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- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion device, method of driving photoelectric conversion device, imaging system, and moving body
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Application No.: US17851398Application Date: 2022-06-28
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Publication No.: US12044568B2Publication Date: 2024-07-23
- Inventor: Yasuharu Ota , Yukihiro Kuroda
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KA HA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KA HA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: VENABLE LLP
- Priority: JP 18218224 2018.11.21
- Main IPC: G01J1/44
- IPC: G01J1/44 ; G05D1/00 ; H04N25/709 ; H04N25/75 ; H04N25/76

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion device includes an avalanche multiplying photodiode, a signal generation unit that includes a control unit configured to control an applied voltage to the photodiode and generates a photon detection pulse based on an output generated by incidence of a photon to the photodiode, and a counter that counts the photon detection pulse output from the signal generation unit, and the counter outputs a setting value detection signal when a count value of the photon detection pulse reaches a predetermined setting value, and in response to receiving the setting value detection signal, the control unit controls the applied voltage to the photodiode so as to stop generation of an avalanche current in the photodiode.
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