Patents by Inventor Fumiyoshi Matsuda

Fumiyoshi Matsuda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Charge-coupled device type solid state imaging device making best use of effective pixels and obtaining images of different two or more kinds of aspect ratios
    Patent number: 5486859
    Abstract: There is provided a low-cost CCD solid state imaging device which can make best use of effective pixels and which can obtain images of two or more kinds of aspect ratios without using digital signal processing or any optical means. For creation of wide aspect ratio images, an image is formed by signal charges transferred by a first horizontal CCD. On the other hand, an image is formed by signal charges transferred from the first horizontal CCD to a second horizontal CCD via a coupling, whereby a narrow aspect ratio image with a horizontal dimension shorter than a wide aspect ratio image is created by utilizing any arbitrary horizontal area out of all effective pixels of a light receiving portion, depending on the area where the first horizontal CCD and the second horizontal CCD are coupled with each other by the coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Fumiyoshi Matsuda