- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, drive method thereof and camera system
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Application No.: US14690952Application Date: 2015-04-20
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Publication No.: US09609187B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Yuji Gendai , Junji Toyomura , Norifumi Kanagawa
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP2010-104345 20100428
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes: pixel signal reading lines; a pixel unit in which pixels including photoelectric conversion elements are arranged; and a pixel signal reading unit performing reading of pixel signals from the pixel unit through the pixel signal reading lines, wherein the pixel signal reading unit includes current source circuits each of which includes a load element as a current source connected to the pixel signal reading line forming a source follower, and the current source circuit includes a circuit generating electric current according to a slew rate of the pixel signal reading line and replicating electric current corresponding to the above electric current to flow in the current source.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160080616A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVE METHOD THEREOF AND CAMERA SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-03-17
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