Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US13069631Application Date: 2011-03-23
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Publication No.: US08421892B2Publication Date: 2013-04-16
- Inventor: Yasuyuki Endo , Hiroshi Toya
- Applicant: Yasuyuki Endo , Hiroshi Toya
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2008-246858 20080925
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: an image area including pixels arranged in a matrix; two row memories each of which alternatively (i) stores at a time pixel signals for each of rows, and (ii) sequentially provides each of the stored pixel signals; a reading control unit, during a horizontal period, sequentially reading the stored pixel signals one by one from a first line memory to cause the first line memory, the first line memory representing one of the two row memories; a holding control unit causing, during the horizontal period, a second line memory to hold pixel signals provided from one of the rows in the image area, the second line memory representing another one of the two row memories; and a reading suspending unit causing the reading control unit to suspend reading out the pixel signals from the first line memory during a noise occurrence predicted period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110169992A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-07-14
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