Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular image capturing system and image capturing method
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Application No.: US17439706Application Date: 2020-02-28
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Publication No.: US11997402B2Publication Date: 2024-05-28
- Inventor: Ayaka Hirata , Kei Nakagawa , Kazuhiro Hoshino , Masatsugu Fukunaga
- Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION , SONY GROUP CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION,SONY GROUP CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION,SONY GROUP CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa; JP Tokyo
- Agency: CHIP LAW GROUP
- Priority: JP 19059585 2019.03.27
- International Application: PCT/JP2020/008279 2020.02.28
- International Announcement: WO2020/195538A 2020.10.01
- Date entered country: 2021-09-15
- Main IPC: B60R1/23
- IPC: B60R1/23 ; B60R1/20 ; B60R1/22 ; B60R1/27 ; H04N23/58 ; H04N23/65 ; H04N23/71 ; H04N25/47

Abstract:
Provided is a vehicular image capturing system capable of further improving characteristics such as a reduction in power consumption. The system includes: an event detection unit, installed in a vehicle, that outputs an event signal in accordance with an amount of change in an intensity of received light from a predetermined light receiving range; an image capturing unit, installed in the vehicle, that performs image capturing, the image capturing being an operation of generating and accumulating a charge in accordance with an intensity of received light from a predetermined image capturing range that at least partially overlaps with the predetermined light receiving range, and generating image information in accordance with an accumulation amount of the charge; and a control unit that outputs, to the image capturing unit, a control signal according to the event signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220161728A1 VEHICULAR IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD Public/Granted day:2022-05-26
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