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US07692707B2 Solid-state image pickup apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image sensor
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固态图像拾取装置,图像拾取装置和图像传感器
- Patent Title: Solid-state image pickup apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image sensor
- Patent Title (中): 固态图像拾取装置,图像拾取装置和图像传感器
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Application No.: US11632964Application Date: 2005-07-20
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Publication No.: US07692707B2Publication Date: 2010-04-06
- Inventor: Yasushi Kondo , Hiromasa Maruno
- Applicant: Yasushi Kondo , Hiromasa Maruno
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
- Current Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: Cheng Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2004-211478 20040720; JP2004-240722 20040820
- International Application: PCT/JP2005/013302 WO 20050720
- International Announcement: WO2006/009164 WO 20060126
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/217

Abstract:
In a solid-state image sensor according to this invention, an image signal temperature variation suppressing unit changes a voltage value of a driver voltage applied to multiplying registers in response to variations in sensor temperature of a CCD image sensor. Thus, a charge multiplication gain of a charge multiplying unit is electrically controlled to suppress variations in signal strength of image signals due to the variations in the sensor temperature of the CCD image sensor. As a result, without relying on thermal control with which it is very difficult to realize high precision control, variations in the signal strength of the image signals due to the variations in the sensor temperature of the CCD image sensor are suppressed easily by controlling the charge multiplication gain of the charge multiplying unit based on the electric control, with which it is very easy to realize high precision control, performed by the image signal temperature variation suppressing unit in response to the variations in the sensor temperature of the CCD image sensor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080303933A1 Solid-State Image Pickup Apparatus, Image Pickup Apparatus, and Image Sensor Public/Granted day:2008-12-11
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