Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device and camera system with photosensitive conversion element
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Application No.: US15141390Application Date: 2016-04-28
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Publication No.: US09723237B2Publication Date: 2017-08-01
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Nishihara
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Dentons US LLP
- Priority: JP2010-224235 20101001
- Main IPC: H04N5/3745
- IPC: H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/32 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/357

Abstract:
An imaging device including a pixel array section functioning as a light receiving section which includes photoelectric conversion devices and in which a plurality of pixels, which output electric signals when photons are incident, are disposed in an array; a sensing circuit section in which a plurality of sensing circuits, which receive the electric signals from the pixels and perform binary determination regarding whether or not there is an incidence of photons on the pixels in a predetermined period, are arrayed; and a determination result integration circuit section having a function of integrating a plurality of determination results of the sensing circuits for the respective pixels or for each pixel group, wherein the determination result integration circuit section derives the amount of photon incidence on the light receiving section by performing photon counting for integrating the plurality of determination results in the plurality of pixels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160241805A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM WITH PHOTOSENSITIVE CONVERSION ELEMENT Public/Granted day:2016-08-18
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