A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor provided with an image sensing surface including a photosensitive zone for measurement and an optical black area adjoining an output circuit. Signal charges read out from the photosensitive zone for measurement and optical black area are used to calculate local horizontal transfer efficiency in the event of concentration of signal charges transferred from a horizontal transfer path to the output circuit. Image signals read out from th...

A solid state imaging device comprises channel regions of one conductivity type arranged to extend along a first direction in parallel to each other with predetermined intervals on one surface of a semiconductor substrate, drain regions of the one conductivity type at high doping density, which are arranged to extend along the first direction between adjacent channel regions, separation regions disposed in the interval between one of the channel regions and one of the drain regions, and transfer...

A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state image sensor having photosensitive cells and vertical transfer paths. The cells are bidimensionally arranged for converting light incident from a subject via optics to electric charges corresponding to the light to store signal charges. The vertical transfer paths each adjoins the photosensitive cells arranged on a particular column for vertically transferring the signal charges. Before the signal charges are transferred from the cells ...

A pixel cell in which a capacitance is coupled between a storage node and a row select transistor and another capacitance is coupled between a storage node and a voltage supply or ground source potential to boost a reset voltage.

A solid state imager arrangement includes an image area, an output register which receives signal charge from the image area, a separate multiplication register into which signal charge from the output register is transferred, means for obtaining signal charge multiplication by transferring the charge through a sufficiently high field in elements of the multiplication register, and an additional register into which excess signal charge is transferred.

An inclinometer in which a ball is movable in a curved tube or between plates forming concentric spherical zones, the ball as well as the tube or plates being transparent and form part of an optical system wherein a position indicating image, resulting in the passing of light through the ball, is produced on a viewing surface.

An electric power consumption and a quantity of generated heat can be reduced and hence a temperature characteristic can be maintained satisfactorily. A timing generator generates a smear gate pulse and a storage section driving pulse. The smear gate pulse is supplied to a smear gate region, whereby the smear gate region is opened during a vertical blanking period. The smear gate pulse and the storage section driving pulse are input to a gate circuit and an image section driving pulse is output ...

A safety interlock device for an electrically driven household mixing apparatus includes a safety switch operatively connected with electric circuit of a drive motor of the apparatus and of an arrangement for heating a container of the apparatus, a switching rod longitudinally movable between switch-on and switch-off positions causing the switch to move respectively to its on and off positions, a holding lever pivotally mounted on the switching rod for turning between closed and open positions i...

A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises a semiconductor substrate; an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer insulated from the semiconductor substrate by the insulating layer; source regions of a first conduction type and drain regions of the first conduction type both formed in the semiconductor layer; body regions of a second conduction type formed in the semiconductor layer between the source regions and the drain regions to store data by ac...

In a recording apparatus for video signals, adjacent pixels in input image signals are collected as blocks and subjected to orthogonal transformation. Then, the dc component, control data, ac components, end-of-block signal and the like in a block after orthogonal transformation are coded and the codewords are arranged in prescribed record areas. One or a plurality of record areas forms a correction area, and error correction coding is performed and recorded on the data in a correction area. Whe...