Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor and image-capturing device
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Application No.: US14431317Application Date: 2013-09-25
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Publication No.: US10225503B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Yosuke Kusaka
- Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2012-214452 20120927
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/075881 WO 20130925
- International Announcement: WO2014/050875 WO 20140403
- Main IPC: G02B7/34
- IPC: G02B7/34 ; H04N9/04 ; G03B13/36 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
An image sensor includes: first pixels, each of which receives a pair of light fluxes and outputs a pair of first analog signals; an A/D conversion unit that converts each of pairs of first analog signals to a pair of first digital signals; a digital adder unit that generates digital sum signals each by adding together the pair of first digital signals among pairs of first digital signals; a first output unit that outputs pairs of first digital signals to an external recipient; and a second output unit that outputs the digital sum signals to an external recipient.
Public/Granted literature
- US10270999B2 Image sensor and image-capturing device Public/Granted day:2019-04-23
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