Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion element, image reading device, image forming apparatus, image reading method, and computer-readable recording medium
-
Application No.: US15387074Application Date: 2016-12-21
-
Publication No.: US10298866B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Hideki Hashimoto , Masamoto Nakazawa
- Applicant: Hideki Hashimoto , Masamoto Nakazawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2016-003734 20160112
- Main IPC: H04N5/357
- IPC: H04N5/357 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/369

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion element includes: light receiving elements that convert an optical signal into an electrical signal per pixel; offset fixing units that fix an offset of an output level of each of the light receiving elements to a reference level; analog/digital conversion units that convert signals respectively corresponding to a signal level being converted from an optical signal and output by the light receiving elements and a reset level output independent of an optical signal, into digital signals, according to the reference level; amplifier units that amplify a signal; and correlated double sampling units that perform correlated double sampling per each of the light receiving elements by using a signal based on the reset level and a signal based on the signal level, wherein the amplifier units amplify the signal corresponding to the reset level and the signal corresponding to the signal level before implementing the correlated double sampling.
Public/Granted literature
Information query