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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2022
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Takafumi Takatsuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Jun Ogi, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An imaging unit according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix form, and a controller that performs TDI control on the plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a light pulse responder and a counter section. The light pulse responder generates a light pulse in response to incidence of light. The counter section includes a rewrite circuit and an adder circuit. The rewrite circuit rewrites an initial value. The adder circuit adds information corresponding to the light pulse to the initial value. The controller causes information held in the counter section to be written as the initial value into the counter section included in the pixel of a next stage in a column direction, and thereafter causes the information corresponding to the light pulse obtained from the light pulse responder to be added to the initial value.