Patent
Color image sensing device
Tokuzo Kato,Tsutomu Takayama,Toshio Kaji +2 more
- 02 Nov 1983
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TL;DR: In this article, an iris control for adjusting the iris such that the output of the image sensing arrangement becomes lower when the gain control circuits are under the control of the balance control than when they were under a normal photographic condition was presented.
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Abstract: The disclosed image sensing device includes a sensing arrangement for converting an optical image into an electrical signal; an iris for adjusting the quantity of light supplied to the image sensing arrangement; gain control circuits for adjusting amplification gains of monochrome or color difference signals obtained from the image sensing arrangement; a peak detecting arrangement for detecting the peak values of the monochrome or color difference signals; a balance control for controlling the gain control circuits for white balance adjustment according to the signals obtained from the peak detecting arrangement; and an iris control for controlling the iris such that the output of the image sensing arrangement becomes lower when the gain control circuits are under the control of the balance control than when they are under a normal photographic condition.
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TL;DR: In this article, a video still camera includes a common integrating circuit for measuring light level in relation to both color balance and exposure control, and the photodiodes are selectively multiplexed into the input of the integrated circuit for the measurements.
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Atsushi Fujioka,Atsushi Morimura,Yoshinori Kitamura,Hiroki Matsuoka +3 more
- 20 Nov 1987
TL;DR: In this paper, a light signal control circuit for an image pick-up apparatus detects a substantially peak value of image pickup signals by a first level detection circuit, detects an average value of the image pick up signals by second level detection circuits, determines a brightness condition of an object by a decision circuit, weights the outputs of the first level detector and the second level detector by a weighting circuit, and controls the amount of light reaching an image picking up apparatus in accordance with an output of the weighting circuits.
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- 03 Oct 1994
TL;DR: In this article, a photoelectric converter is used to produce an electrical signal corresponding to a received image, which can then be used to adjust the exposure and color balance in a subsequent picture taking second exposure.
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Katsuro Miyata,Asaida Takashi,Fumio Nagumo +2 more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the iris is controlled by the peak level of a smear signal of a horizontal scanning line during a vertical blanking interval so that the smear signal contained in a video signal from the image sensing device is reduced.
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Nishimura Toshiji,Seisuke Yamanaka,Shimada Masaru +2 more
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TL;DR: In this paper, a white balance control circuit for an encoded composite color television signal is disclosed in which three primary color signals of green (G), blue (B) and red (R) are matrixed to be mixed color signal components.
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Kazushige Ooi,Fujiwara Shigekazu,Nobuaki Yoshida,Mori Yoshio +3 more
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TL;DR: In this article, a color image pickup device was proposed, in which image light from a white object to be photographed or image light integrated by a diffusion plate or the like is incident on a pickup tube through an electrochromic element.
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