公开(公告)号：US20130002930A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-03

申请号：US13582596

申请日：2011-07-06

申请人： Shinji Uchida ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

发明人： Shinji Uchida ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

IPC分类号： G02B27/00 ,  H04N5/225

CPC分类号： G03B9/02 ,  G03B11/00

摘要： A light reduction device for adjusting an amount of light reaching an imaging device includes: a light shielding plate in which light shielding parts are discretely formed for blocking the light, and a light transmission part is formed for transmitting the light; a first light reduction plate in which light reduction parts are discretely formed for reducing the amount of the light passing through, and a light transmission part is formed for transmitting the light; and a moving unit configured to move at least one of the light shielding plate and the first light reduction plate in a first direction which intersects with an incident direction of the light, in which the light shielding plate and the first light reduction plate overlap each other at least in part, when viewed from the incident direction of the light.

摘要翻译： 一种用于调节到达成像装置的光量的减光装置包括：遮光板，其中遮光部分离散地形成以阻挡光，并且形成光透射部分用于透射光; 第一减光板，其中分散地形成减光部分以减少通过的光量，并且形成透光部分用于透射光; 以及移动单元，被配置为沿着与遮光板和第一减光板彼此重叠的光的入射方向相交的第一方向移动遮光板和第一减光板中的至少一个 至少部分地，当从光的入射方向观察时。

公开(公告)号：US08749693B2

公开(公告)日：2014-06-10

申请号：US13582596

申请日：2011-07-06

申请人： Shinji Uchida ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

发明人： Shinji Uchida ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

IPC分类号： H04N5/225 ,  H04N9/64 ,  G03B9/32 ,  G03B9/04

CPC分类号： G03B9/02 ,  G03B11/00

摘要： A light reduction device for adjusting an amount of light reaching an imaging device includes: a light shielding plate in which light shielding parts are discretely formed for blocking the light, and a light transmission part is formed for transmitting the light; a first light reduction plate in which light reduction parts are discretely formed for reducing the amount of the light passing through, and a light transmission part is formed for transmitting the light; and a moving unit configured to move at least one of the light shielding plate and the first light reduction plate in a first direction which intersects with an incident direction of the light, in which the light shielding plate and the first light reduction plate overlap each other at least in part, when viewed from the incident direction of the light.

摘要翻译： 一种用于调节到达成像装置的光量的减光装置包括：遮光板，其中遮光部分离散地形成以阻挡光，并且形成光透射部分用于透射光; 第一减光板，其中分散地形成减光部分以减少通过的光量，并且形成透光部分用于透射光; 以及移动单元，被配置为沿着与遮光板和第一减光板彼此重叠的光的入射方向相交的第一方向移动遮光板和第一减光板中的至少一个 至少部分地，当从光的入射方向观察时。

公开(公告)号：US20120200673A1

公开(公告)日：2012-08-09

申请号：US13390139

申请日：2011-06-15

申请人： Junichi Tagawa ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Takashi Kawamura ,  Masayuki Kimura

发明人： Junichi Tagawa ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Takashi Kawamura ,  Masayuki Kimura

