Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state image-capturing element and electronic device having improved linearity
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Application No.: US15029556Application Date: 2014-10-10
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Publication No.: US09961278B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Yusuke Ikeda , Hideki Shoyama , Yoshimasa Sakamoto , Yuuichi Udou , Oichi Kumagai
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-218066 20131021
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/077171 WO 20141010
- International Announcement: WO2015/060143 WO 20150430
- Main IPC: H04N5/355
- IPC: H04N5/355 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N9/04

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image-capturing element and electronic device capable of improving the linearity of illuminance values. The dynamic-range expander 118 expands dynamic range of a pixel value for each pixel based on the pixel value having different exposure times of a plurality of pixels. The integrator 119 integrates pixel values having the dynamic range expanded by the dynamic-range expander 118 and generates an illuminance value. The present disclosure is applicable to complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor or the like used in, for example, an illuminometer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160269659A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGE-CAPTURING ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-09-15
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