公开(公告)号：US20190238773A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16312417

申请日：2017-06-22

申请人： SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION

发明人： Takeru TSUZUKI ,  Katsumi NISHIKORI

IPC分类号： H04N5/369 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N5/232

CPC分类号： H04N5/36961 ,  H01L27/14605 ,  H01L27/14607 ,  H01L27/14627 ,  H04N5/23212 ,  H04N5/3572 ,  H04N5/365

摘要： The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup apparatus, a correction method, and an electronic apparatus, enabled to suppress an apparent uncomfortable feeling of an image output from a solid-state image pickup apparatus in which pixels of different OCL shapes are mounted mixedly.A solid-state image pickup apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a pixel array in which a first pixel in which an OCL (On Chip Lens) of a standard size is formed and a second pixel in which an OCL of a size different from the standard size is formed are present mixedly, and a correction section that corrects a pixel value of the first pixel that is positioned in the vicinity of the second pixel among the first pixels on the pixel array. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.

公开(公告)号：US20190191057A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-20

申请号：US16306051

申请日：2017-06-01

申请人： SONY CORPORATION

发明人： JUN ONO ,  YASUSHI SHIBATA

IPC分类号： H04N1/40 ,  H04N5/243 ,  H04N1/409 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/365 ,  G06T5/50

CPC分类号： H04N1/40068 ,  G06T5/50 ,  H04N1/40 ,  H04N1/409 ,  H04N5/235 ,  H04N5/243 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/365

摘要： The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of appropriately synthesizing images respectively including pixel signals generated by a plurality of pixels having different sensitivities. The image processing device includes a synthesis rate calculation unit which calculates a synthesis rate by using at least one of results of predetermined filter processing on a plurality of captured images including outputs from the plurality of pixels having different sensitivities, a plurality of shading correction units which performs shading correction processing on each of the plurality of captured images, a moving subject detection unit which detects a moving subject on the basis of the result of multiplying each of the plurality of filter processing results by a gain of the shading correction processing, a synthesis rate control unit which controls the calculated synthesis rate on the basis of the result of the moving subject detection, and a synthesis unit which synthesizes the plurality of shading processing results according to the controlled synthesis rate. The present disclosure is applied to a case of generating a WD image.

公开(公告)号：US20190109998A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-11

申请号：US16199566

申请日：2018-11-26

申请人： FotoNation Limited

发明人： Kartik Venkataraman ,  Amandeep S. Jabbi ,  Robert H. Mullis ,  Jacques Duparre ,  Shane Ching-Feng Hu

IPC分类号： H04N5/247 ,  H04N13/128 ,  H04N5/365 ,  G02B5/20 ,  G06T7/50 ,  H04N13/239 ,  G06T7/557 ,  G02B13/00 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N5/341 ,  H04N5/349 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N9/04 ,  H04N9/097 ,  G06T19/20 ,  H04N9/09 ,  H04N9/73 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/265 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G02B3/00 ,  H04N13/00 ,  H04N13/257

CPC分类号： H04N5/247 ,  G02B3/0056 ,  G02B3/0062 ,  G02B5/20 ,  G02B5/201 ,  G02B13/0015 ,  G06T7/50 ,  G06T7/557 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T19/20 ,  G06T2200/04 ,  G06T2207/10028 ,  G06T2207/10052 ,  G06T2207/20221 ,  H04N5/2253 ,  H04N5/2254 ,  H04N5/2258 ,  H04N5/23232 ,  H04N5/23238 ,  H04N5/23296 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N5/332 ,  H04N5/3415 ,  H04N5/349 ,  H04N5/35545 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N9/045 ,  H04N9/09 ,  H04N9/097 ,  H04N9/735 ,  H04N13/128 ,  H04N13/239 ,  H04N13/257 ,  H04N2013/0081

摘要： Systems and methods for implementing array cameras configured to perform super-resolution processing to generate higher resolution super-resolved images using a plurality of captured images and lens stack arrays that can be utilized in array cameras are disclosed. An imaging device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one imager array, and each imager in the array comprises a plurality of light sensing elements and a lens stack including at least one lens surface, where the lens stack is configured to form an image on the light sensing elements, control circuitry configured to capture images formed on the light sensing elements of each of the imagers, and a super-resolution processing module configured to generate at least one higher resolution super-resolved image using a plurality of the captured images.

