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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Ryo Hatakeyama, Hino, JP;
Kazuhiro Haneda, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3698 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/232122 (2018.08); H04N 5/232411 (2018.08); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 5/36961 (2018.08); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/37457 (2013.01); H04N 9/04557 (2018.08);
Abstract
An image pickup device, in which a plurality of pixels photoelectrically convert incident light and generate a plurality of pieces of pixel data, includes a vertical scanning section configured to generate a pixel data sequence composed of pixel data having a same characteristic, a pixel section, an analog processing section, an ADC processing section, a memory section, a horizontal scanning section, and an output section configured to add additional information indicating the characteristic of the pixel data sequence to the pixel data sequence.