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公开(公告)号:US20210185261A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-17
申请号:US17185821
申请日:2021-02-25
发明人: YASUO MIYAKE , YUSUKE OKADA , TAKEYOSHI TOKUHARA , YOSHIAKI SATOU
IPC分类号: H04N5/378 , H04N5/3745 , H04N5/355
摘要: An imaging device 100 includes a pixel array PA. A first period, a third period, and a second period appear in this order in a first frame. During the first period, pixel signal readout is performed on a first row in the pixel array PA. During the second period, pixel signal readout is performed on a second row in the pixel array PA. Each of the first period and the second period is a high-sensitivity exposure period. The third period is a low-sensitivity exposure period.
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公开(公告)号:US20190198540A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16293823
申请日:2019-03-06
发明人: OSAMU SHIBATA , HIROSHI IWAI , KAZUKO NISHIMURA , YASUO MIYAKE , YOSHIAKI SATOU
IPC分类号: H01L27/146 , H04N5/232 , G06F9/30 , G06T7/80
摘要: An image generation device includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver receives travel information about the travel state of a movable-body apparatus. The controller selects, based on the travel information, a first partial region from an entirety of a plurality of pixels of an image sensor or an entirety of image data captured by the image sensor, and generates image data in which a region other than the first partial region has a resolution lower than the resolution of the first partial region. The image sensor is to be mounted to the movable-body apparatus and is configured to capture an area in a traveling direction of the movable-body apparatus.
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公开(公告)号:US20180249102A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-30
申请号:US15964108
申请日:2018-04-27
IPC分类号: H04N5/353 , H01L27/146 , H04N5/355 , H04N5/378 , H04N5/369
CPC分类号: H04N5/353 , H01L27/14609 , H01L27/14612 , H01L27/14636 , H01L27/14643 , H01L27/14669 , H04N5/3532 , H04N5/35554 , H04N5/3698 , H04N5/378
摘要: A method for driving an imaging device which includes unit pixel cells each including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer having a photocurrent characteristic including a first voltage range, a second voltage range, and a third voltage range where an absolute value of a rate of change of the current density relative to the bias voltage is less than in the first voltage range and the second voltage range, the method including supplying a first voltage to the second electrode in a first period, and supplying a second voltage different from the first voltage to the second electrode in a second period different from the first period such that the bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer falls within the third voltage range.
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公开(公告)号:US20210143218A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-13
申请号:US17154011
申请日:2021-01-21
发明人: YOSHIAKI SATOU , YOSHIHIRO SATO , MASASHI MURAKAMI
IPC分类号: H01L27/30 , H01L27/146 , H01L23/522
摘要: An imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first pixel that performs photoelectric conversion, and a first shield. The first pixel includes a first diffusion region that is present in the semiconductor substrate, a first wiring line connected to the first diffusion region, a first transistor, and a first voltage line that makes up at least part of a voltage supply path to a drain or a source of the first transistor. A first signal charge obtained by photoelectric conversion performed by the first pixel flows through the first wiring line. The first signal charge flows into a gate of the first transistor via the first wiring line. Voltages that are different from each other are applied to the first voltage line. A distance between the first voltage line and the first shield is smaller than a distance between the first voltage line and the first wiring line.
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公开(公告)号:US20190238767A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-01
申请号:US16377855
申请日:2019-04-08
发明人: YOSHIAKI SATOU , SHOTA YAMADA , MASASHI MURAKAMI , YUTAKA HIROSE
IPC分类号: H04N5/361 , H01L27/146 , H04N5/369
CPC分类号: H04N5/361 , H01L27/146 , H01L27/14612 , H01L27/14643 , H04N5/359 , H04N5/369 , H04N5/374
摘要: An imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a first impurity region having n-type conductivity; a photoelectric converter that is electrically connected 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 being electrically connected to the first impurity region; and a voltage supply circuit electrically connected to the second terminal. The voltage supply circuit is configured to generate a first voltage and a second voltage different from the first voltage. The first impurity region accumulates positive charges generated by the photoelectric converter.
