Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging system including illuminator and imaging device
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Application No.: US15497157Application Date: 2017-04-25
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Publication No.: US10542228B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Katsuya Nozawa , Yasuo Miyake
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2016-095055 20160511; JP2016-095056 20160511
- Main IPC: H04N5/374
- IPC: H04N5/374 ; H01L27/144 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/351 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
An imaging system includes a first illuminator that irradiates a subject with light whose intensity varies over time; and a first imaging device that includes a first imaging cell having a variable sensitivity, and a first sensitivity control line electrically connected to the first imaging cell. The first imaging cell includes a photoelectron conversion area that receives light from the subject to generate a signal charge, and a signal detection circuit that detects the signal charge. During an exposure period, the first sensitivity control line supplies to the first imaging cell a first sensitivity control signal having a waveform expressed by a first function that takes only positive values by adding a first constant to one basis from among bases of a system of functions constituting an orthogonal system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170332025A1 IMAGING SYSTEM INCLUDING ILLUMINATOR AND IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-11-16
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