Author: claimsbot

1.-67. (canceled)
68. A method of operating a wide dynamic range pixel cell, the method comprising:
resetting a photosensor to remove all charge from the photosensor, the photosensor comprising first and second charge accumulation regions having respective first and second pinned voltages;
exposing the photosensor to light during an integration period, the photosensor capable of converting the light into charges;
draining said charges from said first accumulation region into said second accumulation region; and
performing a readout of the charges generated by the photosensor during the integration period.
69. The method of claim 68, wherein said step of resetting the photosensor comprises signaling a transistor to apply a reset voltage to the photo sensor.
70. The method of claim 68, further comprising the step of activating a first anti-blooming transistor to drain excess charges from said second accumulation region into a drain region.
71. The method of claim 70, further comprising the step of a first transfer of generated charges from the photosensor to a floating diffusion region.
72. The method of claim 71, further comprising the step of second transfer of charges accumulated since said first transfer, from the photosensor to said floating diffusion region.
73. The method of claim 72, wherein said readout of said charge comprises:
performing a first readout of charges from said floating diffusion region after said first transfer; and
performing a second readout of charges from said floating diffusion region after said second transfer.
74. The method of claim 73, wherein said second readout occurs subsequent to said anti-blooming transistor draining excess charge from said photo sensor.
75. The method of claim 70, further comprising the step of de-activating said anti-blooming transistor.
76. The method of claim 68, wherein said step of resetting the photosensor comprises operating a mechanical shutter.
77. A method of operating a wide dynamic range pixel cell, the method comprising:
resetting a photosensor to remove all charge from the photosensor by setting a reset signal to activate a reset transistor and pulsing a transfer signal to activate a transfer transistor, the photosensor comprising first and second charge accumulation regions having respective first and second pinned voltages;
exposing the photosensor to light during an integration period, the photosensor capable of converting the light into charges;
draining said charges from said first accumulation region into said second accumulation region;
setting an anti-blooming transistor to drain excess charge from the second charge accumulation region into a drain region; and
performing a readout of the charges generated by the photosensor during the integration period.
78. The method of claim 77, further comprising the step of a first transfer of generated charges from the photosensor to a floating diffusion region.
79. The method of claim 78, further comprising the step of second transfer of charges accumulated since said first transfer, from the photosensor to said floating diffusion region.
80. The method of claim 79, wherein said readout of said charge comprises: performing a first readout of charges from said floating diffusion region after said first transfer; and performing a second readout of charges from said floating diffusion region after said second transfer.
81. The method of claim 80, wherein said second readout occurs subsequent to said anti-blooming transistor draining excess charge from said photo sensor.
82. The method of claim 78, wherein performing the readout comprises:
setting a row select signal and sample and hold signals high to readout a signal from the floating diffusion region;
turning the reset signal high to turn on the reset transistor; and
setting a reset sample and hold signal high to readout the reset signal.
83. The method of claim 77, further comprising opening a shutter to expose the photosensor to light during an integration period.
84. The method of claim 77, wherein after completion of performing the readout of the charges, all signals are returned to low and the steps of resetting the photosensor to performing the readout are repeated row-by-row for each pixel cell of an array.
85. The method of claim 77, wherein a set point of the anti-blooming transistor is set by the respective first and second pinned voltages of the first and second charge accumulation regions.
86. A method of operating a wide dynamic range pixel cell, the method comprising:
closing a shutter to prevent light from reaching a photosensor within the cell, the photosensor comprising first and second charge accumulation regions having respective first and second pinned voltages;
opening the shutter to expose the photosensor to light during an integration period, the photosensor converting the light into charge in the first accumulation region;
draining said charge from said first accumulation region into said second accumulation region; and
performing a readout of the charge generated by the photosensor during the integration period.
87. The method of claim 86, wherein the second charge accumulation region is directly coupled to a drain region.
88. The method of claim 86, wherein after completion of the readout of the charge, all signals are returned to low and the steps of resetting the photosensor to performing the readout are repeated row-by-row for each pixel cell of an array.

