Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device and electronic device
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Application No.: US15456773Application Date: 2017-03-13
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Publication No.: US10079253B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa
- Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2015-060317 20150324
- Main IPC: G09G3/32
- IPC: G09G3/32 ; G06F3/038 ; G09G3/30 ; G09G3/20 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
An imaging device with excellent imaging performance is provided. The imaging device has a first circuit including a first photoelectric conversion element and a second circuit including a second photoelectric conversion element. The second circuit is shielded from light. In the imaging device, a current mirror circuit in which a transistor connected to the second photoelectric conversion element serves as an input transistor and a transistor connected to the first photoelectric conversion element serves as an output transistor is formed. With such a configuration, the amount of photocurrent in the first circuit from which the contribution of the dark current of the first photoelectric conversion element has been excluded can be detected.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170186787A1 IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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