Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device and method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus
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Application No.: US17627036Application Date: 2020-07-10
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Publication No.: US11716554B2Publication Date: 2023-08-01
- Inventor: Takuya Mikami
- Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP 19136102 2019.07.24
- International Application: PCT/JP2020/026971 2020.07.10
- International Announcement: WO2021/014999A 2021.01.28
- Date entered country: 2022-01-13
- Main IPC: H04N25/71
- IPC: H04N25/71 ; H04N25/75 ; H04N25/77 ; H04N25/531

Abstract:
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus capable of avoiding an occurrence of a blackout in low-speed read-out.
The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, and a control unit that exposes all pixels of the pixel array unit at a same exposure timing and performs thinned read-out 2(N−1) times in which all the pixels are thinned to 1/N, so as to read electric charge in all the pixels of the pixel array unit, the electric charge being generated at the same exposure timing. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device, or the like, incorporated in an imaging device.
The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, and a control unit that exposes all pixels of the pixel array unit at a same exposure timing and performs thinned read-out 2(N−1) times in which all the pixels are thinned to 1/N, so as to read electric charge in all the pixels of the pixel array unit, the electric charge being generated at the same exposure timing. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device, or the like, incorporated in an imaging device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220256108A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-08-11
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