Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup apparatus, control method, and computer program storage medium
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Application No.: US17149318Application Date: 2021-01-14
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Publication No.: US11438537B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Hideaki Sambonsugi
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2020-005905 20200117
- Main IPC: H04N5/369
- IPC: H04N5/369 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/345

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus has a plurality of pixels each of which includes first and second photoelectric converters and is arranged in a matrix and connected to a column output line, a reading unit configured to perform a first reading operation that reads a signal of the first photoelectric converter to the column output line and a second reading operation that reads a signal obtained by mixing the signals of the first and second photoelectric converters to the column output line, a column circuit configured to be connected to the column output line, and a control unit configured to save power in at least some of the column circuits not used during the first reading operation from among the column circuits used in the second reading operation, during the first reading operation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210227159A1 IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2021-07-22
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