Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state image sensor with pixels having in-pixel memories, motion information acquisition apparatus, and imaging apparatus
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Application No.: US15111250Application Date: 2015-01-21
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Publication No.: US10070078B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: Aihiko Numata
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2014-013377 20140128; JP2014-187752 20140916; JP2014-187753 20140916
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/000269 WO 20150121
- International Announcement: WO2015/115067 WO 20150806
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N5/353 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/345 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/355 ; G02B7/34 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/361 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
A solid-state image sensor acquires signals through sequential reading, in signal lines disposed along a column direction, of signals from pixels disposed in the form of a matrix. The solid-state image sensor has a plurality of first pixels that are disposed in the form of a matrix in the solid-state image sensor; and a plurality of second pixels having an in-pixel memory and disposed in the form of a matrix in columns different from those of the plurality of first pixels in the solid-state image sensor. A difference in exposure timings of the second pixels between adjacent rows is caused to be different from that of the first pixels between adjacent rows, through reading of signals from the plurality of second pixels after holding in the in-pixel memories for a predetermined charge retention time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160337604A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, MOTION INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS, AND IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-11-17
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