Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor having reduced power consumption
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Application No.: US15297685Application Date: 2016-10-19
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Publication No.: US10057514B2Publication Date: 2018-08-21
- Inventor: Masato Osawa
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2014-103571 20140519
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N5/341 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/376

Abstract:
An image sensor includes n light receiving elements including first to n-th light receiving elements, each of the light receiving elements generating photoelectric conversion signals, n sequencers including first to n-th sequencers, each of the sequencers having both a sequencer input terminal to which a k-th horizontal control signal is input, and a sequencer output terminal from which a (k+1)-th horizontal control signal is output, and n switches including first to n-th switches, each of the switches having a switch input terminal to which a signal corresponding to the photoelectric conversion signal is input, a switch control terminal to which a k-th pixel control signal is input, and a switch output terminal which is electrically connected to the switch input terminal, wherein n is a natural number of 2 or more, and k is a natural number of 1 to n.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170041558A1 IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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