Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image-capturing device
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Application No.: US14356022Application Date: 2012-12-07
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Publication No.: US09681059B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Ken Ozawa , Masanori Iwasaki , Hideaki Mogi
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Priority: JP2011-276508 20111216
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/081798 WO 20121207
- International Announcement: WO2013/089036 WO 20130620
- Main IPC: H04N5/235
- IPC: H04N5/235 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/355

Abstract:
An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing unit 30 including a first image-capturing element 41, a second image-capturing element 51, a third image-capturing element 61, and a fourth image-capturing element 71, and includes an image processing unit 11, wherein a sensitivity of the fourth image-capturing element 71 is less than sensitivities of the first image-capturing element 41 to the third image-capturing element 61, and the image processing unit 11 generates high sensitivity image data on the basis of outputs from the first image-capturing element 41 to the third image-capturing element 61, and generates low sensitivity image data on the basis of an output from the fourth image-capturing element 71, and further, the image processing unit 11 generates a combined image using high sensitivity image data corresponding to a low illumination image area in the low illumination image area obtained from the low sensitivity image data or the high sensitivity image data, and using low sensitivity image data corresponding to an high illumination image area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140320695A1 IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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