1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface; and a plurality of light-receiving sections arranged in an array pattern on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the solid-state imaging device reading a stored electric charge in each of the light-receiving sections,
wherein each of the light-receiving sections comprises:
a first signal electric charge storage section that stores a first signal electric charge corresponding to an incident light energy; and
a second signal electric charge storage section that stores at least part of an excessive electric charge, said at least part of the excessive electric charge being captured from the first signal electric charge storage section, when the electric charge stored in the first signal electric charge storage section exceeds a saturated electric charge amount of the first signal electric charge section to form the excessive electric charge.
2. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the second signal electric charge storage section is disposed adjacent to the first signal electric charge storage section isolated from potential barrier, on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate.
3. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 2, further comprising:
a P-well layer on the semiconductor substrate;
a first read gate section for the first signal electric charge storage section; and
a second read gate section for the second signal electric charge storage section,
wherein the impurity dopant concentration in the potential barrier is higher than the impurity dopant concentration in the P-well layer, and lower than each of the impurity dopant concentrations of the first and second read gate sections.
4. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 2, further comprising:
a first read gate section for the first signal electric charge storage section; and
a second read gate section for the second signal electric charge storage section,
wherein the impurity dopant concentration in the potential barrier has the same level of each of the impurity dopant concentrations of the first and second read gate sections.
5. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the second signal electric charge storage section is disposed vertically in a depth direction of the first signal electric charge storage section with respect to the semiconductor substrate.
6. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 5, further comprising:
a second read gate section for the second signal electric charge storage section,
wherein the second signal electric charge storage section has a impurity dopant profile that the impurity dopant concentration near the second read gate is higher than that of a deeper portion of the second signal electric charge storage section.
7. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 1,
wherein the solid-state imaging device is an electric-charge coupled device (CCD);
wherein the solid-state imaging device comprises: a first read gate section for the first signal electric charge storage section; and a second read gate section for the second signal electric charge storage section; and
wherein the first and second read gate sections are disposed separately from each other.
8. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 1, further comprising a light-shielding film having at least one opening section, wherein the second signal electric charge storage section is disposed at a position that is below the light-shielding film and avoids each of the at least one opening section.
9. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 8, wherein the second signal electric charge storage section is disposed so as to surround the first signal electric charge storage section.
10. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the second signal electric charge storage section is smaller in area than the first signal electric charge storage section.
11. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 1, further comprising:
an on-chip micro-lens system provided above each of the plurality of light-receiving sections; and
a light-shielding film having at least one opening section, each of the at least one opening section corresponding to each of the plurality of light-receiving sections.
12. The solid-state imaging device according to claim 7, wherein the light-receiving sections are arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
13. A method for driving the solid-state imaging device according to claim 1, comprising:
reading a first electric charge signal in the first signal electric charge storage section and a second electric charge signal in the second signal electric charge storage section, independently.
14. The method for driving according to claim 13, wherein the first electric charge signal and the second electric charge signal are separately and frame-sequentially read to a vertical transfer channel and then independently transferred and output to the vertical horizontal transfer channel and a horizontal transfer channel.
15. A method for processing an image signal by use of a first output signal from the first signal electric charge storage section and a second output signal from the second signal electric charge storage section in the method for driving according to claim 14, the method for processing comprising:
merging the first output signal into the second output signal with respect to each of the light-receiving sections.
16. The method according to claim 13,
wherein the first electric charge signal and the second electric charge signal are read to a vertical transfer channel to cause a mixed signal, where the first and second electric charge signals are mixed together in the vertical transfer channel; and
wherein the mixed signal is transferred down to the horizontal transfer channel, and is output from the solid-state imaging device.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An analyzing apparatus, comprising:
a data capture for capturing a first set of values including a plurality of peak values and a true peak value from a sensor of an ignition event;
a data converter to convert the first set of values including the true peak value to a second set of averaged peak values, wherein the true peak value is averaged with at least one of the plurality of peak values;
a data replacer that identifies and replaces the averaged peak value with the true peak value in response to identification of the ignition event; and
a display for displaying the resulting data.
2. The analyzing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first set of values is from a secondary waveform of the ignition event.
3. The analyzing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data capture further converts the first set of values from analog to digital via an analog to digital converter.
4. The analyzing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first set of values is stored in a memory medium.
5. The analyzing apparatus of claim 4, wherein memory medium is selected from a group consisting of a floppy disc, a tape drive cartridge, an optical media, a flash memory, a magnetic based media, a magneto optical, USB drive, any other storage media that an operator can store or retrieve information from it and a combination thereof.
6. The analyzing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensor is a secondary lead.
7. The analyzing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data capture, the data converter and data replacer is a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) in communication with a signal converter, memory medium and the display.
8. The analyzing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first set of values comprises an ignition pulse and the associated true peak value.
9. The analyzing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the second set of averaged peak values is the first of values that has been averaged and stored in a data buffer.
10. The analyzing apparatus of claim 9, wherein the data replacer identifies the averaged ignition pulse along with the averaged peak value in the second set of averaged peak values and replaces the averaged peak value with the true peak value.
11. A method of displaying accurate data, comprising:
capturing a set of data having a true peak data from an ignition event of a cylinder;
storing the set of data in a memory medium;
averaging the set of data including the true peak data to fit a sampling rate; and
replacing the averaged true peak data with the true peak data.
12. The method of displaying of claim 11, wherein capturing the set of data further comprising of converting the set of data from analog to digital data.
13. The method of displaying of claim 11, wherein replacing the averaged true peak data further comprises identifying the averaged true peak data and replacing the averaged true peak data with the true peak data.
14. The method of displaying of claim 11, further comprising displaying the true peak data on a display.
15. The method of displaying of claim 11, wherein the averaged set of data is stored in a display data buffer.
16. A system for displaying accurate data from an ignition event, comprising:
means for capturing a first set of data from a sensor that senses signals from an ignition event, the first set of data including a first peak data;
means for storing the first set of data;
means for changing the first set of data into a second set of data, the second set of data including an averaged peak data and a plurality of averaged ones of the first set of data;
means for analyzing the second set of data to identify the ignition event;
means for replacing the averaged peak data with the first peak data in response to the identified ignition event; and
means for displaying the replaced data.
17. The system of claim 16, wherein the means for capturing is a FPGA in communication with a converter that converts analog signals to digital signals.
18. The system of claim 16, wherein the means for changing averages the first set of data to create the second set of data.
19. The system of claim 16, wherein the storing means is selected from a group consisting of a floppy disc, a tape drive cartridge, an optical media, a flash memory, a magnetic based media, a magneto optical, USB drive, any other storage media that an operator can store or retrieve information from it and a combination thereof.
20. The system of claim 16, wherein the means for replacing identifies where in the second set of data the averaged peak data is and replaces the averaged peak data with the first peak data.