Patent ID: 8670057
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing device comprising: a photodetector including a plurality of pixels, each having a photoelectric conversion unit outputting electric charges depending on received light, charge accumulation units accumulating the electric charges, and a drain electrode that discards the electric charges; a finite impulse response filter which is applied to images; a controller controlling the pixels so as to distribute the electric charges that are output by the photoelectric conversion units to the charge accumulation units and to the drain electrodes at a distribution ratio depending on a weight coefficient of a corresponding delay period of the finite impulse response filter at each delay period, and reading the electric charges accumulated in the charge accumulation units after a whole delay period of the finite impulse response filter elapses; and an image processor generating the images based on the electric charges that are read by the controller.