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US 2005/0231618 A1Published application
Image-capturing apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorToshinobu Sugiyama
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Abstract
An image-capturing apparatus includes a pixel array including pixels. Each of the pixels includes a transducer for generating signal charge according to the intensity of an incident light beam. The image-capturing apparatus further includes an output circuit for outputting a pixel signal outside the pixel array at a frame rate depending on the pixel position in the pixel array, based on the signal charge; and an output-controlling unit for controlling the operation of the output circuit.
Claims23
An image-capturing apparatus comprising:
- a pixel array including pixels, each of the pixels including a transducer for generating signal charge according to the intensity of an incident light beam;
- an output circuit for outputting a pixel signal outside the pixel array at a frame rate depending on the pixel position in the pixel array, based on the signal charge;
- and
- an output-controlling unit for controlling the operation of the output circuit.
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An image-capturing apparatus comprising:
- a pixel array including pixels, each of the pixels including a transducer for generating signal charge according to the intensity of an incident light beam;
- an output circuit for outputting a pixel signal outside the pixel array, based on the signal charge;
- an output-controlling unit for controlling the operation of the output circuit;
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- a signal-processing unit including:
- signal-processing circuits, a predetermined signal-processing circuit depending on the pixel position in the pixel array processing the pixel signal.
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An imaging module comprising:
- an image-capturing portion having a pixel array including pixels, each of the pixels including a transducer for generating signal charge according to the intensity of an incident light beam;
- an output circuit for outputting a pixel signal outside the pixel array at a frame rate depending on the pixel position in the pixel array, based on the signal charge;
- an output-controlling portion for controlling the operation of the output circuit;
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- a signal processing portion for processing the pixel signals output from the pixel array at different frame rates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.