IPC分类号： H04N13/02

CPC分类号： G03B13/36 ,  G01C3/32 ,  G02B7/365 ,  G03B3/10 ,  G06T7/571 ,  H04N5/2226 ,  H04N5/23212

摘要： The present invention provides an imaging apparatus which generates, based on a captured image, a depth map of an object with a high degree of precision.A sensor drive unit (12) that shifts an image sensor (11) in an optical axis direction, along with a sensor drive control unit (13), capture images A and C which are focused on a near end side and a far end side of the object, respectively, and an image B by sweeping the image sensor (11) from the near end side to the far end side, an all-in-focus image generation unit (15) generates an all-in-focus image D from the sweep image B, a blur amount calculation unit (16) calculates an amount of blur in each of the partial regions of the images A and B through deconvolution processing in an image of a region corresponding to the all-in-focus image D, and a depth map generation unit (17) generates a distance between the imaging apparatus and the object in each of the image regions, in other words, a depth map, from an amount of blur in regions corresponding to the near end image A and the far end image C and from an optical coefficient value of the imaging apparatus including a focal length of a lens.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种成像装置，其基于拍摄图像以高精度生成对象的深度图。 传感器驱动单元（12），其与传感器驱动控制单元（13）一起沿光轴方向移动图像传感器（11），捕获聚焦在近端侧和远端侧的图像A和C 以及通过将图像传感器（11）从近端侧扫描到远端侧的图像B，全焦点图像生成单元（15）生成全焦点图像D 从扫描图像B，模糊量计算单元（16）通过对应于全焦点图像D的区域的图像中的去卷积处理来计算图像A和B的每个部分区域中的模糊量 ，并且深度图生成单元（17）根据与近端图像A对应的区域的模糊量，在每个图像区域中生成成像装置和对象之间的距离，换句话说，深度图 远端图像C和包括焦距o的成像设备的光学系数值 f镜头

公开(公告)号：US08208052B2

公开(公告)日：2012-06-26

申请号：US12865161

申请日：2009-12-14

申请人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

发明人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

IPC分类号： H04N5/335 ,  H04N9/07 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G02B27/42 ,  H01L27/00 ,  H01L31/062

CPC分类号： H04N9/045 ,  G02B5/045 ,  G02B27/42 ,  H01L27/14603 ,  H01L27/14625

摘要： A color representation technique to be effectively applicable to a pixel shifted arrangement to realize high sensitivity and high resolution is provided by using a dipersive prism or diffraction.A dispersive element is provided for an image sensor in which photosensitive cells are arranged to be shifted from each other by a half pitch both horizontally and vertically. The dispersive element makes at least G rays fall straight down to a pixel right under itself and also makes either R rays or B rays incident on an adjacent pixel. Meanwhile, a photosensitive cell, for which no dispersive element is provided, receives directly incident light, too. Color information can be obtained by making computations on photoelectrically converted signals provided by these pixels.

摘要翻译： 通过使用汲取的棱镜或衍射来提供可有效地应用于像素偏移布置以实现高灵敏度和高分辨率的颜色表示技术。 为图像传感器提供色散元件，其中感光单元布置成水平和垂直地彼此偏移半个间距。 色散元素使至少G光线直接落在自身下方的像素之下，并且还使R射线或B射线入射到相邻像素上。 同时，没有设置色散元件的感光单元也直接接收入射光。 可以通过对由这些像素提供的光电转换信号进行计算来获得颜色信息。

公开(公告)号：US08902339B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-02

申请号：US13814999

申请日：2012-05-25

申请人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Toshiya Fujii ,  Tatsuya Nakamura ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yusuke Monobe ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

发明人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Toshiya Fujii ,  Tatsuya Nakamura ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yusuke Monobe ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

IPC分类号： H04N5/335 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N9/04

CPC分类号： H01L27/14625 ,  H01L27/14621 ,  H01L27/14629 ,  H04N9/045

摘要： A solid-state image sensor includes a photosensitive cell array and a dispersing element array. Each unit block 40 of the photosensitive cell array includes four photosensitive cells 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d. The dispersing element array makes light, obtained by subtracting a light ray with a first color component (C1) from incoming light (W) and adding a light ray with a second color component (C2) thereto, incident on the first photosensitive cell 2a, also makes light, obtained by subtracting the light ray with the second color component (C2) from the incoming light (W) and adding the light ray with the first color component (C1) thereto, incident on the second photosensitive cell 2b, further makes light, obtained by subtracting a light ray with a third color component (C3) from the incoming light (W) and adding the light rays with the first and second color components (C4=C1+C2) thereto, incident on the third photosensitive cell 2c, and further makes light, obtained by subtracting the light rays with the first and second color components (C4) from the incoming light (W) and adding the light ray with the third color Component (c3)thereto, incident on the fourth photosensitive cell 2d.

