Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device and camera system
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Application No.: US13412565Application Date: 2012-03-05
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Publication No.: US08508642B2Publication Date: 2013-08-13
- Inventor: Kenichi Tanaka
- Applicant: Kenichi Tanaka
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: The Chicago Technology Law Group, LLC
- Agent Robert J. Depke
- Priority: JP2007-297268 20071115
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device and a camera system are provided. The solid-state imaging device capable of performing an intermittent operation includes a pixel unit and a pixel signal readout unit for reading out a pixel signal from the pixel unit in units of a plurality of pixels for each column. The pixel signal readout circuit includes a plurality of comparators and a plurality of counters whose operations are controlled by outputs of the comparators. Each of the comparators includes an initializing switch for determining an operating point for each column at a start of row operation, and is configured so that an initialization signal to be applied to the initializing switch is controlled independently in parallel only a basic unit of the initialization signal used for a horizontal intermittent operation, and the initializing switch is held in an off-state at a start of non-operating row.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120162477A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2012-06-28
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