Image pick up device
CA 2055867 C · Owner: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · Inventors: Hashimoto, Seiji
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An image pick up device has a plurality of rows of light receiving cells, a plurality of vertical transfer registers each located adjacent to respective one row of light receiving cells and a control circuit for controlling said light receiving cells and the vertical transfer registers. The control circuit makes the light receiving cells and the vertical transfer registers carry out a short exposure operation and a long exposure operation continuously and then reads out both signals sequentially or in parallel to synthesise an expanded dynamic range signal.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 20, 1991 and granted June 9, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 20, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 20, 2013.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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