crosstalk amount is adaptively performed even under conditions where optical conditions, such as a lens to be used, are unknown. Relative change among crosstalk amount is calculated based on a proportion of the sum of signal amount of RGB signals as to the signal amount of white signals. Next, upon calculating crosstalk correction coefficients corresponding to the current crosstalk amount from a relational expression of crosstalk correction coefficients obtained beforehand and crosstalk amount, the signal of a pixel to be corrected is corrected by subtracting several tenths of adjacent pixel signals from the signal of the pixel to be corrected, as crosstalk amount.

Abstract: A secondary battery using a polymer radical material and a conducting additive in which the performance of a conductive auxiliary layer is further improved and the internal resistance is reduced, thereby achieving a higher output. Specifically disclosed is a secondary battery in which at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode uses, as an electrode active material, a polymer radical material and a conducting additive having electrical conductivity. By providing a conductive auxiliary layer between a current collector and the polymer radical material/conducting additive electrode which is mainly composed of graphite, fibrous carbon or a granular carbon having a DBP absorption of not more than 110 cm3/100 g, the secondary battery with a higher output can be obtained.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an organic transistor using an organic semiconductor having excellent transistor properties, and a method for producing the organic transistor, the present invention providing, first, an organic transistor including a gate electrode (b), an insulating layer (c), an organic semiconductor layer (d) which contacts the insulating layer (c) and has a channel formation area, and source/drain electrodes (e), which are formed on (a) a substrate, wherein the organic semiconductor layer (d) contains a fluorine-based compound (surfactant), and, secondly, a method for producing an organic transistor comprising a gate electrode (b), an insulating layer (c), an organic semiconductor layer (d) which contacts the insulating layer (c) and has a channel formation area, and source/drain electrodes (e), which are formed on (a) a substrate, the method comprising: a step in which the organic semiconductor layer (d) is formed on the insulating layer (c) by printing or coating an org

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image correction unit which receives a synthesized image and pseudo color pixel information indicating a pseudo color pixel position included in the synthesized image and executes pixel value correction. The image correction unit selects non-pseudo color pixels as reference pixels from a reference region set in a surrounding region of the pixel to be corrected, sets a similarity weight coefficient in which a large weight is set as a pixel value of the reference pixel that is close to a pixel value of the pixel to be corrected and a pixel position weight coefficient in which a large weight is set as the pixel value of the reference pixel that is near a pixel position of the pixel to be corrected, with respect to the reference pixels, and determines a correction pixel value of the pixel to be corrected by a weighted summation process.

Abstract: An insulating ink composition for forming an insulating film, which sufficiently achieves a low calcination temperature, solvent resistance and an insulating property, is provided. Furthermore, an ink composition for forming an insulating film which can form, by the printing method, fine insulating film patterns necessary for formation of highly integrated organic transistors is provided. The present invention provides an ink composition which forms an insulating film, and includes an organic solvent, a polyvinylphenol-based resin, an epoxy resin and a cross-linking aid. Particularly, the ink composition is a composition wherein the organic solvent includes an organic solvent which has a vapor pressure of 11.3×102 Pa or higher at 20° C. and a boiling point of lower than 115° C. under atmospheric pressure and an organic solvent which has a vapor pressure of less than 11.3×102 Pa at 20° C. and a boiling point of 115° C.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image combination unit which generates combined images by combining photographed images having different exposure times; and a motion area detection unit which performs a comparison process on a plurality of the combined images generated by the image combination unit to acquire a pixel value difference and which performs a motion area detection process of comparing the pixel value difference with a predetermined threshold value and determining a pixel area, of which the pixel value difference is equal to or larger than the threshold value, to be a motion area where motion of a subject is estimated to have occurred.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that has high-sensitivity pixel devices receiving a relatively large amount of light and low-sensitivity pixel devices receiving a relatively small amount of light, an exposure control unit independently controlling exposure periods of the high-sensitivity pixel devices and the low-sensitivity pixel devices, and an image generation unit performing image generation on the basis of an output signal of the image pickup device.

Abstract: A flexible substrate is wound around a magnetic core to define an antenna coil. A receiver coil including a first receiver coil portion and a second receiver coil portion which have opposite winding directions, and a transmitter coil including a first transmitter coil portion and a second transmitter coil portion which have opposite winding directions are provided on the flexible substrate. A region in which the receiver coil is provided and a region in which the transmitter coil is provided at least partially overlap each other when viewed in plan view, and non-coil-wound portions are provided between the first coil portions and second coil portions in the coils.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including an array of a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels with higher sensitivity than the first pixels, a first control signal line that controls the first pixels, and a second control signal line that controls the second pixels, wherein the first control signal line and the second control signal line are driven independent of each other.

