Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup device and signal processing method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 摄像装置及其信号处理方法
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Application No.: US13871781Application Date: 2013-04-26
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Publication No.: US08970758B2Publication Date: 2015-03-03
- Inventor: Yuichiro Yamashita
- 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: JP2006-167750 20060616
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/225 ; H03M1/66 ; H01L27/00 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
An image pickup device is provided, capable of complete correction with data of once analog-to-digital conversion, and prevention of excess use of switches and analog devices and/or erroneous correction, including: an image sensor having a plurality of analog-to-digital converters determining conversion results from a digital signal of higher order bit through separate steps of two or more times; a first correction unit which has a correction factor for correcting nonlinear errors of the plurality of analog-to-digital converters so as to adapt to the analog-to-digital converters and corrects a nonlinear error of a digital signal output from respective analog-to-digital converters based on a correction factor corresponding to respective analog-to-digital converters, characterized in that the first correction unit corrects the nonlinear errors after converting the digital signals from the plurality of analog-to-digital converters into a serial output.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130235244A1 IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2013-09-12
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