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 optical filter package comprising: a first optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal; an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter; an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter; a collimating lens positioned between said optical fibers and said filter; and a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber, wherein the filter is a gain-flattening shaping filter.
2. An optical filter package comprising:
a first optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
a collimating lens positioned between said optical fibers and said filter; and
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber, wherein the filter comprises a dielectric film.
3. An optical filter package comprising:
a first optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
a collimating lens positioned between said optical fibers and said filter; and
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber, wherein the reflector comprises a metallic coating.
4. An optical filter package comprising:
a first optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
a collimating lens positioned between said optical fibers and said filter;
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber; and
at least one substrate that supports the filter and the reflector.
5. An optical package comprising:
an optical element suitable for processing a light signal;
an input optical waveguide optically coupled to said optical element;
an output optical waveguide optically coupled to said optical element;
a reflector suitable for reflecting a desired wavelength of light signal, the optical element positioned between the input waveguide and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical waveguide, is transmitted through the optical element, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the optical element to the output optical waveguide; and
at least one substrate supporting said optical element and said reflector, said at least one substrate having a first side and a second side, wherein said optical element is deposited on said first side.
6. The optical package of claim 5 wherein the optical element is an isolator.
7. The optical package of claim 5 wherein the optical element is a filter.
8. The optical package of claim 7 wherein the filter is a shaping filter.
9. The optical package of claim 8 wherein the filter is a gain-flattening filter.
10. The optical package of claim 7 wherein the filter comprises at least one dielectric layer.
11. The optical package of claim 5 wherein said reflector is deposited on said second side.
12. The optical package of claim 5 further comprising a glass enclosure having an aperture for receiving a lens and said optical element, and wherein said optical element is positioned in said aperture of said glass enclosure.
13. An optical filter package comprising:
an optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber; and
at least one substrate having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the filter is supported on the first surface and the reflector is supported on the second surface.
14. An optical filter package comprising:
an optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber; and
at least one substrate having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the reflector is deposited on the first surface and the filter is deposited on the reflector.
15. An optical filter package comprising:
a first optical filter and a second optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filters;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filters;
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filters positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filters, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filters to the output optical fiber; and
at least one substrate that supports the filters and the reflector, the at least one substrate having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first filter is supported on the first surface and the second filter is supported on the second surface.
16. An optical filter package comprising:
an optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber; and
at least one substrate that supports the filter and the reflector, wherein the at least one substrate that supports the reflector has an angled surface such that the reflector is not parallel to the filter.
17. An optical filter package comprising:
a first optical filter suitable for shaping a desired wavelength of light signal;
an input optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
an output optical fiber optically coupled to the filter;
a reflector suitable for reflecting the desired wavelength of light signal, the filter positioned between the fibers and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical fiber, is transmitted through the filter, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the filter to the output optical fiber; and
a glass filter holder, the holder comprising a lens aperture for receiving the lens and a surface opposite the aperture for mounting the filter, the aperture of sufficient dimensions to allow micro tilting of the holder relative to the lens.
18. An optical package comprising:
an optical element suitable for processing a light signal;
an input optical waveguide optically coupled to said optical element;
an output optical waveguide optically coupled to said optical element;
a reflector suitable for reflecting a desired wavelength of light signal, the optical element positioned between the input waveguide and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical waveguide, is transmitted through the optical element, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the optical element to the output optical waveguide; and
at least one substrate supporting said optical element and said reflector wherein one of said substrates comprises an angled surface supporting said reflector, said angled surface being at an angle relative to a plane parallel to the optical element.
19. An optical package comprising:
an optical element suitable for processing a light signal;
an input optical waveguide optically coupled to said optical element;
an output optical waveguide optically coupled to said optical element;
a reflector suitable for reflecting a desired wavelength of light signal, the optical element positioned between the input waveguide and the reflector such that a light signal transmitted through the input optical waveguide, is transmitted through the optical element, is reflected by the reflector, and is transmitted back through the optical element to the output optical waveguide; and
a collimating lens positioned between said input waveguide and said optical element, and a glass optical element holder supporting said optical element, said holder comprising a lens aperture having dimensions sufficient to allow micro tilting of said holder relative to said lens.

