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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
May. 24, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Kanto, Osaka, JP;
Norikatsu Yoshida, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device includes: an imaging element including a photoelectric conversion member that generates charge due to an internal photoelectric effect when receiving light at a voltage in a first predetermined range, and generates no charge due to the internal photoelectric effect when receiving light at a voltage in a second predetermined range, and a plurality of pixel circuits that accumulate, in each pixel, the charge generated by the photoelectric conversion member, the imaging element outputting a frame image based on an amount of charge accumulated in the plurality of pixel circuits; a voltage controller that controls a voltage to be applied to the photoelectric conversion member; and a corrector that performs correction on at least a part of one or more frame images output from the imaging element to reduce dark current signal components.