Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system including pixels which generate signals by performing photoelectric conversion on incident light
- Patent Title (中): 光电转换装置和光电转换系统,包括通过对入射光进行光电转换而产生信号的像素
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Application No.: US14321425Application Date: 2014-07-01
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Publication No.: US09591248B2Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Inventor: Daisuke Kobayashi , Yukio Araoka
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon USA, Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2013-141204 20130705
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/363 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
In a photoelectric conversion apparatus, a signal generation circuit includes an amplification unit which generates a reference signal and which is configured the same as amplification units included in pixel output circuits, and a signal based on a reference signal is supplied to input nodes of a plurality of signal processing circuits or input nodes of a plurality of signal output circuits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150009380A1 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2015-01-08
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