Patent ID: 11871134
Assignee: TOPPAN HOLDINGS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An imaging method with a solid-state imaging device having a tessellation topology with an array of polygons, each of the polygons is defined as a virtual pixel, which has a pixels of transfer-route controlling-scheme, the tessellation topology of the polygons is re-assigned to a cut-away space for intersection-shared sites having an intersection point of meshes implemented by outer shapes of the virtual pixels at a center, and a remaining space of the cut-away space for photodiodes, each of the intersection-shared sites is provided in cut-away space generated by cutting away each vertices of the polygons mating toward the intersection point, the method including:
switching, in each of the intersection-shared sites, where “N” is positive integers of three or more, between:
a mode of sequentially reading out N sets of individual signals from N pieces of charge detectors labeled with same ordinal number, each of the charge detectors is arranged in a boundary between the photodiodes and the intersection-shared sites, and
a mode of simultaneously reading out N sets of individual signals.