Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging apparatus, method of driving imaging apparatus, and apparatus using the imaging apparatus
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Application No.: US15901807Application Date: 2018-02-21
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Publication No.: US10764524B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Takamasa Sakuragi
- 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: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@542c3fa6
- Main IPC: H01L27/00
- IPC: H01L27/00 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/374 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
Provided is an imaging apparatus, including: a photoelectric conversion element; an amplifier transistor configured to output a voltage corresponding to electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion element; a load transistor configured to supply a bias current to the amplifier transistor; and a voltage supply unit configured to input one of a first voltage and a second voltage, which have different voltage values, to a control node of the load transistor via an input capacitor. In the imaging apparatus, a current value of the bias current to be supplied by the load transistor at a time when the second voltage is input to the control node via the input capacitor is larger than a current value of the bias current to be supplied by the load transistor at a time when the first voltage is input to the control node via the input capacitor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180184033A1 IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGING APPARATUS, AND APPARATUS USING THE IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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