US 12,003,877 B2
Image pickup element, control method, and image pickup device
Naoki Kawazu, Kanagawa (JP); Atsushi Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Takashi Shoji, Kanagawa (JP); Masashi Akamatsu, Nagasaki (JP); Nobutaka Shimamura, Kanagawa (JP); Hayato Wakabayashi, Tokyo (JP); Yuuki Yamagata, Kanagawa (JP); Norihiro Nikai, Fukuoka (JP); Tohru Kikawada, Kanagawa (JP); Takumi Oka, Kanagawa (JP); and Toshiki Kainuma, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/577,558.
Application 16/577,558 is a division of application No. 15/119,636, granted, now 10,484,634, previously published as PCT/JP2015/055140, filed on Feb. 24, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-044036 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2020/0014874 A1, Jan. 9, 2020
Int. Cl. H04N 25/767 (2023.01); H04N 25/13 (2023.01); H04N 25/445 (2023.01); H04N 25/46 (2023.01); H04N 25/70 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01); H04N 25/772 (2023.01); H04N 25/778 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 25/767 (2023.01) [H04N 25/445 (2023.01); H04N 25/46 (2023.01); H04N 25/70 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01); H04N 25/772 (2023.01); H04N 25/778 (2023.01); H04N 25/134 (2023.01)] 17 Claims
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1. An image pickup element comprising:
a pixel array configured to have a plurality of signal lines allocated to each column, wherein one signal line of the plurality of signal lines is allocated to each reading mode, wherein a signal line to be connected to a pixel is selected based on a reading mode, and wherein reading modes comprise a monitoring mode and an autofocus (AF) mode; and
a control unit configured to perform control to read a pixel signal from the pixel connected to the signal line corresponding to the reading mode and to transmit the read pixel signal via the signal line.