General Description Of Ccd Control - Toshiba e-STUDIO2500c Service Manual

6.5.3

General Description of CCD Control

[ 1 ] Opto-electronic conversion
A CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) is used to produce electrical signal corresponding to the reflected
light amount from the original. CCD is a one-chip opto-electronic conversion device, comprised of sev-
eral thousand light-receiving elements arranged in a line, each one of them is a few micron square.
This equipment includes a CCD which has 7,450 light-receiving elements.
Each element of the light-receiving section consists of semiconductive layers P and N. When the light
irradiates the element, light energy produces a (-) charge in the layer P; the amount of the charge pro-
duced is proportional to the energy and irradiating time. The charges produced in the light-receiving
section are then sent to the transfer section where they are shifted by transfer clock from left to right as
shown in the figure below, and are finally output from the CCD. At this time, to increase the transfer
speed of the CCD, image signals in the even-number and odd-number elements are separated and
output in parallel via two channels.
Transfer section
Light-receiving section
Transfer section
[ 2 ] Shading correction
Signal voltages read by the CCD have the following characteristics:
1) Light source has a variation in its light distribution.
2) Since the light beam reflected from the original is converged using a lens, the light path is the short-
est at the center of the CCD and the longest at ends. This causes difference in the amount of light
reaching the CCD (i.e. the light amount is maximum at the CCD center, gradually decreases toward
ends).
3) Each of the 7,450 elements varies in opto-electronic conversion efficiency.
These variation need to be corrected and this correction is referred to as shading correction. Shading
correction is performed by applying normalization process using the following formula on the black and
white data obtained in advance to correct lighting variance and element variation of the image data.
(S-K )
I = k
x
(W-K)
k: Coefficient
S: Image data before correction
K: Black data (stored in "Black" memory)
W: White data (stored in "White" memory)
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1 2 3 4
Shift register
Transfer clock
7447 7448 7449 7450
Transfer clock
Fig. 6-12
6 - 12
Light energy
Layer N
Layer P
Details of light-receiving section
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