Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion device
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Application No.: US17930262Application Date: 2022-09-07
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Publication No.: US11778347B2Publication Date: 2023-10-03
- Inventor: Satoshi Suzuki , Shintaro Takenaka , Taichi Kasugai
- 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 21149169 2021.09.14
- Main IPC: H04N25/621
- IPC: H04N25/621 ; H04N23/84 ; H04N25/50 ; H04N25/75

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of unit pixels each including a charge holding portion to which charges are transferred from four or more photoelectric conversion units. Sensitivity of each photoelectric conversion unit of a first group to incident light is greater than sensitivity of each photoelectric conversion unit of a second group to the incident light. After charge accumulation is started in all the photoelectric conversion units of the second group, charge accumulation is started in the photoelectric conversion units of the first group. After signals corresponding to charges accumulated in all the photoelectric conversion units of the second group are read out, signals corresponding to charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion units of the first group are read out.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230077775A1 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2023-03-16
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