Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup device
- Patent Title (中): 图像拾取装置
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Application No.: US13909203Application Date: 2013-06-04
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Publication No.: US09313425B2Publication Date: 2016-04-12
- Inventor: Yoshio Hagihara
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2012-129765 20120607
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/357

Abstract:
An image pickup device may include: an image capturing unit; a reference signal generation unit; a comparison unit that compares analog signals to the reference signal and ends the comparison process at a timing at which the reference signal satisfies a predetermined condition with respect to the analog signals; a clock generation unit; a latch unit that retains the low-order phase signal as a latch signal at a timing related to the end of the comparison process; a count unit that counts a signal related to one of the low-order phase signals and generates a high-order digital signal; a detection unit that generates a low-order digital signal by sequentially comparing logic states of a plurality of bits of the latch signal retained by the corresponding latch unit and encoding the latch signal; and an arithmetic unit that performs an arithmetic process.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130327925A1 IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-12-12
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