公开(公告)号：US20200056879A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-20

申请号：US16665912

申请日：2019-10-28

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Kazuko NISHIMURA ,  Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Yoshiaki SATOU ,  Osamu SHIBATA ,  Hiroshi IWAI

IPC: G01B11/14 ,  G06T7/70 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G08G1/16 ,  G08G1/09 ,  H04N5/374 ,  G06T7/20 ,  G01P3/36 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/351 ,  G01B11/00

Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel. The pixel includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer converting light into signal charge; and a charge accumulation region coupled to the second electrode, the charge accumulation region accumulating the signal charge. The pixel 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 length of the first exposure period is different from a length of the second exposure period. The imaging device generates multiple-exposure image data including at least the first data and the second data.

公开(公告)号：US20180278862A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-27

申请号：US15926435

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Osamu SHIBATA ,  Hiroshi IWAI ,  Kazuko NISHIMURA ,  Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Yoshiaki SATOU

IPC: H04N5/353 ,  G06T7/20

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.

公开(公告)号：US20230247315A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18190002

申请日：2023-03-24

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Masashi MURAKAMI ,  Tokuhiko TAMAKI ,  Yoshiaki SATOU

IPC: H04N25/53 ,  H10K39/32 ,  H01L27/146

CPC classification number: H04N25/53 ,  H10K39/32 ,  H01L27/14609 ,  H01L27/14612

Abstract: An imaging device including pixels each including a photoelectric converter that converts light into a signal charge; and controller, where the controller causes the pixels to perform global shutter operation in a first frame period and causes the pixels to perform rolling shatter operation in a second frame period different from the first frame period.

公开(公告)号：US20220303448A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17834558

申请日：2022-06-07

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yoshiaki SATOU ,  Yasuo Miyake ,  Yasunori Inoue ,  Tokuhiko Tamaki

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  H04N5/353 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N9/04 ,  G03B7/08

Abstract: An imaging device including pixels and processing circuitry, where the pixels capture a first image in a first exposure period within a frame period and capture a second image in a second exposure period within the frame period to generate multiple-exposure image data that include the first image and the second image in a multiplexed state, the second exposure period being different from the first exposure period, the second image being different from the first image in brightness or color, and the processing circuitry detects an image of a moving subject from the multiple-exposure image data.

公开(公告)号：US20220109800A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17551720

申请日：2021-12-15

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yoshiaki SATOU ,  Shota YAMADA ,  Masashi MURAKAMI ,  Yutaka HIROSE

IPC: H04N5/361 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/359

Abstract: An imaging device including a semiconductor substrate that includes a first impurity region; a photoelectric converter that is coupled to the first impurity region and that converts light into charges; a capacitor that includes a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal coupled to the first impurity region; voltage supply circuitry coupled to the second terminal; a first transistor including the first impurity region as a source or a drain; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is programmed to cause the voltage supply circuitry to supply a first voltage in a first period, and to cause the voltage supply circuitry to supply a second voltage different from the first voltage in a second period continuous to the first period, the first transistor being in on-state in the first period, the first transistor being in off-state in the second period.

公开(公告)号：US20210385366A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-09

申请号：US17405501

申请日：2021-08-18

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Yoshiaki SATOU ,  Sanshiro SHISHIDO ,  Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Kazuko NISHIMURA ,  Hiroshi IWAI ,  Osamu SHIBATA

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

Abstract: A camera system including an imaging device that captures a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that captures a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and a control circuit. The the imaging device captures the second image in a first frame period, and the control circuit determines, based on the second image captured in the first frame period, whether to capture an image by the normal exposure or capture an image by the multiple exposure in a second frame period following the first frame period.

公开(公告)号：US20190313038A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-10

申请号：US16444841

申请日：2019-06-18

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Masashi MURAKAMI ,  Tokuhiko TAMAKI ,  Yoshiaki SATOU

IPC: H04N5/353 ,  H01L27/30 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/378

Abstract: An electronic device including: a photosensitive layer that converts incident light into a signal charge; a first electrode that collects the signal charge; and a first carrier blocking layer between the photosensitive layer and the first electrode. The carrier blocking layer is configured to block a carrier a polarity of which is different from that of the signal charge. Under a first range of biases on the electronic device, the photosensitive layer is configured to generate photocurrent while illuminated. Under a second range of biases on the electronic device, the photosensitive layer is configured to generate lower photocurrent while illuminated compared to under the first range of biases.

公开(公告)号：US20180278861A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-27

申请号：US15926398

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Osamu SHIBATA ,  Hiroshi IWAI ,  Kazuko NISHIMURA ,  Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Yoshiaki SATOU

IPC: H04N5/353 ,  H04N5/355

CPC classification number: H04N5/353 ,  G06T7/20 ,  G06T2207/30236 ,  G06T2207/30241 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/2625 ,  H04N5/343 ,  H04N5/35536 ,  H04N5/374

Abstract: An objective is recognition of the travel direction of an object captured in an image frame. An image generating apparatus includes: a receiver circuit that receives a single exposure frame created by a single exposure and a multiple exposure frame created by multiple exposures after the single exposure frame, the single exposure frame and the multiple exposure frame being output from an image sensor; and a control circuit that specifies a starting point of a motion track of an object in the multiple exposure frame in accordance with a position of the object in the single exposure frame and a position of the same object in the multiple exposure frame.