Nikon Corporation

Tomoki Hirata

Shigeru Matsumoto

Masahiro Juen

Daiki Ogura

Shiro Tsunai

Sota Nakanishi

Yojiro Tezuka

An imaging sensor including: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units provided in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction and configured to generate electric charges through photoelectric conversion; signal lines each of which is wired in the second direction and to which signals based on the electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion units are output; and processing units configured to process the signals output to the signal lines, wherein, in a second region between a first region in which the plurality of photoelectric conversion units are provided in the first direction and the second direction and a plurality of the processing units, a plurality of the signal lines are adjacent to each other in at least one of the second direction and a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction.

Imaging sensor and imaging device with wirings between portions of signal lines

Provided is an image capturing device including a first substrate having a plurality of pixel blocks each including one or more pixels; and a second substrate having a control circuit unit including a first control block including a first exposure control unit for controlling an exposure time of a pixel included in a first pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks and a second control block including a second exposure control unit for controlling an exposure time of a pixel included in a second pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks, and a peripheral circuit unit arranged outside the control circuit unit and configured to control signal reading of pixels each included in at least the first pixel block and the second pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks.

Imaging element and imaging device

An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light and generates a charge; and an A/D conversion unit that converts the analog signal generated due to charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit into a digital signal, wherein: the A/D conversion unit includes a comparison unit that compares the analog signal with a reference signal and a first circuit layer including a first capacitor for generating the reference signal and a second circuit layer laminated to the first circuit layer and including with a second capacitor for generating the reference signal.

Image sensor and image capturing device

An image sensor, includes: a first pixel and a second pixel, in a first direction, each including a first photoelectric conversion unit and a light-shielding unit and outputting a signal; a third pixel and a fourth pixel, in the first direction, each including a second photoelectric conversion unit and outputting a signal; a first signal line and a second signal line, in the first direction, each of which can be connected to the first pixel, the second pixel, the third pixel and the fourth pixel; and a control unit that performs a first control in which a signal of the first pixel is output to the first signal line and a signal of the second pixel is output to the second signal line, and a second control in which a signal of the third pixel and a signal of the fourth pixel are output to the first signal line.

Image sensor and imaging device with vertical controller performing first control and second control

An image capturing device including a pixel chip having pixel blocks each including one or more pixels; and a signal processing chip having a first control block including a first converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel in at least a first pixel block into a digital signal, and a first storage unit storing the digital signal, and a second control block next to the first control block in a column direction and including a second converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel included in at least a second pixel block into a digital signal, and a second storage unit storing the digital signal, wherein the second converting unit and the second storage unit in the second control block are reversed vertically to the first converting unit and the first storage unit in the first control block.

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Tomoki Hirata