US 11,818,447 B2
Master image sensor, slave image sensor, imaging system, and information processing method
Aerts Wouter, Stuttgart (DE); and Victor Belokonskiy, Zaventem (BE)
Assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/983,816.
Claims priority of application No. 19190279 (EP), filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0044732 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 5/265 (2006.01); H04N 23/66 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/45 (2023.01) [H04N 5/265 (2013.01); H04N 23/66 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A master image sensor configured to communicate with a slave image sensor via an exposure time voltage line, wherein the exposure time voltage line is connected to a terminal of the master image sensor, the master image sensor comprising master circuitry, configured to:
transmit to the slave image sensor, via the exposure time voltage line, an exposure time voltage signal being indicative of an exposure time of the master image sensor, wherein the exposure time of the master image sensor represents a time interval in which light is acquired by the master image sensor; and
transmit to the slave image sensor, via the exposure time voltage line, an auxiliary information voltage signal being indicative of auxiliary information for adjusting at least one imaging capture parameter of the slave imaging sensor, wherein the at least one imaging capture parameter relates to an imaging process of the slave image sensor.