Patent ID: 11889207
Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method for controlling a solid-state imaging element, comprising:
a transfer procedure in which an adjacent pixel adjacent to a pixel of interest generates an amount of charge corresponding to a weighting coefficient correlated with the adjacent pixel and transfers the charge to the pixel of interest, wherein, each adjacent pixel includes
a photoelectric conversion element that generates a charge by photoelectric conversion;
a charge holding portion that holds the charge;
an internal transfer transistor that internally transfers the charge from the photoelectric conversion element to the charge holding portion; and
a specific number of external transfer transistors that externally transfer the charge from the photoelectric conversion element to surrounding pixels; and

an accumulation procedure in which the pixel of interest generates an amount of charge corresponding to the weighting coefficient correlated with the pixel of interest and accumulates the charge together with the transferred charge.