In a signal accumulating time control method and apparatus for a signal accumulating type radiation sensing device which produces an electrical signal corresponding to the amount of incident radiation and accumulates the same, an accumulating time controller has first and second different control modes and is adapted to change over from one of said first and second control modes to the other when the intensity of said incident radiation fluctuates a large amount.
An image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup element, a displacement member for displacing an image incident upon the image pickup element relative to the image pickup element, and a control circuit for controlling the operation of the displacement member in response to the output of the image pickup element.
An automatic focussing adjusting device which controls properly an integration time necessary to integrate the amount of light received by a CCD line sensor for measuring the light of an object to detect a focal position. In the automatic focussing adjusting device, when the average value of the output data of the CCD line sensor is a value existing out of the stable operation region of the CCD line sensor, the integration in time for the amount of the light received from the object by the CCD line sensor is controlled so that the average value of the next output data of the CCD line sensor converges rapidly to the reference value of the output data to be selected in the CCD line sensor stable operation region. For the average value existing in the stable operation region, the integration time is controlled so that the average value of the next output data converges slowly to the reference value. Therefore, stable output data of the CCD line sensor can be obtained and can follow accurately the variations of the brightness of the object.
A method and apparatus for detecting the focus state of an object image pattern in accordance with a plurality of photo-electrically converted output signals, including a first mode in which the plurality of photo-electrically converted output signals are sampled at different times and statistically processed for each output, wherein the focus state is detected in accordance with the statistically processed outputs, and a second mode for detecting the focus state without the statistical processing.
An arrangement for determining the starting instant t.sub.o of the leading edge of a received high-frequency pulse signal V of the form where V is the instantaneous voltage, A is the slope (which is unknown) of the leading edge, t is the time, and F is the frequency. The arrangement includes delay means for delaying the received pulse by a period of time equal to k/2F (where k is an integer) and for thus producing a second pulse signal V.sub.R of the form The pulse signals are applied to calculating means which determines t.sub.o by performing the calculation ##EQU1##
An apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion device having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements for converting light to photoelectric conversion signals and for transferring the photoelectric conversion signals to adjacent photoelectric conversion elements. The apparatus also includes a transfer speed changing device for changing a transfer speed during a period of an accumulation operation of the photoelectric conversion device, making it possible to measure the luminance of an eye exactly in a short period of time.
