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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2020
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Pooria Mostafalu, New York, NY (US);
Giri Mehta, Rochester, NY (US);
Frederick Brady, Webster, NY (US);
Ping Wah Wong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device with a plurality of image sensing pixels and a plurality of event detection pixels is provided. Each image sensing pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element and an imaging signal generation readout circuit. The image sensing readout circuit can be shared by a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. Each event detection pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element and an event detection readout circuit. The event detection readout circuit can be shared by a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. In addition, the photoelectric conversion element of an event detection pixel can be selectively connected to a shared imaging signal generation readout circuit. The number of image sensing pixels is greater than the number of event detection pixels. In addition, the area of a photoelectric conversion element of an event detection pixel can be greater than the area of a photoelectric conversion element of an image sensing pixel.