Patents by Inventor Alper Ercan

Alper Ercan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Time of flight sensor and method
    Patent number: 11796679
    Abstract: A time of flight sensor includes an image sensor; and a plurality of optical filters that are arranged on the image sensor, each of the plurality of optical filters passes light in a predefined wavelength range, and the image sensor generates a sub-frame of image data for each of the predefined wavelength ranges during an exposure time period of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Alper Ercan
  • Imaging device and method
    Patent number: 11726207
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to accumulate, in a multiphase exposure, multiple sub-exposures with same phase data in an associated phase memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Alper Ercan, Michiel Timmermans, Ward Van Der Tempel
  • Electronic device, method and computer program
    Patent number: 11681026
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to drive a unit pixel for a time of flight camera according to a multi-level mixing clock scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Ding, Alper Ercan
  • Electronic device and method
    Patent number: 11520020
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuity configured to integrate charge collected by at least two floating diffusions on at least one capacitor and to change the direction of charge integration from a first current flow direction to a second current flow direction between a first integration phase and a second integration phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Ding, Alper Ercan, Ward Van Der Tempel
  • TIME OF FLIGHT DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20220146673
    Abstract: A time-of-flight device has a light source configured to emit light pulses to a scene, a light detector configured to detect light reflected from the scene and a control, the control being configured to drive the light source to emit pulse density modulated light pulses representing a predefined light waveform, drive the light detector to detect the pulse density modulated light pulses, based on a demodulation time interval and reconstruct the predefined light waveform, based on the detected density modulated light pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Ding, Alper Ercan
  • IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20210157005
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to accumulate, in a multiphase exposure, multiple sub-exposures with same phase data in an associated phase memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Alper Ercan, Michiel Timmermans, Ward Van Der Tempel
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200018833
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to drive a unit pixel for a time of flight camera according to a multi-level mixing clock scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Ding, Alper Ercan
  • TIME OF FLIGHT SENSOR AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190369219
    Abstract: A time of flight sensor includes an image sensor; and a plurality of optical filters that are arranged on the image sensor, each of the plurality of optical filters passes light in a predefined wavelength range, and the image sensor generates a sub-frame of image data for each of the predefined wavelength ranges during an exposure time period of the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Alper Ercan
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190204446
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuity configured to integrate charge collected by at least two floating diffusions on at least one capacitor and to change the direction of charge integration from a first current flow direction to a second current flow direction between a first integration phase and a second integration phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Ding, Alper Ercan, Ward Van Der Tempel