Patent ID: 11943543
Assignee: SK HYNIX INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. An imaging device comprising:
an image sensing device including a plurality of pixels, each of which is structured to detect incident light from a scene to generate a pixel signal corresponding to an intensity of the incident light and generate image data corresponding to the pixel signal, wherein the image sensing device operates to perform imaging operation in response to a control signal;
a luminance acquisition unit configured to acquire the image data corresponding to first pixels among the plurality of pixels associated with a target region of an image of the scene captured by the image sensing device;
a controllable item acquisition unit configured to acquire one or more sensitivity items indicative of sensitivity of each pixel to light, as a controllable item; and
a set value calculation unit configured to generate the control signal to the image sensing device by calculating a set value for the controllable item based on the image data of the target region and the controllable item, wherein:
the plurality of pixels includes at least one high light-transmittance pixel and at least one low light-transmittance pixel, wherein the high light-transmittance pixel has a higher light-transmittance than the low light-transmittance pixel;
the low light-transmittance pixel includes a light blocking structure for blocking at least part of the incident light; and
a high dynamic range (HDR) image is generated by synthesizing image data generated from the high light-transmittance pixel and image data generated from the low light-transmittance pixel.