Imaging device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuyuki Shigeta
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Abstract
An imaging device includes an image sensing unit having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel. Light sensitivity of the first pixel has a local maximum value near a first wavelength and a local maximum value near a second wavelength. The first wavelength and the second wavelength are in a near-infrared wavelength band. Light sensitivity of the second pixel has a local maximum value near the second wavelength. The light sensitivity of the second pixel at the first wavelength is not higher than 10% of the light sensitivity of the first pixel at the first wavelength.
Claims17
An imaging device comprising an image sensing unit having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged;
- the plurality of pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel;
- light sensitivity of the first pixel having a local maximum value or a maximum value at a first wavelength, a local maximum value at a second wavelength, and a local minimum value at a wavelength between the first wavelength and the second wavelength, the first wavelength being shorter than the second wavelength and the local maximum value or the maximum value at the first wavelength being more than the local maximum value at the second wavelength;
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- light sensitivity of the second pixel having a local maximum value at a third wavelength, the local maximum value at the third wavelength being higher than the local minimum value, the third wavelength being equal to the second wavelength or being nearer to the second wavelength than to the first wavelength, wherein
- the first wavelength is shorter than 800 nm, and the second wavelength and the third wavelength are both longer than 720 nm and shorter than 850 nm, the first, second and third wavelengths all being in a near-infrared wavelength band, and
- the value of the light sensitivity of the second pixel at the first wavelength is not higher than 10% of the value of the light sensitivity of the first pixel at the first wavelength.
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