摘要翻译： 固态图像传感器包括感光单元阵列和分散元件阵列。 感光单元阵列的每个单元块40包括四个感光单元2a，2b，2c和2d。 分散元件阵列通过从入射光（W）减去具有第一颜色成分（C1）的光线并将入射到第一感光单元2a上的具有第二颜色成分（C2）的光线添加到其中而获得光， 还通过从入射光（W）减去具有第二颜色分量（C2）的光线并将入射到第二感光单元2b上的与第一颜色分量（C1）的光线相加的光进一步制成光， 通过从入射光（W）减去具有第三颜色分量（C3）的光线并将其中具有第一和第二颜色分量（C4 = C1 + C2）的光线加到入射到第三感光单元上的光， 并且进一步通过从入射光（W）减去具有第一和第二颜色分量（C4）的光线并将其中的第三颜色分量（c3）的光线加到入射到第四感光体上而获得的光 细胞2d。

公开(公告)号：US20130314586A1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-28

申请号：US13983381

申请日：2012-03-01

申请人： Takeshi Shimamoto ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Takashi Kawamura

发明人： Takeshi Shimamoto ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Takashi Kawamura

IPC分类号： H04N5/232

CPC分类号： H04N5/23212 ,  G02B7/38 ,  H04N5/2353

摘要： An image-capturing device disclosed in the present application includes: an image-capturing element including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in two dimensions, wherein the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are exposed through successive scanning and electrical signals are read out from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements through successive scanning, thereby generating an image signal; a lens optical system including a focus lens for collecting light toward the image-capturing element; a driving section for driving one of the image-capturing element and the focus lens so as to change a distance between the image-capturing element and the focus lens; a displacement control section for outputting a command to the driving section so as to control displacement of the image-capturing element or the focus lens to be driven based on a predetermined displacement pattern; and a synchronizing section for controlling the displacement control section based on exposure timing of the image-capturing element, wherein: the predetermined displacement pattern represents a reciprocal displacement of the image-capturing element or the focus lens to be driven over an entire section between a first focus position of the focus lens or the image-capturing element at which focus is at a first object distance in an image-capturing scene and a second focus position of the focus lens or the image-capturing element at which focus is at a second object distance in the image-capturing scene; and the image-capturing element or the focus lens to be driven is reciprocally displaced an integer number of times within an exposure time for one image of the image-capturing scene for each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements.

摘要翻译： 在本申请中公开的图像捕获装置包括：图像捕获元件，包括以二维排列的多个光电转换元件，其中多个光电转换元件通过连续扫描而被曝光，并且从多个像素中读出电信号 的光电转换元件，从而产生图像信号; 透镜光学系统，包括用于向所述图像拍摄元件收集光的聚焦透镜; 用于驱动图像拍摄元件和聚焦透镜中的一个以便改变图像拍摄元件和聚焦透镜之间的距离的驱动部分; 位移控制部分，用于向驱动部分输出命令，以便基于预定的位移模式来控制要被驱动的图像拍摄元件或聚焦透镜的位移; 以及同步部分，用于基于所述图像拍摄元件的曝光定时来控制所述位移控制部分，其中：所述预定位移图案表示所述图像拍摄元件或所述聚焦透镜的往复位移， 在图像拍摄场景中的焦点处于第一物体距离处的聚焦透镜或图像拍摄元件的第一对焦位置和聚焦透镜或焦点在第二位置的图像捕获元件的第二聚焦位置 图像拍摄场景中的物体距离; 并且要驱动的图像拍摄元件或聚焦透镜在多个光电转换元件中的每一个的图像拍摄场景的一个图像的曝光时间内相对位移一整次。

公开(公告)号：US20130135493A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-30

申请号：US13814999

申请日：2012-05-25

申请人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Toshiya Fujii ,  Tatsuya Nakamura ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yusuke Monobe ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

发明人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Toshiya Fujii ,  Tatsuya Nakamura ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yusuke Monobe ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

