Imaging device, electronic device, and image generation device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMaasa Ito, Tomoya Onishi
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Abstract
An imaging device is provided. The device comprises: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element are arranged; a signal processor configured to process a signal output from the imaging unit; and a storage device configured to store the signal output from the imaging unit and transfer the signal to the signal processor. The storage device stores a plurality of image signals output by the plurality of pixels arranged in the imaging unit as a plurality of sub-frames and then outputs a sub-frame satisfying a predetermined condition out of the plurality of sub-frames as a signal for configuring a single frame.
Claims11
An imaging device comprising:
- an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element are arranged;
- a signal processor configured to process an image signal output from the imaging unit;
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- a storage device configured to store the image signal output from the imaging unit and to transfer the image signal to the signal processor,
- wherein the storage device is configured to store a plurality of image signals output from the imaging unit as a plurality of sub-frames, and
- wherein the signal processor is configured to:
- (1) determine whether a number of saturated pixels with pixel values exceeding a predetermined threshold is equal to or smaller than a predetermined number for each sub-frame, (2) select, from the plurality of sub-frames stored in the storage device, sub-frames in which the number of the saturated pixels is equal to or smaller than the predetermined number, and (3) generate a single frame using the selected sub-frames.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.