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公开(公告)号:US20190113332A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-18
申请号:US16217076
申请日:2018-12-12
发明人: KAZUKO NISHIMURA , YASUO MIYAKE , YOSHIAKI SATOU , OSAMU SHIBATA , HIROSHI IWAI
摘要: A driving control system includes: an imaging device that is installed on a moving body and that images a target object in a first frame period a plurality of times to generate a multiple-exposure image data including a first image data and a second image data; and a processor that detects a relative motion state of the moving body with respect to the target object, based on the first image data and the second image data. The imaging device images the target object with a first sensitivity in a first exposure period in the first frame period to generate the first image data and images the target object with a second sensitivity in a second exposure period in the first frame period to generate the second image data, the second exposure period being different from the first exposure period, the second sensitivity being different from the first sensitivity.
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公开(公告)号:US20230007195A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-05
申请号:US17930598
申请日:2022-09-08
发明人: YASUO MIYAKE , TAKEYOSHI TOKUHARA , YOSHIAKI SATOU , YUSUKE OKADA
IPC分类号: H04N5/369 , H04N5/3745 , H04N5/351
摘要: An imaging device includes: a photoelectric converter whose sensitivity changes depending on a value of a voltage to be applied; and a voltage supply circuit that alternately supplies a first voltage and a second voltage, which is different from the first voltage, to the photoelectric converter, in which in a first frame period, a length of a first period from a first point in time at which the first voltage is switched to the second voltage until a second point in time at which the first voltage is switched to the second voltage subsequently to the first point in time differs from a length of a second period from the second point in time until a third point in time at which the first voltage is switched to the second voltage subsequently to the second point in time.
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公开(公告)号:US20190219891A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-18
申请号:US16334422
申请日:2017-07-24
发明人: HIROSHI IWAI , OSAMU SHIBATA , KAZUKO NISHIMURA , YASUO MIYAKE , YOSHIAKI SATOU
摘要: An imaging control device includes a controller and an input section. The controller causes an image sensor to, during at least one first frame period, capture at least one first multiple exposure image by using a first exposure signal that contains a plurality of pulses having a plurality of pulse widths different from one another; the image sensor is configured to capture an image by making multiple exposure. The input section receives the at least one first multiple exposure image. The controller selects one pulse width from the plurality of pulse widths, based on the first multiple exposure image received by the input section and then causes the image sensor to, during a second frame period, capture the image by using a second exposure signal that contains a pulse having the selected pulse width; the second frame period follows the first frame period.
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公开(公告)号:US20180249101A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-30
申请号:US15963410
申请日:2018-04-26
IPC分类号: H04N5/353 , H01L27/146 , H04N5/355 , H04N5/378 , H04N5/369
CPC分类号: H04N5/353 , H01L27/14609 , H01L27/14612 , H01L27/14636 , H01L27/14643 , H01L27/14669 , H01L27/307 , H01L51/0078 , H04N5/3532 , H04N5/35554 , H04N5/3698 , H04N5/378 , Y02E10/549
摘要: An imaging device including: unit pixel cells each including a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, a charge accumulation region connected to the first electrode, and a signal detection circuit connected to the charge accumulation region; and a voltage supply circuit connected to the second electrode, the voltage supply circuit supplying a first voltage to the second electrode in a first period, the voltage supply circuit supplying a second voltage that is different from the first voltage to the second electrode in a second period. Each unit pixel cells includes a reset transistor which switches between supply and cutoff of a reset voltage initializing the charge accumulation region, and a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode when the reset voltage is supplied is greater than a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode after the reset voltage is cut off.
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公开(公告)号:US20210099658A1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-01
申请号:US17005240
申请日:2020-08-27
发明人: TAKEYOSHI TOKUHARA , YOSHIAKI SATOU , YUSUKE OKADA
摘要: An imaging device includes: a photoelectric converter that includes first and second electrodes and a photoelectric conversion layer therebetween and that generates signal charge; a capacitor having first and second terminals, the first terminal being connected to the first electrode; a first voltage supply circuit that selectively supplies at least two different voltages to the second electrode; and a second voltage supply circuit that selectively supplies at least two different voltages to the second terminal. In a predetermined period in each frame, when the first voltage supply circuit supplies a first voltage to the second electrode, the second voltage supply circuit supplies a second voltage to the second terminal, and when the first voltage supply circuit supplies a third voltage higher than the first voltage to the second electrode, the second voltage supply circuit supplies a fourth voltage lower than the second voltage to the second terminal.
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