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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2017
Applicant:
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Fumihito Yasuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/361 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/361 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/36963 (2018.08); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/379 (2018.08);
Abstract
A signal processing device including an adjusting unit that adjusts an offset amount on a basis of output values of effective pixels for which the output values are equal to or less than a threshold among a plurality of effective pixels included in at least part of a region of a light receiving surface. The signal processing device further includes a correcting unit that corrects the output values of the effective pixels on a basis of the adjusted offset amount.