Patents by Inventor Simon G. Ingram

Simon G. Ingram 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).

  • Patent number: 7932932
    Abstract: A method of capturing a color image includes steps of operating a first sensor of a camera to integrate a first charge over a first time interval, operating a second sensor of the camera to integrate a second charge over a second time interval and scanning the first and second sensors to readout the respective first and second charges during a third time interval. The first time interval overlaps the second time interval. The third time interval includes no overlapping time with the first time interval. The third time interval includes no overlapping time with the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: DALSA, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon G. Ingram
  • Patent number: 7202891
    Abstract: A method of capturing a color image includes steps of operating a first sensor of a camera to integrate a first charge over a first time interval, operating a second sensor of the camera to integrate a second charge over a second time interval and scanning the first and second sensors to readout the respective first and second charges during a third time interval. The first time interval overlaps the second time interval. The third time interval includes no overlapping time with the first time interval. The third time interval includes no overlapping time with the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Dalsa, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon G. Ingram
  • Patent number: 7105876
    Abstract: A sensor includes an array of pixels organized in rows and columns and a plurality of metal busses overlaying the array of pixels. A first column of pixels includes a proximal set of first pixels and a distal set of first pixels separated by a first jog region. A second column of pixels includes a proximal set of second pixels and a distal set of second pixels separated by a second jog region. The first jog region is displaced in a column direction and in a lateral direction transverse to the column direction from the second jog region. A first metal bus is insulatively disposed over both the first and second jog regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Dalsa, Inc.
    Inventors: Stacy R. Kamasz, Simon G. Ingram
  • Patent number: 5981933
    Abstract: A CCD structure includes a substrate in which a plurality of buried channels have been formed and a heat conductor disposed transversely to the buried channels and defining a longitudinal direction. A first channel defines a channel direction. The heat conductor includes a first segment and a second segment separated by a gap from the first segment. The heat conductor further includes a tab connected to the first segment. In the structure the tab is characterized by an extent along a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction that is equal to an extent of the gap along the longitudinal direction, an extent along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction that is equal to a width of the heat conductor, and a shape that is a parallelogram, preferrably a rectangle. In the structure the gap is characterized by a gap predetermined shape, size and orientation, and the tab is characterized by a tab predetermined shape, size and orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Dalsa, Inc.
    Inventors: Savvas G. Chamberlain, Stacy R. Kamasz, Simon G. Ingram
  • Patent number: 5929471
    Abstract: A control structure for stage selection in a CCD sensor includes a well formed in a substrate and a channel formed in the well, the channel defining a channel direction. A bus structure is disposed over the channel and oriented transversely to the channel direction, the bus structure including a plurality of uniformly spaced register element sets. The plurality of uniformly spaced register element sets includes a first register element set and a plurality of remaining register element sets. The first register element set includes a first clock signal conductor and at least one other clock signal conductor. Each set of the plurality of remaining register element sets includes a first clock signal conductor and at least one other clock signal conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Dalsa, Inc.
    Inventors: Gareth P. Weale, Martin J. Kiik, Simon G. Ingram
  • Patent number: 5328554
    Abstract: In a process for producing a narrow groove in a layer of, for example, silicon nitride, a wide groove is first formed in the layer. A layer of a metal, for example aluminium, is evaporated on to one side of the wide groove. The remainder of the wide groove is then filled with a material such a silicon nitride. The metal layer is then etched away, leaving a narrow groove in the silicon nitride equal to the thickness of the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: GEC-Marconi Limited
    Inventor: Simon G. Ingram