Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, semiconductor integrated circuit, and signal processing method
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置,半导体集成电路和信号处理方法
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Application No.: US12388105Application Date: 2009-02-18
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Publication No.: US07791524B2Publication Date: 2010-09-07
- Inventor: Shigetaka Kasuga , Yoshihisa Kato , Takahiko Murata , Takayoshi Yamada
- Applicant: Shigetaka Kasuga , Yoshihisa Kato , Takahiko Murata , Takayoshi Yamada
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2008-041657 20080222
- Main IPC: H03M1/12
- IPC: H03M1/12

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: pixel circuits arranged in a matrix which perform photoelectric conversion on received light; and an AD conversion unit converting the resultant signal voltage of the photoelectric conversion. The AD conversion unit includes: a reference voltage generation unit generating plural reference voltages which are different from each other within a possible range for a signal voltage; a most significant bit conversion unit that identifies a voltage section including the signal voltage from among the voltage sections each having a corresponding one of the reference voltages as a base point and determines the identified result as the value of the most significant bit of the digital signal; and a least significant bit conversion unit that converts, into the least significant bit of the digital signal, the difference voltage between the signal voltage and the reference voltage as the base point of the identified voltage section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090212985A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-08-27
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