公开(公告)号：US20190253597A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-15

申请号：US16257587

申请日：2019-01-25

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YOSHIAKI SATOU ,  SANSHIRO SHISHIDO ,  YASUO MIYAKE ,  KAZUKO NISHIMURA ,  HIROSHI IWAI ,  OSAMU SHIBATA

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G06T7/73

CPC classification number: H04N5/2353 ,  G06T7/73 ,  H04N5/23229

Abstract: A camera system includes an imaging device that acquires a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that acquires a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and an image processor that extracts a feature value of a first object in the first image and that identifies one or more locations corresponding to the feature value in the second image.

公开(公告)号：US20180020171A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-18

申请号：US15719456

申请日：2017-09-28

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YASUO MIYAKE ,  MASASHI MURAKAMI ,  TOKUHIKO TAMAKI ,  YOSHIAKI SATOU

IPC: H04N5/353 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/378 ,  H04N5/369

CPC classification number: H04N5/353 ,  H01L27/14609 ,  H01L27/14612 ,  H01L27/14636 ,  H01L27/14643 ,  H01L27/14669 ,  H04N5/3532 ,  H04N5/35554 ,  H04N5/3698 ,  H04N5/378 ,  Y02E10/549

Abstract: An imaging device includes: unit pixel cells each including first and second electrodes, a photoelectric conversion layer therebetween, a charge accumulation region, and a signal detection circuit; and a voltage supply circuit, the voltage supply circuit supplying a first voltage to the second electrode in an exposure period. The start and end of the exposure period is common to the unit pixel cells. The photoelectric conversion layer has a photocurrent characteristic including first to third voltage ranges. In the third voltage range between the first and second voltage ranges, an absolute value of a rate of change of a current density relative to a bias voltage is less than in the first and second voltage ranges. The voltage supply circuit supplies a second voltage to the second electrode in a non-exposure period such that the bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer falls within the third voltage range.

公开(公告)号：US20170230563A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-10

申请号：US15497193

申请日：2017-04-25

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YOSHIAKI SATOU ,  YASUO MIYAKE ,  YASUNORI INOUE ,  TOKUHIKO TAMAKI

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  H04N5/355

Abstract: An imaging device includes a unit pixel cell. The unit pixel cell captures first data in a first exposure period and captures second data in a second exposure period different from the first exposure period, the first exposure period and the second exposure period being included in a frame period. A sensitivity per unit time of the unit pixel cell in the first exposure period is different from a sensitivity per unit time of the unit pixel cell in the second exposure period. The imaging device outputs multiple-exposure image data including at least the first data and the second data.

公开(公告)号：US20240214700A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18599298

申请日：2024-03-08

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YOSHIAKI SATOU ,  YASUO MIYAKE ,  YUSUKE OKADA ,  KAZUKO NISHIMURA

IPC: H04N25/47 ,  H04N25/772

CPC classification number: H04N25/47 ,  H04N25/772

Abstract: An imaging device is provided with a pixel array section including multiple pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and a column signal processor. The multiple pixels include multiple imaging pixels that each output a pixel signal corresponding to incident light and multiple reference pixels which are aligned in the column direction in at least two columns and which each output a reset signal corresponding to the output signal at reset of each of the multiple first pixels. The column signal processor outputs the difference between the pixel signal outputted by one imaging pixel from among the multiple imaging pixels and a reference signal based on the reset signals outputted by at least two reference pixels, from among the multiple reference pixels, located in the same row as the one imaging pixel.

公开(公告)号：US20210084248A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-18

申请号：US17098505

申请日：2020-11-16

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YUSUKE OKADA ,  TAKEYOSHI TOKUHARA ,  YOSHIAKI SATOU ,  YASUO MIYAKE

IPC: H04N5/378 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H01L27/148

Abstract: An imaging device 100 includes a pixel array PA. A first period, a third period, and a second period appear in this order in one frame. During the first period, pixel signal readout is performed on at least one first row in the pixel array PA. During the second period, pixel signal readout is performed on at least one second row in the pixel array PA. At least one of the at least one first row or the at least one second row includes two rows in the pixel array PA. During the third period, no pixel signal readout is performed on the rows in the pixel array PA. Each of the first period and the second period is one of the high-sensitivity exposure period and the low-sensitivity exposure period. The third period is the other of the high-sensitivity exposure period and the low-sensitivity exposure period.

