Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and imaging apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置,其驱动方法和成像装置
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Application No.: US12765265Application Date: 2010-04-22
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Publication No.: US08373784B2Publication Date: 2013-02-12
- Inventor: Toshinobu Sugiyama
- Applicant: Toshinobu Sugiyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP
- Agent William S. Frommer
- Priority: JPP2009-110750 20090430; JPP2010-012927 20100125
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit in which unit pixels are two-dimensionally disposed; a vertical scanning unit selecting the unit pixels, which read out the signal electric charges, for each line; signal processing units separately disposed for each column of the pixel array unit and generate pixel signals corresponding to the signal electric charges; a horizontal scanning unit reading out the pixel signal by sequentially selecting the signal processing unit and outputting image signals in the unit of one line; and a scanning control unit performing operations of the vertical scanning unit and the horizontal scanning unit, wherein the scanning control unit selects a line having an exposure period different from that of a selected line between lines selected in the scanning order and sequentially outputs an image signal of an image having the different exposure period in the unit of one line from the horizontal scanning unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100277631A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-11-04
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