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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2021
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Yohtaro Yasu, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A distance measuring device () including a plurality of pixels () provided in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of AD conversion circuits () provided in the row direction, each of the plurality of AD conversion circuits performing AD conversion on pixel signals of a corresponding column, and a signal processing section () that generates a depth image signal based on conversion results of the plurality of AD conversion circuits, wherein the plurality of pixels () include a plurality of valid pixels () provided in the row direction and the column direction to correspond to the depth image signal, each of the valid pixels including a plurality of charge transfer sections (TA, TB) that extract pixel signals corresponding to a light amount of incident light in different periods, and a plurality of light-shielded pixels () provided in the column direction on at least one of two end sides in the row direction with respect to a region provided with the plurality of valid pixels (), each of the plurality of light-shielded pixels being covered with a light-shielding film (M).