Patent ID: 11962920
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A method of driving an imaging device, the method comprising, in driving the imaging device,
reading out, via a first pixel control section, a plurality of pixel signals of a plurality of pixels in a pixel array section at a first frame rate;
reading out, via a second pixel control section, a first set of pixel signals of a first set of pixels in a specific region in the pixel array section at a second frame rate, wherein
the plurality of pixels includes the first set of pixels, and
the second frame rate is higher than the first frame rate

converting, from analog-to-digital, a pixel signal of each pixel of the plurality of pixel signals read out by one of the first pixel control section or the second pixel control section; and
reading out, via two systems of read out signal lines, the pixel signal of each pixel of the plurality of pixels, wherein
the two systems of readout signal lines include a first readout signal line and a second readout signal line on a per-pixel-column basis,

each pixel of the plurality of pixels is configured to be connected to both the first readout signal line and the second readout signal line, and
the pixel signal of each pixel of the plurality of pixels is read out by both the first readout signal line and the second readout signal line.