Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging apparatus and method of driving the same
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Application No.: US17111219Application Date: 2020-12-03
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Publication No.: US11722798B2Publication Date: 2023-08-08
- Inventor: Motonori Ishii , Yoshiyuki Matsunaga , Yutaka Hirose
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP 12258139 2012.11.27
- Main IPC: H04N25/65
- IPC: H04N25/65 ; H04N25/75 ; H04N25/77 ; H04N25/767

Abstract:
An imaging device including: a photoelectric converter that generates signal charge; a charge storage region that stores the signal charge; a first transistor that has a gate coupled to the charge storage region and reads out the signal charge; a second transistor that, has a source and a drain, an output of the first transistor being fed back to one of the source and the drain and being supplied to the charge storage region from the other of the source and the drain; and voltage supply circuitry that supplies voltages varying with time. In a reset operation for discharging the signal charge stored in the charge storage region, the voltage supply circuitry supplies the voltages to a gate of the second transistor so that the second transistor gradually changes from an OFF state to an ON state.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210092316A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2021-03-25
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