Patent ID: 11962916
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. An imaging method comprising:
performing photoelectric conversion in a pixel array to output an analog pixel signal;
converting the analog pixel signal into digital pixel data;
performing first signal processing on the digital pixel data according to an instruction from an outside circuitry;
performing second signal processing on data that has been subjected to at least a part of the first signal processing, the first signal processing and the second signal processing partly having a same type of signal processing;
performing recognition processing on the basis of data that has been subjected to the second signal processing; and
outputting at least one of the data that has been subjected to the first signal processing and the data that has been subjected to the recognition processing, wherein
performing the first signal processing includes execution of at least a part of the same type of signal processing under a first condition according to the instruction from the processor, and performing the second signal processing includes execution of the part of the same type of signal processing under a second condition different from the first condition.