A camera assembly and a mobile electronic device are provided. The camera assembly includes at least two image sensors. Each image sensor includes a pixel array and a control circuit. The pixel array includes a light sensing region and an imaging region. The control circuit is configured to receive a light sensing instruction to control the light sensing region to detect an illumination intensity and to receive an imaging instruction to control the light sensing region and the imaging region to collectively perform a photographic process to obtain an image. The present disclosure further provides a mobile electronic device.

A camera assembly and a mobile electronic device are provided. The camera assembly includes at least two image sensors. Each image sensor includes a pixel array and a control circuit. The pixel array includes a light sensing region and an imaging region. The control circuit is configured to control the light sensing region to detect an illumination intensity when receiving a light sensing instruction and to control the imaging region to obtain an image when receiving an imaging instruction. The mobile electronic device includes a camera assembly and a processor. The processor is configured to generate the light sensing instruction and the imaging instruction.

The present technology relates to a light receiving device, a control method, and an electronic apparatus capable of suppressing saturation of a sensor that receives light.

A control unit performs exposure control to control, in accordance with a photometry result of a photometry sensor that performs photometry by receiving light, exposure of another sensor of which a light receiving surface that receives light is divided into a plurality of blocks, the exposure control being performed for each block. The present technology can be applied, for example, an electronic apparatus such as a digital camera that receives light.

The present technology relates to a solid-state image capturing device and an electronic device which are capable of improving detection accuracy for polarization information and color information. The solid-state image capturing device includes a pixel array unit including a plurality of polarizing pixels configured to detect polarization information, and a plurality of color pixels configured to detect color information. The polarizing pixels are arranged in a row direction and a column direction in a grid form. The color pixels are arranged in the row direction and the column direction in the grid form between the polarizing pixels that are adjacent, at positions shifted from the polarizing pixels in the row direction and the column direction. For example, the present technology can be applied to the solid-state image capturing device.

Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a light sensor. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes an image sensing array region, a first photosensor having a light-sensitive region outside of the image sensing array region, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is arranged in a first mode to read out image data from the image sensing array region, where the data provide information indicative of an image incident on the image sensing array region of the integrated circuit. The control circuitry is arranged in a second mode to read out a signal from the first photosensor indicative of intensity of light incident on the light-sensitive region of the first photosensor. Electrical power consumed by the integrated circuit during the second mode is at least ten times lower than electrical power consumed by the integrated circuit during the first mode. Additional methods and apparatuses are described.

Controlling integral energy of a light pulse in a hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging system is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes an electromagnetic sensor for sensing energy emitted by the emitter. The system includes a controller configured to synchronize timing of the emitter and the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of a hyperspectral emission, a fluorescence emission, or a laser mapping pattern.

The present disclosure relates to a light receiving element and a ranging system capable of reducing a pixel size in a stack-type light receiving element using an avalanche photodiode. The light receiving element includes: a first substrate on which an avalanche photodiode that converts received light into an electric signal and at least one element are formed, the element being included in a read circuit which outputs a pixel signal on the basis of the electric signal; and a second substrate on which a logic circuit is formed, the logic circuit being a circuit that processes the pixel signal which is read from the avalanche photodiode, and the first substrate and the second substrate being stacked. The technique of the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a light receiving element, a ranging system, or the like that detects a distance to a subject.

An imaging element includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixel groups including a plurality of pixels that output pixel signals according to incident light are formed, and on which incident light corresponding to mutually different pieces of image information is incident; a control unit that controls, for each of the pixel groups, a period of accumulating in the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group; and a readout unit that is provided to each of the pixel groups, and reads out the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group.

An image sensor may include pixels having nested sub-pixels. A pixel with nested sub-pixels may include an inner sub-pixel that has either an elliptical or a rectangular light collecting area. The inner sub-pixel may be formed in a substrate and may be immediately surrounded by a sub-pixel group that includes one or more sub-pixels. The inner sub-pixel may have a light collecting area at a surface that is less sensitive than the light collecting area of the one or more outer sub-pixel groups. Microlenses may be formed over the nested sub-pixels, to direct light away from the inner sub-pixel group to the outer sub-pixel groups in nested sub-pixels. A color filter of a single color may be formed over the nested sub-pixels. Hybrid color filters having a single color filter region over the inner sub-pixel and a portion of the one or more outer sub-pixel groups may also be used.

There is provided a solid state imaging apparatus including a pixel array in which a plurality of unit pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element, a transfer transistor which transfers a charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element to floating diffusion, a reset transistor which resets the charge of the floating diffusion, and an output transistor which outputs the charge of the floating diffusion. The floating diffusion of at least one of the plurality of unit pixels is electrically connected via the output transistor.