Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Driving method of solid-state imaging device
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置的驱动方法
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Application No.: US13685459Application Date: 2012-11-26
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Publication No.: US08749683B2Publication Date: 2014-06-10
- Inventor: Masaaki Minowa , Akira Okita , Hidekazu Takahashi
- Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2011-270314 20111209
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/217

Abstract:
In a driving method of device having plural pixels, each pixel comprises photoelectric converter, floating diffusion, transfer transistor to transfer charge of the photoelectric converter to the floating diffusion, amplifying transistor to amplify signal based on the transferred charge, and reset transistor to reset voltage of the floating diffusion, the method comprises first step of, after putting the transfer transistor into conduction state, resetting the charge of the photoelectric converter by putting the transfer transistor into non-conduction state in non-conduction state of the reset transistor, and second step of, after the first step and after putting the transfer transistor into the conduction state, transferring the charge of the photoelectric converter to the floating diffusion by putting the transfer transistor into the non-conduction state in the non-conduction state of the reset transistor, and the signal based on the charge transferred in the second step is amplified by the amplifying transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130147996A1 DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-06-13
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