Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15447854Application Date: 2017-03-02
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Publication No.: US10250830B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Shinji Sakaguchi , Tohru Kanno
- Applicant: Shinji Sakaguchi , Tohru Kanno
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2016-051443 20160315
- Main IPC: H04N9/64
- IPC: H04N9/64 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/374

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: a valid area including pixels that are not shielded from light; a first light-blocked area and a second light-blocked area each including pixels that are shielded from light; an analog-to-digital converting unit to convert the electric charge accumulated by the pixels belonging to the first light-blocked area, the valid area, and the second light-blocked area, to image data at a time; a signal reading unit to read light-blocked data obtained from the first light-blocked area and the second light-blocked area, and valid data obtained from the valid area, in units of pixels; a reference black level estimating unit to estimate a reference black level of the light-blocked data; and a level correction unit to correct, based on the estimated reference black level, a size of the valid data obtained simultaneously with the light-blocked data used in estimating the reference black level.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170272671A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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