A method and apparatus for obtaining a profile read-out of an object in a field of view of a solid-state imager without destruction of the image data at the imager. In an application using a CID imager, X-axis and Y-axis projections of the array are obtained by sensing charge transfer from sequentially addressed columns into all rows simultaneously followed by sensing charge transfer from sequentially addressed rows into all columns simultaneously. Calculation of centroid and area of an image ca...

A CCD imager for extracting the spectral information from impinging photons and having a multiple photon collection structure through which protons must serially traverse. The carriers generated by the impinging photons are collected by two or more collection regions in each resolution element and the ratio of the relative responses of each of the collection regions can be used to derive spectral information. The CCD imager is fabricated such that both the holes and the electrons generated by th...

A charge-coupled-device image sensor includes first, second and third linear array imagers, first, second and third horizontal charge-coupled-devices, first, second and third transfer gates and first and second vertically arranged charge-coupled-devices. The first transfer gate is operated so as to transfer electrons from the first linear array imager to the first horizontal charge-coupled-device. The third transfer gate, the first and second vertically arranged charge-coupled-devices and the se...

A signal processing system has an image pickup device and a plurality of different color filters which generate a plurality of color signals. A memory stores the color signals, and a plurality of readout devices divides the signals from the memory into the plurality of color signals. A switching device sequentially supplies the color signals to a common output terminal. The switching device is formed on one chip, together with the memory and the plurality of readout devices. Control circuitry co...

A solid-state imaging device comprises a semi-conductor substrate demarcating a two-dimensional surface, a multiplicity of photoelectric conversion units formed at grid points of a first grid of a first tetragonal matrix and a second tetragonal matrix having grid points between grid points of the first tetragonal matrix, a vertical transfer channel arranged in a vertical direction by weaving a space between the horizontally adjacent photoelectric conversion units, a plurality of single-layered e...

Disclosed is a color imaging device which comprises a plurality of first portions for generating first color information signals, a plurality of second portions for generating second color information signals, and a plurality of third portions for generating third color information signals, wherein the size of each of the second portions is greater than the size of each of the first and third portions.

A solid state color imaging device includes a plurality of photoreceptor elements aligned vertically and horizontally, with a color separation filter disposed thereover to make each element sensitive to a particular color. A white band filter is provided that extends between the rows of horizontally aligned elements, where the transfer electrodes between the rows of elements are located, to equalize the charge leaking into an element of one row and the charge leaking out of the adjacent element ...

A CCD (charge-coupled device) color camera is disclosed, wherein an installed CCD imager is capable of reading out signals of two adjacent rows of sensing elements simultaneously, besides employing an interlacing scanning technique. A color coding filter facing a sensing area of the CCD imager is arranged basically to have successive sets of color elements each set consisting of a blue color element and three red color elements in the vertical direction. In the signal processing system, two adja...

A solid state color imaging apparatus includes a solid state image sensor having a plurality of picture elements regularly disposed in a two dimensional pattern along a plurality of horizontal lines. Each horizontal line includes a plurality of picture elements disposed in repetition at a predetermined pitch wherein light incident thereon is converted to a proportional electrical signal. A color filter placed over the picture elements has a plurality of filter elements disposed in regular repeti...

A charge transfer device has a plurality of registers which run parallel to each other and across which electrical charges are transferred. For efficient charge transfer across the registers, the transfer elecrtrode of one register and the transfer electrode of an adjacent register are arrayed in contiguity to each other and driven by different driving pulses and a deeper potential is provided in the signal charge receiving side than in the signal charge forwarding side. The registers are arraye...