1. A method for a file system to perform a redundancy consistency recovery operation for a file on a storage system without using any redundancy consistency mechanism of the storage system, comprising:
a file system receiving data modification requests each indicating data modifications to a file on a storage system, wherein the storage system comprises a plurality of storage devices configured to store data and redundancy data for the file;
for each data modification request:
the file system saving dirty file information at a file system level, wherein the dirty file information is separate from the data and redundancy data for the file, wherein the dirty file information indicates one or more portions of the file to be modified, wherein the one or more portions correspond to the indicated data modifications; and
the file system performing the indicated data modifications on the storage system, wherein said performing comprises storing redundancy data for the indicated data modifications, wherein the data modifications and redundancy data are stored on the storage system and are stored separately from the dirty file information; and

performing a redundancy consistency recovery operation for the file on the storage system without using any redundancy consistency mechanism of the storage system, wherein the redundancy consistency recovery operation uses the dirty file information.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said saving dirty file information comprises saving the dirty file information in a file system log.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining that the modifications to the one or more portions of a file to be modified have been completed on the storage system; and
updating the saved dirty file information to indicate that the modifications to the one or more portions of the file to be modified have been completed on the storage system.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein said updating is performed as part of saving, at the file system level, metadata modifications for each file.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said performing a redundancy consistency recovery operation for the file on the storage system without using any redundancy consistency mechanism of the storage system further comprises:
retrieving the saved dirty file information from the file system; and
recovering redundancy consistency for each file indicated by the dirty file information, wherein said recovering redundancy consistency comprises updating redundancy data for each indicated file.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the redundancy consistency recovery operation further comprises recovering redundancy consistency for the file system dirty file information on the storage system prior to said retrieving the saved dirty file information.
7. The method of claim 5, wherein said retrieving the saved dirty file information from the file system comprises reading the saved dirty file information from a file system log.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
performing a redundancy consistency recovery operation on the storage system, wherein the redundancy consistency recovery operation comprises:
retrieving information from the file system indicating metadata modifications for one or more files; and
modifying metadata for one or more files on the storage system as indicated by the information retrieved from the file system, wherein said modifying comprises modifying the metadata for each of the one or more files on the storage system.
9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
recovering redundancy consistency for the file system log on the storage system without using any redundancy consistency mechanism of the storage system, wherein said recovering redundancy consistency for the file system log comprises:
identifying one or more log entries of the file system log that are known to have redundancy consistency; and
recovering redundancy consistency for one or more remaining log entries not known to have redundancy consistency, wherein said recovering redundancy consistency comprises updating redundancy data for the one or more remaining log entries.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the storage system comprises a plurality of mirrors; and wherein said updating redundancy data for the one or more remaining log entries comprises copying the one or more remaining log entries from one of the mirrors to each other mirror.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the storage system comprises a RAID configuration; and wherein said updating redundancy data for the one or more remaining log entries comprises updating redundancy data for one or more RAID stripes corresponding to the remaining log entries.
12. A device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises program instructions executable by the processor to implement a file system configured to:
receive data modification requests each indicating data modifications to a file on a storage system, wherein the storage system comprises a plurality of storage devices configured to store data and redundancy data for the file; for each data modification request:
save dirty file information and metadata information for the data modification request to a log or journal of the file system, wherein the dirty file information and metadata information are separate from the data and redundancy data for the file, wherein the dirty file information indicates one or more portions of the file to be modified, wherein the one or more portions correspond to the indicated data modifications; and wherein the metadata information is saved to the log or journal of the file system using an IO operation and the dirty file information is saved to the log or journal of the file system without incurring an additional IO operation;

perform the indicated data modifications on the storage system; and
perform a redundancy consistency recovery operation for the file on the storage system without using any redundancy consistency mechanism of the storage system, wherein the redundancy consistency recovery operation uses the dirty file information.
