Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device and imaging device with combined dynamic vision sensor and imaging functions
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Application No.: US16700281Application Date: 2019-12-02
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Publication No.: US11330211B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Giri Mehta , Pooria Mostafalu , Frederick Brady , Ping Wah Wong
- Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Sheridan Ross P.C.
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N5/369 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
An imaging device with a plurality of image sensing pixels and a plurality of event detection pixels is provided. Each image sensing pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element and an imaging signal generation readout circuit. The image sensing readout circuit can be shared by a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. Each event detection pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element and an event detection readout circuit. The event detection readout circuit can be shared by a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. In addition, the photoelectric conversion element of an event detection pixel can be selectively connected to a shared imaging signal generation readout circuit. The number of image sensing pixels is greater than the number of event detection pixels. In addition, the area of a photoelectric conversion element of an event detection pixel can be greater than the area of a photoelectric conversion element of an image sensing pixel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210168314A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE WITH COMBINED DYNAMIC VISION SENSOR AND IMAGING FUNCTIONS Public/Granted day:2021-06-03
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