Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device
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Application No.: US17922845Application Date: 2021-05-18
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Publication No.: US11956559B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Kazuhiko Muraoka
- Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP 20108113 2020.06.23
- International Application: PCT/JP2021/018718 2021.05.18
- International Announcement: WO2021/261116A 2021.12.30
- Date entered country: 2022-11-02
- Main IPC: H04N25/768
- IPC: H04N25/768 ; H04N1/028 ; H04N1/203 ; H04N25/53 ; H04N25/533 ; H04N25/57 ; H04N25/583 ; H04N25/701

Abstract:
Imaging devices are disclosed. In one example, an imaging device includes a pixel array with light-receiving pixels that are separated pixel lines, and that accumulating electric charge in an accumulation period. An exposure controller sets time lengths of the accumulation such that the time lengths repeat in predetermined order. The accumulation period includes a first accumulation period and a second accumulation period each having a first time length, and a third accumulation period and a fourth accumulation period each having a second time length. A processor generates image data by adding pixel values based on the accumulation result in a first pixel line in the first accumulation period, the accumulation result in a second pixel line in the second accumulation period, the accumulation result in the first pixel line in the third accumulation period, and the accumulation result in the second pixel line in the fourth accumulation period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230164453A1 IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2023-05-25
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