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- Patent Title: Fully-differential amplifier, photoelectric conversion apparatus including fully-differential amplifier, and image-pickup system
- Patent Title (中): 全差分放大器,包括全差分放大器的光电转换装置和图像拾取系统
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Application No.: US12911645Application Date: 2010-10-25
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Publication No.: US08547446B2Publication Date: 2013-10-01
- Inventor: Tetsuya Itano
- Applicant: Tetsuya Itano
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon USA Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2009-245812 20091026
- Main IPC: H04N5/235
- IPC: H04N5/235

Abstract:
In a known fully-differential amplifier, it has been difficult to set a power voltage VDD to a low level while maintaining the signal amplitude and increase the amplitude of an output signal without increasing the power voltage VDD. The present invention provides a fully-differential amplifier including a voltage-current conversion unit, a first current-voltage conversion unit, and a second current-voltage conversion unit, where a resistance element included in the voltage-current conversion unit, a resistance element included in the first current-voltage conversion unit, and a resistance element included in the second current-voltage conversion unit are connected in parallel with one another.
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