Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor
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Application No.: US17252278Application Date: 2019-08-21
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Publication No.: US11758304B2Publication Date: 2023-09-12
- Inventor: Akira Matsuzawa , Hirofumi Sumi
- Applicant: TECH IDEA CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: TECH IDEA CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: TECH IDEA CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: HAUPTMAN HAM, LLP
- Priority: JP 18186486 2018.10.01
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/032573 2019.08.21
- International Announcement: WO2020/070994A 2020.04.09
- Date entered country: 2020-12-15
- Main IPC: H04N25/75
- IPC: H04N25/75 ; H04N25/59 ; H04N25/65 ; H04N25/443 ; H04N25/771

Abstract:
An image sensor capable of obtaining a high dynamic range without reducing a frame rate. An image sensor includes a pixel region where a plurality of pixels each including a sensor element that detects a naturally occurring physical quantity and converts the physical quantity into an electric signal are arranged in a row direction and a column direction, a row selection unit that selects any of the pixels in the pixel region in units of rows and contributes to readout of the electric signal from each of the pixels and resetting of an accumulated charge, a pixel readout unit that reads out the electric signal from each of the pixels selected by the row selection unit in column-parallel, and a column selection unit that selects the pixel in any column from a pixel row selected by the row selection unit and controls a charge accumulation amount of the selected pixel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210266486A1 IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2021-08-26
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