Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor and driving method, and electronic apparatus
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Application No.: US16327958Application Date: 2017-08-23
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Publication No.: US10713749B2Publication Date: 2020-07-14
- Inventor: Yoshinori Muramatsu , Shuji Uehara , Hironobu Katayama , Tomohiro Yamazaki , Masatoshi Ishikawa , Yoshihiro Watanabe
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION , THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation,The University of Tokyo
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation,The University of Tokyo
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sheridan Ross P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@60de6b82
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/030014 WO 20170823
- International Announcement: WO2018/047618 WO 20180315
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06T1/20 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; G06T1/60

Abstract:
To perform inter-pixel image processing with lower latency and higher speed.An image sensor includes: a pixel array unit in which pixels having a photoelectric conversion function are arranged in an array; an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion processing on pixel signals output from the pixels in parallel for each column of the pixels of the pixel array unit; a memory unit configured to hold pixel signals of any number of rows subjected to AD conversion in the AD conversion unit for each column of the pixels; an inter-pixel image processing unit configured to read pixel signals of any rows and columns from the memory unit, and perform computing between the pixel signals in parallel for each column of the pixels; and an output circuit configured to control output, to an outside, of pixel signals output from the AD conversion unit and pixel signals output from the inter-pixel image processing unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190228497A1 IMAGE SENSOR AND DRIVING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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