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2017
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Omnivision Technologies
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Hiroaki Ebihara
HE
Hiroaki Ebihara
— 8 Patents in 2017
Sony
:
5
patents
#189
of
3,100
Top 7%
OT
Omnivision Technologies
:
3
patents
#21
of
130
Top 20%
San Jose, CA
:
#196
of
5,952
inventors
Top 4%
California
:
#1,703
of
60,394
inventors
Top 3%
Overall
(2017):
#11,937
of
506,227
Top 3%
8
Patents 2017
Issued Patents
2017
Showing
1–8
of
8
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9838621
Method and system for implementing H-banding cancellation in an image sensor
Zheng Yang
2017-12-05
9774811
Ramp signal generator for double ramp analog to digital converter
Zheng Yang
2017-09-26
9762825
Method and system for reducing analog-to-digital conversion time for dark signals
—
2017-09-12
9712766
Signal processing device and method, imaging device and solid state imaging element
Satoshi Ogata
,
Rei Yoshikawa
2017-07-18
$341,000
9712765
Solid-state image pickup device and camera system
Eiichi Funatsu
,
Yoshiharu Kudoh
2017-07-18
$341,000
9671282
Imaging device and imaging method having an illuminance calculation unit calculating respective illuminances corresponding to digital signals
Kazuhide Namba
,
Youji Sakioka
,
Daisuke Yoshioka
,
Ryota Moriwaka
2017-06-06
$357,000
9661242
Solid state imaging apparatus, signal reading method, and electronic apparatus
Takayuki Goto
,
Rei Yoshikawa
,
Koichi Okamoto
2017-05-23
$338,000
9648267
Image sensor and control method for image sensor
Koichi Okamoto
,
Rei Yoshikawa
2017-05-09
$437,000
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