Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state image sensor and image reading apparatus
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Application No.: US15411290Application Date: 2017-01-20
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Publication No.: US09781278B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Yuuya Miyoshi , Tohru Kanno
- Applicant: Yuuya Miyoshi , Tohru Kanno
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2016-029297 20160218
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04 ; H04N1/00

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel circuit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and configured to output a signal level and a reset level, an analog correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit connected to the pixel circuit and configured to perform correlated double sampling in an analog region based on the signal level and the reset level and output a result of the correlated double sampling, an analog-digital (AD) conversion circuit connected to the analog CDS circuit and configured to convert two different analog signals output from the analog CDS circuit into two digital signals, a signal processing circuit connected to the AD conversion circuit and configured to obtain a difference between the two different digital signals output from the AD conversion circuit; and a reference voltage generating circuit to output a first reference voltage that defines a clamp level of the analog CDS circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170244844A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-08-24
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