公开(公告)号：US20240292121A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18649584

申请日：2024-04-29

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

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

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

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

Abstract: An imaging device including pixels each including a photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The imaging device further including voltage supply circuitry, where the voltage supply circuitry supplies a first potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode in an exposure period and a second potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode in a non-exposure period, and the first potential difference is different from the second potential difference.

公开(公告)号：US20210329181A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-21

申请号：US17364441

申请日：2021-06-30

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Takeyoshi TOKUHARA ,  Yoshiaki SATOU ,  Yusuke OKADA

IPC: H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/335 ,  H04N5/369

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer that generates a signal charge; a charge accumulator connected to the first electrode to accumulate the signal charge; a first voltage supply circuit connected to the second electrode and that selectively supplies at least two different voltages including a first voltage and a third voltage greater than the first voltage; and a second voltage supply circuit that is connected to the charge accumulator via capacitance and that selectively supplies at least two different voltages including a second voltage and a fourth voltage less than the second voltage, where in a first period in which the first voltage supply circuit supplies the first voltage, the first period being included in an accumulation period for accumulating the signal charge in the charge accumulator, the second voltage supply circuit supplies the second voltage.

公开(公告)号：US20200321385A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-08

申请号：US16909070

申请日：2020-06-23

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Junji HIRASE ,  Yoshinori TAKAMI ,  Shota YAMADA ,  Yoshihiro SATO ,  Yoshiaki SATOU

IPC: H01L27/146 ,  H01L27/148

Abstract: An imaging device including a semiconductor substrate having a first surface, the semiconductor substrate including: a first layer containing an impurity of a first conductivity type; a second layer containing an impurity of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, the second layer being closer to the first surface than the first layer is; and a pixel. The pixel includes a photoelectric converter configured to convert light into charge; and a first diffusion region containing an impurity 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. The first layer having a second surface adjacent to the second layer, the second surface including a convex portion toward the first surface, and the convex portion facing the first diffusion region.

公开(公告)号：US20230060498A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-02

申请号：US17982057

申请日：2022-11-07

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 ,  H04N5/243 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N9/04 ,  G06V10/50 ,  G06V10/60 ,  G06V10/143 ,  G06V10/147 ,  G06V20/56 ,  G06V20/59 ,  G06V30/224 ,  G06V40/16

Abstract: An imaging device including a first filter that passes a first light and a second light; a second filter that blocks the second light; photoelectric converters that have sensitivity to the first light and the second light; and a processor, in which one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter to generate a first signal, one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter and the second filter to generate a second signal, and the processor performs the second light sensing based on the first signal and the second signal.

公开(公告)号：US20210250487A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-12

申请号：US17243101

申请日：2021-04-28

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 ,  G03B7/08 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H01L27/146

Abstract: An imaging device including a pixel, and a controller that sets a sensitivity of the pixel according to an external signal, where the external signal includes sound, vibration or inclination.

公开(公告)号：US20210006735A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US17026851

申请日：2020-09-21

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

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

IPC: H04N5/353 ,  H01L27/30 ,  H01L27/146

Abstract: An imaging device including pixels having a photoelectric converter including a first and second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer; a charge accumulation region electrically connected to the first electrode; and a signal detection circuit. The photoelectric converter is applied with a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the photoelectric converter has a characteristic, responsive to the voltage within a range from a first voltage to a second voltage, showing that a density of current passing between the first electrode and the second electrode when light is incident on the photoelectric conversion layer becomes substantially equal to that when no light is incident on the photoelectric conversion layer. A difference between the first voltage and the second voltage is 0.5 V or more, and the voltage supply circuit supplies a voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage to the second electrode in a non-exposure period.

公开(公告)号：US20180359439A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-13

申请号：US16107687

申请日：2018-08-21

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Masaaki YANAGIDA ,  Takayasu KITO ,  Yoshiaki SATOU

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

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

Abstract: An imaging device having a pixel including a photoelectric converter that converts incident light into charges, and a reset transistor having a first source, a first drain and a first gate, one of the first source and the first drain coupled to the photoelectric converter. The imaging device further including first voltage generating circuity that generates a first voltage; second voltage generating circuity that generates a second voltage, the second voltage generating circuity being different from the first voltage generating circuity; and first switching circuity that causes either the first voltage generating circuity or the second voltage generating circuity to selectively couple to the other of the first source and the first drain of the reset transistor.

公开(公告)号：US20240089630A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-14

申请号：US18516508

申请日：2023-11-21

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Yusuke OKADA ,  Takeyoshi TOKUHARA ,  Yoshiaki SATOU

IPC: H04N25/75 ,  H04N25/589 ,  H04N25/772

CPC classification number: H04N25/75 ,  H04N25/589 ,  H04N25/772

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 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.

公开(公告)号：US20210051261A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-18

申请号：US17070241

申请日：2020-10-14

Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.

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

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  G03B11/04 ,  G06K9/46 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G03B7/16 ,  H04N5/243 ,  G06K9/20 ,  G06K9/18 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N9/04

Abstract: An imaging device having an imager that includes first pixels having sensitivity to a first light and second pixels having sensitivity to a second light, a wavelength of the first light being different from a wavelength of the second light. The imager being configured to acquire first image data from the first pixels and being configured to acquire second image data from the second pixels. Each of the first image data and the second image data including an image of a code, the code being configured to output the second light. The imaging device further including an image processor configured to extract an image of the code based on the first image data and the second image data.

公开(公告)号：US20200177787A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-04

申请号：US16782411

申请日：2020-02-05

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yoshiaki SATOU ,  Yasuo MIYAKE ,  Yasunori INOUE ,  Tokuhiko TAMAKI

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

Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric converter, where 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 sensitivity of the photoelectric converter in the first exposure period is different from a sensitivity of the photoelectric converter in the second exposure period, and the imaging device generates multiple-exposure image data including at least the first data and the second data.