公开(公告)号：US20200014873A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-09

申请号：US16491123

申请日：2018-02-27

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yutaka ABE ,  Kazuko NISHIMURA ,  Hiroshi FUJINAKA ,  Norihiko SUMITANI ,  Yosuke HIGASHI

IPC: H04N5/378 ,  H03M1/38 ,  H03M1/56 ,  H03K3/356 ,  H03K5/24 ,  H03F3/45

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a first A/D converter circuit and a second A/D converter circuit per column. The first A/D converter circuit performs a first A/D conversion that (i) refines, using a first comparator, a range including a potential of an analog signal through a binary search, and (ii) generates, based on a result of the binary search, a first digital signal being a high-order portion of the digital signal. The second A/D converter circuit performs a second A/D conversion that generates a second digital signal being a low-order portion that is a remainder of the digital signal by measuring a time required for an output of the second comparator to be inverted, the second comparator comparing a quantitative relationship between the analog signal refined and a ramp signal.

公开(公告)号：US20190259793A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-22

申请号：US16401974

申请日：2019-05-02

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Masashi MURAKAMI ,  Kazuko NISHIMURA ,  Yutaka ABE ,  Yoshiyuki MATSUNAGA ,  Yoshihiro SATO ,  Junji HIRASE

IPC: H01L27/146

Abstract: An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first transistor that has a gate connected to the first electrode, and a first capacitor and a switching element that are connected, in series, between the first electrode and either a voltage source or a ground.

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.

公开(公告)号：US20180124339A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15852874

申请日：2017-12-22

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Takayoshi YAMADA ,  Masashi MURAKAMI ,  Kazuko NISHIMURA ,  Hidenari KANEHARA ,  Yasuo MIYAKE

IPC: H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/232

CPC classification number: H04N5/35563 ,  H01L27/14603 ,  H04N5/23245 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N5/3696 ,  H04N5/3698

Abstract: An imaging device which includes a counter electrode, a first pixel electrode facing the counter electrode, a second pixel electrode facing the counter electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer sandwiched between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and the counter electrode, a first signal detection circuit electrically connected to the second pixel electrode, and a first switching element connected between the first pixel electrode and the first signal detection circuit.