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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2010
Applicant:
Tsutomu Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tsutomu Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 5/367 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/367 (2013.01); H04N 5/3745 (2013.01); H04N 17/002 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image pickup device without a light shielding device for blocking light received by a solid-state image pickup element, the image pickup device including: a supplying section configured to supply a signal for resetting a charge of a floating diffusion disposed so as to correspond to one or a plurality of pixels in the solid-state image pickup element; and a detecting section configured to detect a pixel in which change in output of the pixel after passage of a certain time from the resetting of the charge of the floating diffusion is larger than a predetermined threshold value.