Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device
- Patent Title (中): 固态成像装置
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Application No.: US13909240Application Date: 2013-06-04
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Publication No.: US09407839B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Daisuke Yoshida
- 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: JP2012-141462 20120622
- Main IPC: H01L27/00
- IPC: H01L27/00 ; H04N5/335 ; H03M1/44 ; H03M1/34 ; H04N5/378 ; H03M1/12 ; H03M1/46 ; H03M1/56

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device including an AD converter and a pixel array is provided. The AD converter performs a ramp comparison and a successive-approximation. The AD converter determines a digital value by performing one of the ramp comparison and the successive-approximation as a former comparison operation and then performing the other as a latter comparison operation in the range narrowed down by the former comparison operation. The pixel array supplies, to the AD converter, a reference signal corresponding to a reset level of the pixel, and an image signal having image information. The AD converter performs the latter comparison operation without performing the former comparison operation, when the reference signal is supplied.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130341489A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-12-26
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