Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device and imaging method having an illuminance calculation unit calculating respective illuminances corresponding to digital signals
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Application No.: US14864206Application Date: 2015-09-24
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Publication No.: US09671282B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Kazuhide Namba , Youji Sakioka , Hiroaki Ebihara , Daisuke Yoshioka , Ryota Moriwaka
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP2012-245034 20121107
- Main IPC: G01J1/42
- IPC: G01J1/42 ; H04N5/235 ; G03B7/091 ; H04N5/355 ; G01J1/02 ; H04N5/225 ; G01J1/44

Abstract:
An imaging device includes an exposure control unit, a determination unit, and an illuminance calculation unit. The exposure control unit is configured to control a plurality of exposure times. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not saturation occurs using at least one data item of a plurality of data items obtained during the plurality of exposure times. The illuminance calculation unit is configured to calculate, if the determination unit determines that the saturation occurs, an illuminance using a data item different from the at least one data item used in the determination.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160011042A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-01-14
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