Ccd Control; Opto-Electronic Conversion; Shading Correction - Toshiba e-STUDIO520 Service Manual

6.5

CCD Control

6.5.1

Opto-electronic conversion

A CCD (charge-coupled device) is used to produce an electrical signal corresponding to the reflected
light amount from the original. The CCD is a one-chip opto-electronic conversion device, comprised of
several thousand light-receiving elements arranged in a line; each one of them is a few microns square.
This model is equipped with a CCD which has 7,500 light-receiving elements.
Each element of the light-receiving section consists of the semiconductive layers P and N. When the
light irradiates the element, the light energy produces a (-) charge in the layer P; the amount of the
charge produced 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 the 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 sepa-
rated and output in parallel via two channels.
Transfer section
Light-receiving section
Transfer section
Shift register
6.5.2

Shading correction

Signal voltages read by the CCD have the following characteristics.
1) Light source has 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 7,500 elements varies in the opto-electronic conversion efficiency.
These variations need to be corrected and this correction is referred to as shading correction. Based
on the black and white data obtained in advance, a normalization process using the following for-
mula is applied to the raw image data 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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Transfer clock Light energy
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Details of light-receiving section
Transfer clock
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Layer N
Layer P
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