Invention Grant
US07884868B2 Image capturing element, image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image capturing system, and image processing apparatus
有权
图像拍摄元件,摄像装置,图像拍摄方法,图像拍摄系统和图像处理装置
- Patent Title: Image capturing element, image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, image capturing system, and image processing apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像拍摄元件,摄像装置,图像拍摄方法,图像拍摄系统和图像处理装置
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Application No.: US11625528Application Date: 2007-01-22
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Publication No.: US07884868B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Haruhisa Kurane
- Applicant: Haruhisa Kurane
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2006-013598 20060123; JP2006-316726 20061124
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
An image capturing element having an electric shutter function of controlling exposure time for each frame includes: a photoelectric converter that has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix each of which converts light into charge and stores the converted charge; a first reading unit that reads charge exposed for a predetermined exposure time from each pixel formed by the photoelectric conversion element in the entire exposure region of the photoelectric converter by a destructive readout method; and a second reading unit that reads charge from each pixel formed by the photoelectric conversion element in a specific region, which is a portion of the entire exposure region of the photoelectric converter, plural times by a non-destructive readout method in a period in which the first reading unit reads the charge from the entire exposure region.
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