Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup apparatus comprising A/D converter with offset and gain correction based on amplitude of input signal
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Application No.: US14262212Application Date: 2014-04-25
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Publication No.: US09848150B2Publication Date: 2017-12-19
- Inventor: Mineo Uchida
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-098892 20130508
- Main IPC: H04N5/3745
- IPC: H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/378 ; H03M1/06 ; H03M1/10

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus comprising a pixel configured to convert optical signal into an electrical signal, a comparison unit configured to compare a pixel signal from the pixel with a reference voltage, an A/D conversion unit configured to analog/digital (A/D)-convert the pixel signal in a conversion mode selected based on a comparison result of the comparison unit, and a correction unit configured to correct at least one of an offset and a gain generated by the A/D conversion for an output data of the A/D conversion unit, wherein a value for offset correction or gain correction performed by the correction unit is changed according to the selected conversion mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140333816A1 IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-11-13
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