IP Library Patent Application 14137242
Patent Application
App. No. 14/137,242

IMAGING DEVICE

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App. No.
14/137,242
Abstract

A color filter has a transmission band in a visible region and an infrared region. A first substrate is arranged below the color filter and has a first photoelectric conversion element which outputs a first signal charge according to an amount of exposure of a light passing through the color filter. A second substrate has a second photoelectric conversion element outputting a second signal charge according to an amount of exposure of a light, having sensitivity in at least the infrared region, which passes through the first substrate, and is arranged on a surface on an opposite side to a light-receiving surface of the first substrate. A signal read-out circuit reads out the first signal charge as a first electrical signal, and reads out the second signal charge as a second electrical signal.

Claims (16)

1 . An imaging device comprising:

a first filter that has a transmission band transmitting a light of a visible region and an infrared region;

a first substrate that is arranged below the first filter, and has a first photoelectric conversion element which outputs a first signal charge according to an amount of exposure of a light passing through the first filter;

a second substrate that has a second photoelectric conversion element outputting a second signal charge according to an amount of exposure of a light, having sensitivity in at least the infrared region, which passes through the first substrate, and is arranged on a surface on an opposite side to a light-receiving surface of the first substrate; and

a signal read-out circuit that reads out the first signal charge as a first electrical signal, and reads out the second signal charge as a second electrical signal.

2 . The imaging device according to claim 1 , wherein a size of a pixel including the second photoelectric conversion element is integer times a size of a pixel including the first photoelectric conversion element.

3 . The imaging device according to claim 1 , wherein the first filter includes a filter that transmits a plurality of types of light beams of the infrared region.

4 . The imaging device according to claim 1 , further comprising a second filter that is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and shields the light of the visible region.

5 . The imaging device according to claim 1 , further comprising a correction circuit that reduces influence on the first signal charge which derives from the light of the infrared region, by using the second electrical signal.

6 . The imaging device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a supporting base that supports a finger;

an illumination system that irradiates the supporting base with a light having a spectral distribution in the visible region and the infrared region; and

an optical system that guides a light passing through the finger, which is supported by the supporting base, and a light reflected at the finger to the first substrate.

7 . The imaging device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an illumination system that irradiates a subject with a light having spectral distribution in the visible region and an excitation light exiting fluorescence which has spectral distribution in the infrared region; and

an optical system that guides a light from the subject to the first substrate.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 20, 2017
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 042907/0078 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 24, 2013
From: YAMAMOTO, YUSUKE; TAMIYA, KOSEI
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 031844/0880 →