Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, and camera system
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置,其驱动方法和相机系统
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Application No.: US12659428Application Date: 2010-03-09
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Publication No.: US08289423B2Publication Date: 2012-10-16
- Inventor: Yoko Okuzaki , Tomokazu Kakumoto
- Applicant: Yoko Okuzaki , Tomokazu Kakumoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader Fishman & Grauer, PLLC
- Priority: JP2009-107141 20090424
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which pixels, each of which converts light into a pixel signal and accumulates the pixel signal in accordance with a light exposure period, are arranged in a predetermined color layout and first-color pixel horizontal rows containing first-color pixels and second-color pixel horizontal rows containing second-color pixels are alternately arranged in a vertical row direction; readout units that select n (n≧2) single-color pixel signals from the first-color or second-color pixels in the first-color or second-color pixel horizontal rows, perform 1/n thinning-out on the selected n pixel signals to reduce the number of pixel signals to 1/n, and read the resultant pixel signal for each of the colors; and column processing units that perform column processing on the pixel signals having undergone the 1/n thinning-out.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100271526A1 Solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, and camera system Public/Granted day:2010-10-28
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