An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels including a first partial pixel, a second partial pixel, and a third partial pixel are arranged; and an addition processor that adds, for each of the pixels, a third partial pixel signal generated from the third partial pixel to either one of a first partial pixel signal generated from the first partial pixel and a second partial pixel signal generated from the second partial pixel, on the basis of a temperature of the pixel array.

An image device is provided. The image device includes a pixel array comprising a first pixel array portion of a part of the pixel array and a second pixel array portion of other part of the pixel array that outputs an image; and a color filter array disposed over the pixel array, the color filter array comprising a first color filter pattern on the first pixel array portion and a second color filter pattern on the second pixel array portion, which are comprising a plurality of different color filters in each of the first pixel array portion and the second pixel array portion, wherein the plurality of the color filters in the first color filter pattern is arranged in an array of N*N and the plurality of the color filters in the second color filter pattern is arranged in an array of M*M (N and M are a natural number of 2 or more, and the N and M is different each other) wherein a number of red (R) color filters included in the first color filter pattern is equal to a number of R color filters included in the second color filter pattern.

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods implemented by an electronic device with an imaging sensor including a plurality of pixels (e.g., a matrix of pixels) that each are capable of detecting illumination intensity or contrast change using at least one shared photosensor. In some implementations, the imaging sensor is capable of operating in a first illumination intensity detecting mode (e.g., in a frame-based camera mode) or in a second contrast change detecting mode (e.g., in an event camera mode). In some implementations, the first illumination intensity detecting mode and the second contrast change detecting mode are mutually exclusive. In some implementations, pixels at an imaging sensor include two transfer transistors (e.g., gates) where a first transfer transistor allows intensity detection, and a second transfer transistor allows contrast change detection.

Systems and methods are described for a tetracell image sensor that performs diamond binning to process image data. An image sensor includes a pixel array and a converting circuit, where the pixel array includes pixel sets arranged in a row direction and a column direction, outputs a first signal generated from a first pixel set of the pixel sets, and outputs a second signal generated from a second pixel set of the pixel sets. The converting circuit performs binning based on the first signal and the second signal to generate a first binning signal. Each of the first pixel set and the second pixel set includes pixel sensors adjacent to each other, and the first pixel set and the second pixel set are located at different rows and different columns.

A method for depth measurement with a time-of-flight camera using amplitude-modulated continuous light by acquiring for each of a plurality of pixels of a sensor array of the camera at least one sample sequence having at least four amplitude samples (A.sub.0, A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3) at a sampling frequency higher than a modulation frequency of the amplitude-modulated continuous light. The method further includes: determining for each sample sequence of each pixel a confidence value (C) indicating a degree of correspondence of the amplitude samples (A.sub.0, A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3) with a sinusoidal time evolution of the amplitude; and determining for each of a plurality of binning areas, each of which comprises a plurality of pixels, a binned depth value (D.sub.b) based on the amplitude samples (A.sub.0, A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3) of sample sequence of pixels from the binning area, wherein the contribution of a sample sequence to the binned depth value (D.sub.b) depends on its confidence value (C).

An imaging device as an embodiment includes: a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a readout unit that divides the pixel unit into a plurality of pixel blocks in accordance with a division pattern, each pixel block including at least two of the plurality of pixels, and combines signals from the at least two of the plurality of pixels included in one pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks to generate one signal for each of the plurality of pixel blocks; a detection unit that detects that a change in signal values between a plurality of signals that are sequentially generated by the readout unit of the one pixel block; and a control unit that controls the readout unit. The control unit controls the readout unit so as to output a signal individually from each of the plurality of pixels included in at least one pixel block in response to the detection unit detecting a change in the signal values and controls the readout unit so that the division patterns are different in at least two frames.

A wearable display system including multiple cameras and a processor is disclosed. A greyscale camera and a color camera can be arranged to provide a central view field associated with both cameras and a peripheral view field associated with one of the two cameras. One or more of the two cameras may be a plenoptic camera. The wearable display system may acquire light field information using the at least one plenoptic camera and create a world model using the first light field information and first depth information stereoscopically determined from images acquired by the greyscale camera and the color camera. The wearable display system can track head pose using the at least one plenoptic camera and the world model. The wearable display system can track objects in the central view field and the peripheral view fields using the one or two plenoptic cameras, when the objects satisfy a depth criterion.

Row-by-row pixel read-out is executed concurrently within respective clusters of pixels of a pixel array, alternating the between descending and ascending progressions in the intra-cluster row readout sequence to reduce temporal skew between neighboring pixel rows in adjacent clusters.

A light-detection method for a light-detection device including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of read-out lines and a plurality of photo sensing elements is provided. Each of the plurality of photo sensing elements is coupled to one of the plurality of scan lines and one of the plurality of read-out lines. The method includes simultaneously turning on at least two of the plurality of scan lines to turn on a portion of the plurality of photo sensing elements which are coupled to the turned-on scan lines, turning on at least one of the plurality of read-out lines to transmit signals of the portion of the plurality of photo sensing elements, and determining whether the signals match a trigger standard. When it is determined that the signals match the trigger standard, a reading mode is entered.

A driving method of a semiconductor device that takes three-dimensional images with short duration is provided. In a first step, a light source starts to emit light, and first potential corresponding to the total amount of light received by a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element is written to a first charge accumulation region. In a second step, the light source stops emitting light and second potential corresponding to the total amount of light received by the first photoelectric conversion element and the second photoelectric conversion element is written to a second charge accumulation region. In a third step, first data corresponding to the potential written to the first charge accumulation region is read. In a fourth step, second data corresponding to the potential written to the second charge accumulation region is read.