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- Patent Title: Image generating apparatus, image generating method, and recording medium for controlling image sensor having two types of cells
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Application No.: US15926435Application Date: 2018-03-20
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Publication No.: US10531021B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Osamu Shibata , Hiroshi Iwai , Kazuko Nishimura , Yasuo Miyake , Yoshiaki Satou
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2017-056567 20170322
- Main IPC: H04N5/353
- IPC: H04N5/353 ; G06K9/00 ; G06T7/20 ; H04N5/355

Abstract:
An object is to extract the motion tracks of other vehicles from an image taken from a target vehicle. An image generating apparatus includes: a determiner circuit that determines whether surroundings of the target vehicle are in a dark place; and a control circuit that causes an image sensor including a high-sensitivity cell and a highly-saturated cell to create a highly-saturated frame by multiple exposures through the highly-saturated cell, the highly-saturated cell having lower sensitivity and larger charge storage capacity than the high-sensitivity cell, when the determiner circuit determines that the surroundings of the target vehicle are in the dark place.
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