Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, method of driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus
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Application No.: US16076488Application Date: 2017-02-03
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Publication No.: US10748945B2Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Takumi Oka
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6fe04c12
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/003937 WO 20170203
- International Announcement: WO2017/141727 WO 20170824
- Main IPC: H04N5/355
- IPC: H04N5/355 ; H04N5/374 ; H01L27/148 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/372

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device is provided that includes a pixel array with unit pixels. Each unit pixel includes, among other things, first and second photoelectric conversion portions; an electric charge accumulating portion that accumulates charges produced by the second photoelectric conversion portion, a counter electrode of the electric charge accumulating portion being connected to a variable voltage power source; and a charge-to-voltage conversion portion. For at least a part of a time period for which charges produced by the second photoelectric conversion portion are accumulated in the electric charge accumulating portion, a drive portion that controls an operation of the unit pixel causes a voltage of the variable voltage power source to be lower than that when a signal based on the charges accumulated in the electric charge accumulating portion is read out.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190043900A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-02-07
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