Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Depthsensing Solutions Sa/nv

Softkinetic Sensors Nv

Softkinetics Sensors Nv

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ward Van Der Tempel

Daniel Van Nieuwenhove

Maarten Kuijk

Kyriaki Korina Fotopoulou

Qing Ding

Riemer Grootjans

Ye Chen

Alper Ercan

Manuel Amaya-Benitez

Rachit Mohan

Thomas Finateu

Michiel Timmermans

Frederick T Brady

Sozo Yokogawa

Sungin Hwang

Olivier Bulteel

Sa Xiao

Taisuke Suwa

Victor Belokonskiy

Hiroaki Nishimori

Tomas Van Den Hauwe

Reimer Grootjans

Jean-Luc Loheac

Daniel Van Niewenhove

Daniël Van Nieuwenhove

Timmermans Michiel

Gobinath Jegannathan

Kaji Nobuaki

Julien Thollot

A time-of-flight apparatus has a light source for emitting a light pulse to a scene; a photo-detection portion for detecting at least the light pulse reflected from the scene within a first photo-detection time interval, wherein the photo-detection portion includes at least one photo-detection element; and a measurement circuitry configured to: drive, within a measurement time interval including the first photo-detection time interval, the at least one photo-detection element for detecting the light pulse reflected from the scene, and drain, within the measurement time interval and after the first photo-detection time interval, electrons from the at least one photo-detection element.

Time-of-flight apparatus and method

An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to generate a coded modulation signal () for modulating illumination light () transmitted by a time of flight camera ().

Electronic device and method

A time-of-flight apparatus has: a light source for emitting light to a scene; a light detector for detecting light from the scene; and a control, the control being configured to: acquire a frame of detected light from the light detector, wherein the frame corresponds to a predetermined time interval, and drive the light source for emitting light during the acquisition of the frame, wherein the light energy accumulated within the frame has a predetermined value, and wherein the frame is divided into active light time intervals during which light is emitted to the scene.

Time of flight apparatus and method

A time-of-flight apparatus having a light detector for detecting light reflected from a scene, wherein the light detector has at least one light detection element; and circuitry configured to acquire light detection events for the at least one light detection element at selected points of time of a set of predetermined number of consecutive times, wherein the selection of the points of time is based on a time compressive sampling.

The present disclosure generally pertains to a time-of-flight imaging apparatus having circuitry configured to: demodulate, in a normal operation mode for determining a distance to a scene, at a predetermined number of phase locations a modulated light sensing signal representing modulated light reflected from the scene, thereby generating imaging frames for determining the distance to the scene, and apply, during the normal operation mode, a phase sweep by shifting the predetermined number of phase locations, thereby generating phase sweep frames for determining a cyclic error.

Time-of-flight imaging apparatus and time-of-flight imaging method

An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to accumulate, in a multiphase exposure, multiple sub-exposures with same phase data in an associated phase memory.

Imaging device and method

The disclosure relates to a demodulator including a pinned photodiode; at least one storage node; at least one transfer gate connected between the storage node and the pinned photodiode. The pinned photodiode includes a p-doped epitaxial semiconductor layer; a n-doped semiconductor region formed within the epitaxial semiconductor layer; a p+ pinning layer formed on top of said semiconductor region. The pinning layer is split into at least two separate regions spaced apart by electrical insulating element, each region being arranged for being biased independently by a respective biasing signal for creating a gradient of potential within the semiconductor region.

Demodulator with a carrier generating pinned photodiode and a method for operating it

An apparatus has an illumination layer having an array of a plurality of illuminators, and a circuit layer having one or more drivers for controlling the plurality of illuminators. The laser layer and the circuit layer overlap at least partially, and each driver of the one or more drivers controls at least one illuminator of the plurality of illuminators.

Apparatus and method for illumination

A light receiving element includes: a first tap; a second tap; a first photoelectric conversion unit configured to detect a charge generated by photoelectric conversion according to a light amount of incident light in accordance with a voltage applied to the first tap; a second photoelectric conversion unit configured to detect a charge generated by photoelectric conversion according to a light amount of the incident light in accordance with a voltage applied to the second tap; a plurality of accumulation units configured to accumulate the charges generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit; a plurality of transmission units configured to transmit the charges generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit to the plurality of accumulation units; and a calculation unit configured to execute calculation based on the charges accumulated in the plurality of accumulation units.

Light receiving element and ranging module

The present disclosure provides an imaging portion for a time-of-flight device, which has:

Imaging portion, time-of-flight device and method

The disclosure relates to a demodulator including a pinned photodiode, at least one storage node, at least one transfer gate connected between the storage node and the pinned photodiode. The pinned photodiode includes a p-doped epitaxial semiconductor layer, a n-doped semiconductor region formed within the epitaxial semiconductor layer and creating therewith a lower junction and at least one lateral junction substantially perpendicular to the lower junction, a p+ pinning layer formed on top of said semiconductor region. The demodulator further includes a generating unit configured to generate minority and majority carriers at said lateral junction and to form a lateral photodiode.

Demodulator with a carrier generating pinned photodiode

An electronic device comprising circuity configured to integrate charge collected by at least two floating diffusions on at least one capacitor and to change the direction of charge integration from a first current flow direction to a second current flow direction between a first integration phase and a second integration phase.

The invention relates to a detector device assisted by majority current, comprising a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a plurality of control regions of the first conductivity type, at least one detection region of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type and a first source for generating a majority carrier current associated with an electrical field, characterized in that it further comprises control circuitry arranged for controlling the first source and controlling individually at least one of said first majority carrier currents.

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