The image information producing photosensitive elements of the sensor, which are arranged in rows and columns, are addressed row-by-row and column group-by-column group to decode the information. The signal information from a group of elements in a row is impressed simultaneously upon a like group of signal processing circuits, with each of which is associated a pair of signal storage devices, each having an input gate and an output gate. The input gates for one set of corresponding storage devi...

A charge coupled device signal output summing circuit is disclosed for prding a video data signal to a scan laser projector system which projects an optical image on a 360.degree. wide angle display screen. The charge coupled device signal output summing circuit comprises a linear image sensor which senses the light received from the optical image and produces a pair of output signals, each of which has a plurality of video data components. The video data components of the pair of output signals...

An apparatus for driving a solid-state image pickup device for optimizing the transmission timing of a driving signal to be supplied to the image pickup element for adjusting the timing for sample and hold of an output signal from the image pickup element or the like is disclosed which employs a shift register for shifting the driving signal to be supplied to the image pickup element using a clock signal having a relatively shorter period than the period of the driving signal and outputting at i...

Disclosed is a solid state television camera with solid state image sensor for converting an optical image into electrical signals, which is comprised of a pulse generator for generating a train of pulses with a frequency equal to the horizontal scanning frequency of a television system, a frequency divider for frequency-dividing the pulse train into a signal with a frequency substantially equal to the vertical scanning frequency alternately in two modes of l/n and l/n+l (where n is a positive i...

An inspection system utilizing a CCD includes a CCD data transfer generator which allows the changing of the CCD without redesigning the system. The numbers of horizontal rows and vertical columns of pixels of the CCD are set into a digital memory and into a waveform generator. The waveform generator provides horizontal scanning and vertical scanning waveforms in accordance with the row and column settings whereby the CCD can be replaced with a different size CCD and new numbers set into the mem...

In a solid state imaging device in which two signals on two horizontal scanning lines are read out simultaneously for easy image enhancement, the two signals read from the two horizontal scanning lines are subtracted from each other while they are added together, and the difference signal is added to the sum signal so as to produce a video signal subject to the image enhancement. As a solid state image sensor, a MOS type image sensor as well as a CCD, CID or CC type image sensor may be used.

Delay for a field time is introduced between the end of the time a field of pixel samples is transferred from the A register into the B register of a field-transfer CCD imager and the beginning of the time the field of pixel samples is transferred from the B register to the C register. Such field delay is useful in differentiating response to a radiant energy image with respect to time, for example. A field of pixel samples is delayed in a first B register sufficiently long to be in time registr...

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.

A solid state image pick-up device includes a number of picture elements arranged in a matrix form. Each picture element being constituted by a MOS transistor and a photodiode, gates of the MOS transistors arranged in the vertical direction are connected to respective horizontal scanning lines which are connected to outputs of a horizontal shift register. Drains of the MOS transistors arranged in a horizontal direction are connected to respective vertical scanning lines both ends of which are co...

A solid state image sensor system includes an array of image pickup cells, a signal read-out circuit for reading out image signals from the cells, and a shift register circuit for enabling the read-out circuit to produce effective video signals in response to shift pulses shifted through the respective shift register stages. The image sensor circuit includes a function security circuit whereby a shift pulse may be positively shifted through the shift register stages at all times for reading out ...