Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state image pickup apparatus and camera with two-dimensional power supply wiring
- Patent Title (中): 固态摄像装置和具有二维电源接线的摄像机
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Application No.: US12671043Application Date: 2009-02-26
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Publication No.: US08345137B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Mahito Shinohara , Masaaki Iwane , Yukihiro Kuroda
- Applicant: Mahito Shinohara , Masaaki Iwane , Yukihiro Kuroda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2008-049897 20080229
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/054099 WO 20090226
- International Announcement: WO2009/107854 WO 20090903
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a pixel area in which pixels each having at least a photoelectric conversion unit and an amplification transistor for amplifying and outputting a signal of the photoelectric conversion unit are two-dimensionally arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, wherein a power supply wiring, which extends in a vertical direction along pixel boundaries of horizontal and vertical directions while meandering, is arranged on one of two pixel lines adjoining to each other in the horizontal direction in the pixel area, and the power supply wiring is connected to one of a source and a drain of the amplification transistor on each of the two pixel lines. Thus, it is possible to provide a high-sensitivity and high-image-quality amplified solid-state image pickup apparatus in which a difference of sensitivities at one-line intervals is small.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100194946A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CAMERA Public/Granted day:2010-08-05
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