Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solid-state imaging device controlling read-out of signals from pixels in first and second areas
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Application No.: US14929818Application Date: 2015-11-02
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Publication No.: US09794497B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Masaaki Minowa
- 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: JP2014-249713 20141210
- Main IPC: H04N5/341
- IPC: H04N5/341 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/374 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/359

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge accumulating portion accumulating signal charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a floating diffusion portion accumulating signal charges transferred from the charge accumulating portion, and a read-out unit transferring signal charges from the charge accumulating portion to the floating diffusion portion and output a signal corresponding to the signal charges, and a control unit controlling the read-out unit to start, after starting read-out of signals of one frame from the charge accumulating portions, an accumulation of signal charges for a next frame at the photoelectric conversion units simultaneously, and to start, before completing the read-out of the signal of the one frame, an accumulation of signal charges at the charge accumulating portion of a pixel among the plurality of pixels from which the signal of the one frame is already read out.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160173797A1 SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-06-16
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