IPC分类号： H01L27/146 ,  H04N9/04

CPC分类号： H01L27/14625 ,  H01L27/14621 ,  H01L27/14629 ,  H04N9/045

摘要： A solid-state image sensor includes a photosensitive cell array and a dispersing element array. Each unit block 40 of the photosensitive cell array includes four photosensitive cells 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d. The dispersing element array makes light, obtained by subtracting a light ray with a first color component (C1) from incoming light (W) and adding a light ray with a second color component (C2) thereto, incident on the first photosensitive cell 2a, also makes light, obtained by subtracting the light ray with the second color component (C2) from the incoming light (W) and adding the light ray with the first color component (C1) thereto, incident on the second photosensitive cell 2b, further makes light, obtained by subtracting a light ray with a third color component (C3) from the incoming light (W) and adding the light rays with the first and second color components (C4==C1+C2) thereto, incident on the third photosensitive cell 2c, and further makes light, obtained by subtracting the light rays with the first and second color components (C4) from the incoming light (W) and adding the light ray with the third color component (C3) thereto, incident on the fourth photosensitive cell 2d.

摘要翻译： 固态图像传感器包括感光单元阵列和分散元件阵列。 感光单元阵列的每个单元块40包括四个感光单元2a，2b，2c和2d。 分散元件阵列通过从入射光（W）减去具有第一颜色成分（C1）的光线并将入射到第一感光单元2a上的具有第二颜色成分（C2）的光线添加到其中而获得光， 还通过从入射光（W）减去具有第二颜色分量（C2）的光线并将入射到第二感光单元2b上的与第一颜色分量（C1）的光线相加的光进一步制成光， 通过从入射光（W）减去具有第三颜色分量（C3）的光线并将具有第一和第二颜色分量（C4 == C1 + C2）的光线加到入射到第三光敏器件上的光 并且进一步通过从入射光（W）减去具有第一和第二颜色分量（C4）的光线并将其中的第三颜色分量（C3）的光线添加到第四个光源 光敏电池2d。

公开(公告)号：US08384818B2

公开(公告)日：2013-02-26

申请号：US12671083

申请日：2009-06-10

申请人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Seiji Nishiwaki ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Shinichi Wakabayashi

发明人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Seiji Nishiwaki ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Shinichi Wakabayashi

IPC分类号： H04N3/14 ,  H04N5/335 ,  H04N9/04 ,  H04N9/07 ,  H04N5/225

CPC分类号： H04N5/2254 ,  H01L27/14621 ,  H01L27/14627 ,  H01L27/14629 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N9/045

摘要： Light-splitting elements are arranged in at least two columns and two rows to form two pairs 1a, 1b and 1c, 1d. Each element splits incident light into light rays and makes them fall on a portion of a photosensing section right under itself and an adjacent photosensitive cell. The element 1a splits the incident light so that a primary color ray C1 and its complementary color ray C1′ enter an adjacent cell 2b and an underlying cell 2a, respectively. The element 1b makes a primary color ray C2 and its complementary color ray C2′ enter an underlying cell 2a and an adjacent cell 2a, respectively. The element 1c does the same as the element 1b. And the element 1d makes a primary color ray C3 and its complementary color ray C3′ enter an adjacent cell 2c and an underlying cell 2d, respectively. These photosensitive cells 2 perform photoelectric conversion, thereby outputting an electrical signal representing the intensity of the incident light. By carrying out simple calculations between the outputs of these cells, a color signal and a luminance signal are generated.

摘要翻译： 光分离元件以至少两列和两列排列以形成两对1a，1b和1c，1d。 每个元件将入射光分成光线并使它们落在其本身正下方的光敏部分的一部分和相邻的感光单元上。 元件1a分割入射光，使得原色光线C1及其互补色光线C1'分别进入相邻的单元2b和下面的单元2a。 元件1b使原色光线C2和它的互补色射线C2'分别进入下面的单元2a和相邻单元2a。 元件1c与元件1b相同。 并且元件1d使原色光线C3和其互补色光线C3'分别进入相邻单元格2c和下面的单元格2d。 这些感光单元2进行光电转换，从而输出表示入射光强度的电信号。 通过在这些单元的输出之间进行简单的计算，生成彩色信号和亮度信号。

