Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor, electronic apparatus, and driving method of electronic apparatus
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Application No.: US13100664Application Date: 2011-05-04
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Publication No.: US08711260B2Publication Date: 2014-04-29
- Inventor: Eiji Makino , Takahiro Abiru , Ryoji Suzuki , Masahiro Itoh
- Applicant: Eiji Makino , Takahiro Abiru , Ryoji Suzuki , Masahiro Itoh
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Dentons US LLP
- Priority: JP2007-132099 20070517
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/235

Abstract:
An image sensor that has a pixel array section in which pixels are arrayed in a two-dimensional manner in vertical and horizontal directions and that controls an exposure time of each pixel in a rolling shutter method is disclosed. The sensor includes control means for determining an electronic shutter occurrence number within one horizontal scanning period, which is the number of rows where electronic shutters are simultaneously performed in one horizontal scanning period, by an operation based on an address addition amount (P1, P2, P3, . . . , PN) when a vertical address movement amount of the pixel array section for every one horizontal scanning period in an exposure regulation shutter, which is an electronic shutter for regulating exposure, executed corresponding to electric charge reading in each pixel is expressed as repetition of the address addition amount (P1, P2, P3, . . . , PN).
Public/Granted literature
- US08767104B2 Image sensor, electronic apparatus, and driving method of electronic apparatus Public/Granted day:2014-07-01
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