Invention Grant
- Patent Title: AD conversion circuit and solid-state imaging apparatus
- Patent Title (中): AD转换电路和固态成像装置
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Application No.: US13523214Application Date: 2012-06-14
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Publication No.: US08625015B2Publication Date: 2014-01-07
- Inventor: Yoshio Hagihara
- Applicant: Yoshio Hagihara
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2011-132197 20110614
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H03M1/12 ; H01L27/00

Abstract:
A comparison section includes an analog signal to be subjected to AD conversion to a reference signal that increases or decreases with the passage of time, and terminates a comparison process at a timing at which the reference signal has satisfied a predetermined condition for the analog signal. A first count section counts a clock signal of a predetermined frequency as a count clock and outputs a count value. A latch section latches the count value output from the first count section. A latch control section enables the latch section at a first timing related to an end of the comparison process and causes the latch section to execute a latch operation at a second timing delayed by a predetermined time from the first timing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120320244A1 AD CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-12-20
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