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Photosensor device including means for designating a plurality of pixel blocks of any desired size

  • US 5,241,167 A
  • Filed: 11/07/1991
  • Issued: 08/31/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A photoelectric sensor device having a two-dimensional arrangement of a multiplicity of unit structures each including a pixel, comprising:

  • means for simultaneously designating a plurality of pixel blocks of any desired sizes at any desired positions on said two-dimensional arrangement of unit structures, the pixels of said designated pixel blocks being actually used;

    a monitor output circuit for outputting, for each of said pixel blocks, at least one monitor output as the representative of the amounts of charges accumulated in the pixels in each of said pixel blocks; and

    wherein the accumulation of charges and the outputting of the image signals are executed on each of said pixel blocks independently of other pixel blocks.

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