Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion device having pixels comprising different size counters
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Application No.: US16979623Application Date: 2019-03-15
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Publication No.: US11212473B2Publication Date: 2021-12-28
- Inventor: Yukihiro Kuroda
- 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: JPJP2018-050662 20180319
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/010975 WO 20190315
- International Announcement: WO2019/181809 WO 20190926
- Main IPC: H04N5/369
- IPC: H04N5/369 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/3745 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
An embodiment includes a plurality of pixels each including a light receiving unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon, and a signal generation unit that generates a signal in accordance with the number of pulses output from the light receiving unit, wherein the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a first value and a second pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a second value that is smaller than the first value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210044768A1 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND MOVABLE OBJECT Public/Granted day:2021-02-11
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