Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Toshiki Kainuma

Atsushi Suzuki

Takashi Shoji

Hayato Wakabayashi

Naoki Kawazu

Takumi Oka

Nobutaka Shimamura

Norihiro Nikai

Yuuki Yamagata

Tohru Kikawada

Masashi Akamatsu

The present technology relates to an image pickup element, a control method, and an image pickup device which realize easier and more diversified data output. In one aspect of the present technology, a plurality of signal lines for transmitting a pixel signal read from a pixel is allocated to each column, and different reading modes of the pixel signals are respectively allocated to the signal lines of each column. Regarding each column of the pixel array connected to the pixel corresponding to the mode, the pixel signal is read from the pixel connected to the signal line corresponding to the reading mode of the pixel signal in the mode, and the read pixel signal is transmitted via the signal line. The present technology is applied to, for example, an image pickup element and an image pickup device.

Image pickup element, control method, and image pickup device

Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, and a control unit that sets a range to output pixel signals of the plurality of pixels in the pixel array to each of the row direction and the column direction. The solid-state imaging device further includes a vertical scanning unit that outputs the pixel signals of the plurality of pixels in the range in the column direction set by the control unit, for each row and in the column direction, and a column A/D converter that converts the pixel signals of the plurality of pixels in the range in the row direction set by the control unit from analog signals into digital signals, for each column and in the row direction.

Solid-state imaging device and electronic device equipped with solid-state imaging device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshiki Kainuma