公开(公告)号：US20190035842A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-31

申请号：US16038896

申请日：2018-07-18

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： JUNJI HIRASE ,  YOSHINORI TAKAMI ,  SHOTA YAMADA ,  YOSHIHIRO SATO ,  YOSHIAKI SATOU

IPC: H01L27/146 ,  H01L27/148

CPC classification number: H01L27/14643 ,  H01L27/14603 ,  H01L27/14609 ,  H01L27/1461 ,  H01L27/14612 ,  H01L27/1462 ,  H01L27/14806 ,  H04N5/3575 ,  H04N5/363 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/378

Abstract: An imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate having a surface, the semiconductor substrate including: a first layer of a first conductivity type; a second layer of a second conductivity type, the second layer being closer to the surface; and a pixel including: a photoelectric converter configured to convert light into charge; a first diffusion region of the first conductivity type, the first diffusion region facing the first layer via the second layer, configured to store at least a part of the charge; and a second diffusion region being a diffusion region closest to the first diffusion region among diffusion regions of the first conductivity type, the diffusion regions facing the first layer via the second layer. A distance between the second diffusion region and the first layer is equal to or less than 1.5 times a distance between the second diffusion region and the first diffusion region.

公开(公告)号：US20180343373A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-29

申请号：US15985951

申请日：2018-05-22

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YOSHIAKI SATOU ,  KAZUKO NISHIMURA ,  YASUO MIYAKE ,  OSAMU SHIBATA ,  HIROSHI IWAI

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  G03B11/04 ,  G03B7/16 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/46

Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imager that includes first pixels having sensitivity to visible light and second pixels having sensitivity to non-visible light, the imager acquiring first image data from the first pixels and acquiring second image data from the second pixels, each of the first image data and the second image data containing an image of an object that displays a code through non-visible light; and an image processor. The image processor performs a correction process including a process of multiplying at least either the first image data or the second image data by a correction factor, generates third image data from a difference between a pair of image data obtained by the correction process, and extracts the code on the basis of the third image data.

公开(公告)号：US20170013221A1

公开(公告)日：2017-01-12

申请号：US15190368

申请日：2016-06-23

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： MASAAKI YANAGIDA ,  TAKAYASU KITO ,  YOSHIAKI SATOU

IPC: H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H01L27/30

CPC classification number: H04N5/3698 ,  H01L27/307 ,  H04N5/3532 ,  H04N5/378

Abstract: An imaging device comprising: a pixel comprising a photoelectric converter and a reset transistor having a source and a drain one of which is electrically connected to the photoelectric converter; a first voltage generating circuit for generating a first voltage; a second voltage generating circuit for generating a second voltage identical or equivalent to the first voltage; and a first switching circuit having a first input terminal electrically connected to the first voltage generating circuit, a second input terminal electrically connected to the second voltage generating circuit, a first output terminal electrically connected to the other of the source and the drain of the reset transistor. The first switching circuit electrically connects one of the first and second input terminals to the first output terminal selectively in a period when the photoelectric converter is reset. The photoelectric converter is reset by use of the first voltage or the second voltage.

Abstract translation: 一种成像装置，包括：像素，包括光电转换器和复原晶体管，其源极和漏极电连接到所述光电转换器; 用于产生第一电压的第一电压产生电路; 第二电压产生电路，用于产生与第一电压相同或相当的第二电压; 以及第一开关电路，其具有与第一电压产生电路电连接的第一输入端子，电连接到第二电压产生电路的第二输入端子，电连接到复位的源极和漏极中的另一个的第一输出端子 晶体管。 在光电转换器复位的期间，第一开关电路将第一和第二输入端子之一电连接到第一输出端子。 光电转换器通过使用第一电压或第二电压复位。