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Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Hongbo Zhu, Tokyo, JP;

Shin Kitano, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/351 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 5/361 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/351 (2013.01); H04N 5/37452 (2013.01); H04N 5/361 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a solid-state image sensor that detects presence or absence of an address event, erroneous detection of the address event is suppressed. Each of a plurality of pixels executes detection processing for detecting whether or not a change amount of an incident light amount exceeds a predetermined threshold, and outputting a detection result. An abnormal pixel determination unit determines whether or not each of the plurality of pixels has an abnormality, and enables a pixel without an abnormality and disables a pixel with an abnormality. A control unit performs control for causing the enabled pixel to execute detection processing and control for fixing the detection result of the disabled pixel to a specific value.


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