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.: US12558256Application Date: 2009-09-11
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Publication No.: US08259204B2Publication Date: 2012-09-04
- Inventor: Nagataka Tanaka
- Applicant: Nagataka Tanaka
- 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: JP2008-235142 20080912
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes a unit cell, a first power supply which supplies a drain voltage to the amplifying transistor, and a second power supply which supplies a drain voltage to the reset transistor. The unit cell includes a photodiode which accumulates a signal charge obtained by photoelectric conversion of incident light, an amplifying transistor which has a control electrode capacitively coupled to a vertical signal line, and which amplifies the signal charge outputted from the photodiode and outputs the amplified signal charge to the vertical signal line, and a reset transistor which resets a voltage at the control electrode of the amplifying transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100066879A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2010-03-18
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