Pixart Imaging Incorporated

Primesensor Technology Inc.

Chih-Huan Wu

Wen-Han Yao

Yi-Hsien Ko

Han-Chi Liu

Wen-Cheng Yen

Ren-Chieh Liu

Ren-Hau Gu

Yi-hsien Ko

An optical sensor, for sensing a sensing frame corresponding to a flicker period of ambient light, comprising: a pixel array, configured to perform N times of exposure operations via at least one pixel of the pixel array in N exposure time intervals to generate N sub-frames, wherein a summation of the N exposure time intervals equals to a sensing interval and the sensing interval is less than or identical to a first flicker period. The optical sensor adds the N sub-frames to generate a summing sub-frame. The sensing frame comprises the summing sub-frame. The adding operation can also be performed to digital signals generated from the sub-frames. The influences caused by the fluctuation of ambient light can be neutralized, since the frame or portion of the frame is sensed at least twice at different phases of a single flicked period. By this way, the conventional flicker issue can be improved.

Optical sensor which can reduce image flicker

A motion detection method applied into an image sensor device includes: providing a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) on at least one monitoring image; for each region of interest (ROI): detecting whether at least one motion event occurs within the each ROI; and determining a priority level of the each ROI according to at least one feature information of the at least one motion event; and determining an alarm schedule of the ROIs for a user according to a plurality of priority levels of the ROIs.

Motion detection methods and image sensor devices capable of generating ranking list of regions of interest and pre-recording monitoring images

A method of an image sensor circuit includes: providing an event camera comprising at least one pixel unit; using the event camera to sense at least one current pixel value of the at least one pixel unit to detect whether at least one pixel value changes; when the at least one pixel value changes, using the event camera to trigger the digital processing circuit when the digital processing circuit is in a power saving mode and transmit information of the at least one pixel value to the digital processing circuit.

Image sensing scheme capable of saving more power as well as avoiding image lost and also simplifying complex image recursive calculation

There is provided a pixel circuit for performing analog operation including a photodiode, a first temporal circuit, a second temporal circuit and an operation circuit. Within a first interval, the photodiode detects first light energy to be stored in the first temporal circuit. Within a second interval, the photodiode detects second light energy to be stored in the second temporal circuit. Within an operation interval, the first temporal circuit outputs a first detection signal having a first pulse width according to the first light energy and outputs a second detection signal having a second pulse width according to the second light energy for being calculated by the operation circuit.

Pixel circuit outputting pulse width signal and optical sensor using the same

A method of an optical sensor device includes: using an oscillator circuit to generate a clock signal; and generating monitoring frames according to the clock signal; wherein the clock signal is calibrated in response to at least one of: a first communication signal, transmitted for multiple times from a monitoring system externally coupled to the optical sensor device, is received by the optical sensor device; a data length of the first communication signal transmitted for only one time from the monitoring system externally coupled to the optical sensor device; and, a data length of an encoded data portion of the first communication signal transmitted for only one time.

Optical sensor devices and method capable of calibrating clock signal by itself when receiving one or more transmissions of specific communication signal from monitoring system

Analog operation circuit for operating pulse width signals outputted from pixel circuit

There is provided a photographing device having two output interfaces that respectively used to output a first image frame and a second image frame. The first image frame is provided to a processor of the photographing device to perform the feature extraction and tag the second image frame accordingly. The tagged second image frame is for the image recording of an external back end.

Photographing device having two output interfaces

A motion detection method applied into an image sensor device includes: providing a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) on at least one monitoring image; for each region of interest (ROI): detecting whether at least one motion event occurs within the each ROI; and determining a priority level of the each ROI according to at least one feature information of the at least one motion event; and determining an alarm schedule of the ROIs for a user according to a plurality of priority levels of the RIOs.

A motion detection method utilized for a motion sensor includes: capturing a monitoring image; entering a recording mode when one intensity change value between the monitoring image and a pre-stored background image is higher than a first threshold and a trigger signal is received from an auxiliary sensor; and entering the recording mode when the intensity change value is higher than a second threshold before the trigger signal is received; wherein the second threshold is higher than the first threshold.

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Chih-Huan Wu