Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state image sensor, imaging device, and method of controlling solid-state image sensor
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Application No.: US16759615Application Date: 2018-09-21
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Publication No.: US11196956B2Publication Date: 2021-12-07
- Inventor: Takahiro Akahane
- Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Priority: JPJP2017-214096 20171106
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/035037 WO 20180921
- International Announcement: WO2019/087612 WO 20190509
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N5/359

Abstract:
To reduce the number of ADCs in a solid-state image sensor that converts an analog pixel signal into a digital signal. An effective pixel generates an analog signal according to an amount of received light as an effective pixel signal using a power supply from a power supply line. A correction signal generation unit generates an analog signal including a noise component generated in the power supply line as a correction signal. A selection unit sequentially selects and outputs the effective pixel signal and the correction signal. An analog-digital converter performs processing of converting the output effective pixel signal into a digital signal and outputting the digital signal as effective pixel data and processing of converting the output correction signal into a digital signal and outputting the digital signal into correction data. A signal processing unit corrects the effective pixel data on the basis of the correction data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200280692A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2020-09-03
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