Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and electronic apparatus with negative feedback circuit
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Application No.: US14561036Application Date: 2014-12-04
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Publication No.: US09609249B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Kenichirou Anjyou , Jyunichirou Kusuda
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sheridan Ross P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-255922 20131211
- Main IPC: H04N5/374
- IPC: H04N5/374 ; H04N5/378 ; H03F1/34

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes a photodiode that generates a signal charge by photoelectric conversion according to received light, a floating diffusion that accumulates the signal charge generated by the photodiode, an amplification transistor that amplifies and outputs a power source voltage according to the signal charge accumulated in the floating diffusion, a dummy transistor having the same characteristics as the amplification transistor, and a negative feedback circuit that applies a negative feedback to the dummy transistor such that respective source currents of the amplification transistor and the dummy transistor are equal to each other. The respective source currents of the amplification transistor and the dummy transistor are controlled so as to coincide with each other by the negative feedback circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150163438A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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