Depth sensor and method of operating the same

    公开(公告)号:US11729524B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-15

    申请号:US17726207

    申请日:2022-04-21

    摘要: Provided is a depth sensor which includes a pixel and a row driver that controls the pixel, the pixel including a first tap, a second tap, a third tap, and a fourth tap, an overflow transistor, and a photoelectric conversion device. Each of the first tap, the second tap, the third tap, and the fourth tap includes a photo transistor, a transfer transistor, and a readout circuit. In a first integration period of a global mode, the row driver activates a second photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the second tap and a third photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the third tap. In a second integration period of the global mode, the row driver activates a first photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the first tap and a fourth photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the fourth tap.

    Solid-state imaging device and method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11716554B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-01

    申请号:US17627036

    申请日:2020-07-10

    发明人: Takuya Mikami

    摘要: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus capable of avoiding an occurrence of a blackout in low-speed read-out.
    The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, and a control unit that exposes all pixels of the pixel array unit at a same exposure timing and performs thinned read-out 2(N−1) times in which all the pixels are thinned to 1/N, so as to read electric charge in all the pixels of the pixel array unit, the electric charge being generated at the same exposure timing. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device, or the like, incorporated in an imaging device.

    Imaging method with pulsed light
    44.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12041364B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-16

    申请号:US17871196

    申请日:2022-07-22

    申请人: FLUOPTICS

    IPC分类号: H04N25/53 H04N5/06 H04N25/531

    CPC分类号: H04N25/531 H04N5/06

    摘要: The invention relates to a method allowing the use of the information accessible by fluorescence imaging to be optimized. For this purpose, it implements the combination of a protocol for calibration and synchronization of a pulsed light for exciting a fluorescent marker, with the operation in “rolling shutter” mode of a fluorescence camera. An appropriate correction factor allows the complete signal integrated by all of the photodiodes of the camera to be used so that no image is lost.

    SAMPLE OBSERVATION DEVICE AND SAMPLE OBSERVATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20240214702A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18382165

    申请日:2023-10-20

    发明人: Satoshi YAMAMOTO

    摘要: In a sample observation device, an image capturing unit includes an area image sensor that performs image capturing by the rolling shutter method in which a start of an exposure period of each of pixel columns in a pixel region is shifted by a predetermined time, and a generation unit sets one pixel column of the pixel columns as a reference pixel column, and combines a data portion corresponding to an exposure position of the reference pixel column in exposure positions of pixel columns of one frame and the data portion corresponding to an exposure position of the reference pixel column in exposure positions of pixel columns of other frames continuous to the one frame, thereby generating two-dimensional image data corresponding to the exposure position of the reference pixel column in the one frame.

    IMAGE SENSOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
    49.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240040276A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-01

    申请号:US18310750

    申请日:2023-05-02

    发明人: Eun Sub SHIM

    摘要: Disclosed is an image sensor including a plurality of first pixels arranged in a first row and configured to generate first charges in response to a first exposure and a plurality of second pixels arranged in a second row different from the first row and configured to generate second charges in response to a second exposure. At least one pixel of the plurality of first pixels includes a photo diode, a first floating diffusion, a first transfer transistor, a gate electrode of the first transfer transistor partially overlapping the first floating diffusion area when viewed in a horizontal direction, a second floating diffusion area spaced apart from the first floating diffusion area, one end of the second floating diffusion area being connected to a gate of a drive transistor, and a second transfer transistor that electrically connects the first floating diffusion area to the second floating diffusion area.