RADIATION DETECTOR
    2.
    发明公开
    RADIATION DETECTOR 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3402181A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-14

    申请号:EP16883751.6

    申请日:2016-12-14

    发明人: ONIHASHI, Hiroshi

    摘要: The radiation detector according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with: a substrate; a plurality of control lines which are disposed on the substrate, and which extend in a first direction; a plurality of data lines which are disposed on the substrate, and which extend in a second direction that intersects with the first direction; photoelectric conversion units each of which disposed in one of areas segmented by the plurality of control lines and the plurality of data lines, and each of which having a photo - electric conversion element and a thin-film transistor that is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the control lines and a corresponding one of the data lines; a control circuit which is electrically connected to the plurality of control lines, and which switches the plurality of thin-film transistors between ON state and OFF state; a signal detection circuit which is electrically connected to the plurality of data lines; a reference potential unit which is electrically connected to the signal detection circuit; and a determination unit which is electrically connected to the signal detection unit. When the thin-film transistors are in OFF state, the signal detection unit detects a first current integration value via the data lines, and also detects a second current integration value from the reference potential unit. The determination unit determines a start time for radiation incidence on the basis of the difference between the detected first current integration value and the detected second current integration value.

    Image-capturing device, image-capturing method, and image-capturing program

    公开(公告)号:EP2453646B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-12

    申请号:EP11189052.1

    申请日:2011-11-14

    发明人: Shiohara, Ryuichi

    IPC分类号: H04N5/235 H04N5/238 H04N5/353

    摘要: An image-capturing device includes an electronic shutter, a mechanical shutter, an assessing part, and an electronic shutter control part. The assessing part is configured to measure length of a first exposure time of a first photoelectric conversion element to the light and length of a second exposure time of a second photoelectric conversion element to the light. The electronic shutter control part is configured to control the electronic shutter to start exposing the first photoelectric conversion element to the light at a first exposure-start timing and control the electronic shutter to start exposing the second photoelectric conversion element to the light at a second exposure-start timing in order to make the first exposure time to be substantially same to the second exposure time, if either the first or second exposure time is less than a threshold value.

    SOLID STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE DRIVING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:EP3334151A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-13

    申请号:EP16832502.5

    申请日:2016-07-28

    摘要: Provided is a method for driving a solid-state imaging device (1000) including a unit pixel which includes: a photoelectric converter which receives reflected light from an object (600) and converts the reflected light into charge; a charge discharger which discharges the charge of the photoelectric converter; an exposure resetter which switches timing for accumulating the charge in the photoelectric converter and timing for discharging the charge from the photoelectric converter to the charge discharger; n charge accumulators which accumulate the charge where n is a natural number; and n readers which read the charge where n is a natural number. The method includes performing an exposure sequence including: an exposure start step of starting exposure of the photoelectric converter by placing the exposure resetter in a non-conducting state after the lapse of a predetermined period of time starting from the readers are placed in a conducting state; and an exposure stop step of stopping the exposure of the photoelectric converter by placing the exposure resetter in the conducting state a predetermined period of time before placing the readers in the non-conducting state after the exposure is started.

    IMAGE SENSOR, CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    8.
    发明公开
    IMAGE SENSOR, CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE 审中-公开
    图像传感器,控制方法和电子设备

