Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device and camera system including sense circuits to make binary decision
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Application No.: US16123770Application Date: 2018-09-06
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Publication No.: US10341589B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Nishihara
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP2009-197986 20090828; JP2010-092076 20100413
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/359 ; G01J1/44 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/353 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/361 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/369 ; H01L27/148

Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a pixel array section having an array of pixels, each of which has a photoelectric converting device and outputs an electric signal according to an input photon; a sense circuit section having a plurality of sensor circuits each of which makes binary decision on whether there is a photon input to a pixel in a predetermined period upon reception of the electric signal therefrom; and a decision result IC section which integrates decision results from the sense circuits, pixel by pixel or for each group of pixels, multiple times to generate imaged data with a gradation, the decision result IC section including a count circuit which performs a count process to integrate the decision results from the sense circuits, and a memory for storing a counting result for each pixel from the count circuit, the sense circuits sharing the count circuit for integrating the decision results.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190020833A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM INCLUDING SENSE CIRCUITS TO MAKE BINARY DECISION Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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