SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND IMAGING SYSTEM

• US 20130076911A1
• Filed: 11/15/2012
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: NAKASHIBA, Yasutaka
• Granted Patent: US 8,780,237 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/164
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1318 using electro-optical elements or layers, e.g. electroluminescent sensing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/13 characterised by the spectral characteristics of the filter elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/33 Transforming infrared radiation cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from infrared radiation H04N23/20; circuitry of SSIS for transforming infrared radiation into image signals H04N25/20

Abstract

A solid-state imaging apparatus 10 includes a solid-state imaging device 40, and a color filter 16 constituted of a first color filter 16a (first filter) and a second color filter 16b (second filter). The solid-state imaging device 40 photoelectrically converts light incident to a face S1 (first face) thereof to thereby capture an image of an object to be imaged. Arranged on the face S1 of the solid-state imaging device 40 is the first color filter 16a and second color filter 16b. The first color filter 16a is a filter that allows first wavelength band light to be selectively transmitted therethrough; the second color filter 16b is a filter that allows second wavelength band light in the longer wavelength side relative to the first wavelength band to be selectively transmitted therethrough.

Claims

1. An image system comprising:

a first light receiving unit detecting a near-infrared light;

a second light receiving unit arranged so as not to overlap the first light receiving unit when viewed from a direction of light entering the first light receiving unit and detecting a first wavelength band light;

a first light source arranged around the first light receiving unit and generating the near-infrared light; and

a calculation unit configured to calculate a difference image between a first image being an image of an object to be imaged obtained by the near-infrared light entering the first light receiving unit and a second image being an image of the object obtained by the first wavelength band light entering the second light receiving unit, wherein the first wavelength band light has shorter wavelength than the near-infrared light.

2. An image system according to claim 1 further comprising:

a second light source arranged around the second light receiving unit and generating the first wavelength band light.

3. An image system according to claim 1, wherein the first wave length band light is green light.

4. An image system according to claim 1 further comprising:

a first filter is arranged so as to overlap the first light receiving unit when viewed from a direction of light entering the first light receiving unit; and

a second filter is arranged so as to overlap the second light receiving unit when viewed from a direction of light entering the second light receiving unit,

wherein the first filter allows the near-infrared light to be transmitted therethrough, and

wherein the second filter allows the first wavelength band light to be transmitted therethrough.

5. An image system according to claim 1 further comprising:

a semiconductor substrate,

wherein the first light receiving unit and the second light receiving unit is formed in the semiconductor substrate.