Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device
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Application No.: US17779160Application Date: 2020-11-25
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Publication No.: US11678077B2Publication Date: 2023-06-13
- Inventor: Shoji Kawahito , Hiromasa Oku
- Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY , NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: JP Shizuoka
- Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY,NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY,NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Shizuoka
- Agency: Ostrolenk Faber LLP
- Priority: JP 2019213044 2019.11.26
- International Application: PCT/JP2020/043885 2020.11.25
- International Announcement: WO2021/106953A 2021.06.03
- Date entered country: 2022-05-24
- Main IPC: H04N25/50
- IPC: H04N25/50 ; H04N25/77 ; G02B7/28 ; H04N13/236

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a varifocal lens and an imaging sensor which outputs a signal corresponding to light. The imaging sensor includes a photoelectric conversion unit which converts light into an electric charge, electric charge reading regions, transfer control electrodes, a gate control circuit which sequentially applies control signals to the transfer control electrodes to correspond to the position of the focal point of the varifocal lens, and a reading circuit which outputs a signal corresponding to the amount of the electric charge transferred to the electric charge reading regions. The gate control circuit repeats an operation of outputting each of the control signals when the position of the focal point is located in the focal ranges during a frame period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220417455A1 IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2022-12-29
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