Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup device and camera system
- Patent Title (中): 图像拾取装置和相机系统
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Application No.: US14346885Application Date: 2012-10-10
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Publication No.: US09100601B2Publication Date: 2015-08-04
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Nishihara , Hirofumi Sumi
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fishman Stewart Yamaguchi PLLC
- Priority: JP2011-228895 20111018
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/076180 WO 20121010
- International Announcement: WO2013/058147 WO 20130425
- Main IPC: H04N5/363
- IPC: H04N5/363 ; H04N5/378 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/225

Abstract:
Provided are an image pickup device and a camera system that are capable of performing high-precision image pickup with less noise both at low illuminance and high illuminance without increasing the speed of a sense circuit and power consumption. The image pickup device includes a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, each of the pixels including a photoelectric conversion device, a storage section, and an amplifier device configured to output an accumulated charge as an electrical signal, each of the pixels configured to output an electrical signal to an output signal line in response to photon incidence; and a sense circuit section including a sense circuit, the sense circuit configured to perform decision as to whether or not a photon is incident on the pixel in a predetermined period, in which the sense circuit includes an AD conversion device connected to the output signal line, the AD conversion device is allowed to operate by at least two modes, i.e., a one-bit output mode by binary decision and a gray-scale output mode by multi-bit resolution, and at least when the one-bit output mode is selected, the AD conversion device integrates output results from each of the pixels by a plurality of exposures to determine intensity of light incident on each of the pixels by calculation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140211058A1 IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2014-07-31
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