公开(公告)号：US20110181763A1

公开(公告)日：2011-07-28

申请号：US13003042

申请日：2010-03-02

申请人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Teruyuki Takizawa ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

发明人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Teruyuki Takizawa ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani

IPC分类号： H04N5/335

CPC分类号： H04N9/045 ,  H01L27/14621 ,  H01L27/14627 ,  H01L27/1464 ,  H04N5/2254 ,  H04N9/07

摘要： In an image capture device according to the present invention, a number of photosensitive cells are arranged between a first surface 30a of a semiconductor layer and its second surface 30b, which is opposed to the first surface, and the device can receive incoming light at not only the first surface 30b but also the second surface 30b as well. The device further includes an optical system 300 with an optical element 9 for splitting the incoming light into first and second light rays. The optical system 300 is designed so as to make the first and second light rays strike the first and second surfaces 30a and 30b, respectively.

摘要翻译： 在根据本发明的图像捕获装置中，多个感光单元被布置在半导体层的第一表面30a和与第一表面相对的第二表面30b之间，并且该装置可以不接收入射光 仅第一表面30b也是第二表面30b。 该装置还包括具有用于将入射光分成第一和第二光线的光学元件9的光学系统300。 光学系统300被设计成使第一和第二光线分别与第一和第二表面30a和30b相撞。

公开(公告)号：US09083880B2

公开(公告)日：2015-07-14

申请号：US13983381

申请日：2012-03-01

申请人： Takeshi Shimamoto ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Takashi Kawamura

发明人： Takeshi Shimamoto ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Takashi Kawamura

IPC分类号： G03B13/00 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G02B7/38 ,  H04N5/235

CPC分类号： H04N5/23212 ,  G02B7/38 ,  H04N5/2353

摘要： An image-capturing device disclosed in the present application includes: an image-capturing element including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in two dimensions, wherein the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are exposed through successive scanning and electrical signals are read out from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements through successive scanning, thereby generating an image signal; a lens optical system including a focus lens for collecting light toward the image-capturing element; a driving section for driving one of the image-capturing element and the focus lens so as to change a distance between the image-capturing element and the focus lens; a displacement control section for outputting a command to the driving section so as to control displacement of the image-capturing element or the focus lens to be driven based on a predetermined displacement pattern; and a synchronizing section for controlling the displacement control section based on exposure timing of the image-capturing element, wherein: the predetermined displacement pattern represents a reciprocal displacement of the image-capturing element or the focus lens to be driven over an entire section between a first focus position of the focus lens or the image-capturing element at which focus is at a first object distance in an image-capturing scene and a second focus position of the focus lens or the image-capturing element at which focus is at a second object distance in the image-capturing scene; and the image-capturing element or the focus lens to be driven is reciprocally displaced an integer number of times within an exposure time for one image of the image-capturing scene for each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements.

摘要翻译： 在本申请中公开的图像捕获装置包括：图像捕获元件，包括以二维排列的多个光电转换元件，其中多个光电转换元件通过连续扫描而被曝光，并且从多个像素中读出电信号 的光电转换元件，从而产生图像信号; 透镜光学系统，包括用于向所述图像拍摄元件收集光的聚焦透镜; 用于驱动图像拍摄元件和聚焦透镜中的一个以便改变图像拍摄元件和聚焦透镜之间的距离的驱动部分; 位移控制部分，用于向驱动部分输出命令，以便基于预定的位移模式来控制要被驱动的图像拍摄元件或聚焦透镜的位移; 以及同步部分，用于基于所述图像拍摄元件的曝光定时来控制所述位移控制部分，其中：所述预定位移图案表示所述图像拍摄元件或所述聚焦透镜的往复位移， 在图像拍摄场景中的焦点处于第一物体距离处的聚焦透镜或图像拍摄元件的第一对焦位置和聚焦透镜或焦点在第二位置的图像捕获元件的第二聚焦位置 图像拍摄场景中的物体距离; 并且要驱动的图像拍摄元件或聚焦透镜在多个光电转换元件中的每一个的图像拍摄场景的一个图像的曝光时间内相对位移一整次。