Patent ID: 11943549
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A light detecting device comprising:
a pixel array comprising a first pixel portion and a second pixel portion different from the first pixel portion, wherein
each of the first pixel portion and the second pixel portion comprises a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion unit,
in a first case, in the first pixel portion and the second pixel portion, a pixel signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit and a pixel signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit are read, and
in a second case, in the second pixel portion, a pixel signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit and a pixel signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit are read, and concurrently therewith, in the first pixel portion, a pixel signal from the first photoelectric conversion unit and a pixel signal from the second photoelectric conversion unit are summed and read.