An image sensing device includes a first test block, a second test block, and a readout block. The first test block includes a plurality of first image sensing pixels structured to convert incident light carrying an image into a first pixel signal indicative of the image, and a first heating element structured to transmit heat to the first image sensing pixels. The second test block includes a plurality of second image sensing pixels that each include a light blocking structure to be shielded from receiving incident light to generate a second pixel signal without being directly exposed to the incident light, and a second heating element structured to transmit heat to the second image sensing pixels. The readout block processes the first pixel signal output from the first test block and the second pixel signal output from the second test block.

An image sensor for distance measurement and an image sensor module including the image sensor are provided. The image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels including a plurality of first pixels arranged on a first line and a plurality of second pixels arranged on a second line, wherein the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels are arranged to be staggered from each other, and each of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels includes a plurality of modulation gates for receiving a plurality of modulated signals during a photocharge collection period; a row decoder that provides control signals and the plurality of modulated signals to the pixel array; and an analog-to-digital conversion circuit that receives a plurality of sensing signals from the pixel array and converts the plurality of sensing signals into a plurality of digital signals.

An image sensor includes a first voltage source that supplies a first voltage and a plurality of pixels supplied with the first voltage. The pixel includes a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light, an accumulation unit to which an electric charge resulting from photoelectric conversion by the photoelectric conversion unit is transferred and accumulated, a transfer unit that transfers the electric charge from the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit; a second voltage source that supplies a second voltage, and a supply unit that supplies the transfer unit with a transfer signal based on either the first voltage supplied by the first voltage source or the second voltage supplied by the second voltage source.

The image-capturing apparatus (100) includes an image sensor (14), a focus detector (42) performing focus detection using output from the image sensor; and a controller (50) configured to cause the focus detector to perform the focus detection and configured to control emission of a light emitter for illuminating an object and movement of a focus element for focusing. The controller selectively performs: a first focus detection process that causes the focus detector to perform the focus detection with the focus element being stopped while causing the light emitter to intermittently emit light; and a second focus detection process that causes the focus detector to perform the focus detection with the focus element being moved while causing the light emitter to intermittently emit the light.

An image capture control apparatus includes reception unit configured to receive an instruction for ending recording of a moving image; and control unit configured to, when the instruction for ending is issued, perform control, in a case of a first shooting mode in which an image is displayed in a state being visible from a subject, to display an item for deleting a portion at a beginning or at an end of the moving image, in response to the instruction for ending, and to record the moving image to a recording medium in a state where the portion of the moving image has been deleted, and perform control, in a case of a second shooting mode, to not display the item, even when the instruction for ending has been given.

Disclosed is an image sensing device including a current supply circuit coupled between a supply terminal of a first voltage and a pair of output terminals, an input circuit coupled between the pair of output terminals and a common node, and suitable for receiving a pixel signal and a ramp signal, and a mirroring circuit coupled between the common node and a supply terminal of a second voltage, and suitable for compensating for an operating current, which flows between the common node and the supply terminal of the second voltage, based on a reference current when generating the operating current by mirroring the reference current.

An autofocusing method includes capturing an image of a scene with a camera that includes a pixel array; computing a horizontal-difference image, and a vertical-difference image; and combining the horizontal-difference image and the vertical-difference image to yield a combined image. The method also includes determining, from the combined image and the intensity image, an image distance with respect to a lens of the camera at which the camera forms an in-focus image. The pixel array includes horizontally-adjacent pixel pairs and vertically-adjacent pixel pairs each located beneath a respective microlens. The horizontal-difference image includes, for each horizontally-adjacent pixel pair, a derived pixel value that is an increasing function of a difference between pixel values generated by the horizontally-adjacent pixel pair. The vertical-difference image includes, for each vertically-adjacent pixel pair, a derived pixel value that is an increasing function of a difference between pixel values generated by the vertically-adjacent pixel pair.

There is provided a semiconductor device that can minimize deterioration of performance of a capacitor due to a bonding process. Between a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other, the semiconductor device includes a first electrode which is provided in the first substrate and of which one surface is positioned on the same surface as a bonding surface between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a second electrode which is provided in the second substrate and of which one surface is positioned on the same surface as a bonding surface and bonded to one surface of the first electrode. Therefore, the semiconductor device includes at least one of a first capacitor which is provided in the first substrate and of which one electrode is electrically connected to a non-exposed surface of the first electrode and a second capacitor which is provided in the second substrate and of which one electrode is electrically connected to a non-exposed surface of the second electrode.

The pixel region includes a first phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of which the first side of the photoelectric conversion element is blocked by the light blocking layer in a first side region of the first side, and a second phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of which the second side of the photoelectric conversion element is blocked by the light blocking layer. The first phase difference pixel group includes a first A pixel and a first B pixel in which a light blocking area of the photoelectric conversion element using the light blocking layer is smaller than that of the first A pixel. The controller performs addition readout processing in which at least one of a pixel signal of the first A pixel or a pixel signal of the first B pixel is weighted in accordance with optical characteristics of the imaging lens.

A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising a pixel array and a signal processor is provided. The pixel array is configured to be operable in driving modes in which different signal readout methods are used. The signal processor comprises a selector configured to select, based on the driving mode set for each pixel among the driving modes, a first pixel group and a second pixel group from regions of the pixel array, which have been designated to generate a correction value, a correction value generator configured to generate the correction value in accordance with a first representative value based on signals read out from the first pixel group and a second representative value based on signals read out from the second pixel group, and a corrector configured to correct, based on the correction value, the signal read out from the pixel array.