13. The device of claim 12, wherein the program instructions are further configured to:
determine that the modifications to the one or more portions of a file to be modified have been completed on the storage system; and
update the saved dirty file information to indicate that the modifications to the one or more portions of the file to be modified have been completed on the storage system.
14. The device of claim 12, wherein the program instructions are further configured to:
perform the redundancy consistency recovery operation on the storage system, wherein the redundancy consistency recovery operation comprises:
retrieving the saved dirty file information from the file system; and
recover redundancy consistency for each file indicated by the dirty file information, wherein said recovering redundancy consistency comprises updating redundancy data for each indicated file.
15. A method for recovering redundancy consistency for a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices configured to store data and redundancy data, comprising:
recovering redundancy consistency for saved dirty file information on a storage system, wherein the dirty file information indicates one or more portions of one or more files that are known to have redundancy consistency on the storage system, wherein said recovering redundancy consistency comprises verifying redundancy data for the dirty file information to ensure a consistent state of the saved dirty file information;
retrieving said saved dirty file information from a file system; and
subsequent to said recovering redundancy consistency for saved dirty file information and subsequent to said retrieving said saved dirty file information, recovering redundancy consistency for one or more remaining portions of one or more files, wherein said recovering redundancy consistency comprises updating redundancy data for the one or more remaining portions of each file as indicated by the dirty file information.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein said retrieving saved dirty file information from a file system comprises reading the saved dirty file information from a file system log.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the storage system comprises a plurality of mirrors; and wherein said updating redundancy data comprises copying the one or more remaining portions of each file, as indicated by the dirty file information, from one mirror to each other mirror.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein said copying comprises saving information to enable a redundancy consistency mechanism of the storage system to copy the one or more remaining portions from one of the mirrors to each of the other mirrors.
19. The method of claim 15, wherein the storage system comprises a RAID configuration; and wherein said updating redundancy data comprises updating redundancy data for one or more RAID stripes corresponding to the one or more remaining portions of the one or more files.

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. A camera apparatus comprising:
a camera main body having a single plate type imaging section; and
a handle mounting section for mounting a handle on an upper portion of the camera main body,
wherein a lens for a three-plate type imaging section can be mounted on a lens mount section of a front portion of the camera main body via a mount adapter, and
the handle mounting section mounts the handle on the upper portion of the camera main body so as to be able to move in a front-back direction.
2. The camera apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the handle mounting section has a lock mechanism which fixes a position in the front-back direction of the handle to an arbitrary position.
3. The camera apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the handle has a viewfinder mounting section for mounting a viewfinder.
4. The camera apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a shoulder adapter mounting section for mounting a shoulder adapter on a lower portion of the camera main body,
wherein the shoulder adapter mounting section mounts the shoulder adapter on the lower portion of the camera main body so as to be able to move in the front-back direction.
5. The camera apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:
a support mechanism which supports the mount adapter by using a rod-like portion provided on the shoulder adapter so as to protrude in a front direction.
6. The camera apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mount adapter has
a lens unit which leads a light beam that is incident from the lens for a three-plate type imaging section to the single plate type imaging section of the camera main body, and
a filter disk unit having a predetermined type of filter for adjusting a light quantity of the light beam.
7. A mount adapter comprising:
a first mount section which is connected to a lens mount section of a front portion of a camera main body having a single plate type imaging section;
a second mount section for connecting a lens for a three-plate type imaging section; and
a lens unit which emits a light beam that is incident on the second mount section, from the first mount section.
8. The mount adapter according to claim 7, further comprising:
a filter disk unit having a predetermined type of filter for adjusting a light quantity of a light beam incident on the second mount section.
9. The mount adapter according to claim 7, wherein the first mount section is an FZ mount and the second mount section is a B4 mount.
10. A camera apparatus comprising:
a camera main body having a single plate type imaging section;
a lens for a three-plate type imaging section; and
a mount adapter which is interposed between the camera main body and the lens.