The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an information compression unit, in an image capturing unit(), among a plurality of pixel output units that receives object light that enters without passing through any of an image capturing lens and a pinhole, pixel outputs of at least two of the pixel output units have incident angle directivity modulated into different incident angle directivity according to an incident angle of the object light. The information compression unitperforms compression processing to reduce an amount of data of pixel output information generated by the image capturing unit(). For example, by computation of a difference between set reference value information and the pixel output information, linear calculation of a set calculation parameter and the pixel output information, and the like, the information compression unitreduces a word length of the pixel output information, and reduces the amount of data of the pixel output information generated according to the object light that enters without passing through any of an image capturing lens and a pinhole.