Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device and method of driving the same
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置及其驱动方法
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Application No.: US12030487Application Date: 2008-02-13
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Publication No.: US07898586B2Publication Date: 2011-03-01
- Inventor: Minoru Kashiwagi
- Applicant: Minoru Kashiwagi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-035173 20070215
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A shift gate is arranged to be adjacent to a pixel column including a plurality of photosensitive pixels. The shift gate controls a storage time of a signal charge generated in the photosensitive pixels based on a shift pulse signal. The signal charge generated in the photosensitive pixels is transferred to an analog shift register via the shift gate. The analog shift register has a plurality of transfer stages independently driven using a plurality of drive signals. The signal charge generated in the photosensitive pixels is successively transferred by the transfer stages, and detected by an output unit provided at an end portion of the analog shift register so that an output signal is converted. The analog shift register makes an addition of the signal charges in accordance with drive signals when the transfer stages transfer the signal charges.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080198252A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2008-08-21
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