US 11,877,074 B2
Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus
Kozo Hoshino, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/072,252.
Application 18/072,252 is a continuation of application No. 17/586,230, filed on Jan. 27, 2022, granted, now 11,563,923.
Application 17/586,230 is a continuation of application No. 17/470,481, filed on Sep. 9, 2021, granted, now 11,483,526, issued on Oct. 25, 2022.
Application 17/470,481 is a continuation of application No. 16/764,474, granted, now 11,258,993, issued on Feb. 22, 2022, previously published as PCT/JP2018/041820, filed on Nov. 12, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-224138 (JP), filed on Nov. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0106203 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 25/13 (2023.01); H04N 25/589 (2023.01); H04N 25/704 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 25/13 (2023.01) [H04N 25/589 (2023.01); H04N 25/704 (2023.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light detecting device comprising:
a first pixel set including:
first through ninth pixels arranged in a first three-by-three matrix in a plan view, each of the first through ninth pixels including two photoelectric conversion parts, and
a first charge holding part coupled to the two photoelectric conversion parts of at least three pixels of the first through ninth pixels in the first pixel set, wherein
a first subset of the first through ninth pixels is arranged to be set at a first exposure time,
a second subset of the first through ninth pixels is arranged to be set at a second exposure time that is shorter than the first exposure time, and
a third subset of the first through ninth pixels is arranged to be set at a third exposure time that is shorter than the second exposure time;
a second pixel set including:
tenth through eighteenth pixels arranged in a second three-by-three matrix in the plan view, each of the tenth through eighteenth pixels including two photoelectric conversion parts, and
a second charge holding part coupled to the two photoelectric conversion parts of at least three pixels of the tenth through eighteenth pixels in the second pixel set;
a third pixel set including:
nineteenth through twenty-seventh pixels arranged in a third three-by-three matrix in the plan view, each of the nineteenth through twenty-seventh pixels including two photoelectric conversion parts, and
a third charge holding part coupled to the two photoelectric conversion parts of at least three pixels of the nineteenth through twenty-seventh pixels in the third pixel set; and
a fourth pixel set including:
twenty-eighth through thirty-sixth pixels arranged in a fourth three-by-three matrix in the plan view, each of the twenty-eighth through thirty-sixth pixels including two photoelectric conversion parts, and
a fourth charge holding part coupled to the two photoelectric conversion parts of at least three pixels of the twenty-eighth through thirty-sixth pixels in the fourth pixel set; wherein
the first, second, third, and fourth pixel sets are arranged in a two-by-two array in the plan view,
the first and fourth pixel sets are configured to produce pixel signals corresponding to light in a first range of wavelengths,
the second pixel set is configured to produce pixel signals corresponding to light in a second range of wavelengths different than the first range of wavelengths, and
the third pixel set is configured to produce pixel signals corresponding to light in a third range of wavelengths different than the first and second range of wavelengths.