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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2017
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoki Kawazu, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichiro Azami, Kanagawa, JP;
Motohashi Yuichi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
[Object] To make it possible to detect, in the case where abnormality has occurred in at least a part of the pixels, the abnormality for each of the pixels. [Solving Means] An imaging system includes: an imaging apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle and images an area around the vehicle; and a processing apparatus that is mounted on the vehicle and executes processing relating to a function of controlling the vehicle, in which the imaging apparatus includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion device, a drive circuit that supplies a drive signal to the pixel, a power source that applies a power source voltage to the pixel, a control unit that controls application of the power source voltage to the pixel so that charges are injected into the photoelectric conversion device, and then, controls supply of the drive signal to the pixel so that a pixel signal corresponding to the charges injected from the photoelectric conversion device is read, a recognition unit that recognizes a state of the photoelectric conversion device in accordance with a result of reading the pixel signal corresponding to the charges from the photoelectric conversion device, and an output unit that outputs information corresponding to a result of recognizing the state of the photoelectric conversion device, and the processing apparatus restricts, on the basis of the recognition result, the function of controlling the vehicle.