Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device
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Application No.: US15955132Application Date: 2018-04-17
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Publication No.: US10609320B2Publication Date: 2020-03-31
- Inventor: Yukihiro Kuroda , Yoshikazu Yamazaki , Kazuhiro Saito
- 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: JP2017-089437 20170428
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N5/345 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel region in which pixels are arranged to form rows and columns, control lines each connected to the pixels on a corresponding row, output lines connected to the pixels on a corresponding column, a pixel control unit configured to supply control signals to control the pixels for the control lines, and a signal processing unit configured to select and output a signal output to the output lines. The pixel region includes readout regions each including a block of the pixels arranged on continuous rows and columns, and at least one row includes both of the pixel of the block forming a first readout region and the pixel of the block forming a second readout region. The pixel control unit and the signal processing unit are configured to read out signals of the pixels in a corresponding block sequentially for each of the readout regions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180316884A1 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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