Sensor device and encryption method
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsSusumu Takatsuka, Kenta Kawamoto, Hiroki Tetsukawa
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Abstract
To achieve an improvement in security in encryption of an image signal obtained through imaging by an array sensor. A sensor device includes: an array sensor in which a plurality of pixels including light-receiving elements for visible light or invisible light are arrayed 1-dimensionally or 2-dimensionally; and an encryption unit configured to encrypt a read signal from the pixels of the array sensor. By encrypting a read signal, it is possible to achieve an improvement in security by enabling the image signal not to be stored in plain text in a memory.
Claims10
A sensor device comprising:
- an array sensor in which a plurality of pixels including light-receiving elements for visible light or invisible light are arrayed 1-dimensionally or 2-dimensionally;
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- an encryption unit configured to encrypt a read signal from the pixels of the array sensor.
An encryption method comprising:
- encrypting a read signal from pixels of an array sensor, the plurality of pixels including light-receiving elements for visible light or invisible light and being arrayed 1-dimensionally or 2-dimensionally.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.