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

Claim 0:
1. An imaging device, comprising:
a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of pixels includes light receiving elements;
a first pixel control section configured to control a first read out of a plurality of pixel signals of the plurality of pixels at a first frame rate;
a second pixel control section configured to control a second read out of 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;

an analog-to-digital conversion section configured to execute an analog-to-digital conversion on 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
two systems of readout signal lines configured to read out 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, and
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.