Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of controlling read address, physical information acquisition apparatus, and semiconductor device
- Patent Title (中): 控制读取地址的方法,物理信息获取装置和半导体装置
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Application No.: US11214527Application Date: 2005-08-30
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Publication No.: US08743253B2Publication Date: 2014-06-03
- Inventor: Masafumi Okano , Hiroki Ui
- Applicant: Masafumi Okano , Hiroki Ui
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Dentons US LLP
- Priority: JPP2004-255341 20040902
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N1/04

Abstract:
To reduce random noise caused by address setting in an apparatus that controls a read address of an image sensing device, without causing a significant increase in circuit complexity.A ring shift register sets a low-order address value depending on a value in steps of which an overall address value is incremented, and a Gray code counter sets a high-order address value. In the ring shift register, a carry from the lowest-order bit to the highest-order bit does not occur, and thus use of the ring shift register makes it possible to reduce the maximum number of toggled bits. The Gray code counter does not need to include a complicated circuit for switching the value in steps of which to increment the high-order address value. Thus, an overall address setting unit can be configured in a simple form without needing any complicated circuit such that addressing can be performed while maintaining the number of toggled bits within a small range and thus random noise generated in the addressing operation can be minimized.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060072168A1 Method of controlling read address, physical information acquisition apparatus, and semiconductor device Public/Granted day:2006-04-06
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