Patent ID: 11863911
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. An imaging system mounted on and used in a moving body, the imaging system comprising:
event detection circuitry configured to detect, as an event, that a luminance change of a pixel that photoelectrically converts incident light exceeds a predetermined threshold;
imaging circuitry configured to capture an image at a fixed frame rate; and
control circuitry configured to control the event detection circuitry and the imaging circuitry, wherein
the control circuitry performs control to acquire image information of a region including the event in response to the event detection circuitry detecting the event,
the event detection circuitry acquires the image, and
in a case where a difference between a vehicle speed of a host vehicle and a vehicle speed of a monitoring target vehicle is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold in a state where surroundings are monitored based on the image acquired by the imaging circuitry, the control circuitry executes switching from imaging by the imaging circuitry to imaging by the event detection circuitry, and monitors the surroundings based on the image acquired by the event detection circuitry.