Image pickup element, imaging device, and imaging method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsNobuo Ueki, Masuyoshi Kurokawa, Yoichi Yagasaki, Makoto Aoki
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Abstract
In order to improve imaging performance, an imaging apparatus is provided to include an image capturing unit configured to detect incident light and generate a raw image data, a compression unit configured to compress the raw image data to generate a coded data having a data amount smaller than that of the raw image data, and an output unit configured to output the coded data to a processing unit for processing the coded data. Furthermore, the image capturing unit, the compression unit, and the output unit are configured to be within a same semiconductor package.
Claims13
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- an image capturing unit configured to detect incident light and generate a raw image data;
- and
- a compression unit configured to compress the raw image data to output a coded data, having a data amount smaller than that of the raw image data, to a processing unit for processing the coded data,
- wherein the image capturing unit and the compression unit are configured to be within a same semiconductor package,
- wherein the image capturing unit is fabricated on a first semiconductor substrate, the compression unit is fabricated on a second semiconductor substrate, and a bus connects a circuitry of the compression unit on the second semiconductor substrate to a circuitry of the processing unit, and
- wherein the image capturing unit, the compression unit, and the processing unit are each implemented via at least one processor.
An imaging method comprising:
- detecting incident light;
- generating a raw image data;
- and
- compressing the raw image data using circuitry fabricated on a second semiconductor substrate to output a coded data, having a data amount smaller than that of the raw image data, to circuitry fabricated on a first semiconductor substrate for further processing of the coded data,
- wherein the circuitry fabricated on the first semiconductor substrate and the circuitry fabricated on the second semiconductor substrate are configured to be within a same semiconductor package, and
- wherein a bus connects the circuitry on the second semiconductor substrate used for outputting the coded data to the circuitry on the first semiconductor substrate used for further processing the coded data.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:
- detecting incident light;
- generating a raw image data;
- and
- compressing the raw image data using circuitry fabricated on a second semiconductor substrate to output a coded data, having a data amount smaller than that of the raw image data, to circuitry fabricated on a first semiconductor substrate for further processing of the coded data,
- wherein the circuitry fabricated on the first semiconductor substrate and the circuitry fabricated on the second semiconductor substrate are configured to be within a same semiconductor package, and
- wherein a bus connects the circuitry on the second semiconductor substrate used for outputting the coded data to the circuitry on the first semiconductor substrate used for further processing the coded data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.