Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distance sensor, and method for driving distance sensor
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Application No.: US16098187Application Date: 2017-04-19
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Publication No.: US11493337B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: Akihiro Shimada , Mitsuhito Mase , Jun Hiramitsu , Takashi Suzuki
- Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Agency: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JPJP2016-092660 20160502
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/015746 WO 20170419
- International Announcement: WO2017/191758 WO 20171109
- Main IPC: G01C3/06
- IPC: G01C3/06 ; G01S17/10 ; G01S17/89 ; G01S7/486 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/374

Abstract:
The present embodiment relates to a distance sensor configured to inject an equal amount of current into storage nodes coupled, respectively, to charge collection regions where charges of a photosensitive region is distributed by driving of first and second transfer electrodes and obtain a distance to an object based on difference information on charge amounts of the respective storage nodes. Saturation caused by disturbance light of each storage node is avoided by injecting the equal amount of current to each storage node, and the difference information on the charge amounts of the respective storage nodes, which is not easily affected by the current injection, is obtained by driving the first and second transfer electrodes according to the plurality of frames representing the electrode drive pattern, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190145767A1 DISTANCE SENSOR, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISTANCE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2019-05-16
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