Invention Grant
US08456554B2 Integrated AD converter, solid state imaging device, and camera system
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集成AD转换器,固态成像设备和摄像系统
- Patent Title: Integrated AD converter, solid state imaging device, and camera system
- Patent Title (中): 集成AD转换器,固态成像设备和摄像系统
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Application No.: US12659585Application Date: 2010-03-15
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Publication No.: US08456554B2Publication Date: 2013-06-04
- Inventor: Tomohiro Takahashi
- Applicant: Tomohiro Takahashi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
- Priority: JP2009-107105 20090424
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H03M1/34

Abstract:
An integrated AD converter includes: a comparator comparing an input voltage with a reference voltage with a ramp waveform whose voltage value linearly changes with time; a high-bit counter triggered by inversion of an output signal of the comparator to start or stop an operation of counting for every cycle of a main clock signal; a time quantizer latching phase information at a timing at which the output signal is inverted using a plurality of clock signals including main clock signals of different phases, and decodes a value of the latched phase information to thereby output lower bits with a resolution higher than a clock cycle; and a regulating unit synchronizing the output signal with the main clock signal, and determines timings of starting and stopping the operation of the high-bit counter and a value for latching the phase information of the main clock signal using a signal resulting from the synchronization.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100271525A1 Integrated AD converter, solid state imaging device, and camera system Public/Granted day:2010-10-28
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