Nikon Corporation

Yojiro Tezuka

Atsushi Komai

Ryoji Ando

Osamu Saruwatari

Shutaro Kato

Wataru Funamizu

Hideki Yamanaka

Naoki Ohkouchi

Satoshi Suzuki

Satoshi Nakayama

Toru Takagi

Hiroshi Ohki

Shiro Tsunai

Shigeru Aoki

Sota Nakanishi

Tomoki Hirata

Taku Arii

Ryoji Motohana

Eiichi Arihara

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 first semiconductor substrate provided with a pixel, including a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light to generate an electric charge, an accumulation unit that accumulates the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, and a transfer unit that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit, and a second semiconductor substrate provided with a supply unit for the pixel, the supply unit supplying the transfer unit with a transfer signal to transfer the electric charge from the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit.

Image sensor and electronic camera

Provided is an image processing apparatus including as image acquiring section that acquires a plurality of images obtained by imaging, at different times, a subject irradiated with lights intensity-modulated with a plurality of modulation frequencies or modulation frequency bands; and a demodulating section that demodulates pixel values of the plurality of images with a plurality of demodulation frequencies or demodulation frequency bands based on the plurality of modulation frequencies or modulation frequency bands, for each pixel, thereby generating a plurality of pieces of pixel information indicating subject light amounts from the subject caused by each of the lights intensity-modulated with the plurality of modulation frequencies or modulation frequency bands, for each pixel.

Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and machine-readable medium storing a program

A solid-state image-capturing device includes: plurality of pixels arranged in two-dimensional manner; plurality of vertical signal lines for corresponding column of the plurality of pixels, to receive a signal of the pixels of corresponding column; plurality of signal processing units process a signal of the plurality of vertical signal lines based on a ramp signal and reference voltage; first line configured as a common line connects first input units of the plurality of signal processing units to receive the ramp signal; the ramp signal is supplied to one side of the first line along a row direction; second line configured as common line connects second input units of plurality of signal processing units to receive reference voltage, the reference voltage is supplied to one side of the second line along the row direction and reference voltage is not supplied to another side of the second line along the row direction.

Solid-state image-capturing device having lines that connect input units and electronic camera using the same

A horizontal driving control unit of an imaging device supplies dummy pulse signals to a horizontal driving unit at least at a part of period during a period from a start time point of each horizontal blanking period to a last signal sampling time point defined by a sampling control signal.

Imaging device

Providing a solid-state imaging device having a degree of freedom capable of changing which of the pixels functions as a pixel having a photoelectric converter portion bisected in which direction. When a gate electrodeis high and a gate electrodeis high, photodiodesthroughare electrically connected each other. When the gate electrodeis high and the gate electrodeis low, photodiodesand, and photodiodesandare electrically connected each other. On the other hand, photodiodesand, and photodiodesandare electrically separated. When the gate electrodeis low and the gate electrodeis high, photodiodesand, and photodiodesandare electrically separated. On the other hand, photodiodesand, and photodiodesandare electrically connected with each other.

Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus using the same

In a solid state imaging device according to the present application, a sampling hold part samples and holds, in accordance with sampling control signals &#x3c6;TVN, &#x3c6;TVS, a dark signal and a light signal of each of vertical signal lines provided to correspond to each column of pixels, and supplies the signals being held to horizontal signal lines in accordance with a horizontal scanning signal. During predetermined intervals T, Tincluding signal sampling timings t, tdetermined by the sampling control signals &#x3c6;TVN, &#x3c6;TVS, pulse, signals &#x3c6;GH, &#x3c6;HCLKHCLKRSTH that relate in reading the signals supplied from the sampling hold part to the horizontal signal lines are stopped. Accordingly, an influence of noise when the signals corresponding to the signals of the vertical signal lines are sampled by the sampling hold part is reduced, resulting in that an image quality of a captured image is further increased.

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Yojiro Tezuka