Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device and drive method of imaging device
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Application No.: US16984402Application Date: 2020-08-04
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Publication No.: US11303829B2Publication Date: 2022-04-12
- Inventor: Yoshiko Shigiya , Noriyuki Shikina , Shintaro Takenaka
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-155804 20190828
- Main IPC: H04N5/353
- IPC: H04N5/353 ; H04N5/341 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/355

Abstract:
Provided is an imaging device including a scanning unit configured to control a plurality of pixels so as to perform a shutter scan and a readout scan, and the scanning unit is further configured to switch a drive mode between a first drive mode and a second drive mode having periods of different lengths of the readout scan in control of the plurality of pixels and start the shutter scan performed in the second drive mode before the readout scan performed in the first drive mode ends when switching a drive mode from the first drive mode to the second drive mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210067717A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD OF IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2021-03-04
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