US 12,003,845 B2
Sensor apparatus having array sensor for sensor-equipped device, sensor equipped device provided with sensor apparatus having array sensor, and contol method for sensor apparatus having array sensor for sensor-equipped device
Susumu Takatsuka, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroki Tetsukawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/912,063
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/005518
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/199734, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-062294 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0111580 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/61 (2023.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/61 (2023.01) [G06V 10/147 (2022.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); H04N 23/64 (2023.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor apparatus comprising:
an array sensor in which a plurality of detection elements are arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally;
signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing on a detected signal obtained by the array sensor; and
arithmetic operation circuitry configured to perform object detection from the detected signal obtained by the array sensor, to perform operation control of the signal processing circuitry based on the object detection, and to perform switching processing for changing processing contents of the signal processing circuitry based on device information input from a sensor-equipped device on which the sensor apparatus is mounted, wherein
the arithmetic operation circuitry is further configured to identify a class of an object detected from the detected signal obtained by the array sensor and, to select parameters used for the signal processing on the detected signal by the signal processing circuitry based on the class of the object, as processing related to the switching processing, the class of the object representing a category of the object recognized by image recognition of the object.