公开(公告)号：US20190045149A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-07

申请号：US16051344

申请日：2018-07-31

申请人： Rambus Inc.

发明人： Michael Guidash ,  Jay Endsley ,  John Ladd ,  Thomas Vogelsang ,  Craig M. Smith

IPC分类号： H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/376 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N5/365

CPC分类号： H04N5/374 ,  H01L27/14643 ,  H04N5/35554 ,  H04N5/3577 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/3765 ,  H04N5/378

摘要： Photocharge is accumulated within an image sensor pixel array during a first exposure interval. At conclusion of the first exposure interval, accumulated photocharge is discarded from a first subset of the pixels to emulate absence of incident light with respect to those pixels. After discarding accumulated photocharge from the first subset of the pixels, first and second readout signals are generated, the first readout signals corresponding to respective pixels not included in the first subset and indicative of photocharge accumulated therein, and the second readout signals corresponding to respective pixels included in the first subset.

公开(公告)号：US10078776B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-18

申请号：US15381182

申请日：2016-12-16

申请人： SunASIC Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Chi Chou Lin ,  Zheng Ping He

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H03K17/96 ,  H01L27/06

CPC分类号： G06K9/0002 ,  H01L27/0629 ,  H03K17/9622 ,  H04N5/365

摘要： A capacitive fingerprint sensor which includes capacitive sensing units is disclosed. Each of the capacitive sensing unit includes a sensing electrode; a first switch; a voltage follower; and a reference capacitor. The voltage follower includes an adjustable current source, for providing at least two distinct current levels; and a MOS transistor. The MOS transistor includes a source node, connected to ground via the adjustable current source and serves as an output node of the voltage follower; a gate node, connected to the sensing electrode and serves as an input node of the voltage follower; a drain node, connected to a power source, for providing power to the voltage follower; and a bulk node, connected to the source node.

公开(公告)号：US20180198960A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-12

申请号：US15932372

申请日：2018-02-16

申请人： FLIR SYSTEMS, INC.

发明人： Jeffrey D. Frank ,  Nicholas Högasten ,  Theodore R. Hoelter ,  Katrin Strandemar ,  Pierre Boulanger ,  Barbara Sharp ,  Andrew C. Teich ,  Dwight Dumpert ,  Mark Nussmeier ,  Eric A. Kurth ,  Gerald W. Blakeley, III ,  Michael Fox

IPC分类号： H04N5/225 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N5/232

CPC分类号： H04N5/2252 ,  H04M1/0254 ,  H04M1/0264 ,  H04N5/23254 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/3651

摘要： Various techniques are disclosed for providing a device attachment configured to releasably attach to and provide infrared imaging functionality to mobile phones or other portable electronic devices. For example, a device attachment may include a housing with a tub on a rear surface thereof shaped to at least partially receive a user device, an infrared sensor assembly disposed within the housing and configured to capture thermal infrared image data, and a processing module communicatively coupled to the infrared sensor assembly and configured to transmit the thermal infrared image data to the user device. Thermal infrared image data may be captured by the infrared sensor assembly and transmitted to the user device by the processing module in response to a request transmitted by an application program or other software/hardware routines running on the user device.

