Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, X-ray imaging system, and solid-state imaging device driving method
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Application No.: US15325729Application Date: 2015-07-09
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Publication No.: US10225491B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Ryuji Kyushima , Kazuki Fujita , Haruyoshi Okada , Junichi Sawada , Harumichi Mori
- Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
- Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
- Agency: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JP2014-145612 20140716
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/069763 WO 20150709
- International Announcement: WO2016/009940 WO 20160121
- Main IPC: H04N5/00
- IPC: H04N5/00 ; H04N5/32 ; H04N5/347 ; H04N5/378 ; G01N23/046

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes a photodetecting unit including MN pixels arrayed two-dimensionally in M rows and N columns, an output unit outputting a digital value generated on the basis of the amount of charge input from the pixels, and a control unit. The control unit divides the MN pixels in the photodetecting unit into unit regions each including pixels in Q rows and R columns, divides the unit regions arrayed two-dimensionally in (M/Q) rows and (N/R) columns into binning regions each including unit regions in K rows and one column, and repeatedly outputs the digital value according to the sum of amounts of the charges output from KQR pixels included in each binning region from the output unit K times in a column order for each row sequentially for the binning regions arrayed two-dimensionally in (M/KQ) rows and (N/R) columns.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170187967A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE DRIVING METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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