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Solid-state color imaging device

CA 1137621 A · Owner: Hitachi, Ltd. · Inventors: Umemoto, Masuo; Sato, Kazuhiro; Akiyama, Toshiyuki

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The specification discloses a solid-state color imaging device including a plurality of photosensors which are arrayed in the horizontal and vertical directors and a mosaic, color filter which is made up of filter elements arranged in correspondence with the respective photosensors. Any four adjacent ones of the filter elements consist of a fist filter which is made of a panchromatic transmission filter a second, filter which adjoins the first filter in the vertical direction and which is made of a green transmitting filter a third, filter which is made of cyanic color transmitting filter and a fourth filter which is made of a yellow transmitting filter. The solid-state color imaging device …

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  • Granted December 14, 1982. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 14, 1999.
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FiledFebruary 9, 1979
GrantedDecember 14, 1982
Term endedDecember 14, 1999
Patent numberCA 1137621 A
Classification (IPC)H04N9/04 +1 more

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1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedFeb 9, 1979Patent grantedDec 14, 1982Term endedDec 14, 1999

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