Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state image pickup apparatus and image pickup system having a clipping circuit arranged close to an N-row signal mixing region
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Application No.: US14834860Application Date: 2015-08-25
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Publication No.: US09627423B2Publication Date: 2017-04-18
- Inventor: Yoshiaki Takada , Masaaki Iwane , Kazuki Ohshitanai
- 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: JP2014-174954 20140829
- Main IPC: H01L27/146
- IPC: H01L27/146 ; H04N5/357 ; H04N5/365 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
Provided is a solid-state image pickup apparatus, including: a pixel region, in which a plurality of pixels each including an amplifier transistor are arranged two-dimensionally in rows and columns, and which includes an n-row signal mixing region in which outputs of n amplifier transistors are mixed, where n is a natural number of 1 or more, and an m-row signal mixing region in which outputs of m amplifier transistors are mixed, where m>n; a column signal line to which a voltage from the amplifier transistor is output; and a clipping circuit, which is configured to clip a voltage in the column signal line, and is arranged at a position that is closer to the n-row signal mixing region than to the m-row signal mixing region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160064442A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-03-03
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