McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Pixel arranging apparatus, solid-state image sensing apparatus, and camera
A solid-state image sensing apparatus including a solid-state image sensing device and a signal processing circuit. The solid-state image sensing device includes: a vertical transfer unit, composed of transfer columns corresponding to columns of the light-to-electric conversion elements, operable to transfer, in a vertical direction, signal charges read out from the light-to-electric conversion elements; a horizontal transfer unit operable to receive the signal charges from the vertical transfer unit and transfer them in a horizontal direction. The signal processing circuit converts the signal charges from the horizontal transfer unit into pixel data, and rearranges it into a two-dimensional array. In the rearrangement, the signal processing circuit, per transfer of one piece of pixel data, cyclically selects a line memory out of three line memories, writes a piece of pixel data into the selected line memory, or reads a row of pixel data from the selected line memory.
Panasonic Corporation
H
H04N
inventional
Yoshihisa Toshiya Kenji Toshinobu Ryouichi Jun Toshiyuki Toshiya
Shimazu Kogishi Arakawa Hatano Nagayoshi Kajiwara Nakashima Fujii