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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunobu Hitomi, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an imaging apparatus and an imaging method capable of generating distance information and an image. The imaging apparatus includes a light source that emits light, an accumulation unit, charges corresponding to received light being accumulated in the accumulation unit, a distance information generation unit that generates distance information from an amount of the charges accumulated in the accumulation unit, and an image generation unit that generates an image from the amount of the charges accumulated in the accumulation unit, the distance information generation unit generating the distance information from the amount of the charges accumulated in the accumulation unit based on emission of light, the image generation unit generating the image from the amount of the charges accumulated in the accumulation unit based on absence of the emitted light.