- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, moving body, semiconductor substrate, and method for driving photoelectric conversion apparatus
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Application No.: US17537282Application Date: 2021-11-29
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Publication No.: US12177587B2Publication Date: 2024-12-24
- Inventor: Hideo Kobayashi , So Hasegawa
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2020-201214 20201203
- Main IPC: H04N25/709
- IPC: H04N25/709 ; H04N25/44 ; H04N25/671 ; G05F1/573 ; H04N25/441 ; H04N25/443 ; H04N25/445 ; H04N25/447 ; H04N25/531 ; H04N25/63 ; H04N25/75

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, a first group of pixels that are arranged in a first direction among the plurality of pixels, a first line to which the first group is connected, a second group of pixels that are arranged in the first direction among the plurality of pixels, and a second line to which the second group is connected. The first line is connected to a first source. The second line is connected to a second source. The apparatus further includes a control unit configured to: (1) perform control to increase a current flowing through the second source while performing control to decrease a current flowing through the first source, or (2) suppress a variation of total amount of flowing current by changing the current flowing through the second source in response to a change in the current flowing through the first source.
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