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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2019
Applicant:

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Soichi Kuwahara, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/351 (2011.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23287 (2013.01); G02B 27/646 (2013.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); H04N 5/351 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, a solid-state imaging element, a camera module, a drive control unit, and an imaging method for enabling reliable correction of an influence of a motion on an image. A state determination unit determines a state of a motion of an imaging unit that performs imaging to acquire an image via an optical system that collects light, and an exposure control unit performs at least control for an exposure time of the imaging unit according to a determination result by the state determination unit. Then, relative driving for the optical system or the imaging unit is performed to optically correct a blur appearing in the image according to an exposure period of one frame by the exposure time, and driving for resetting a relative positional relationship between the optical system and the imaging unit, the relative positional relationship being caused during the exposure period, is performed according to a non-exposure period in which exposure is not performed between the frames. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a stacked CMOS image sensor.


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