    公开(公告)号:EP3313069A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-25

    申请号:EP16874921.6

    申请日:2016-12-16

    发明人: LI, Longjia

    IPC分类号: H04N9/07 H04N5/235

    摘要: Disclosed is an image sensor. The image sensor comprises a photosensitive unit array, a filter unit array, and multiple converting units. The filter unit array is arranged on the photosensitive unit array. Each filter unit covers corresponding one photosensitive unit. The photosensitive units comprise multiple photosensitive pixels. The converting units comprise at least two source followers. At least one source follower is connected to the multiple photosensitive pixels. Also disclosed are a control method and an electronic device. The image sensor of embodiments of the present invention, where a same filter unit corresponds to the multiple photosensitive pixels and at least one source follower is connected to the multiple photosensitive pixels, compared with single photosensitive pixel output, is capable of acquiring an increased amount of photo-generated charge, thus not only increasing sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio by means of hardware improvement, but also allowing composition of high dynamic range images by means of controlling output and reading of photosensitive pixel exposure.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种图像传感器。 图像传感器包括光敏单元阵列,滤波器单元阵列和多个转换单元。 滤光单元阵列布置在感光单元阵列上。 每个滤光单元覆盖相应的一个感光单元。 感光单元包括多个感光像素。 转换单元包括至少两个源追随者。 至少一个源极跟随器连接到多个光敏像素。 还公开了控制方法和电子设备。 与单个光敏像素输出相比,本发明实施例的图像传感器能够获得增加的量,其中相同的滤波器单元对应于多个光敏像素并且至少一个源极跟随器连接到多个光敏像素, 因此不仅通过硬件改进提高了灵敏度和信噪比,而且还允许通过控制光敏像素曝光的输出和读取来构成高动态范围图像。

    ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
    9.
    发明公开
    ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD 审中-公开
    电子设备和图像处理方法

    公开(公告)号:EP3203722A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-09

    申请号:EP15847223.3

    申请日:2015-09-28

    申请人: Nikon Corporation

    IPC分类号: H04N5/225 H04N5/341 H04N5/91

    摘要: An electronic device, includes an input unit that inputs image data generated by an imaging unit that has a plurality of imaging regions with imaging conditions being different for each of the imaging regions, and data of the imaging conditions for each of the imaging regions; and an image processing unit that performs image processing upon the image data inputted from the input unit based on the imaging conditions for each of the imaging regions.

    摘要翻译: 一种电子设备,包括:输入单元,其输入由具有多个成像区域的成像单元生成的图像数据,该成像区域的成像条件对于每个成像区域是不同的;以及每个成像区域的成像条件的数据; 以及图像处理单元,其基于每个成像区域的成像条件对从输入单元输入的图像数据执行图像处理。

    APPARATUS COMPRISING IMAGE SENSOR ARRAY HAVING GLOBAL SHUTTER SHARED BY A PLURALITY OF PIXELS
    10.
    发明公开
    APPARATUS COMPRISING IMAGE SENSOR ARRAY HAVING GLOBAL SHUTTER SHARED BY A PLURALITY OF PIXELS 审中-公开
    装置上使用共享的全局锁包含多个图像元素的图像传感器矩阵

    公开(公告)号:EP3145173A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-22

    申请号:EP16197555.2

    申请日:2012-10-19

    发明人: WANG, Ynjiun Paul

    摘要: There is set forth herein in one embodiment an image sensor array including a global shutter shared by first and second pixels. The global shutter can include a charge storage area having an associated shield for reducing charge build up on the charge storage area attributable to incident light rays. There is set forth herein in one embodiment an imaging apparatus having one or more configuration. The one or more configuration can include one or more of a configuration wherein a frame read out from an image sensor array has unbinned pixel values, a configuration wherein a frame read out from an image sensor array has binned pixel values corresponding to an MxN, M>=2, N>=2 arrangement of pixel values, and a configuration wherein a frame read out from an image sensor array has binned pixel values corresponding to a 1xN, N>=2 arrangement of pixel values.

    摘要翻译: 在本文中阐述的在图像传感器阵列的一个实施例的包括通过第一和第二像素共享的全局快门。 全局快门可以包括具有相关联的在屏蔽用于减少电荷积累在电荷存储区域属性能够入射光线的电荷存储区域。 有在具有一个或多个配置的成像设备的一个实施例在此阐述。 所述一个或多个配置可以包括一个或多个worin帧从图像传感器阵列中读出已未像素合并像素值,worin帧从图像传感器阵列中读出的结构已像素合并像素值在M×N个,M个相应于配置的 > = 2,N> = 2排列的像素值的和worin帧从图像传感器阵列中读出的结构已像素合并的像素值对应于1×N,N> = 2的像素值的排列。