Abstract: A method for driving an image pickup device in which a predetermined voltage which is between a power source voltage and a reference voltage is generated, a voltage of an output signal line to the predetermined voltage is set, and a reset voltage from a pixel circuit is output to the output signal line

Abstract: Vertical signal lines are connected to each pixel column in an image pickup unit having pixels arranged in arrays, and the vertical signal lines are connected to a voltage supply circuit for supplying a voltage between a power source voltage and a reference voltage.

Abstract: Noises are reduced in an image picked up in natural light without using lighting equipment that affect the picked up image. The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a visible light image and an invisible light image corresponding to the visible light image, and a noise reduction unit that reduces noises of the visible light image by using the invisible light image.

Abstract: A flexible substrate is wound around a magnetic core to define an antenna coil. A receiver coil including a first receiver coil portion and a second receiver coil portion which have opposite winding directions, and a transmitter coil including a first transmitter coil portion and a second transmitter coil portion which have opposite winding directions are provided on the flexible substrate. A region in which the receiver coil is provided and a region in which the transmitter coil is provided at least partially overlap each other when viewed in plan view, and non-coil-wound portions are provided between the first coil portions and second coil portions in the coils.

Abstract: A CMOS sensor has unit pixels each structured by a light receiving element and three transistors, to prevent against the phenomenon of saturation shading and the reduction of dynamic range. The transition time (fall time), in switching off the voltage on a drain line shared in all pixels, is given longer than the transition time in turning of any of the reset line and the transfer line. For this reason, the transistor constituting a DRN drive buffer is made proper in its W/L ratio. Meanwhile, a control resistance or current source is inserted on a line to the GND, to make proper the operation current during driving. This reduces saturation shading amount. By making a reset transistor in a depression type, the leak current to a floating diffusion is suppressed to broaden the dynamic range.

Abstract: A CMOS sensor has unit pixels each structured by a light receiving element and three transistors, to prevent against the phenomenon of saturation shading and the reduction of dynamic range. The transition time (fall time), in switching off the voltage on a drain line shared in all pixels, is given longer than the transition time in turning of any of the reset line and the transfer line. For this reason, the transistor constituting a DRN drive buffer is made proper in its W/L ratio. Meanwhile, a control resistance or current source is inserted on a line to the GND, to make proper the operation current during driving. This reduces saturation shading amount. By making a reset transistor in a depression type, the leak current to a floating diffusion is suppressed to broaden the dynamic range.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image input unit receives a long-time exposure image and a short-time exposure image. An image analysis unit detects a brightness-change pixel in which a brightness change has occurred during a photographic period on the basis of analysis of pixel values in the long-time exposure image and the short-time exposure image. A pixel value correction unit corrects a pixel value of the detected brightness-change pixel. In the pixel value correction unit, a combined image generator selectively combines pixel values in the long-time exposure image and pixel values in the short-time exposure image to generate a combined image; an intermediate image generator generates a blurred image of the combined image; and an output image generator determines a pixel value of the detected brightness-change pixel using a pixel value of a corresponding pixel in each of the combined image and the blurred image.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including an array of a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels with higher sensitivity than the first pixels, a first control signal line that controls the first pixels, and a second control signal line that controls the second pixels, wherein the first control signal line and the second control signal line are driven independent of each other.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that has high-sensitivity pixel devices receiving a relatively large amount of light and low-sensitivity pixel devices receiving a relatively small amount of light, an exposure control unit independently controlling exposure periods of the high-sensitivity pixel devices and the low-sensitivity pixel devices, and an image generation unit performing image generation on the basis of an output signal of the image pickup device.

Abstract: There is provided an image signal processing apparatus having a luminance signal producing unit which receives input of a mosaic image of a signal acquired by a wide wavelength range signal acquisition element from signals acquired by a single-plate imaging device having element arrays including a specific wavelength range signal acquisition element for acquiring a visible light signal corresponding to a specific light wavelength range and the wide wavelength range signal acquisition element for acquiring a light signal containing a visible light component and an invisible light component, and produces, as a luminance signal, a wide wavelength range signal demosaic image; and a color difference signal producing unit which receives input of a mosaic image of a signal acquired by the specific wavelength range signal acquisition element, produces a visible light range signal demosaic image, and produces a color difference signal based on the visible light range signal demosaic image.