Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device provided with light source, image sensor including first accumulator and second accumulator, and controller
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Application No.: US15610675Application Date: 2017-06-01
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Publication No.: US10397496B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Tatsuya Nakamura , Toshiya Fujii , Masaaki Yanagida , Takamasa Ando
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2016-113424 20160607
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18 ; H04N5/33 ; A61B1/04 ; A61B1/06 ; G06T7/20 ; G06T11/60 ; H04N5/225 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/1455 ; H04N5/235 ; A61B5/026 ; G06T7/00 ; H04N5/361 ; A61B5/021 ; A61B5/024 ; A61B5/145 ; A61B5/16

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a light source, an image sensor, and a controller. Each pixel of the image sensor includes first and second accumulators and a discharger. The controller, while a component of light from the light source reflected by the surface of a target is incident on the image sensor, causes the accumulators to accumulate signal charge not discharged to the discharger, by setting the image sensor so that signal charge is discharged to the discharger, while a component having scattered inside the target is incident on the image sensor, causes the first accumulator to accumulate signal charge by setting the image sensor so that signal charge is not discharged to the discharger and signal charge is accumulated in the first accumulator, and causes the image sensor to generate first and second signals that are respectively based on signal charge accumulated in the first and second accumulators.
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