Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging apparatus, imaging system, and method of driving an imaging system
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Application No.: US15854560Application Date: 2017-12-26
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Publication No.: US10419702B2Publication Date: 2019-09-17
- Inventor: Tomoya Onishi , Shin Kikuchi
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2014-165216 20140814
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N5/355

Abstract:
Provided is an imaging apparatus, including: a vertical scanning circuit configured to output the reset signal and the image signal sequentially from each of a plurality of pixels by selecting the plurality of pixels sequentially; and an amplifier unit configured to output a plurality of image signals obtained by amplifying one image signal that is output from one of the plurality of pixels at a plurality of gains including a first gain and a second gain, in which, in a reading period, which is a period between selection of a first pixel by the vertical scanning circuit out of the plurality of pixels and subsequent selection of a second pixel out of the plurality of pixels, a number of times the amplifier unit is reset is less than a number of the plurality of amplified image signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180124346A1 IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF DRIVING AN IMAGING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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