Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Address generator and image capturing device
- Patent Title (中): 地址发生器和图像捕获设备
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Application No.: US12121971Application Date: 2008-05-16
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Publication No.: US08098313B2Publication Date: 2012-01-17
- Inventor: Tsunemori Asahi
- Applicant: Tsunemori Asahi
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2007-132649 20070518
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335

Abstract:
An address generator that generates, in an image capturing device including a photoelectric conversion unit having arrayed therein in a matrix plural photoelectric conversion elements that convert received light into charges and accumulate the charges and a rolling shutter function, an address indicating a line position of each of the photoelectric conversion elements that are processing objects of readout processing and reset processing for accumulated charges includes address counters provided at least in a number same as a number of time divisions of the readout processing and the reset processing, a control unit that independently controls an operation of each of the address counters, a selecting circuit that sequentially selects each of the address counters in a time division manner and outputs a count value of the selected address counter to an address decode circuit as the address, and the address decode circuit that outputs a signal for changing the photoelectric conversion element in a line position corresponding to the address inputted from the selection circuit in a time division manner to an active state.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080284883A1 ADDRESS GENERATOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2008-11-20
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