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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:
Feb. 06, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2020
Applicant:

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Ping Wah Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

Sa Xiao, San Jose, CA (US);

Kevin Chan, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 25/443 (2023.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01); H04N 25/42 (2023.01); H04N 25/53 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01); H04N 25/77 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 25/443 (2023.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/951 (2023.01); H04N 25/42 (2023.01); H04N 25/53 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01); H04N 25/77 (2023.01);
Abstract

An imaging device with a plurality of image sensing pixels and a plurality of event detection pixels is provided. The image sensing and event detection pixels can be provided as part of different arrays of pixels, or can be included within a common array of pixels. The event detection pixels are operated continuously to provide signals indicating the occurrence of events. In response to detecting an event, image sensing pixels are selectively operated. The selective operation of the image sensing pixels can include activation of image sensing pixels within one or more regions of interest, while image sensing pixels not included in any region of interest remain off. The selective operation of the image sensing pixels can include the selection of a frame rate applied across an array of mage sensing pixels, or within determined regions of interest.


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