Invention Grant
US07842927B2 Image sensor, image-sensing apparatus using the image sensor, and image-sensing system
有权
图像传感器,使用图像传感器的图像感测装置和图像感测系统
- Patent Title: Image sensor, image-sensing apparatus using the image sensor, and image-sensing system
- Patent Title (中): 图像传感器,使用图像传感器的图像感测装置和图像感测系统
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Application No.: US12473535Application Date: 2009-05-28
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Publication No.: US07842927B2Publication Date: 2010-11-30
- Inventor: Kazuaki Tashiro , Noriyuki Kaifu , Shin Kikuchi , Tomoyuki Noda
- Applicant: Kazuaki Tashiro , Noriyuki Kaifu , Shin Kikuchi , Tomoyuki Noda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2001-261740 20010830
- Main IPC: G01T1/20
- IPC: G01T1/20

Abstract:
An image sensor has a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photoelectric converter and a pixel circuit for processing signals from the photoelectric converter and outputting processed signals and a scanning circuit, disposed between the photoelectric converters, included in each of at least two adjacent pixels among a plurality of pixels aligned in a single direction. An edge pixel accommodates, in order from an edge of the image sensor toward an interior, a predetermined empty region, a photoelectric converter and a pixel circuit. There is at least one position at which two adjacent pixels, the first of the two pixels accommodating, in order, a pixel circuit, a photoelectric converter and predetermined empty region, the second accommodating, in order, a predetermined empty region, a photoelectric converter and a pixel circuit. The scanning circuit is disposed in the predetermined empty region between the two adjacent pixels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090230290A1 IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGE-SENSING APPARATUS USING THE IMAGE SENSOR, AND IMAGE-SENSING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2009-09-17
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