Invention Grant
- Patent Title: A/D converter, solid-state image pickup device and driving method of the same, and electronic apparatus
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Application No.: US14002020Application Date: 2012-03-23
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Publication No.: US09332198B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: Kenichi Higuchi , Yoshiaki Inada
- Applicant: Kenichi Higuchi , Yoshiaki Inada
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP2011-075959 20110330
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/057527 WO 20120323
- International Announcement: WO2012/133192 WO 20121004
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H04N5/347 ; H03M1/14 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/335 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M1/56

Abstract:
The present technology relates to an A/D converter, a solid-state image pickup device and a method of driving the same, and an electronic apparatus which are capable of reducing power consumption while reducing a circuit size. A comparator compares a reference voltage with an input voltage, the reference voltage having a ramp waveform whose voltage value varies with time, a lower-bit storage element holds a count value in a predetermined count pattern, based on an output signal from the comparator, a Gray code binary conversion circuit converts the count value in the count pattern held by the lower-bit storage element into binary data, and a storing operation control circuit supplies a pulse signal corresponding to the binary data obtained by conversion in the Gray code binary conversion circuit to a lower-bit U/D CNT. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an image sensor storing a count value in a storage element with use of a Gray code or a phase shift code as a clock signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US09369644B2 A/D converter, solid-state image pickup device and driving method of the same, and electronic apparatus Public/Granted day:2016-06-14
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