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- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion device, image generation device, and method of correcting output of photoelectric conversion device
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Application No.: US14978172Application Date: 2015-12-22
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Publication No.: US10078010B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Katsuhiko Aisu , Hirofumi Watanabe , Takaaki Negoro , Yoshinori Ueda , Yasukazu Nakatani , Kazuhiro Yoneda , Katsuyuki Sakurano
- Applicant: Katsuhiko Aisu , Hirofumi Watanabe , Takaaki Negoro , Yoshinori Ueda , Yasukazu Nakatani , Kazuhiro Yoneda , Katsuyuki Sakurano
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2015-000516 20150105
- Main IPC: G01J1/44
- IPC: G01J1/44 ; H04N5/361 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel cell including a phototransistor, a reference cell including a reference transistor having a temperature characteristic identical to that of the phototransistor and having a fixed electrical state, an analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog output of the pixel cell into a digital output, a correction amount computation unit that computes a correction amount for the digital output of the analog-to-digital converter based on an output of the reference cell and a reference value, and a correction unit that corrects the digital output of the analog-to-digital converter based on the correction amount.
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