Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion device and imaging system
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Application No.: US16925595Application Date: 2020-07-10
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Publication No.: US11653114B2Publication Date: 2023-05-16
- Inventor: Keigo Nakazawa , Kazuhiro Saito , Tetsuya Itano , Kazuo Yamazaki , Hideo Kobayashi
- 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: JP 2019133490 2019.07.19
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N25/617 ; H01L27/146 ; G06T7/55 ; H04N25/67 ; H04N25/75 ; H04N25/771 ; H04N25/778

Abstract:
An embodiment includes: a semiconductor substrate including a pixel well region and a peripheral well region; a pixel ground line arranged above the pixel well region; a pixel well contact between the pixel ground line and the pixel well region; pixels arranged to form columns in the pixel well region; a reference signal generation circuit arranged in the peripheral well region; and comparator units arranged in the peripheral well region, provided to respective columns, and each configured to receive the pixel signal from the pixels on a corresponding column and the reference signal. Each comparator unit includes a comparator having a first input node that receives the pixel signal and a second input node that receives the reference signal, a first capacitor unit between the reference signal generation circuit and the second input node, and a second capacitor unit between the second input node and the pixel ground line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210021770A1 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND IMAGING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2021-01-21
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