公开(公告)号：USRE46903E1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-19

申请号：US14750418

申请日：2015-06-25

申请人： SONY CORPORATION

发明人： Taizo Takachi

IPC分类号： H01L21/00 ,  G02B5/28 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H01L33/58 ,  H01L21/78

CPC分类号： H01L27/14625 ,  G02B5/282 ,  G02B5/285 ,  H01L27/14609 ,  H01L27/14621 ,  H01L27/14685 ,  H04N5/2254 ,  H04N5/3532 ,  H04N5/365

摘要： A solid-state imaging device includes: an optical filter in which a filter layer is formed on a transparent substrate; a solid-state imaging component that is arranged to be opposed to the optical filter and in which plural pixels that receive light made incident via the filter layer are arrayed in a pixel area of a semiconductor substrate; and a bonding layer that is provided between the optical filter and the solid-state imaging component and sticks the optical filter and the solid-state imaging component together.

公开(公告)号：US09961284B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-01

申请号：US15124204

申请日：2015-02-27

申请人： SONY CORPORATION

发明人： Fumihiko Koga

IPC分类号： H04N5/357 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H01L27/30 ,  H04N5/363 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/367 ,  H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/3745

CPC分类号： H04N5/3575 ,  H01L27/14612 ,  H01L27/14621 ,  H01L27/14627 ,  H01L27/14636 ,  H01L27/1464 ,  H01L27/14645 ,  H01L27/14665 ,  H01L27/307 ,  H04N5/363 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/367 ,  H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/37455 ,  H04N5/37457 ,  H04N9/045

摘要： The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device that can improve imaging quality by reducing variation in the voltage of a charge retention unit, a method of driving the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. A first photoelectric conversion unit generates and accumulates signal charge by receiving light that has entered a pixel, and photoelectrically converting the light. A first charge retention unit retains the generated signal charge. A first output transistor outputs the signal charge in the first charge retention unit as a pixel signal, when the pixel is selected by the first select transistor. A first voltage control transistor controls the voltage of the output end of the first output transistor. The present technology can be applied to pixels in solid-state imaging devices, for example.

公开(公告)号：US09948878B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-17

申请号：US14961829

申请日：2015-12-07

申请人： FLIR Systems, Inc.

发明人： Brian Simolon ,  Eric A. Kurth ,  Jim Goodland ,  Mark Nussmeier ,  Nicholas Hogasten ,  Theodore R. Hoelter ,  Katrin Strandemar ,  Pierre Boulanger ,  Barbara Sharp ,  Naseem Y. Aziz

IPC分类号： G06F11/07 ,  G01R23/00 ,  H04N5/376 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N5/365 ,  G06F1/04

CPC分类号： H04N5/3765 ,  G01R23/00 ,  G06F1/04 ,  G06F11/0703 ,  G06F11/076 ,  H04N5/2257 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N5/365

摘要： Various techniques are provided to detect abnormal clock rates in devices such as imaging sensor devices (e.g., infrared and/or visible light imaging devices). In one example, a device may include a clock rate detection circuit that may be readily integrated as part of the device to provide effective detection of an abnormal clock rate. The device may include a ramp generator, a counter, and/or other components which may already be implemented as part of the device. The ramp generator may generate a ramp signal independent of a clock signal provided to the device, while the counter may increment or decrement a count value in response to the clock signal. The device may include a comparator adapted to select a current count value of the counter when the ramp signal reaches a reference signal. A processor of the device may be adapted to determine whether the clock signal is operating in an acceptable frequency range, based on the selected count value.

公开(公告)号：US20180097960A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15711105

申请日：2017-09-21

申请人： CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

发明人： Kei Ochiai ,  Takahiro Shirai ,  Tetsuya Itano ,  Yasushi Iwakura

IPC分类号： H04N1/00 ,  H04N5/376 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N5/365

CPC分类号： H04N1/00978 ,  G01K7/01 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N5/3572 ,  H04N5/3575 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/3765

摘要： An image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate, a temperature signal output unit arranged on the substrate and configured to output a temperature signal representing a temperature, and a reference signal output unit arranged on the substrate and configured to output a reference signal used to correct the temperature signal. The temperature signal output unit and the reference signal output unit are arranged in regions different from each other on the substrate.