Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device and camera system with pseudo-thinning-out processing
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置和具有伪稀疏处理的相机系统
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Application No.: US13067456Application Date: 2011-06-02
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Publication No.: US08687082B2Publication Date: 2014-04-01
- Inventor: Shizunori Matsumoto
- Applicant: Shizunori Matsumoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
- Priority: JP2010-157336 20100709
- Main IPC: H04N5/228
- IPC: H04N5/228 ; H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section in which a plurality of pixels converting optical signals into electric signals and accumulating the electric signals in accordance with an exposure period are arranged in a matrix shape; and a pixel driving section that is able to drive the pixel section to perform reset thereof and accumulate and output the electric signals, wherein the pixel driving section includes a vertical reading function of alternately reading pixel columns for which addition is vertically performed and pixel columns for which the addition is not performed, and a column reading function of changing the addition and normal reading whenever reading each single row in response to scanning of the vertical reading circuit, and the pixel driving section performs pseudo thinning-out reading addition equivalent to thinning-out by reading all pixels without thinning out pixels in a reading target row.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120008022A1 Solid-state imaging device and camera system Public/Granted day:2012-01-12
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